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 September 2024

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

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9 Comments

Level 81

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 78

Jun 28, 2021

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

Level 60

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 90

Apr 2, 2023

Weird how you call out The Shining for dropping the n-word, which it only does like two or three times, when you have Pulp Fiction, which uses it 10+ times, much higher on this list.

Level 67

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!

Level 66

Apr 2, 2023

Good quiz! Noticed that Toy Story 3 isn't written in blue, though. So for continuity, you should fix that.

Level 78

Apr 6, 2023

Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed now :) Glad you enjoyed!

Level 78

Nov 5, 2023