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Statistics for The Cinema Archives Top 250 Directors
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- This quiz has been taken 884 times
- The average score is 91 of 254
Answer Stats
| Country | Director | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom, United States | Alfred Hitchcock | 94%
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| United States | Steven Spielberg | 90%
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| United States | Martin Scorsese | 88%
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| Japan | Akira Kurosawa | 87%
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| United States | Stanley Kubrick | 87%
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| Sweden | Ingmar Bergman | 86%
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| United States | Francis Ford Coppola | 83%
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| United States | Quentin Tarantino | 83%
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| Italy | Federico Fellini | 82%
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| United States | Sofia Coppola | 80%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Christopher Nolan | 75%
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| France | Jean-Luc Godard | 75%
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| United States | Wes Anderson | 75%
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| France | François Truffaut | 74%
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| United States | Paul Thomas Anderson | 74%
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| Poland, United States, France | Roman Polanski | 74%
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| United States | Ethan Coen | 73%
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| Joel Coen | 73%
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| United States | John Ford | 73%
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| Soviet Union | Andrei Tarkovsky | 72%
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| United States | Spike Lee | 71%
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| Taiwan, United States | Ang Lee | 69%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Charlie Chaplin | 68%
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| Canada, United States | James Cameron | 68%
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| Sweden | Roy Andersson | 68%
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| Italy, Spain, United States | Sergio Leone | 68%
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| Austria, United States | Billy Wilder | 67%
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| United States | David Lynch | 67%
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| New Zealand | Peter Jackson | 67%
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| South Korea | Bong Joon-Ho | 66%
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| United States | Orson Welles | 66%
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| Mexico, United Kingdom, United States | Alfonso Cuarón | 65%
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| United States | David Fincher | 65%
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| Austria, Germany, United States | Fritz Lang | 65%
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| United States | George Lucas | 65%
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| South Korea | Lee Chang-dong | 65%
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| United States | Ridley Scott | 65%
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| Japan | Yasujirô Ozu | 65%
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| Japan | Hayao Miyazaki | 64%
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| China | Wong Kar-Wai | 64%
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| Mexico, United States | Guillermo del Toro | 63%
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| United States | Woody Allen | 63%
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| United States | Clint Eastwood | 62%
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| Mexico, United States | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 61%
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| United Kingdom | David Lean | 59%
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| Spain | Pedro Almodóvar | 59%
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| Denmark, United Kingdom | Lars von Trier | 58%
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| France | Jean Renoir | 57%
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| Italy | Michelangelo Antonioni | 57%
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| Russia, Soviet Union | Sergei Eisenstein | 57%
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| United States | Brian De Palma | 54%
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| Spain, France, Mexico | Luis Buñuel | 54%
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| Czech Republic, United States | Miloš Forman | 54%
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| South Korea | Park Chan-Wook | 54%
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| United States | Buster Keaton | 53%
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| United States | Robert Zemeckis | 53%
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| Belgium, France | Agnès Varda | 52%
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| Italy | Bernardo Bertolucci | 52%
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| Canada | David Cronenberg | 52%
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| Italy, United States | Frank Capra | 52%
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| United States | Kathryn Bigelow | 52%
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| United States | Sidney Lumet | 52%
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| Germany, United States | Werner Herzog | 52%
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| Italy | Roberto Rossellini | 51%
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| Germany, United States | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | 50%
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| Germany, Austria, France | Michael Haneke | 50%
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| India | Satyajit Ray | 50%
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| United States | Howard Hawks | 48%
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| United States | John Huston | 48%
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| Germany, United States | William Wyler | 48%
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| Denmark, France | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 47%
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| Canada, United States | Denis Villeneuve | 47%
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| Italy | Vittorio De Sica | 47%
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| United States | David Wark Griffith | 46%
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| United States | John Carpenter | 46%
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| Poland, France | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 46%
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| United States | Nicholas Ray | 46%
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| Germany | Wim Wenders | 46%
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| China | John Woo | 44%
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| Hungary, United States | Michael Curtiz | 44%
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| France | Robert Bresson | 44%
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| United States | Spike Jonze | 44%
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| United States | Tim Burton | 44%
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| United States | Elia Kazan | 43%
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| Australia | George Miller | 43%
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| Italy | Luchino Visconti | 43%
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| United States | Michael Mann | 43%
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| Italy | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 43%
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| Germany | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 43%
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| United States | Terrence Malick | 43%
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| United States | Anthony Mann | 42%
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| United Kingdom | Danny Boyle | 42%
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| United States | Oliver Stone | 42%
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| United States | Victor Fleming | 42%
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| United States | Jonathan Demme | 41%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Sam Mendes | 41%
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| United States | Steven Soderbergh | 41%
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| United States | Bennett Miller | 40%
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| United States | Damien Chazelle | 40%
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| France | Jacques Tati | 40%
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| Japan | Kenji Mizoguchi | 40%
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| New Zealand, Australia | Jane Campion | 39%
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| United States | Robert Altman | 39%
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| Hungary | Béla Tarr | 38%
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| United States | Darren Aronofsky | 37%
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| United States | George Cukor | 37%
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| United States | Richard Linklater | 37%
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| United States | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 36%
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| France | Alain Resnais | 35%
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| France | Jean-Pierre Melville | 35%
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| United Kingdom | Michael Powell | 35%
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| United States | Mike Nichols | 35%
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| Australia | Peter Weir | 35%
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| Iran | Asghar Farhadi | 34%
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| United States | Cecil B. DeMille | 34%
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| Lana Wachowski | 34%
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| United States | Lilly Wachowski | 34%
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| United States, United Kingdom | Terry Gilliam | 34%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Edgar Wright | 33%
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| United States | Greta Gerwig | 33%
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| France | Jacques Demy | 33%
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| United States | Jeff Nichols | 33%
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| Germany, France, United States | Max Ophüls | 33%
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| Iran | Abbas Kiarostami | 32%
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| France | Éric Rohmer | 32%
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| United Kingdom | Carol Reed | 31%
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| Taiwan | Edward Yang | 31%
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| United States | John Cassavetes | 31%
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| United States | Michael Cimino | 31%
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| United States | Robert WIse | 31%
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| United States | Sidney Pollack | 31%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Tom Hooper | 31%
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| China | Zhang Yimou | 31%
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| Italy | Dario Argento | 30%
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| Germany, United States | Ernst Lubitsch | 30%
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| United States | George A. Romero | 30%
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| United States | George Roy Hill | 30%
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| United States | George Stevens | 30%
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| United Kingdom | Joe Wright | 30%
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| United Kingdom | Ken Loach | 30%
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| Italy | Paolo Sorrentino | 30%
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| United States | Sam Peckinpah | 30%
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| United States | Vincente Minnelli | 30%
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| United States | William Friedkin | 30%
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| Argentina, France | Gaspar Noé | 28%
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| France, United States | Louis Malle | 28%
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| Greece, United Kingdom | Yorgos Lanthimos | 28%
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| United States | Jim Jarmusch | 27%
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| Austria, United States | Josef von Sternberg | 27%
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| United States | Gus Van Sant | 26%
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| Belgium | Jean-Pierre Dardenne | 26%
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| Luc Dardenne | 26%
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| United Kingdom | Mike Leigh | 26%
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| Canada | Xavier Dolan | 26%
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| Chile, France, Mexico | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 25%
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| Austria, United States | Erich von Stroheim | 25%
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| Netherlands, United States | Paul Verhoeven | 25%
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| United States | Ari Aster | 24%
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| United States | Bob Fosse | 24%
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| United States | David O. Russell | 24%
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| China | Jia Zhangke | 24%
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| Russia, Soviet Union | Mikhail Kalatozov | 24%
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| United Kingdom | Nicolas Roeg | 24%
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| Austria, United States | Otto Preminger | 24%
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| United States | Steve McQueen | 24%
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| Poland | Andrzej Wajda | 23%
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| Japan | Masaki Kobayashi | 23%
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| United States | Peter Bogdanovich | 23%
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| United States | Rob Reiner | 23%
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| Thailand | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 22%
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| France | Jean Vigo | 22%
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| Italy | Luca Guadagnino | 22%
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| Poland | Paweł Pawlikowski | 22%
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| United States | Preston Sturges | 22%
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| United States | Robert Eggers | 22%
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| Finland | Aki Kaurismäki | 21%
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| United States | Alan J. Pakula | 21%
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| United Kingdom | Anthony Minghella | 21%
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| United Kingdom | Peter Greenaway | 21%
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| France | Claire Denis | 20%
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| Taiwan | Hou Hsiao-hsien | 20%
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| United States | John Sturges | 20%
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| United States | King Vidor | 20%
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| United Kingdom | Laurence Olivier | 20%
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| France | Leos Carax | 20%
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| United States | Noah Baumbach | 20%
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| United States | Raoul Walsh | 20%
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| Japan | Shôhei Imamura | 20%
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| United States | Arthur Penn | 19%
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| United States | Barry Levinson | 19%
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| Germany, United States | Douglas Sirk | 19%
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| Austria, United States, United Kingdom | Fred Zinnemann | 19%
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| United Kingdom, United States | John Schlesinger | 19%
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| France | Marcel Carné | 19%
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| Denmark, United States | Nicolas Winding Refn | 18%
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| United States | Stanley Donen | 18%
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| Austria | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 17%
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| France | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 17%
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| United States | John McTiernan | 17%
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| Italy | Sergio Corbucci | 17%
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| United States | Barry Jenkins | 16%
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| France | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 16%
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| United States | Paul Schrader | 16%
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| Russia, United States | Lewis Milestone | 15%
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| United States | Warren Beatty | 15%
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| United States | Alexander Payne | 14%
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| Benjamin Safdie | 14%
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| United States | James Ivory | 14%
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| United States | Joshua Safdie | 14%
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| France, United Kingdom, United States | René Clair | 14%
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| United States | Hal Ashby | 13%
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| Italian | Mario Bava | 13%
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| Australia | Baz Luhrmann | 12%
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| Romania | Cristian Mungiu | 12%
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| United Kingdom | James Whale | 12%
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| France | Jean Cocteau | 12%
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| United Kingdom, United States | John Boorman | 12%
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| United States | Jules Dassin | 12%
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| United States | Tod Browning | 11%
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| United States | Todd Haynes | 11%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Tony Richardson | 11%
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| United States | Franklin J. Schaffner | 10%
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| France, United States | Jacques Tourneur | 10%
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| United States | John Frankenheimer | 10%
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| United States | Joseph Lewis | 10%
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| United States | Kelly Reichardt | 10%
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| United States | Kenneth Lonergan | 10%
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| Hungary | László Nemes | 10%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Paul Greengrass | 10%
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| Japan | Satoshi Kon | 10%
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| United States | Abel Ferrara | 9%
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| United States | Frank Borzage | 9%
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| United States | James Gray | 9%
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| United States | Lawrence Kasdan | 9%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Lynne Ramsay | 9%
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| United States | Ryan Coogler | 9%
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| France | René Clément | 8%
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| United States | Robert Aldrich | 8%
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| United States | Derek Cianfrance | 7%
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| United States | Don Siegel | 7%
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| United Kingdom | Joanna Hogg | 7%
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| United States | Samuel Fuller | 7%
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| United Kingdom | Terence Davies | 7%
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| Germany, United States | Tom Tykwer | 7%
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| United Kingdom | Jonathan Glazer | 6%
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| Czech Republic, United States | Edgar G. Ulmer | 5%
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| United States | Robert Rossen | 5%
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| United States | Trey Edward Shults | 5%
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| New Zealand, Australia, United States | Andrew Dominik | 4%
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| United States | Budd Boetticher | 4%
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| United States | John Sayles | 4%
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| United Kingdom, United States | Jack Clayton | 3%
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| Russia | Rouben Mamoulian | 3%
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| United States | Carroll Ballard | 2%
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