THE FRANK NOMINEES
TOP 250 FILMS BY WOMEN DIRECTORS
ZERO STARS FROM ROGER EBERT
NO "A/I"
CLOSING CREDIT SONGS (SEP. 2026)
100

He plays a character named Frank in Serpico, Sea of Love, and Scent of a Woman

Who is Al Pacino?
100

The only film this woman has directed in the last ten years that didn't make the list was Barbie

Who is Greta Gerwig?

100

Ebert typically hated slashers, so it's no surprise that the 5th movie in this series, "A New Beginning", got a goose egg

What is Friday the 13th?

100

The Coen Brothers film that asks: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

Wht s No Country For Old Men?

100

In this film, "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies plays while Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter watch skyscrapers collapse

What is Fight Club?

200

Lenny Abrahamson directed the film Frank the year he directed Brie Larson to Best Actress for this film

What is Room?

200

25 years ago, Vicky Jenson co-directed this Dreamworks animated film, and a fairy tale franchise was born

What is Shrek?

200

Ebert thought the 2003 remake of this 1974 Tobe Hooper horror classic was vile: "There is not a shred of reason to see it."

What is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?

200

He played "the Sundance Kid" and won Best Picture and Best Director for Ordinary People

Who s Robert Redford?

200

In this 1950s-era Timothée Chalamet film, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" pings as the credits pong

What is Marty Supreme?

300

In Blue Velvet, Frank Booth is a fierce advocate for this brand of beer

What is PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!

300

The highest rated film on the list is City of God, a crime film set in this South American country

What is Brazil?

300

Ebert's beef with David Lynch was head-scratching, and that includes this 1992 film starring Sheryl Lee, which never got an official published review

What is Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me?

300
This Christopher Nolan film is now Universal's highest grossing movie of all time

Wht s The Odyssey?

300

Spike Lee chose to end "25th Hour" with a song from this man's album "The Rising", a work that also dealt with the aftermath of 9/11

Who is Bruce Springsteen?

400

Frank Costello (and every character, really) pronounces the word "microprocessors" as "microprawsessahs" in this Scorsese picture

What is The Departed?

400

He stars in the 13th-highest rated film, Aftersun & the 14th-highest rated film, Hamnet

Who is Paul Mescal?

400
Shockingly, Ebert called the characters in this director's The Doom Generation "of low intelligence and little personal worth"

Who is Gregg Araki?

400

Saoirse Ronan was nominated for Best Actress for Greta Gerwig's Little Women, while she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress

Who s Florence Pugh?

400

"Jojo Rabbit", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" & "Stranger Things" all wrap up with this David Bowie song

What is "Heroes"?

500

In They Live!, Rowdy Roddy Piper has an extended alley fight with Frank, played by this actor

Who is Keith David?

500

Penny Marshall's films on the list include Awakenings and this film that drunkenly insists "There's no crying in baseball!"

What is A League of Their Own?

500

This 2001 Tom Green comedy got zero stars, but Ebert would admit one year later that "for all of its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie"

What is Freddy Got Fingered?

500

Jordan Peele's three feature films, all of which fit the category

Wht re Get Out, Us and Nope?

500

Radiohead's "Exit Music (For A Film)" fittingly ends this 1996 Baz Luhrmann adaptation of a 400-year-old work

What is Romeo + Juliet?