The people

Top 2,000 of 5,416 scored people. Box office points come from top-grossing credits (director-weighted, billing-order decay); prestige from 12,137 nominations and wins, weighted toward the marquee categories.

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Steven Spielberg

MetroPhoenix 🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office100Prestige93.27Audience66.17Wins3Noms24

84.18

Score

Billy Wilder

MetroKrakow 🎬CountryPolandBox office16.16Prestige100Audience92.81Wins6Noms21

78.75

Score

Katharine Hepburn

MetroHartford 🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office17.78Prestige97.73Audience75.67Wins4Noms12

71.54

Score

Francis Ford Coppola

MetroNew York 🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office43.65Prestige81.17Audience74.68Wins5Noms14

70.38

Score

Jack Nicholson

MetroNew York 🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office57.92Prestige62.93Audience78.95Wins3Noms12

68.08

Score

John Ford

MetroPortland (ME)🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office12.03Prestige91.4Audience76.04Wins4Noms6

67.95

Score

Stanley Kubrick

MetroNew York 🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office24.7Prestige85.53Audience65.67Wins0Noms12

64.4

Score

Marlon Brando

MetroOmaha-Lincoln 🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office50.38Prestige75Audience59.38Wins2Noms8

63.49

Score

Woody Allen

MetroNew York 🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office3.11Prestige72.07Audience86.52Wins4Noms24

62.54

Score

Alfred Hitchcock

MetroLondon 🎬CountryUnited KingdomBox office26.26Prestige80.79Audience58.24Wins0Noms5

Score

Ingrid Bergman

MetroStockholm 🎬CountrySwedenBox office28.6Prestige73.09Audience64.35Wins3Noms7

59.89

Score

Martin Scorsese

MetroNew York 🎬CountryUnited StatesBox office5.87Prestige75.22Audience74.96Wins1Noms16

59.86

Score

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1	Steven Spielberg	Phoenix 🎬	United States	84.18	100	93.27	66.17	3	24
2	Billy Wilder	Krakow 🎬	Poland	78.75	16.16	100	92.81	6	21
3	Katharine Hepburn	Hartford 🎬	United States	71.54	17.78	97.73	75.67	4	12
4	Francis Ford Coppola	New York 🎬	United States	70.38	43.65	81.17	74.68	5	14
5	Jack Nicholson	New York 🎬	United States	68.08	57.92	62.93	78.95	3	12
6	John Ford	Portland (ME)🎬	United States	67.95	12.03	91.4	76.04	4	6
7	Stanley Kubrick	New York 🎬	United States	64.4	24.7	85.53	65.67	0	12
8	Marlon Brando	Omaha-Lincoln 🎬	United States	63.49	50.38	75	59.38	2	8
9	Woody Allen	New York 🎬	United States	62.54	3.11	72.07	86.52	4	24
10	Alfred Hitchcock	London 🎬	United Kingdom	60	26.26	80.79	58.24	0	5
11	Ingrid Bergman	Stockholm 🎬	Sweden	59.89	28.6	73.09	64.35	3	7
12	Martin Scorsese	New York 🎬	United States	59.86	5.87	75.22	74.96	1	16
13	David Lean	London 🎬	United Kingdom	59.19	31.83	72.87	60.95	2	10
14	Bette Davis	Boston 🎬	United States	58.54	3.91	90	57.89	2	11
15	Meryl Streep	New York 🎬	United States	58.13	22.38	59.02	77.4	3	21
16	Joel and Ethan Coen	Minneapolis 🎬	United States	57.62	0	47.73	100	4	14
17	William Wyler	Mulhouse 🎬	France	57.29	38.21	53.32	72.02	3	14
18	Spencer Tracy	Milwaukee 🎬	United States	57.14	31.74	67.3	61.31	2	9
19	Frank Capra	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	56.28	14.36	72.24	63.96	3	6
20	Clark Gable	Cleveland 🎬	United States	55.84	75.58	56.1	44.43	1	3
21	Dustin Hoffman	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	54.06	62.08	42.37	61.21	2	7
22	Tom Hanks	San Francisco-San Jose 🎬	United States	53.16	65.4	37.44	61.97	2	6
23	Charlie Chaplin	London 🎬	United Kingdom	50.6	26.39	86.37	28.48	0	3
24	Elizabeth Taylor	London 🎬	United Kingdom	50	31.1	58.23	52.42	2	5
25	Paul Newman	Cleveland 🎬	United States	49.59	52.58	43.69	53.8	1	10
26	Al Pacino	New York 🎬	United States	49.58	39.14	45.81	59.24	1	9
27	Orson Welles	Chicago 🎬	United States	49.15	2.8	74.9	49.56	1	3
28	Federico Fellini	Rimini 🎬	Italy	49.14	3.82	68.44	55.4	0	12
29	Ingmar Bergman	Stockholm 🎬	Sweden	49.12	0	72.66	53.3	0	9
30	Laurence Olivier	London 🎬	United Kingdom	48.75	15.27	65.38	51	1	11
31	James Cameron	St. Catharines-Niagara 🎬	Canada	48.1	89.2	28.3	44.73	2	5
32	Robert De Niro	New York 🎬	United States	47.98	20.37	49.81	61.72	2	9
33	Clint Eastwood	San Francisco-San Jose 🎬	United States	47.69	20	39.96	71.04	4	11
34	John Huston	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	47.59	11.59	44.88	70.61	2	14
35	James Stewart	Pittsburgh 🎬	United States	47.2	19.65	63.31	46.62	1	5
36	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	New York 🎬	United States	46.98	17.44	41.36	69.27	4	9
37	Gary Cooper	Helena 🎬	United States	45.88	25.15	52.43	51.03	2	5
38	Elia Kazan	New York 🎬	United States	45.43	6.99	58.13	54.42	2	7
39	Jack Lemmon	Boston 🎬	United States	44.45	24.17	43.24	57.1	2	8
40	Peter Jackson	Wellington 🎬	New Zealand	43.67	57.28	25.42	54.24	3	9
41	Humphrey Bogart	New York 🎬	United States	43.11	15.76	63.02	38.63	1	3
42	Gregory Peck	San Diego 🎬	United States	42.96	30.51	47.13	45.82	1	5
43	Cary Grant	Bristol 🎬	United Kingdom	41.77	32.69	51.6	37.07	0	2
44	Audrey Hepburn	Brussels 🎬	Belgium	41.47	16.43	57.26	39.79	1	5
45	Oliver Stone	New York 🎬	United States	41.23	15.2	34.13	63.02	3	11
46	Akira Kurosawa	Tokyo 🎬	Japan	40.62	0	61.38	42.77	0	1
47	Michael Caine	London 🎬	United Kingdom	40.6	28.07	35.89	52.38	2	6
48	Cate Blanchett	Melbourne 🎬	Australia	40.52	21.99	37.56	53.92	2	8
49	Paul Thomas Anderson	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	40.44	0	35.77	67.93	3	14
50	Leo McCarey	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	40.34	11.73	32.84	63.98	3	7
51	Robin Williams	San Francisco-San Jose 🎬	United States	40.27	60.5	14.28	54.83	1	4
52	Gene Hackman	Danville (IL)🎬	United States	40.19	27.94	37.67	49.62	2	5
53	Christopher Nolan	London 🎬	United Kingdom	40.16	44.59	23.67	54.15	2	8
54	Denzel Washington	New York 🎬	United States	39.69	5.83	43.93	54.54	2	10
55	Vivien Leigh	London 🎬	United Kingdom	39.17	45.66	40.87	33.8	2	2
56	Fred Zinnemann	Vienna 🎬	Austria	38.9	16.39	38.98	51.5	3	9
57	Daniel Day-Lewis	London 🎬	United Kingdom	38.6	0	45.6	53.38	3	6
58	Anthony Hopkins	Cardiff 🎬	United Kingdom	38.53	17.21	37.82	51.27	2	6
59	Robert Wise	Richmond (IN)🎬	United States	38.52	35.3	35.11	43.75	4	6
60	Harrison Ford	Chicago 🎬	United States	38.16	88.81	4.59	43.16	0	1
61	Kate Winslet	London 🎬	United Kingdom	37.95	37.58	32.51	43.6	1	7
62	Howard Hawks	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	37.77	21.54	48.03	36.67	0	1
63	Quentin Tarantino	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	37.24	0	27.71	67.78	2	8
64	Olivia de Havilland	San Francisco-San Jose 🎬	United States	37.2	39.85	22.72	50.19	2	5
65	Robert Downey Jr.	New York 🎬	United States	36.49	65.41	10.71	45.97	1	3
66	Mel Gibson	Sydney 🎬	Australia	36.22	37.72	12.55	59.05	2	3
67	Buster Keaton	—	—	36.18	0	55.98	36.78	0	0
68	Robert Benton	Dallas 🎬	United States	35.56	8.27	30.84	55.68	3	7
69	Eddie Murphy	New York 🎬	United States	35.38	88.06	2.07	38.98	0	1
70	Morgan Freeman	Memphis 🎬	United States	35.23	29.7	28.9	44.69	1	5
71	David Lynch	Missoula 🎬	United States	34.96	0	45.12	44.51	0	4
72	Sigourney Weaver	New York 🎬	United States	34.9	68.92	8.24	42.38	0	3
73	Luis Buñuel	Zaragoza 🎬	Spain	34.82	0	46.8	42.48	0	2
74	James Cagney	New York 🎬	United States	34.75	14.38	47.44	33.55	1	3
75	Maggie Smith	London 🎬	United Kingdom	34.44	9.58	35.96	46.95	2	6
76	Leonardo DiCaprio	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	34.38	40.52	19.65	45.64	1	8
77	King Vidor	Houston 🎬	United States	34.3	12.9	48.5	32.19	0	5
78	Robert Zemeckis	Chicago 🎬	United States	33.79	57.03	15.69	38.78	1	2
79	Fredric March	Milwaukee 🎬	United States	33.75	15.99	30.05	47.45	2	5
80	Robert Altman	Kansas City 🎬	United States	33.33	7.04	48.82	32.68	0	7
81	Claudette Colbert	New York 🎬	United States	33.17	23.58	36.42	35.34	1	3
82	Walter Brennan	Boston 🎬	United States	32.14	15	25.14	48.82	3	4
83	Robert Duvall	San Diego 🎬	United States	32.08	27.48	20.96	45.79	1	7
84	Jane Fonda	New York 🎬	United States	32.01	10.6	25.92	50.17	2	7
85	Frances McDormand	Champaign 🎬	United States	31.68	0	28.54	52.69	4	8
86	George Stevens	San Francisco-San Jose 🎬	United States	31.56	13.26	27.77	45.66	2	9
87	Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico City 🎬	Mexico	31.48	18.29	19.65	50.76	2	7
88	Jessica Lange	Duluth 🎬	United States	31.26	15.34	23.73	47.78	2	6
89	Robert Redford	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	31.26	46.19	13.17	40.93	1	4
90	George Clooney	Lexington 🎬	United States	31.08	24.62	18.52	47.28	2	8
91	Warren Beatty	Richmond 🎬	United States	31.02	2.05	30.08	48.31	1	14
92	Michael Curtiz	Budapest 🎬	Hungary	30.95	21.29	23.21	44.15	1	5
93	Ernst Lubitsch	Berlin 🎬	Germany	30.91	2.74	42.64	35.07	0	3
94	Will Smith	Philadelphia 🎬	United States	30.84	45.81	10.8	42.43	1	4
95	Sean Connery	Edinburgh 🎬	United Kingdom	30.8	51.2	8.43	41.66	1	1
96	Henry Fonda	Omaha-Lincoln 🎬	United States	30.78	16.7	36.83	32.68	1	3
97	Sean Penn	Los Angeles 🎬	United States	30.71	0	26.08	52.66	3	6
98	Brad Pitt	Springfield (MO)🎬	United States	30.59	30.07	16.23	45.24	2	8
99	Terrence Malick	Austin 🎬	United States	30.35	0	40.35	37.47	0	3
100	Norma Shearer	Montreal 🎬	Canada	30.18	7.83	30.33	42.64	1	6

The directors

Directors with at least two top-grossing films. The geography alone tells a story: Budapest, Krakow, Mulhouse and Wellington sit inside the top ten.

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Steven Spielberg

MetroPhoenix 🎬Top-grossers15Wins3

84.18

Score

Billy Wilder

MetroKrakow 🎬Top-grossers5Wins6

78.75

Score

Francis Ford Coppola

MetroNew York 🎬Top-grossers4Wins5

70.38

Score

John Ford

MetroPortland (ME)🎬Top-grossers10Wins4

67.95

Score

Stanley Kubrick

MetroNew York 🎬Top-grossers3Wins0

64.4

Score

Alfred Hitchcock

MetroLondon 🎬Top-grossers6Wins0

Score

David Lean

MetroLondon 🎬Top-grossers4Wins2

59.19

Score

William Wyler

MetroMulhouse 🎬Top-grossers5Wins3

57.29

Score

Frank Capra

MetroLos Angeles 🎬Top-grossers4Wins3

56.28

Score

Charlie Chaplin

MetroLondon 🎬Top-grossers6Wins0

50.6

Score

James Cameron

MetroSt. Catharines-Niagara 🎬Top-grossers7Wins2

48.1

Score

John Huston

MetroLos Angeles 🎬Top-grossers4Wins2

47.59

Score

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1	Steven Spielberg	Phoenix 🎬	84.18	15	3
2	Billy Wilder	Krakow 🎬	78.75	5	6
3	Francis Ford Coppola	New York 🎬	70.38	4	5
4	John Ford	Portland (ME)🎬	67.95	10	4
5	Stanley Kubrick	New York 🎬	64.4	3	0
6	Alfred Hitchcock	London 🎬	60	6	0
7	David Lean	London 🎬	59.19	4	2
8	William Wyler	Mulhouse 🎬	57.29	5	3
9	Frank Capra	Los Angeles 🎬	56.28	4	3
10	Charlie Chaplin	London 🎬	50.6	6	0
11	James Cameron	St. Catharines-Niagara 🎬	48.1	7	2
12	John Huston	Los Angeles 🎬	47.59	4	2
13	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	New York 🎬	46.98	4	4
14	Elia Kazan	New York 🎬	45.43	2	2
15	Peter Jackson	Wellington 🎬	43.67	7	3
16	Oliver Stone	New York 🎬	41.23	3	3
17	Leo McCarey	Los Angeles 🎬	40.34	3	3
18	Christopher Nolan	London 🎬	40.16	7	2
19	Fred Zinnemann	Vienna 🎬	38.9	4	3
20	Robert Wise	Richmond (IN)🎬	38.52	4	4
21	Howard Hawks	Los Angeles 🎬	37.77	8	0
22	King Vidor	Houston 🎬	34.3	7	0
23	Robert Zemeckis	Chicago 🎬	33.79	8	1
24	George Stevens	San Francisco-San Jose 🎬	31.56	4	2
25	Alfonso Cuarón	Mexico City 🎬	31.48	2	2
26	Michael Curtiz	Budapest 🎬	30.95	10	1
27	Ernst Lubitsch	Berlin 🎬	30.91	3	0
28	Lewis Milestone	Chisinau 🎬	29.58	3	2
29	George Lucas	Modesto 🎬	29.4	5	0
30	James L. Brooks	New York 🎬	29.13	2	3
31	George Cukor	New York 🎬	29.09	8	1
32	Frank Lloyd	Glasgow 🎬	28.27	4	2
33	Richard Brooks	Philadelphia 🎬	28.15	2	1
34	Mike Nichols	Berlin 🎬	26.67	4	1
35	Sydney Pollack	South Bend 🎬	26.54	6	2
36	George Seaton	South Bend 🎬	25.83	2	2
37	Ron Howard	Los Angeles 🎬	25.74	7	2
38	Frank Borzage	Salt Lake City-Provo 🎬	25.42	7	2
39	Victor Fleming	Los Angeles 🎬	25.14	8	1
40	Ridley Scott	Newcastle 🎬	24.98	4	0
41	Barry Levinson	Washington-Baltimore 🎬	24.72	2	1
42	Andrew Stanton	Boston 🎬	24.43	3	2
43	Sidney Lumet	Philadelphia 🎬	24.18	2	0
44	George Miller	Brisbane 🎬	23.95	2	1
45	Sam Mendes	London 🎬	22.15	3	1
46	Pete Docter	Bloomington 🎬	22.14	3	3
47	Peter Weir	Sydney 🎬	22.11	2	0
48	George Roy Hill	Minneapolis 🎬	21.85	4	1
49	William Friedkin	Chicago 🎬	21.71	2	1
50	Brad Bird	Kalispell 🎬	21.67	4	2
51	Cecil B. DeMille	Los Angeles 🎬	21.44	24	1
52	William A. Wellman	Boston 🎬	21.15	3	1
53	Carol Reed	London 🎬	20.24	2	1
54	Norman Jewison	Toronto 🎬	19.46	3	0
55	Bill Condon	New York 🎬	19.19	3	1
56	Mel Brooks	New York 🎬	19.15	2	1
57	Clarence Brown	Knoxville 🎬	19.06	8	0
58	Stanley Kramer	New York 🎬	19.04	3	0
59	John Lasseter	Los Angeles 🎬	18.78	5	0
60	Tim Burton	Los Angeles 🎬	18.78	5	0