Top Ranked Films of John Huston

John Huston
41st w 17680 pts, 5 titles

These are all the films of John Huston’s that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls.

1. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) bw #93
2. The Maltese Falcon (1941) bw #102
3. African Queen, The (1951) #459
4. Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) #473
5. Dead, The (1987) #616

and those that just missed
6. Misfits,

Top Ranked Films of Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola
[10th in points with 32,229 with only 4 titles, which is tied for 53rd]

Coppola is the 10th ranked director for overall points for films in the top 1000, and he did it with only four films, all ranked 113 or higher. I’ve included the others of his that made polls. It’s hard to believe there are so few – I would also add Peggy Sue Got Married (a comic fantasy), and Youth

Top Ranked Films of Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg
(tied for 17th with 7 titles in the top 1000, but 7th in overall points with 38,147 - just behind Bergman, just ahead of Chaplin)

Spielberg has become perhaps the most popular director of all time, certainly right up there in dollar gross terms (for what that’s worth). He once said “I made films like Jaws so I could then make films like Schindler’s List” – or, money-makers

Top Ranked Films of Billy Wilder

Wilder with the three Oscars he wonfor best picture The Apartment (1960)
Billy Wilder
(Tied for 17th with 7 titles in the top 1000, he is 12th in overall points with 31,120)

Born Samuel Wilder in 1906, in a part of Austria-Hungary that is now in Poland. Once training as a lawyer, he began writing for a Viennese newspaper, then moved to Berlin, working as a newspaper columnist and screenwriter

Top Ranked Films of Orson Welles

Orson Welles
[Tied for 24th in titles with only 6, but 14th in overall points with 27,246 - between Bunuel and the Coen Brothers, but they all made far more films than Welles. Others with six titles in the top 1000 include Woody Allen, Michelangelo Antonioni, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Roberto Rossellini, Krszystof Kieslowski, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, David Cronenberg. Welles leads this

Top Ranked Films of Michael Powell

Michael Powell
8 titles, tied for 11th with 5 others – 34th overall in points with 19,155, just behind Robert Altman and just ahead of Clint Eastwood

Michael Latham Powell (September 30, 1905 – February 19, 1990) was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger, working together as "The Archers". Reputedly Powell basically directed and Pressburger

Top Ranked Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock
1st in titles with 14, 1st in total points with 64,881 (7,000 ahead of #2 Stanley Kubrick)

These are all the films of Hitchcock’s that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls. His 14 titles led all directors in total film count in the 1000. [Photos courtesy of Fanpix.net]

1. Vertigo (1958) #12
2. Psycho (1960) #14
3. North by

Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net

The Top Ranked Films on the Internet
© William L. Sinclair
[This list was originally created in 2008]

We just updated this with the 2011 edition here, which has 172 new titles, including over 50 from 2009 and 2010..

We compiled this from numerous surveys and polls on the internet, some all critics, some all fans, so it's a combination. This represents over 1000 individual polls. We simply put