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Luis Valdez

American writer and director

0.84body-of-work score · ranked #988 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

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

Born
June 26, 1940 · Delano
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, playwright, screenwriter, actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Luis Valdez
LaShawnda Jones · CC BY-SA 4.0

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
    La Bamba

    1987 · United States · biography, musical, drama

    National Film Registry (inducted 2017) · Criterion Collection spine #1193

    0.392 citations
  2. 2
    I Am Joaquin

    1969 · United States · documentary, musical

    National Film Registry (inducted 2010)

    0.231 citation
  3. 3
    Zoot Suit

    1981 · United States · musical, drama

    National Film Registry (inducted 2019)

    0.231 citation

Complete filmography

All 5 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.