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Jerry Zucker

American director and producer

1.41body-of-work score · ranked #668 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

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

Born
March 11, 1950 · Milwaukee
Nationality
United States
Work
film producer, film director, actor, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Jerry Zucker
JD Lasica · CC BY-SA 2.0

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. 1
    Airplane!

    1980 · United States · comedy, romance

    National Film Registry (inducted 2010) · Empire 500 (2008) #368 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.684 citations
  2. 2
    Ghost

    1990 · United States · romance, fantasy, drama

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 1990

    0.451 citation
  3. 3
    Ruthless People

    1986 · United States · comedy, crime

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.171 citation
  4. 4
    Top Secret!

    1984 · United States / United Kingdom · thriller, comedy

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 6 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.