| Year | Director | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather | 94%
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| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part II | 84%
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| 1941 | Orson Welles | Citizen Kane | 80%
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| 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | Psycho | 79%
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| 1977 | George Lucas | Star Wars | 76%
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| 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction | 67%
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| 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 65%
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| 1982 | Steven Spielberg | ET: The Extra-Terrestrial | 63%
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| 1975 | Steven Spielberg | Jaws | 62%
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| 1990 | Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas | 61%
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| 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | Vertigo | 61%
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| 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | Singin' in the Rain | 55%
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| 1976 | Martin Scorsese | Taxi Driver | 55%
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| 1942 | Michael Curtiz | Casablanca | 50%
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| 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | The Shining | 50%
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| 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | Apocalypse Now | 49%
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| 1977 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall | 47%
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| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List | 47%
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| 2008 | Christopher Nolan | The Dark Knight | 44%
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| 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | North by Northwest | 43%
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| 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | Eyes Wide Shut | 42%
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| 1980 | Martin Scorsese | Raging Bull | 42%
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| 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | Back to the Future | 41%
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| 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump | 41%
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| 1939 | Victor Fleming | Gone with the Wind | 41%
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| 1981 | Steven Spielberg | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 41%
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| 1989 | Spike Lee | Do the Right Thing | 37%
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| 1975 | Milos Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 37%
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| 1946 | Frank Capra | It's a Wonderful Life | 36%
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| 1931 | Charles Chaplin | City Lights | 33%
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| 1974 | Roman Polanski | Chinatown | 32%
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| 2001 | David Lynch | Mulholland Drive | 32%
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| 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 31%
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| 1936 | Charles Chaplin | Modern Times | 30%
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| 1959 | Billy Wilder | Some Like it Hot | 30%
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| 1986 | David Lynch | Blue Velvet | 29%
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| 1977 | Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 29%
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| 1939 | Victor Fleming | The Wizard of Oz | 29%
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| 1960 | Billy Wilder | The Apartment | 27%
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| 1956 | John Ford | The Searchers | 27%
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| 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | Barry Lyndon | 26%
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| 1980 | Irvin Kershner | The Empire Strikes Back | 26%
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| 1915 | D.W. Griffith | The Birth of a Nation | 24%
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| 2013 | Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave | 23%
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| 1967 | Mike Nichols | The Graduate | 23%
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| 1973 | Martin Scorsese | Mean Streets | 22%
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| 1968 | George A. Romero | Night of the Living Dead | 21%
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| 1950 | Billy Wilder | Sunset Boulevard | 20%
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| 1975 | Robert Altman | Nashville | 18%
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| 1939 | John Ford | Stagecoach | 18%
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| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation | 18%
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| 1993 | Harold Ramis | Groundhog Day | 17%
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| 1925 | Charles Chaplin | The Gold Rush | 16%
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| 2011 | Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life | 16%
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| 1961 | Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins | West Side Story | 16%
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| 1976 | Sidney Lumet | Network | 15%
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| 2004 | Michel Gondry | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 14%
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| 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | The Wild Bunch | 14%
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| 1944 | Billy Wilder | Double Indemnity | 12%
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| 1991 | Ridley Scott | Thelma & Louise | 12%
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| 1942 | Orson Welles | The Magnificent Ambersons | 12%
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| 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock | Marnie | 11%
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| 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | Notorious | 11%
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| 1958 | Orson Welles | Touch of Evil | 11%
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| 1978 | Terrence Malick | Days of Heaven | 10%
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| 1927 | FW Murnau | Sunrise | 10%
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| 1946 | William Wyler | The Best Years of Our Lives | 10%
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| 1974 | John Cassavetes | A Woman Under the Influence | 9%
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| 1972 | John Boorman | Deliverance | 9%
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| 1959 | Howard Hawks | Rio Bravo | 9%
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| 1924 | Buster Keaton | Sherlock Jr. | 9%
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| 1955 | Charles Laughton | The Night of the Hunter | 9%
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| 1938 | Howard Hawks | Bringing Up Baby | 8%
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| 1933 | Leo McCarey | Duck Soup | 8%
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| 1980 | Michael Cimino | Heaven's Gate | 8%
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| 2002 | Spike Lee | 25th Hour | 7%
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| 1989 | Woody Allen | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 7%
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| 1924 | Eric von Stroheim | Greed | 7%
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| 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | Meet me in St. Louis | 7%
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| 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | The Lion King | 7%
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| 1940 | Howard Hawks | His Girl Friday | 6%
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| 1971 | Robert Altman | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 6%
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| 1948 | Howard Hawks | Red River | 6%
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| 1962 | John Ford | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 6%
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| 1959 | Douglas Sirk | Imitation of Life | 5%
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| 1983 | Philip Kaufman | The Right Stuff | 5%
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| 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | The Shop Around the Corner | 5%
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| 1951 | Billy Wilder | Ace in the Hole | 4%
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| 1951 | George Stevens | A Place in the Sun | 4%
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| 1950 | Nicholas Ray | In a Lonely Place | 4%
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| 1954 | Nicholas Ray | Johnny Guitar | 4%
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| 1978 | Charles Burnett | Killer of Sheep | 4%
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| 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | Meshes of the Afternoon | 4%
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| 1941 | Preston Sturges | The Lady Eve | 4%
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| 1975 | Albert and David Maysles, et. al. | Grey Gardens | 3%
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| 1982 | Godfrey Greggio | Koyaanisqatsi | 3%
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| 1948 | Max Ophuls | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 3%
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| 1984 | John Cassavetes | Love Streams | 3%
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| 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | The Band Wagon | 3%
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| 1941 | Josef von Sternberg | The Shanghai Gesture | 2%
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