Directors ranked by average rating

The number in parentheses is the number of films I've seen from the corresponding director. I've only included directors here by whom I've seen five or more films. The list of directors I've only seen four films by can be found right here.

Buster Keaton [3.9167 / 6]
Carl Th. Dreyer [3.8 / 5]
Terrence Malick [3.8 / 5]
Howard Hawks [3.75 / 11]
Jean-Pierre Melville [3.75 / 6]
Robert Bresson [3.7308 / 12]
Fritz Lang [3.7 / 5]
Ernst Lubitsch [3.7 / 5]
F.W. Murnau [3.7 / 5]
Peter Watkins [3.667 / 5]

Michael Powell [3.65 / 9]
Charlie Chaplin [3.6429 / 6]
Krzystzof Kieslowski [3.6429 / 6]
Andrei Tarkovsky [3.6429 / 6]
Orson Welles [3.6363 / 10]
Luis Bunuel [3.625 / 11]
Preston Sturges [3.611 / 9]
Paul Thomas Anderson [3.6 / 5]
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne [3.6 / 5]
Josef von Sternberg [3.6 / 5]

Henri-Georges Clouzot [3.5833 / 6]
Jacques Demy [3.5833 / 6]
Sergio Leone [3.5833 / 6]
Jean Renoir [3.5833 / 6]
Stanley Kubrick [3.5769 / 13]
Yasujiro Ozu [3.5714 / 7]
John Cassavetes [3.556 / 9]
Jean-Luc Godard [3.5417 / 12]
Jacques Rivette [3.5417 / 12]
Akira Kurosawa [3.5 / 16]

Billy Wilder [3.5 / 14]
John Ford [3.5 / 11]
Nicholas Ray [3.5 / 8]
Quentin Tarantino [3.5 / 7]
Todd Haynes [3.5 / 6]
Hirokazu Kore-eda [3.5 / 5]
Jacques Tati [3.5 / 5]
Nicolas Roeg [3.44 / 9]
Ingmar Bergman [3.4286 / 21]
Kenji Mizoguchi [3.4286 / 7]

Sam Peckinpah [3.4286 / 7]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul [3.4 / 5]
Peter Jackson [3.3889 / 9]
Alfred Hitchcock [3.3810 / 21]
Eric Rohmer [3.3571 / 14]
Francois Truffaut [3.33 / 18]
Wes Anderson [3.33 / 6]
Sam Fuller [3.33 / 6]
Abbas Kiarostami [3.33 / 6]
Christopher Nolan [3.33 / 6]

Roman Polanski [3.3214 / 14]
Stanley Donen [3.33 / 10]
Federico Fellini [3.33 / 10]
Michael Curtiz [3.3 / 5]
David O. Russell [3.3 / 5]
Don Siegel [3.3 / 5]
Terence Young [3.3 / 5]
David Cronenberg [3.2857 / 14]
Michelangelo Antonioni [3.2857 / 7]
Arnaud Desplechin [3.2857 / 7]

Elia Kazan [3.2778 / 9]
Vincente Minnelli [3.2778 / 9]
Alain Resnais [3.3125 / 8]
David Lynch [3.25 / 10]
Hal Ashby [3.25 / 6]
Shohei Imamura [3.25 / 6]
Russ Meyer [3.25 / 6]
Martin Scorsese [3.2292 / 24]
Mike Leigh [3.22 / 9]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder [3.2803 / 12]

John Huston [3.2059 / 17]
Terence Davies [3.2 / 5]
Bob Fosse [3.2 / 5]
Leo McCarey [3.2 / 5]
Arthur Penn [3.2 / 5]
Claire Denis [3.1923 / 13]
Patrice Leconte [3.1875 / 8]
Otto Preminger [3.1875 / 8]
Richard Linklater [3.1876 / 14]
Joel Coen [3.1667 / 15]

Errol Morris [3.1667 / 9]
Agnes Varda [3.1667 / 6]
Werner Herzog [3.1579 / 19]
Brian DePalma [3.1364 / 22]
Claude Chabrol [3.133 / 15]
Hayao Miyazaki [3.125 / 8]
Michael Haneke [3.11 / 9]
Maurice Pialat [3.11 / 9]
William Wyler [3.11 / 9]
Richard Lester [3.1 / 10]

Louis Malle [3.1 / 10]
Robert Aldrich [3.1 / 5]
Darren Aronofsky [3.1 / 5]
Bertrand Tavernier [3.1 / 5]
Hong Sang-soo [3.0833 / 6]
Franklin J. Schaffner [3.0833 / 6]
Robert Altman [3.08 / 25]
Lars Von Trier [3.0714 / 14]
George Miller [3.0714 / 7]
Fred Zinnermann [3.0714 / 7]

George Cukor [3.0625 / 8]
David Lean [3.0625 / 8]
Jim Jarmusch [3.0455 / 11]
Olivier Assayas [3 / 12]
Robert Wise [3 / 11]
Martin Ritt [3 / 9]
David Fincher [3 / 8]
James Cameron [3 / 7]
Joseph L. Mankiewicz [3 / 7]
Dario Argento [3 / 6]

Alfonso Cuaron [3 / 5]
David Gordon Green [3 / 5]
Spike Lee [2.9783 / 23]
Woody Allen [2.9739 / 38]
Jonathan Demme [2.9615 / 13]
Aki Kaurismaki [2.9583 / 12]
Michael Mann [2.95 / 10]
Terry Gilliam [2.944 / 9]
Philip Kaufman [2.9375 / 8]
Hou Hsiao-hsien [2.9286 / 7]

Tsai Ming-liang [2.9286 / 7]
Albert Brooks [2.9167 / 6]
Ethan Coen [2.9167 / 6]
Curtis Hanson [2.9167 / 6]
Andre Techine [2.9167 / 6]
George A. Romero [2.9 / 10]
John Lasseter [2.9 / 5]
Ken Loach [2.9 / 5]
George Stevens [2.9 / 5]
Terry Zwigoff [2.9 / 5]

Bernardo Bertolucci [2.889 / 9]
David Mamet [2.889 / 9]
Paul Verhoeven [2.875 / 8]
Wong Kar-Wai [2.875 / 8]
John Frankeheimer [2.8636 / 11]
Guy Maddin [2.8571 / 7]
Alan J. Pakula [2.8571 / 7]
Peter Yates [2.8571 / 7]
Milos Forman [2.833 / 12]
Wim Wenders [2.833 / 9]

James L. Brooks [2.833 / 6]
Peter Weir [2.8182 / 11]
Francis Coppola [2.8 / 15]
Peter Bogdanovich [2.8 / 10]
Richard Brooks [2.8 / 5]
Bill Forsyth [2.8 / 5]
Christopher Guest [2.8 / 5]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet [2.8 / 5]
Seijun Suzuki [2.8 / 5]
Takeshi Kitano [2.7857 / 7]

Rob Reiner [2.778 / 9]
Pedro Almodovar [2.7727 / 11]
Steven Soderbergh [2.7632 / 19]
Tim Burton [2.75 / 14]
Alan Rudolph [2.75 / 6]
John Sayles [2.7308 / 13]
John Boorman [2.7272 / 11]
Sidney Lumet [2.725 / 20]
Clint Eastwood [2.7143 / 21]
Robert Zemeckis [2.7143 / 14]

Stanley Kramer [2.7143 / 7]
Steven Spielberg [2.7083 / 24]
Atom Egoyan [2.7 / 10]
Paul Greengrass [2.7 / 5]
John Schlesinger [2.667 / 12]
Kathryn Bigelow [2.667 / 6]
Cameron Crowe [2.667 / 6]
Guy Hamilton [2.667 / 6]
David Zucker [2.667 / 6]
Joe Dante [2.65 / 10]

Francois Ozon [2.65 / 10]
Robert Benton [2.6429 / 7]
Guillermo Del Toro [2.6429 / 7]
Takashi Miike [2.6429 / 7]
Michael Moore [2.6429 / 7]
Tony Richardson [2.6429 / 7]
Sam Raimi [2.6364 / 11]
Paul Schrader [2.6364 / 11]
Stephen Frears [2.6 / 15]
Brad Anderson [2.6 / 5]

Gillian Armstrong [2.6 / 5]
Richard Fleischer [2.6 / 5]
Walter Hill [2.5909 / 11]
Herbert Ross [2.5833 / 12]
Harold Becker [2.5833 / 6]
Mike Nichols [2.5790 / 19]
Kenneth Branagh [2.5714 / 7]
Peter and Bobby Farelly [2.5714 / 7]
Bob Rafaelson [2.5714 / 7]
Zhang Yimou [2.5714 / 7]

Ang Lee [2.55 / 10]
Sydney Pollack [2.5417 / 12]
John Carpenter [2.5 / 16]
John Hughes [2.5 / 8]
Joe Berlinger [2.5 / 5]
Lewis Gilbert [2.5 / 5]
Jim Sheridan [2.5 / 5]
Istvan Szabo [2.5 / 5]
Tom Tykwer [2.5 / 5]
Gus Van Sant [2.4615 / 13]

William Friedkin [2.4583 / 12]
Neil Jordan [2.4583 / 12]
Michael Winterbottom [2.4546 / 11]
Michael Ritchie [2.45 / 10]
Fred Schepisi [2.45 / 10]
Ridley Scott [2.4375 / 16]
Norman Jewison [2.433 / 15]
Michael Apted [2.4286 / 14]
John Dahl [2.4167 / 6]
Hal Hartley [2.4167 / 6]

Jean-Pierre Jeunet [2.4167 / 6]
Roger Michell [2.4167 / 6]
Anthony Minghella [2.4167 / 6]
Harold Ramis [2.4167 / 6]
Alan Parker [2.4 / 15]
Richard Donner [2.4 / 10]
Martin Campbell [2.4 / 5]
Constantin Costa-Gavras [2.4 / 5]
Carl Franklin [2.4 / 5]
George Lucas [2.4 / 5]

Lee Tamahori [2.4 / 5]
Taylor Hackford [2.375 / 8]
Lasse Hallstrom [2.375 / 8]
Mel Brooks [2.3637 / 11]
Bob Clark [2.3571 / 7]
Carl Reiner [2.3571 / 7]
Ron Shelton [2.3571 / 7]
Gore Verbinski [2.3571 / 7]
Lawrence Kasdan [2.35 / 10]
Danny Boyle [2.33 / 9]

Jane Campion [2.33 / 6]
James Foley [2.33 / 6]
Michel Gondry [2.33 / 6]
Bryan Singer [2.33 / 6]
Mike Newell [2.3125 / 8]
Barbet Schroeder [2.3125 / 8]
John Waters [2.3125 / 8]
Oliver Stone [2.3 / 15]
John Woo [2.3 / 10]
Jon Amiel [2.3 / 5]

Bille August [2.3 / 5]
Ron Clements [2.3 / 5]
Jon Favreau [2.3 / 5]
F. Gary Gray [2.3 / 5]
Michael Lehmann [2.3 / 5]
Jerome Musker [2.3 / 5]
Robert Redford [2.3 / 5]
Volker Schlondorff [2.3 / 5]
Ron Underwood [2.3 / 5]
James Ivory [2.25 / 10]

Jim Abrahams [2.25 / 8]
Mike Figgis [2.25 / 8]
Wolfgang Petersen [2.25 / 8]
Franco Zeffirelli [2.25 / 8]
Neil LaBute [2.25 / 6]
John Landis [2.2273 / 11]
Paul Mazursky [2.22 / 9]
Andrew Davis [2.2143 / 7]
Tony Scott [2.2083 / 12]
Agnieszka Holland [2.2 / 5]

Sam Mendes [2.2 / 5]
Wayne Wang [2.2 / 5]
Blake Edwards [2.1944 / 18]
Luc Besson [2.1667 / 6]
Wes Craven [2.15 / 10]
John McTiernan [2.15 / 10]
Richard Attenborough [2.1429 / 7]
Michael Caton-Jones [2.1429 / 7]
Mira Nair [2.1429 / 7]
Frank Oz [2.1364 / 11]

Ivan Reitman [2.1 / 10]
Peter Berg [2.1 / 5]
Peter Chelsom [2.1 / 5]
Tobe Hooper [2.1 / 5]
Nicholas Hytner [2.1 / 5]
Larry and Andy Wachowski [2.1 / 5]
Robert Rodriguez [2.0909 / 11]
Marc Forster [2.0833 / 6]
Renny Harlin [2.0833 / 6]
M. Night Shyamalan [2.0833 / 6]

Ron Howard [2.0588 / 17]
Bruce Beresford [2 / 10]
John G. Avildsen [2 / 8]
John Badham [2 / 8]
Adrian Lyne [2 / 7]
Jean-Jacques Annaud [2 / 6]
Kevin Smith [2 / 6]
Amy Heckerling [2 / 5]
Roland Joffé [2 / 5]
Penny Marshall [2 / 5]

Barry Levinson [1.9722 / 18]
Roger Donaldson [1.95 / 10]
Joe Johnston [1.9286 / 7]
James Mangold [1.9286 / 7]
Philip Noyce [1.9286 / 7]
Danny DeVito [1.9167 / 6]
Jerry Zucker [1.9167 / 6]
Antoine Fuqua [1.9 / 5]
Kevin Reynolds [1.9 / 5]
Todd Solondz [1.9 / 5]

Sylvester Stallone [1.9 / 5]
Charles Shyer [1.833 / 6]
Michael Hoffman [1.8 / 5]
Jay Roach [1.8 / 5]
Barry Sonnenfeld [1.7857 / 7]
Chris Columbus [1.75 / 8]
Edward Zwick [1.75 / 6]
Roger Spottiswoode [1.7143 / 7]
Roland Emmerich [1.667 / 6]
Brett Ratner [1.667 / 6]

Joel Schumacher [1.6471 / 17]
Luis Mandoki [1.6 / 5]
Stephen Sommers [1.6 / 5]
Jonathan Lynn [1.5833 / 6]
Peter Segal [1.5833 / 6]
Michael Bay [1.5714 / 7]
Jon Turteltaub [1.5625 / 8]
Richard Benjamin [1.5 / 9]
Stephen Hopkins [1.5 / 6]
Donald Petrie [1.5 / 6]

Jeremiah Chechik [1.5 / 5]
Nora Ephron [1.5 / 5]
Rob Cohen [1.4167 / 6]
Irwin Winkler [1.4167 / 6]
Simon Wincer [1.4 / 5]
Peter Hyams [1.375 / 8]
Paul W.S. Anderson [1.3 / 5]
Reginald Hudlin [1.3 / 5]
Tom Shadyac [1.3 / 5]
Sam Weisman [1.3 / 5]

Garry Marshall [1.25 / 10]
Stephen Herek [1.22 / 9]
Dennis Dugan [1.2 / 5]

The On-Deck Circle, only for, uh, directors

This is the list of all directors for whom I've seen four films. All I need to do is see one more and they'll be able to sit at the grown-ups' table. As you can see, there are some serious top 10 contenders near the top.

3.75
D.W. Griffith

3.625
Sergei Eisenstein
Max Ophüls

3.5
Lindsay Anderson

3.375
René Clair
Terry Jones
Claude Sautet
Luchino Visconti

3.25
Chantal Akerman
Aleksandr Sokurov

3.125
Warren Beatty
James Gray
Jafar Panahi
Alexander Payne
William Wellman

3
Victor Fleming
Barbara Kopple
Elaine May

2.875
Bruno Dumont
Mike Hodges
Dennis Hopper
Irvin Kershner

2.75
Hector Babenco
Noah Baumbach
Patrice Chereau
James Marsh
Lukas Moodysson
Henry Selick

2.625
Allison Anders
Chen Kaige
Sofia Coppola
Jia Zhang-ke
John MacNaughton
Manoel de Oliveira
Bernard Rose
Ken Russell
Julien Temple

2.5
Keith Gordon
Mike Judge
Jake Kasdan
Chan-wook Park
Ben Stiller
Tom Tykwer

2.375
Doug Liman
Mark and Michael Polish
Johnnie To
Giuseppe Tornatore

2.25
John Madden
Leonard Nimoy
Michael Radford
Walter Salles
Paul Weitz
David Yates

2.125
Gregg Araki
Catherine Breillat
Martin Brest
Andrew Fleming
Nicole Holofcener
Shekhar Kapur
Chuck Russell
John Singleton
Zack Snyder
Iain Softley
James Toback

2
Frank Darabont
Mel Gibson
Randal Kleiser
Paul McGuigan
Joseph Ruben
Brad Silberling

1.875
Gary Fleder
Boaz Yakin

1.75
Nick Cassavetes

1.625
Marleen Gorris
Rowdy Herrington

1.375
Brian Levant

1.25
Keenen Ivory Wayans