Directors Preferred by Older and Younger Voters
For these tables, older voters are those born before 1960. Younger voters were born in 1960 or later.
Directors Liked by Older Voters
Rank |
Director |
# of Votes |
% of Votes |
1 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
60 |
3.09% |
2 |
Orson Welles |
59 |
3.04% |
3 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
55.5 |
2.86% |
4 |
Federico Fellini |
53 |
2.73% |
5 |
Ingmar Bergman |
52 |
2.68% |
6 |
Jean Renoir |
50 |
2.57% |
7 |
Akira Kurosawa |
49 |
2.52% |
8 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
47 |
2.42% |
9 |
Stanley Kubrick |
42 |
2.16% |
10 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
38 |
1.96% |
= |
John Ford |
38 |
1.96% |
12 |
Ozu Yasujirô |
37 |
1.90% |
= |
Robert Bresson |
37 |
1.90% |
14 |
Luis Buñuel |
36 |
1.85% |
15 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
35 |
1.80% |
16 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
30 |
1.54% |
17 |
Mizoguchi Kenji |
28 |
1.44% |
18 |
F. W. Murnau |
27 |
1.39% |
19 |
Fritz Lang |
24 |
1.24% |
20 |
Billy Wilder |
23 |
1.18% |
21 |
Martin Scorsese |
22 |
1.13% |
22 |
Roberto Rossellini |
21 |
1.08% |
= |
Vittorio de Sica |
21 |
1.08% |
24 |
Charles Chaplin |
19 |
0.98% |
25 |
Sergei M Eisenstein |
18 |
0.93% |
26 |
François Truffaut |
17 |
0.87% |
= |
Jean Vigo |
17 |
0.87% |
28 |
Buster Keaton |
16 |
0.82% |
29 |
Luchino Visconti |
14 |
0.72% |
= |
Max Ophüls |
14 |
0.72% |
= |
Satyajit Ray |
14 |
0.72% |
32 |
Howard Hawks |
13.5 |
0.69% |
33 |
David Lean |
13 |
0.67% |
= |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
13 |
0.67% |
35 |
Alain Resnais |
12 |
0.62% |
= |
John Cassavetes |
12 |
0.62% |
37 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
11 |
0.57% |
= |
Ernst Lubitsch |
11 |
0.57% |
= |
John Huston |
11 |
0.57% |
= |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
11 |
0.57% |
41 |
David Lynch |
10 |
0.51% |
= |
Dziga Vertov |
10 |
0.51% |
= |
Jacques Tati |
10 |
0.51% |
= |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
10 |
0.51% |
= |
Roman Polanski |
10 |
0.51% |
= |
Sergio Leone |
10 |
0.51% |
= |
Terrence Malick |
10 |
0.51% |
= |
Werner Herzog |
10 |
0.51% |
49 |
Gillo Pontecorvo |
9 |
0.46% |
= |
Wong Kar Wai |
9 |
0.46% |
51 |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
8 |
0.41% |
= |
Carol Reed |
8 |
0.41% |
= |
Claude Lanzmann |
8 |
0.41% |
= |
Josef von Sternberg |
8 |
0.41% |
= |
Krzysztof Kieslowski |
8 |
0.41% |
= |
Sam Peckinpah |
8 |
0.41% |
57 |
Chantal Akerman |
7 |
0.36% |
= |
Charles Laughton |
7 |
0.36% |
= |
Jean Cocteau |
7 |
0.36% |
= |
Milos Forman |
7 |
0.36% |
= |
Nicholas Ray |
7 |
0.36% |
= |
Ousmane Sembene |
7 |
0.36% |
63 |
Michael Powell |
6.5 |
0.33% |
= |
Béla Tarr |
6 |
0.31% |
= |
Chris Marker |
6 |
0.31% |
= |
Elia Kazan |
6 |
0.31% |
= |
Jacques Rivette |
6 |
0.31% |
= |
Ken Loach |
6 |
0.31% |
= |
Marcel Carné |
6 |
0.31% |
= |
Theodoros Angelopoulos |
6 |
0.31% |
= |
Woody Allen |
6 |
0.31% |
72 |
Emeric Pressburger |
5.5 |
0.28% |
73 |
D.W. Griffith |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Douglas Sirk |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Eric Rohmer |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Erich von Stroheim |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
G W Pabst |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Gene Kelly |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Jacques Demy |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
King Vidor |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Lars von Trier |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Michael Curtiz |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Michael Snow |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Mikhail Kalatozov |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Pedro Almodóvar |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Preston Sturges |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Roy Andersson |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Stanley Donen |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Steven Spielberg |
5 |
0.26% |
= |
Victor Fleming |
5 |
0.26% |
91 |
Agnès Varda |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Aleksandr Dovzhenko |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Andrzej Wajda |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Frank Capra |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Glauber Rocha |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Hsiao-hsien Hou |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Jacques Tourneur |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Quentin Tarantino |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Robert Altman |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Robert J. Flaherty |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Stan Brakhage |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Tsai Ming Liang |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Vincente Minnelli |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
William Wyler |
4 |
0.21% |
= |
Zhang Yimou |
4 |
0.21% |
107 |
Humphrey Jennings |
3.5 |
0.18% |
= |
Jean Eustache |
3.5 |
0.18% |
= |
Robert Wise |
3.5 |
0.18% |
110 |
Abel Gance |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Aleksandr Sokurov |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Alexander Mackendrick |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Andy Warhol |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Ang Lee |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Costa-Gavras |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Edward Yang |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Georges Franju |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Jack Smith |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Jane Campion |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Leo McCarey |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Louis Malle |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Marcel L'Herbier |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Maurice Pialat |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Michael Cimino |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Michael Haneke |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Nagisa Oshima |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Nicolas Roeg |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Sidney Lumet |
3 |
0.15% |
131 |
D.A. Pennebaker |
2.5 |
0.13% |
= |
Jean Rouch |
2.5 |
0.13% |
= |
Joris Ivens |
2.5 |
0.13% |
Directors Liked by Younger Voters
Rank |
Director |
# of Votes |
% of Votes |
1 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
48 |
2.42% |
= |
Martin Scorsese |
48 |
2.42% |
3 |
Stanley Kubrick |
47 |
2.37% |
4 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
45 |
2.27% |
5 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
43 |
2.17% |
= |
Federico Fellini |
43 |
2.17% |
7 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
42.75 |
2.16% |
8 |
Ozu Yasujirô |
40 |
2.02% |
9 |
Ingmar Bergman |
38 |
1.92% |
10 |
Orson Welles |
36 |
1.82% |
11 |
Robert Bresson |
33 |
1.66% |
12 |
Akira Kurosawa |
31 |
1.56% |
13 |
John Cassavetes |
30 |
1.51% |
14 |
Charles Chaplin |
28 |
1.41% |
15 |
Luis Buñuel |
26 |
1.31% |
16 |
Jean Renoir |
23 |
1.16% |
= |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
23 |
1.16% |
= |
Woody Allen |
23 |
1.16% |
19 |
Billy Wilder |
22 |
1.11% |
20 |
David Lynch |
21 |
1.06% |
21 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
19 |
0.96% |
22 |
François Truffaut |
18 |
0.91% |
= |
Sergio Leone |
18 |
0.91% |
= |
Vittorio de Sica |
18 |
0.91% |
25 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
17 |
0.86% |
26 |
John Ford |
16 |
0.81% |
= |
Lars von Trier |
16 |
0.81% |
= |
Werner Herzog |
16 |
0.81% |
29 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
15 |
0.76% |
= |
Michael Haneke |
15 |
0.76% |
= |
Terrence Malick |
15 |
0.76% |
32 |
F. W. Murnau |
14 |
0.71% |
= |
Roberto Rossellini |
14 |
0.71% |
34 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
13 |
0.66% |
35 |
Alain Resnais |
12.5 |
0.63% |
36 |
Fritz Lang |
12 |
0.61% |
= |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
12 |
0.61% |
= |
Steven Spielberg |
12 |
0.61% |
= |
Wong Kar Wai |
12 |
0.61% |
40 |
Béla Tarr |
11 |
0.55% |
= |
Jean Vigo |
11 |
0.55% |
42 |
Chris Marker |
10.5 |
0.53% |
43 |
David Lean |
10 |
0.50% |
= |
Elem Klimov |
10 |
0.50% |
= |
Ernst Lubitsch |
10 |
0.50% |
= |
Howard Hawks |
10 |
0.50% |
= |
Jean Eustache |
10 |
0.50% |
= |
Luchino Visconti |
10 |
0.50% |
= |
Ridley Scott |
10 |
0.50% |
50 |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
9 |
0.45% |
= |
Claire Denis |
9 |
0.45% |
= |
Krzysztof Kieslowski |
9 |
0.45% |
= |
Nicolas Roeg |
9 |
0.45% |
54 |
Chantal Akerman |
8 |
0.40% |
= |
Mizoguchi Kenji |
8 |
0.40% |
= |
Robert Altman |
8 |
0.40% |
57 |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
David Cronenberg |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Edward Yang |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Eric Rohmer |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Gillo Pontecorvo |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Maurice Pialat |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Mikhail Kalatozov |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Milos Forman |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Peter Weir |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Quentin Tarantino |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Roman Polanski |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Satyajit Ray |
7 |
0.35% |
= |
Wim Wenders |
7 |
0.35% |
70 |
Buster Keaton |
6 |
0.30% |
= |
Claude Lanzmann |
6 |
0.30% |
= |
Ken Loach |
6 |
0.30% |
= |
Michael Cimino |
6 |
0.30% |
= |
Sergei M Eisenstein |
6 |
0.30% |
= |
Sidney Lumet |
6 |
0.30% |
= |
Víctor Erice |
6 |
0.30% |
= |
Zhang Yimou |
6 |
0.30% |
78 |
Aki Kaurismaki |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Carol Reed |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Charles Laughton |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Emir Kusturica |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Errol Morris |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Frank Capra |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Hsiao-hsien Hou |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Jim Jarmusch |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Michael Powell |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Mike Nichols |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Miyazaki Hayao |
5 |
0.25% |
= |
Vincente Minnelli |
5 |
0.25% |
90 |
Ethan Coen |
4.5 |
0.23% |
= |
Joel Coen |
4.5 |
0.23% |
92 |
Abel Gance |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Alejandro Jodorowsky |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Brian de Palma |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Emeric Pressburger |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Frederick Wiseman |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Gus van Sant |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Hal Ashby |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Jacques Demy |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Jane Campion |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Ken Russell |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Marcel L'Herbier |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Mike Leigh |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Pedro Almodóvar |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Peter Bogdanovich |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Rob Reiner |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Roy Andersson |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Sam Peckinpah |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Sydney Pollack |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Teshigahara Hiroshi |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
Tobe Hooper |
4 |
0.20% |
= |
William Friedkin |
4 |
0.20% |
114 |
Jean Rouch |
3.5 |
0.18% |
115 |
Andy Warhol |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Arthur Penn |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Asghar Farhadi |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Bo Widerberg |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Bruno Dumont |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Carlos Reygadas |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Cristi Puiu |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Cristian Mungiu |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
D.W. Griffith |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Dziga Vertov |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Fernando Meirelles |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Frank Perry |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
George Lucas |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
George Roy Hill |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Godfrey Reggio |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Harmony Korine |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Imamura Shohei |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Jack Clayton |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Jacques Tati |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Jacques Tourneur |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
John Huston |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Luis García Berlanga |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Martin Ritt |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Naruse Mikio |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Nicholas Ray |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Peter Tscherkassky |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Robert Hamer |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Robert J. Flaherty |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Sergei Parajanov |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Spike Lee |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Stan Brakhage |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Terry Gilliam |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Thomas Vinterberg |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Tsai Ming Liang |
3 |
0.15% |
= |
Victor Fleming |
3 |
0.15% |
152 |
Dennis Hopper |
2.5 |
0.13% |
= |
Jean-Pierre Dardenne |
2.5 |
0.13% |
= |
Luc Dardenne |
2.5 |
0.13% |
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