Director and writer
Howard Hawks averages 7.01, Ben Hecht averages 6.85. Apart that suggests 6.93; together they average 6.87, a lift of −0.06.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
1932
1940Best
1951
1952
1983Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
| Underworld | 1927 | 7.5 | 3,965 | Writer | Writer (not counted) |
 Scarface | 1932 | 7.7 | 33,886 | Director | Writer |
| Twentieth Century | 1934 | 7.2 | 7,959 | Director, Producer | Writer |
| Viva Villa! | 1934 | 6.3 | 1,772 | Director, Writer | Writer |
| Barbary Coast | 1935 | 6.7 | 2,457 | Director | Writer |
 His Girl Friday | 1940 | 7.8 | 68,760 | Director | Writer |
| The Outlaw | 1943 | 5.4 | 5,453 | Director, Writer | Writer |
 The Thing from Another World | 1951 | 7.0 | 36,159 | Director, Writer, Producer | Writer |
 Monkey Business | 1952 | 6.9 | 16,979 | Director | Writer |
 Scarface | 1983 | 8.3 | 1.04M | Writer | Writer (not counted) |
