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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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