Director and actor
Peter Jackson averages 7.69, Ian McKellen averages 6.71. Apart that suggests 7.20; together they average 8.28, a lift of +1.08.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
2001
2002
2003Best
2012
2013
2014Dot 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.
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | 8.9 | 2.24M | Director, Producer, Writer | as Gandalf |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | 8.8 | 1.99M | Producer, Director | as Gandalf |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | 9.0 | 2.2M | Writer, Producer, Director | as Gandalf |
 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | 7.8 | 939K | Producer, Director, Writer | as Gandalf |
 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | 7.8 | 763K | Director, Producer, Writer | as Gandalf |
 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 2014 | 7.4 | 627K | Writer, Producer, Director | as Gandalf |
