Current Top 10 Directors Analysis 7/18/2025
Added 2025-07-18 13:26:31 +0000 UTCI have a Letterboxd pro account because of the stats feature (which does not disappoint, I highly reccomend it if you are interested in the analysis aspect of lists you create) and out of curiousity, I checked who the top 10 directors were. Here's some insights and theories I have about this top 10:
Inital Insights:
The majority of these directors worked on the West Coast and at Warner Bros. at some point in their career
Only two international directors, Mead and Yuyama which coincidently represent the countries with the most 2nd and 3rd (Canada and Japan) countries are on this list respectively
Mead is the only known queer director in the top 10
Yuyama is on the list due to his work on film adaptations for the Pokémon franchise. Due to video game gender logic, certain characters have a more androgenous or ambiguous gender situation
Theories for next year:
Clampett and/or Avery will bump up to the top 6
Fleischer will reach the top 3
McKimson will get bumped out of the top 3
Freleng will stay at the number one spot
Yuyama will get bumped down to the 7th or 8th place
Warner Bros is on here the most in part because it had such a large output and that it's the studio I've watched the most
Not shown are at least 5 directors that could creep into the top 10. It also depends when I get to those respective decades. After the 1960s, I plan on shifting focus to the 1910s and 1920s. Once those two decades are done it's onto the 1950s. I plan on posting a followup once I'm almost done with the 1950s, though it's really the 1930s that will provide the best insight into what the final stats will be.
