Directors of the Top 250 Films on IMDb - Statistics

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Rank	Film	Director	% Correct
3	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan	97%
14	Inception	Christopher Nolan	97%
25	Interstellar	Christopher Nolan	97%
41	The Prestige	Christopher Nolan	97%
54	Memento	Christopher Nolan	97%
69	The Dark Knight Rises	Christopher Nolan	97%
127	Batman Begins	Christopher Nolan	97%
8	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	97%
55	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino	97%
70	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	97%
94	Reservoir Dogs	Quentin Tarantino	97%
149	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	Quentin Tarantino	97%
17	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese	96%
39	The Departed	Martin Scorsese	96%
118	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	96%
131	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese	96%
136	Casino	Martin Scorsese	96%
141	Shutter Island	Martin Scorsese	96%
158	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	96%
6	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	96%
23	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	96%
56	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	96%
117	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Steven Spielberg	96%
143	Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg	96%
173	Catch Me If You Can	Steven Spielberg	96%
205	Jaws	Steven Spielberg	96%
33	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	94%
50	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock	94%
99	North by Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	94%
101	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock	94%
161	Dial M for Murder	Alfred Hitchcock	94%
239	Rebecca	Alfred Hitchcock	94%
2	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola	94%
4	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola	94%
53	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	94%
7	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	93%
9	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson	93%
13	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson	93%
60	Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick	92%
61	The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	92%
68	Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick	92%
90	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	92%
104	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	92%
105	Full Metal Jacket	Stanley Kubrick	92%
188	Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick	92%
28	Star Wars	George Lucas	89%
47	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin	88%
52	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin	88%
62	The Great Dictator	Charlie Chaplin	88%
128	The Kid	Charlie Chaplin	88%
178	The Gold Rush	Charlie Chaplin	88%
36	Gladiator	Ridley Scott	88%
51	Alien	Ridley Scott	88%
177	Blade Runner	Ridley Scott	88%
140	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	87%
172	Gran Torino	Clint Eastwood	87%
175	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood	87%
29	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	James Cameron	87%
66	Aliens	James Cameron	87%
217	The Terminator	James Cameron	87%
32	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	86%
157	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	86%
12	Fight Club	David Fincher	85%
19	Se7en	David Fincher	85%
186	Gone Girl	David Fincher	85%
170	Fargo	Joel Coen	85%
207	The Big Lebowski	Joel Coen	85%
148	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen / Ethan Coen	85%
11	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	85%
30	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	85%
10	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Sergio Leone	85%
48	Once Upon a Time in the West	Sergio Leone	85%
81	Once Upon a Time in America	Sergio Leone	85%
126	For a Few Dollars More	Sergio Leone	85%
138	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	82%
183	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	82%
21	Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	81%
85	High and Low	Akira Kurosawa	81%
98	Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa	81%
135	Ran	Akira Kurosawa	81%
145	Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa	81%
151	Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa	81%
250	Dersu Uzala	Akira Kurosawa	81%
75	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	81%
192	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson	81%
96	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	80%
139	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	76%
34	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho	75%
194	Memories of Murder	Bong Joon-ho	75%
31	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki	74%
79	Princess Mononoke	Hayao Miyazaki	74%
164	Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki	74%
174	My Neighbor Totoro	Hayao Miyazaki	74%
67	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	74%
122	1917	Sam Mendes	74%
156	The Elephant Man	David Lynch	71%
119	Snatch	Guy Ritchie	70%
162	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Guy Ritchie	70%
16	The Matrix	Lana Wachowski / Lilly Wachowski	70%
106	Scarface	Brian De Palma	69%
249	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	69%
18	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman	69%
72	Amadeus	Miloš Forman	69%
5	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	69%
221	Network	Sidney Lumet	69%
40	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle	68%
189	Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman	68%
204	The Seventh Seal	Ingmar Bergman	68%
244	Persona	Ingmar Bergman	68%
63	Avengers: Infinity War	Anthony Russo / Joe Russo	67%
78	Avengers: Endgame	Anthony Russo / Joe Russo	67%
59	Sunset Blvd.	Billy Wilder	67%
64	Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder	67%
100	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	67%
103	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	67%
129	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder	67%
20	It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	67%
198	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Frank Capra	67%
243	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	67%
1	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont	67%
27	The Green Mile	Frank Darabont	67%
109	Heat	Michael Mann	67%
26	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni	67%
86	Requiem for a Dream	Darren Aronofsky	65%
22	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	65%
214	Platoon	Oliver Stone	65%
167	Trainspotting	Danny Boyle	60%
95	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	60%
169	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	60%
97	M	Fritz Lang	60%
114	Metropolis	Fritz Lang	60%
233	The Grapes of Wrath	John Ford	60%
144	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	60%
219	Rush	Ron Howard	60%
77	Joker	Todd Phillips	60%
107	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve	58%
168	Prisoners	Denis Villeneuve	58%
152	The Thing	John Carpenter	58%
35	Léon: The Professional	Luc Besson	57%
142	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan	56%
147	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	Terry Gilliam / Terry Jones	56%
80	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant	55%
181	Before Sunrise	Richard Linklater	55%
220	Before Sunset	Richard Linklater	55%
71	Oldboy	Park Chan-wook	54%
238	The Handmaiden	Park Chan-wook	54%
137	The Truman Show	Peter Weir	54%
202	Dead Poets Society	Peter Weir	54%
43	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	53%
182	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	52%
42	The Usual Suspects	Bryan Singer	51%
196	Sherlock Jr.	Buster Keaton	51%
187	The General	Clyde Bruckman / Buster Keaton	51%
199	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller	51%
191	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	51%
185	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	49%
84	Singin' in the Rain	Stanley Donen / Gene Kelly	49%
213	Ratatouille	Brad Bird	47%
228	The Incredibles	Brad Bird	47%
246	The Iron Giant	Brad Bird	47%
225	The Exorcist	William Friedkin	46%
184	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	46%
224	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	46%
155	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	James Gunn	44%
146	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	43%
218	Stand by Me	Rob Reiner	43%
76	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen	43%
236	Amores Perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu	42%
91	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Michel Gondry	42%
160	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming	42%
222	The Wizard of Oz	Victor Fleming	42%
242	The 400 Blows	François Truffaut	40%
15	The Empire Strikes Back	Irvin Kershner	40%
209	Ford v Ferrari	James Mangold	39%
215	Logan	James Mangold	39%
212	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	39%
223	Into the Wild	Sean Penn	39%
245	Life of Brian	Terry Jones	39%
180	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	David Yates	38%
132	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	38%
74	Toy Story	John Lasseter	37%
24	City of God	Fernando Meirelles	35%
166	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh	35%
241	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	35%
208	Tokyo Story	Yasujirô Ozu	34%
93	The Hunt	Thomas Vinterberg	33%
45	Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi	32%
193	The Third Man	Carol Reed	31%
112	The Sting	George Roy Hill	31%
73	Coco	Lee Unkrich	29%
87	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich	29%
226	Groundhog Day	Harold Ramis	29%
115	Die Hard	John McTiernan	29%
120	Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica	29%
57	WALL·E	Andrew Stanton	28%
153	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton	28%
110	Up	Pete Docter	28%
163	Inside Out	Pete Docter	28%
201	Monsters, Inc.	Pete Docter	28%
230	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Gore Verbinski	28%
49	Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	27%
154	Spider-Man: No Way Home	Jon Watts	27%
102	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	26%
227	La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz	26%
235	Pather Panchali	Satyajit Ray	26%
133	Green Book	Peter Farrelly	25%
92	Come and See	Elem Klimov	24%
89	Return of the Jedi	Richard Marquand	24%
116	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson	23%
44	Grave of the Fireflies	Isao Takahata	21%
190	In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan	21%
134	Judgment at Nuremberg	Stanley Kramer	21%
210	The Passion of Joan of Arc	Carl Theodor Dreyer	20%
229	To Be or Not to Be	Ernst Lubitsch	20%
216	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy	20%
38	American History X	Tony Kaye	20%
58	The Lives of Others	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	18%
130	The Father	Florian Zeller	18%
150	The Great Escape	John Sturges	18%
123	Top Gun: Maverick	Joseph Kosinski	18%
206	Room	Lenny Abrahamson	17%
113	A Separation	Asghar Farhadi	16%
37	The Lion King	Roger Allers / Rob Minkoff	16%
195	The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	15%
211	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George	15%
65	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti / Peter Ramsey / Rodney Rothman	14%
82	Your Name.	Makoto Shinkai	14%
234	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo	13%
231	Hachi: A Dog's Tale	Lasse Hallström	13%
111	To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	13%
46	The Intouchables	Olivier Nakache	12%
83	3 Idiots	Rajkumar Hirani	11%
247	The Help	Tate Taylor	11%
200	Mary and Max	Adam Elliot	10%
88	Capernaum	Nadine Labaki	10%
121	Like Stars on Earth	Aamir Khan	9%
171	Warrior	Gavin O'Connor	9%
165	The Secret in Their Eyes	Juan José Campanella	9%
203	How to Train Your Dragon	Dean DeBlois	8%
248	Aladdin	Ron Clements / John Musker	8%
108	Hamilton	Thomas Kail	8%
197	Wild Tales	Damián Szifron	7%
159	V for Vendetta	James McTeigue	7%
240	Cool Hand Luke	Stuart Rosenberg	7%
179	Klaus	Sergio Pablos / Carlos Martínez López	6%
176	Children of Heaven	Majid Majidi	6%
124	Downfall	Oliver Hirschbiegel	5%
125	Dangal	Nitesh Tiwari	4%
232	Jai Bhim	T.J. Gnanavel	4%
237	My Father and My Son	Çagan Irmak	3%

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