30 Film Directors Who Have Never Made a Bad Movie

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – June 9, 2018

Recently, we looked at 30 filmmakers who made only one well-reviewed movie over their entire careers, and then 25 great directors who missed out on perfection by just one film. But there is an even more elite group of film directors who have received critical acclaim for every single film they ever directed. In other words, they've never received anything but a green Metascore for one of their features.

How many of those directors can you guess? Check them all out in the gallery above. Note that we only looked at directors who have made at least five films since 1980.

4 of 30 photo by Why Not Productions

Jacques Audiard

The French filmmaker has become a regular at Cannes, winning the Grand Prix in 2009 for what stands as his career best, the prison drama A Prophet, and then taking home the Palme d'Or six years later for his most recent work, Dheepan. In fact, Audiard has yet to release a film that hasn't won an award from at least one organization somewhere in the world.

Up next for Audiard is an adaptation of Patrick Dewitt's comedic western novel The Sisters Brothers, which should reach theaters this fall. After all these years, it'll be the director's first English-language film.

The full filmography (as director):
69 See How They Fall (1994)
81 A Self-Made Hero (1997)
82 Read My Lips (2001)
75 The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
90 A Prophet (2009)
73 Rust and Bone (2012)
76 Dheepan (2015)

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