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 January 2024

Animated films in blue

For films with multiple directors, you only need to name one.

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

Level 82

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 58

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 89

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 66

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 65

Apr 2, 2023

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

Level 77

Apr 6, 2023

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

Level 69

Nov 5, 2023