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Mel Brooks

American comedian, filmmaker, and actor (born 1926)

2.46body-of-work score · ranked #437 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library

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

Born
June 28, 1926 · Brownsville
Nationality
United States
Work
actor, comedian, film director, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Mel Brooks
Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/ · CC BY-SA 3.0

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
    The Producers

    1967 · United States · comedy, musical

    National Film Registry (inducted 1996) · Ebert's annual top 10 1968 #6 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.825 citations
  2. 2
    Blazing Saddles

    1974 · United States · comedy, western

    National Film Registry (inducted 2006) · Empire 500 (2008) #115 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.724 citations
  3. 3
    Young Frankenstein

    1974 · United States · horror, comedy, sci-fi

    National Film Registry (inducted 2003) · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Sarris's annual top 10 1974 #8

    0.664 citations
  4. 4
    Silent Movie

    1976 · United States · comedy, silent

    Ebert's annual top 10 1976 #9

    0.151 citation
  5. 5
    History of the World, Part I

    1981 · United States · comedy, musical

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 11 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.