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Movies I have not seen yet

• Hacksaw Ridge
• The Aviator
• The Hustler
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• The Age of Innocence
• 8½
• Still Alice
• Sound of Metal
• Rosemary's Baby
• Searching for Bobby Fischer

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Interstellar
• The Prestige
• Memento
• Fargo
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Sixth Sense
• Snatch
• V for Vendetta
• The Martian
• Blade II

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

See detailed list and current omissions below.

This list is ranked based on my average score for each directors top 5 movies - must have rated at least 5 of their directed movies to include.

*This list is dynamic and will be updated as I watch more movies over time

Rankings 

1. Martin Scorsese 4.6 Avg (5, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5)
(Goodfellas, The Departed, King of Comedy, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)

2. Christopher Nolan 4.5 Avg (5, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 4)
(The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Interstellar, Inception, Oppenheimer)

3.  Steven Spielberg 4.5 Avg (5, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 4)
(Schindlers List, Catch Me if You Can, Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, Jurassic Park)

* have not yet watched Empire of the Sun

4. Stanley Kubrick 4.4 Avg (5, 4.5, 4.5, 4, 4)
(The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Paths of Glory, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove)

5. Quentin Tarantino 4.3 Avg (5, 4.5, 4, 4, 4)
(Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)

6. Francis Ford Coppola 4.3 Avg (5, 4.5, 4.5, 4, 3.5) 
(Apocalypse Now, Godfather II, Godfather I, The Conversation, Godfather III)

7. Denis Villeneuve 4.2 Avg (4.5, 4.5, 4, 4, 4)
(Dune Part 2, Incendies, Prisoners, Arrival, Dune Part I)

8. Sidney Lumet Avg 4.1 Avg (4.5, 4.5, 4, 4, 3.5)
(12 Angry Men, Network, Serpico, The Verdict, Dog Day Afternoon)

9. Alfred Hitchcock 4.1 Avg (4.5, 4, 4, 4, 4) 
(Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo, Rebecca)

*have not yet seen Dial M for Murder

10. Akira Kurosawa Avg 4.1 Avg (4.5,4,4,4,
(Ikiru, High and Low, Seven Samurai, Rashoman; Ran) *have not watched Yojimbo4)

11. Peter Jackson 4.0 Avg (5, 4.5, 4.5, 3, 3)
(LOTR Return of the King, LOTR Fellowship of the Ring, LOTR Two Towers, Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug)

12. Robert Zemeckis 4.0 Avg (4.5, 4.5, 4, 4, 3.0)
(Forest Gump, Back to the Future I, Cast Away, Back to the Future II, )

13. Ridley Scott 3.9 Avg (4.5, 4, 4, 3.5, 3.5)
(Gladiator, The Martian, American Gangster, BladeRunner, Alien)

*have not yet watched The Duelists, Napoleon

14. Joel / Ethan Coen Avg 3.9 (4.5, 4, 4, 3.5, 3.5) 
(No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, The Big Lebowski, True Grit)

*have not yet watched Hail Cesar

15. Billy Wilder Avg 3.9 (4.5,4,4,4,3)
(Witness for the Persecution, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Double Idemnity, Some Like it Hot)

16. Bong Joon Ho Avg 3.9 (4.5, 4, 4, 3.5, 3.5)
(Parasite, Memories of a Murder, Mother, Snowpiercer, Okja)

*have not yet watched The Host, Mickey 17

17.  Wes Anderson 3.9 Avg (4, 4, 4, 4, 3.5)
(Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs, Grand Budapest Hotel, Asteroid City, Moonrise Kingdom)

18. Sergio Leone 3.9 Avg (4.5, 4, 4, 3.5, 3.5)
(For a Few Dollars More Once Upon a Time in America, For a Fistful of Dollars, The Good The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West)

19. James Cameron 3.9 Avg (4, 4, 4, 4, 3.5)
(Aliens, Terminator 2, Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar, Titanic)

20. David Fincher Avg 3.9 (4, 4, 4, 4, 3.5)
(Seven, Zodiac, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Fight Club, The Social Network)

21. James Mangold 3.9 Avg (4, 4, 4, 4, 3.5) 
(3:10 to Yuma, Logan, Ford V Ferrari, A Complete Unkown, Walk the Line)

22. Clint Eastwood 3.8 Avg (4, 4, 4, 3.5, 3.5)
(Unforgiven, Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Richard Jewel)

*have not yet watched The Bridges of Mason County, Two Letters from Iwo Jima

23. Charlie Chaplin 3.8 Avg (4,4,4,3.5,3.5)
(City Lights, The Great Dictator, The Kid, Modern Times, The Gold Rush)

24. Darren Aronofsky Avg 3.8 (4.5, 4, 4, 3.5, 3)
(Requiem For A Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, The Whale, Pi)

25. Rob Reiner Avg 3.8 (4, 4, 4. 3.5, 3.5)
(Stand By Me, Misery, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride)

26. Hayao Miyazaki Avg 3.8 (4, 4, 4, 3.5, 3.5)
(Howls Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, The Boy and the Heron, My Neighbor Totoro)

27. Richard Linklater Avg 3.7 (4, 4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5)
(Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, School of Rock, Dazed and Confused, Before Midnight)

*have not yet watched Boyhood

28. Paul Thomas Anderson 3.7 Avg (4, 4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5)
(There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, The Master)

* have not yet watched Phantom Thread

29. Spike Lee 3.7 Avg (Do The Right Thing, BlacKkKlansman, Inside Man, 25th Hour, Malcolm X)
(4, 4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5)

30. Miloš Forman 3.6 Avg (4.5, 4, 3.5, 3, 3)
(One Flew over the Cuckoos nest, Amadeus, Hair, People v Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon)

31. Michael Mann 3.6 Avg (4.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3)
 (Heat, The Insider, Thief, Last of the Mohicans, Collateral)

*have not yet Ferrari

32. Brian De Palma Avg 3.6 (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5) (Untouchables, Scarface, Blow Out, Carlitos Way, Mission Impossible I)

*have not yet watched Carrie

33. Alexander Payne 3.6 Avg (4, 4, 3.5, 3.5, 3)
The Holdovers, Nebraska, About Schmidt, Sideways, Election

34. Danny Boyle Avg 3.6 (4, 4, 3.5, 3.5, 3)
(Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Trainspotting 2, 127 hours)

35. Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu Avg 3.6 (4,4,3.5,3.5,3) (21 Grams, Birdman, Amores Perros, The Revenant, Babel)

36. George Roy Hill 3.5 Avg (4.5, 4, 3.5, 3, 2.5)
(The Sting, Slapshot, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The World According to Garp, Funny Farm)

37. Todd Phillips 3.5 avg (4, 4, 3.5, 3, 3)
(Joker, Hangover Old School, Hangover II, War Dogs)

38. Ron Howard Avg 3.5 (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3) 
(A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Rush, Apollo 13, The Grinch)

39. John Hughes 3.5 Avg (4, 4, 3.5, 3, 3)
(Planes Trains and Automobiles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Uncle Buck, Sixteen Candles)

*have not yet seen Weird Science

40. William Freidkin Avg 3.5 (3.5,3.5,3.5,3.5,3.5)
 (The Exorcist, 12 Angry Men (1997), To Live and Die in LA, French Connection, Sorcerer)

*have not yet watched Cruising

41. George Miller 3.5 Avg (Fury Road, Furiosa, Mad Max II, Mad Max, Happy Feet) (4, 4, 3.5, 3, 3)

*have not yet seen Three Thousand Years of Longing and Witches of Eastwick

42. Sam Mendes 3.5 Avg (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3)
(1917, Skyfall, Road to Perdition, American Beauty, Jarhead)

*have not yet watched 007: Spectre

43. Edward Zwick Avg 3.5 (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3)
(Glory, Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, Defiance)

44. Adam McKay Avg 3.5 (4, 4, 3.5, 3, 3) 
(The Big Short, Anchorman, Step Brothers, Anchorman 2, Don’t Look Up)

45. Peter Farrelly 3.4 Avg (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3)
(The Green Book, King Pin, Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary, Me Myself and Irene)

46. Christopher Columbus 3.4 Avg (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3)
(Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Mrs Doubtfire, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Home Alone 2)

47. Steven Soderberg Avg 3.4 (3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3) (Traffic, Oceans Eleven, Erin Brockovich, Sex, Lies & Videotape, Contagion)

48. Guy Ritchie 3.4 Avg (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3)
(The Gentlemen, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Sherlock Holmes, Aladdin)

49. Wolfgang Petersen 3.4 Avg (4.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 2.5)
(Das Boot, Perfect Storm, In the Line of Fire, Never Ending Story, Troy)

*Have not yet watched Air Force One 

50. George Lucas 3.4 Avg (4.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 2.5)
(Star Wars Ep IV, American Graffiti, Stars Wars Ep III, Star Wars Ep I, Star Wars Ep II)

51. Tim Burton 3.4 Avg (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3)
(Big Fish, Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands)

52. Brad Bird Avg 3.4 (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3)
(Ratatouille, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles 2)

53. Bryan Singer Avg 3.4 (4, 4, 3, 3, 3)
(The Usual Suspects, X-Men Days of Future Past, Bohemian Rhapsody, X2, X-Men)

54. Jonathan Demme - 3.4 Avg (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3)
(Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Stop Making Sense, Manchurian Candidate, Beloved)

55. Frank Darabont 3.3 Avg (Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, The Majestic, The Mist, Buried Alive) (5, 4.5, 3, 2, 2)

56. Russo Brothers Avg 3.3 (4, 4, 3.5, 3, 2)
(Avengers Infinity War, Avengers End Game, Avengers Civil War, Captain America Winter Solider, You Me And Dupree)

*have not yet watched The Gray Man

57. John McTiernan Avg 3.3 (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 2)
Hunt for Red October, Die Hard, Predator, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Rollerball

58. John Lasseter Avg 3.3 (4.5, 4, 3, 3, 2)
(Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug’s Life, Cars, Cars 2)

59. Penny Marshall Avg 3.3 (4, 3.5, 3, 3, 3)
(A League of Their Own, Awakenings, Big, Riding in Cars with Boys, Jumping Jack Flash)

60. Mel Brooks Avg 3.3 (3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3)
(Spaceballs, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood Men in Tights, and Blazing Saddles)

61. John Carpenter Avg 3.3 (4, 3.5, 3, 3, 3) 
(Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Escape From New York, Christine)

*have not yet seen Assault on Precinct 13

62. Doug Liman Avg 3.3 (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 2.5)
(Edge of Tomorrow, Bourne Identity, Swingers, Mr and Mrs Smith, Road House)

63. Jon Favreau Avg 3.3 (4, 3.5, 3, 3, 3)
(Chef, Elf, Iron Man, Lion King, Jungle Book)

64. Ben Stiller Avg 3.3 (3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3)
(Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, Cable Guy, Reality Bites)

65. Ang Lee Avg 3.2 (4, 4, 4, 2, 2)
(Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Life of Pi, The Ice Storm and Hulk)

*have not yet watched Sense and Sensability

66. Antoine Fuqua Avg 3.2 (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 3)
(Training Day, Equalizer 3, Equalizer 1, South Paw, Equalizer 2)

67. Tony Scott Avg 3.2 (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 3) 
(Crimson Tide, True Romance, Top Gun, Man on Fire, Déja Vu)

68. Harold Ramis 3.2 Avg (3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 2.5, 2)
(Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, National Lampoons Vacation, Analyze This, Bedazzled)

* have not yet watched Meatballs, Analyze That, Multiplicty

69. Edgar Wright 3.2 Avg (4, 3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Hot Fuzz, The Worlds End)

70. Jay Roach 3.2 Avg (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 3)
(Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers Goldmember, Mystery Alaska, Meet the Parents)

71. John G. Avildsen 3.2 Avg (Lean On Me, Rocky I, The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, Rocky V) (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 2) 

72. Rian Johnston Avg 3.2 (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 2)
(Knives Out, Knives Out Glass Onion, Looper, Brick, Last Jedi
*have not yet watched Knives Out 3

73. M. Night Shamyalan 3.2 avg (4, 3, 3, 3, 3)
(The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, Split, Knock at the Cabin)

74. David Leitch 3.2 Avg (Deadpool 2, Fall Guy, Bullet Train, Atomic Blond, Hobbs and Shaw)
(4, 3.5, 3.5, 2.5, 2.5)

75. Francis Lawrence Avg 3.2 (4, 3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Hunger Games Catching Fire, Hunger Games Mocking Jay Part 1, Hunger Games Songbirds and Snakes, I Am Legend, Constantine)

76. Barry Sonnenfeld Avg 3.2 (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 3)(Men in Black, The Adams Family, Adams Family Values, Get Shorty, Men in Black III)

77. Martin Brest Avg 3.2 (4, 3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Scent of a Woman, Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, Going in Style, Meet Joe Black)

78. F. Gary Gray Avg 3.1 (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Law Abiding Citizen, Straight Outta Compton, Friday, The Italian Job, Be Cool)

*have not yet watched F8 Fate and the Furious, The Negotiatior

79. Judd Apatow Avg 3.1 (4, 3, 3, 3, 2.5)
(40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Trainwreck, Funny People, This is 40)

*have not yet watched King of Staten Island

80. Guillermo Del Toro 3.1 Avg (3.5, 3, 3, 3, 3)

(Pans Labrynth, Shape of Water, Pacific Rim, Hell Boy, Blade II)

81. Sam Raimi 3.1 Avg (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead, Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness)

*update for evil dead 2

82. J.J. Abrams 3.1 Avg (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Star Wars Force Awakens, Star Trek, Super 8, Mission Impossible III, Star Wars Rise of Skywalker)

83. Kevin Smith 3.1 Avg (3.5, 3, 3, 3, 3)
(Clerks II, Mallrats, Dogma, Clerks I, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)

*have not yet watched Chasing Amy

84. Wes Craven Avg 3.1 (3.5, 3, 3, 3, 3)
(Scream, Scream 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Redeye, New Nightmare)

85. Paul Verhoeven Avg 3.1 (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)
(At 5 movies: Starship Troopers, Robocop, Basic Instinct, Total Recall, Hollow Man) 
* have not yet seen Showgirls

86. Joel Schumacher Avg 3.1 (3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Falling Down, A View to Kill, The Lost Boys, Phone Booth, Batman Forever)

87. Shawn Levy Avg 3.1 (3.5, 3, 3, 3, 3)
(Deadpool & Wolverine, A Night a the Museum, Free Guy, Real Steel, The Adam Project, Cheaper by the Dozen)

88. Barry Levinson 3.0 Avg (4, 3.5, 3, 2.5, 2)
(Rainman, Sleepers, Good Morning Vietnam, Toys, Envy)

*have not yet watched Avalon

89. Terry Gilliam 3.0 Avg (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Brother Grimm) *have not yet watched The Fisher King
(3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 2.5, 2) 

90. James Wan 5 movies 3.0 Avg (3.5, 3, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Saw, Furious 7, Conjuring, Insidious, Aquaman) *have not yet seen Malignant

91. Zack Snyder Avg 3.0 (3.5, 3, 3, 3, 2.5)
(The Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, 300, Snyder’s Justice League, Batman V Superman)

92. John Landis 3.0 Avg (3, 3, 3, 3, 3)
(American Werewolf in London, Coming to America, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Trading Places)

93. Brett Ratner Avg 3.0 (3.5, 3, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour, The Family Man, Rushour 3, Tower Heist)

*have not yet seen Red Dragon

94. Kenneth Branagh Avg 3.0 (3.5, 3, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Belfast, Thor, Murder on the Oreint Express, Cinderella, Death on the Nile)

*Have not yet watched Henry V, Hamelt, Much Ado About Nothing

95. Gore Verbinsky Avg 3.0 (3.5, 3, 3, 3.0, 2.5)
(Pirates - Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates Dead Mans Chest, The Ring, Rango, Pirates At Worlds End)

96. Matthew Vaughn Avg 2.9 (4, 3, 3, 2.5, 2)
(Kingsmen Secret Service, Kick Ass, X-Men First Class, the King’s Man, Kingsmen Golden Circle)

97. Dennis Dugan Avg 2.9 (3.5, 3, 3, 2.5, 2.5)
(Happy Gilmore, Grown Ups, Big Daddy, Beverly Hills Ninja, Grown Ups 2)

98. Jake Kasdan Avg 2.9 (3.5, 3, 3, 2.5, 2.5)
(Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox story, Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle, Jumanji Next Level, Orange County, Bad Teacher)

99. Michael Bay 2.9 Avg (3, 3, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Armageddon, Bad Boys, Transformers, Ambulance, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen)

100. Frank Oz Avg 2.9 (3, 3, 3, 3, 2.5)
(Little Shop of Horrors, Muppets in Manhattan, Bowfinger, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, What About Bob)

*have not yet watched The Dark Crystal)

101. Roland Emmerich Avg 2.8 (3.5, 3, 3, 2.5, 2)
(Independence Day, The Patriot, The Day After Tomorrow, White House Down, 2012)

102. Justin Lin 2.8 Avg (Fast Five, Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Star Trek Beyond, Fast & Furious 6, Fast & Furious)
(3, 3, 3, 2.5, 2.5)

103. Amy Heckerling Avg 2.8 (3, 3, 3, 2.5, 2.5)
(European Vacation, Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s talking, Look Who’s Talking Too)

104. John Turteltaub Avg 2.8 (3.5, 3, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5)
(Cool Runnings, National Treasure, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Meg, The Kid)

*have not yet watched While Your Were Sleeping

105. Ruben Fleischer Avg 2.8 (3.5, 3, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5)
(Zombieland, Zombieland 2, Venom, Uncharted, 30 minutes or less)

106. Nora Ephron Avg 2.7 (3, 3, 3, 2.5, 2)
(Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Julie & Julia, Michael, Bewitched)

107. Frank Coraci Avg 2.7 (At 5 movies: Waterboy, Click, The Wedding Singer, Blended, Here Comes the Boom)
(3,3,3,2.5,2)

108. Garry Marshall Avg 2.7 (3.5, 3, 3, 2, 2)
 (Pretty Woman, Overboard, Prince Diaries, New Years Eve, Prince Diaries 2

109. Stephen Sommers Avg 2.7 (3, 3, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5)
(The Mummy, The Adventures of Huck Finn,The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing, The Jungle Book 1994)

Key Omissions: 

Directors without 5 feature films yet

- Matt Reeves (At 4 movies; The Batman, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes, Cloverfield - *have not yet watched Batman Part II (2025)
(4, 4, 3.5, 2.5)

- Martin McDonaugh (At 4 movies; Three Billboards Out of Ebbing Missouri, In Bruges, Banshees of Inisherin, Seven Psychopaths; *no 5th movie yet.) (4.5, 4, 3.5, 3)

- Spike Jonze (At 4 movies: Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, HER, Being John Malkovich, Where the Wild Things Are; *no 5th feature film) (4, 4, 3.5, 2.5)

- Ben Affleck (At 4: Argo, Gone Baby Gone, the Town, Air *waiting on 5th movie) (4, 4, 3.5, 3.5)

- Robert Eggers At 4: Nosferatu, The Northman, The Witch, The Lighthouse (4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5)
-*No 5th film yet. 
(3.5,3.5,3.5)

- Greta Gerwig (At 3 movies: Little Women, Lady Bird, Barbie *no 4th or 5th movie yet ) (4, 3.5, 3.5)

- Gareth Edwards (At 3 movies: Rogue One, The Creator, Godzilla - *have not yet watched Monsters, no 5th movie)
(3.5, 3, 2.5)

- Paul King 3 movies (Paddington 2, Wonka, Paddington) *No real 4th or 5th (4, 3, 3)

- Jordan Peel (At 3 movies; Get Out, Us, Nope) - no 4th or 5th movie yet) (4, 3, 3)

- Damien Chazelle (At 3 movies; Whiplash, Babylon and LaLa Land - * Have not yet watched First Man; no 5th yet) (3.5, 3.5,3.5)

Have not yet watched 5 films (in progress)




*** to add - Alfonso Cuaron Avg 3.8 (At 5 movies: Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Roma, Gravity)
(4,4,4,3.5,3.5)

*** to add - Oliver Stone Avg 3.5 (At 5: JFK,Platoon, Wall Street, Any Given Sunday, Natural Born Killers)
(4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3)
 *have not yet watched Talk Radio

- Peter Weir (At 4 movies: Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master and Commander, Witness *have not yet watched Fearless)

- Nancy Meyers (At 4 movies: The Holiday, It’s Complicated, Somethings Gotta Give, The Parent Trap - *have not watched The Intern)
(3.5, 3, 3, 2.5)

- Yorgos Lanthamos (At 4 movie: Poor Things, The Favorite, The Lobster, Kinds of Kindness - *have not yet watched Dogtooth, The Killing of a Scared Deer) (4,3.5, 3.5,2.5)

- Woody Allen (At 4 movies: Midnight in Paris and Annie Hall, Hannah and her Sisters, Manhattan - *have not yet watched Crimes and Misdemeanours) (3.5,3.5,3.5,3)

- David Lynch (At 4 movies: Elephant Man, Mulholland drive, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead)- *have not yet watched The Straight Story, Lost Highway) (4.5, 3.5, 3.5, 2.5)

- Sean Baker (At 3 movies: Anora, Florida Project, Tangerine - *have not yet watched Red Rocket or Starlet) (4.5, 3.5, 3)

- Park Chan Wook (At 3 movies; Old Boy, Handmaiden, Lady Vengeance) *have not yet seen Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Lady Vengeance, t Security Area
(4,4,3.5)

- Nick Cassavetes (At 3 movies; The Notebook, John Q, Alpha Dog; -*have not yet seen My Sisters Keeper, The Other Woman)

- Don Siegel At 3 movies: Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
*have not yet seen Charley Varrick, The Beguiled
(3.5, 3.5, 3)

- James L Books (At 3 movies: As Good As It Gets, Broadcast News, Spanglish *have not yet watched of Endearment, I’ll do Anything) (3.5, 3.5, 2.5)

- Kathryn Bigelow (At 3 movies; The Hurt Locker and Point Break - *have not yet watched Strange Days, Detroit) (4, 3.5, 3)

- Wong Kar Wai (At 2 movie: In the Mood For Love, Chungking Express) *have not yet seen Happy Together, Fallen Angels, 2046, The Grandmaster) (4, 3.5)

- David Cronenberg; (At 2 movies: The Fly and History of Violence - *have not yet watched Crash, Videdrome, The Dead Zone)

- Robert Altman (At 2 movies: Nashville, The Player) *have not yet seen The Long Goodbye, 3 Women, Short Cuts, Gosford Park (4,3.5)

- Sydney Pollack (At 2 movie: The Firm and Out of Africa) *have not yet seen They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Jeremiah Johnson, Tootsie, Three Days of Condor) (3, 3)

- Andrei Tarkovsky At 1 Movie: Stalker *have not yet seen Solaris, Andrei Roublev, Mirror, Sacrifice, Nostalgia

- Ingmar Bergman At 1 Movie: Persona. Have not yet seen The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Autumn Sonata, Winter Light (4)

- John Ford At 1 Movie: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Have not yet seen Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach, How Green was my Valley, My Darling Clementine 
(4)

• GoodFellas
• The Departed
• The King of Comedy
• Taxi Driver
• Raging Bull
• The Dark Knight
• The Prestige
• Interstellar
• Inception
• Oppenheimer

...plus 535 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This list only includes sports movies I’ve seen. Rankings are based on my personal preferences which include a mix of:

- Memorability
- Emotional Impact (Happy, Sad, Angry, Laughing, Crying, Etc)
- Movie Quality (acting, production, story)

For this list, I’ve put more emphasis on comedies as these are the movies I predominantly watched when I was younger and have a stronger response to them. 

*list is dynamic and will be updated as more movies are watched, some key classics missing as I haven’t seen them:

- Hoosiers
- Rudy 
- Blind Side
- The English Game
- Bull Durham
- Several Sequels and other lower level sports movies 

The movie has to feature the sport prominently to be included.

I’ve included a broad range of sports, not just team based games (bowling, pool, figure skating, Olympics, poker and other competitive / professional games included)

1. Slap Shot

   “They brought their FUCKEN TOYS with the them!”

2. the Titans
3. Raging Bull
4. Rocky IV
5. Moneyball
6. Space Jam
7. A League of Their Own
8. Rocky II
9. Ford v Ferrari
10. Kingpin

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked by on my preference, still missing a few movies I have not watched yet noted below:

- Age of Innocence 
- Silence 
- Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
- Aviator
- Hugo 
- Last Temptation of Christ
- Bringing Out the Dead
- New York New York

1. GoodFellas
2. The Departed
3. The King of Comedy
4. Casino
5. Raging Bull
6. Taxi Driver
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. The Irishman
10. Gangs of New York

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The list is ranked to present the order from 1990 to 2024 (2024 is subject to change).

Posting my personal favorites of each year - not those is consider the best.

1. GoodFellas
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. My Cousin Vinny
4. Jurassic Park
5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. Heat
7. Happy Gilmore
8. Hercules
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Toy Story 2

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked by on my preference, still missing a few movies I have not watched yet noted below:

- Empire of the Sun
- Lincoln
- Bridge of Spies 
- The Color Purple
- Amistad
- Warhorse
- The Post
- Duel

1. Schindler's List
2. Catch Me If You Can
3. Jaws
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Jurassic Park
6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Ready Player One
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
10. The Fabelmans

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranking Nolan’s movies based on my preferences

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Prestige
3. Interstellar
4. Inception
5. Oppenheimer
6. Memento
7. Dunkirk
8. Batman Begins
9. Insomnia
10. Tenet

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.