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Year	Movie	Director	% Correct
2024	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	86%
1994, 1999	Schindler's List / Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	86%
2007	The Departed	Martin Scorsese	74%
1998	Titanic	James Cameron	68%
1975	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola	65%
1993, 2005	Unforgiven / Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood	64%
2004	The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King	Peter Jackson	63%
1996	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	54%
2008	No Country for Old Men	Ethan Coen / Joel Coen	53%
2006, 2013	Brokeback Mountain / Life of Pi	Ang Lee	49%
1978	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	49%
2018	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro	48%
1991	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	47%
2003	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	41%
2010	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow	40%
1987, 1990	Platoon / Born on the Fourth of July	Oliver Stone	40%
2014, 2019	Gravity, Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	38%
2020	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho	38%
1995	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	38%
2015, 2016	Birdman / The Revenant	Alejandro González Iñárritu	36%
2017	La La Land	Damien Chazelle	35%
2009	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	34%
1936, 1941, 1942, 1953	The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man	John Ford	33%
2002	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	33%
2000	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	31%
1981	Ordinary People	Robert Redford	30%
2021	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	28%
2023	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan / Daniel Scheinert	28%
2022	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	28%
1976, 1985	One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / Amadeus	Milos Forman	28%
1992	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	27%
1958, 1963	The Bridge on the River Kwai / Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	25%
1983	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough	25%
2001	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh	25%
1945, 1961	The Lost Weekend / The Apartment	Billy Wilder	24%
1982	Reds	Warren Beatty	23%
1935, 1937, 1939	It Happened One Night / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town / You Can't Take It with You	Frank Capra	22%
1949	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	22%
1968	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	21%
1948, 1955	Gentleman's Agreement / On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	20%
1988	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci	19%
1979	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	19%
2011	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	19%
1973	Cabaret	Bob Fosse	18%
1944	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	17%
1986	Out of Africa	Sydney Pollack	17%
1972	The French Connection	William Friedkin	17%
1943, 1947, 1960	Mrs. Miniver / The Best Years of Our Lives / Ben-Hur	William Wyler	17%
1997	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	16%
1989	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	16%
1984	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	16%
2012	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius	15%
1940	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming	15%
1974	The Sting	George Roy Hill	14%
1952, 1957	A Place in the Sun / Giant	George Stevens	14%
1950, 1951	A Letter to Three Wives / All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	14%
1962, 1966	West Side Story / The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	14%
1959	Gigi	Vincente Minnelli	14%
1965	My Fair Lady	George Cukor	13%
1977	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	13%
1970	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	13%
1969	Oliver!	Carol Reed	12%
1962	West Side Story	Jerome Robbins	12%
1956	Marty	Delbert Mann	11%
1954, 1967	From Here to Eternity / A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann	11%
1971	Patton	Franklin J. Schaffner	10%
1938, 1945	The Awful Truth / Going My Way	Leo McCarey	10%
1929, 1931	Two Arabian Nights / All Quiet on the Western Front	Lewis Milestone	10%
1980	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	10%
1964	Tom Jones	Tony Richardson	10%
1929, 1933	Seventh Heaven, Bad Girl	Frank Borzage	9%
1930, 1934	The Divine Lady / Cavalcade	Frank Lloyd	9%
1932	Skippy	Norman Taurog	8%