The Auteurs

Directors who keep coming back to the page — and their honest adaptation record.

Adaptation record
Director Pages Book Film Tie Adaptations
Steven Spielberg 6 3 2 1 Catch Me If You Can, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Ready Player One, Schindler's List, The Color Purple
David Fincher 4 1 0 3 Fight Club, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Anthony Minghella 3 2 0 1 Cold Mountain, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Francis Ford Coppola 3 1 1 1 Dracula, The Godfather, The Outsiders
Francis Lawrence 3 2 0 1 Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, I Am Legend, Water for Elephants
Joe Wright 3 3 0 0 Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, The Woman in the Window
Justin Baldoni 3 3 0 0 Five Feet Apart, It Ends With Us, The Love Hypothesis
Mike Flanagan 3 2 0 1 Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game, The Haunting of Hill House
Ridley Scott 3 1 1 1 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Dog Stars, The Martian
Ron Howard 3 2 0 1 A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, Hillbilly Elegy
Alan J. Pakula 2 1 0 1 Sophie's Choice, The Pelican Brief
Bryan Fuller 2 2 0 0 American Gods, Hannibal (Series of Books)
David Frankel 2 0 2 0 The Devil Wears Prada, Revenge Wears Prada
Denis Villeneuve 2 1 0 1 Story of Your Life, Dune
Gary Ross 2 1 0 1 Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games
Gavin Hood 2 2 0 0 Ender's Game, Ender's Game
Greta Gerwig 2 1 0 1 Little Women, The Magician's Nephew
Jean-Marc Vallée 2 1 0 1 Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects
Jonathan Demme 2 1 0 1 Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs
Marc Forster 2 2 0 0 The Kite Runner, World War Z
Nick Cassavetes 2 2 0 0 My Sister's Keeper, The Notebook
Olivia Newman 2 2 0 0 Remarkably Bright Creatures, Where the Crawdads Sing
Phillip Noyce 2 2 0 0 Roots, The Giver
Rob Reiner 2 0 0 2 Misery, The Princess Bride
Roman Polanski 2 0 0 2 Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist
Stephen Chbosky 2 0 1 1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Wonder
Tate Taylor 2 2 0 0 The Girl on the Train, The Help

Critical profiles