Directors of movies in Top 250 (2026-09-02)

Position	Name	Average rating	Count
1	Christopher Nolan	8.52	9
2	Steven Spielberg	8.37	7
3	Martin Scorsese	8.30	7
4	Stanley Kubrick	8.27	7
5	Quentin Tarantino	8.47	6
6	Akira Kurosawa	8.30	6
7	Charles Chaplin	8.34	5
8	Billy Wilder	8.32	5
9	Alfred Hitchcock	8.28	5
10	Sergio Leone	8.45	4
11	Hayao Miyazaki	8.30	4
12	Lee Unkrich	8.25	4
13	Peter Jackson	8.90	3
14	Francis Ford Coppola	8.87	3
15	David Fincher	8.50	3
16	James Cameron	8.37	3
17	Ridley Scott	8.33	3
18	Denis Villeneuve	8.30	3
19	Pete Docter	8.17	3
20	Clint Eastwood	8.13	3
21	Joel Coen	8.13	3
22	Ethan Coen	8.13	3
23	Ingmar Bergman	8.10	3
24	Brad Bird	8.07	3
25	Frank Darabont	8.95	2
26	Robert Zemeckis	8.65	2
27	Milos Forman	8.50	2
28	Anthony Russo	8.40	2
29	Joe Russo	8.40	2
30	Frank Capra	8.35	2
31	Roman Polanski	8.30	2
32	Andrew Stanton	8.30	2
33	Joon-ho Bong	8.30	2
34	Fritz Lang	8.25	2
35	Sam Mendes	8.25	2
36	David Lean	8.20	2
37	Mel Gibson	8.20	2
38	George Cukor	8.15	2
39	Victor Fleming	8.15	2
40	Guy Ritchie	8.15	2
41	Peter Weir	8.15	2
42	Ron Howard	8.15	2
43	Buster Keaton	8.10	2
44	James Mangold	8.10	2
45	William Wyler	8.10	2
46	Richard Linklater	8.10	2
47	Chris Sanders	8.10	2
48	Sidney Lumet	9.00	1
49	Yuichiro Hayashi	8.90	1
50	Irvin Kershner	8.70	1
51	Andy Wachowski	8.70	1
52	Lana Wachowski	8.70	1
53	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	8.70	1
54	Fernando Meirelles	8.60	1
55	Roberto Benigni	8.60	1
56	George Lucas	8.60	1
57	Jonathan Demme	8.60	1
58	Masaki Kobayashi	8.60	1
59	Kátia Lund	8.60	1
60	T.J. Gnanavel	8.60	1
61	Luc Besson	8.50	1
62	Rob Minkoff	8.50	1
63	Roger Allers	8.50	1
64	Michael Curtiz	8.50	1
65	Bryan Singer	8.50	1
66	Tony Kaye	8.50	1
67	Giuseppe Tornatore	8.50	1
68	Olivier Nakache	8.50	1
69	Isao Takahata	8.50	1
70	Eric Toledano	8.50	1
71	Damien Chazelle	8.50	1
72	Kemp Powers	8.50	1
73	Joaquim Dos Santos	8.50	1
74	Justin K. Thompson	8.50	1
75	Gus Van Sant	8.40	1
76	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	8.40	1
77	Kirk Jones	8.40	1
78	Ertem Egilmez	8.40	1
79	Marco Tullio Giordana	8.40	1
80	Rajkumar Hirani	8.40	1
81	Peter Ramsey	8.40	1
82	Hiroshi Teshigahara	8.40	1
83	Makoto Shinkai	8.40	1
84	Adrian Molina	8.40	1
85	Bob Persichetti	8.40	1
86	Rodney Rothman	8.40	1
87	Nadine Labaki	8.40	1
88	Jeethu Joseph	8.40	1
89	Haruo Sotozaki	8.40	1
90	Hikaru Kondô	8.40	1
91	Stanley Donen	8.30	1
92	Wolfgang Petersen	8.30	1
93	Chan-wook Park	8.30	1
94	Darren Aronofsky	8.30	1
95	Todd Phillips	8.30	1
96	Gene Kelly	8.30	1
97	Stanley Kramer	8.30	1
98	John Lasseter	8.30	1
99	Michael Mann	8.30	1
100	Richard Marquand	8.30	1