| RANK | DIRECTOR | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alfred Hitchcock | 92%
|
| 27 | Steven Spielberg | 91%
|
| 22 | Martin Scorsese | 86%
|
| 51 | Francis Ford Coppola | 84%
|
| 49 | Quentin Tarantino | 83%
|
| 297 | Sofia Coppola | 82%
|
| 9 | Stanley Kubrick | 82%
|
| 100 | Christopher Nolan | 75%
|
| 4 | Akira Kurosawa | 71%
|
| 288 | Bong Joon-Ho | 70%
|
| 53 | James Cameron | 69%
|
| 73 | Wes Anderson | 69%
|
| 3 | Charles Chaplin | 68%
|
| 63 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 68%
|
| 2 | John Ford | 67%
|
| 14 | Federico Fellini | 66%
|
| 8 | Orson Welles | 66%
|
| 58 | Ridley Scott | 66%
|
| 186 | George Lucas | 65%
|
| 54 | Spike Lee | 65%
|
| 165 | Ang Lee | 64%
|
| 16 | Ingmar Bergman | 64%
|
| 119 | Clint Eastwood | 63%
|
| 43 | David Lynch | 63%
|
| 202 | Lindsay Anderson | 63%
|
| 128 | David Fincher | 61%
|
| 50 | Joel & Ethan Coen | 61%
|
| 30 | Billy Wilder | 60%
|
| 183 | Peter Jackson | 58%
|
| 41 | Roman Polanski | 58%
|
| 57 | Sergio Leone | 57%
|
| 35 | Woody Allen | 56%
|
| 13 | Jean-Luc Godard | 54%
|
| 12 | Fritz Lang | 52%
|
| 21 | Francois Truffaut | 51%
|
| 178 | Robert Zemeckis | 51%
|
| 37 | David Lean | 50%
|
| 40 | Frank Capra | 50%
|
| 25 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 49%
|
| 275 | Guillermo del Toro | 49%
|
| 179 | Alfonso Cuaron | 48%
|
| 31 | Buster Keaton | 47%
|
| 67 | John Carpenter | 47%
|
| 74 | Sidney Lumet | 47%
|
| 213 | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | 46%
|
| 137 | Brian De Palma | 46%
|
| 46 | Hayao Miyazaki | 46%
|
| 136 | Milos Forman | 45%
|
| 191 | Kathryn Bigelow | 44%
|
| 154 | John Woo | 43%
|
| 102 | Pedro Almodovar | 43%
|
| 155 | Tim Burton | 43%
|
| 5 | DW Griffith | 42%
|
| 194 | Michael Mann | 42%
|
| 127 | Anthony Mann | 41%
|
| 80 | John Huston | 41%
|
| 7 | Sergei Eisenstein | 40%
|
| 107 | William Wyler | 40%
|
| 19 | Yasujiro Ozu | 40%
|
| 95 | Lars von Trier | 39%
|
| 203 | Oliver Stone | 39%
|
| 110 | Elia Kazan | 38%
|
| 6 | Jean Renoir | 38%
|
| 11 | Luis Bunuel | 38%
|
| 88 | Michael Curtiz | 38%
|
| 18 | Howard Hawks | 37%
|
| 230 | Kevin Smith | 37%
|
| 36 | Robert Altman | 37%
|
| 47 | Werner Herzog | 37%
|
| 122 | Agnes Varda | 36%
|
| 56 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 36%
|
| 78 | David Cronenberg | 36%
|
| 211 | Jane Campion | 36%
|
| 285 | Jonathan Demme | 36%
|
| 28 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 36%
|
| 33 | Roberto Rossellini | 36%
|
| 290 | Victor Fleming | 36%
|
| 177 | William Friedkin | 36%
|
| 68 | Wong Kar-Wai | 36%
|
| 65 | Nicholas Ray | 35%
|
| 24 | Satyajit Ray | 35%
|
| 249 | Wes Craven | 35%
|
| 91 | Chuck Jones | 34%
|
| 15 | FW Murnau | 34%
|
| 166 | Steven Soderbergh | 33%
|
| 270 | Sydney Pollack | 33%
|
| 59 | Vittorio De Sica | 33%
|
| 23 | Cecil B. DeMille | 32%
|
| 145 | Danny Boyle | 32%
|
| 10 | George Melies | 32%
|
| 144 | George Miller | 32%
|
| 139 | Mike Nichols | 32%
|
| 20 | Robert Bresson | 32%
|
| 189 | Mel Brooks | 31%
|
| 185 | Sam Raimi | 31%
|
| 84 | Terrence Malick | 31%
|
| 92 | Wim Wenders | 31%
|
| 17 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 30%
|
| 106 | George Cukor | 30%
|
| 29 | John Cassavetes | 30%
|
| 175 | John Hughes | 30%
|
| 159 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 30%
|
| 126 | Robert Wise | 30%
|
| 180 | Carol Reed | 29%
|
| 143 | Gus Van Sant | 29%
|
| 296 | Michael Cimino | 29%
|
| 176 | Peter Weir | 29%
|
| 97 | Richard Linklater | 29%
|
| 123 | Vincente Minnelli | 29%
|
| 48 | Michael Powell | 28%
|
| 150 | Walt Disney | 28%
|
| 42 | Luchino Visconti | 27%
|
| 70 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 27%
|
| 187 | George Stevens | 26%
|
| 82 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 26%
|
| 93 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 26%
|
| 216 | Rob Reiner | 26%
|
| 254 | Walter Hill | 26%
|
| 140 | Arthur Penn | 25%
|
| 293 | Clarence Brown | 25%
|
| 248 | Darren Aronofsky | 25%
|
| 167 | Fred Zinnemann | 25%
|
| 117 | Louis & Auguste Lumiere | 25%
|
| 129 | Michael Haneke | 25%
|
| 26 | Ernst Lubitsch | 24%
|
| 96 | Jacques Tati | 24%
|
| 99 | Jim Jarmusch | 24%
|
| 105 | Louis Malle | 24%
|
| 132 | Mike Leigh | 24%
|
| 38 | Abbas Kiarostami | 23%
|
| 208 | Edward Yang | 23%
|
| 34 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 23%
|
| 45 | Stanley Donen | 23%
|
| 163 | Bela Tarr | 22%
|
| 181 | Jacques Demy | 22%
|
| 71 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 22%
|
| 66 | Sam Peckinpah | 22%
|
| 280 | Alan J. Pakula | 21%
|
| 112 | Dario Argento | 21%
|
| 291 | David O. Russell | 21%
|
| 170 | Eric Rohmer | 21%
|
| 246 | John Schlesinger | 21%
|
| 157 | Otto Preminger | 21%
|
| 260 | Robert Rodriguez | 21%
|
| 164 | Terry Gilliam | 21%
|
| 86 | Chantal Akerman | 20%
|
| 75 | George A. Romero | 20%
|
| 222 | Ken Russell | 20%
|
| 242 | Peter Bogdanovich | 20%
|
| 220 | Henry King | 19%
|
| 200 | John Waters | 19%
|
| 158 | Ken Loach | 19%
|
| 111 | King Vidor | 19%
|
| 133 | Claire Denis | 18%
|
| 32 | Erich von Stroheim | 18%
|
| 197 | Paul Verhoeven | 18%
|
| 98 | Preston Sturges | 18%
|
| 87 | Alain Resnais | 17%
|
| 115 | Andrzej Wajda | 17%
|
| 89 | Claude Chabrol | 17%
|
| 39 | Dziga Vertov | 17%
|
| 282 | Herschell Gordon Lewis | 17%
|
| 118 | James Whale | 17%
|
| 279 | Jerry Lewis | 17%
|
| 268 | Blake Edwards | 16%
|
| 44 | Jean Vigo | 16%
|
| 237 | Richard Donner | 16%
|
| 124 | Tod Browning | 16%
|
| 262 | Alexander Payne | 15%
|
| 199 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 15%
|
| 153 | Jacques Rivette | 15%
|
| 141 | John Frankenheimer | 15%
|
| 227 | John Landis | 15%
|
| 160 | John Lasseter | 15%
|
| 69 | Josef von Sternberg | 15%
|
| 182 | Leo McCarey | 15%
|
| 146 | Marcel Carne | 15%
|
| 55 | Raoul Walsh | 15%
|
| 103 | Roger Corman | 15%
|
| 201 | William A. Wellman | 15%
|
| 101 | Abel Gance | 14%
|
| 60 | Douglas Sirk | 14%
|
| 135 | GW Pabst | 14%
|
| 233 | Hal Ashby | 14%
|
| 79 | Jean Cocteau | 14%
|
| 72 | Max Ophuls | 14%
|
| 229 | Aki Kaurismaki | 13%
|
| 85 | Edwin S. Porter | 13%
|
| 193 | Errol Morris | 13%
|
| 134 | Frank Borzage | 13%
|
| 284 | James Ivory | 13%
|
| 298 | Lasse Hallstrom | 13%
|
| 64 | Mario Bava | 13%
|
| 261 | Pedro Costa | 13%
|
| 61 | Victor Sjostrom | 13%
|
| 116 | Zhang Yimou | 13%
|
| 206 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 12%
|
| 276 | Costa-Gavras | 12%
|
| 147 | Don Siegel | 12%
|
| 274 | Emir Kusturica | 12%
|
| 300 | Henry Hathaway | 12%
|
| 209 | Ida Lupino | 12%
|
| 148 | Leni Riefenstahl | 12%
|
| 198 | Nicolas Roeg | 12%
|
| 217 | Paul Greengrass | 12%
|
| 169 | Theo Angelopoulos | 12%
|
| 120 | Todd Haynes | 12%
|
| 121 | Chris Marker | 11%
|
| 108 | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | 11%
|
| 235 | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | 11%
|
| 104 | Lois Weber | 11%
|
| 253 | Russ Meyer | 11%
|
| 223 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 10%
|
| 210 | Jacques Becker | 10%
|
| 192 | Robert Aldrich | 10%
|
| 52 | Robert J. Flaherty | 10%
|
| 81 | Samuel Fuller | 10%
|
| 212 | Stephen Frears | 10%
|
| 218 | Takeshi Kitano | 10%
|
| 286 | Terence Davies | 10%
|
| 244 | Tsai Ming-Liang | 10%
|
| 258 | Frederick Wiseman | 9%
|
| 294 | Jacques Tourneur | 9%
|
| 228 | John Boorman | 9%
|
| 76 | Maurice Tourneur | 9%
|
| 172 | Nagisa Oshima | 9%
|
| 188 | Ousmane Sembene | 9%
|
| 289 | Peter Greenaway | 9%
|
| 142 | Rene Clair | 9%
|
| 162 | Tex Avery | 9%
|
| 62 | Alexander Dovzhenko | 8%
|
| 204 | Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey | 8%
|
| 77 | Busby Berkeley | 8%
|
| 221 | Glauber Rocha | 8%
|
| 161 | Gordon Parks | 8%
|
| 152 | Jack Arnold | 8%
|
| 90 | Maya Deren | 8%
|
| 231 | Mervyn LeRoy | 8%
|
| 205 | Richard Lester | 8%
|
| 215 | Sergei Parajanov | 8%
|
| 151 | Charles Burnett | 7%
|
| 195 | Ishiro Honda | 7%
|
| 226 | Jules Dassin | 7%
|
| 265 | Manoel de Oliveira | 7%
|
| 214 | Mario Monicelli | 7%
|
| 241 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 7%
|
| 109 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 7%
|
| 207 | William Castle | 7%
|
| 219 | Alice Guy-Blache | 6%
|
| 156 | Chen Kaige | 6%
|
| 295 | Claude Lanzmann | 6%
|
| 277 | Guy Maddin | 6%
|
| 174 | Jia Zhangke | 6%
|
| 240 | Lev Kuleshov | 6%
|
| 83 | Louis Feuillade | 6%
|
| 168 | Mack Sennett | 6%
|
| 239 | Mikio Naruse | 6%
|
| 247 | Peter Watkins | 6%
|
| 94 | Stan Brakhage | 6%
|
| 251 | Alexander Sokurov | 5%
|
| 184 | DA Pennebaker | 5%
|
| 283 | Dave Fleischer | 5%
|
| 252 | Georges Franju | 5%
|
| 234 | John Sayles | 5%
|
| 245 | Joseph Losey | 5%
|
| 264 | Julien Duvivier | 5%
|
| 272 | Luis Garcia Berlanga | 5%
|
| 171 | Mauritz Stiller | 5%
|
| 299 | Miklos Jancso | 5%
|
| 269 | Olivier Assayas | 5%
|
| 236 | Robert Siodmak | 5%
|
| 190 | Rouben Mamoulian | 5%
|
| 225 | Albert & David Maysles | 4%
|
| 257 | Alexander Mackendrick | 4%
|
| 196 | Boris Barnet | 4%
|
| 224 | Budd Boetticher | 4%
|
| 273 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 4%
|
| 138 | Fred Niblo | 4%
|
| 173 | Jean Rouch | 4%
|
| 131 | Kenneth Anger | 4%
|
| 287 | Kon Ichikawa | 4%
|
| 263 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 4%
|
| 271 | Raj Kapoor | 4%
|
| 243 | Ralph Bakshi | 4%
|
| 125 | William KL Dickson | 4%
|
| 114 | Winsor McCay | 4%
|
| 250 | Allan Dwan | 3%
|
| 292 | Bob Clampett | 3%
|
| 113 | Cecil Hepworth | 3%
|
| 256 | Jan Svankmajer | 3%
|
| 130 | J. Stuart Blackton | 3%
|
| 278 | Morris Engel | 3%
|
| 232 | Oscar Micheaux | 3%
|
| 149 | Sidney Olcott | 3%
|
| 259 | Yevgeni Bauer | 3%
|
| 238 | Anthony Asquith | 2%
|
| 267 | Dorothy Arzner | 2%
|
| 255 | Joris Ivens | 2%
|
| 281 | Sadao Yamanaka | 1%
|
| 266 | Yuriy Norshteyn | 1%
|