Charles Burnett

American film director (born 1944)

2.97body-of-work score · ranked #374 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born: April 13, 1944 · Vicksburg
Nationality: United States
Work: film director, actor, screenwriter, cinematographer
Reference: Wikipedia · Wikidata

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Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1
Killer of Sheep Must-See #492
1977 · United States · drama
Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #43 · Film Comment year-end poll 2007 #6 · National Film Registry (inducted 1990)
1.717 citations
2
To Sleep with Anger
1990 · United States
Kehr's annual top 10 1990 #1 · National Film Registry (inducted 2017) · Criterion Collection spine #963
1.004 citations
3
My Brother's Wedding
1983 · United States
Kehr's annual top 10 1984 #10 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.262 citations

Complete filmography

All 12 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

1977Killer of Sheep
1983My Brother's Wedding
1990To Sleep with Anger
1995The Glass Shield
1996Nightjohn
1998The Wedding
1999Selma, Lord, Selma
1999The Annihilation of Fish
2003Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2004Warming by the Devil's Fire
2007Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2009Relative Stranger