History of Movies
My Library

Terry Zwigoff

American filmmaker

3.82body-of-work score · ranked #290 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

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

Born
May 18, 1949 · Appleton
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, musician, screenwriter, film producer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Terry Zwigoff
Creator:Melissa Zwigoff · 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
    CrumbMust-See #496

    1994 · United States · documentary

    Siskel's annual top 10 1995 #1 · Ebert's annual top 10 1995 #2 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    1.708 citations
  2. 2
    Ghost World

    2001 · United States / Germany / United Kingdom · comedy, drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2001 #4 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2001 #9 · Ebert's annual top 10 2001 #4

    1.466 citations
  3. 3
    Bad Santa

    2003 · United States · comedy, crime

    Sarris's annual top 10 2003 #2 · Film Comment year-end poll 2003 #48

    0.492 citations
  4. 4
    Louie Bluie

    1985 · United States · documentary

    Criterion Collection spine #532

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

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