Director · Producer · Cinematographer · 1911 to 2010
Ronald Neame
Best rated (directing): The Poseidon Adventure (7.2)
- Directing films
- 24
- Directing avg
- 6.69
- Peak run
- 1964’72
- 7+ run
- 3 films
Directing films, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As a director, films with 25+ votes
Ronald by the numbers
Average
6.69
16 rated films
Vote weighted
6.72
bigger films count more
Median
7.0
half are better
Consistency
±0.54
rating spread
Career
40y
1947 to 1986
Total votes
2.69K
across every film
Best
7.2
The Poseidon Adventure
Worst
5.2
Meteor
Newest first
Filmography
| 1986 |  Foreign Body | · | 7 |
| 1981 |  First Monday in October | 6.2 | 29 |
| 1980 |  Hopscotch | 7.0 | 190 |
| 1979 |  Meteor | 5.2 | 183 |
| 1974 |  The Odessa File | 6.6 | 207 |
| 1972 |  The Poseidon Adventure | 7.2 | 1,067 |
| 1970 |  Scrooge | 6.8 | 171 |
| 1969 |  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 7.0 | 133 |
| 1968 |  Prudence and the Pill | · | 16 |
| 1966 |  Gambit | 7.0 | 179 |
| 1966 |  A Man Could Get Killed | · | 8 |
| 1965 |  Mister Moses | · | 3 |
| 1964 |  The Chalk Garden | 7.2 | 54 |
| 1963 |  I Could Go on Singing | 6.1 | 25 |
| 1962 |  Escape from Zahrain | 6.1 | 30 |
| 1960 |  Tunes of Glory | 7.0 | 68 |
| 1958 |  The Horse's Mouth | 6.7 | 51 |
| 1957 |  Windom's Way | · | 11 |
| 1957 |  The Seventh Sin | · | 10 |
| 1956 |  The Man Who Never Was | 7.0 | 96 |
Better together?
Ronald Neame's regulars
- Oswald MorrisCinematographer · 6 films · 6.86 avg
- Arthur IbbetsonCinematographer · 5 films · 6.80 avg
- William AlwynComposer · 4 films · 7.00 avg
- Alec GuinnessDirector and actor · 4 films · 6.88 avg▲+0.07
- David LeanWriter · 3 films · 7.11 avg●−0.03
- Herbert LomDirector and actor · 3 films · 7.00 avg▲+0.56
- David LeanCinematographer · 3 films · 6.91 avg
- Robert CooteDirector and actor · 3 films · 6.70 avg●−0.01
- Deborah KerrDirector and actor · 2 films · 7.18 avg▲+0.49
- Malcolm ArnoldComposer · 2 films · 7.09 avg
- John MillsDirector and actor · 2 films · 7.09 avg▲+0.41
- Robert FlemyngDirector and actor · 2 films · 7.00 avg▲+0.45
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Ronald Neame and Oswald Morris movies · Ronald Neame and Arthur Ibbetson movies · Ronald Neame and William Alwyn movies · Ronald Neame and Alec Guinness movies
Takes
On Ronald Neame
3 nominations, 0 wins
Awards record
- NominatedBest Adapted Screenplay · Academy Awards 1948David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
- NominatedBest Adapted Screenplay · Academy Awards 1947David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
- NominatedBest Visual Effects · Academy Awards 1943Photographic Effects by Ronald Neame; Sound Effects by C. C. Stevens