They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? Top 250 Film Directors - Statistics

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Director Rank	Highest Ranked Film (Release Year), Film Rank	Director	% Correct
1	Vertigo (1958), #2	Alfred Hitchcock	100%
5	Godfather, The (1972), #6	Francis Ford Coppola	100%
12	Taxi Driver (1976), #15	Martin Scorsese	100%
64	Pulp Fiction (1994), #78	Quentin Tarantino	100%
209	Lost in Translation (2003), #413	Sofia Coppola	100%
3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), #3	Stanley Kubrick	100%
61	The Big Lebowski (1998), #250	Joel Coen & Ethan Coen	92%
2	Citizen Kane (1941), #1	Orson Welles	92%
23	Jaws (1975), #91	Steven Spielberg	92%
8	Seven Samurai (1954), #10	Akira Kurosawa	83%
152	Brokeback Mountain (2005), #569	Ang Lee	83%
17	Some Like it Hot (1959), #31	Billy Wilder	83%
15	City Lights (1931), #25	Charles Chaplin	83%
22	Mulholland Dr. (2001), #30	David Lynch	83%
4	8½ (1963), #7	Federico Fellini	83%
127	Star Wars (1977), #152	George Lucas	83%
106	Aliens (1986), #385	James Cameron	83%
44	Chinatown (1974), #70	Roman Polanski	83%
75	Do the Right Thing (1989), #71	Spike Lee	83%
38	Annie Hall (1977), #109	Woody Allen	83%
164	Dark Knight, The (2008), #643	Christopher Nolan	75%
108	Unforgiven (1992), #300	Clint Eastwood	75%
43	Blade Runner (1982), #39	Ridley Scott	75%
50	The General (1926), #50	Buster Keaton	67%
68	It's a Wonderful Life (1946), #82	Frank Capra	67%
7	Persona (1966), #16	Ingmar Bergman	67%
105	The Thing (1982), #211	John Carpenter	67%
10	The Searchers (1956), #9	John Ford	67%
218	A Touch of Zen (1971), #343	King Hu	67%
227	If…. (1968), #426	Lindsay Anderson	67%
85	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), #147	Milos Forman	67%
58	There Will Be Blood (2007), #153	Paul Thomas Anderson	67%
201	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), #596	Peter Jackson	67%
139	This is Spinal Tap (1984), #388	Rob Reiner	67%
220	Songs from the Second Floor (2000), #457	Roy Andersson	67%
41	Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), #67	Sergio Leone	67%
160	Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001), #641	Wes Anderson	67%
120	Parasite (2019), #235	Bong Joon-ho	58%
101	Carrie (1976), #487	Brian De Palma	58%
117	Fight Club (1999), #495	David Fincher	58%
39	Lawrence of Arabia (1962), #49	David Lean	58%
88	On the Waterfront (1954), #203	Elia Kazan	58%
247	Pan's Labyrinth (2006), #467	Guillermo del Toro	58%
6	Breathless (1960), #18	Jean-Luc Godard	58%
33	A Woman Under the Influence (1974), #73	John Cassavetes	58%
65	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), #273	John Huston	58%
221	Point Break (1991), #849	Kathryn Bigelow	58%
192	The Matrix (1999), #238	Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski	58%
245	Young Frankenstein (1974), #673	Mel Brooks	58%
114	The Deer Hunter (1978), #168	Michael Cimino	58%
250	JFK (1991), #782	Oliver Stone	58%
49	Nashville (1975), #92	Robert Altman	58%
125	Back to the Future (1985), #279	Robert Zemeckis	58%
71	The Wild Bunch (1969), #79	Sam Peckinpah	58%
202	Edward Scissorhands (1990), #831	Tim Burton	58%
155	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), #170	Tobe Hooper	58%
126	The Exorcist (1973), #270	William Friedkin	58%
30	In the Mood for Love (2000), #17	Wong Kar-wai	58%
199	Moonlight (2016), #216	Barry Jenkins	50%
18	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), #19	Carl Theodor Dreyer	50%
76	The Third Man (1949), #54	Carol Reed	50%
93	Videodrome (1983), #319	David Cronenberg	50%
67	Intolerance (1916), #125	D.W. Griffith	50%
194	Spring in a Small Town (1948), #195	Fei Mu	50%
25	The 400 Blows (1959), #27	François Truffaut	50%
24	M (1931), #55	Fritz Lang	50%
150	Night of the Living Dead (1968), #353	George A. Romero	50%
162	Elephant (2003), #477	Gus Van Sant	50%
69	Spirited Away (2001), #137	Hayao Miyazaki	50%
86	The Piano (1993), #115	Jane Campion	50%
147	La belle et la bête (1946), #324	Jean Cocteau	50%
9	The Rules of the Game (1939), #5	Jean Renoir	50%
45	L'Atalante (1934), #20	Jean Vigo	50%
238	Pink Flamingos (1972), #631	John Waters	50%
197	The Silence of the Lambs (1991), #369	Jonathan Demme	50%
122	Kes (1969), #222	Ken Loach	50%
77	Breaking the Waves (1996), #217	Lars von Trier	50%
70	Johnny Guitar (1954), #183	Nicholas Ray	50%
90	Don't Look Now (1973), #119	Nicolas Roeg	50%
177	RoboCop (1987), #686	Paul Verhoeven	50%
99	All About My Mother (1999), #296	Pedro Almodóvar	50%
132	Boyhood (2014), #533	Richard Linklater	50%
36	Pather Panchali (1955), #46	Satyajit Ray	50%
29	Battleship Potemkin (1925), #21	Sergei Eisenstein	50%
103	Dog Day Afternoon (1975), #351	Sidney Lumet	50%
236	Tootsie (1982), #601	Sydney Pollack	50%
51	Days of Heaven (1978), #157	Terrence Malick	50%
142	Brazil (1985), #225	Terry Gilliam	50%
73	Paris, Texas (1984), #196	Wim Wenders	50%
11	Tokyo Story (1953), #4	Yasujiro Ozu	50%
31	Close-Up (1990), #47	Abbas Kiarostami	42%
151	Napoléon (1927), #188	Abel Gance	42%
47	Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), #97	Agnès Varda	42%
40	Last Year at Marienbad (1961), #111	Alain Resnais	42%
157	Children of Men (2006), #547	Alfonso Cuarón	42%
13	Mirror (1975), #23	Andrei Tarkovsky	42%
165	Chelsea Girls (1966), #422	Andy Warhol	42%
219	Man of the West (1958), #1120	Anthony Mann	42%
183	Bonnie and Clyde (1967), #333	Arthur Penn	42%
79	Sátántangó (1994), #102	Béla Tarr	42%
135	Cabaret (1972), #298	Bob Fosse	42%
124	Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), #182	Céline Sciamma	42%
28	Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), #12	Chantal Akerman	42%
60	Beau travail (1999), #52	Claire Denis	42%
222	Le Boucher (1970), #933	Claude Chabrol	42%
207	Suspiria (1977), #406	Dario Argento	42%
56	Man with a Movie Camera (1929), #22	Dziga Vertov	42%
37	To Be or Not to Be (1942), #98	Ernst Lubitsch	42%
19	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), #8	F.W. Murnau	42%
171	Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), #350	George Miller	42%
137	Harold and Maude (1971), #372	Hal Ashby	42%
173	The Wages of Fear (1953), #341	Henri-Georges Clouzot	42%
20	Rio Bravo (1959), #63	Howard Hawks	42%
83	Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), #143	Jacques Rivette	42%
53	Playtime (1967), #42	Jacques Tati	42%
104	The Mother and the Whore (1973), #101	Jean Eustache	42%
204	Rosetta (1999), #542	Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne	42%
95	Le Samouraï (1967), #220	Jean-Pierre Melville	42%
211	Midnight Cowboy (1969), #342	John Schlesinger	42%
248	Get Out (2017), #352	Jordan Peele	42%
102	All About Eve (1950), #134	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	42%
26	Ugetsu monogatari (1953), #58	Kenji Mizoguchi	42%
34	The Leopard (1963), #75	Luchino Visconti	42%
14	Viridiana (1961), #80	Luis Buñuel	42%
46	The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), #104	Max Ophüls	42%
63	Casablanca (1942), #38	Michael Curtiz	42%
131	Heat (1995), #268	Michael Mann	42%
210	Peeping Tom (1960), #370	Michael Powell	42%
35	The Red Shoes (1948), #121	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger	42%
21	L'Avventura (1960), #37	Michelangelo Antonioni	42%
213	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), #254	Michel Gondry	42%
118	Naked (1993), #445	Mike Leigh	42%
149	The Graduate (1967), #260	Mike Nichols	42%
52	The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), #144	Pier Paolo Pasolini	42%
16	Au hasard Balthazar (1966), #29	Robert Bresson	42%
27	Journey to Italy (1954), #69	Roberto Rossellini	42%
181	West Side Story (1961), #348	Robert Wise	42%
42	Singin' in the Rain (1952), #11	Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly	42%
81	The Wizard of Oz (1939), #117	Victor Fleming	42%
32	Bicycle Thieves (1948), #14	Vittorio De Sica	42%
55	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), #108	Werner Herzog	42%
110	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), #239	William Wyler	42%
215	All the President's Men (1976), #415	Alan J. Pakula	33%
174	Russian Ark (2002), #559	Aleksandr Sokurov	33%
143	Ashes and Diamonds (1958), #234	Andrzej Wajda	33%
78	Tropical Malady (2004), #164	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	33%
62	The Conformist (1970), #87	Bernardo Bertolucci	33%
54	La Jetée (1962), #95	Chris Marker	33%
97	Shoah (1985), #65	Claude Lanzmann	33%
74	Imitation of Life (1959), #136	Douglas Sirk	33%
66	A Brighter Summer Day (1991), #116	Edward Yang	33%
178	Underground (1995), #336	Emir Kusturica	33%
82	The Green Ray (1986), #257	Eric Rohmer	33%
231	High Noon (1952), #478	Fred Zinnemann	33%
109	The Philadelphia Story (1940), #325	George Cukor	33%
244	Groundhog Day (1993), #285	Harold Ramis	33%
92	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), #148	Jacques Demy	33%
198	Bride of Frankenstein (1935), #425	James Whale	33%
195	The Servant (1963), #592	Joseph Losey	33%
186	Holy Motors (2012), #432	Leos Carax	33%
89	Children of Paradise (1945), #76	Marcel Carné	33%
170	Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), #100	Maya Deren	33%
84	Caché (2005), #245	Michael Haneke	33%
153	Laura (1944), #581	Otto Preminger	33%
169	The Last Picture Show (1971), #357	Peter Bogdanovich	33%
138	Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), #552	Peter Weir	33%
48	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), #107	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	33%
128	Dog Star Man (1964), #814	Stan Brakhage	33%
200	Freaks (1932), #322	Tod Browning	33%
144	Safe (1995), #384	Todd Haynes	33%
158	Raise the Red Lantern (1991), #491	Zhang Yimou	33%
184	Sweet Smell of Success (1957), #278	Alexander Mackendrick	25%
136	Killer of Sheep (1977), #149	Charles Burnett	25%
119	Come and See (1985), #110	Elem Klimov	25%
94	Greed (1924), #114	Erich von Stroheim	25%
163	Titicut Follies (1967), #736	Frederick Wiseman	25%
223	Eyes Without a Face (1960), #411	Georges Franju	25%
187	Shane (1953), #503	George Stevens	25%
107	Black God, White Devil (1964), #231	Glauber Rocha	25%
166	Platform (2000), #485	Jia Zhangke	25%
121	Stranger Than Paradise (1984), #377	Jim Jarmusch	25%
180	Point Blank (1967), #540	John Boorman	25%
203	As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), #567	Jonas Mekas	25%
111	The Crowd (1928), #241	King Vidor	25%
59	Dekalog (1989), #169	Krzysztof Kieslowski	25%
80	Duck Soup (1933), #175	Leo McCarey	25%
179	Elevator to the Gallows (1958), #990	Louis Malle	25%
196	Morvern Callar (2002), #566	Lynne Ramsay	25%
167	Abraham's Valley (1993), #813	Manoel de Oliveira	25%
134	Wavelength (1967), #215	Michael Snow	25%
205	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), #492	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	25%
123	Black Girl (1966), #272	Ousmane Sembene	25%
172	In Vanda's Room (2000), #471	Pedro Costa	25%
232	À nous la liberté (1931), #1061	René Clair	25%
154	Kiss Me Deadly (1955), #346	Robert Aldrich	25%
176	Shock Corridor (1963), #809	Samuel Fuller	25%
168	Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), #302	Terence Davies	25%
112	The Travelling Players (1975), #230	Theo Angelopoulos	25%
113	Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), #284	Tsai Ming-liang	25%
96	The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), #112	Víctor Erice	25%
72	The Band Wagon (1953), #249	Vincente Minnelli	25%
217	The Match Factory Girl (1990), #1080	Aki Kaurismäki	17%
148	Earth (1930), #181	Alexander Dovzhenko	17%
246	Blue (1993), #539	Derek Jarman	17%
228	The Thin Blue Line (1988), #403	Errol Morris	17%
91	The Battle of Algiers (1966), #59	Gillo Pontecorvo	17%
234	Cinema Paradiso (1988), #256	Giuseppe Tornatore	17%
193	Pandora's Box (1929), #289	G.W. Pabst	17%
182	After Life (1998), #508	Hirokazu Koreeda	17%
57	A City of Sadness (1989), #202	Hou Hsiao-hsien	17%
224	Casque d'or (1952), #640	Jacques Becker	17%
100	Out of the Past (1947), #187	Jacques Tourneur	17%
235	Chronicle of a Summer (1961), #684	Jean Rouch	17%
98	The Scarlet Empress (1934), #440	Josef von Sternberg	17%
229	Daughters of the Dust (1991), #258	Julie Dash	17%
208	Wendy and Lucy (2008), #909	Kelly Reichardt	17%
206	The Ascent (1977), #290	Larisa Shepitko	17%
116	La Ciénaga (2001), #282	Lucrecia Martel	17%
133	À nos amours (1983), #452	Maurice Pialat	17%
161	I Am Cuba (1964), #315	Mikhail Kalatozov	17%
129	Floating Clouds (1955), #304	Mikio Naruse	17%
145	In the Realm of the Senses (1976), #321	Nagisa Oshima	17%
249	Edvard Munch [TV] (1974), #624	Peter Watkins	17%
87	The Lady Eve (1941), #198	Preston Sturges	17%
146	White Heat (1949), #847	Raoul Walsh	17%
233	Mysteries of Lisbon (2010), #885	Raúl Ruiz	17%
156	Nanook of the North (1922), #316	Robert J. Flaherty	17%
241	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), #263	Robert Wiene	17%
130	Colour of Pomegranates, The (1969), #180	Sergei Parajanov	17%
188	The Ballad of Narayama (1983), #1001	Shohei Imamura	17%
141	Daisies (1966), #145	Věra Chytilová	17%
185	The Wind (1928), #448	Victor Sjöström	17%
242	My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985), #618	Aleksei German	8%
237	By the Bluest of Seas (1936), #475	Boris Barnet	8%
243	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), #416	David Hand	8%
140	Touki Bouki (1973), #174	Djibril Diop Mambéty	8%
240	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), #842	Don Siegel	8%
191	The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), #360	Ermanno Olmi	8%
230	Salvatore Giuliano (1962), #424	Francesco Rosi	8%
214	7th Heaven (1927), #932	Frank Borzage	8%
212	Pyaasa (1957), #335	Guru Dutt	8%
226	Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), #1529	Hong Sang-soo	8%
115	Too Early/Too Late (1981), #859	Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet	8%
225	Les Vampires (1915), #527	Louis Feuillade	8%
159	El Verdugo (1963), #259	Luis García Berlanga	8%
189	India Song (1975), #294	Marguerite Duras	8%
175	The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), #349	Ritwik Ghatak	8%
239	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), #275	Robert Hamer	8%
216	Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), #243	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	8%
190	King Kong (1933), #205	Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack	0%

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