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The Most Oscar-Worthy Directors Of All Time By DrZardoz [7 more lists]
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1889The Bank, A Jitney Elopement, His New Job, His Prehistoric Past, The Face on the Bar Room Floor, Triple Trouble, Dough and Dynamite, Twenty Minutes of Love, The Floorwalker, A Dog's Life, Sunnyside, The Idle Class, Work, Easy Street, A Night Out, Recreation, City Lights, The Great Dictator, One A.M., The Champion, A Woman of Paris, Mabel's Married Life, Gentlemen of Nerve, His Musical Career, His Regeneration, A Woman, The Masquerader, A Countess from Hong Kong, Pay Day, A King in New York, A Night in the Show, The Tramp, Monsieur Verdoux, The Adventurer, The Fireman, The Cure, His New Profession, Shoulder Arms, Modern Times, The Pawnshop, Caught in the Rain, Limelight, Behind the Screen, The Pilgrim, By the Sea, In the Park, The Circus, The Gold Rush, Those Love Pangs, Getting Acquainted, Police!, Burlesque on Carmen, The Vagabond, The Immigrant, A Day's Pleasure, The Professor, The Kid, A Busy Day, The Property Man, His Trysting Place, Laughing Gas, Her Friend the Bandit, The New Janitor, The Rink, The Count, Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work, The Freak, Chaplin: The Collection: Vol. 3, The Rounders, Shanghaied, The Bond, The Chaplin Revue MoreUnited Kingdom, EnglandWalworth, London - 2
1943M. Butterfly, London Fields, Shivers, A History of Violence, To Each His Own Cinema, Camera, Naked Lunch, Crash, Scanners, Videodrome, Spider, Dead Ringers, The Dead Zone, The Brood, Maps to the Stars, Cosmopolis, EXistenZ, Fast Company, A Dangerous Method, Eastern Promises, The Fly, Stereo, Transfer, The Bridge Short Film & Video Collection, Rabid, Crimes of the Future, From the Drain, At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World MoreCanadaToronto - 3
1928The Shining, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Day of the Fight, The Killing, Lolita, Killer's Kiss, One-Eyed Jacks, Fear and Desire, The Seafarers, Flying Padre MoreUnited States of AmericaManhattan - 4
1899Topaz, Sabotage, Notorious, Lifeboat, The Paradine Case, The Birds, Juno and the Paycock, North by Northwest, Saboteur, The Trouble with Harry, The Farmer's Wife, Psycho, Family Plot, Waltzes from Vienna, Number Seventeen, Rich and Strange, Juno and the Paycock, Easy Virtue, Aventure Malgache, Jamaica Inn, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Marnie, Frenzy, Suspicion, Dial M for Murder, Shadow of a Doubt, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Stage Fright, Rebecca, Spellbound, The Lady Vanishes, I Confess, Rear Window, The 39 Steps, Elstree Calling, Blackmail, Bon Voyage, Vertigo, Torn Curtain, Young and Innocent, The Mountain Eagle, The Pleasure Garden, Always Tell Your Wife, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Ring, Murder!, Under Capricorn, Secret Agent, Alfred Hitchcock: More Than Just a Profile, Number 13, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Wrong Man, To Catch a Thief, The Skin Game, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Foreign Correspondent, Woman to Woman, The Manxman, Downhill, The White Shadow, Champagne, Mary, Vertigo, North by North-West, An Elastic Affair, Vertigo MoreUnited States of America, EnglandLeytonstone - 5
1935Alice, Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, Sleeper, Hannah and Her Sisters, Husbands and Wives, Bullets Over Broadway, Shadows and Fog, Whatever Works, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mighty Aphrodite, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), Scoop, Everyone Says I Love You, Match Point, Radio Days, September, Don't Drink the Water, Another Woman, Sweet and Lowdown, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Cassandra's Dream, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Zelig, Midnight in Paris, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Take the Money and Run, Manhattan, Melinda and Melinda, New York Stories, Love and Death, Small Time Crooks, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Celebrity, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Annie Hall, Bananas, Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story, Interiors, Stardust Memories, Deconstructing Harry, Bop DeCameron, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Broadway Danny Rose MoreUnited States of AmericaBrooklyn - 6
1942The Color of Money, Bringing Out the Dead, The King of Comedy, The Departed, The Aviator, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, Cape Fear, Italianamerican, After Hours, Street Scenes, Kundun, Shine a Light, Goodfellas, A Letter to Elia, The Key to Reserva, Hugo, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, New York Stories, The Age of Innocence, Who's That Knocking at My Door, The Last Temptation of Christ, Public Speaking, Casino, My Voyage to Italy, New York, New York, Boxcar Bertha, Bad, Untitled The Departed 2 Sequel, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, No Direction Home, Silence, It's Not Just You, Murray!, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, The Big Shave, Sinatra , Made in Milan, Made in Milan, Back Home Years Ago: The Real Casino MoreUnited States of AmericaQueens - 7 1946Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Hook, 1941, Amistad, Catch Me If You Can, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Saving Private Ryan, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Jurassic Park, The Attack of the Mummies, Amazing Stories, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Color Purple, Munich, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, Amblin, War Horse, Savage, The Terminal, Empire of the Sun, Empire of the Sun, Always, Duel, Lincoln, Robopocalypse, Firelight, Interstellar, Lincoln, Something Evil, Amazing Stories: Book One, Slipstream MoreUnited States of AmericaCincinnati
- 8 1894Donovan's Reef, Cheyenne Autumn, Fort Apache, Rio Grande, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Long Voyage Home, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, They Were Expendable, Four Sons, The Last Hurrah, The Fugitive, The Battle of Midway, The Informer, Men Without Women, Wagon Master, The Wallop, The Iron Horse, The Lost Patrol, Seas Beneath, Riley the Cop, The Blue Eagle, 3 Bad Men, The Shamrock Handicap, The Sun Shines Bright, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, Arrowsmith, Flesh, North of Hudson Bay, How the West Was Won, Wee Willie Winkie, The Wings of Eagles, My Darling Clementine, Gideon's Day, The Hurricane, Two Rode Together, What Price Glory, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Horse Soldiers, The Soul Herder, The Secret Man, Ace of the Saddle, The Freeze-Out, The Last Outlaw, The Prince of Avenue A, Silver Wings, Hearts of Oak, Upstream, Airmail, Pilgrimage, The World Moves On, Judge Priest, Young Cassidy, Four Men and a Prayer, The Long Gray Line, Young Mr. Lincoln, Mary of Scotland, Pinky, 7 Women, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Phantom Riders, Wild Women, Three Mounted Men, Bare Fists, Desperate Trails, The Girl in Number 29, Bucking Broadway, The Rising of the Moon, Mister Roberts, The Big Punch, The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, Lightnin', Napoleon's Barber, Doctor Bull, Roped, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Gun Law, The Village Blacksmith, The Grapes of Wrath, Korean War in Color, How the West Was Won: Special Edition: Bonus Material, Hangman's House, Salute, Women in Defense, A Fight for Love, Rustlers, The Gun Packer, Action, The Plough and the Stars, The Fighting Brothers, Kentucky Pride, Sergeant Rutledge, Mother Machree, Air Mail, The Whole Town's Talking, The Searchers, Born Reckless, Straight Shooting, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Just Pals, Little Miss Smiles, Mogambo, The Black Watch, Tobacco Road, A Gun Fightin' Gentleman, The Craving, Steamboat Round the Bend, Marked Men, Three Godfathers, How Green Was My Valley, Pearl Harbor: Dawn of Death, Up the River, Riders of Vengeance, The Trail of Hate, The Brat, The Fighting Heart, Strong Boy, Thank You, Tornado, Submarine Patrol, Cheyenne's Pal, Sex Hygiene, When Willie Comes Marching Home, Hitchin' Posts, Hoodman Blind, Cameo Kirby, Jackie, Thieves' Gold, Rider of the Law, Torpedo Squadron, Flashing Spikes, Rookie of the Year, The Scrapper, Sure Fire, The Fighting Gringo, December 7th, By Indian Post, A Woman's Fool, The Colors of War: Pacific, A Marked Man, Three Jumps Ahead, Hell Bent, The Scarlet Drop MoreUnited States of AmericaCape Elizabeth
- 9 1954The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn't There, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Paris, je t'aime, Intolerable Cruelty, To Each His Own Cinema, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Blood Simple, The Ladykillers, Miller's Crossing, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, Hail Caesar, The Big Lebowski, Suburbicon MoreUnited States of AmericaMinneapolis
- 10 1895Battling Butler, The General, Steamboat Bill Jr., The Rough House, The Blacksmith, The Frozen North, Mixed Magic, The Haunted House, Allez Oop, Hollywood Handicap , The Playhouse, The Navigator, Grand Slam Opera, Seven Chances, Sherlock, Jr., Love Nest on Wheels, In the Good Old Summertime, Cops, The Love Nest, College, Neighbors, Daydreams, One Run Elmer, Blue Blazes, Three Ages, The Cameraman, My Wife's Relations, The Scarecrow, Hard Luck, Go West, Tars and Stripes, Our Hospitality, Convict 13, The Paleface, The Electric House, The Goat, One Week, Spite Marriage, The High Sign, The Boat, The Balloonatic, The Gold Ghost, Easy to Wed MoreUnited States of AmericaPiqua
- 11 1890Moonfleet, Metropolis, The Spiders, The Return of Frank James, Spies, American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Hangmen Also Die, The Blue Gardenia, Human Desire, The Woman in the Window, While the City Sleeps, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, You and Me, Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, Moontide, You Only Live Once, Kämpfende Herzen, M, Man Hunt, Woman in the Moon, Master of Love, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Liliom, Clash by Night, Der müde Tod, Western Union, The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship, In Night and Ice, Scarlet Street, Secret Beyond the Door..., House by the River, Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Cloak and Dagger, Ministry of Fear, Fury, The Indian Tomb, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Harakiri, The Big Heat, Rancho Notorious, Das wandernde Bild, Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis, Halbblut MoreUnited States of America, Germany, AustriaVienna
- 12 1906The Spirit of St. Louis, Sunset Boulevard, One, Two, Three, The Fortune Cookie, Ace in the Hole, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Kiss Me, Stupid, The Major and the Minor, Fedora, Love in the Afternoon, Witness for the Prosecution, The Front Page, Some Like It Hot, Irma la Douce, The Emperor Waltz, Five Graves to Cairo, Double Indemnity, The Seven Year Itch, Stalag 17, Billy Wilder filmography, Mauvaise Graine, Buddy Buddy, The Apartment, Avanti!, Sabrina, The Lost Weekend, A Foreign Affair, Death Mills MoreUnited States of America, AustriaSucha Beskidzka
- 13 1915Filming Othello, Citizen Kane, The Fountain of Youth, Macbeth, Othello, The Stranger, The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles' Magic Show, Around The World With Orson Welles, Mr. Arkadin, It's All True, The Immortal Story, The Merchant of Venice, Don Quixote, The Trial, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, F for Fake, The Orson Welles Batman Hoax, Chimes at Midnight, The Hearts of Age, Mr. Arkadin: The Comprehensive Version, Portrait of Gina, The Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles' Sketch Book, The Lady in the Ice, Horse Eats Hat, Filming The Trial, One Man Band, Too Much Johnson, Moby Dick Rehearsed, Moby Dick, The Southern Star, Mr. Arkadin: The Corinth Version, Vienna, The Orson Welles Show, The Dreamers, In the Land of Don Quixote, The Deep, The Miracle of St. Anne MoreUnited States of AmericaKenosha
- 14 1933Frantic, Macbeth, Bitter Moon, Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac, Chinatown, Knife in the Water, Les plus belles escroqueries du monde, Oliver Twist, Tess, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Ninth Gate, The Pianist, The Tenant, What?, Pirates, Rosemary's Baby, Mammals, A Murderer, Break Up the Dance, Teeth Smile, When Angels Fall, The Fat and the Lean, The Lamp, The Ghost Writer, To Each His Own Cinema, Two Men and a Wardrobe, Death and the Maiden, Knife in the Water: Bonus Material, Carnage, Afternoon of a Champion MoreFrance, PolandParis
- 15 1898The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, The Great Moment, The French, They Are a Funny Race, The Palm Beach Story, Vendetta, The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Great McGinty, Hail the Conquering Hero, Sullivan's Travels, Unfaithfully Yours, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Christmas in July MoreUnited States of AmericaChicago
- 16 1932Stolen Kisses, Tirez sur le pianiste, Two English Girls, La Mariée était en noir, The Man Who Loved Women, Love at Twenty, The Last Metro, Confidentially Yours, Day for Night, La Peau douce, Mississippi Mermaid, La Femme d'à côté, Love on the Run, Bed & Board, The Wild Child, Fahrenheit 451, L'Homme qui aimait les femmes, Une belle fille comme moi, Les mistons, The Story of Adele H., The 400 Blows, Les Salades de L'amour, Jules and Jim, Antoine and Colette, Small Change, Une histoire d'eau, The Green Room, Une Visite, Fahrenheit 451 MoreFranceParis
- 17 1910Red Beard, Dreams, Sanshiro Sugata, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Ran, Yojimbo, Ikiru, The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail, The Bad Sleep Well, Kagemusha, The Lower Depths, The Most Beautiful, Drunken Angel, No Regrets for Our Youth, Sanjuro, I Live in Fear, Rhapsody in August, Stray Dog, Dodesukaden, Rashomon, The Quiet Duel, High and Low, Scandal, One Wonderful Sunday, Madadayo, Seven Samurai, Hakuchi, Those Who Make Tomorrow, Sanshiro Sugata Part II, Dersu Uzala, Gendai no Noh MoreJapanOta, Tokyo
- 18 1942Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Ten Minutes Older, Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices, Fitzcarraldo, Rescue Dawn, No One Will Play with Me, Portrait Werner Herzog, God's Angry Man, Stroszek, Heart of Glass, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Invincible, Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, Grizzly Man, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, La bohème, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Woyzeck, Encounters at the End of the World, Last Words, Handicapped Future, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Wheel of Time, Signs of Life, Scream of Stone, Ten Thousand Years Older, Cobra Verde, Bells from the Deep, Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana, Lessons of Darkness, The Flying Doctors of East Africa, My Best Fiend, The Wild Blue Yonder, Jag Mandir, Pilgrimage, La Soufrière, Echoes from a Somber Empire, The White Diamond, The Transformation of the World Into Music, How much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Where the Green Ants Dream, Giovanna D'Arco: Teatro Comunale Di Bologna, Precautions Against Fanatics, Land of Silence and Darkness, Wings of Hope, Herakles, Game in the Sand, Huie's Sermon, Into the Abyss, Ballad of the Little Soldier, The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz MoreGermanyMunich
- 19 1918The Seventh Seal, Shame, The Touch, Summer Interlude, Persona, The Image Makers, Face to Face, Through a Glass Darkly, The Magician, The Serpent's Egg, Fanny and Alexander, All These Women, Scenes from a Marriage, Autumn Sonata, The Blessed Ones, Cries and Whispers, Saraband, Summer with Monika, Secrets of Women, Prison, To Joy, This Can't Happen Here, Brink of Life, The Virgin Spring, Smiles of a Summer Night, Hour of the Wolf, Winter Light, The Magic Flute, In the Presence of a Clown, The Silence, The Passion of Anna, Sawdust and Tinsel, Bris Reklamfilmer, Karin's Face, The Rite, A Lesson in Love, Dreams, The Making of Fanny and Alexander, Karin's Face, From the Life of the Marionettes, Mr. Sleeman Is Coming, A Ship to India, Port of Call, Thirst, Crisis, Fårö-dokument 1979, Music in Darkness, The Devil's Eye, Wild Strawberries, The Last Gasp, Ingmar Bergman, After the Rehearsal, Stimulantia, Fårödokument 1969, Daniel, It Rains on Our Love, The Venetian, Rabies MoreSwedenUppsala
- 20 1940Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Mission: Impossible, Wise Guys, The Untouchables, Scarface, Raising Cain, The Wedding Party, Blow Out, Phantom of the Paradise, Greetings, The Black Dahlia, Mission to Mars, The Fury, Obsession, Snake Eyes, Sisters, Carrie, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Casualties of War, Murder a la Mod, Redacted, Femme Fatale, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Carlito's Way, Hi, Mom!, Body Double, Dionysus MoreUnited States of AmericaNewark
- 21 1963Sin City, Grindhouse, Death Proof, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 3, Kill Bill Volume 1, Four Rooms, Inglourious Basterds, My Best Friend's Birthday, Pulp Fiction, The Vega Brothers, Kill Bill Volume 2, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained, Django Unchained, pokpok MoreUnited States of America, United StatesKnoxville
- 22 1929For a Few Dollars More, Il Colosso di Rodi, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Last Days of Pompeii, A Fistful of Dynamite, A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West, My Name Is Nobody, Once Upon a Time in America, A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe, Dollars Trilogy MoreItalyRome
- 23 1939The Rainmaker, Rumble Fish, The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980, Apocalypse Now Redux, The Godfather, Finian's Rainbow, Captain EO, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Tetro, The Godfather Saga, The Conversation, You're a Big Boy Now, Youth Without Youth, Peggy Sue Got Married, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, The Godfather Part II, New York Stories, The Godfather Part III, The Cotton Club, Godfather Trilogy, The Terror, Supernova, Dementia 13, One from the Heart, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Gardens of Stone, Jack, The Rain People, The Bellboy and the Playgirls, Tonight for Sure, Battle Beyond the Sun, Twixt MoreUnited States of AmericaDetroit
- 24 1963The Limey, Ocean's Eleven, Haywire, Ocean's Twelve, Out of Sight, Contagion, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Traffic, Life Interrupted, 9012Live, The Girlfriend Experience, The Argentine, The Informant!, Erin Brockovich, Solaris, The Underneath, The Good German, Che: Part Two, sex, lies and videotape, Schizopolis, King of the Hill, Cleo, Kafka, Ocean's Thirteen, Full Frontal, And Everything Is Going Fine, Bubble, Liberace, Eros, Gray's Anatomy, Greatest Video Hits, Magic Mike, Magic Mike, Wholphin: Issue 2, The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg MoreUnited States of AmericaAtlanta
- 25 1969Rushmore, Hotel Chevalier, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Bottle Rocket, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom, Bottle Rocket MoreUnited States of AmericaHouston
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