Poll: Greatest Five Movie Streak by a Director

Results of 6,701 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Christopher Nolan

    

   2006-2014: The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar
2. 2.
   

   Stanley Kubrick

    

   1964-1980: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and The Shining
3. 3.
   

   Quentin Tarantino

    

   1992-2004: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2
4. 4.
   

   Alfred Hitchcock

    

   1956-1963: The Wrong Man, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds
5. 5.
   

   Francis Ford Coppola

    

   1969-1979: The Rain People, The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II and Apocalypse Now
6. 6.
   

   Akira Kurosawa

    

   1950-1955: Shûbun, Rashomon, Hakuchi, Ikiru and Seven Samurai
7. 7.
   

   Martin Scorsese

    

   2004-2013: The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, Hugo and The Wolf of Wall Street
8. 8.
   

   David Fincher

    

   1995-2007: Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room and Zodiac
9. 9.
   

   James Cameron

    

   1984-1994: The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies
10. 10.
    

    Charles Chaplin

     

    1925-1940: The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times and The Great Dictator
11. 11.
    

    Paul Thomas Anderson

     

    1996-2007: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood
12. 12.
    

    Steven Spielberg

     

    1982-1989: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
13. 13.
    

    Peter Jackson

     

    1996-2005: The Frighteners, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and King Kong
14. 14.
    

    Sergio Leone

     

    1964-1971: For a Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and Duck, You Sucker
15. 15.
    

    Alejandro G. Iñárritu

     

    2000-2014: Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful and Birdman
16. 16.
    

    John Carpenter

     

    1976-1982: Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York and The Thing
17. 17.
    

    Rob Reiner

     

    1986-1992: Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few Good Men
18. 18.
    

    David Lynch

     

    1977-1990: Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart
19. 19.
    

    Clint Eastwood

     

    2003-2008: Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima and Changeling
20. 20.
    

    Joel Coen

     

    and Ethan Coen 1990-1998: Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo and The Big Lebowski
21. 21.
    

    Woody Allen

     

    1973-1979: Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Interiors and Manhattan
22. 22.
    

    Tim Burton

     

    1988-1994: Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns and Ed Wood
23. 23.
    

    Billy Wilder

     

    1957-1963: Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, One, Two, Three and Irma la Douce
24. 24.
    

    David Lean

     

    1954-1965: Hobson's Choice, Summertime, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago
25. 25.
    

    Robert Zemeckis

     

    1984-1990: Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III
26. 26.
    

    Matthew Vaughn

     

    2004-2014: Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Secret Service
27. 27.
    

    Michael Mann

     

    1992-2004: The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Ali and Collateral
28. 28.
    

    Ang Lee

     

    1994-2000: Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
29. 29.
    

    Alexander Payne

     

    1999-2013: Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants and Nebraska
30. 30.
    

    John Ford

     

    1939-1940: Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Grapes of Wrath and The Long Voyage Home
31. 31.
    

    John Cassavetes

     

    1970-1977: Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night
32. 32.
    

    Steven Soderbergh

     

    1998-2001: Out of Sight, The Limey, Erin Brockovich, Traffic and Ocean's Eleven
33. 33.
    

    Sam Mendes

     

    1999-2009: American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road and Away We Go
34. 34.
    

    Paul Greengrass

     

    2004-2013: The Bourne Supremacy, United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone and Captain Phillips
35. 35.
    

    Robert Redford

     

    1980-1998: Ordinary People, The Milagro Beanfield War, A River Runs Through It, Quiz Show and The Horse Whisperer