Film Directors Whom I’ve Seen the Most Films by at a Film Festival or in a Theater in Their Original Release

Film directors whom I’ve seen the most films by in a theater in their original release:

Woody Allen (16): Melinda and Melinda (2004); Match Point (2005); Scoop (2006); Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); Whatever Works (2009); You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010); Midnight in Paris (2011); To Rome with Love (2012); Blue Jasmine (2013); Magic in the Moonlight (2014); Irrational Man (2015); Café Society (2016); Wonder Wheel (2017); A Rainy Day in New York (2019); Rifkin’s Festival (2020); Coup de Chance (2023)

Clint Eastwood (14): Million Dollar Baby (2004); Changeling (2008); Gran Torino (2008); Invictus (2009); Hereafter (2010); J. Edgar (2011); Jersey Boys (2014); American Sniper (2014); Sully (2016); The 15:17 to Paris (2018); The Mule (2018); Richard Jewell (2019); Cry Macho (2021); Juror #2 (2024)

Steven Soderbergh (14): Ocean’s Twelve (2004); Che (2008); The Girlfriend Experience (2009); The Informant! (2009); Contagion (2011); Haywire (2011); Magic Mike (2012); Side Effects (2013); Logan Lucky (2017); Unsane (2018); The Laundromat (2019); Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023); Presence (2024); Black Bag (2025)

Ridley Scott (12): American Gangster (2007); Robin Hood (2010); Prometheus (2012); The Counselor (2013); Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014); The Martian (2015); Alien: Covenant (2017); All the Money in the Word (2017); The Last Duel (2021); House of Gucci (2021); Napoleon (2023); Gladiator II (2024)

Tim Burton (10): Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); Corpse Bride (2005); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007); Alice in Wonderland (2010); Dark Shadows (2012); Frankenweenie (2012); Big Eyes (2014); Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016); Dumbo (2019); Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Steven Spielberg (10): Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008); The Adventure of Tintin (2011); War Horse (2011); Lincoln (2012); Bridge of Spies (2015); The BFG (2016); The Post (2017); Ready Player One (2018); West Side Story (2021); The Fabelmans (2022)

Wes Anderson (9): The Darjeeling Limited (2007); Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009); Moonrise Kingdom (2012); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); Isle of Dogs (2018); The French Dispatch (2021); Asteroid City (2023); The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)- short; The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Ethan Coen (9): No Country for Old Men (2007); Burn After Reading (2008); A Serious Man (2009); True Grit (2010); Inside Llewyn Davis (2013); Hail, Caesar! (2016); The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018); Drive-Away Dolls (2024); Honey Don’t! (2025). All directed with Joel Coen except Drive-Away Dolls and Honey Don’t!

Pedro Almodóvar (8): Broken Embraces (2009); The Skin I Live In (2011); I’m So Excited! (2013); Julieta (2016); Pain and Glory (2019); Parallel Mothers (2021); Strange Way of Life (2023)- short; The Room Next Door (2024)

Noah Baumbach (8): Greenberg (2010); Frances Ha (2012); While We’re Young (2014); Mistress America (2015); De Palma (with Jake Paltrow) (2015); The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017); Marriage Story (2019); Jay Kelly (2025)

Joel Coen (8): No Country for Old Men (2007); Burn After Reading (2008); A Serious Man (2009); True Grit (2010); Inside Llewyn Davis (2013); Hail, Caesar! (2016); The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018); The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). All directed with Ethan Coen except The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Adam McKay (8): Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004); Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (2006); Step Brothers (2008); The Other Guys (2010); Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013); The Big Short (2015); Vice (2018); Don’t Look Up (2021)

Martin Scorsese (8): The Aviator (2004); Shutter Island (2010); Hugo (2011); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); Silence (2016); Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019); The Irishman (2019); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Denis Villeneuve (8): Incendies (2010); Prisoners (2013); Enemy (2013); Sicario (2015); Arrival (2016); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); Dune (2021); Dune: Part Two (2024)

Bong Joon-ho (7): The Host (2006); Tokyo! (segment: “Shaking Tokyo”) (2008); Mother (2009); Snowpiercer (2013); Okja (2017); Parasite (2019); Mickey 17 (2025)

Danny Boyle (7): Millions (2004); Slumdog Millionaire (2008); 127 Hours (2010); Trance (2013); Steve Jobs (2015); T2 Trainspotting (2017); 28 Years Later (2025)

Guillermo del Toro (7): Pan’s Labyrinth (2006); Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); Pacific Rim (2013); Crimson Peak (2015); The Shape of Water (2017); Nightmare Alley (2021); Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (with Mark Gustafson) (2022)

Luca Guadagnino (7): I Am Love (2009); A Bigger Splash (2015); Call Me by Your Name (2017); Suspiria (2018); Bones and All (2022); Challengers (2024); Queer (2024)

Hong Sang-soo (7): On the Beach at Night Alone (2017); The Day After (2017); The Novelist’s Film (2022); Walk Up (2022); A Traveler’s Needs (2024); By the Stream (2024); What Does That Nature Say to You (2025)

Richard Linklater (7): Bernie (2011); Before Midnight (2013); Boyhood (2014); Last Flag Flying (2017); Hit Man (2023); Blue Moon (2025); Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Terrence Malick (7): The New World (2005); The Tree of Life (2011); To the Wonder (2012); Knight of Cups (2015); Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (2016); Song to Song (2017); A Hidden Life (2019)

Christopher Nolan (7): The Dark Knight (2008); Inception (2010); The Dark Knight Rises (2012); Interstellar (2014); Dunkirk (2017); Tenet (2020); Oppenheimer (2023)

Alex Ross Perry (7): Listen Up Philip (2014); Queen of Earth (2015); Golden Exits (2017); Her Smell (2018); GHOST: Rite Here Rite Now (2024); Pavements (2024); Videoheaven (2025)