Greatest Number of Films You've Seen by One Director

[mightysparks]

Only ones I've seen 10+ from:

Steven Spielberg - 18
Alfred Hitchcock - 18
David Cronenberg - 13
Woody Allen - 13
John Carpenter - 12
Tim Burton - 11
Wes Craven - 11
Akira Kurosawa - 10
David Lynch - 10
Stanley Kubrick - 10

Haven't really tried to concentrate on any filmographies yet. I had planned to, but got sidetracked doing other things. As I've said before, I'm not very consistent so there's only a couple of directors where I've liked the majority of what I've seen. So I never really get an urge to check out the rest of a director's filmography.

[George Bailey]

My 10+:
1. Alfred Hitchcock - 16
2. Steven Spielberg - 13

Although there are many many directors with a number or 5-9. I'm new to cinema

[George Bailey]

Oh yeah...I think I have seen 10 or 11 films by Lars Von Trier Still haven't seen Manderlay, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves

[allisoncm]

Finally made a list of films I've seen by my favorite directors.

It's like this (only directors will be listed if I've seen more than 20 films):

Claude Chabrol 60
Jean-Luc Godard 58
Alfred Hitchcock 55

Spoiler: click to toggle

Woody Allen 48 (might include some of the films he's acted in)
William A. Wellman 46
Michael Curtiz 40
Ernst Lubitsch 34
Rainer Werner Fassbinder 34
Julien Duvivier 31
John Ford 30
Martin Scorsese 30
Fritz Lang 27
George Cukor 27
Howard Hawks 27
Norman McClaren 26
Eric Rohmer 25
Billy Wilder 25
Edward Dmytryk 25
François Truffaut 25
Frank Borzage 25
Krzysztof Kieslowski 25
Robert Altman 25
John Huston 24
Mike Leigh 24
William Wyler 23
Agnès Varda 22
Jacques Rivette 22
Pedro Almodóvar / Pedro Almodovar 21
Frank Capra 20

[jvv]

top 15 (7+ movies), as you can see rather mainstream

Steven Spielberg 18
Martin Scorsese 17
Ron Howard 12
Alfred Hitchcock 11
Tim Burton 11
Stanley Kubrick 10
Clint Eastwood 9
Ridley Scott 9
John Huston 8
Paul Verhoeven 8
Robert Zemeckis 8
Billy Wilder 7
Chris Columbus 7
Christopher Nolan 7
Sam Raimi 7

[themagician]

I don't know how you're counting your directors, but here's how I did it in OpenOffice Calc:

1) Export IMDb ratings
2) Open in OpenOffice Calc
3) In the separator field make sure "Comma" is selected and that character set is UTF-8, then click OK
4) Select all directors, e.g. click the first director, scroll down, hold shift and click the last director
5) Select menu Data -> DataPilot -> Start...
6) Make sure Current selection is selected, then click OK
7) There's a button with a director's name, drag 'n drop it to the Data field and double-click it and select Count and then click OK
8) Drag 'n drop the same button to the Row field
9) Click More and check Ignore empty rows and uncheck Total columns
10) Change 'Results to' to new sheet
11) Click OK
12) Select the B column by clicking it
13) Select menu Data -> Sort...
14) Click Extend selection
15) Select Sort by Column B and in descending order
16) Click OK

Here's currently my top 9 (7 or more):

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Steven Spielberg	15
Alfred Hitchcock	13
Akira Kurosawa		10
Charles M. Jones	10
Hayao Miyazaki		10
Tim Burton		10
Stanley Kubrick		8
Quentin Tarantino	7
Tex Avery		7

[Knaldskalle]

Alfred Hitchcock55

Heeey now... Only 53 surviving feature films. You must be counting the French language shorts or some of the movies where he did bits (like Elstree Calling).

[allisoncm]

Alfred Hitchcock55

Heeey now... Only 53 surviving feature films. You must be counting the French language shorts or some of the movies where he did bits (like Elstree Calling).

Oh yes. I do count shorts. So I counted the 2 French ones.

[Knaldskalle]

Alfred Hitchcock55

Heeey now... Only 53 surviving feature films. You must be counting the French language shorts or some of the movies where he did bits (like Elstree Calling).

Oh yes. I do count shorts. So I counted the 2 French ones.

You had me worried for a second. I had this "OMG, I've missed some!"-flash before realizing that you must be counting the shorts.

[bal3x]

I don't know how you're counting your directors, but here's how I did it in OpenOffice Calc:

1) Export IMDb ratings
2) Open in OpenOffice Calc
3) In the separator field make sure "Comma" is selected and that character set is UTF-8, then click OK
4) Select all directors, e.g. click the first director, scroll down, hold shift and click the last director
5) Select menu Data -> DataPilot -> Start...
6) Make sure Current selection is selected, then click OK
7) There's a button with a director's name, drag 'n drop it to the Data field and double-click it and select Count and then click OK
8) Drag 'n drop the same button to the Row field
9) Click More and check Ignore empty rows and uncheck Total columns
10) Change 'Results to' to new sheet
11) Click OK
12) Select the B column by clicking it
13) Select menu Data -> Sort...
14) Click Extend selection
15) Select Sort by Column B and in descending order
16) Click OK

Here's currently my top 9 (7 or more):

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Steven Spielberg15
Alfred Hitchcock13
Akira Kurosawa10
Charles M. Jones10
Hayao Miyazaki10
Tim Burton10
Stanley Kubrick8
Quentin Tarantino7
Tex Avery7

Thanks for the tip, I was not able to follow all instructions, but managed to get something out anyway (NeoOffice on OSX)

Sidney Lumet 45
Stan Brakhage 38
Alfred Hitchcock 34
Roman Polanski 26
Fritz Lang 22
Clint Eastwood 21
Steven Spielberg 21
Oliver Stone 18
Martin Scorsese 17
Stanley Kubrick 16
Woody Allen 16
D.W. Griffith 15
William Wyler 15
Tim Burton 14
Billy Wilder 13
Brian De Palma 13
John Carpenter 13
Ridley Scott 13
Terence Fisher 13
Akira Kurosawa 12
Charles Chaplin 12
John Huston 12
Robert Zemeckis 12
Tex Avery 12
Tony Scott 12
Charles M. Jones 11
David Cronenberg 11
David Lynch 11
Ernst Lubitsch 11
Howard Hawks 11
Jean-Luc Godard 11
Jean-Pierre Melville 11
Richard Donner 11

[Knaldskalle]

NeoOffice:

[bal3x]

NeoOffice:

[mightysparks]

I use my spreadsheet to calculate mine. I've finally reached 20 with one director: Alfred Hitchcock. Not even that much of a fan In total, I have 12 directors where I've seen 10+. Stupid low numbers

[Laydback]

No huge numbers from me yet:

Takashi Miike-32
Hitchcock-27
Jess Franco-22
Spielberg-22
Roger Corman-21
Russ Meyer-17
Ford-17 (Watching 3 Godfathers soon)
Scorsese-16
Kurosawa-16
Lucio Fulci-15
John Huston-15 (Great looking filmography. Watching Beat The Devil soon)

Felt like doing an update (Not including shorts. Therefore I'm excluding Griffith & Chaplin. I'm also looking for directors who surpass dbl-digits)

Hitch-43
Miike-32 (Ok, I finally need to watch something new from him)
Corman-31
Franco-30
Spielberg-27
Ford-26
Scorsese-25
Eastwood-24
Allen-23
Huston-22 (Watching Across The Pacific soon)
Spike Lee-20
Kurosawa-19
Wyler-19
Stone-18
Russ Meyer-18
Curtiz-18
Fuller-18
De Palma-18
Lang-18
Fulci-17
Herzog-17
Walter Hill-17
Hawks-17
Cronenberg-17
Herschell Gordon Lewis-16
M. Bava-16
John Carpenter-16
Bergman-16
Margheriti-16
Terence Fischer-16
Minnelli-15
Ishiro Honda-15
Lumet-15
Ridley Scott-15
Peckinpah-14
Ron Howard-14
Robert Wise-14
Burton-14
Anthony Mann-14
Godard-14
Walsh-14
Zemeckis-14
William "One Shot" Beaudine-14
Kubrick-13
Kazan-13
Sturges-13
Fellini-13
Aldrich-13
Raimi-13
Polanski-13
Robert Stevenson-13
Argento-13
Wilder-13
Soderbergh-12
Chang Cheh-12
Truffaut-12
Norman Taurog-12 Thanks to all those Elvis movies
Donner-12
Bunuel-12 (Excluded 2 of his shorts)
F.F. Copolla-12
Romero-12
Kenji Misumi-11
Altman-11
Woo-11
Siegel-11
John Waters-11
Liu Chia-Liang-11
Powell-11
Enzo Castellari-11
Lean-11
Coen Bros-11
Lubitsch-11
Leo McCarey-10
Demme-10
Jack Hill-10
Wellman-10
Tony Scott-10
Doris Wishman-10
Capra-10
Joe Dante-10
Sam Wood-10
Lynch-10
Peter Jackson-10

[Sir Plebeian]

Directors I have seen most of
Ingmar Bergman: 14
Woody Allen: 14
Akira Kurosawa: 13

Actor I have seen in most movies
Christopher Lee: 30
Vincent Price: 22
Toshirô Mifune: 18

Both share the number one spot, and are two of my favorite directors/writers. Very odd stuff!

[joachimt]

Not counting shorts...
Hitchcock: 55

[mjf314]

I've never really tried to work on director filmographies, but here's mine:

Akira Kurosawa: 14
Alfred Hitchcock: 13
Stanley Kubrick: 12 (all except Fear and Desire)
Hou Hsiao-hsien: 11 (not including The Sandwich Man where he directed 1 segment)
Ingmar Bergman: 11
Steven Spielberg: 11
Yimou Zhang: 11
Billy Wilder: 10
Hayao Miyazaki: 10 (all except The Wind Rises)
Tim Burton: 10
Yasujiro Ozu: 10
Luis Buñuel: 9 (including Simon of the Desert)
Mamoru Oshii: 9
Tsui Hark: 9 (not including New Dragon Gate Inn)
Wong Kar-wai: 9 (all except My Blueberry Nights)
Jean-Luc Godard: 8

[jvv]

Maybe I should do an update too.

Just features, no shorts (Georges Meliès with 99 and Tex Avery with 68 would be on top then).

top 15

November 2011		December 2013
Steven Spielberg	18	Billy Wilder	25
Martin Scorsese	17	Steven Spielberg	20
Ron Howard	12	Martin Scorsese	19
Alfred Hitchcock	11	Sidney Lumet	18
Tim Burton	11	Alfred Hitchcock	14
Stanley Kubrick	10	Ron Howard	12
Clint Eastwood	9	Ernst Lubitsch	11
Ridley Scott	9	Ridley Scott	11
John Huston	8	Stanley Kubrick	11
Paul Verhoeven	8	Tim Burton	11
Robert Zemeckis	8	Woody Allen	11
Billy Wilder	7	Akira Kurosawa	10
Chris Columbus	7	Clint Eastwood	10
Christopher Nolan	7	Louis Feuillade	10
Sam Raimi	7	Paul Verhoeven	10

[Rich]

Probably Godard. Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, or Brakhage it could possibly be. I know I've seen a lot of Ford...hmm...

[Cippenham]

Over 20 only

Stan Brakhage 68 including shorts
Hitchcock 39
John Ford 36
Buster Keaton 32 includes shorts
Fritz Lang 26
Jean-Luc Godard 26
Spielburg 25
Scorsese 24
Woody Allen 22
Howard Hawks 22
Billy Wilder 21
John Huston 21

not including Lumiere or Melies or Chuck Jones

[AdamH]

Clint Eastwood-30 (all features other than Bird and J. Edgar)

[mightysparks]

Over 10:
Woody Allen 32
Alfred Hitchcock 22
Steven Spielberg 20
John Carpenter 17
Akira Kurosawa 17
Billy Wilder 15
Wes Craven 15
Roger Corman 15
Terence Fisher 15
Martin Scorsese 14
Mario Bava 14
Stanley Kubrick 13
David Cronenberg 13
Tim Burton 13
Jean-Luc Godard 13
Fritz Lang 13
Stuart Gordon 12
Howard Hawks 12
Yasujirô Ozu 12
Ingmar Bergman 12
Ethan/Joel Coen 12
Steven Soderbergh 12
Brian De Palma 11
Sidney Lumet 11
Ernst Lubitsch 11
Luis Buñuel 11
Roman Polanski 11
John Ford 11
Sam Raimi 11
Peter Jackson 10
David Lynch 10
Peter Weir 10
Jean-Pierre Melville 10
George A. Romero 10
William Wyler 10
Dario Argento 10
Kenji Mizoguchi 10
Lucio Fulci 10

[metaller]

Hitchcock, with 41.
I don't want to look up my stats now, but I guess I've watched less than 20 of the next guys.
Reason is, Hitch is the only director whose filmography I've actively quested. Was worth it too.

[tirefeet]

I saw all of the films directed by them, so probably Coen bros, after them Bergman comes second I think.

[Kowry]

Don't have a spreadsheet or anything handy to check, but I'm pretty sure Hitchcock comes first with 17 films seen. Carpenter probably comes second, seen 13 of his films. Then don't really know. I don't think there are many more (if any) of whose (feature) films I've seen even a two-digit number.

[lampadatriste]

Woody Allen 29
David Cronenberg 23
Alfred Hitchcock 22
Chris Marker 19
Steven Spielberg 19
Jean-Luc Godard 16
Stanley Kubrick 16
Sidney Lumet 14
Manoel de Oliveira 13
Werner Herzog 12
Abbas Kiarostami 11
David Lynch 11
Jim Jarmusch 11


With shorts:
Stan Brakhage 47
Woody Allen 29
David Cronenberg 25
Alfred Hitchcock 22
David Lynch 21
Chris Marker 20
Steven Spielberg 19
Jean-Luc Godard 17
Peter Greenaway 16
Stanley Kubrick 16
Lumière 15
Sidney Lumet 14
Agnes Varda 14
Charles M. Jones 14
Manoel de Oliveira 13
Abbas Kiarostami 13
Georges Melies 13
Werner Herzog 12
Jim Jarmusch 12
Raoul Ruiz 12
Hollis Frampton 12

[Prequel]

Director Count Distr. Avg Rat

Steven Spielberg 19 %1.39 7.1
Alfred Hitchcock 16 %1.17 8
Tim Burton 11 %0.8 6.5
Ridley Scott 10 %0.73 7.2
Clint Eastwood 10 %0.73 7.4


Top two are 100% correct, rest may vary just a bit. Oh and there may be some more 10+'s. Kubrick is one of them, with an exact 10 movies.

[Knaldskalle]

Not counting shorts...
Hitchcock: 55

Impossible.

[Pretentious Hipster]

No easy way for me to tell if they're shorts or not

Stan Brakhage 56
Werner Herzog 29
Frederick Wiseman 24
Steven Spielberg 23
Jean-Luc Godard 23
David Cronenberg 20
Ernst Lubitsch 18
Chuck Jones 17
Alfred Hitchcock 17
Ingmar Bergman 16

[brokenface]

20+ where majority are features:

Woody Allen 44
Alfred Hitchcock 38
Fritz Lang 34
Satyajit Ray 33
Ernst Lubitsch 32
Jean-Luc Godard 29
Eric Rohmer 26
Martin Scorsese 26
Werner Herzog 25
Rainer Arthur Fassbinder 25
John Ford 24
Akira Kurosawa 23
Steven Spielberg 22
Aki Kaurismaki 21
Billy Wilder 20
Ingmar Bergman 20

[jeff_v]

Criticker makes this easy for me:

1. Chuck Jones - 58
2. Alfred Hitchcock - 38
3. John Ford - 31
4. Buster Keaton - 28
5t. Fritz Lang - 27
Martin Scorsese - 27
7t. Steven Spielberg - 23
Woody Allen - 23

Updated totals:

1. Chuck Jones - 58
2. Alfred Hitchcock - 39
3. John Ford - 38
4. Stan Brakhage - 36
5. Buster Keaton - 31
6. Martin Scorsese - 30
7. Fritz Lang - 29

[themagician]

Some Japanese directors in my Favorited lists:

Mikio Naruse - 56
Yasujiro Ozu - 37
Keisuke Kinoshita - 32
Akira Kurosawa - 30
Kenji Mizoguchi - 30
Nagisa Oshima - 26
Shohei Imamura - 23
Yoshishige Yoshida - 19
Masahiro Shinoda - 18
Hiroshi Shimizu - 16

[agrimorfee]

Spielberg is the largest director's catalog that I have covered, but haven't completed (20/29). I am actually one film short of seeing every Robert Rodriguez film (shorts and features).

[joachimt]

Not counting shorts...
Hitchcock: 55

Impossible.

I didn't count. I let criticker do that. When I looked at my director stats, I ignored the top with directors of who I saw (almost) only shorts. I just forgot the few shorts by Hitchcock.

In the top 10 Hitchcock is the only one where that number isn't a large list of shorts.

Georges Méliès 144
Stan Brakhage 88
Auguste Lumiere 77
Alice Guy 61
Louis Lumiere 61
Alfred Hitchcock 55
D.W. Griffith 49
Edwin S. Porter 49
James H. White 42
Charles Chaplin 38

[mightysparks]

You guys need to do spreadsheets

[joachimt]

You guys need to do spreadsheets

I thought you didn't even use Excel. What do you use for these kind of stats?

[mightysparks]

You guys need to do spreadsheets

I thought you didn't even use Excel. What do you use for these kind of stats?

Huh?! Excel is like my favourite thing in the universe, of course I use Excel

It comes with this:

[allisoncm]

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

[joachimt]

I thought I remembered you saying something about not using Excel, after you posted that handwritten note about top tens a few days ago. Some were astonished, that you did that list by hand. I guess I didn't remember it well.

[mightysparks]

I thought I remembered you saying something about not using Excel, after you posted that handwritten note about top tens a few days ago. Some were astonished, that you did that list by hand. I guess I didn't remember it well.

Nooo, I said I didn't use databases coz I can't work them out. I just felt like scribbling something by hand that time.