A Life in Film

Not Pauline Kael’s all-time stats

2,881 Films

5,095 Hours

980 Directors

48 Countries

By release year

1914 2020

1914 2020

Genres, Countries & Languages

1,848 films

992 films

886 films

368 films

361 films

276 films

256 films

245 films

188 films

154 films

2,013 films

397 films

315 films

178 films

76 films

35 films

27 films

24 films

16 films

16 films

2,473 films

437 films

252 films

186 films

179 films

67 films

No spoken language

56 films

37 films

37 films

28 films

List Progress

Letterboxd
Top 250 37% 94 of 250

Oscar Best
Picture Winners 56% 52 of 92

IMDb
Top 250 31% 79 of 250

Box Office Mojo
All Time 100 2% 2 of 100

Sight & Sound
Top 250 50% 126 of 250

AFI 100 Years
100 Movies 70% 70 of 100

Edgar Wright’s
1,000 Favorites 37% 378 of 1,000

GdT’s Film
Recommendations 23% 96 of 405

1,001 To See
Before You Die 46% 470 of 1,001

Top 100
Women-Directed 9% 9 of 100

Top 100
Documentaries 6% 6 of 100

Top 100
Animation 1% 1 of 100

Alienation Trilogy 3 watched

The Apu Trilogy 3 watched

The Gorky Collection 3 watched

Greek Tragedy Trilogy 3 watched

Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy 3 watched

Topper Collection 3 watched

Most Watched

The Last Waltz

twice

Stars

Bette Davis

37 films
Katharine Hepburn

35 films
Cary Grant

35 films
Humphrey Bogart

33 films
Burt Lancaster

30 films
Joan Crawford

30 films
James Mason

28 films
Reginald Owen

28 films
Laurence Olivier

27 films
Alan Hale

27 films
Spencer Tracy

27 films
Gene Hackman

27 films
Charles Laughton

26 films
Jack Nicholson

26 films
Charles Boyer

26 films
Alec Guinness

25 films
James Stewart

25 films
Paul Newman

24 films
Donald Crisp

24 films
Henry Fonda

24 films

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Directors

George Cukor

35 films
John Ford

28 films
Alfred Hitchcock

28 films
John Huston

25 films
William Wyler

22 films
Michael Curtiz

22 films
Sidney Lumet

21 films
Billy Wilder

19 films
Vincente Minnelli

18 films
Howard Hawks

17 films
W.S. Van Dyke

17 films
Ingmar Bergman

17 films
Clarence Brown

16 films
Mervyn LeRoy

16 films
Frank Capra

16 films
George Stevens

16 films
Fritz Lang

15 films
Stanley Donen

15 films
Jean-Luc Godard

15 films
Raoul Walsh

15 films

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Crew & Studios

Producers

Hal B. Wallis 56

Darryl F. Zanuck 41

Jack L. Warner 38

Arthur Freed 32

Pandro S. Berman 32

Irving Thalberg 31

David O. Selznick 27

Samuel Goldwyn 21

Irwin Winkler 20

Robert Greenhut 20

Frank Marshall 19

William LeBaron 19

Hunt Stromberg 17

Dino De Laurentiis 17

Walter Wanger 17

Buddy G. DeSylva 17

Steven Spielberg 16

Michael Balcon 16

Jerry Wald 15

Robert Chartoff 15
Writers

Ben Hecht 34

Billy Wilder 24

Dudley Nichols 18

Ingmar Bergman 18

Federico Fellini 17

Woody Allen 15

Albert Hackett 15

Frances Goodrich 15

Sidney Buchman 15

Jules Furthman 15

John Huston 14

Preston Sturges 14

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 14

John Lee Mahin 14

Donald Ogden Stewart 14

William Shakespeare 14

Luis Buñuel 13

Charles Brackett 13

Jean Renoir 13

Jean-Luc Godard 13
Editors

Daniel Mandell 22

Blanche Sewell 19

Michael Kahn 17

William Reynolds 17

Ralph E. Winters 17

Dorothy Spencer 17

Robert Kern 17

Sam O'Steen 16

George Amy 16

Ruggero Mastroianni 16

Ferris Webster 15

Ted J. Kent 15

Viola Lawrence 15

Stuart Gilmore 14

Anne V. Coates 14

Robert Swink 14

Harold F. Kress 13

Adrienne Fazan 13

Susan E. Morse 13

Gene Milford 12
Cinematography

Charles Lang 38

William H. Daniels 35

Harry Stradling Sr. 29

James Wong Howe 27

George J. Folsey 25

Oswald Morris 24

Harold Rosson 23

Joseph Walker 23

Robert Surtees 23

Joseph Ruttenberg 22

Lee Garmes 21

Leon Shamroy 21

Ray June 21

Gordon Willis 20

Sol Polito 20

David Watkin 19

Lucien Ballard 19

George Barnes 19

Tony Gaudio 19

Gregg Toland 18
Production Design

Richard Sylbert 20

Ken Adam 13

Gene Callahan 13

Alexandre Trauner 11

Pierre Guffroy 11

Boris Leven 10

Mel Bourne 9

Santo Loquasto 9

Stephen B. Grimes 9

Dean Tavoularis 8

Polly Platt 8

Richard Macdonald 8

Jacques Saulnier 8

Paul Sylbert 7

Bernard Evein 7

Terence Marsh 7

John Box 7

Mario Garbuglia 7

Tony Walton 7

Edward C. Carfagno 7
Art Direction

Cedric Gibbons 151

Hans Dreier 69

Lyle R. Wheeler 45

Van Nest Polglase 41

Richard Day 38

Hal Pereira 29

Albert S. D'Agostino 26

Carroll Clark 21

Stephen Goosson 21

George W. Davis 21

Alexander Golitzen 20

Charles D. Hall 18

Anton Grot 18

Jack Martin Smith 17

Robert M. Haas 17

Ernst Fegté 17

James Basevi 14

Walter H. Tyler 14

Joseph C. Wright 14

Lionel Banks 13
Set Decoration

Edwin B. Willis 71

Thomas Little 45

Darrell Silvera 45

Russell A. Gausman 30

Walter M. Scott 28

Sam Comer 25

Henry Grace 19

Ray Moyer 17

George James Hopkins 16

George R. Nelson 16

Julia Heron 15

William Kiernan 14

Edward G. Boyle 12

Stuart A. Reiss 11

Jerry Wunderlich 11

Ruby R. Levitt 10

F. Keogh Gleason 10

Howard Bristol 10

Marvin March 9

Linda DeScenna 9
Visual Effects

Farciot Edouart 12

Paul Huston 8

Gordon Jennings 6

Albert Whitlock 6

Phil Tippett 5

Dennis Muren 5

Richard Edlund 5

Ken Ralston 5

John P. Fulton 4

Charlie Mullen 4

Roswell A. Hoffmann 4

Ray Kellogg 3

Carlo Rambaldi 3

L.B. Abbott 3

Derek Meddings 3

Fred Sersen 3

Paul K. Lerpae 3

John Bruno 2

Eugen Schüfftan 2

Douglas Trumbull 2
Composers

Max Steiner 54

Alfred Newman 54

Elmer Bernstein 37

Franz Waxman 37

Jerry Goldsmith 34

Herbert Stothart 33

John Williams 32

Roy Webb 31

John Barry 30

Georges Delerue 30

Maurice Jarre 27

Victor Young 26

Ennio Morricone 25

Dimitri Tiomkin 25

Miklós Rózsa 25

Heinz Roemheld 25

Dave Grusin 23

Georges Auric 22

Nino Rota 20

Alex North 20
Sound

Douglas Shearer 60

Richard Portman 15

Frank E. Warner 12

Frank Maher 12

Charles L. Campbell 11

Clem Portman 11

Kevin O’Connell 11

John W. Mitchell 10

John Cope 10

Gerry Humphreys 10

Gordon K. McCallum 10

Donald O. Mitchell 10

Ben Burtt 9

Winston Ryder 9

Harold Lewis 9

Harry Lindgren 9

Jack Fitzstephens 9

Walter Oberst 9

Roger Heman Sr. 8

Dan Sable 8
Costumes

Edith Head 87

Adrian 65

Orry-Kelly 49

Travis Banton 47

Irene 44

Walter Plunkett 43

Jean Louis 26

Dorothy Jeakins 22

Ann Roth 21

Albert Wolsky 19

Helen Rose 19

Milo Anderson 19

Vera West 19

Anna Hill Johnstone 18

Edward Stevenson 18

Anthony Mendleson 16

Robert Kalloch 16

Eugene Joseff 16

René Hubert 15

Anthea Sylbert 14
Make-Up

Mel Berns 56

Wally Westmore 50

Perc Westmore 42

Ben Nye 37

William Tuttle 27

Jack Dawn 24

Gordon Bau 21

Robert J. Schiffer 19

Bud Westmore 18

Del Armstrong 15

Dick Smith 14

Stuart Freeborn 14

Jack Pierce 13

Irving Buchman 13

Tony Sforzini 13

Fern Buchner 12

George Frost 12

Tom Smith 10

Charles E. Parker 10

Edwin Butterworth 9
Studios

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 298

Paramount 264

Warner Bros. Pictures 241

20th Century Fox 190

Columbia Pictures 166

Universal Pictures 140

United Artists 104

RKO Radio Pictures 91

Orion Pictures 24

TriStar Pictures 23

London Film Productions 23

Samuel Goldwyn Productions 19

The Mirisch Company 19

Universal International Pictures 17

Svensk Filmindustri 17

Touchstone Pictures 16

First National Pictures 15

Selznick International Pictures 13

Les Productions Artistes Associés 13

Amblin Entertainment 13

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