Greatest Film Directors of All Time

Guess the film director based on their short portfolio or their most important films.

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Larger than life, he debuted with the dazzling Citizen Kane

Orson Welles

Sleeper, Annie Hall, and Manhattan, he invited moviegoers to laugh at urban neurotics

Woody Allen

He made science trippy in 2001, Cold War politics slapstick in Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick

He was a genius of silent comedy and one of its first stars. The Tramp and Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

You talkin' to him? Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Departed

Martin Scorsese

The quintessential Westerner. Stagecoach and The Searchers

John Ford

He went from Dementia 13 to epics like The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

Sunset Blvd. and Ace in the Hole along with the gender-bending Some Like It Hot.

Billy Wilder

Sentimental but not sappy. (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life)

Frank Capra

Modern blockbusters Jaws, E.T., and Raiders of the Lost Ark

Steven Spielberg

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and the Kill Bill series.

Quentin Tarantino

Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby

Roman Polanski

A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan

The TV actor turned spaghetti-Western star. Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood

A master of suspense. His films are classic after classic, including Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds.

Alfred Hitchcock

He went from Scarface to His Girl Friday and from To Have and Have Not to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Howard Hawks

Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma & Louise

Ridley Scott

Metropolis, The Woman in the Window and The Big Heat

Fritz Lang

Beetle Juice, Batman, and The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton

Shadows and A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes

The Graduate, Silkwood, and Closer

Mike Nichols

MASH and Nashville

Robert Altman

He escaped the low-budget likes of Piranha Part Two to make the sci-fi spectacles Terminator, Aliens, and Avatar.

James Cameron

Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr.

David Lynch

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7 Comments

Level 70

Sep 16, 2014

Good Quiz. The Metropolis Question wouldn't take the last name of the director.

Level 75

Sep 16, 2014

Misleading title. "Greatest Film Directors of Hollywood" would be more appropriate. It's missing Frederico Fellini, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lars von Trier, Mika Kaurismäki, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Luc Besson, Milos Forman, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone... To name a few.

Level 11

Sep 16, 2014

I agree in a way. but it was taken from an official Academy site, and this was the list.

Level 66

Sep 16, 2014

Jean Renoir, Vittorio DeSica, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges, William Wellman, and John Huston, to name a few more from both inside and outside of Hollywood. But good quiz, even if I don't agree with all of your inclusions either.

Level 11

Sep 16, 2014

sorry for that. it's corrected.

Level 52

Sep 16, 2014

the best movie quiz so far!

Level 74

Sep 17, 2014

Great quiz!