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Visionary Film Directors

The most acclaimed directors in cinema history — prolific filmmakers with outstanding average ratings.

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Name↕	Films↕	Avg Rating↕	Genres↕	Known Films↕	Language↕
Paul Dugdale	19	7.68	Documentary, Music	Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert, Wicked: One Wonderful Night, The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl, An Evening with Dua Lipa, Apple Music Live: Jennifer Lopez	English, German
Hayao Miyazaki	18	7.65	Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy	The Boy and the Heron, The Wind Rises, Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess, Ponyo, Mon Mon the Water Spider	Japanese
Akira Kurosawa	30	7.44	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime	Rhapsody in August, Madadayo, Dreams, Ran, Kagemusha	Japanese, Russian
Peter Jackson	15	7.42	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Documentary	The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert, They Shall Not Grow Old, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	English
Hamish Hamilton	23	7.34	Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Family	Nikki Glaser: Someday You'll Die, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was..., Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special	English, German
Satyajit Ray	31	7.32	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary	The Stranger, An Enemy of the People, The Branches of the Tree, The Home and the World, The Kingdom of Diamonds	Bengali, English, Hindi
Tosca Musk	17	7.31	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance	Wallbanger, Gabriel's Redemption: Part I, Gabriel's Redemption: Part II, Gabriel's Redemption: Part III, Gabriel's Rapture: Part III	English
Ertem Eğilmez	21	7.3	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama	Arabesque, I Feel in Love, Bilo the Banker, The Chaos Class: Bye Bye, The Honest One	Turkish
Stan Lathan	15	7.26	Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History	Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer, Chappelle's Home Team - Earthquake: Legendary, Dave Chappelle: The Closer, Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones, Epilogue: The Punchline	English
Don Hertzfeldt	15	7.24	Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance	World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime, World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, World of Tomorrow, It's Such a Beautiful Day, It's Such a Beautiful Day	English
Billy Wilder	26	7.23	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama	Buddy Buddy, Fedora, The Front Page, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Avanti!	English, French
David Lean	15	7.22	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama	A Passage to India, Ryan's Daughter, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai	English
Federico Fellini	21	7.21	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary	The Voice of the Moon, Ginger and Fred, Intervista, City of Women, And the Ship Sails On	Italian
Yoji Yamada	19	7.16	Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family	Mom, Is That You?!, It's a Flickering Life, What a Wonderful Family! 3, What a Wonderful Family! 2, What a Wonderful Family!	Japanese
Joel Coen	16	7.15	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama	The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Hail, Caesar!, Inside Llewyn Davis, A Serious Man	English
Miguel M. Delgado	43	7.14	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime	El Barrendero, La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo, El patrullero 777, Los Reyes del Palenque, The Minister and Me	English, Spanish
Steven Spielberg	36	7.13	Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy	The Fabelmans, West Side Story, Ready Player One, The Post, The BFG	English
Sergiu Nicolaescu	19	7.13	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime	Poker, The Survivor, Mirror, Proud Heritage, The Last Assault	Romanian
Stanley Kubrick	16	7.12	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary	Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange	English
Takahiro Miki	17	7.11	Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance	Drawing Closer, Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight, The Door into Summer, Love Me, Love Me Not, Fortuna's Eye	Japanese
Laurent Bouzereau	27	7.09	Action, Adventure, Documentary, Drama	Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, Music by John Williams, Faye, Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford, The Fabelmans: A Family in Film	English
Wes Anderson	19	7.09	Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime	The Phoenician Scheme, Asteroid City, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Poison, The Swan	English
Pier Paolo Pasolini	18	7.09	Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, Drama	Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Notes Towards an African Orestes, Theorem, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales	Italian
Luchino Visconti	18	7.09	Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama	The Innocent, Death in Venice, The Damned, Ludwig, Conversation Piece	English, Italian
Wong Kar-Wai	15	7.09	Action, Comedy, Crime, Documentary	The Grandmaster, My Blueberry Nights, 2046, The Hand, The Follow	CN, Chinese, English
Martin Scorsese	43	7.07	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary	Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Silence, The Audition	English, Italian
François Truffaut	24	7.07	Comedy, Crime, Drama, History	The Last Metro, The Woman Next Door, Confidentially Yours, The Story of Adèle H., Love on the Run	English, French
Hirokazu Kore-eda	18	7.07	Action, Comedy, Crime, Documentary	Monster, Broker, The Truth, Shoplifters, The Third Murder	French, Japanese, Korean
Kevin Macdonald	17	7.07	Action, Adventure, Crime, Documentary	One to One: John & Yoko, High & Low – John Galliano, The Mauritanian, Life in a Day 2020, Whitney	English
Ingmar Bergman	50	7.06	Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy	Saraband, The Image Makers, In the Presence of a Clown, Madame de Sade, Karin's Face	English, German, Swedish
Ismael Rodríguez	27	7.06	Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History	Snow White and Her 7 Lovers, Mi niño Tizoc, Autopsy of a Ghost, Unethical Behaviour, The Important Man	English, Spanish
Leonid Gaidai	16	7.04	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime	There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach, Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation, Dangerous for Your Life!, SportLotto - 82, It Can't Be!	Russian
Lav Diaz	19	7.03	Adventure, Crime, Documentary, Drama	Genus Pan, The Halt, Season of the Devil, The Woman Who Left, A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery	Filipino
William Wyler	31	7.02	Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary	Funny Girl, The Liberation of L.B. Jones, Ben-Hur, How to Steal a Million, The Big Country	English
Marty Callner	15	7.01	Comedy, Documentary, Music, TV Movie	Whitney Cummings: I'm Your Girlfriend, Whitney Cummings: I Love You, The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway, Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction, Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush	English
Elia Kazan	19	7	Crime, Drama, History, Mystery	The Last Tycoon, The Arrangement, The Visitors, Splendor in the Grass, Wild River	English
Takeshi Kitano	21	6.99	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime	Broken Rage, Kubi, Outrage Coda, Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen, Morning	Japanese
Sam Liu	20	6.99	Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy	Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, Batman: Soul of the Dragon, Superman: Red Son, Reign of the Supermen, Justice League vs. the Fatal Five	English
Guy Ritchie	17	6.98	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime	Fountain of Youth, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Wrath of Man	English
Theo Angelopoulos	15	6.97	Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama	Invisible World, The Dust of Time, To Each His Own Cinema, The Weeping Meadow, Eternity and a Day	French, Greek, Portuguese