--- title: "People on Fi1m" canonical: "https://film.one/people" total: 20278 licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # People Directors and actors ranked by the Fi1m scores of their reviewed work (a Bayesian average pulled towards the site mean), then everyone with a substantial page. ## All time **Directors** - [Akira Kurosawa](https://film.one/person/akira-kurosawa.md) — average 90 over 8 films: *Seven Samurai* (95), *Ran* (92) - [Emeric Pressburger](https://film.one/person/emeric-pressburger.md) — average 90 over 5 films: *The Red Shoes* (92), *A Matter of Life and Death* (92) - [Michael Powell](https://film.one/person/michael-powell.md) — average 88 over 6 films: *The Red Shoes* (92), *A Matter of Life and Death* (92) - [Satyajit Ray](https://film.one/person/satyajit-ray.md) — average 89 over 4 films: *Pather Panchali* (93), *The World of Apu* (91) - [Ingmar Bergman](https://film.one/person/ingmar-bergman.md) — average 85 over 11 films: *Fanny and Alexander* (92), *Persona* (89) - [Yasujirō Ozu](https://film.one/person/yasujiro-ozu.md) — average 88 over 4 films: *Tokyo Story* (92), *Late Spring* (92) - [Robert Bresson](https://film.one/person/robert-bresson.md) — average 87 over 5 films: *Au Hasard Balthazar* (90), *A Man Escaped* (90) - [Mike Leigh](https://film.one/person/mike-leigh.md) — average 85 over 9 films: *Topsy-Turvy* (88), *Secrets & Lies* (88) - [Sidney Lumet](https://film.one/person/sidney-lumet.md) — average 88 over 4 films: *12 Angry Men* (91), *Dog Day Afternoon* (90) - [Billy Wilder](https://film.one/person/billy-wilder.md) — average 85 over 8 films: *Some Like It Hot* (92), *Double Indemnity* (92) - [Stanley Kubrick](https://film.one/person/stanley-kubrick.md) — average 85 over 9 films: *Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* (93), *Paths of Glory* (93) - [Sergio Leone](https://film.one/person/sergio-leone.md) — average 87 over 4 films: *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* (92), *Once Upon a Time in the West* (91) **Actors** - [Toshirō Mifune](https://film.one/person/toshiro-mifune.md) — average 91 over 5 titles: *Seven Samurai* (95), *Rashomon* (92) - [Tatsuya Nakadai](https://film.one/person/tatsuya-nakadai.md) — average 90 over 4 titles: *Ran* (92), *Harakiri* (91) - [Takashi Shimura](https://film.one/person/takashi-shimura.md) — average 88 over 6 titles: *Seven Samurai* (95), *Ikiru* (92) - [Alec Guinness](https://film.one/person/alec-guinness.md) — average 87 over 7 titles: *Kind Hearts and Coronets* (91), *Lawrence of Arabia* (90) - [Gunnar Björnstrand](https://film.one/person/gunnar-bjornstrand.md) — average 86 over 6 titles: *Persona* (89), *Winter Light* (88) - [Roger Livesey](https://film.one/person/roger-livesey.md) — average 90 over 3 titles: *A Matter of Life and Death* (92), *The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp* (91) - [Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/person/claudia-cardinale.md) — average 88 over 4 titles: *Once Upon a Time in the West* (91), *8½* (91) - [Chishū Ryū](https://film.one/person/chishu-ryu.md) — average 90 over 3 titles: *Tokyo Story* (92), *Late Spring* (92) - [James Stewart](https://film.one/person/james-stewart.md) — average 83 over 15 titles: *Rear Window* (94), *Vertigo* (92) - [Sterling Hayden](https://film.one/person/sterling-hayden.md) — average 88 over 4 titles: *Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* (93), *The Asphalt Jungle* (88) - [Janet Leigh](https://film.one/person/janet-leigh.md) — average 88 over 4 titles: *Psycho* (90), *The Manchurian Candidate* (88) - [Buster Keaton](https://film.one/person/buster-keaton.md) — average 86 over 5 titles: *The General* (91), *Sherlock Jr.* (91) ## Silent (–1929) **Directors** - [Buster Keaton](https://film.one/person/buster-keaton.md) — average 86 over 5 films: *The General* (91), *Sherlock Jr.* (91) - [F. W. Murnau](https://film.one/person/f-w-murnau.md) — average 87 over 3 films: *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans* (88), *Nosferatu* (88) - [Charlie Chaplin](https://film.one/person/charlie-chaplin.md) — average 86 over 2 films: *The Gold Rush* (89), *The Kid* (84) - [King Vidor](https://film.one/person/king-vidor.md) — average 85 over 2 films: *The Crowd* (90), *The Big Parade* (80) - [Fritz Lang](https://film.one/person/fritz-lang.md) — average 82 over 2 films: *Metropolis* (87), *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (77) - [Erich von Stroheim](https://film.one/person/erich-von-stroheim.md) — average 80 over 2 films: *Greed* (86), *Foolish Wives* (75) - [Charles Reisner](https://film.one/person/charles-reisner.md) — average 76 over 2 films: *Steamboat Bill, Jr.* (90), *The Hollywood Revue of 1929* (62) - [Ernst Lubitsch](https://film.one/person/ernst-lubitsch.md) — average 74 over 2 films: *The Love Parade* (76), *The Patriot* (72) - [Raoul Walsh](https://film.one/person/raoul-walsh.md) — average 72 over 2 films: *The Thief of Bagdad* (82), *In Old Arizona* (61) - [D.W. Griffith](https://film.one/person/d-w-griffith.md) — average 68 over 5 films: *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (83), *Way Down East* (78) **Actors** - [Buster Keaton](https://film.one/person/buster-keaton.md) — average 86 over 5 titles: *The General* (91), *Sherlock Jr.* (91) - [Lillian Gish](https://film.one/person/lillian-gish.md) — average 68 over 5 titles: *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (83), *Way Down East* (78) ## Golden (1930–1959) **Directors** - [Akira Kurosawa](https://film.one/person/akira-kurosawa.md) — average 92 over 4 films: *Seven Samurai* (95), *Ikiru* (92) - [Emeric Pressburger](https://film.one/person/emeric-pressburger.md) — average 90 over 5 films: *The Red Shoes* (92), *A Matter of Life and Death* (92) - [Billy Wilder](https://film.one/person/billy-wilder.md) — average 88 over 6 films: *Some Like It Hot* (92), *Double Indemnity* (92) - [Michael Powell](https://film.one/person/michael-powell.md) — average 88 over 6 films: *The Red Shoes* (92), *A Matter of Life and Death* (92) - [Satyajit Ray](https://film.one/person/satyajit-ray.md) — average 89 over 4 films: *Pather Panchali* (93), *The World of Apu* (91) - [Yasujirō Ozu](https://film.one/person/yasujiro-ozu.md) — average 89 over 3 films: *Tokyo Story* (92), *Late Spring* (92) - [Vittorio De Sica](https://film.one/person/vittorio-de-sica.md) — average 92 over 2 films: *Bicycle Thieves* (93), *Umberto D.* (91) - [Jean Renoir](https://film.one/person/jean-renoir.md) — average 86 over 4 films: *Grand Illusion* (92), *The Rules of the Game* (91) - [Kenji Mizoguchi](https://film.one/person/kenji-mizoguchi.md) — average 90 over 2 films: *Sansho the Bailiff* (92), *Ugetsu* (89) - [Orson Welles](https://film.one/person/orson-welles.md) — average 85 over 5 films: *Citizen Kane* (93), *The Magnificent Ambersons* (89) - [Howard Hawks](https://film.one/person/howard-hawks.md) — average 83 over 11 films: *His Girl Friday* (90), *Rio Bravo* (88) - [Alfred Hitchcock](https://film.one/person/alfred-hitchcock.md) — average 83 over 17 films: *Rear Window* (94), *Vertigo* (92) **Actors** - [Takashi Shimura](https://film.one/person/takashi-shimura.md) — average 91 over 5 titles: *Seven Samurai* (95), *Ikiru* (92) - [Toshirō Mifune](https://film.one/person/toshiro-mifune.md) — average 92 over 3 titles: *Seven Samurai* (95), *Rashomon* (92) - [Roger Livesey](https://film.one/person/roger-livesey.md) — average 90 over 3 titles: *A Matter of Life and Death* (92), *The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp* (91) - [James Stewart](https://film.one/person/james-stewart.md) — average 83 over 15 titles: *Rear Window* (94), *Vertigo* (92) - [Orson Welles](https://film.one/person/orson-welles.md) — average 86 over 5 titles: *Citizen Kane* (93), *The Third Man* (92) - [Claude Rains](https://film.one/person/claude-rains.md) — average 84 over 8 titles: *Casablanca* (93), *Notorious* (92) - [Alec Guinness](https://film.one/person/alec-guinness.md) — average 87 over 4 titles: *Kind Hearts and Coronets* (91), *The Bridge on the River Kwai* (88) - [Machiko Kyō](https://film.one/person/machiko-kyo.md) — average 88 over 3 titles: *Rashomon* (92), *Ugetsu* (89) - [Joseph Cotten](https://film.one/person/joseph-cotten.md) — average 84 over 6 titles: *Citizen Kane* (93), *The Third Man* (92) - [Ralph Meeker](https://film.one/person/ralph-meeker.md) — average 88 over 3 titles: *Paths of Glory* (93), *Kiss Me Deadly* (87) - [Valerie Hobson](https://film.one/person/valerie-hobson.md) — average 88 over 3 titles: *Kind Hearts and Coronets* (91), *Bride of Frankenstein* (89) - [Kirk Douglas](https://film.one/person/kirk-douglas.md) — average 84 over 6 titles: *Paths of Glory* (93), *Out of the Past* (89) ## New Wave (1960–1976) **Directors** - [Francis Ford Coppola](https://film.one/person/francis-ford-coppola.md) — average 92 over 3 films: *The Godfather* (93), *The Godfather Part II* (92) - [Roman Polanski](https://film.one/person/roman-polanski.md) — average 91 over 3 films: *Chinatown* (93), *Rosemary's Baby* (92) - [Sergio Leone](https://film.one/person/sergio-leone.md) — average 89 over 3 films: *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* (92), *Once Upon a Time in the West* (91) - [Ingmar Bergman](https://film.one/person/ingmar-bergman.md) — average 85 over 6 films: *Persona* (89), *Scenes from a Marriage* (88) - [Martin Scorsese](https://film.one/person/martin-scorsese.md) — average 90 over 2 films: *Taxi Driver* (92), *Mean Streets* (87) - [Akira Kurosawa](https://film.one/person/akira-kurosawa.md) — average 87 over 3 films: *High and Low* (90), *Yojimbo* (88) - [Stanley Kubrick](https://film.one/person/stanley-kubrick.md) — average 84 over 5 films: *Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* (93), *2001: A Space Odyssey* (92) - [Nicolas Roeg](https://film.one/person/nicolas-roeg.md) — average 84 over 4 films: *Don't Look Now* (90), *Walkabout* (85) - [Peter Bogdanovich](https://film.one/person/peter-bogdanovich.md) — average 86 over 3 films: *The Last Picture Show* (89), *Paper Moon* (86) - [Robert Altman](https://film.one/person/robert-altman.md) — average 84 over 4 films: *McCabe & Mrs. Miller* (90), *Nashville* (89) - [Sidney Lumet](https://film.one/person/sidney-lumet.md) — average 88 over 2 films: *Dog Day Afternoon* (90), *Network* (86) - [Luis Buñuel](https://film.one/person/luis-bunuel.md) — average 84 over 4 films: *The Exterminating Angel* (87), *Belle de Jour* (86) **Actors** - [Al Pacino](https://film.one/person/al-pacino.md) — average 92 over 3 titles: *The Godfather* (93), *The Godfather Part II* (92) - [Claudia Cardinale](https://film.one/person/claudia-cardinale.md) — average 90 over 3 titles: *Once Upon a Time in the West* (91), *8½* (91) - [Tatsuya Nakadai](https://film.one/person/tatsuya-nakadai.md) — average 90 over 3 titles: *Harakiri* (91), *High and Low* (90) - [Alain Delon](https://film.one/person/alain-delon.md) — average 86 over 4 titles: *Le Samouraï* (88), *The Leopard* (88) - [Gene Hackman](https://film.one/person/gene-hackman.md) — average 88 over 3 titles: *The Conversation* (92), *Bonnie and Clyde* (88) - [Catherine Deneuve](https://film.one/person/catherine-deneuve.md) — average 85 over 5 titles: *Repulsion* (88), *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* (88) - [George C. Scott](https://film.one/person/george-c-scott.md) — average 88 over 3 titles: *Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* (93), *The Hustler* (88) - [Jack Nicholson](https://film.one/person/jack-nicholson.md) — average 86 over 4 titles: *Chinatown* (93), *Five Easy Pieces* (88) - [Robert Shaw](https://film.one/person/robert-shaw.md) — average 86 over 4 titles: *Jaws* (93), *The Sting* (85) - [Liv Ullmann](https://film.one/person/liv-ullmann.md) — average 85 over 5 titles: *Persona* (89), *Scenes from a Marriage* (88) - [Robert De Niro](https://film.one/person/robert-de-niro.md) — average 85 over 4 titles: *Taxi Driver* (92), *The Godfather Part II* (92) - [John Cleese](https://film.one/person/john-cleese.md) — average 87 over 3 titles: *Fawlty Towers* (90), *Monty Python and the Holy Grail* (87) ## Blockbuster (1977–1999) **Directors** - [Michael Mann](https://film.one/person/michael-mann.md) — average 87 over 4 films: *Heat* (91), *The Insider* (89) - [Rob Reiner](https://film.one/person/rob-reiner.md) — average 85 over 6 films: *This Is Spinal Tap* (91), *Stand by Me* (88) - [Hayao Miyazaki](https://film.one/person/hayao-miyazaki.md) — average 84 over 7 films: *My Neighbor Totoro* (89), *Princess Mononoke* (88) - [Krzysztof Kieślowski](https://film.one/person/krzysztof-kieslowski.md) — average 85 over 5 films: *Three Colors: Red* (90), *Three Colors: Blue* (88) - [Mike Leigh](https://film.one/person/mike-leigh.md) — average 86 over 4 films: *Topsy-Turvy* (88), *Secrets & Lies* (88) - [Joel Coen](https://film.one/person/joel-coen.md) — average 84 over 6 films: *Fargo* (91), *The Big Lebowski* (85) - [Martin Scorsese](https://film.one/person/martin-scorsese.md) — average 83 over 9 films: *GoodFellas* (93), *Raging Bull* (91) - [Abbas Kiarostami](https://film.one/person/abbas-kiarostami.md) — average 85 over 4 films: *Close-Up* (92), *Taste of Cherry* (86) - [James Ivory](https://film.one/person/james-ivory.md) — average 85 over 4 films: *The Remains of the Day* (88), *Howards End* (84) - [David Lynch](https://film.one/person/david-lynch.md) — average 83 over 6 films: *The Straight Story* (88), *Blue Velvet* (88) - [Richard Linklater](https://film.one/person/richard-linklater.md) — average 85 over 3 films: *Before Sunrise* (89), *Dazed and Confused* (86) - [Brian De Palma](https://film.one/person/brian-de-palma.md) — average 83 over 5 films: *Blow Out* (88), *Carlito's Way* (86) **Actors** - [Harry Dean Stanton](https://film.one/person/harry-dean-stanton.md) — average 88 over 3 titles: *Alien* (92), *Paris, Texas* (88) - [Mia Farrow](https://film.one/person/mia-farrow.md) — average 84 over 5 titles: *Hannah and Her Sisters* (88), *Crimes and Misdemeanors* (84) - [Timothy Spall](https://film.one/person/timothy-spall.md) — average 87 over 3 titles: *Topsy-Turvy* (88), *Secrets & Lies* (88) - [Carrie Fisher](https://film.one/person/carrie-fisher.md) — average 85 over 4 titles: *The Empire Strikes Back* (92), *Star Wars* (88) - [Keanu Reeves](https://film.one/person/keanu-reeves.md) — average 83 over 5 titles: *The Matrix* (88), *Speed* (86) - [Gong Li](https://film.one/person/gong-li.md) — average 86 over 3 titles: *Raise the Red Lantern* (91), *Farewell My Concubine* (85) - [Ray Liotta](https://film.one/person/ray-liotta.md) — average 86 over 3 titles: *GoodFellas* (93), *Field of Dreams* (83) - [Mark Hamill](https://film.one/person/mark-hamill.md) — average 84 over 4 titles: *The Empire Strikes Back* (92), *Star Wars* (88) - [Hugo Weaving](https://film.one/person/hugo-weaving.md) — average 86 over 3 titles: *The Matrix* (88), *Babe* (88) - [Steve Coogan](https://film.one/person/steve-coogan.md) — average 85 over 3 titles: *I'm Alan Partridge* (88), *The Day Today* (86) - [Johnny Depp](https://film.one/person/johnny-depp.md) — average 82 over 6 titles: *Donnie Brasco* (84), *Ed Wood* (84) - [Kate Winslet](https://film.one/person/kate-winslet.md) — average 84 over 4 titles: *Sense and Sensibility* (85), *Titanic* (84) ## Digital (2000–) **Directors** - [Michael Haneke](https://film.one/person/michael-haneke.md) — average 86 over 4 films: *Amour* (88), *Caché* (88) - [Alfonso Cuarón](https://film.one/person/alfonso-cuaron.md) — average 85 over 5 films: *Y Tu Mamá También* (87), *Roma* (86) - [Pete Docter](https://film.one/person/pete-docter.md) — average 85 over 4 films: *Up* (88), *Inside Out* (87) - [Mike Leigh](https://film.one/person/mike-leigh.md) — average 84 over 5 films: *Another Year* (87), *Hard Truths* (84) - [Paul Thomas Anderson](https://film.one/person/paul-thomas-anderson.md) — average 83 over 8 films: *There Will Be Blood* (88), *One Battle After Another* (87) - [Céline Sciamma](https://film.one/person/celine-sciamma.md) — average 88 over 2 films: *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* (89), *Petite Maman* (88) - [Mstyslav Chernov](https://film.one/person/mstyslav-chernov.md) — average 88 over 2 films: *20 Days in Mariupol* (92), *2000 Meters to Andriivka* (85) - [Jonathan Glazer](https://film.one/person/jonathan-glazer.md) — average 86 over 3 films: *The Zone of Interest* (91), *Sexy Beast* (85) - [Andrew Haigh](https://film.one/person/andrew-haigh.md) — average 85 over 3 films: *45 Years* (88), *Weekend* (86) - [Armando Iannucci](https://film.one/person/armando-iannucci.md) — average 85 over 3 films: *In the Loop* (92), *The Death of Stalin* (83) - [Lee Chang-dong](https://film.one/person/lee-chang-dong.md) — average 85 over 3 films: *Poetry* (87), *Burning* (86) - [Sean Baker](https://film.one/person/sean-baker.md) — average 85 over 3 films: *The Florida Project* (88), *Anora* (84) **Actors** - [Peter Capaldi](https://film.one/person/peter-capaldi.md) — average 87 over 4 titles: *The Thick of It* (94), *In the Loop* (92) - [Mackenzie Crook](https://film.one/person/mackenzie-crook.md) — average 86 over 4 titles: *The Office* (89), *Detectorists* (87) - [Sean Astin](https://film.one/person/sean-astin.md) — average 88 over 3 titles: *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* (90), *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (88) - [Adeel Akhtar](https://film.one/person/adeel-akhtar.md) — average 85 over 5 titles: *Four Lions* (94), *Utopia* (83) - [Elijah Wood](https://film.one/person/elijah-wood.md) — average 84 over 5 titles: *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* (90), *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (88) - [Siobhan Finneran](https://film.one/person/siobhan-finneran.md) — average 82 over 7 titles: *Happy Valley* (88), *Alma's Not Normal* (84) - [Sally Hawkins](https://film.one/person/sally-hawkins.md) — average 82 over 9 titles: *Paddington 2* (91), *Paddington* (84) - [Dolly Wells](https://film.one/person/dolly-wells.md) — average 85 over 3 titles: *45 Years* (88), *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* (84) - [Maribel Verdú](https://film.one/person/maribel-verdu.md) — average 85 over 3 titles: *Pan's Labyrinth* (87), *Y Tu Mamá También* (87) - [Casey Affleck](https://film.one/person/casey-affleck.md) — average 82 over 5 titles: *Manchester by the Sea* (89), *A Ghost Story* (84) - [Song Kang-ho](https://film.one/person/song-kang-ho.md) — average 82 over 5 titles: *Parasite* (91), *Memories of Murder* (91) - [David Strathairn](https://film.one/person/david-strathairn.md) — average 83 over 4 titles: *The Bourne Ultimatum* (85), *Nomadland* (83) ## Everyone (20278) - [A](https://film.one/people/a.md) — 800 - [B](https://film.one/people/b.md) — 1844 - [C](https://film.one/people/c.md) — 1482 - [D](https://film.one/people/d.md) — 897 - [E](https://film.one/people/e.md) — 392 - [F](https://film.one/people/f.md) — 829 - [G](https://film.one/people/g.md) — 1155 - [H](https://film.one/people/h.md) — 1372 - [I](https://film.one/people/i.md) — 118 - [J](https://film.one/people/j.md) — 480 - [K](https://film.one/people/k.md) — 919 - [L](https://film.one/people/l.md) — 1028 - [M](https://film.one/people/m.md) — 1901 - [N](https://film.one/people/n.md) — 393 - [O](https://film.one/people/o.md) — 356 - [P](https://film.one/people/p.md) — 934 - [Q](https://film.one/people/q.md) — 42 - [R](https://film.one/people/r.md) — 1051 - [S](https://film.one/people/s.md) — 1889 - [T](https://film.one/people/t.md) — 708 - [U](https://film.one/people/u.md) — 44 - [V](https://film.one/people/v.md) — 215 - [W](https://film.one/people/w.md) — 1099 - [X](https://film.one/people/x.md) — 6 - [Y](https://film.one/people/y.md) — 175 - [Z](https://film.one/people/z.md) — 149 --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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