Greatest Film Directors of All Time

Guess the film director based on their short portfolio or their most important films.

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Last updated: September 16, 2014

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Hint	Answer
Larger than life, he debuted with the dazzling Citizen Kane	Orson Welles
Sleeper, Annie Hall, and Manhattan, he invited moviegoers to laugh at urban neurotics	Woody Allen
He made science trippy in 2001, Cold War politics slapstick in Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick
He was a genius of silent comedy and one of its first stars. The Tramp and Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin
You talkin' to him? Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Departed	Martin Scorsese
The quintessential Westerner. Stagecoach and The Searchers	John Ford
He went from Dementia 13 to epics like The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola
Sunset Blvd. and Ace in the Hole along with the gender-bending Some Like It Hot.	Billy Wilder
Sentimental but not sappy. (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life)	Frank Capra
Modern blockbusters Jaws, E.T., and Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and the Kill Bill series.	Quentin Tarantino
Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski

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A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan
The TV actor turned spaghetti-Western star. Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood
A master of suspense. His films are classic after classic, including Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds.	Alfred Hitchcock
He went from Scarface to His Girl Friday and from To Have and Have Not to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Howard Hawks
Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott
Metropolis, The Woman in the Window and The Big Heat	Fritz Lang
Beetle Juice, Batman, and The Nightmare Before Christmas	Tim Burton
Shadows and A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes
The Graduate, Silkwood, and Closer	Mike Nichols
MASH and Nashville	Robert Altman
He escaped the low-budget likes of Piranha Part Two to make the sci-fi spectacles Terminator, Aliens, and Avatar.	James Cameron
Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr.	David Lynch

Level 72

Sep 16, 2014

Good Quiz. The Metropolis Question wouldn't take the last name of the director.

Level 77

Sep 16, 2014

Misleading title. "Greatest Film Directors of Hollywood" would be more appropriate. It's missing Frederico Fellini, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lars von Trier, Mika Kaurismäki, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Luc Besson, Milos Forman, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone... To name a few.

Level 11

Sep 16, 2014

I agree in a way. but it was taken from an official Academy site, and this was the list.

Level 67

Sep 16, 2014

Jean Renoir, Vittorio DeSica, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges, William Wellman, and John Huston, to name a few more from both inside and outside of Hollywood. But good quiz, even if I don't agree with all of your inclusions either.

Level 11

Sep 16, 2014

sorry for that. it's corrected.

Level 50

Sep 16, 2014

the best movie quiz so far!

Level 73

Sep 17, 2014

Great quiz!