Poll: Film directors who direct themselves.

Results of 2,526 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Clint Eastwood

    

   Play Misty for Me, High Plains Drifter, Breezy, The Eiger Sanction, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Bronco Billy, Firefox, Honkytonk Man, Sudden Impact, Pale Rider, Heartbreak Ridge, White Hunte…
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   Woody Allen

    

   Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Zelig, Broadway Dann…
3. 3.
   

   Charles Chaplin

    

   Tillie's Punctured Romance, A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms, Sunnyside, The Kid, The Pilgrim, The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, A King …
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   Orson Welles

    

   Citizen Kane, The Stranger, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth, Othello, Mr. Arkadin, Touch of Evil, The Trial, Chimes at Midnight
5. 5.
   

   Mel Brooks

    

   The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs, Life Stinks, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Dracula: Dead and L…
6. 6.
   

   Kenneth Branagh

    

   Henry V, Dead Again, Peter's Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
7. 7.
   

   Sylvester Stallone

    

   Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV and Rocky Balboa, Rambo, The Expendables, The Expendables 2
8. 8.
   

   Ben Stiller

    

   Reality Bites, The Cable Guy, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
9. 9.
   

   Kevin Smith

    

   Clerks., Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II
10. 10.
    

    George Clooney

     

    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck, Leatherheads, The Ides of March, The Monuments Men
11. 11.
    

    Takeshi Kitano

     

    Violent Cope, Boiling Point, Sonatine, Getting Any?, Hana-bi, Kikujiro, Brother, Zatōichi, Takeshis', Glory to the Filmmaker!, Achilles and the Tortoise, Outrage, Beyond Outrage
12. 12.
    

    Buster Keaton

     

    Three Ages, Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., The Navigator, Seven Chances, Go West, Battling Butler, The General, College, The Cameraman, Spite Marriage
13. 13.
    

    John Cassavetes

     

    Shadows, Too Late Blues, Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz, Opening Night, Love Streams
14. 14.
    

    Danny DeVito

     

    Throw Momma from the Train, The War of the Roses, Hoffa, Matilda, Death to Smoochy
15. 15.
    

    Terry Jones

     

    Monty Python: International Philosophy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life, Erik the Viking, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
16. 16.
    

    Gene Kelly

     

    On the Town (with Stanley Donan), Singin' in the Rain (with Stanley Donan), It's Always Fair Weather (with Stanley Donan), Invitation to the Dance The Happy Road
17. 17.
    

    Tyler Perry

     

    Madea's Family Reunion, Why Did I Get Married?, Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys, Madea Goes to Jail, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Why Did I Get Married Too?, Madea's Beg Happy Family, Good Deeds…
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    Spike Lee

     

    She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers, Girl 6, Summer of Sam, Red Hook Summer
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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

     

    Love Is Colder Than Death, Katzelmacher, Gods of the Plague, The American Soldier, Beware of a Holy Whore, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss
20. 20.
    

    Albert Brooks

     

    Modern Romance, Lost in America, Defending Your Life, Mother, The Muse, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World