But First

You may also remember John Hughes, who died in 2009 at the age of 59, for Home Alone, or Pretty in Pink, or Disney’s ‘90s remakes of 101 Dalmatians and Flubber.

Hughes is a credited screenwriter on all those films (and wrote Beethoven under a pseudonym), but he did not direct them.

You could do a fine ranking of Hughes’ writing efforts, but they say film is a director’s medium. So for this list of John Hughes films ranked, we’re focusing only on the ones he directed.