The directors' wing

154 directors with measured average shot length (ASL) — how long a shot lasts, on average, before a cut. A fingerprint of editing style: Tarkovsky holds for a minute, Michael Bay for a blink.

Director	Avg shot length	Films measured	My average	Rated
Abbas Kiarostami	17.4s	10	—	—
Adam McKay	4s	7	3.9 / 10	2
Akira Kurosawa	14.5s	21	7.8 / 10	13
Alejandro G. Iñárritu	19.5s	6	7.4 / 10	5
Alejandro Jodorowsky	9s	3	—	—
Alexander Payne	7.6s	7	3.2 / 10	1
Alfonso Cuarón	13.7s	8	7.7 / 10	3
Alfred Hitchcock	16.6s	54	7.9 / 10	22
Andrea Arnold	6.3s	4	8.6 / 10	1
Andrei Tarkovsky	41.2s	7	—	—
Andrzej Bartkowiak	2.4s	4	—	—
Ang Lee	7.4s	13	6.5 / 10	3
Anne Fontaine	8.3s	2	—	—
Asghar Farhadi	5.9s	7	6.8 / 10	3
Barry Levinson	5s	16	4.2 / 10	1
Baz Luhrmann	2.9s	5	5.6 / 10	1
Béla Tarr	124.4s	9	—	—
Bennett Miller	8.1s	4	6.2 / 10	1
Billy Wilder	15s	24	8.6 / 10	2
Bong Joon-ho	8.1s	7	7.7 / 10	3
Brad Silberling	5.1s	5	—	—
Bryan Singer	3.3s	10	6.7 / 10	4
Cameron Crowe	4.4s	7	2.6 / 10	1
Céline Sciamma	13.2s	4	7.6 / 10	1
Chris Columbus	4.4s	13	0.6 / 10	1
Christopher Nolan	3.5s	10	7.5 / 10	12
Claire Denis	9.9s	5	—	—
Clint Eastwood	5.3s	38	6.7 / 10	19
Coen Brothers	5.4s	17	7.7 / 10	6
Damien Chazelle	5.8s	3	8.1 / 10	3
Danny Boyle	4s	13	8.2 / 10	1
Dardenne Brothers	46.7s	5	—	—
Darren Aronofsky	4.2s	7	6.4 / 10	7
David Fincher	3.8s	10	7.1 / 10	10
David Lynch	7s	10	7.1 / 10	9
David O. Russell	5.7s	8	4.6 / 10	3
Denis Villeneuve	8.2s	8	7 / 10	8
Doug Liman	4.9s	9	6.7 / 10	5
Edgar Wright	2.4s	5	6.6 / 10	1
Edward Zwick	3.9s	11	7.2 / 10	2
Ernst Lubitsch	11.8s	22	—	—
Federico Fellini	7.9s	14	—	—
François Truffaut	10.9s	13	—	—
Frank Capra	8.4s	20	9.2 / 10	1
Frank Darabont	5.7s	4	9.3 / 10	2
Gary Ross	3.5s	4	6.2 / 10	2
Gaspar Noé	84.4s	5	6.6 / 10	3
George Clooney	6.7s	6	3.8 / 10	2
George Lucas	4.8s	6	—	—
George Miller	5.2s	7	8.2 / 10	1
Giuseppe Tornatore	5.6s	10	7.6 / 10	4
Gore Verbinski	3.9s	10	5.6 / 10	1
Gregory Hoblit	3.7s	5	5.4 / 10	2
Greta Gerwig	4.5s	2	7.8 / 10	1
Guillermo del Toro	5s	10	5.7 / 10	3
Gus Van Sant	15.2s	16	3.4 / 10	1
Guy Ritchie	3.4s	11	6.8 / 10	1
Harold Ramis	4.9s	10	7.7 / 10	3
Howard Hawks	9.4s	22	—	—
Hughes Brothers	5s	3	5.4 / 10	1
Ingmar Bergman	16.5s	35	7.6 / 10	14
James Cameron	3.9s	8	7.4 / 10	3
James Mangold	4.6s	11	6.4 / 10	6
James McTeigue	3.3s	3	3.9 / 10	2
Jane Campion	6.3s	4	—	—
Jean-Jacques Annaud	4.5s	3	7.2 / 10	1
Jean-Luc Godard	21.1s	21	—	—
Jean-Pierre Melville	10.3s	7	9.2 / 10	1
Jim Jarmusch	20.8s	12	7 / 10	1
Joe Wright	5.7s	7	6.5 / 10	2
Joel Schumacher	4.7s	17	5.3 / 10	2
John Ford	10.1s	45	—	—
Jon Favreau	4s	9	5.9 / 10	4
Jonathan Demme	6.7s	14	6.8 / 10	1
Joss Whedon	2.8s	3	5.9 / 10	2
Julie Taymor	5.4s	4	—	—
Kathryn Bigelow	3.9s	9	7.1 / 10	2
Kenneth Lonergan	7s	3	5.3 / 10	2
Krzysztof Kieślowski	10.9s	11	—	—
Lars von Trier	10s	12	6.8 / 10	6
Lone Scherfig	5.1s	4	7 / 10	1
Louis Leterrier	2.7s	6	5.7 / 10	3
Luc Besson	9.4s	12	6.8 / 10	2
Lynne Ramsay	7.9s	3	2.6 / 10	1
M. Night Shyamalan	10.3s	11	4.9 / 10	7
Martin Brest	5.3s	5	4.4 / 10	1
Martin Scorsese	6.2s	24	7.5 / 10	19
Mary Harron	5.8s	3	5.4 / 10	1
Mathieu Kassovitz	6.1s	2	—	—
Michael Bay	2.8s	14	3.5 / 10	3
Michael Haneke	22.6s	11	5.2 / 10	1
Michael Mann	5.3s	11	6.5 / 10	5
Michelangelo Antonioni	22.2s	14	—	—
Miloš Forman	6.4s	12	—	—
Mira Nair	5.8s	6	—	—
Miranda July	5.5s	2	—	—
Morten Tyldum	4s	3	6.3 / 10	3
Nick Cassavetes	5.3s	6	—	—
Noah Baumbach	6.3s	10	8 / 10	1
Nora Ephron	5.7s	7	—	—
Norman Jewison	7.8s	16	—	—
Nuri Bilge Ceylan	24.8s	3	—	—
Oliver Stone	5.6s	15	6.2 / 10	2
Orson Welles	8.2s	11	8.6 / 10	1
Otto Preminger	20.2s	22	10 / 10	1
Park Chan-wook	7.9s	8	7 / 10	1
Paul Greengrass	4.3s	10	5 / 10	5
Paul Thomas Anderson	12.6s	8	7.2 / 10	7
Paweł Pawlikowski	14.5s	5	5.4 / 10	1
Pedro Almodóvar	9.6s	13	—	—
Peter Jackson	3.5s	14	—	—
Peter Weir	5.9s	12	8.2 / 10	2
Phillip Noyce	4.3s	13	7.2 / 10	1
Quentin Tarantino	6.5s	10	7.8 / 10	10
Richard Linklater	8.1s	17	5.9 / 10	6
Ridley Scott	4s	24	6.7 / 10	10
Rob Reiner	5.5s	14	6.4 / 10	1
Robert Rodriguez	2.9s	11	8.6 / 10	1
Robert Zemeckis	6.5s	19	6.3 / 10	9
Roland Emmerich	3.2s	9	6.2 / 10	1
Roman Polanski	10.9s	18	7.5 / 10	6
Ron Howard	4.3s	23	7.8 / 10	4
Russo Brothers	3.5s	6	7.3 / 10	4
Sam Mendes	24.1s	8	6.9 / 10	6
Sam Raimi	4.3s	13	—	—
Sergio Leone	7.3s	7	7.7 / 10	6
Shawn Levy	3.3s	12	5.4 / 10	4
Sofia Coppola	8s	6	3.6 / 10	1
Spike Jonze	5.4s	4	8.1 / 10	2
Spike Lee	6s	13	3.4 / 10	1
Stanley Kubrick	11.3s	13	7.6 / 10	13
Stephen Frears	6.8s	20	5.2 / 10	1
Steve McQueen	13.2s	4	7 / 10	1
Steven Soderbergh	8.2s	23	5.5 / 10	4
Steven Spielberg	6.7s	31	7.4 / 10	15
Susanne Bier	4.9s	4	7.4 / 10	1
Taika Waititi	3.8s	3	6 / 10	3
Taylor Hackford	5.8s	6	8.6 / 10	1
Terrence Malick	6.6s	9	6.3 / 10	4
Terry Gilliam	4.9s	12	—	—
The Wachowskis	3.8s	7	7.8 / 10	6
Thomas Vinterberg	6.4s	3	7.8 / 10	1
Tim Burton	4.2s	18	5 / 10	1
Todd Phillips	4.4s	10	6.4 / 10	6
Todd Solondz	8.3s	5	—	—
Tom Hooper	4.3s	6	6.3 / 10	3
Tony Scott	2.8s	15	6.7 / 10	2
Werner Herzog	20.2s	14	4.2 / 10	1
Wes Anderson	6.8s	9	7.5 / 10	3
Wes Craven	3.6s	11	4.4 / 10	1
Woody Allen	18.7s	47	6.4 / 10	9
Yasujirō Ozu	7.6s	16	—	—
Yorgos Lanthimos	16.7s	6	6.7 / 10	4
Zack Snyder	3.6s	7	4.8 / 10	2