| Year | Director | Film | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite | 95%
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| 2012 | Ben Affleck | Argo | 79%
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| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | 76%
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| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker | 71%
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| 2004 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby | 69%
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| 2006 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed | 69%
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| 2007 | Joel & Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men | 67%
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| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight | 66%
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| 1997 | James Cameron | Titanic | 66%
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| 2013 | Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave | 65%
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| 1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart | 65%
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| 2018 | Peter Farrelly | Green Book | 65%
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| 1990 | Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves | 62%
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| 2000 | Ridley Scott | Gladiator | 62%
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| 2008 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire | 62%
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| 1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty | 61%
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| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist | 61%
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| 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 59%
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| 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather | 59%
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| 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump | 58%
|
| 1977 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall | 56%
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| 2015 | Tom McCarthy | Spotlight | 56%
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| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List | 55%
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| 2010 | Tom Hooper | The King's Speech | 55%
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| 2001 | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind | 54%
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| 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven | 54%
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| 2005 | Paul Haggis | Crash | 53%
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| 2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 50%
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| 2002 | Rob Marshall | Chicago | 49%
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| 1986 | Oliver Stone | Platoon | 49%
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| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part II | 49%
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| 1991 | Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs | 48%
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| 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi | 46%
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| 1998 | John Madden | Shakespeare in Love | 44%
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| 1996 | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient | 44%
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| 1984 | Miloš Forman | Amadeus | 43%
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| 1980 | Robert Redford | Ordinary People | 43%
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| 1988 | Barry Levinson | Rain Man | 43%
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| 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor | 43%
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| 1985 | Sydney Pollack | Out of Africa | 40%
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| 1983 | James L. Brooks | Terms of Endearment | 39%
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| 1978 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter | 39%
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| 1989 | Bruce Beresford | Driving Miss Daisy | 38%
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| 1971 | William Friedkin | The French Connection | 38%
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| 1962 | David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia | 37%
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| 1976 | John G. Avildsen | Rocky | 37%
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| 1979 | Robert Benton | Kramer vs. Kramer | 36%
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| 1975 | Miloš Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 36%
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| 1981 | Hugh Hudson | Chariots of Fire | 35%
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| 1939 | Victor Fleming | Gone with the Wind | 35%
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| 1969 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy | 35%
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| 1973 | George Roy Hill | The Sting | 35%
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| 1948 | Laurence Olivier | Hamlet | 34%
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| 1968 | Carol Reed | Oliver! | 34%
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| 1960 | Billy Wilder | The Apartment | 34%
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| 1954 | Elia Kazan | On the Waterfront | 33%
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| 1965 | Robert Wise | The Sound of Music | 32%
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| 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton | 31%
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| 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | Rebecca | 31%
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| 1961 | Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins | West Side Story | 31%
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| 1927-28 | William A. Wellman | Wings | 30%
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| 1959 | William Wyler | Ben-Hur | 29%
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| 1943 | Michael Curtiz | Casablanca | 29%
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| 1957 | David Lean | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 29%
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| 1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady | 28%
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| 1967 | Norman Jewison | In the Heat of the Night | 27%
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| 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | A Man for All Seasons | 25%
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| 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi | 25%
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| 1934 | Frank Capra | It Happened One Night | 25%
|
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | All About Eve | 24%
|
| 1955 | Delbert Mann | Marty | 24%
|
| 1952 | Cecil B. DeMille | The Greatest Show on Earth | 24%
|
| 1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones | 24%
|
| 1929-30 | Lewis Milestone | All Quiet on the Western Front | 23%
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| 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | From Here to Eternity | 23%
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| 1941 | John Ford | How Green Was My Valley | 23%
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| 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | An American in Paris | 21%
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| 1956 | Michael Anderson | Around the World in 80 Days | 21%
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| 1928-29 | Harry Beaumont | The Broadway Melody | 21%
|
| 1944 | Leo McCarey | Going My Way | 19%
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| 1938 | Frank Capra | You Can't Take It with You | 19%
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| 1932-33 | Frank Lloyd | Cavalcade | 18%
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| 1935 | Frank Lloyd | Mutiny on the Bounty | 18%
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| 1937 | William Dieterle | The Life of Emile Zola | 18%
|
| 1930-31 | Wesley Ruggles | Cimarron | 17%
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| 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard | The Great Ziegfeld | 17%
|
| 1945 | Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend | 17%
|
| 1931-32 | Edmund Goulding | Grand Hotel | 16%
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| 1942 | William Wyler | Mrs. Miniver | 16%
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| 1949 | Robert Rossen | All the King's Men | 15%
|
| 1947 | Elia Kazan | Gentleman's Agreement | 15%
|
| 1946 | William Wyler | The Best Years of Our Lives | 15%
|