Titles of the IMDb Top 250 by directors

Directors Current Top 250 Total
Alfred Hitchcock 6 13
Steven Spielberg 7 11
Akira Kurosawa 6 10
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen 3 10
Billy Wilder 5 9
Christopher Nolan 8 9
Martin Scorsese 7 9
Peter Jackson 3 9
Stanley Kubrick 7 9
David Fincher 3 8
Woody Allen 0 8
Clint Eastwood 3 7
Quentin Tarantino 5 7
Ridley Scott 3 7
Ang Lee 0 6
Charles Chaplin 5 6
Denis Villeneuve 3 6
Hayao Miyazaki 4 6
Ingmar Bergman 2 6
Rob Reiner 1 6
Ron Howard 2 6
David Lean 2 5
David Lynch 1 5
Ertem Egilmez 0 5
Federico Fellini 0 5
Francis Ford Coppola 3 5
George Lucas 1 5
Howard Hawks 0 5
James Cameron 3 5
John Ford 1 5
Richard Linklater 2 5
Sam Raimi 0 5
Sergio Leone 4 5
Alejandro González Iñárritu 1 4
Alfonso Cuarón 0 4
Andrei Tarkovsky 0 4
Bryan Singer 1 4
David Yates 1 4
Edgar Wright 0 4
Edward Zwick 0 4
Frank Capra 3 4
James Ivory 0 4
James Mangold 2 4
Jim Jarmusch 0 4
John Huston 1 4
Kenneth Branagh 0 4
Kevin Smith 0 4
Krzysztof Kieslowski 0 4
Lasse Hallström 1 4
Luc Besson 1 4
Luis Buñuel 0 4
Matthew Vaughn 0 4
Michael Mann 1 4
Milos Forman 2 4
Peter Weir 2 4
Rajkumar Hirani 1 4
Robert Altman 0 4
Robert Zemeckis 2 4
Sam Mendes 2 4
Terry Gilliam 0 4
Tim Burton 0 4
Wes Anderson 1 4
Alan Parker 0 3
Alexander Payne 0 3
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo 2 3
Atom Egoyan 0 3
Baz Luhrmann 0 3
Brad Bird 2 3
Brian De Palma 1 3
Cameron Crowe 0 3
Danny Boyle 1 3
Darren Aronofsky 1 3
David O. Russell 0 3
Emir Kusturica 0 3
Franklin J. Schaffner 0 3
Fred Zinnemann 0 3
J.J. Abrams 0 3
James Gunn 0 3
Jim Sheridan 1 3
John Woo 0 3
Joss Whedon 0 3
Lars von Trier 0 3
Mel Brooks 0 3
Nick Park 0 3
Paul Thomas Anderson 1 3
Robert Wise 1 3
Roman Polanski 2 3
Sidney Lumet 2 3
Spike Jonze 0 3
Steven Soderbergh 0 3
William Wyler 2 3
Wim Wenders 1 3
Wolfgang Petersen 1 3
Zack Snyder 0 3
Alejandro Amenábar 0 2
Allan Moyle 0 2
Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski 1 2
Anurag Kashyap 0 2
Arthur Penn 0 2
Ashutosh Gowariker 0 2
Barry Levinson 0 2
Ben Affleck 0 2
Chad Stahelski 0 2
Chan-wook Park 2 2
Chris Columbus 0 2
Claude Berri 0 2
Damien Chazelle 1 2
David Hand 0 2
Doug Liman 0 2
Elia Kazan 1 2
F.W. Murnau 0 2
Frank Darabont 2 2
Fritz Lang 2 2
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise 0 2
George Cukor 0 2
George Roy Hill 1 2
Giuseppe Tornatore 1 2
Gus Van Sant 1 2
Guy Ritchie 2 2
Hal Ashby 0 2
Henri-Georges Clouzot 1 2
Henry Selick 0 2
James Whale 0 2
Jan de Bont 0 2
Jason Reitman 0 2
Jean Renoir 0 2
Jean-Jacques Beineix 0 2
Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1 2
Jeethu Joseph 0 2
John Boorman 0 2
John Hughes 0 2
John Landis 0 2
John McTiernan 1 2
John Sturges 1 2
Jon Turteltaub 0 2
Jon Watts 1 2
Joon-ho Bong 2 2
José Padilha 0 2
Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1 2
Kar Wai Wong 0 2
Kenneth Lonergan 0 2
Ki-duk Kim 0 2
M. Night Shyamalan 1 2
Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet 0 2
Martin Brest 0 2
Martin Campbell 0 2
Martin McDonagh 1 2
Matt Reeves 0 2
Mel Gibson 2 2
Michael Bay 0 2
Mike Leigh 0 2
Mike Newell 0 2
Mike Nichols 0 2
Norman Jewison 0 2
Oliver Stone 1 2
Orson Welles 1 2
Paul Greengrass 0 2
Pedro Almodóvar 0 2
Peter Bogdanovich 0 2
Philip Kaufman 0 2
Rian Johnson 0 2
Richard Attenborough 0 2
Robert Redford 0 2
Robert Rodriguez 0 2
Stanley Kramer 1 2
Stephen Frears 0 2
Thomas Vinterberg 1 2
Todd Phillips 1 2
Todd Solondz 0 2
Tom McCarthy 1 2
Tony Scott 0 2
Vittorio De Sica 1 2
Walter Salles 0 2
Werner Herzog 0 2
William Friedkin 1 2
Yavuz Turgul 0 2
Yimou Zhang 0 2
Çagan Irmak 1 1
Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte 1 1
Adam Elliot 1 1
Aditya Chopra 0 1
Aditya Dhar 0 1
Alan J. Pakula 0 1
Alex Proyas 0 1
Alexander Mackendrick 0 1
Alfonso Arau 0 1
Amy Heckerling 0 1
Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson 0 1
Andrew Davis 0 1
Andrew Dominik 0 1
Andrew Niccol 0 1
Andrew Stanton 1 1
Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich 1 1
Andy Tennant 0 1
Anthony Harvey 0 1
Anthony Minghella 0 1
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Joss Whedon 0 1
Antonia Bird 0 1
Anurag Basu 0 1
Ari Folman 0 1
Asghar Farhadi 1 1
Asif Kapadia 0 1
Atif Yilmaz 0 1
Barry Jenkins 0 1
Barry Sonnenfeld 0 1
Bernardo Bertolucci 0 1
Betty Thomas 0 1
Bill Condon 0 1
Bill Forsyth 0 1
Bill Melendez 0 1
Billy Bob Thornton 0 1
Blake Edwards 0 1
Bob Clark 0 1
Bob Fosse 0 1
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman 1 1
Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly 0 1
Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava 1 1
Bradley Cooper 0 1
Brian Desmond Hurst 0 1
Bruce Beresford 0 1
Bruce Campbell 0 1
Bruce Robinson 0 1
Bryan Singer, Dexter Fletcher 0 1
Buster Keaton 1 1
Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush 0 1
C. Prem Kumar 0 1
Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci 0 1
Can Ulkay 0 1
Carl Theodor Dreyer 1 1
Carol Reed 1 1
Caroline Link 0 1
Cecil B. DeMille 0 1
Charles Crichton, John Cleese 0 1
Charles Ferguson 0 1
Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum 0 1
Chris Buck, Kevin Lima 0 1
Chris Noonan 0 1
Christopher McQuarrie 0 1
Chuck Jones, Ben Washam 0 1
Claude Sautet 0 1
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton 1 1
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske 0 1
Costa-Gavras 0 1
Cristian Mungiu 0 1
Curtis Hanson 1 1
Damián Szifrón 1 1
Dan Gilroy 0 1
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert 0 1
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez 0 1
Danis Tanovic 0 1
Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan 0 1
David Carson 0 1
David Cronenberg 0 1
David Leitch 0 1
David Mamet 0 1
David Silverman 0 1
Dean DeBlois 0 1
Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders 1 1
Denys Arcand 0 1
Douglas McGrath 0 1
Duncan Jones 0 1
Edward Dmytryk 0 1
Elem Klimov 1 1
Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson 0 1
Ernst Lubitsch 1 1
F. Gary Gray 0 1
Farhan Akhtar 0 1
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund 1 1
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 1 1
Florian Zeller 1 1
François Girard 0 1
François Truffaut 0 1
Francis Lawrence 0 1
Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino 0 1
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor 0 1
Fred M. Wilcox 0 1
Gareth Edwards 0 1
Gareth Evans 0 1
Gary Ross 0 1
Gavin O'Connor 1 1
Gayatri, Pushkar 0 1
George A. Romero 0 1
George Armitage 0 1
George Bloomfield, David Warry-Smith, Steve DiMarco, Richard J. 0 1
George Miller 1 1
George P. Cosmatos 0 1
George Seaton 0 1
Gillian Armstrong 0 1
Gillo Pontecorvo 1 1
Godfrey Reggio 0 1
Gore Verbinski 1 1
Greg Mottola 0 1
Gregory La Cava 0 1
Greta Gerwig 0 1
Guillermo del Toro 1 1
Guy Hamilton 0 1
Hal Hartley 0 1
Harold Ramis 1 1
Haruo Sotozaki 0 1
Henry Koster 0 1
Hettie Macdonald 0 1
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki 0 1
Howard Deutch 0 1
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson 0 1
Hrishikesh Mukherjee 0 1
Imtiaz Ali 0 1
Irvin Kershner 1 1
Isao Takahata 1 1
Jacques Tourneur 0 1
Jae-young Kwak 0 1
James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim 0 1
James L. Brooks 0 1
James McTeigue 1 1
Jan Sverák 0 1
Jane Campion 0 1
Je-gyu Kang 0 1
Jean Cocteau, René Clément 0 1
Jean-Jacques Annaud 0 1
Jean-Luc Godard 0 1
Jean-Paul Rappeneau 0 1
Jean-Pierre Melville 0 1
Jeannot Szwarc 0 1
Jeremy Leven 0 1
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 0 1
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker 0 1
Jim Mallon 0 1
Jim Sharman 0 1
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson 1 1
Joe Johnston 0 1
Joe Wright 0 1
Joel Schumacher 0 1
John Bruno, James Cameron, Stan Winston 0 1
John Carney 0 1
John Carpenter 1 1
John Frankenheimer 0 1
John G. Avildsen 1 1
John Lasseter 1 1
John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton 0 1
John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich 0 1
John Madden 0 1
John Sayles 0 1
John Schlesinger 0 1
John Singleton 0 1
Jon Avnet 0 1
Jon Favreau 0 1
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris 0 1
Jonathan Demme 1 1
Jonathan Frakes 0 1
Jordan Peele 0 1
Joseph Kosinski 1 1
Josh Cooley 0 1
Juan José Campanella 1 1
Judd Apatow 0 1
Jules Dassin 0 1
Julian Schnabel 0 1
Juzo Itami 0 1
Kaige Chen 0 1
Karan Johar 0 1
Kartal Tibet 0 1
Kathryn Bigelow 0 1
Katsuhiro Ôtomo 0 1
Kenji Mizoguchi 0 1
Kenny Ortega 0 1
Kevin Costner 1 1
Kevin Macdonald 0 1
Kevin Sullivan 0 1
Kimberly Peirce 0 1
King Vidor, George W. Hill 0 1
Kirk Jones 0 1
Larry Charles 0 1
Lee Tamahori 0 1
Lee Unkrich 1 1
Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina 1 1
Len Wiseman 0 1
Lenny Abrahamson 1 1
Leo McCarey 0 1
Lesli Linka Glatter 0 1
Levent Semerci 0 1
Lewis Milestone 0 1
Lou Adler, Tommy Chong 0 1
Louie Psihoyos 0 1
Louis Malle 0 1
Luca Guadagnino 0 1
Lukas Moodysson 0 1
Majid Majidi 1 1
Makoto Shinkai 1 1
Mamoru Oshii 0 1
Marc Forster 0 1
Marc Webb 0 1
Marcel Carné 0 1
Marco Tullio Giordana 0 1
Marleen Gorris 0 1
Martha Coolidge 0 1
Masaki Kobayashi 1 1
Masayuki Suo 0 1
Mathieu Kassovitz 1 1
Mel Stuart 0 1
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack 0 1
Michael Cimino 1 1
Michael Curtiz 1 1
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley 0 1
Michael Lehmann 0 1
Michael Moore 0 1
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0 1
Michael Radford 0 1
Michel Gondry 1 1
Michel Hazanavicius 0 1
Mike Figgis 0 1
Milcho Manchevski 0 1
Morten Tyldum 0 1
Moustapha Akkad 0 1
Mukesh Chhabra 0 1
Murat Dundar 0 1
Nadine Labaki 1 1
Nae Caranfil 0 1
Naoko Yamada 0 1
Neeraj Pandey 0 1
Neil Jordan 0 1
Neill Blomkamp 0 1
Nelson Shin 0 1
Nicholas Meyer 0 1
Nicholas Ray 0 1
Nicholas Stoller 0 1
Nicolas Winding Refn 0 1
Niki Caro 0 1
Nikkhil Advani 0 1
Nishikant Kamat 0 1
Nitesh Tiwari 1 1
Noah Baumbach 0 1
Nuri Bilge Ceylan 0 1
Ole Bornedal 0 1
Oliver Hirschbiegel 1 1
Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano 1 1
Oriol Paulo 0 1
Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise 0 1
Otto Preminger 0 1
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian 0 1
P.J. Hogan 0 1
Patty Jenkins 0 1
Paul Bogart 0 1
Paul Haggis 0 1
Paul Michael Glaser 0 1
Penny Marshall 0 1
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson 1 1
Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich 1 1
Pete Docter, Kemp Powers 0 1
Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen 1 1
Peter Cattaneo 0 1
Peter Farrelly 1 1
Peter Hewitt 0 1
Peter Lord, Nick Park 0 1
Phil Alden Robinson 0 1
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller 0 1
Preston Sturges 0 1
Priyadarshan 0 1
Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde 0 1
Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi, Adesh Prasad 0 1
Raja Menon 0 1
Rajkumar Santoshi 0 1
Rakesh Omprakash Mehra 0 1
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra 0 1
Ram Kumar 0 1
Ramesh Sippy 0 1
Raoul Walsh 0 1
Renny Harlin 0 1
Richard Brooks 0 1
Richard Compton 0 1
Richard Donner 0 1
Richard Kelly 0 1
Richard Marquand 1 1
Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas 0 1
Rob Marshall 0 1
Robert Aldrich 0 1
Robert De Niro 0 1
Robert Hamer 0 1
Robert Mulligan 1 1
Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino 0 1
Robert Rossen 0 1
Robert Stevenson 0 1
Robert Wiene 0 1
Roberto Benigni 1 1
Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff 1 1
Roland Emmerich 0 1
Roland Joffé 0 1
Ron Clements, John Musker 1 1
Ronald F. Maxwell 0 1
Ruben Fleischer 0 1
Russell Mulcahy 0 1
Ryan Coogler 0 1
S.S. Rajamouli 0 1
Sam Peckinpah 0 1
Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding 0 1
Satyajit Ray 0 1
Savage Steve Holland 0 1
Scott Hicks 0 1
Sean Penn 1 1
Sergei M. Eisenstein 0 1
Sergiu Nicolaescu 0 1
Seth Gordon 0 1
Shekhar Kapur 0 1
Shimit Amin 0 1
Shona Auerbach 0 1
Shoojit Sircar 0 1
Simon Langton 0 1
Sofia Coppola 0 1
Sriram Raghavan 0 1
Stanley Donen 0 1
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 1 1
Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann 0 1
Stanley Tong 0 1
Stephan Elliott 0 1
Stephen Chbosky 0 1
Stephen Daldry 0 1
Stephen Herek 0 1
Stephen Hopkins 0 1
Steve Box, Nick Park 0 1
Steve James 0 1
Steve McQueen 1 1
Steven Zaillian 0 1
Stuart Rosenberg 1 1
Sudha Kongara 0 1
Sujoy Ghosh 0 1
Sylvester Stallone 0 1
T.J. Gnanavel 1 1
Taika Waititi 0 1
Takashi Yamazaki 1 1
Tate Taylor 1 1
Taylor Hackford 0 1
Terry George 1 1
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones 1 1
Terry Jones 0 1
Terry Zwigoff 0 1
Thomas Kail 1 1
Tim Miller 0 1
Tim Robbins 0 1
Tom Hanks 0 1
Tom Hooper 0 1
Tom Stoppard 0 1
Tom Tykwer 0 1
Tomas Alfredson 0 1
Tomm Moore 0 1
Tommy Chong 0 1
Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook 0 1
Tony Kaye 1 1
Trey Parker 0 1
Umesh Shukla 0 1
Vicangelo Bulluck, Scott Allen, Andrew Blake, Vance Burberry, Ad 0 1
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, King Vidor 1 1
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood 1 1
Vidhu Vinod Chopra 1 1
Vikas Bahl 0 1
Vikramaditya Motwane 0 1
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi 0 1
Vishal Bhardwaj 0 1
W.S. Van Dyke 0 1
Wai-keung Lau, Alan Mak 0 1
Wayne Wang, Paul Auster 0 1
Wes Craven 0 1
William A. Wellman 0 1
Wilson Yip 0 1
Wolfgang Reitherman 0 1
Xavier Dolan 0 1
Yôjirô Takita 0 1
Yasujiro Ozu 1 1
Yorgos Lanthimos 0 1
Zach Braff 0 1
Zaza Urushadze 0 1
Zoya Akhtar 0 1