Film directors who I’ve seen the most films by in a theater in their original release:
Woody Allen (15): 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)
Clint Eastwood (13): 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)
Steven Soderbergh (12): 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)
Ridley Scott (10): 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)
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)
Tim Burton (9): 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)
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 of them 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)
Noah Baumbach (7): 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)
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)
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)
Martin Scorsese (7): 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)
Denis Villeneuve (7): Incendies (2010); Prisoners (2013); Enemy (2013); Sicario (2015); Arrival (2016); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); Dune (2021)
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