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Table 4 Top 20 directors: each item contains the number of golden (G), silver (S) and Bronze (B) points collected, the year of the first and last movies, and the number of films directed in total

From: Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective

Rank

Name

G

S

B

Career

Movies

1

Hitchcock, Alfred (I)

22

9

4

(1925 - 1976)

47

2

Spielberg, Steven

18

3

2

(1964 - 2020)

33

3

De Palma, Brian

14

5

0

(1968 - 2012)

29

4

Hawks, Howard

12

4

3

(1927 - 1970)

39

5

Ford, John (I)

12

4

2

(1917 - 1966)

59

6

Scorsese, Martin (I)

11

6

2

(1967 - 2014)

33

7

Bergman, Ingmar

11

2

1

(1946 - 1986)

33

8

Kubrick, Stanley

11

1

1

(1953 - 1999)

13

9

Thomas, Gerald (I)

11

1

1

(1958 - 1992)

33

10

Honda, Ishirō

10

8

2

(1954 - 1990)

30

11

Lang, Fritz (I)

10

1

2

(1919 - 1960)

33

12

Tarantino, Quentin

10

1

0

(1987 - 2015)

13

13

Cronenberg, David

10

1

0

(1975 - 2014)

19

14

Curtiz, Michael

9

12

7

(1922 - 1961)

77

15

Walsh, Raoul

9

5

4

(1914 - 1964)

57

16

Carpenter, John (I)

9

5

2

(1974 - 2010)

18

17

Eastwood, Clint

9

4

4

(1971 - 2016)

34

18

Burton, Tim (I)

9

2

2

(1985 - 2019)

17

19

Landis, John (I)

9

2

1

(1973 - 2010)

19

20

Rodriguez, Robert (I)

9

2

0

(1992 - 2014)

18