Director and actor
Christopher Guest averages 6.60, Michael McKean averages 6.08. Apart that suggests 6.34; together they average 6.70, a lift of +0.36.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
1984
1996
2003Best
2025Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.
 This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | 7.9 | 162K | Composer, as Nigel Tufnel, Writer | Composer, as David St. Hubbins, Writer (not counted) |
| The Big Picture | 1989 | 6.2 | 6,178 | Director, Writer | Writer, as Emmet Sumner |
 Waiting for Guffman | 1996 | 7.4 | 34,136 | Director, as Corky St. Clair, Composer, Writer | Composer (not counted) |
 A Mighty Wind | 2003 | 7.2 | 32,494 | as Alan Barrows, Director, Writer | as Jerry Palter |
 Spinal Tap II: The End Continues | 2025 | 6.4 | 10,251 | as Nigel Tufnel, Writer, Producer | Producer, Writer, as David St. Hubbins (not counted) |
