Sorted by Number of Selected Films	LEGEND / BOTTOM

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	3		Shakespeare, William				W				52		1964		53
	15		Chaplin, Charles		D	A	W		M	P	35		1927		96
	2		Bergman, Ingmar		D		W			P	31		1969		42
	13		Allen, Woody		D	A	W		M	P	30		1986		20
	14		Hecht, Ben		D	A	W			P	30		1946		127
	1		Wilder, Billy		D		W			P	29		1954		40
	12		Godard, Jean-Luc		D	A	W			P	29		1976		17
	5		Kurosawa, Akira		D		W			P	26		1966		6
	36		Marion, Frances				W				25		1927		388
	6		Truffaut, François		D	A	W			P	24		1971		10
	8		Renoir, Jean		D	A	W			P	23		1941		4
	7		Fellini, Federico		D		W				22		1962		19
	30		Griffith, D.W.		D	A	W		M	P	22		1914		161
	33		Keaton, Buster		D	A	W			P	22		1922		116
	4		Buñuel, Luis		D		W		M	P	21		1956		35
	9		Huston, John		D	A	W	C		P	21		1948		62
	32		Dickens, Charles				W				20		1955		303
	22		Zavattini, Cesare				W				17		1957		12
	40		Mamet, David		D		W			P	17		1995		477
	35		Greene, Graham				W				16		1960		82
	16		Lehman, Ernest				W			P	15		1965		75
	27		Trumbo, Dalton		D	A	W				15		1955		293
	52		Poe, Edgar Allan				W				15		1951		767
	17		Pinelli, Tullio				W				14		1962		19
	42		Wells, H.G.				W				14		1947		681
	43		Hemingway, Ernest				W				14		1950		453
	55		Simon, Neil				W				14		1974		965
	11		Coppola, Francis Ford		D		W		M	P	13		1977		5
	18		Welles, Orson		D	A	W			P	13		1957		1
	19		Lang, Fritz		D	A	W			P	12		1935		23
	23		Gruault, Jean			A	W				12		1971		47
	24		Williams, Tennessee				W			P	12		1961		139
	26		Mankiewicz, Joseph L.		D		W			P	12		1946		26
	34		Hammett, Dashiell				W				12		1945		62
	54		Maugham, W. Somerset				W				12		1944		694
	20		Lucas, George		D		W			P	11		1989		22
	39		Brooks, Mel		D	A	W		M	P	11		1982		191
	57		Fairbanks, Douglas			A	W			P	11		1923		450
	10		Kubrick, Stanley		D		W	C		P	10		1971		2
	44		King, Stephen				W				10		1991		396
	46		Pinter, Harold		D	A	W				10		1976		508
	51		Tolstoy, Leo				W				10		1954		417
	31		Lynch, David		D		W	C	M	P	9		1988		118
	38		Faulkner, William				W				9		1954		203
	41		Lee, Spike		D	A	W			P	9		1992		57
	21		Chandler, Raymond				W				8		1953		46
	25		Mankiewicz, Herman J.				W			P	8		1935		1
	29		Lean, David		D		W			P	8		1953		303
	37		Towne, Robert		D	A	W			P	8		1983		15
	45		Fields, W.C.		D	A	W				8		1935		216
	47		Hitchcock, Alfred		D		W			P	8		1932		127
	50		Austen, Jane				W				8		1991		360
	64		Leonard, Elmore				W			P	8		1983		1281
	66		Zanuck, Darryl F.		D		W			P	8		1933		1271
	59		Hill, Walter		D		W			P	7		1981		460
	60		Stevenson, Robert Louis				W				7		1941		912
	65		Siodmak, Curt		D		W				7		1941		864
	69		Wilde, Oscar				W				7		1959		1340
	70		Crichton, Michael		D		W			P	7		1988		1035
	28		Scorsese, Martin		D	A	W			P	6		1986		43
	48		Coward, Noel		D	A	W		M	P	6		1940		304
	61		Christie, Agatha				W				6		1964		797
	62		Lawrence, D.H.				W				6		1970		783
	78		Grisham, John				W			P	6		1996		2063
	63		Hawks, Howard		D		W			P	5		1939		524
	72		Roach, Hal		D		W		M	P	5		1923		910
	49		Spielberg, Steven		D	A	W			P	4		1984		177
	56		Beatty, Warren		D	A	W			P	4		1983		245
	80		Ford, John		D	A	W	C		P	4		1938		1777
	73		Selznick, David O.		D		W			P	3		1946		1271
	79		Apatow, Judd		D		W			P	3		2007		2040
	86		Sennett, Mack		D	A	W			P	3		1912		2235
	89		Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty'		D	A	W				3		1917		2235
	53		Capra, Frank		D		W			P	2		1937		50
	58		Olivier, Laurence		D	A	W			P	2		1946		299
	67		Thompson, Emma			A	W				2		1998		360
	68		Kazan, Elia		D	A	W			P	2		1955		911
	74		Gibson, Mel		D	A	W			P	2		2005		1381
	76		Porter, Edwin S.		D		W	C		P	2		1903		1276
	77		Lewton, Val				W			P	2		1946		1353
	81		Zwick, Edward		D		W			P	2		2001		1506
	83		Duvall, Robert		D	A	W		M	P	2		1990		1598
	90		Nicholson, Jack		D	A	W			P	2		1968		2235
	71		Clooney, George		D	A	W			P	1		2005		518
	75		Wexler, Haskell		D	A	W	C		P	1		1969		1064
	82		Rodgers, Richard				W		M		1		1939		1450
	84		Freund, Karl		D	A	W	C			1		1927		1532
	85		Porter, Cole				W		M		1		1957		1820
	87		Stothart, Herbert				W		M		1		1936		1992
	88		Pacino, Al		D	A	W			P	1		1996		2017
	91		Evans, Robert			A	W			P	1		2002		2206
	92		Wyler, William		D		W			P	1		1944		2224
	93		DeMille, Cecil B.		D		W			P	1		1914		2235
	94		Coutard, Raoul		D		W	C			1		1970		2248
	94		Nykvist, Sven		D		W	C			1		1991		2248
	95		Harris, Richard		D	A	W				1		1971		2264
	96		Winkler, Irwin		D		W			P	1		1991		2279
	96		Poitier, Sidney			A	W				1		1968		2279

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