The Skuriels: Top Directors

Directors who received the most love from Skuriels voters.  Title in parentheses denotes the director’s highest-placing film.

1. Stanley Kubrick – 70 votes, 9 Films (2001: A Space Odyssey)

2. Alfred Hitchcock – 59 votes, 9 Films (Vertigo)

3 (tie). Orson Welles – 34 votes, 5 Films (Citizen Kane)

Francis Ford Coppola – 34 votes, 4 Films (Apocalypse Now / The Godfather)

5. Martin Scorsese – 31 votes, 8 Films (Taxi Driver)

6 (tie). David Lynch – 28 votes, 7 Films (Mulholland Dr.)

Billy Wilder – 28 votes, 6 Films (Double Indemnity)

8. Akira Kurosawa – 27 votes, 9 Films (The Seven Samurai)

9 (tie). Howard Hawks – 26 votes, 6 Films (His Girl Friday)

Terrence Malick – 26 votes, 5 Films (Badlands)

11 (tie). Jean-Luc Godard – 23 votes, 8 Films (Contempt)

Carl Theodor Dreyer – 23 votes, 4 Films (The Passion of Joan of Arc)

13 (tie). Woody Allen – 20 votes, 6 Films (Manhattan)

Robert Altman – 20 votes, 4 Films (Nashville)

15 (tie). Luis Bunuel – 18 votes, 8 Films (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)

Steven Spielberg – 18 votes, 7 Films (Jaws)

17 (tie). Buster Keaton – 17 votes, 5 Films (The General / Sherlock Jr.)

Francois Truffaut – 17 votes, 5 Films (The 400 Blows)

Wong Kar-wai – 17 votes, 4 Films (Chungking Express / In the Mood for Love)

Federico Fellini – 17 votes, 3 Films (8 ½)

Sergio Leone – 17 votes, 3 Films (Once Upon a Time in the West)

22 (tie). Robert Bresson – 16 votes, 6 Films (Au Hasard Balthasar)

Jacques Tati – 16 votes, 2 Films (Play Time)

24 (tie). John Ford – 15 votes, 5 Films (The Searchers)

Stanley Donen – 15 votes, 2 Films (Singin’ in the Rain)

26 (tie). Fritz Lang – 14 votes, 5 Films (Metropolis)

F.W. Murnau – 14 votes, 3 Films (Sunrise)

Jean Renoir – 14 votes, 3 Films (The Rules of the Game)

Michael Curtiz – 14 votes, 1 Film (Casablanca)

Gene Kelly – 14 votes, 1 Film (Singin’ in the Rain)

31 (tie). Ingmar Bergman – 13 votes, 7 Films (Persona / The Seventh Seal)

Preston Sturges – 13 votes, 5 Films (The Lady Eve)

33 (tie). Joel Coen – 12 votes, 7 Films (Barton Fink / The Big Lebowski)

Yasujiro Ozu – 12 votes, 6 Films (Tokyo Story)

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – 12 votes, 6 Films (The Red Shoes)

Quentin Tarantino – 12 votes, 3 Films (Pulp Fiction)

37 (tie). Charlie Chaplin – 11 votes, 5 Films (City Lights)

Eric Rohmer – 11 votes, 5 Films (Claire’s Knee / Love in the Afternoon / My Night at Maud’s)

Paul Thomas Anderson – 11 votes, 4 Films (There Will Be Blood)

Spike Lee – 11 votes, 3 Films (Do the Right Thing)

41 (tie). Andrei Tarkovsky – 10 votes, 4 Films (Stalker)

Brian De Palma – 10 votes, 3 Films (Carrie)

Werner Herzog – 10 votes, 3 Films (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)

Jacques Demy – 10 votes, 2 Films (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)

George A. Romero – 10 votes, 2 Films (Dawn of the Dead / Night of the Living Dead)