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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 More Than by Younger Voters

Rank Director % Difference
1 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1.46%
2 Jean Renoir 1.41%
3 Orson Welles 1.22%
4 John Ford 1.15%
5 Mizoguchi Kenji 1.04%
6 Akira Kurosawa 0.96%
7 Alfred Hitchcock 0.82%
8 Ingmar Bergman 0.76%
9 Jean-Luc Godard 0.70%
10 F. W. Murnau 0.68%
11 Fritz Lang 0.63%
12 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.62%
13 Max Ophüls 0.62%
14 Federico Fellini 0.56%
15 Luis Buñuel 0.54%
16 Buster Keaton 0.52%
17 John Huston 0.41%
18 Josef von Sternberg 0.41%
19 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.38%
20 Roberto Rossellini 0.37%
21 Satyajit Ray 0.37%
22 Dziga Vertov 0.36%
= Jacques Tati 0.36%
= Jean-Pierre Melville 0.36%
25 Jean Vigo 0.32%
26 Jean Cocteau 0.31%
= Ousmane Sembene 0.31%
28 Elia Kazan 0.26%
= Theodoros Angelopoulos 0.26%
30 Preston Sturges 0.26%
31 Robert Bresson 0.24%
32 Luchino Visconti 0.22%
33 Sam Peckinpah 0.21%
34 Nicholas Ray 0.21%
35 Jacques Rivette 0.21%
= Marcel Carné 0.21%
37 Douglas Sirk 0.21%
= G W Pabst 0.21%
= King Vidor 0.21%
= Michael Curtiz 0.21%
41 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 0.21%
42 Howard Hawks 0.19%
43 Humphrey Jennings 0.18%
= Robert Wise 0.18%
45 Vittorio de Sica 0.17%
46 David Lean 0.16%
47 Roman Polanski 0.16%
48 Carol Reed 0.16%
49 Erich von Stroheim 0.16%
= Gene Kelly 0.16%
= Michael Snow 0.16%
= Stanley Donen 0.16%
53 Agnès Varda 0.16%
= Joseph L. Mankiewicz 0.16%
55 Costa-Gavras 0.15%
= Jack Smith 0.15%
57 D.A. Pennebaker 0.13%
58 Gillo Pontecorvo 0.11%
59 Claude Lanzmann 0.11%
60 Charles Laughton 0.11%
61 D.W. Griffith 0.11%
= Victor Fleming 0.11%
63 Andrzej Wajda 0.10%
= Glauber Rocha 0.10%
= William Wyler 0.10%
66 Alexander Mackendrick 0.10%
= Ang Lee 0.10%
= Nagisa Oshima 0.10%
= Nelson Pereira dos Santos 0.10%
70 Barbara Loden 0.10%
= David Hand 0.10%
= Elaine May 0.10%
= Ettore Scola 0.10%
= John Boorman 0.10%
= Mario Monicelli 0.10%
= Mel Brooks 0.10%
= Oscar Micheaux 0.10%
= Otto Preminger 0.10%
= Raoul Walsh 0.10%
= Robert Wiene 0.10%
= Rouben Mamoulian 0.10%
= Samuel Fuller 0.10%

Directors Liked by Younger Voters More than by Older Voters

Rank Director % Difference
1 Martin Scorsese 1.29%
2 John Cassavetes 0.90%
3 Woody Allen 0.85%
4 Francis Ford Coppola 0.62%
5 Michael Haneke 0.60%
6 Lars von Trier 0.55%
7 David Lynch 0.54%
8 Paul Thomas Anderson 0.50%
9 Ridley Scott 0.45%
10 Charles Chaplin 0.43%
11 Claire Denis 0.40%
12 Elem Klimov 0.40%
13 Sergio Leone 0.39%
14 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 0.35%
15 Steven Spielberg 0.35%
16 Jean Eustache 0.32%
17 Wim Wenders 0.30%
18 Nicolas Roeg 0.30%
19 Werner Herzog 0.29%
20 Pier Paolo Pasolini 0.29%
21 Emir Kusturica 0.25%
= Mike Nichols 0.25%
23 Víctor Erice 0.25%
24 David Cronenberg 0.25%
= Peter Weir 0.25%
26 Béla Tarr 0.25%
27 Terrence Malick 0.24%
28 Chris Marker 0.22%
29 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.21%
30 Stanley Kubrick 0.21%
31 Alejandro Jodorowsky 0.20%
= Brian de Palma 0.20%
= Hal Ashby 0.20%
= Henri-Georges Clouzot 0.20%
= Peter Bogdanovich 0.20%
= Rob Reiner 0.20%
= Tobe Hooper 0.20%
38 Aki Kaurismaki 0.20%
= Miyazaki Hayao 0.20%
40 Edward Yang 0.20%
= Maurice Pialat 0.20%
42 Robert Altman 0.20%
43 Abbas Kiarostami 0.19%
44 Asghar Farhadi 0.15%
= Bo Widerberg 0.15%
= Bruno Dumont 0.15%
= Carlos Reygadas 0.15%
= Cristian Mungiu 0.15%
= Fernando Meirelles 0.15%
= Frank Perry 0.15%
= George Lucas 0.15%
= Harmony Korine 0.15%
= Imamura Shohei 0.15%
= Martin Ritt 0.15%
= Peter Tscherkassky 0.15%
= Terry Gilliam 0.15%
57 Frederick Wiseman 0.15%
= Gus van Sant 0.15%
= Mike Leigh 0.15%
= Sydney Pollack 0.15%
= Teshigahara Hiroshi 0.15%
62 Ethan Coen 0.15%
= Joel Coen 0.15%
64 Errol Morris 0.15%
= Jim Jarmusch 0.15%
66 Michael Cimino 0.15%
= Sidney Lumet 0.15%
68 Quentin Tarantino 0.15%
69 Wong Kar Wai 0.14%
70 Dennis Hopper 0.13%
71 Ozu Yasujirô 0.11%
72 Alan Parker 0.10%
= Aleksey German 0.10%
= Atom Egoyan 0.10%
= Bill Douglas 0.10%
= Catherine Breillat 0.10%
= Clint Eastwood 0.10%
= Danny Boyle 0.10%
= David Perlov 0.10%
= Fatih Akin 0.10%
= FW Murnau 0.10%
= George A Romero 0.10%
= George Cukor 0.10%
= George Kuchar 0.10%
= Harun Farocki 0.10%
= Hou Hsiao-hsien 0.10%
= Ishmael Bernal 0.10%
= James Whale 0.10%
= Jerry Schatzberg 0.10%
= João César Monteiro 0.10%
= John Waters 0.10%
= Julien Duvivier 0.10%
= Kenneth Anger 0.10%
= Kim Ki-Duk 0.10%
= Larisa Shepitko 0.10%
= Lav Díaz 0.10%
= Lee Chang-dong 0.10%
= Leos Carax 0.10%
= Mani Kaul 0.10%
= Margaret Tait 0.10%
= Michael Ritchie 0.10%
= Michael Winterbottom 0.10%
= Milcho Manchevski 0.10%
= Paul Verhoeven 0.10%
= Raúl Ruiz 0.10%
= Richard Donner 0.10%
= Robert Benton 0.10%
= Robert Zemeckis 0.10%
= Sam Wood 0.10%
= Sydney Lumet 0.10%
= Tran Anh Hung 0.10%
= Wojciech Has 0.10%
113 Jean-Pierre Dardenne 0.10%
= Luc Dardenne 0.10%
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