| Year | Director | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather | 96%
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| 1941 | Orson Welles | Citizen Kane | 92%
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| 1977 | George Lucas | Star Wars | 92%
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| 2001-2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings | 92%
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| 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | Psycho | 91%
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| 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction | 91%
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| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part II | 91%
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| 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 89%
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| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List | 89%
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| 1975 | Steven Spielberg | Jaws | 83%
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| 1980 | Martin Scorsese | Raging Bull | 83%
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| 1976 | Martin Scorsese | Taxi Driver | 79%
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| 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | Vertigo | 79%
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| 1986 | James Cameron | Aliens | 77%
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| 1954 | Akira Kuroswa | Seven Samurai | 77%
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| 1952 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Singin' in the Rain | 77%
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| 1946 | Frank Capra | It's A Wonderful Life | 75%
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| 2006 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed | 75%
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| 1990 | Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves | 74%
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| 1981 | Steven Spielberg | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 74%
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| 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | Rear Window | 74%
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| 1942 | Michael Curtiz | Casablanca | 72%
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| 1990 | Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas | 72%
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| 1986 | Oliver Stone | Platoon | 72%
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| 1984 | Miloš Forman | Amadeus | 68%
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| 1986 | David Lynch | Blue Velvet | 68%
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| 1974 | Roman Polanski | Chinatown | 68%
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| 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | Dr. Strangelove | 68%
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| 1931 | Charlie Chaplin | City Lights | 66%
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| 1979 | Woody Allen | Manhattan | 62%
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| 2000 | Christopher Nolan | Memento | 62%
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| 1989 | Spike Lee | Do The Right Thing | 60%
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| 1962 | David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia | 60%
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| 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Magnolia | 58%
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| 2000 | Darren Aronofksy | Requiem for a Dream | 58%
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| 1960 | Billy Wilder | The Apartment | 58%
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| 1977 | Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 57%
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| 1978 | John Carpenter | Halloween | 57%
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| 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | Hamlet | 57%
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| 1954 | Elia Kazan | On The Waterfront | 57%
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| 1957 | David Lean | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 57%
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| 1979 | Terry Jones | The Life of Brian | 57%
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| 1988 | John McTiernan | Die Hard | 55%
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| 1980 | Irvin Kershner | The Empire Strikes Back | 55%
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| 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton | 53%
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| 1939 | Victor Fleming | The Wizard of Oz | 53%
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| 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | Das Boot | 51%
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| 1975 | Terry Jones | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 49%
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| 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | Rashomon | 49%
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| 1949 | Carol Reed | The Third Man | 47%
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| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | All About Eve | 45%
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| 1975 | Robert Altman | Nashville | 45%
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| 1950 | Billy Wilder | Sunset Blvd. | 45%
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| 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | Cinema Paradiso | 43%
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| 1922 | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Nosferatu | 43%
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| 1995 | Richard Linklater | Before Sunrise | 42%
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| 1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Three Colors: Red | 42%
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| 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | Yojimbo | 42%
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| 1958 | Francois Truffaut | The 400 Blows | 40%
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| 1988 | Rob Reiner | When Harry Met Sally | 40%
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| 1987 | Rob Reiner | The Princess Bride | 36%
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| 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | The Wild Bunch | 36%
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| 1967 | Arthur Penn | Bonnie and Clyde | 34%
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| 2005 | Steven Spielberg | Munich | 32%
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| 1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady | 32%
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| 1984 | Rob Reiner | This is Spinal Tap | 28%
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| 1962 | Robert Mulligan | To Kill A Mockingbird | 28%
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| 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Diabolique | 25%
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| 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | High Noon | 25%
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| 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | King Kong | 25%
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| 1946 | Howard Hawks | The Big Sleep | 25%
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| 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | The Decalogue | 25%
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| 1987 | Brian de Palma | The Untouchables | 23%
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| 1959 | Satyajit Ray | The World of Apu | 23%
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| 1981 | Terry Gilliam | Time Bandits | 23%
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| 1988 | Charles Crichton | A Fish Called Wanda | 19%
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| 1994 | Terry Zwigoff | Crumb | 19%
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| 1991 | Zhang Yimou | Raise the Red Lantern | 19%
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| 1962 | John Ford | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 19%
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| 1997 | Atom Egoyan | The Sweet Hereafter | 19%
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| 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Wages of Fear | 19%
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| 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | Cries and Whispers | 17%
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| 1989 | Edward Zwick | Glory | 17%
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| 1989 | Cameron Crowe | Say Anything | 17%
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| 1989 | Peter Greenaway | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover | 15%
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| 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | The Hidden Fortress | 15%
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| 1964 | Jacques Demy | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 15%
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| 1991 | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Beauty and the Beast | 13%
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| 1986 | Claude Berri | Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources | 13%
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| 1999 | Tim Roth | The War Zone | 13%
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| 1991 | Kenneth Branagh | Dead Again | 11%
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| 1984 | Jonathan Demme | Stop Making Sense | 11%
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| 1961 | Robert Rossen | The Hustler | 11%
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| 1960 | René Clément | Purple Noon | 9%
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| 1984 | Barry Levinson | The Natural | 9%
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| 1974 | Lina Wertmüller | Swept Away | 8%
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| 1992 | Claude Sautet | A Heart in Winter | 6%
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| 1987 | Eric Rohmer | Boyfriends and Girlfriends | 6%
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| 1992 | James Foley | Glengarry Glen Ross | 6%
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| 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | Gettysburg | 4%
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