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| Registered: June 6, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 950 |
| | Posted: | | | | Inspired by the Top Actor counts in your collection thread The top directors in my collection (excluding TV series): Alfred Hitchcock 36 Clint Eastwood 13 Steven Spielberg 13 John Ford 12 Michael Bay 9 James Cameron 8 Richard Donner 8 Wolfgang Petersen 8 Frank Capra 7 Michael Curtiz 7 Howard Hawks 7 Ivan Reitman 7 Raoul Walsh 7 Robert Zemeckis 7 Kenneth Branagh 6 How did Michael Bay got so high in the list?  | | | | Last edited: by Wigram |
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| Registered: April 7, 2007 |  Posts: 281 |
| | Posted: | | | | Don't know how to exclude TV series from the plugin:
David Livingston 51
Cliff Bole 50
Winrich Kolbe 50
Les Landau 48
Jack Bender 40
Gail Mancuso 39
Gary Halvorson 36
Pamela Fryman 28
Stephen Williams 28
Tim Van Patten 27
Ken Whittingham 25 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,195 |
| | Posted: | | | | Alfred Hitchcock 39
Ingmar Bergman 34
Steven Spielberg 20
Martin Scorsese 19
Woody Allen 16
Claude Chabrol 16
Brian De Palma 15
David Lynch 15
Ridley Scott 15
John Carpenter 14
Joel Coen 14
Peter Jackson 14
Stanley Kubrick 14
François Truffaut 14
Paul Verhoeven 14
Billy Wilder 14
Tim Burton 13
Terry Gilliam 13
Dario Argento 12
Francis Ford Coppola 12 | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Posts: 410 |
| | Posted: | | | | David Livingston 78
Winrich Kolbe 67
Les Landau 64
Allan Kroeker 60
Cliff Bole 55
LeVar Burton 44
Kevin S. Bright 39
James A. Contner 36
Gary Halvorson 30
Alexander Singer 30
James L. Conway 29
Joss Whedon 28
David Solomon 27
Jonathan Frakes 24
Michael Vejar 24
Robert Scheerer 23
Peter Jackson 20
Gabrielle Beaumont 18
James Cameron 18
Roxann Dawson 18 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | Peter Jackson directed 20 movies? Even IMDb only gives him 17 director credits. |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Alfred Hitchcock (51)
Joseph Kane (44)
Akira Kurosawa (26)
Michael Curtiz (22)
William Witney (21)
Roger Corman (20)
Terence Fisher (20)
Ingmar Bergman (19)
Robert Bradbury (19)
John Ford (18)
Steven Spielberg (18)
Ernst Lubitch (17)
Louis Malle (17)
Roy William Neill (17)
Yasujiro Ozu (17)
Arthur Lubin (16)
Clint Eastwood (16)
Henry Hathaway (16)
John Huston (16)
This is not controlling for child profiles where the parent also lists the crew or for multiple copies of the same movie - Joseph Kane & William Witney both directed numerous Roy Rogers films, and Robert Bradbury directed John Wayne's early B westerns, all of which I have multiple collections of with several repeats. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield | | | | Last edited: by Danae Cassandra |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,195 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting mdnitoil: Quote:
Peter Jackson directed 20 movies? Even IMDb only gives him 17 director credits. Unfortunately I don't see a way to filter out dupes (same movie, different editions). | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Gerald Thomas (30)
Clint Eastwood (19)
Ridley Scott (12)
Steven Spielberg (11)
Richard Donner (9)
Robert Zemeckis (8)
Tony Scott (9)
John Carpenter (7)
Michael Curtiz (7)
Robert Rodriguez (7)
Gerald Thomas directed all 30 original Carry On movies and I have the box set! | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Shaun Costello (29)
Joseph Sarno (24)
Roberta Findlay (18)
Gary Graver (16)
Uwe Boll (16)
Herschell Gordon Lewis (15)
Bob Chinn (14)
Carter Stevens (14)
Mario Bava (14)
Gerard Damiano (14) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't use child profiles for TV series, so I didn't need to factor those out. I didn't factor out duplicates.
Alfred Hitchcock (67)
Woody Allen (46)
George Cukor (31)
Clint Eastwood (30)
Martin Scorsese (30)
Michael Curtiz (30)
Ingmar Bergman (28)
Vincente Minnelli (26)
Steven Spielberg (24)
Robert Altman (23)
Stanley Donen (22)
Daniel Attias (21) [various TV series]
Dave Powers (21) [The Carol Burnett Show]
John Huston (21)
John Ford (20)
Blake Edwards (20)
James Ivory (20)
Other crew categories:
Writing - Agatha Christie (61) & Woody Allen (49)
Production - Walt Disney (74) & Harvey Weinstein (63)
Cinematography - William H. Daniels (39) & Leon Shamroy (38)
Editing - Ferris Webster (34) & Michael Kahn (32)
Music - John Williams (83) & Alfred Neuwman (79)
Sound - Douglas Shearer (202) & Roger Heman (113)
Art - Cedric Gibbons (219) [Art Director] & Edwin B. Willis (201) [Set Decorator for Cedric Gibbons] | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 681 |
| | Posted: | | | | Excluding TV-series, here's my top entries (I have 2 or more releases of some movies, which may show here as well)
Alfred Hitchcock 45
Martin Scorsese 18
Woody Allen 17
Billy Wilder 15
Charles Chaplin 14
Joel Coen 14
Stanley Kubrick 10
Frank Capra 9
Howard Hawks 9
Aki Kaurismäki 9 | | | Mika
I hate people who love me, and they hate me. (Bender Bending Rodriguez) |
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