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Joe Dante

American filmmaker (born 1946)

1.28body-of-work score · ranked #731 of 2631 directors · 8 films in our library

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

Born
November 28, 1946 · Morristown
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, film editor, screenwriter, actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Joe Dante
nicolas genin · 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
    Gremlins

    1984 · United States · horror, comedy

    Empire 500 (2008) #310 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.292 citations
  2. 2
    Matinee

    1993 · United States · comedy, drama, horror

    Kehr's annual top 10 1993 #9 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.262 citations
  3. 3
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action

    2003 · United States / Germany · sci-fi, thriller, comedy

    Kehr's annual top 10 2003 #7

    0.171 citation
  4. 4
    Piranha

    1978 · United States · horror, comedy, sci-fi

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation
  5. 5
    The Howling

    1981 · United States · horror

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation
  6. 6
    Innerspace

    1987 · United States · sci-fi, comedy

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation
  7. 7
    Gremlins 2: The New BatchGremlins 2

    1990 · United States · fantasy, sci-fi, horror

    Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.111 citation
  8. 8
    The Second Civil War

    1997 · United States · comedy, drama

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 21 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.