# Directors with 2 great full length movies in one year

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**Created:** [August 21, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-with-2-great-full-length-movies-in-one-year/970034 "2022-08-21T14:15:31Z")\
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Having read the thread, I think making Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein is probably the top achievement. Comedy is almost impossible and those are two of the best of all time.

It’s either that or Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List.

Kudos to Mel Brooks and Spielberg for pulling off the almost impossible.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-with-2-great-full-length-movies-in-one-year/970034/42 "2022-08-24T19:58:34Z")

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> [@2\_More\_Bits](#):
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> [Apparently he also released two movies in 1979 and two in 1980. Were any great? Popeye was “interesting”)

Not as far as I can tell. Of those four, _Popeye_ is the only one I even recognize, and “interesting” is probably the kindest thing that can be said about that film. The others (_Quintent_ and _A Perfect Couple_ in '79, and _HealtH_ in '80) appear to have gotten mixed reviews, at best, and seem to have faded into obscurity.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-with-2-great-full-length-movies-in-one-year/970034/43 "2022-08-24T20:13:48Z")

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> [@2\_More\_Bits](#):
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> Robert Altman in 1970: MASH and Brewster McCloud

I know this fights the OP’s conditions a bit … but Altman had three solid releases within 16 months in 1974-75:

_Thieves Like Us_ - February 1974  
_California Split_ - August 1974  
_Nashville_ - June 1975

Now, _Nashville_’s status as a great movie is pretty comfortable. Altman’s two 1974 movies were both critically acclaimed, but did not score any major nominations (excepting _California Split_ receiving a Writer’s Guild of America nomination for Best Comedy Written for the Screen).

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