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%
2003	Sofia Coppola	89%
1992	Clint Eastwood	88%
1997	James Cameron	87%
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	79%
1996	Joel Coen	79%
1995	Mel Gibson	79%
2001	Peter Jackson	78%
1991	Ridley Scott	78%
1980	Robert Redford	78%
1994	Robert Zemeckis	78%
2013	Alfonso Cuarón	77%
1973	George Lucas	77%
1990	Kevin Costner	77%
1927/1928	Ted Wilde	77%
1932/1933	Frank Capra	76%
2006	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	75%
1946	David Lean	75%
1986	Oliver Stone	75%
1974	Roman Polanski	75%
1944	Billy Wilder	74%
1948	John Huston	74%
1991	Jonathan Demme	74%
1956	Michael Anderson	74%
2007	Paul Thomas Anderson	74%
2001	Ron Howard	74%
2014	Wes Anderson	74%
1941	Orson Welles	73%
1975	Miloš Forman	72%
1947	Elia Kazan	71%
1973	Ingmar Bergman	70%
1999	Sam Mendes	70%
1969	Sydney Pollack	70%
1939	Victor Fleming	70%
1936	William Wyler	70%
1938	Michael Curtiz	69%
1978	Warren Beatty	69%
1985	Akira Kurosawa	68%
1961	Federico Fellini	68%
1969	George Roy Hill	68%
1966	Mike Nichols	68%
1982	Richard Attenborough	68%
1973	Bernardo Bertolucci	67%
1955	Delbert Mann	67%
1999	Michael Mann	67%
2010	Tom Hooper	67%
2005	Bennett Miller	66%
2008	Danny Boyle	66%
2008	David Fincher	66%
1932/1933	George Cukor	66%
2015	George Miller	66%
2000	Steven Soderbergh	66%
1971	William Friedkin	66%
1996	Anthony Minghella	65%
1943	George Stevens	65%
1983	James L. Brooks	65%
1958	Richard Brooks	65%
1972	Bob Fosse	64%
1958	Robert Wise	64%
1957	Sidney Lumet	64%
1988	Barry Levinson	63%
1949	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	63%
1970	Robert Altman	63%
1976	John G. Avildsen	62%
1978	Michael Cimino	62%
1948	Fred Zinnemann	61%
1993	Jane Campion	61%
1927/1928	Lewis Milestone	61%
1998	Roberto Benigni	61%
1951	Vincente Minnelli	61%
1949	Carol Reed	60%
1980	David Lynch	60%
2010	David O. Russell	60%
2005	George Clooney	60%
1961	Jerome Robbins	60%
1948	Laurence Olivier	60%
1995	Tim Robbins	60%
1952	Cecil B. DeMille	59%
1970	Ken Russell	59%
1962	Arthur Penn	58%
1965	John Schlesinger	58%
2011	Michel Hazanavicius	58%
1974	François Truffaut	57%
1931/1932	Frank Borzage	57%
1977	Herbert Ross	57%
2002	Pedro Almodóvar	57%
1985	Peter Weir	57%
1979	Robert Benton	57%
2002	Rob Marshall	57%
1963	Tony Richardson	57%
1976	Alan J. Pakula	56%
1941	Alexander Hall	56%
2010	Darren Aronofsky	56%
1970	Franklin J. Schaffner	56%
1928/1929	Frank Lloyd	56%
1967	Norman Jewison	56%
1999	Spike Jonze	56%
2013	Steve McQueen	56%
1989	Kenneth Branagh	55%
1997	Gus Van Sant	54%
1941	Howard Hawks	54%
1981	Hugh Hudson	54%
1986	James Ivory	54%
1927/1928	King Vidor	54%
1978	Alan Parker	53%
1937	Leo McCarey	53%
1996	Mike Leigh	53%
1930/1931	Norman Taurog	53%
1992	Neil Jordan	52%
2005	Paul Haggis	52%
2014	Richard Linklater	52%
1998	Terrence Malick	52%
2015	Adam McKay	51%
1987	Lasse Hallström	51%
1928/1929	Lionel Barrymore	51%
2012	Michael Haneke	51%
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	51%
1944	Otto Preminger	51%
1958	Stanley Kramer	51%
1978	Hal Ashby	50%
1998	John Madden	50%
1955	John Sturges	50%
1966	Michelangelo Antonioni	50%
2006	Paul Greengrass	50%
2015	Tom McCarthy	50%
1929/1930	Clarence Brown	49%
2007	Jason Reitman	49%
1974	John Cassavetes	49%
2009	Lee Daniels	49%
2000	Stephen Daldry	49%
1989	Jim Sheridan	48%
1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski	48%
1981	Louis Malle	48%
1995	Mike Figgis	48%
1971	Peter Bogdanovich	48%
2004	Alexander Payne	47%
1970	Arthur Hiller	47%
1928/1929	Ernst Lubitsch	47%
1945	Jean Renoir	47%
1961	J. Lee Thompson	47%
2015	Lenny Abrahamson	47%
1995	Michael Radford	47%
1984	Roland Joffé	47%
1956	Walter Lang	47%
1997	Curtis Hanson	46%
1968	Franco Zeffirelli	46%
1943	Henry King	46%
1972	John Boorman	46%
1979	Peter Yates	46%
1949	Robert Rossen	46%
1939	Sam Wood	46%
1969	Costa Gavras	45%
1980	Richard Rush	45%
1964	Robert Stevenson	45%
1990	Stephen Frears	45%
1990	Barbet Schroeder	44%
1985	Héctor Babenco	44%
1983	Bruce Beresford	43%
1978	Buck Henry	43%
1988	Charles Crichton	43%
1991	John Singleton	43%
1976	Lina Wertmüller	43%
1937	Sidney Franklin	43%
2004	Taylor Hackford	43%
1968	Anthony Harvey	42%
1997	Atom Egoyan	42%
2012	Benh Zeitlin	42%
1996	Scott Hicks	42%
1987	Adrian Lyne	40%
1959	Jack Clayton	40%
2007	Julian Schnabel	40%
2014	Morten Tyldum	40%
2007	Tony Gilroy	40%
1995	Chris Noonan	39%
1960	Jack Cardiff	39%
1942	John Farrow	39%
1955	Joshua Logan	39%
1997	Peter Cattaneo	39%
1930/1931	Wesley Ruggles	39%
1982	Wolfgang Petersen	39%
1960	Jules Dassin	38%
1992	Martin Brest	38%
1963	Martin Ritt	38%
1962	Robert Mulligan	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	34%
1964	Peter Glenville	34%
1957	Mark Robson	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%
1930/1931	Josef von Sternberg	31%
1928/1929	Harry Beaumont	30%
1928/1929	Irving Cummings	30%
1947	Edward Dmytryk	29%
1962	Pietro Germi	29%
1934	W. S. Van Dyke	29%
1947	Henry Koster	28%
1946	Robert Siodmak	28%
1937	William Dieterle	27%
1979	Édouard Molinaro	26%
1965	Hiroshi Teshigahara	26%
1972	Jan Troell	26%
1968	Gillo Pontecorvo	25%
1964	Michael Cacoyannis	25%
1934	Victor Schertzinger	25%