Basically, every director who I've seen 5+ films by is ranked here according to the mean average rating I've given to their work.

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I'd love to see your leagues if you set them up, so please share them with me in the comments if you want!

My friend John has produced an excellent resource for creating your own.

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More information about my list:

The average rating is my average rating out of 10.

The film chosen for the list represents my favourite solo work by each given director.

The notes list the directors, their scores and the number of films seen.

How these are ranked:
1. By average rating (highest first)
2. By number of films seen (highest first)
3. By quality of their best film (best first)

This list clearly doesn't reflect my actual director preferences and proves that often my ratings produce results which don't reflect my tastes; nonetheless it is a useful guide to the directors / films I like.

Criteria for films: The films that count towards a director's filmography on the list must be feature-length. All shorts are excluded. This therefore includes fictional films, documentaries, anthology films, and student films providing they are of feature length. TV films are decided at my discretion based on the context and international release. Directing partnerships count as one slot, even if one director has a few solo efforts (e.g. Powell & Pressburger), but if I have seen solo efforts from both directors I will list them separately.

As far I know, it was Graham J who created the idea of a Directors League, and Daniel Henderson was the person whose league I first saw.

Directors who just miss being included here (I've only seen 4 of their films): Satoshi Kon, Roy Andersson, Terence Davies, Víctor Erice, Nicolas Roeg, Atom Egoyan, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Roberto Rossellini, Paul Schrader, Todd Haynes, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Pete Docter, Steve McQueen, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Wim Wenders, Robert Eggers, Wilfred Jackson, Noah Baumbach, Josh Safdie, Clio Barnard, Andrew Haigh, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Andrew Stanton, Andrew Dominik, Leos Carax, Naoko Yamada, Laura Poitras, Joss Whedon, Gaspar Noé, Martin McDonagh, William Friedkin, Damien Chazelle, David O. Russell, Mamoru Hosoda, Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Rob Reiner, Ernst Lubitsch, John Michael McDonagh, Masaaki Yuasa, Olivier Assayas, James Whale, Baz Luhrmann, Woody Allen, Tony Scott, Richard Donner, Wilson Yip, José Mojica Marins, Nick Park, Charles Crichton, Ari Aster, Jason Reitman, Gore Verbinski, Gus Van Sant, Doug Liman, Nia DaCosta, Ti West, Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, Yeon Sang-ho, Stephen Daldry, Dean DeBlois, Sylvester Stallone, Amando de Ossorio, Michael Showalter, David Leitch, Duncan Jones, Joel Schumacher, Mel Gibson, Shawn Levy, David Ayer