Who are your top people?

[AaronJ]

I just hit 400 Blu-rays, so I was perusing my collection using the Cast & Crew function. So, I'm now very aware of who is at the top of my list for Directors, for Actors, for Writers, etc.

Just curious, how does your collection break down? List however many or few as you want, and in whatever category interests you.

Here's mine:

DIRECTOR

Jean-Luc Godard: 10
Christopher Nolan: 9
David Fincher: 9
Ridley Scott: 8
Stanley Kubrick: 8
Terrence Malick: 8

WRITER

Christopher Nolan: 10
Jean-Luc Godard: 9
Stanley Kubrick: 8
Terrence Malick: 8

CAST

Hugh Jackman: 11
Michael Fassbender: 11
Scarlett Johansson: 11
Keira Knightley: 10
Christian Bale: 9
Famke Janssen: 9
Ben Affleck: 8

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Raoul Coutard: 11
Emmanuel Lubezki: 8
Peter Deming: 8
David Klein: 6
Wally Pfister: 6

COMPOSER

Hans Zimmer: 11
Marco Beltrami: 11
Michel Legrand: 8
James Newton Howard: 7
Clint Mansell: 6
Michael Giacchino: 6


I'm just curious to see about others. Maybe it's just me.

[Jay Mammoth]

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[Steedeel]

Me.

[Show spoiler]Joke.

[Ernest Rister]

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Me.

[Show spoiler]Joke.

So, you're a narcissist. Gotcha.

[imsounoriginal]

Jeez this really puts things into perspective... too many franchises in my collection lol

[Show spoiler]Disclaimer: I'm only counting major actors/writers, otherwise my #1 actor is Stan Lee and my #4 is a tie between Desmond Llewelyn and Frank Welker, and my #1 writer would be Ian Fleming.

Director:
Spielberg (17)
Michael Bay (10)
Ridley Scott (10)
Alfred Hitchcock (9)
David Fincher (9)
Quentin Tarantino (9)
Martin Scorsese (8)
Chris Nolan (7)
Guy Ritchie (7)
Peter Jackson (7)

Cast:
Samuel L. Jackson (23)
Tom Cruise (18)
Brad Pitt (16)
Harrison Ford, Matt Damon (14)
Ralph Fiennes (13)
Andy Serkis, Bernard Lee, Ian McKellen, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hanks (12)
Cate Blanchett, Daniel Craig, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Fassbender, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson (11)
Vin Diesel, Idris Elba, Laurence Fishburne, Tom Hardy, Shahrukh Khan, Alan Rickman, Sylvester Stallone (10)

Writer:
Richard Maibaum (13) (not surprising, because Bond)
David Koepp (11)
Alex Kurtzman (8)
Quentin Tarantino (8)
Steve Kloves (8)
Chris Morgan, Chris Nolan, Jackson/Boyens/Walsh, Sylvester Stallone (7)

Cinematographer:
Robert Richardson (12)
Janusz Kaminski (11)
Roger Deakins (9)
Newton Thomas Siegel, Robert Elswit (8)
Andrew Lesnie, John Mathieson, Ted Moore, Gordon Willis, Stephen F. Windon, Oliver Wood (7)

Composer:
John Williams (32)
Hans Zimmer (26)
Harry Gregson-Williams, Howard Shore (13)
John Barry, Michael Giacchino (12)
Alexandre Desplat, Brian Tyler, James Newton Howard, Lalo Schifrin (11)
Alan Silvestri, James Horner (10)

[thatguamguy]

I don't have mine entered here, but I keep track of my collection on a spreadsheet which does include directors, so I know that I have:

Alfred Hitchcock: 34 blus (+ 14 DVDs, + 2 TV DVDs)
Steven Spielberg: 29 blus (+ 1 DVD, + 3 TV DVDs, + Poltergeist on blu)
Martin Scorsese: 23 blus (+ 9 DVDs, + 1 TV episode, + New York Stories on blu)
Steven Soderbergh: 20 blus (+ 7 DVDs, + 1 TV DVD)
Ridley Scott: 20 blus (+1 DVD)
Robert Altman: 19 blus (+ 19DVDs, + 7 TV DVDs, + Aria)

If the question expands to include DVDs, Spike Lee and Sidney Lumet are both over 30 as well and Billy Wilder and Brian de Palma would both be sitting at 25.

Not sure about writers or actors, but I don't tend to buy many things focusing on the writers; best guess would be Billy Wilder. I'd be curious to see who the actors would be, but not curious enough to enter 1200 titles into another database to maintain. I'm sure De Niro would be near the top.

[jason00]

Director would be Spielberg with 10 and then a three way tie between Kurosawa, Guillermo del Toro, and Wes Anderson at 7 each

Actor would be Bill Murray with 11

Composer would have to be John Williams with 23 I think (Star Wars 1-8, Jaws, Jaws 2, ET, Close Encounters, Indiana Jones 1-4, Harry Potter 1-3, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Tintin)

[Ernest Rister]

Producers get no love.

[Allgood]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Producers get no love.

They don't care, if the movie is successful, they get all the money.

[The Debts]

Directors:
Guillermo Del Toro.
Bryan Singer.
Clint Eastwood.
George Miller.
Ridley Scott.

Writers:
David S. Goyer.
Bryan Singer.
Byron Kennedy.
David Twhoy.
George Miller.

Cast:
Hugh Jackman.
Liam Neeson.
Simon Pegg.
Andy Serkis.
Patrick Stewart.

Cinematographer:
John Matheison.
Newton Thomas Sigel.
Roger Deakins.
Dan Lausten.
Dan Mindel.

Composer:
Danny Elfman.
Hans Zimmer.
Tyler Bates.
John Williams.
Michael Giacchino.

[RCRochester]

My top person overall would be Jerry Goldsmith with a whopping 57 credits!

My top director is Steven Spielberg with 37 credits but some of those include producing credits like Innerspace, Back to the Future, etc. but even if you exclude those he might still be tops.

My top actor is Clint Eastwood with 35 credits but, again, some of those include films that he did not act in but did direct such as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. If you exclude those, Sean Connery is the top actor with 34 credits.

Top producer(s) are, yikes, the Weinsteins with 28 films, though I'm sure Spielberg and Eastwood are ahead of them in producing credits.

Dean Cundy is top DP with 19 credits.

I don't see any other categories although Ian Fleming is credited with 26 films though other than having written the source material, he didn't actually have anything to do with any of them.

[imsounoriginal]

Yeah my Spielberg number jumps into the high-30s when you add his producer credits. Thank you Transformers and BTTF movies lol

[Adcatalano]

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock 31
Robert Rodriguez (I) 17
John Carpenter (I) 16
Clint Eastwood 13
Tim Burton 13
Wes Craven 13

Writer:
Stan Lee 27
Ian Fleming (I) 25
Jack Kirby 23
Stephen King 15
Bob Kane 13
Larry Lieber 13
Richard Maibaum 13
Robert Rodriguez (I) 12
Ted Sears 11
Joe Grant 10
John Carpenter (I) 10
John Hughes 10
Wes Craven 10


Cast:
Frank Welker 47
Stan Lee 32
Jim Cummings (I) 30
Samuel L. Jackson 29
Alfred Hitchcock 28
Bob Bergen 22
Bruce Campbell 20
Bruce Willis 20
Danny Trejo 20

Dp:
Dean Cundey 16
Robert Burks 12
Bill Pope 11
Jack N. Green 10
Mark Irwin 10
Oliver Wood 10

Composer:
Danny Elfman 28
Marco Beltrami 26
Jerry Goldsmith 24
James Horner 22
Alan Silvestri 20
Graeme Revell 20
Hans Zimmer 20
John Williams (I) 20

[The Great Owl]

Producer/Director

Roger Corman (51)
Samuel Z. Arkoff (44)
Menahem Golan (35)
Yoram Globus (35)
Alfred Hitchcock (32)

Actor:

Vincent Price (50)
John Carradine (35)
Christopher Lee (31)
Burt Lancaster (29)
Clint Eastwood (29)

Composer:

Jerry Goldsmith (58)
John Williams (44)
Alfred Newman (39)
Ennio Morricone (36)
Elmer Bernstein (28)

[Hoke Moseley]

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock - 16
Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh - 9
Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Ridley Scott, Sam Peckinpah - 8

Cast:

Robert De Niro - 15
Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin - 12
Gene Hackman, Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Duvall, Willem Dafoe - 10
Al Pacino, Bruce Dern, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Robert Mitchum - 9
Christopher Walken, John Turturro, Marlon Brando - 8

Cinematographer:

Robert Burks, Vilmos Zsigmond - 7
Henri Decaë, Michael Chapman, Robert Richardson, Steven Soderbergh - 6


Composer:

Ennio Morricone - 11
Bernard Herrmann - 10
Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith - 9

These numbers would be a little different if I got off my a$$ and upgraded more of my DVDs...

[TripleHBK]

Directors:
Wes Craven 14
John Carpenter (I) 10
Steven Spielberg 10
Ridley Scott 9
Wilfred Jackson 9


Writers:

Jack Kirby 24
Stephen King 23
Stan Lee 22
Bob Kane 18
Jerry Siegel 17
Joe Shuster 17
Clive Barker 13
Sylvestor Stalone 13


Cast:

Frank Welker 44
Stan Lee 29
Bob Bergen 27
John Ratzenberger 24
Samuel L. Jackson 24
Fred Tatasciore 21
Jim Cummings (I) 20


Cinematographer:

Dean Cundey 16
Mark Irwin 14
Oliver Wood 12
Bill Butler (I) 9
Guillermo Navarro 9
Bill Pope 8
Gerry Lively 8
Peter Deming 8


Composer:

Danny Elfman 28
John Williams (I) 28
Brian Tyler (IV) 21
Hans Zimmer 21
Alan Silvestri 20
Jerry Goldsmith 20
Harry Manfredini 19
Michael Giacchino 19

[yellowcakeuf6]

LOL, what an eye-opener for the number ones. Would've never guessed the top two if asked.

Director: Tie: Roy William Neill and Steve Spielberg 12

Writer: Arthur Conan Doyle 9

Cast: Clint Eastwood 19

Cinematographer: Phillip H. Lathrop 7

Composer: John Williams 24

[Life Without Death]

CAST
Vincent Price 28
Christopher Lee 20
Peter Cushing 19
Desmond Llewelyn 14
Donald Pleasance 13
Lois Maxwell 13
Michael Ripper 13
Paul Naschy 12 (as a little bit of everything too)

DIRECTOR
Roger Corman 22
Alfred Hitchcock 18
Dario Argento 16
Herschell Gordon Lewis 14
Mario Bava 14
Jean Rollin 12 (as actor, writer, and producer too)

WRITER
Ian Fleming 19
Edgar Allan Poe 15

PRODUCER
Samuel Z. Arkoff 25
Charles Band 18
Anthony Hinds 17 (also as writer)
James H. Nicholson 17
Anthony Nelson Keys 15
Albert R. Broccoli 14

COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR
Ennio Morricone 17
Les Baxter 15
Bruno Nicolai 13
Harry Manfredini 13
James Bernard 13

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Arthur Grant 14

The results do not surprise me much. I did have more Hitchcock and Corman than I realized. I think if DVDs were included Karloff/Lugosi would be higher too since a lot of their films are DVDs only. The Bond films comprised most the higher numbers due to how many there are.

[Vilya]

The "Cast & Crew" function is not working for me; all I get is a blank page.