2016-05-10

DGA top 80 vs WGA top 101

The Directors Guild recently released a list of the top 80 films (by DGA members, as voted by fellow DGA members). Likewise, the Writers Guild has a list of top 101 screenplays. This post tries to compare them. The rank in the first column refers to the DGA ranking in their poll. The "WGA top 101?" refers to the WGA ranking in their poll, if it is on their list. The total of these numbers reflects their common respect for the writing and directing. Francis Ford Coppola comes out on top.



rank title director year (co)writer+director? WGA top 101? total
4 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968 Y N n/a
16 Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 1964 Y 12 28
27 A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 1971 Y N n/a
46 The Shining Stanley Kubrick 1980 Y N n/a
73 Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick 1975 Y N n/a
8 Schindler's List Steven Spielberg 1993 N 49 57
14 Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975 N 63 77
23 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 1982 N 67 90
25 Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg 1998 N N n/a
28 Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 1981 N 42 70
29 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958 N N n/a
32 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960 N 92 124
39 Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock 1954 N 83 122
41 North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 1959 N 21 62
1 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 1972 Y 2 3
6 The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola 1974 Y 10 16
7 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Y 55 62
3 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 1962 N 14 17
40 The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean 1957 N 48 88
48 Doctor Zhivago David Lean 1965 N N n/a
10 Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 1990 Y 41 51
13 Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 1980 N 76 89
44 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976 N 43 87
30 Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 1950 Y 7 37
50 Some Like it Hot Billy Wilder 1959 Y 9 59
54 The Apartment Billy Wilder 1960 Y 15 69
2 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 Y 4 6
74 Touch of Evil Orson Welles 1958 Y N n/a
9 Gone With the Wind Victor Fleming 1939 N 23 97
12 The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 1939 N 25 37
20 Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982 N N n/a
64 Alien Ridley Scott 1979 N N n/a
26 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa 1954 Y N n/a
79 Rashomon Akira Kurosawa 1950 Y N n/a
33 The Searchers John Ford 1956 N 97 130
71 The Grapes of Wrath John Ford 1940 N 98 169
38 The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 1946 N 44 82
51 Ben-Hur William Wyler 1959 N N n/a
42 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Milos Forman 1975 N 45 87
47 Amadeus Milos Forman 1984 N 73 120
45 Titanic James Cameron 1997 Y N n/a
55 Avatar James Cameron 2009 Y N n/a
75 Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone 1984 Y N n/a
80 Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone 1968 Y N n/a
72 All the President's Men Alan Pakula 1976 N 53 125
58 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro Inarritu 2014 Y N n/a
66 The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci 1970 Y N n/a
77 The Usual Suspects Bryan Singer 1995 N 35 112
37 The Third Man Carol Reed 1949 N N n/a
76 Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 1992 N N n/a
21 On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954 N 18 39
52 Fargo Ethan Coen, Joel Coen 1996 Y 32 84
36 8 1/2 Federico Fellini 1963 Y 87 123
15 It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 1946 N 20 35
17 The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont 1994 Y 22 39
19 Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope George Lucas 1977 Y 68 87
69 Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore 1988 Y N n/a
49 West Side Story Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 1961 N N n/a
65 Rocky John Avildsen 1976 N 78 143
57 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 1948 Y 46 103
53 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991 N 61 114
59 All About Eve Joseph L Mankiewicz 1950 Y 5 64
56 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow 2008 N N n/a
60 The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino 1978 N N n/a
5 Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942 N 1 6
18 The Graduate Mike Nichols 1967 N 13 31
61 There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson 2007 Y N n/a
22 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994 Y 16 38
67 Gandhi Richard Attenborough 1982 N N n/a
31 To Kill A Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 1962 N 19 50
43 The Sound of Music Robert Wise 1965 N N n/a
34 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 1994 N 89 123
11 Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974 N 3 14
62 The Sting George Roy Hill 1973 N 39 101
63 The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969 Y 99 162
78 Network Sidney Lumet 1976 N 8 86
35 Singin' in the Rain Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 1952 N 65 98
70 Brazil Terry Gilliam 1985 Y N n/a
68 The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica 1948 Y N n/a
24 Annie Hall Woody Allen 1977 Y 6 30

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