I am administering the 2012 MUBI World Cup.

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2012 MUBI Director’ Cup

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Hal Hartley and Ousmane Sembène matches in the 2011 MUBI Directors’ Cup. I hope you enjoyed the films!

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Some personal 2011 Directors’ Cup statistics:

My 2011 Directors’ Cup Statistics

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2010 MUBI Director’ Cup

Please see the following link for my full 2010 Directors’ Cup statistics:

My 2010 Directors’ Cup Statistics

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Favorite Directors

I have developed an obsessive and geeky algorithm to help me calculate my own list of top directors. I rate every movie I see with a score from 1 – 10. Using this as my base data and pulling some other info from imdb.com I come up with three different statistics for each director:

A = the average movie rating of all of the movies I have seen by that director

B = the number of movies I have seen by that director

C = the total number of movies that director has made

For the data on letter C I apply my own somewhat arbitrary restrictions. I only count features, not “shorts”. And I use IMDBs definition of anything less than 45 minutes as being a short. I don’t count anthology (or portmanteau) films where the director has only directed some small segment. I also often do not count films which are so obscure I will probably never have a chance to see them. When a director is uncredited or listed as co-director on a film, I make a personal decision out of the specific situation whether or not I will count it.

With that data I plug it into the following formula:

((((B x A) + ((((A – 5.5) x (B / C)) + 5.5) x (C – B))) / C) + (((B – 1) x 0.5) x A))/(1 + ((B – 1) x 0.5))

I take the totals and rank them. I also only include directors where B > 1 and C > 2.

And now for the current top 30:

Another way of ranking my favorite directors would be to rank directors by the ones that have made the most films that I have given a rating of 9 or 10 to. Here’s that list:

14 Films
Joel and Ethan Coen

10 Films
Stanley Kubrick

9 Films
Werner Herzog

8 Films
Hal Hartley; Jim Jarmusch; Tsai Ming-liang

7 Films
Robert Bresson; Aki Kaurismäki; Masaki Kobayashi

6 Films
Ingmar Bergman; Terry Gilliam; Akira Kurosawa; Quentin Tarantino

5 Films
Michael Apted; Frank Capra; Buster Keaton; Hayao Miyazaki; Ousmane Sembène; Steven Spielberg; David Zucker

4 Films
Jim Abrahams; Mel Brooks; Francis Ford Coppola; Vittorio De Sica; Fritz Lang; Sergio Leone; Martin Scorsese; Preston Sturges; Seijun Suzuki; Andrei Tarkovsky; Robert Zemeckis

3 Films
Paul Thomas Anderson; Šarūnas Bartas; Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky; Tim Burton; John Cherry; Blake Edwards; Milos Forman; Samuel Fuller; Alfred Hitchcock; Yoshiaki Iwasaki; Terry Jones; Richard Linklater; Sidney Lumet; Leo McCarey; Norman McLeod; Yasuzo Masumura; Kenji Misumi; Todd Solondz; Whit Stillman; Jacques Tati; Peter Watkins; Billy Wilder; Frederick Wiseman; Jerry Zucker, Terry Zwigoff

LEAST Favorite Directors

My LEAST favorite directors.