| Year | Director | Winners | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite | 86%
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| 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction | 73%
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| 2024 | Sean Baker | Anora | 67%
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| 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | Apocalypse Now | 66%
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| 1976 | Martin Scorsese | Taxi Driver | 63%
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| 2002 | Roman Polanski | The Pianist | 63%
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| 1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | 52%
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| 2011 | Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life | 52%
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| 1984 | Wim Wenders | Paris, Texas | 51%
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| 2022 | Ruben Östlund | Triangle of Sadness | 50%
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| 2012 | Michael Haneke | Amour | 47%
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| 2023 | Justine Triet | Anatomy of a Fall | 47%
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| 2003 | Gus Van Sant | Elephant | 45%
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| 2021 | Julia Ducournau | Titane | 42%
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| 1990 | David Lynch | Wild at Heart | 42%
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| 2025 | Jafar Panahi | It Was Just an Accident | 41%
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| 1960 | Federico Fellini | La dolce vita | 41%
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| 1991 | Joel Coen | Barton Fink | 40%
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| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation | 40%
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| 1980 | Bob Fosse | All That Jazz | 39%
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| 2000 | Lars von Trier | Dancer in the Dark | 39%
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| 2004 | Michael Moore | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 39%
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| 1946 | David Lean | Brief Encounter | 36%
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| 1997 | Abbas Kiarostami | Taste of Cherry | 36%
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| 2017 | Ruben Östlund | The Square | 36%
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| 1989 | Steven Soderbergh | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | 35%
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| 2018 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Shoplifters | 34%
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| 1970 | Robert Altman | M*A*S*H | 33%
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| 1964 | Jacques Demy | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 33%
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| 1949 | Carol Reed | The Third Man | 32%
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| 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | 31%
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| 2016 | Ken Loach | I, Daniel Blake | 30%
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| 2009 | Michael Haneke | The White Ribbon | 30%
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| 1967 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Blowup | 28%
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| 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | Kagemusha | 28%
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| 1996 | Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies | 26%
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| 2010 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | 26%
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| 2006 | Ken Loach | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | 25%
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| 2007 | Cristian Mungiu | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 24%
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| 1952 | Orson Welles | Othello | 22%
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| 1946 | Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend | 22%
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| 1969 | Lindsay Anderson | If.... | 20%
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| 1995 | Emir Kusturica | Underground | 20%
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| 2015 | Jacques Audiard | Dheepan | 19%
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| 1946 | Roberto Rossellini | Rome, Open City | 19%
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| 1993 | Chen Kaige | Farewell My Concubine | 18%
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| 1963 | Luchino Visconti | The Leopard | 18%
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| 2014 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winter Sleep | 18%
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| 1998 | Theo Angelopoulos | Eternity and a Day | 17%
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| 1955 | Delbert Mann | Marty | 17%
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| 1982 | Costa-Gavras | Missing | 17%
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| 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | The Tin Drum | 17%
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| 1966 | Claude Lelouch | A Man and a Woman | 16%
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| 1958 | Mikhail Kalatozov | The Cranes Are Flying | 16%
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| 1986 | Roland Joffé | The Mission | 16%
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| 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | The Wages of Fear | 16%
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| 1981 | Andrzej Wajda | Man of Iron | 15%
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| 1999 | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Rosetta | 15%
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| 2008 | Laurent Cantet | The Class | 15%
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| 1997 | Shōhei Imamura | The Eel | 15%
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| 1961 | Luis Buñuel | Viridiana | 15%
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| 1959 | Marcel Camus | Black Orpheus | 14%
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| 2001 | Nanni Moretti | The Son's Room | 14%
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| 1982 | Yılmaz Güney & Şerif Gören | Yol | 14%
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| 2005 | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | L'Enfant | 13%
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| 1988 | Bille August | Pelle the Conqueror | 13%
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| 1983 | Shōhei Imamura | The Ballad of Narayama | 11%
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| 1985 | Emir Kusturica | When Father Was Away on Business | 11%
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| 1954 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Gate of Hell | 10%
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| 1973 | Jerry Schatzberg | Scarecrow | 9%
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| 1978 | Ermanno Olmi | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | 9%
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| 1987 | Maurice Pialat | Under the Sun of Satan | 9%
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| 1947 | Vincente Minnelli | Ziegfeld Follies | 9%
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| 1977 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Padre Padrone | 8%
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| 1972 | Francesco Rosi | The Mattei Affair | 8%
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| 1972 | Elio Petri | The Working Class Goes to Heaven | 8%
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| 1971 | Joseph Losey | The Go-Between | 7%
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| 1965 | Richard Lester | The Knack ...and How to Get It | 7%
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| 1956 | Jacques Cousteau & Louis Malle | The Silent World | 7%
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| 1947 | Edward Dmytryk | Crossfire | 6%
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| 1957 | William Wyler | Friendly Persuasion | 6%
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| 1946 | Chetan Anand | Neecha Nagar | 6%
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| 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | Miracle in Milan | 5%
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| 1992 | Bille August | The Best Intentions | 5%
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| 1947 | René Clément | The Damned | 5%
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| 1939 | Cecil B. DeMille | Union Pacific | 5%
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| 1947 | Jacques Becker | Antoine and Antoinette | 3%
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| 1946 | Emilio Fernández | María Candelaria | 3%
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| 1946 | František Čáp | Men Without Wings | 3%
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| 1951 | Alf Sjöberg | Miss Julie | 3%
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| 1962 | Anselmo Duarte | O Pagador de Promessas | 3%
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| 1946 | Jean Delannoy | Pastoral Symphony | 3%
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| 1966 | Pietro Germi | The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians | 3%
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| 1973 | Alan Bridges | The Hireling | 3%
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| 1946 | Fridrikh Ermler | The Turning Point | 3%
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| 1946 | Alf Sjöberg | Torment | 3%
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| 1952 | Renato Castellani | Two Cents Worth of Hope | 3%
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| 1975 | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Chronicle of the Years of Fire | 2%
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| 1947 | Ben Sharpsteen | Dumbo | 2%
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| 1946 | Leopold Lindtberg | The Last Chance | 2%
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| 1961 | Henri Colpi | The Long Absence | 2%
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| 1946 | Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen Jr. | The Red Meadows | 2%
|