Academy Award for Best Director Nominees - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Hint Answer % Correct
1977 Steven Spielberg
93%
1972 Francis Ford Coppola
90%
1980 Martin Scorsese
90%
1992 Clint Eastwood
88%
2003 Sofia Coppola
88%
1997 James Cameron
86%
1940 Alfred Hitchcock
84%
2000 Ang Lee
84%
1935 John Ford
84%
1977 Woody Allen
83%
2009 Kathryn Bigelow
82%
1964 Stanley Kubrick
81%
1994 Quentin Tarantino
80%
2007 Ethan Coen
78%
1996 Joel Coen
78%
1995 Mel Gibson
78%
2001 Peter Jackson
78%
1991 Ridley Scott
78%
1980 Robert Redford
78%
1994 Robert Zemeckis
78%
1973 George Lucas
77%
1990 Kevin Costner
77%
1927/1928 Ted Wilde
77%
2013 Alfonso Cuarón
76%
1932/1933 Frank Capra
76%
1946 David Lean
75%
1986 Oliver Stone
75%
2006 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
74%
1991 Jonathan Demme
74%
1956 Michael Anderson
74%
2007 Paul Thomas Anderson
74%
1974 Roman Polanski
74%
2001 Ron Howard
74%
2014 Wes Anderson
74%
1944 Billy Wilder
73%
1948 John Huston
73%
1975 Miloš Forman
72%
1941 Orson Welles
72%
1947 Elia Kazan
70%
1973 Ingmar Bergman
70%
1969 Sydney Pollack
70%
1936 William Wyler
70%
1999 Sam Mendes
69%
1939 Victor Fleming
69%
1978 Warren Beatty
69%
1985 Akira Kurosawa
68%
1961 Federico Fellini
68%
1938 Michael Curtiz
68%
1982 Richard Attenborough
68%
1969 George Roy Hill
67%
1966 Mike Nichols
67%
2010 Tom Hooper
67%
1973 Bernardo Bertolucci
66%
2008 Danny Boyle
66%
2008 David Fincher
66%
1955 Delbert Mann
66%
2015 George Miller
66%
1999 Michael Mann
66%
2000 Steven Soderbergh
66%
1971 William Friedkin
66%
2005 Bennett Miller
65%
1932/1933 George Cukor
65%
1983 James L. Brooks
65%
1958 Richard Brooks
65%
1996 Anthony Minghella
64%
1943 George Stevens
64%
1957 Sidney Lumet
64%
1988 Barry Levinson
63%
1972 Bob Fosse
63%
1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
63%
1970 Robert Altman
63%
1958 Robert Wise
63%
1976 John G. Avildsen
62%
1978 Michael Cimino
62%
1948 Fred Zinnemann
61%
1993 Jane Campion
61%
1998 Roberto Benigni
61%
1949 Carol Reed
60%
1980 David Lynch
60%
2010 David O. Russell
60%
2005 George Clooney
60%
1948 Laurence Olivier
60%
1927/1928 Lewis Milestone
60%
1951 Vincente Minnelli
60%
1952 Cecil B. DeMille
59%
1961 Jerome Robbins
59%
1970 Ken Russell
59%
1995 Tim Robbins
59%
1965 John Schlesinger
58%
2011 Michel Hazanavicius
58%
1962 Arthur Penn
57%
1931/1932 Frank Borzage
57%
1977 Herbert Ross
57%
2002 Pedro Almodóvar
57%
1985 Peter Weir
57%
2002 Rob Marshall
57%
1963 Tony Richardson
57%
1976 Alan J. Pakula
56%
1941 Alexander Hall
56%
2010 Darren Aronofsky
56%
1974 François Truffaut
56%
1970 Franklin J. Schaffner
56%
1979 Robert Benton
56%
1999 Spike Jonze
56%
2013 Steve McQueen
56%
1928/1929 Frank Lloyd
55%
1967 Norman Jewison
55%
1986 James Ivory
54%
1989 Kenneth Branagh
54%
1978 Alan Parker
53%
1997 Gus Van Sant
53%
1941 Howard Hawks
53%
1981 Hugh Hudson
53%
1927/1928 King Vidor
53%
1937 Leo McCarey
53%
1996 Mike Leigh
52%
1930/1931 Norman Taurog
52%
2014 Richard Linklater
52%
2015 Adam McKay
51%
2012 Michael Haneke
51%
1992 Neil Jordan
51%
1944 Otto Preminger
51%
2005 Paul Haggis
51%
1958 Stanley Kramer
51%
1998 Terrence Malick
51%
1998 John Madden
50%
1955 John Sturges
50%
1987 Lasse Hallström
50%
1928/1929 Lionel Barrymore
50%
1999 M. Night Shyamalan
50%
2006 Paul Greengrass
50%
2015 Tom McCarthy
50%
1929/1930 Clarence Brown
49%
1978 Hal Ashby
49%
2007 Jason Reitman
49%
1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
49%
2000 Stephen Daldry
49%
1989 Jim Sheridan
48%
1974 John Cassavetes
48%
2009 Lee Daniels
48%
1970 Arthur Hiller
47%
1928/1929 Ernst Lubitsch
47%
1994 Krzysztof Kieślowski
47%
2015 Lenny Abrahamson
47%
1981 Louis Malle
47%
1995 Mike Figgis
47%
1971 Peter Bogdanovich
47%
1984 Roland Joffé
47%
1956 Walter Lang
47%
2004 Alexander Payne
46%
1997 Curtis Hanson
46%
1943 Henry King
46%
1945 Jean Renoir
46%
1961 J. Lee Thompson
46%
1972 John Boorman
46%
1995 Michael Radford
46%
1969 Costa Gavras
45%
1968 Franco Zeffirelli
45%
1979 Peter Yates
45%
1949 Robert Rossen
45%
1939 Sam Wood
45%
1980 Richard Rush
44%
1964 Robert Stevenson
44%
1990 Stephen Frears
44%
1990 Barbet Schroeder
43%
1985 Héctor Babenco
43%
1991 John Singleton
43%
1937 Sidney Franklin
43%
2004 Taylor Hackford
43%
1968 Anthony Harvey
42%
2012 Benh Zeitlin
42%
1983 Bruce Beresford
42%
1978 Buck Henry
42%
1988 Charles Crichton
42%
1976 Lina Wertmüller
42%
1996 Scott Hicks
42%
1997 Atom Egoyan
41%
2007 Julian Schnabel
40%
2014 Morten Tyldum
40%
2007 Tony Gilroy
40%
1987 Adrian Lyne
39%
1995 Chris Noonan
39%
1959 Jack Clayton
39%
1942 John Farrow
39%
1955 Joshua Logan
39%
1997 Peter Cattaneo
39%
1930/1931 Wesley Ruggles
39%
1960 Jack Cardiff
38%
1960 Jules Dassin
38%
1992 Martin Brest
38%
1963 Martin Ritt
38%
1962 Robert Mulligan
38%
1982 Wolfgang Petersen
38%
1935 Henry Hathaway
37%
1953 Charles Walters
36%
1927/1928 Herbert Brenon
36%
2003 Fernando Meirelles
35%
1981 Mark Rydell
35%
1942 Mervyn LeRoy
35%
1962 Frank Perry
34%
1936 Gregory La Cava
33%
1957 Mark Robson
33%
1964 Peter Glenville
33%
1954 George Seaton
32%
1948 Jean Negulesco
32%
1929/1930 Robert Z. Leonard
32%
1937 William A. Wellman
32%
1948 Anatole Litvak
31%
1966 Claude Lelouch
31%
1928/1929 Harry Beaumont
30%
1928/1929 Irving Cummings
30%
1930/1931 Josef von Sternberg
30%
1947 Edward Dmytryk
29%
1962 Pietro Germi
29%
1934 W. S. Van Dyke
29%
1946 Robert Siodmak
28%
1947 Henry Koster
27%
1937 William Dieterle
27%
1979 Édouard Molinaro
26%
1972 Jan Troell
26%
1968 Gillo Pontecorvo
25%
1965 Hiroshi Teshigahara
25%
1964 Michael Cacoyannis
25%
1934 Victor Schertzinger
24%
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