Lindsay Anderson
British feature-film, theatre and documentary director and film critic (1923-1994)
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- April 17, 1923 · Bengaluru
- Died
- August 30, 1994 · Angoulême
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Work
- film director, actor, screenwriter, film producer
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
1968 · United Kingdom · drama
Palme d'Or winner 1969 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1969 #3 · BFI Top 100 British films #12
3.228 citations - 2
1987 · United States · drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1988 #4 · Kurosawa's 100 favorite films · NYT Best 1,000 Movies
0.773 citations - 3
1963 · United Kingdom · drama
BFI Top 100 British films #52 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #417
0.593 citations - 40.151 citation
- 5
1973 · United Kingdom / United States / Australia · fantasy, comedy, drama
Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 17 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1952Wakefield Express
- 1952Wakefield Express: The Portrait Of A Newspaper
- 1953O Dreamland
- 1954Thursday's Children
- 1957Every Day Except Christmas
- 1963This Sporting Life
- 1967The White Bus
- 1968If....
- 1973O Lucky Man!
- 1975In Celebration
- 1980Look Back in Anger
- 1982Britannia Hospital
- 1986Wham! in China: Foreign Skies
- 1987The Whales of August
- 1989Glory! Glory!
- —Mick Travis Trilogy
- —The Singing Lesson