Directors of the Top 100 IMDb Movies

Can you name the directors of the top 100 movies, as rated by users on IMDb.

Source https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/ - Correct as of March 2023

Animated films in blue

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Rank	Movie	Director
1	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont
2	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola
3	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan
4	The Godfather: Part II	Francis Ford Coppola
5	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet
6	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg
7	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson
8	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino
9	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson
10	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Sergio Leone
11	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis
12	Fight Club	David Fincher
13	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson
14	Inception	Christopher Nolan
15	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	Irvin Kershner
16	The Matrix	The Wachowskis
17	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese
18	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Milos Forman
19	Se7en	David Fincher
20	Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa
21	It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra
22	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme
23	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
24	City of God	Fernando Meirelles
25	Interstellar	Christopher Nolan
26	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
27	The Green Mile	Frank Darabont
28	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope	George Lucas
29	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	James Cameron
30	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis
31	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki
32	The Pianist	Roman Polanski
33	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock
34	Parasite	Bong Joon Ho
35	Léon: The Professional	Luc Besson
36	The Lion King (1994)	Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
37	Gladiator	Ridley Scott
38	American History X	Tony Kaye
39	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
40	The Prestige	Christopher Nolan
41	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
42	The Usual Suspects	Bryan Singer
43	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz
44	Grave of the Fireflies	Isao Takahata
45	Hara-Kiri	Masaki Kobayashi
46	The Intouchables	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
47	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin
48	Once Upon a Time in the West	Sergio Leone
49	Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore
50	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock
51	Alien	Ridley Scott
52	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin
53	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola
54	Memento	Christopher Nolan
55	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino
56	Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg
57	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
58	The Lives of Others	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
59	Sunset Blvd.	Billy Wilder
60	Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick
61	The Shining	Stanley Kubrick
62	The Great Dictator	Charlie Chaplin
63	Avengers: Infinity War	Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
64	Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder
65	Aliens	James Cameron
66	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman
67	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
68	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Stanley Kubrick
69	The Dark Knight Rises	Christopher Nolan
70	Oldboy	Chan-wook Park
71	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
72	Amadeus	Milos Forman
73	Coco	Lee Unkrich
74	Toy Story	John Lasseter
75	Braveheart	Mel Gibson
76	Joker	Todd Phillips
77	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen
78	Avengers: Endgame	Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
79	Princess Mononoke	Hayao Miyazaki
80	Once Upon a Time in America	Sergio Leone
81	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant
82	Your Name.	Makoto Shinkai
83	Singin' in the Rain	Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
84	3 Idiots	Rajkumar Hirani
85	Requiem for a Dream	Darren Aronofsky
86	High and Low	Akira Kurosawa
87	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
88	Capernaum	Nadine Labaki
89	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi	Richard Marquand
90	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Michel Gondry
91	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick
92	Come and See	Elem Klimov
93	Reservoir Dogs	Quentin Tarantino
94	The Hunt	Thomas Vinterberg
95	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles
96	M	Fritz Lang
97	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean
98	North by Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock
99	Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa
100	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock

Level 84

Jun 28, 2021

Can't believe I forgot Brian Singer directed The Usual Suspects. duh... also I'm absolutely floored that Michael Bay, the greatest director of his generation and perhaps of all time, is nowhere in the top 100.

Level 76

Jun 28, 2021

I'm waiting for the comments about how Michael Bay does not belong on this list.

Level 54

Jun 28, 2021

Surprised The Shining made the list. In my opinion, any movie that drops the N-Bomb does not deserve this list. (great movie excluding that and the gore tho)

Level 64

Oct 1, 2022

Damn, I really couldn't think of another Pixar guy except Pete Docter.

Sorry Lee Unkrich - you did some of my favourite films and I don't know your name!