Statistics for Academy Award for Best Director Nominees

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
1977	Steven Spielberg	93%
1972	Francis Ford Coppola	91%
1980	Martin Scorsese	91%
1992	Clint Eastwood	89%
2003	Sofia Coppola	89%
1997	James Cameron	88%
1935	John Ford	86%
1940	Alfred Hitchcock	85%
2000	Ang Lee	85%
2009	Kathryn Bigelow	84%
1977	Woody Allen	84%
1994	Quentin Tarantino	82%
1964	Stanley Kubrick	82%
2007	Ethan Coen	81%
1996	Joel Coen	81%
1995	Mel Gibson	80%
1991	Ridley Scott	80%
1980	Robert Redford	80%
1994	Robert Zemeckis	80%
2013	Alfonso Cuarón	79%
1973	George Lucas	79%
1990	Kevin Costner	79%
2001	Peter Jackson	79%
1932/1933	Frank Capra	78%
1927/1928	Ted Wilde	78%
2006	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	77%
1986	Oliver Stone	77%
2007	Paul Thomas Anderson	77%
1974	Roman Polanski	77%
1946	David Lean	76%
1948	John Huston	76%
1991	Jonathan Demme	76%
1956	Michael Anderson	76%
2001	Ron Howard	76%
2014	Wes Anderson	76%
1944	Billy Wilder	75%
1975	Miloš Forman	74%
1941	Orson Welles	74%
1947	Elia Kazan	73%
1973	Ingmar Bergman	72%
1938	Michael Curtiz	72%
1999	Sam Mendes	72%
1969	Sydney Pollack	72%
1939	Victor Fleming	72%
1985	Akira Kurosawa	71%
2010	Tom Hooper	71%
1978	Warren Beatty	71%
1936	William Wyler	71%
1961	Federico Fellini	70%
1969	George Roy Hill	70%
1966	Mike Nichols	70%
1982	Richard Attenborough	70%
2008	Danny Boyle	69%
2008	David Fincher	69%
1955	Delbert Mann	69%
2015	George Miller	69%
1999	Michael Mann	69%
2000	Steven Soderbergh	69%
2005	Bennett Miller	68%
1973	Bernardo Bertolucci	68%
1932/1933	George Cukor	68%
1943	George Stevens	68%
1983	James L. Brooks	68%
1958	Richard Brooks	68%
1971	William Friedkin	68%
1996	Anthony Minghella	67%
1958	Robert Wise	67%
1988	Barry Levinson	66%
1972	Bob Fosse	66%
1949	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	66%
1957	Sidney Lumet	66%
1976	John G. Avildsen	65%
1978	Michael Cimino	65%
1970	Robert Altman	65%
1998	Roberto Benigni	65%
1948	Fred Zinnemann	64%
2005	George Clooney	64%
1993	Jane Campion	64%
1949	Carol Reed	63%
1980	David Lynch	63%
2010	David O. Russell	63%
1961	Jerome Robbins	63%
1948	Laurence Olivier	63%
1927/1928	Lewis Milestone	63%
1995	Tim Robbins	63%
1951	Vincente Minnelli	63%
1952	Cecil B. DeMille	62%
1970	Ken Russell	62%
2011	Michel Hazanavicius	62%
1962	Arthur Penn	61%
2002	Pedro Almodóvar	61%
2002	Rob Marshall	61%
2010	Darren Aronofsky	60%
1931/1932	Frank Borzage	60%
1970	Franklin J. Schaffner	60%
1977	Herbert Ross	60%
1965	John Schlesinger	60%
1985	Peter Weir	60%
1979	Robert Benton	60%
1999	Spike Jonze	60%
2013	Steve McQueen	60%
1963	Tony Richardson	60%
1976	Alan J. Pakula	59%
1941	Alexander Hall	59%
1974	François Truffaut	59%
1928/1929	Frank Lloyd	59%
1989	Kenneth Branagh	59%
1967	Norman Jewison	59%
1981	Hugh Hudson	58%
1986	James Ivory	58%
1927/1928	King Vidor	58%
1978	Alan Parker	57%
1997	Gus Van Sant	57%
1941	Howard Hawks	57%
1937	Leo McCarey	57%
2014	Richard Linklater	57%
1996	Mike Leigh	56%
1930/1931	Norman Taurog	56%
1998	Terrence Malick	56%
2015	Adam McKay	55%
1928/1929	Lionel Barrymore	55%
2012	Michael Haneke	55%
1992	Neil Jordan	55%
1944	Otto Preminger	55%
2005	Paul Haggis	55%
1958	Stanley Kramer	55%
1998	John Madden	54%
1955	John Sturges	54%
1987	Lasse Hallström	54%
1966	Michelangelo Antonioni	54%
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	54%
2006	Paul Greengrass	54%
2015	Tom McCarthy	54%
1929/1930	Clarence Brown	53%
1978	Hal Ashby	53%
2007	Jason Reitman	53%
1974	John Cassavetes	53%
1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski	53%
2009	Lee Daniels	53%
2000	Stephen Daldry	53%
1989	Jim Sheridan	52%
1970	Arthur Hiller	51%
1928/1929	Ernst Lubitsch	51%
1961	J. Lee Thompson	51%
2015	Lenny Abrahamson	51%
1981	Louis Malle	51%
1995	Michael Radford	51%
1995	Mike Figgis	51%
1971	Peter Bogdanovich	51%
1984	Roland Joffé	51%
2004	Alexander Payne	50%
1997	Curtis Hanson	50%
1945	Jean Renoir	50%
1972	John Boorman	50%
1956	Walter Lang	50%
1969	Costa Gavras	49%
1968	Franco Zeffirelli	49%
1943	Henry King	49%
1979	Peter Yates	49%
1949	Robert Rossen	49%
1964	Robert Stevenson	49%
1939	Sam Wood	49%
1990	Barbet Schroeder	48%
1988	Charles Crichton	48%
1985	Héctor Babenco	48%
1980	Richard Rush	48%
1990	Stephen Frears	48%
2004	Taylor Hackford	48%
1968	Anthony Harvey	47%
1978	Buck Henry	47%
1991	John Singleton	47%
1996	Scott Hicks	47%
1937	Sidney Franklin	47%
1997	Atom Egoyan	46%
2012	Benh Zeitlin	46%
1983	Bruce Beresford	46%
1976	Lina Wertmüller	46%
2007	Julian Schnabel	45%
2014	Morten Tyldum	45%
1987	Adrian Lyne	44%
1995	Chris Noonan	44%
1959	Jack Clayton	44%
1997	Peter Cattaneo	44%
2007	Tony Gilroy	44%
1930/1931	Wesley Ruggles	44%
1960	Jack Cardiff	43%
1942	John Farrow	43%
1955	Joshua Logan	43%
1960	Jules Dassin	42%
1992	Martin Brest	42%
1963	Martin Ritt	42%
1962	Robert Mulligan	42%
1982	Wolfgang Petersen	42%
1935	Henry Hathaway	41%
1927/1928	Herbert Brenon	41%
1953	Charles Walters	40%
2003	Fernando Meirelles	39%
1962	Frank Perry	39%
1981	Mark Rydell	39%
1942	Mervyn LeRoy	39%
1936	Gregory La Cava	38%
1964	Peter Glenville	38%
1954	George Seaton	37%
1957	Mark Robson	37%
1929/1930	Robert Z. Leonard	37%
1948	Anatole Litvak	36%
1948	Jean Negulesco	36%
1937	William A. Wellman	36%
1966	Claude Lelouch	35%
1928/1929	Harry Beaumont	35%
1928/1929	Irving Cummings	35%
1930/1931	Josef von Sternberg	35%
1947	Edward Dmytryk	33%
1962	Pietro Germi	33%
1934	W. S. Van Dyke	33%
1947	Henry Koster	32%
1946	Robert Siodmak	32%
1979	Édouard Molinaro	31%
1937	William Dieterle	31%
1968	Gillo Pontecorvo	30%
1965	Hiroshi Teshigahara	30%
1972	Jan Troell	30%
1964	Michael Cacoyannis	29%
1934	Victor Schertzinger	29%