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Full Results of the 2012 Sight & Sound Directors Poll

Rank Title Year Director Total votes % of ballots
1 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu Yasujirô 48 13.4%
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 42 11.7%
= Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 42 11.7%
4 1963 Federico Fellini 40 11.1%
5 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 34 9.5%
6 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 33 9.2%
7 Godfather: Part I, The 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 31 8.6%
= Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 31 8.6%
9 Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky 30 8.4%
10 Bicycle Thieves, The 1948 Vittorio de Sica 29 8.1%
11 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 27 7.5%
12 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 26 7.2%
13 400 Blows, The 1959 François Truffaut 25 7.0%
= Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 25 7.0%
= Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 25 7.0%
16 Fanny and Alexander 1984 Ingmar Bergman 24 6.7%
17 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22 6.1%
18 Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 21 5.8%
19 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 19 5.3%
= Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 19 5.3%
21 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 18 5.0%
22 Atalante, L' 1934 Jean Vigo 17 4.7%
= Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 17 4.7%
= Règle du jeu, La 1939 Jean Renoir 17 4.7%
= Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 17 4.7%
26 Battle of Algiers, The 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 15 4.2%
= Night of the Hunter, The 1955 Charles Laughton 15 4.2%
= strada, La 1954 Federico Fellini 15 4.2%
= Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 15 4.2%
30 Amarcord 1972 Federico Fellini 14 3.9%
= Avventura, L' 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 14 3.9%
= City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 14 3.9%
= Come And See 1985 Elem Klimov 14 3.9%
= Godfather: Part II, The 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14 3.9%
= Gospel According to St Matthew, The 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 14 3.9%
= Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 14 3.9%
37 Close-Up 1989 Abbas Kiarostami 13 3.6%
= dolce vita, La 1960 Federico Fellini 13 3.6%
= Man Escaped, A 1956 Robert Bresson 13 3.6%
= Passion of Joan of Arc 1927 Carl Theodor Dreyer 13 3.6%
= Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 13 3.6%
= Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 13 3.6%
= Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 13 3.6%
44 Apartment, The 1960 Billy Wilder 12 3.3%
= Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 12 3.3%
= mépris, Le 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 12 3.3%
= Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 12 3.3%
48 eclisse, L' 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 11 3.1%
= Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 11 3.1%
= Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 11 3.1%
= Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 11 3.1%
= One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 11 3.1%
= Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 11 3.1%
= Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 11 3.1%
= Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 11 3.1%
= Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 11 3.1%
= Searchers, The 1956 John Ford 11 3.1%
= Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 11 3.1%
59 Aguirre, Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 10 2.8%
= Blow Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 10 2.8%
= Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 10 2.8%
= Conformist, The 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 10 2.8%
= Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 10 2.8%
= Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The 1966 Sergio Leone 10 2.8%
= grande illusion, La 1937 Jean Renoir 10 2.8%
= Woman Under the Influence, A 1974 John Cassavetes 10 2.8%
67 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 9 2.5%
= Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 9 2.5%
= In The Mood For Love 2000 Wong Kar Wai 9 2.5%
= Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 9 2.5%
= Singin' in the Rain 1951 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 9 2.5%
= Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 9 2.5%
= Ugetsu Monogatari 1953 Mizoguchi Kenji 9 2.5%
= Vivre Sa Vie 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 9 2.5%
75 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M Eisenstein 8 2.2%
= Clockwork Orange, A 1971 Stanley Kubrick 8 2.2%
= Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 8 2.2%
= General, The 1926 Buster Keaton 8 2.2%
= Hidden 2004 Michael Haneke 8 2.2%
= Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes 8 2.2%
= Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 8 2.2%
= Kes 1969 Ken Loach 8 2.2%
= M 1931 Fritz Lang 8 2.2%
= Mulholland Dr 2003 David Lynch 8 2.2%
= olvidados, Los 1950 Luis Buñuel 8 2.2%
= Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 8 2.2%
= Seventh Seal, The 1957 Ingmar Bergman 8 2.2%
= Shining, The 1980 Stanley Kubrick 8 2.2%
= There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 8 2.2%
= Wild Bunch, The 1969 Sam Peckinpah 8 2.2%
91 argent, L' 1983 Robert Bresson 7 1.9%
= Beau Travail 1998 Claire Denis 7 1.9%
= chien andalou, Un 1928 Luis Buñuel 7 1.9%
= Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 7 1.9%
= Deer Hunter, The 1977 Michael Cimino 7 1.9%
= Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 7 1.9%
= Gold Rush, The 1925 Charles Chaplin 7 1.9%
= I am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov 7 1.9%
= Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The 1976 John Cassavetes 7 1.9%
= Last Year At Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 7 1.9%
= Maman et la putain, La 1973 Jean Eustache 7 1.9%
= Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 7 1.9%
= Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 7 1.9%
= Samouraï, Le 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 7 1.9%
= Sans Soleil 1982 Chris Marker 7 1.9%
= Zero de Conduite 1933 Jean Vigo 7 1.9%
107 Age d'Or, L' 1930 Luis Buñuel 6 1.7%
= Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 6 1.7%
= Brighter Summer Day, A 1991 Edward Yang 6 1.7%
= Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 6 1.7%
= Dr. Strangelove 1963 Stanley Kubrick 6 1.7%
= E.T. 1982 Steven Spielberg 6 1.7%
= Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 6 1.7%
= Festen 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 6 1.7%
= It's a Wonderful Life 1947 Frank Capra 6 1.7%
= Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman 6 1.7%
= Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut 6 1.7%
= Letter From an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 6 1.7%
= Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 6 1.7%
= Mouchette 1966 Robert Bresson 6 1.7%
= Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 6 1.7%
= North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 6 1.7%
= notte, La 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 6 1.7%
= Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 6 1.7%
= Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 6 1.7%
= River, The 1951 Jean Renoir 6 1.7%
= Rocco and his Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 6 1.7%
= Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 6 1.7%
= Songs from the Second Floor 2000 Roy Andersson 6 1.7%
= Spirit of the Beehive, The 1973 Víctor Erice 6 1.7%
= Third Man, The 1949 Carol Reed 6 1.7%
132 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 5 1.4%
= Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 5 1.4%
= Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 5 1.4%
= Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 5 1.4%
= Big Lebowski, The 1998 Joel & Ethan Coen 5 1.4%
= Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 5 1.4%
= Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5 1.4%
= Cranes are Flying, The 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov 5 1.4%
= Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 5 1.4%
= Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The 1972 Luis Buñuel 5 1.4%
= Do The Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 5 1.4%
= Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The 1974 Werner Herzog 5 1.4%
= Exterminating Angel, The 1962 Luis Buñuel 5 1.4%
= Fargo 1995 Joel & Ethan Coen 5 1.4%
= Germany Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 5 1.4%
= Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 5 1.4%
= Leopard, The 1963 Luchino Visconti 5 1.4%
= Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The 1962 John Ford 5 1.4%
= Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier 5 1.4%
= Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 5 1.4%
= My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 5 1.4%
= Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 5 1.4%
= Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 5 1.4%
= Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 5 1.4%
= Rio Bravo 1958 Howard Hawks 5 1.4%
= Rome Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 5 1.4%
= Rosetta 1999 Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne 5 1.4%
= Separation, A 2011 Asghar Farhadi 5 1.4%
= Short Film About Killing, A 1987 Krzysztof Kieslowski 5 1.4%
= Silence, The 1963 Ingmar Bergman 5 1.4%
= Thin Red Line, The 1998 Terrence Malick 5 1.4%
= To Be or Not To Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 5 1.4%
= Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 5 1.4%
= Travelling Players, The 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 5 1.4%
= Tree of Life, The 2010 Terrence Malick 5 1.4%
= Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 5 1.4%
= Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 5 1.4%
= Turin Horse, The 2011 Béla Tarr 5 1.4%
= Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The 1964 Jacques Demy 5 1.4%
= Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 5 1.4%
= Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 5 1.4%
= Werckmeister Harmonies, The 2000 Béla Tarr 5 1.4%
174 Au Revoir les enfants 1987 Louis Malle 4 1.1%
= Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir 4 1.1%
= Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 4 1.1%
= Code Unknown 2000 Michael Haneke 4 1.1%
= Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 4 1.1%
= Death of Mr Lazarescu, The 2005 Cristi Puiu 4 1.1%
= Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 4 1.1%
= Diary 1983 David Perlov 4 1.1%
= Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 4 1.1%
= Down By Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 4 1.1%
= Elephant 2003 Gus van Sant 4 1.1%
= Elephant 1989 Alan Clarke 4 1.1%
= Executioner, The 1963 Luis García Berlanga 4 1.1%
= Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 4 1.1%
= Grapes of Wrath, The 1940 John Ford 4 1.1%
= Great Dictator, The 1940 Charles Chaplin 4 1.1%
= Happy Together 1997 Wong Kar Wai 4 1.1%
= Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Alain Resnais 4 1.1%
= Jetée, La 1962 Chris Marker 4 1.1%
= Koyaanisqatsi 1983 Godfrey Reggio 4 1.1%
= Lady Eve, The 1941 Preston Sturges 4 1.1%
= Last Laugh, The 1924 F. W. Murnau 4 1.1%
= Last Picture Show, The 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 4 1.1%
= Late Spring 1949 Ozu Yasujirô 4 1.1%
= Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 4 1.1%
= Life of Oharu, The 1952 Mizoguchi Kenji 4 1.1%
= Magnificent Ambersons, The 1942 Orson Welles 4 1.1%
= Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 4 1.1%
= My Night with Maud 1969 Eric Rohmer 4 1.1%
= Napoleon 1927 Abel Gance 4 1.1%
= Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais 4 1.1%
= On The Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 4 1.1%
= Once Upon a Time in America 1983 Sergio Leone 4 1.1%
= Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg 4 1.1%
= Piano, The 1992 Jane Campion 4 1.1%
= Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang Yimou 4 1.1%
= Reservoir Dogs 1991 Quentin Tarantino 4 1.1%
= Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 4 1.1%
= Stranger than Paradise 1982 Jim Jarmusch 4 1.1%
= Tenant, The 1976 Roman Polanski 4 1.1%
= Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 4 1.1%
= Thin Blue Line, The 1989 Errol Morris 4 1.1%
= Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 4 1.1%
= Umberto D 1952 Vittorio de Sica 4 1.1%
= Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 4 1.1%
= Veronika Voss 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 4 1.1%
= Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 4 1.1%
= Walkabout 1970 Nicolas Roeg 4 1.1%
= Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 4 1.1%
= Woman of the Dunes 1964 Teshigahara Hiroshi 4 1.1%
224 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 3 0.8%
= 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 3 0.8%
= A nos Amours 1983 Maurice Pialat 3 0.8%
= Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 3 0.8%
= All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 3 0.8%
= Asphalt Jungle, The 1950 John Huston 3 0.8%
= Bad Sleep Well, The 1960 Akira Kurosawa 3 0.8%
= Barren Lives 1963 Nelson Pereira dos Santos 3 0.8%
= Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 3 0.8%
= Best Years of Our Lives, The 1946 William Wyler 3 0.8%
= Birds, The 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 3 0.8%
= Black God, White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 3 0.8%
= Blissfully Yours 2002 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 3 0.8%
= Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 3 0.8%
= Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 3 0.8%
= Chungking Express 1994 Wong Kar Wai 3 0.8%
= Colour of Pomegranates, The 1968 Sergei Parajanov 3 0.8%
= Conversation, The 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 3 0.8%
= Cries and Whispers 1957 Ingmar Bergman 3 0.8%
= Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 3 0.8%
= Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 3 0.8%
= Early Summer 1951 Ozu Yasujirô 3 0.8%
= Empire 1964 Andy Warhol 3 0.8%
= enfants du paradis, Les 1945 Marcel Carné 3 0.8%
= Eraserhead 1976 David Lynch 3 0.8%
= Fitzcarraldo 1981 Werner Herzog 3 0.8%
= Floating Weeds 1959 Ozu Yasujirô 3 0.8%
= Flower of My Secret, The 1995 Pedro Almodóvar 3 0.8%
= Flowers of St Francis, The 1950 Roberto Rossellini 3 0.8%
= Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 3 0.8%
= French Connection, The 1971 William Friedkin 3 0.8%
= Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 3 0.8%
= Graduate, The 1967 Mike Nichols 3 0.8%
= Green Ray, The 1986 Eric Rohmer 3 0.8%
= Grido, Il 1957 Michelangelo Antonioni 3 0.8%
= Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 3 0.8%
= Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 3 0.8%
= Histoire(s) du cinéma 1988-2004 Jean-Luc Godard 3 0.8%
= Holy Mountain, The 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 3 0.8%
= Hour of the Furnaces, The 1968 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas 3 0.8%
= humanité, L' 1999 Bruno Dumont 3 0.8%
= Idiots, The 1998 Lars von Trier 3 0.8%
= Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 3 0.8%
= In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 3 0.8%
= Innocents, The 1961 Jack Clayton 3 0.8%
= Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 3 0.8%
= Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 3 0.8%
= Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 3 0.8%
= Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 3 0.8%
= Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 3 0.8%
= Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 3 0.8%
= Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes 3 0.8%
= Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 3 0.8%
= Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 3 0.8%
= Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 3 0.8%
= Misfits, The 1961 John Huston 3 0.8%
= My Neighbour Totoro 1988 Miyazaki Hayao 3 0.8%
= Nazarín 1958 Luis Buñuel 3 0.8%
= Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 3 0.8%
= Nostalghia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 3 0.8%
= Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Nuri Bilge Ceylan 3 0.8%
= One and a Two, A 1999 Edward Yang 3 0.8%
= Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 3 0.8%
= Paisà 1946 Roberto Rossellini 3 0.8%
= Pandora's Box 1928 G W Pabst 3 0.8%
= Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 3 0.8%
= Picnic At Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 3 0.8%
= Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 3 0.8%
= Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 3 0.8%
= Puppetmaster, The 1993 Hsiao-hsien Hou 3 0.8%
= Red River 1947 Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson 3 0.8%
= Roma 1972 Federico Fellini 3 0.8%
= Round-Up, The 1966 Miklos Jancso 3 0.8%
= Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 3 0.8%
= Sacrifice, The 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 3 0.8%
= Sansho Dayu 1954 Mizoguchi Kenji 3 0.8%
= Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 3 0.8%
= Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand et al 3 0.8%
= Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 3 0.8%
= Spirited Away 2001 Miyazaki Hayao 3 0.8%
= Spring in a Small Town 1948 Fei Mu 3 0.8%
= Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 3 0.8%
= Story of Qiu Ju, The 1992 Zhang Yimou 3 0.8%
= Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The 1939 Mizoguchi Kenji 3 0.8%
= Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 3 0.8%
= They Live By Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 3 0.8%
= Three Colours: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 3 0.8%
= Three Colours: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 3 0.8%
= To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 3 0.8%
= Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 3 0.8%
= Two or Three Things I Know About Her… 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 3 0.8%
= Valentin de las Sierras 1967 Bruce Baillie 3 0.8%
= Viva l'Amour 1994 Tsai Ming Liang 3 0.8%
= Wages of Fear, The 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 3 0.8%
= Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 3 0.8%
= Where is My Friend's House? 1989 Abbas Kiarostami 3 0.8%
= White Ribbon, The 2009 Michael Haneke 3 0.8%
= Z 1968 Costa-Gavras 3 0.8%
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