| Rank | Director | Year | ANSWER | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 | The Godfather | 98%
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| 5 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 | The Godfather Part II | 90%
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| 3 | Quentin Tarantino | 1994 | Pulp Fiction | 88%
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| 11 | Martin Scorsese | 1990 | GoodFellas | 85%
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| 10 | Martin Scorsese | 1976 | Taxi Driver | 73%
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| 73 | Quentin Tarantino | 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | 70%
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| 34 | Martin Scorsese | 2006 | The Departed | 66%
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| 17 | Christopher Nolan | 2008 | The Dark Knight | 63%
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| 18 | Martin Scorsese | 2019 | The Irishman | 57%
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| 65 | Stanley Kubrick | 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | 53%
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| 47 | Joel & Ethan Coen | 1996 | Fargo | 53%
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| 23 | Joel & Ethan Coen | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 53%
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| 2 | Sidney Lumet | 1957 | 12 Angry Men | 52%
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| 29 | Jonathan Demme | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 51%
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| 35 | Martin Scorsese | 1973 | Mean Streets | 50%
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| 25 | William Friedkin | 1971 | The French Connection | 39%
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| 74 | Bryan Singer | 1995 | The Usual Suspects | 36%
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| 37 | Wes Anderson | 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 35%
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| 22 | Elia Kazan | 1954 | On the Waterfront | 34%
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| 46 | Sidney Lumet | 1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | 33%
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| 4 | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 | Rashomon | 33%
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| 62 | Quentin Tarantino | 2004 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 31%
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| 24 | Curtis Hanson | 1997 | L.A. Confidential | 29%
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| 61 | Clint Eastwood | 2003 | Mystic River | 29%
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| 48 | George Roy Hill | 1973 | The Sting | 29%
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| 7 | Orson Welles | 1958 | Touch of Evil | 29%
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| 71 | Steven Soderbergh | 2000 | Traffic | 29%
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| 9 | Billy Wilder | 1944 | Double Indemnity | 28%
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| 55 | Arthur Penn | 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | 27%
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| 70 | Edgar Wright | 2017 | Baby Driver | 25%
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| 52 | Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund | 2002 | City of God | 25%
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| 72 | Wes Anderson | 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 25%
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| 81 | Rian Johnson | 2019 | Knives Out | 25%
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| 66 | David O. Russell | 2013 | American Hustle | 24%
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| 64 | Bong Joon-Ho | 2003 | Memories of Murder | 24%
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| 6 | Charles Laughton | 1955 | Night of the Hunter | 24%
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| 54 | Sidney Lumet | 1973 | Serpico | 24%
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| 57 | Ridley Scott | 1991 | Thelma & Louise | 24%
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| 43 | Martin Scorsese | 1985 | After Hours | 22%
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| 26 | Terrence Malick | 1973 | Badlands | 22%
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| 42 | Don Siegel | 1971 | Dirty Harry | 22%
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| 13 | Otto Preminger | 1959 | Anatomy of a Murder | 19%
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| 67 | Neil Jordan | 1992 | The Crying Game | 18%
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| 32 | Martin McDonagh | 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 18%
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| 15 | Tom McCarthy | 2015 | Spotlight | 17%
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| 49 | Josh & Benny Safdie | 2019 | Uncut Gems | 17%
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| 92 | John Woo | 1989 | The Killer | 16%
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| 50 | Andrew Davis | 1993 | The Fugitive | 15%
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| 33 | Robert Mulligan | 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 15%
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| 89 | Robert Zemeckis | 1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 15%
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| 56 | John Carpenter | 1976 | Assault on Precinct 13 | 14%
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| 83 | Paul Verhoeven | 2016 | Elle | 14%
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| 41 | Sir Alfred Hitchcock | 1950 | Strangers on a Train | 14%
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| 79 | Robert Altman | 1992 | The Player | 14%
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| 77 | Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins | 1961 | West Side Story | 14%
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| 8 | Jules Dassin | 1955 | Rififi | 12%
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| 20 | Stuart Rosenberg | 1967 | Cool Hand Luke | 10%
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| 91 | Paul Greengrass | 2013 | Captain Phillips | 9%
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| 87 | Ryan Coogler | 2013 | Fruitvale Station | 9%
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| 58 | Robert Altman | 1973 | The Long Goodbye | 9%
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| 16 | Edward Yang | 1991 | A Brighter Summer Day | 8%
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| 19 | Hirokazu Koreeda | 2018 | Shoplifters | 8%
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| 59 | Shane Meadows | 2006 | This is England | 8%
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| 36 | Jacques Audiard | 2009 | A Prophet | 7%
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| 75 | Bennett Miller | 2005 | Capote | 7%
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| 14 | Louis Malle | 1958 | Elevator to the Gallows | 7%
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| 96 | James Foley | 1992 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 7%
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| 27 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1970 | Le Cercle Rouge | 7%
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| 78 | Kimberly Peirce | 1999 | Boys Don't Cry | 6%
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| 86 | Todd Field | 2001 | In the Bedroom | 6%
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| 30 | Robert Bresson | 1983 | L'Argent | 6%
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| 100 | Neil Jordan | 1986 | Mona Lisa | 6%
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| 44 | Luchino Visconti | 1960 | Rocco and His Brothers | 6%
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| 39 | Alexander Mackendrick | 1955 | The Ladykillers | 6%
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| 31 | Elio Petri | 1970 | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | 5%
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| 97 | Fabián Bielinsky | 2000 | Nine Queens | 5%
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| 80 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2011 | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | 5%
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| 12 | Julien Duvivier | 1937 | Pépé le Moko | 5%
|
| 45 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1964 | Band of Outsiders | 4%
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| 21 | Wong Kar-Wai | 1990 | Days of Being Wild | 4%
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| 53 | David Mackenzie | 2016 | Hell or High Water | 4%
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| 40 | Richard Brooks | 1967 | In Cold Blood | 4%
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| 98 | Carl Franklin | 1992 | One False Move | 4%
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| 95 | Mike Leigh | 2004 | Vera Drake | 4%
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| 99 | Marielle Heller | 2018 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | 3%
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| 90 | Robert Clouse | 1973 | Enter the Dragon | 3%
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| 28 | Anurag Kashyap | 2012 | Gangs of Wasseypur | 3%
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| 38 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 2014 | Leviathan | 3%
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| 85 | Ken Loach | 2002 | Sweet Sixteen | 3%
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| 69 | Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne | 2005 | The Child | 3%
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| 82 | Anurag Kashyap | 2004 | Black Friday | 2%
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| 68 | Abraham Polonsky | 1948 | Force of Evil | 2%
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| 76 | Joshua Marston | 2004 | Maria Full of Grace | 2%
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| 94 | Götz Spielmann | 2008 | Revanche | 2%
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| 60 | Jacques Becker | 1954 | Touchez Pas au Grisbi | 2%
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| 88 | Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra | 2018 | Birds of Passage | 1%
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| 84 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 2011 | Elena | 1%
|
| 51 | Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar & Benjamin Renner | 2012 | Ernest & Celestine | 1%
|
| 93 | Lukas Moodysson | 2002 | Lilya 4-Ever | 1%
|
| 63 | Yuriy Bykov | 2014 | The Fool | 1%
|