Stats: 100 Greatest Film Directors

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
3. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill	Quentin Tarantino	96%
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	96%
1. A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	94%
2. Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Departed	Martin Scorsese	91%
16. Titanic, Terminator, Avatar	James Cameron	88%
20. Psycho, Rebecca, North By Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	86%
8. Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception	Christopher Nolan	85%
36. The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula	Francis Ford Coppola	80%
18. The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Dead Alive	Peter Jackson	80%
9. Alien, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down	Ridley Scott	80%
46. Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	78%
6. Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona	Coen Brothers	74%
5. Fight Club, Seven, The Social Network	David Fincher	74%
59. True Romance, Days of Thunder, Top Gun	Tony Scott	74%
10. Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson	74%
54. Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, 25th Hour	Spike Lee	73%
24. Annie Hall, Sleeper, Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen	73%
42. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi	Ang Lee	72%
61. Citizen Kane, Chimes at Midnight	Orson Welles	72%
29. Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson	72%
43. The Great Dictator, City Lights, The Gold Rush	Charlie Chaplin	71%
25. The Pianist, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski	71%
22. Batman, Ed Wood, Beetlejuice	Tim Burton	70%
15. Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Cast Away	Robert Zemeckis	68%
7. Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Roshomon	Akira Kurosawa	66%
50. Blue Velvet, Elephant Man, Eraserhead	David Lynch	66%
58. A Fistful of Dollars, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West	Sergio Leone	63%
14. Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July	Oliver Stone	62%
32. Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours	Danny Boyle	57%
40. Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Blade II	Guillermo del Toro	57%
56. American Beauty, Jarhead, Skyfall	Sam Mendes	56%
82. Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo	Ben Affleck	55%
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Man on the Moon	Milos Forman	53%
27. Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Parenthood	Ron Howard	53%
71. Gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men	Alfonso Cuaron	52%
41. Scarface, Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible	Brian De Palma	51%
30. Halloween, They Live, Escape from New York	John Carpenter	51%
21. Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein	Mel Brooks	51%
44. Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Wrestler	Darren Aronofsky	50%
45. Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sherlock Holmes	Guy Ritchie	50%
48. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	49%
55. Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, The Apartment	Billy Wilder	48%
23. Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago	David Lean	48%
49. Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Spider-Man 2	Sam Raimi	48%
11. 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon	Sidney Lumet	47%
95. Point Break, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow	46%
60. Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Mrs. Doubtfire	Chris Columbus	45%
12. The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles	John Hughes	45%
51. The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate	Jonathan Demme	45%
64. Heat, The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider	Michael Mann	45%
19. Ocean's Eleven, Traffic, Magic Mike	Stephen Soderbergh	45%
34. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King	Terry Gilliam	44%
68. Birdman, 21 Grams, Babel	Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu	43%
35. Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Her	Spike Jonze	43%
89. A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Hills Have Eyes	Wes Craven	43%
85. Antichrist, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac	Lars von Trier	42%
70. Leon the Professional, The Fifth Element, Lucy	Luc Besson	42%
47. Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, Boyhood	Richard Linklater	42%
88. The Fly, A History of Violence, Scanners	David Cronenberg	41%
86. Clerks, Dogma, Mallrats	Kevin Smith	41%
26. The Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me	Rob Reiner	41%
17. The Usual Suspects, X-Men, Valkyrie	Bryan Singer	40%
53. The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile	Frank Darabont	40%
90. The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	40%
67. Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Edgar Wright	37%
28. The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Red Badge of Courage	John Huston	37%
78. Prisoners, The Enemy, Sicario	Denis Villeneuve	36%
83. Hard Boiled, Face/Off, Mission: Impossible II	John Woo	36%
76. Chaplin, Gandhi, A Chorus Line	Richard Attenborough	35%
65. The Exorcist, The French Connection	William Friedkin	34%
98. Super 8, Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek	J.J. Abrams	33%
87. The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Birdcage	Mike Nichols	32%
69. The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol	Brad Bird	31%
52. Singles, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire	Cameron Crowe	31%
97. Guardians of the Galaxy, Super, Slither	James Gunn	31%
62. The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Treasure Island	Victor Fleming	30%
57. Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, I Heart Huckabees	David O. Russell	29%
91. Amour, The White Ribbon, Funny Games	Michael Haneke	28%
38. Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Vacation	Harold Ramis	26%
39. Stripes, Ghostbusters, Meatballs	Ivan Reitman	26%
81. Up in the Air, Juno, Thank You for Smoking	Jason Reitman	25%
63. Tootsie, Three Days of the Condor, They Shoot Horses Don't They?	Sydney Pollack	25%
72. The Bourne Ultimatum, Captain Phillips, United 93	Paul Greengrass	24%
80. The Talented Mr. Ripley, The English Patient, Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella	23%
37. Die Hard, Last Action Hero, Predator	John McTiernan	23%
93. Bugsy, Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam	Barry Levinson	22%
31. Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America	John Landis	22%
84. Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska	Alexander Payne	21%
66. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Slaughterhouse Five	George Roy Hill	21%
74. Superman, The Omen, Lethal Weapon	Richard Donner	21%
94. Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, Kingsman: The Secret Service	Matthew Vaughn	18%
77. All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, The Pelican Brief	Alan J. Pakula	17%
79. Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger	17%
33. Glory, Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai	Edward Zwick	16%
92. Capote, Moneyball, Foxcatcher	Bennett Miller	15%
100. Jacob's Ladder, Fatal Attraction, 9 1/2 Weeks	Adrian Lyne	14%
75. In the Heat of the Night, The Hurricane, Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	14%
96. The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, Mr. and Mrs. Smith	Doug Liman	12%
73. Straight Outta Compton, Friday, Law Abiding Citizen	F. Gary Gray	11%
99. Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc.	Lee Unkrich	9%

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