I may have missed some directors so the order might change slightly. Also, if I have the time I will make it a top 100, but that may be difficult without changing the elegibility rules, and therefore without…

Check the notes to see the director average score and how many films were taken into account to get it.

This list ranks the top 50 directors according to the average rating of all their elegible movies on Letterboxd. To be elegible, the director must have the totally arbitrary amount of at least 3 feature-length films with above 1000 ratings. I didn't consider documentaries, TV movies, collections, etc. This method will value consistency over quantity so we may see some strange results.

This list ranks the top 50 directors according to the average rating of all their elegible movies on Letterboxd. To be elegible, the director must have the totally arbitrary amount of at least 3 feature-length films with above 1000 ratings. I didn't consider documentaries, TV movies, collections, etc. This method will value consistency over quantity so we may see some strange results.

Check the notes to see the director average score and how many films were taken into account to get it.

I may have missed some directors so the order might change slightly. Also, if I have the time I will make it a top 100, but that may be difficult without changing the elegibility rules, and therefore without changing this list completely.



Notable abscenses:

Alfred Hitchcock: due to his incredibly vast filmography -38 elegible films- his early work and his weakest films brought down his average to a 3.6.

Francis Ford Coppola: the director of the 2 highest rated films on letterboxd doesn't make the list because of around 10 movies with an average of below 3.2. He would have an average rating of 3.4 out of 18 films.

David Lynch: you can blame Dune. If we ignore it he would've made the top 20.