Director by Rating
Here is a list of every major director with a movie reviewed on this site, in descending order by their average movie rating.
Directors with Average Film Ranking 9-9.999
Directors with Average Film Ranking 8-8.999
Peter Jackson 8.277
James Cameron 8.25
Frank Capra 8
Milos Forman 8
Directors with Average Film Ranking 7-7.999
Victor Fleming 7.937
Curtis Hanson 7.916
John Hughes 7.9
David Fincher 7.863
Christopher Nolan 7.833
Damien Chazelle 7.833
Fred Zinnemann 7.833
Akira Kurosawa 7.8
Stanley Kramer 7.8
Richard Donner 7.769
Denis Villeneuve 7.75
Elia Kazan 7.75
J.J. Abrams 7.75
Jon Watts 7.75
Raoul Walsh 7.75
Rian Johnson 7.75
Richard Attenborough 7.75
Andy Wachowski 7.714
Ben Affleck 7.7
Gavin O'Connor 7.7
George Roy Hill 7.667
Hayao Miyazaki 7.667
Joseph Kosinski 7.625
Lana Wachowski 7.625
Ron Underwood 7.625
Wolfgang Peterson 7.611
Steven Spielberg 7.606
Gary Fleder 7.583
Sergio Leone 7.583
Bryan Singer 7.555
Howard Hawks 7.55
Rob Reiner 7.545
Martin Scorsese 7.529
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 7.5
Alex Garland 7.5
Alfonso Cuaron 7.5
Andy Muschietti 7.5
Billy Wilder 7.5
Cecil B. DeMille 7.5
Frank Borzage 7.5
Frank Marshall 7.5
Ingmar Bergman 7.5
James Mangold 7.5
Jeff Nichols 7.5
John Ford 7.5
John Landis 7.5
John Sturges 7.5
Jordan Peele 7.5
Joseph L. Mankiewicz 7.5
Leo McCarey 7.5
Martin McDonagh 7.5
Paul Greengrass 7.5
Paul Schrader 7.5
Rob Bowman 7.5
Robert Wise 7.5
Rod Lurie 7.5
Roman Polanski 7.5
Ron Howard 7.5
Sam Wood 7.5
Sydney Pollack 7.5
Tom Shadyac 7.5
Alfred Hitchcock 7.472
Jason Reitman 7.437
Martin Campbell 7.437
Michael Curtiz 7.437
Mike Nichols 7.437
Sam Mendes 7.437
Sidney Lumet 7.437
Alan J. Pakula 7.428
William Wyler 7.409
Don Siegel 7.4
Gary Ross 7.4
Peter Weir 7.4
Clint Eastwood 7.395
Ang Lee 7.375
Chad Stahelski 7.375
Christopher McQuarrie 7.375
J.C. Chandor 7.375
John Woo 7.375
Jon Turteltaub 7.375
Lewis Gilbert 7.375
W.S. Van Dyke 7.375
Tony Scott 7.346
Gore Verbinski 7.333
Ivan Reitman 7.333
Matt Reeves 7.333
Paul Haggis 7.333
Werner Herzog 7.333
William Friedkin 7.333
Sam Raimi 7.321
Alan Parker 7.3
Baz Luhrmann 7.3
Phillip Noyce 7.285
Robert Zemeckis 7.277
Stanley Kubrick 7.277
Barbet Schroeder 7.25
Chan-wook Park 7.25
Gavin Hood 7.25
George Cukor 7.25
Henry Hathaway 7.25
J.A. Bayona 7.25
James Ponsoldt 7.25
Mimi Leder 7.25
Pete Docter 7.25
Taika Watiti 7.25
Joe Johnston 7.222
Kenneth Branagh 7.222
Anthony Russo 7.214
Joe Russo 7.214
David Leitch 7.2
Henry Koster 7.2
John Huston 7.2
Marc Webb 7.2
Neil Burger 7.2
Jay Roach 7.187
Albert Hughes 7.166
David O. Russell 7.166
David Slade 7.166
John Lee Hancock 7.166
Orson Welles 7.166
Paul Verhoeven 7.166
Scott Derrickson 7.166
Wes Craven 7.166
Ridley Scott 7.157
Roland Emmerich 7.153
Guy Ritchie 7.15
Francis Lawrence 7.142
Matthew Vaughn 7.142
Joel Schumacher 7.136
David Yates 7.125
Shane Black 7.125
Stephen Daldry 7.125
Lee Unkrich 7.1
Louis Leterrier 7.1
Michael Bay 7.1
George Stevens 7.083
Joe Wright 7.083
Robert Redford 7.083
Gus Van Sant 7.071
John G. Avildsen 7.071
Peyton Reed 7.071
Marc Forster 7.062
Edward Zwick 7.05
Andrew Stanton 7
Antoine Fuqua 7
Brian De Palma 7
Chris Miller 7
Chris Weitz 7
Danny Boyle 7
George Clooney 7
George Tillman Jr. 7
James Gunn 7
John Badham 7
Jim Sheridan 7
Michael Apted 7
Michael Hoffman 7
Mike Flanagan 7
Nicholas Stoller 7
Paul Thomas Anderson 7
Phil Lord 7
Ruben Fleischer 7
Sylvester Stallone 7
Wilfred Jackson 7
Zack Snyder 7
Directors with Average Film Ranking 6-6.999
Clyde Geronimi 6.95
Guillermo del Toro 6.95
Adam McKay 6.937
Lasse Hallstrom 6.937
Rob Cohen 6.937
David Cronenberg 6.928
George Miller 6.916
James Foley 6.916
Judd Apatow 6.916
Alex Proyas 6.9
Brett Ratner 6.9
David Lowery 6.9
F. Gary Gray 6.9
Joe Carnahan 6.9
Mike Newell 6.9
Peter Berg 6.9
James Wan 6.888
Michael Mann 6.888
Allen Hughes 6.875
Charles Shyer 6.875
Chris Sanders 6.875
Darren Aronofsky 6.875
David F. Sandberg 6.875
Denzel Washington 6.875
Howard Deutch 6.875
James Gray 6.875
Jonathan Mostow 6.875
Mikael Hafstrom 6.875
Rob Letterman 6.875
Paul Weitz 6.857
Richard Linklater 6.857
Robert Schwentke 6.857
Spike Lee 6.85
Donald Petrie 6.833
Robert Luketic 6.833
Don Hall 6.8
Edgar Wright 6.8
Martin Brest 6.8
Oliver Stone 6.8
Taylor Hackford 6.8
Tim Story 6.785
Bill Condon 6.783
Jake Kasdan 6.75
Jonathan Liebesman 6.75
M. Night Shyamalan 6.75
Paul Feig 6.75
Quentin Tarantino 6.75
Seth Gordon 6.75
Spike Jonze 6.75
Cameron Crowe 6.714
Chuck Russell 6.7
Craig Gillespie 6.7
Jan de Bont 6.7
John Madden 6.7
Nancy Meyers 6.7
Stephen Hopkins 6.7
John Carpenter 6.681
Adrian Lyne 6.667
Brad Bird 6.667
David Ayer 6.667
George A. Romero 6.667
Justin Lin 6.667
Kathryn Bigelow 6.667
McG 6.667
Peter Hyams 6.642
Wes Anderson 6.636
Jon Favreau 6.625
Peter Segal 6.625
Shawn Levy 6.625
Todd Phillips 6.611
David Twohy 6.6
Jon M. Chu 6.6
Tate Taylor 6.6
Tim Burton 6.6
Garry Marshall 6.583
Jaume Collet-Serra 6.571
Barry Sonnenfeld 6.562
Arthur Lubin 6.562
Chris Columbus 6.562
Doug Liman 6.562
Joel Coen 6.527
Andrew Niccol 6.5
Christopher Landon 6.5
Don Bluth 6.5
Lee Tamahori 6.5
Olivier Megaton 6.5
Peter Farrelly 6.5
Rob Marshall 6.5
Timur Bekmambetov 6.5
Tom Hooper 6.5
Stephen Herek 6.444
Joe Dante 6.416
Bobby Farrelly 6.409
Mark Waters 6.4
Rawson Marshall Thurber 6.4
Richard Fleischer 6.4
Sean Anders 6.4
Stephen Frears 6.4
Craig Brewer 6.375
David Gordon Green 6.375
Frank Oz 6.375
John Singleton 6.375
Ethan Coen 6.366
Steven Soderbergh 6.343
Jon Avnet 6.333
Kevin Smith 6.312
Terry Gilliam 6.312
Andy Tennant 6.3
Anne Fletcher 6.3
Carlos Saldanha 6.3
Neill Blomkamp 6.3
David Zucker 6.25
James Bobin 6.25
Lawrence Kasdan 6.25
Len Wiseman 6.25
Renny Harlin 6.222
Woody Allen 6.208
Richard Kelly 6.166
Alexander Payne 6.142
John Frankenheimer 6.125
Lee Daniels 6.125
Jonathan Levine 6.1
Sofia Coppola 6.1
Robert Rodriguez 6.083
Ishiro Honda 6.038
Jack Bender 6
Walter Hill 6
Directors with Average Film Ranking 5-5.999
Ben Stiller 5.9
David Koepp 5.875
Jeremiah S. Chechik 5.875
Kyle Balda 5.875
Neil Marshall 5.833
Robert Altman 5.833
Adam Shankman 5.8
Mark Waters 5.8
Paul W.S. Anderson 5.727
Dennis Dugan 5.4
Dean Parisot 5.1
Directors with Average Film Ranking 4-4.999
Jane Campion 4.875
David R. Ellis 4.8
Directors with Average Film Ranking 3-3.999
Directors with Average Film Ranking 2-2.999