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Julie Taymor

American film and theatre director (born 1952)

0.74body-of-work score · ranked #1185 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

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

Born
December 15, 1952 · Newton
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, screenwriter, costume designer, scenographer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Julie Taymor
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 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
    Frida

    2002 · United States / Canada / Mexico · biography, drama

    National Film Registry (inducted 2025) · Sarris's annual top 10 2002 #6

    0.402 citations
  2. 2
    Titus

    1999 · United Kingdom / United States / Italy · fantasy, drama

    Sarris's annual top 10 1999 #7

    0.171 citation
  3. 3
    Across the Universe

    2007 · United Kingdom / United States · romance, musical, drama

    Ebert's annual top 10 2007 #7

    0.171 citation

Complete filmography

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