The actors and directors audiences love most, and least

For years Google showed what percentage of its users liked each film. Google removed that figure in 2026; ThumbScore archived it first. Averaged across a career, it becomes something no other site can show any more: whose films ordinary viewers actually enjoy, as opposed to what critics or awards say.

Actors need 15 films in the catalogue to be ranked, directors 8. Each name links to a full filmography, ranked film by film.

Top 50 actors

Out of 976 actors with 15 or more films.

#	Name	Films	Audience score
1	Louis de Funès	20	89.0%
2	Charlie Chaplin	19	88.6%
3	Quentin Tarantino	16	85.2%
4	Masako Nozawa	19	84.7%
5	Joe Pesci	16	84.7%
6	Mayumi Tanaka	24	84.0%
7	Cary Grant	17	83.9%
8	James Stewart	18	83.6%
9	Toshio Furukawa	16	83.4%
10	Ikue Otani	17	83.3%
11	Mel Brooks	15	82.5%
12	Alfred Hitchcock	28	82.4%
13	Jackie Chan	53	81.5%
14	Alan Rickman	26	80.9%
15	Christopher Lee	24	80.8%
16	Orson Welles	18	80.8%
17	Koichi Yamadera	25	80.6%
18	James Earl Jones	18	80.5%
19	Ian Holm	17	80.4%
20	Takeshi Kitano	19	80.2%
21	Steven Spielberg	35	80.1%
22	Max von Sydow	28	80.0%
23	John Carpenter	21	80.0%
24	Michael Gambon	25	79.8%
25	Rutger Hauer	18	79.7%
26	Wes Craven	18	79.7%
27	Julie Andrews	16	79.6%
28	Martin Balsam	15	79.5%
29	Philip Seymour Hoffman	31	79.4%
30	Jet Li	16	79.4%
31	Queen Latifah	19	79.2%
32	Siobhan Fallon Hogan	15	79.2%
33	Lance Henriksen	20	79.0%
34	Randy Quaid	17	79.0%
35	Harry Dean Stanton	16	79.0%
36	Kathleen Barr	15	79.0%
37	Cantinflas	22	78.9%
38	Tress MacNeille	17	78.9%
39	Frank Oz	23	78.8%
40	Donnie Yen	18	78.8%
41	Sylvester Stallone	55	78.7%
42	Megumi Hayashibara	28	78.7%
43	Cuba Gooding Jr.	23	78.6%
44	Rob Reiner	19	78.6%
45	Kelly Sheridan	17	78.6%
46	Robert Downey Jr.	38	78.4%
47	Benedict Cumberbatch	32	78.4%
48	Monica Bellucci	21	78.4%
49	Brad Dourif	19	78.4%
50	Jack Nicholson	25	78.3%

Top 25 directors

Out of 430 directors with 8 or more films.

#	Name	Films	Audience score
1	Hayao Miyazaki	13	89.8%
2	Charlie Chaplin	19	88.6%
3	Akira Kurosawa	14	88.1%
4	Wong Kar-Wai	8	88.0%
5	Aamir Khan	9	87.8%
6	James Cameron	11	87.3%
7	Ingmar Bergman	14	87.1%
8	Carlo Verdone	11	85.6%
9	Quentin Tarantino	16	85.2%
10	Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	8	85.1%
11	Stephen Chow	9	84.4%
12	François Truffaut	8	84.2%
13	Billy Wilder	11	84.0%
14	Luis Buñuel	11	84.0%
15	Zhang Yimou	8	83.5%
16	Miloš Forman	9	82.9%
17	Don Siegel	8	82.9%
18	Emilio Estevez	13	82.8%
19	Mel Brooks	15	82.5%
20	Alfred Hitchcock	28	82.4%
21	Park Chan-wook	10	82.0%
22	Alejandro Jodorowsky	11	81.9%
23	Jackie Chan	53	81.5%
24	Edoardo Leo	11	81.5%
25	Joe Johnston	8	81.5%

The 25 actors audiences like least

Lowest first. A low score usually means a career heavy on franchises and genre filler, not a bad actor.

#	Name	Films	Audience score
1	Zoey Deutch	16	53.8%
2	Stephen Dorff	17	56.3%
3	Eli Roth	15	57.1%
4	Jason Momoa	17	57.4%
5	Luis Callejo	16	57.7%
6	Olivia Wilde	24	58.1%
7	Richard Brake	16	58.6%
8	Tiffany Haddish	17	59.1%
9	Michelle Jenner	16	59.4%
10	Fiona Shaw	15	59.7%
11	Scott Eastwood	15	59.9%
12	Johnny Knoxville	16	60.2%
13	Pedro Casablanc	15	60.7%
14	Nicholas Braun	15	60.7%
15	James Corden	18	60.8%
16	Topher Grace	23	60.9%
17	Alexander Skarsgård	23	60.9%
18	Edgar Ramírez	21	61.0%
19	Will Forte	21	61.3%
20	Aubrey Plaza	18	61.4%
21	Óscar Jaenada	15	61.5%
22	Boyd Holbrook	17	61.6%
23	Tony Hale	18	61.6%
24	Riley Keough	18	61.6%
25	Mckenna Grace	16	61.8%