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Director case studies

A filmography is a list anybody can find. The useful thing is noticing that the same cinematographer shot six of these.

181 directors · 4,151 films

Directors

Stanley Kubrick — 17 films · United States
Alfred Hitchcock — 66 films · United States
Akira Kurosawa — 32 films · Japan
Steven Spielberg — 47 films · United States
Martin Scorsese — 54 films · United States
Christopher Nolan — 16 films · United States
Quentin Tarantino — 18 films · United States
David Fincher — 16 films · United States
Wes Anderson — 22 films · United States
Denis Villeneuve — 20 films · Canada
Bong Joon-ho — 13 films · South Korea
Agnès Varda — 40 films · Belgium
Spike Lee — 55 films · United States
Jane Campion — 18 films · New Zealand
Greta Gerwig — 6 films · United States
Hayao Miyazaki — 27 films · Japan
Ridley Scott — 38 films · United Kingdom
Céline Sciamma — 6 films · France
Paul Thomas Anderson — 16 films · United States
Chloé Zhao — 5 films · People's Republic of China
Wong Kar-wai — 17 films · Hong Kong
Andrei Tarkovsky — 11 films · Italy
David Lynch — 40 films · United States
Terrence Malick — 13 films · United States
Francis Ford Coppola — 33 films · United States
Sergio Leone — 14 films · Italy
Yasujirō Ozu — 54 films · Japan
Federico Fellini — 27 films · Italy
Ingmar Bergman — 61 films · Sweden
Alfonso Cuarón — 10 films · Mexico
Sofia Coppola — 12 films · United States
Claire Denis — 24 films · France
Barry Jenkins — 6 films · United States
Guillermo del Toro — 15 films · Mexico
Kathryn Bigelow — 13 films · United States
Lynne Ramsay — 11 films · United Kingdom
Michael Mann — 16 films · United States
Orson Welles — 37 films · United States
Satyajit Ray — 37 films · India
Jordan Peele — 3 films · United States
James Cameron — 20 films · Canada
John Woo — 38 films · British Hong Kong
George Miller — 19 films · Australia
John McTiernan — 13 films · United States
Paul Verhoeven — 21 films · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Tony Scott — 20 films · United States
Chad Stahelski — 6 films · United States
Gareth Evans — 7 films · United Kingdom
Tsui Hark — 50 films · People's Republic of China
Ryan Coogler — 6 films · United States
Sam Raimi — 23 films · United States
Edgar Wright — 14 films · United Kingdom
John Carpenter — 25 films · United States
Wes Craven — 27 films · United States
George A. Romero — 19 films · Canada
Tobe Hooper — 21 films · United States
David Cronenberg — 28 films · Canada
William Friedkin — 30 films · United States
Dario Argento — 21 films · Italy
Ari Aster — 9 films · United States
James Wan — 14 films · United States
Mike Flanagan — 9 films · United States
Robert Eggers — 6 films · United States
Jennifer Kent — 3 films · Australia
Julia Ducournau — 3 films · France
Hideo Nakata — 26 films · Japan
Takashi Miike — 100 films · Japan
Alex Garland — 6 films · United Kingdom
Neill Blomkamp — 16 films · Canada
Duncan Jones — 6 films · United Kingdom
Park Chan-wook — 18 films · South Korea
Joel Coen — 22 films · United States
Ethan Coen — 22 films · United States
Billy Wilder — 27 films · United States
John Ford — 144 films · United States
Sidney Lumet — 48 films · United States
Hal Ashby — 14 films · United States
Charlie Chaplin — 76 films · United Kingdom
Buster Keaton — 45 films · United States
Jacques Tati — 9 films · France
Jean-Luc Godard — 98 films · Switzerland
François Truffaut — 27 films · France
Krzysztof Kieślowski — 51 films · Poland
Michael Haneke — 17 films · Austria
Pedro Almodóvar — 30 films · Spain
Abbas Kiarostami — 43 films · Iran
Ousmane Sembène — 11 films · Senegal
Lucrecia Martel — 10 films · Argentina
Mira Nair — 18 films · India
Zhang Yimou — 31 films · People's Republic of China
Ang Lee — 20 films · Taiwan
Hirokazu Koreeda — 20 films · Japan
Steven Soderbergh — 40 films · United States
Jim Jarmusch — 22 films · United States
Kelly Reichardt — 9 films · United States
Spike Jonze — 19 films · United States
Darren Aronofsky — 13 films · United States
Danny Boyle — 19 films · United Kingdom
Steve McQueen — 13 films · United Kingdom
Andrea Arnold — 10 films · United Kingdom
Yorgos Lanthimos — 13 films · Greece
Taika Waititi — 20 films · New Zealand
Sean Baker — 8 films · United States
F. W. Murnau — 22 films · Germany
Fritz Lang — 49 films · United States
Carl Theodor Dreyer — 23 films · Kingdom of Denmark
Sergei Eisenstein — 16 films · Soviet Union
Jean Renoir — 43 films · France
Howard Hawks — 51 films · United States
William Wyler — 50 films · United States
Douglas Sirk — 39 films · Weimar Republic
Nicholas Ray — 26 films · United States
Elia Kazan — 21 films · United States
David Lean — 20 films · United Kingdom
Michael Powell — 56 films · United Kingdom
Vincente Minnelli — 37 films · United States
Frank Capra — 54 films · United States
Michelangelo Antonioni — 28 films · Italy
Robert Bresson — 14 films · France
Luis Buñuel — 33 films · Spain
Vittorio De Sica — 36 films · Italy
Roberto Rossellini — 49 films · Italy
Rainer Werner Fassbinder — 45 films · West Germany
Wim Wenders — 53 films · Germany
Věra Chytilová — 19 films · Czech Republic
Larisa Shepitko — 8 films · Soviet Union
Jacques Demy — 20 films · France
Chantal Akerman — 33 films · Belgium
Kenji Mizoguchi — 44 films · Japan
Masaki Kobayashi — 23 films · Japan
Edward Yang — 8 films · Taiwan
Tsai Ming-liang — 19 films · Malaysia
Lee Chang-dong — 7 films · South Korea
Ryusuke Hamaguchi — 10 films · Japan
Apichatpong Weerasethakul — 16 films · Thailand
Ritwik Ghatak — 14 films · India
Jafar Panahi — 13 films · Iran
Asghar Farhadi — 10 films · Iran
Nuri Bilge Ceylan — 10 films · Turkey
Djibril Diop Mambéty — 7 films · Senegal
Souleymane Cissé — 6 films · Mali
Mati Diop — 5 films · France
Fernando Meirelles — 10 films · Brazil
Walter Salles — 16 films · Brazil
Alejandro González Iñárritu — 12 films · Spain
Kleber Mendonça Filho — 7 films · Brazil
Isao Takahata — 12 films · Japan
Satoshi Kon — 4 films · Japan
Mamoru Oshii — 27 films · Japan
Makoto Shinkai — 12 films · Japan
Brad Bird — 11 films · United States
Pete Docter — 6 films · United States
Henry Selick — 7 films · United States
Nick Park — 11 films · United Kingdom
Sylvain Chomet — 7 films · France
Frederick Wiseman — 32 films · United States
Werner Herzog — 69 films · Germany
Errol Morris — 18 films · United States
Chris Marker — 26 films · France
Dziga Vertov — 20 films · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Laura Poitras — 8 films · United States
RaMell Ross — 2 films · United States
Richard Linklater — 25 films · United States
Jonathan Glazer — 6 films · United Kingdom
Rian Johnson — 8 films · United States
Noah Baumbach — 13 films · United States
Alexander Payne — 10 films · United States
Peter Jackson — 21 films · New Zealand
Sam Mendes — 14 films · United Kingdom
Paul Greengrass — 17 films · United Kingdom
James Gray — 9 films · United States
Ava DuVernay — 7 films · United States
Justine Triet — 6 films · France
Alice Rohrwacher — 9 films · Italy
Charlotte Wells — 1 films · United Kingdom
Andrew Haigh — 8 films · United Kingdom
Kogonada — 4 films · South Korea
Baz Luhrmann — 9 films · Australia
Robert Rodriguez — 29 films · United States
Todd Field — 9 films · United States
Todd Haynes — 13 films · United States

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