Top Ranked Directors - Avg Per Film

We took just those directors with two or more films on the Top Ranked 1000. Had we included those with one film, Charles Laughton would have been #2. Director, Avg Pts per Film, Total Films

1. Coppola, Francis - 6584 (4) photo rt
2. Fleming, Victor - 5566 (2)
3. Lucas, George - 4581 (3)

4. Griffith, D.W. - 4399 (3) photo rt, ca 1913
5. Capra, Frank - 4391 (4)
6. Kubrick, Stanley - 4216 (10)
7. Jackson, Peter - 4201 (3)
8. Spielberg, Steven - 4099 (7)
9. Scott, Ridley - 4045 (4)
10. Chaplin, Charles - 3979 (8)
11. Hitchcock, Alfred - 3954 (14)
12. Vigo, Jean - 3937 (2)

13. De Sica, Vittorio - 3914 (4) photo rt
14. Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly - 3802 (2)
15. Lean, David - 3778 (6)
16. Clouzot, Henri-Georges - 3695 (2)
17. Leone, Sergio - 3605 (4)
18. Whale, James - 3602 (2)
19. Curtiz, Michael - 3502 (3)
20. Polanski, Roman - 3475 (5)
21. Welles, Orson - 3441 (7)
22. Wilder, Billy - 3431 (8)
23. Murnau, F.W. - 3234 (5)
24. Zemeckis, Robert - 3217 (2)
25. Dreyer, Carl Theodor - 3214 (5)
26. Scorsese, Martin - 3123 (12)
27. Reed, Carol - 3082 (3)
28. Forman, Milos - 3079 (4)
29. Cameron, James - 3063 (4)
30. Tarantino, Quentin - 3043 (4)
31. Nichols, Mike - 3008 (2)
32. Kurosawa, Akira - 3002 (11)
33. Ray, Satyajit - 2998 (5)
34. Lumet, Sidney - 2994 (4)
35. Preminger, Otto - 2976 (2)
36. Wyler, William - 2947 (4)
37. Stanton, Andrew - 2898 (2)
38. Campion, Jane - 2849 (2)
39. Keaton, Buster - 2818 (7)
40. Lasseter, John - 2794 (2)
41. Friedkin, William - 2781 (2)
42. McCarey, Leo - 2731 (4)
43. Lee, Ang - 2726 (2)
44. Lee, Spike - 2689 (2)
45. Bird, Brad - 2667 (2)
46. Sturges, Preston - 2632 (5)
47. Darabont, Frank - 2617 (2)
48. Demme, Jonathan - 2617 (2)
49. Bresson, Robert - 2604 (8)
50. Cimino, Michael - 2601 (2)
51. Hill, George Roy - 2544 (2)
52. Boyle, Danny - 2526 (2)
53. Huston, John - 2524 (8)
54. Fellini, Federico - 2520 (11)
55. Allen, Woody - 2507 (6)
56. Marker, Chris - 2486 (2)
57. Truffaut, François - 2463 (7)
58. Tati, Jacques - 2454 (3)
59. Bertolucci, Bernardo - 2447 (4)
60. Anderson, Paul Thomas - 2442 (3)
61. Eisenstein, Sergei - 2439 (7)
62. Wise, Robert - 2424 (3)
63. Antonioni, Michelangelo - 2406 (6)
64. Kazan, Elia - 2390 (5)
65. Donen, Stanley - 2363 (4)
66. Hawks, Howard - 2324 (11)
67. Mankiewicz, Joseph L. - 2310 (4)
68. Bergman, Ingmar - 2253 (12)
69. Lang, Fritz - 2239 (10)
70. Cassavetes, John - 2223 (7)
71. Mizoguchi, Kenji - 2217 (6)
72. Gilliam, Terry - 2196 (4)
73. Coen Ethan and Joel - 2194 (6)
74. Zinnemann, Fred - 2187 (3)
75. Powell, Michael - 2183 (8)
76. Carné, Marcel - 2182 (4)
77. Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones - 2165 (2)
78. Pasolini, Pier Paolo - 2152 (5)
79. Fosse, Bob - 2151 (2)
80. Angelopoulos, Theo - 2141 (2)
81. Malick, Terrence - 2134 (3)
82. Herzog, Werner - 2134 (4)
83. Renoir, Jean - 2120 (10)
84. Carpenter, John - 2118 (3)
85. Wong Kar-Wai - 2103 (2)
86. Stevens, George - 2071 (3)
87. Hand, David - 2068 (2)
88. Boorman, John - 2067 (2)
89. Cocteau, Jean - 2065 (3)
90. von Stroheim, Erich - 2059 (4)
91. Lynch, David - 2053 (5)
92. Yang, Edward - 2051 (2)
93. Ozu, Yasujiro - 2044 (5)
94. Ford, John - 2009 (16)
95. Buñuel, Luis - 1998 (15)
96. Eastwood, Clint - 1997 (8)
97. De Palma, Brian - 1981 (3)
98. Altman, Robert - 1979 (7)
99. Wenders, Wim - 1977 (4)
100. Lubitsch, Ernst - 1967 (6)
101. Godard, Jean-Luc - 1953 (16)
102. Romero, George A. - 1928 (2)
103. Lester, Richard - 1925 (2)
104. Cukor, George - 1923 (5)
105. Fincher, David - 1923 (3)
106. Snow, Michael - 1921 (2)
107. Sirk, Douglas - 1921 (5)
108. Sharpsteen, Ben - 1897 (3)
109. Siegel, Don - 1890 (2)
110. Tarkovsky, Andrei - 1886 (7)
111. Resnais, Alain - 1875 (6)
112. Nolan, Christopher - 1852 (4)
113. Rivette, Jacques - 1847 (3)
114. Miyazaki, Hayao - 1842 (4)
115. Clair, René - 1803 (3)
116. Peckinpah, Sam - 1800 (5)
117. Roeg, Nicolas - 1793 (5)
118. Straub, Jean-Marie - 1733 (2)
119. Almodóvar, Pedro - 1706 (4)
120. Sturges, John - 1699 (2)
121. Ophuls, Max - 1699 (8)
122. Visconti, Luchino - 1687 (9)
123. Flaherty, Robert - 1681 (2)
124. Minnelli, Vincente - 1678 (6)
125. Ray, Nicholas - 1675 (6)
126. Aronofsky, Darren - 1670 (2)
127. Meyer, Russ - 1661 (2)
128. Ashby, Hal - 1655 (2)
129. Riefenstahl, Leni - 1655 (2)
130. Tourneur, Jacques - 1612 (4)
131. Reiner, Rob - 1607 (4)
132. Rossellini, Roberto - 1606 (10)
133. Fassbinder, Rainer Werner - 1590 (7)
134. Walsh, Raoul - 1576 (2)
135. Greengrass, Paul - 1547 (3)
136. Kiarostami, Abbas - 1538 (7)
137. Melville, Jean-Pierre - 1522 (4)
138. Parajanov, Sergei - 1515 (2)
139. Kieslowski, Krszystof - 1496 (6)
140. Demy, Jacques - 1489 (4)
141. Pabst, G.W. - 1477 (3)
142. Stone, Oliver - 1460 (2)
143. Tarr, Béla - 1443 (2)
144. Leigh, Mike - 1398 (3)
145. Rocha, Glauber - 1389 (3)
146. von Sternberg, Josef - 1362 (6)
147. Cronenberg, David - 1359 (3)
148. Vidor, King - 1352 (5)
149. Chen Kaige - 1339 (2)
150. Ritchie, Guy - 1312 (2)
151. Zhang Yimou - 1305 (4)
152. Edwards, Blake - 1280 (2)
153. von Trier, Lars - 1274 (2)
154. Schnabel, Julian - 1271 (2)
155. Jennings, Humphrey - 1250 (2)
156. Zwigoff, Terry - 1241 (2)
157. Wellman, William A. - 1239 (2)
158. Cantet, Laurent - 1238 (2)
159. Sjöström, Victor - 1233 (2)
160. Rohmer, Eric - 1210 (3)
161. Dutt, Guru - 1208 (2)
162. Forsyth, Bill - 1181 (2)
163. Loach, Ken - 1172 (2)
164. Frears, Stephen - 1172 (3)
165. Hou Hsiao-Hsien - 1160 (5)
166. Jarmusch, Jim - 1142 (3)
167. Becker, Jacques - 1141 (2)
168. Soderbergh, Steve - 1140 (2)
169. Sembene, Ousmane - 1140 (3)
170. Ichikawa, Kon - 1139 (2)
171. Anderson, Lindsay - 1122 (2)
172. Malle, Louis - 1097 (3)
173. Kalatozishvili, Mikheil - 1093 (2)
174. Kusturica, Emir - 1092 (2)
175. Crowe, Cameron - 1070 (2)
176. Burton, Tim - 1063 (3)
177. Weir, Peter - 1043 (4)
178. Park, Nick & Box, Steve - 1025 (2)
179. Pudovkin, Vsevolod - 1013 (2)
180. Anderson, Wes - 994 (2)
181. Van Sant, Gus - 978 (2)
182. Linklater, Richard - 968 (2)
183. Varda, Agnès - 924 (2)
184. Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc - 908 (2)
185. Mann, Anthony - 890 (2)
186. Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin - 854 (2)
187. Morris, Errol - 851 (2)
188. Ghobadi, Bahman - 810 (2)
189. Van Dyke II, W.S. - 456 (2)