Taylor Hackford

American film director, and president of the Directors Guild of America

0.84body-of-work score · ranked #984 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

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

Born
December 31, 1944 · Santa Barbara
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, film producer, trade unionist, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Taylor Hackford
Angela George · 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

    2004 · United States · biography, musical, drama

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 2004 · Sarris's annual top 10 2004 #3

    0.702 citations
  2. 2

    1982 · United States · romance, drama

    Siskel's annual top 10 1982 #10

    0.141 citation

Complete filmography

All 16 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1973Bukowski
  • 1978Teenage Father
  • 1980The Idolmaker
  • 1982An Officer and a Gentleman
  • 1984Against All Odds
  • 1985White Nights
  • 1987Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
  • 1988Everybody's All-American
  • 1993Blood In Blood Out
  • 1995Dolores Claiborne
  • 1997The Devil's Advocate
  • 2000Proof of Life
  • 2004Ray
  • 2010Love Ranch
  • 2013Parker
  • 2016The Comedian