Directors, ranked by batting average

Every film is rated out of 100, and a batting average is the share of a person's qualifying films that are hits — 941 directors, ranked.

Ranked by confidence-adjusted average, so 11 of 14 (.786) ranks above 5 of 6 (.833).

Directors, by confidence-adjusted average

1. Hayao Miyazaki — .917 (11 of 12)
2. Lee Chang-dong — .833 (5 of 6)
3. Kleber Mendonça Filho — .800 (4 of 5)
4. Ryan Coogler — .800 (4 of 5)
5. Alfonso Cuarón — .667 (6 of 9)
6. Asghar Farhadi — .667 (6 of 9)
7. Christopher Nolan — .615 (8 of 13)
8. Béla Tarr — .667 (4 of 6)
9. Ryusuke Hamaguchi — .667 (4 of 6)
10. Quentin Tarantino — .538 (7 of 13)
11. Abbas Kiarostami — .538 (7 of 13)
12. Denis Villeneuve — .545 (6 of 11)
13. Spike Jonze — .600 (3 of 5)
14. Paweł Pawlikowski — .600 (3 of 5)
15. Andrey Zvyagintsev — .600 (3 of 5)
16. Josh Safdie — .600 (3 of 5)
17. Chloé Zhao — .600 (3 of 5)
18. Jafar Panahi — .500 (5 of 10)
19. Martin Scorsese — .429 (15 of 35)
20. David Lynch — .467 (7 of 15)
21. Wes Anderson — .462 (6 of 13)
22. David Fincher — .462 (6 of 13)
23. Jay Oliva — .462 (6 of 13)
24. Hirokazu Kore-eda — .438 (7 of 16)
25. Paul Thomas Anderson — .455 (5 of 11)
26. Andrew Stanton — .500 (3 of 6)
27. Brad Bird — .500 (3 of 6)
28. Dean DeBlois — .500 (3 of 6)
29. Vishal Bhardwaj — .500 (3 of 6)
30. Majid Majidi — .500 (3 of 6)
31. Sean Baker — .500 (3 of 6)
32. Shoojit Sircar — .500 (3 of 6)
33. Ang Lee — .429 (6 of 14)
34. Edgar Wright — .444 (4 of 9)
35. Nuri Bilge Ceylan — .444 (4 of 9)
36. Wong Kar-wai — .417 (5 of 12)
37. Luc Dardenne — .417 (5 of 12)
38. Jean-Pierre Dardenne — .417 (5 of 12)
39. Hou Hsiao-hsien — .385 (5 of 13)
40. Ron Clements — .429 (3 of 7)
41. John Musker — .429 (3 of 7)
42. Tetsuro Araki — .429 (3 of 7)
43. Joel Coen — .333 (7 of 21)
44. Park Chan-wook — .364 (4 of 11)
45. Paul Greengrass — .364 (4 of 11)
46. Terrence Malick — .364 (4 of 11)
47. Wim Wenders — .310 (9 of 29)
48. Isao Takahata — .375 (3 of 8)
49. Taika Waititi — .375 (3 of 8)
50. Peter Jackson — .333 (5 of 15)

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