Statistics for 300 Greatest Movie Directors

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RANK	DIRECTOR	% Correct
1	Alfred Hitchcock	92%
27	Steven Spielberg	91%
22	Martin Scorsese	86%
51	Francis Ford Coppola	80%
9	Stanley Kubrick	80%
49	Quentin Tarantino	79%
297	Sofia Coppola	79%
4	Akira Kurosawa	71%
100	Christopher Nolan	70%
53	James Cameron	70%
288	Bong Joon-Ho	69%
2	John Ford	67%
186	George Lucas	66%
8	Orson Welles	66%
73	Wes Anderson	66%
3	Charles Chaplin	65%
63	Paul Thomas Anderson	65%
54	Spike Lee	65%
165	Ang Lee	64%
58	Ridley Scott	63%
119	Clint Eastwood	62%
14	Federico Fellini	62%
16	Ingmar Bergman	62%
50	Joel & Ethan Coen	61%
202	Lindsay Anderson	61%
43	David Lynch	60%
128	David Fincher	58%
41	Roman Polanski	57%
30	Billy Wilder	56%
183	Peter Jackson	56%
13	Jean-Luc Godard	55%
57	Sergio Leone	55%
35	Woody Allen	55%
12	Fritz Lang	52%
178	Robert Zemeckis	51%
37	David Lean	50%
21	Francois Truffaut	50%
275	Guillermo del Toro	49%
40	Frank Capra	48%
179	Alfonso Cuaron	47%
25	Andrei Tarkovsky	47%
31	Buster Keaton	47%
74	Sidney Lumet	47%
213	Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu	46%
137	Brian De Palma	46%
46	Hayao Miyazaki	45%
191	Kathryn Bigelow	44%
136	Milos Forman	44%
155	Tim Burton	44%
67	John Carpenter	43%
80	John Huston	43%
154	John Woo	43%
5	DW Griffith	42%
95	Lars von Trier	40%
194	Michael Mann	40%
203	Oliver Stone	40%
127	Anthony Mann	39%
88	Michael Curtiz	39%
102	Pedro Almodovar	39%
7	Sergei Eisenstein	39%
19	Yasujiro Ozu	39%
110	Elia Kazan	38%
230	Kevin Smith	38%
11	Luis Bunuel	38%
107	William Wyler	38%
56	Bernardo Bertolucci	37%
6	Jean Renoir	37%
285	Jonathan Demme	37%
15	FW Murnau	36%
28	Michelangelo Antonioni	36%
68	Wong Kar-Wai	36%
18	Howard Hawks	35%
36	Robert Altman	35%
290	Victor Fleming	35%
47	Werner Herzog	35%
249	Wes Craven	35%
122	Agnes Varda	34%
78	David Cronenberg	34%
211	Jane Campion	34%
270	Sydney Pollack	33%
59	Vittorio De Sica	33%
177	William Friedkin	33%
91	Chuck Jones	32%
145	Danny Boyle	32%
139	Mike Nichols	32%
65	Nicholas Ray	32%
33	Roberto Rossellini	32%
24	Satyajit Ray	32%
166	Steven Soderbergh	32%
23	Cecil B. DeMille	31%
20	Robert Bresson	31%
144	George Miller	30%
175	John Hughes	30%
296	Michael Cimino	30%
185	Sam Raimi	30%
180	Carol Reed	29%
159	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	29%
10	George Melies	28%
143	Gus Van Sant	28%
42	Luchino Visconti	28%
189	Mel Brooks	28%
97	Richard Linklater	28%
84	Terrence Malick	28%
254	Walter Hill	28%
92	Wim Wenders	28%
17	Carl Theodor Dreyer	27%
248	Darren Aronofsky	27%
106	George Cukor	27%
82	Krzysztof Kieslowski	27%
126	Robert Wise	27%
187	George Stevens	26%
70	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	26%
123	Vincente Minnelli	26%
29	John Cassavetes	25%
129	Michael Haneke	25%
48	Michael Powell	25%
150	Walt Disney	25%
167	Fred Zinnemann	24%
176	Peter Weir	24%
93	Pier Paolo Pasolini	24%
164	Terry Gilliam	24%
71	Jean-Pierre Melville	23%
34	Kenji Mizoguchi	23%
216	Rob Reiner	23%
140	Arthur Penn	22%
26	Ernst Lubitsch	22%
260	Robert Rodriguez	22%
45	Stanley Donen	22%
170	Eric Rohmer	21%
181	Jacques Demy	21%
96	Jacques Tati	21%
117	Louis & Auguste Lumiere	21%
132	Mike Leigh	21%
38	Abbas Kiarostami	20%
293	Clarence Brown	20%
246	John Schlesinger	20%
163	Bela Tarr	19%
112	Dario Argento	19%
291	David O. Russell	19%
208	Edward Yang	19%
75	George A. Romero	19%
158	Ken Loach	19%
66	Sam Peckinpah	19%
87	Alain Resnais	18%
86	Chantal Akerman	18%
32	Erich von Stroheim	18%
220	Henry King	18%
99	Jim Jarmusch	18%
160	John Lasseter	18%
222	Ken Russell	18%
105	Louis Malle	18%
197	Paul Verhoeven	18%
280	Alan J. Pakula	17%
133	Claire Denis	17%
89	Claude Chabrol	17%
157	Otto Preminger	17%
242	Peter Bogdanovich	17%
98	Preston Sturges	17%
115	Andrzej Wajda	16%
39	Dziga Vertov	16%
44	Jean Vigo	16%
111	King Vidor	16%
237	Richard Donner	16%
135	GW Pabst	15%
199	Henri-Georges Clouzot	15%
153	Jacques Rivette	15%
79	Jean Cocteau	15%
69	Josef von Sternberg	15%
182	Leo McCarey	15%
279	Jerry Lewis	14%
200	John Waters	14%
146	Marcel Carne	14%
268	Blake Edwards	13%
60	Douglas Sirk	13%
134	Frank Borzage	13%
282	Herschell Gordon Lewis	13%
118	James Whale	13%
148	Leni Riefenstahl	13%
72	Max Ophuls	13%
198	Nicolas Roeg	13%
217	Paul Greengrass	13%
261	Pedro Costa	13%
262	Alexander Payne	12%
276	Costa-Gavras	12%
233	Hal Ashby	12%
141	John Frankenheimer	12%
227	John Landis	12%
124	Tod Browning	12%
61	Victor Sjostrom	12%
116	Zhang Yimou	12%
101	Abel Gance	11%
206	Alejandro Jodorowsky	11%
85	Edwin S. Porter	11%
298	Lasse Hallstrom	11%
55	Raoul Walsh	11%
192	Robert Aldrich	11%
201	William A. Wellman	11%
229	Aki Kaurismaki	10%
121	Chris Marker	10%
147	Don Siegel	10%
274	Emir Kusturica	10%
300	Henry Hathaway	10%
284	James Ivory	10%
235	Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne	10%
64	Mario Bava	10%
289	Peter Greenaway	10%
193	Errol Morris	9%
221	Glauber Rocha	9%
210	Jacques Becker	9%
294	Jacques Tourneur	9%
228	John Boorman	9%
76	Maurice Tourneur	9%
172	Nagisa Oshima	9%
142	Rene Clair	9%
103	Roger Corman	9%
212	Stephen Frears	9%
218	Takeshi Kitano	9%
169	Theo Angelopoulos	9%
223	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	8%
152	Jack Arnold	8%
226	Jules Dassin	8%
52	Robert J. Flaherty	8%
286	Terence Davies	8%
120	Todd Haynes	8%
277	Guy Maddin	7%
108	Hou Hsiao-Hsien	7%
209	Ida Lupino	7%
214	Mario Monicelli	7%
90	Maya Deren	7%
231	Mervyn LeRoy	7%
188	Ousmane Sembene	7%
253	Russ Meyer	7%
81	Samuel Fuller	7%
244	Tsai Ming-Liang	7%
109	Vsevolod Pudovkin	7%
77	Busby Berkeley	6%
151	Charles Burnett	6%
156	Chen Kaige	6%
283	Dave Fleischer	6%
195	Ishiro Honda	6%
245	Joseph Losey	6%
104	Lois Weber	6%
83	Louis Feuillade	6%
265	Manoel de Oliveira	6%
171	Mauritz Stiller	6%
239	Mikio Naruse	6%
241	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	6%
205	Richard Lester	6%
215	Sergei Parajanov	6%
162	Tex Avery	6%
62	Alexander Dovzhenko	5%
251	Alexander Sokurov	5%
219	Alice Guy-Blache	5%
295	Claude Lanzmann	5%
252	Georges Franju	5%
161	Gordon Parks	5%
174	Jia Zhangke	5%
264	Julien Duvivier	5%
131	Kenneth Anger	5%
272	Luis Garcia Berlanga	5%
269	Olivier Assayas	5%
247	Peter Watkins	5%
243	Ralph Bakshi	5%
236	Robert Siodmak	5%
94	Stan Brakhage	5%
125	William KL Dickson	5%
257	Alexander Mackendrick	4%
204	Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey	4%
196	Boris Barnet	4%
184	DA Pennebaker	4%
273	Edgar G. Ulmer	4%
258	Frederick Wiseman	4%
138	Fred Niblo	4%
130	J. Stuart Blackton	4%
240	Lev Kuleshov	4%
168	Mack Sennett	4%
299	Miklos Jancso	4%
278	Morris Engel	4%
190	Rouben Mamoulian	4%
207	William Castle	4%
114	Winsor McCay	4%
238	Anthony Asquith	3%
292	Bob Clampett	3%
224	Budd Boetticher	3%
113	Cecil Hepworth	3%
267	Dorothy Arzner	3%
256	Jan Svankmajer	3%
173	Jean Rouch	3%
255	Joris Ivens	3%
287	Kon Ichikawa	3%
263	Mohsen Makhmalbaf	3%
232	Oscar Micheaux	3%
271	Raj Kapoor	3%
149	Sidney Olcott	3%
225	Albert & David Maysles	2%
250	Allan Dwan	2%
234	John Sayles	2%
281	Sadao Yamanaka	2%
259	Yevgeni Bauer	2%
266	Yuriy Norshteyn	1%