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Directors Preferred by Men and by Women in the 2012 Sight & Sound Poll

Directors Preferred by Men More than by Women

Rank Director % Difference
1 Orson Welles 1.27%
2 Stanley Kubrick 1.03%
3 Martin Scorsese 0.89%
4 Carl Theodor Dreyer 0.77%
5 John Ford 0.67%
6 Alfred Hitchcock 0.66%
7 Luis Buñuel 0.64%
8 Jean Renoir 0.62%
9 Mizoguchi Kenji 0.53%
10 Charles Chaplin 0.45%
11 Ozu Yasujirô 0.43%
12 Roberto Rossellini 0.43%
13 Robert Bresson 0.38%
14 Akira Kurosawa 0.36%
15 Howard Hawks 0.35%
16 D.W. Griffith 0.31%
17 Erich von Stroheim 0.27%
18 Jean-Luc Godard 0.27%
19 Sam Peckinpah 0.26%
20 Woody Allen 0.25%
21 Buster Keaton 0.23%
22 John Huston 0.22%
23 Ernst Lubitsch 0.21%
24 Satyajit Ray 0.21%
25 Francis Ford Coppola 0.21%
26 Federico Fellini 0.20%
27 F. W. Murnau 0.19%
28 Jean Eustache 0.19%
29 Stan Brakhage 0.18%
30 Fritz Lang 0.18%
31 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.17%
32 Jean-Pierre Melville 0.17%
33 Leo McCarey 0.16%
34 Terrence Malick 0.16%
35 Jacques Tati 0.15%
36 Manoel de Oliveira 0.15%
37 Vittorio de Sica 0.14%
38 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.14%
39 Sergio Leone 0.14%
40 King Vidor 0.14%
41 Robert Altman 0.13%
42 Tobe Hooper 0.12%
43 Marcel Carné 0.11%
44 François Truffaut 0.11%
45 James Cameron 0.10%
= John Carpenter 0.10%
47 Louis Malle 0.10%
= Robert J. Flaherty 0.10%
49 Nicholas Ray 0.10%
50 George A Romero 0.09%
= Louis Feuillade 0.09%
= Raoul Walsh 0.09%
= William Friedkin 0.09%
54 Hsiao-hsien Hou 0.09%
55 John Cassavetes 0.09%
56 Peter Kubelka 0.09%
57 Donald Cammell 0.08%
58 Bong Joon-ho 0.08%
= Hollis Frampton 0.08%
60 Joris Ivens 0.08%
61 Frank Capra 0.08%
= Ritwik Ghatak 0.08%
63 Andrzej Wajda 0.08%
= Nuri Bilge Ceylan 0.08%
65 Harmony Korine 0.07%
= Robert Kramer 0.07%
= Werner Schroeter 0.07%
68 Claude Lanzmann 0.07%
69 Abel Gance 0.07%
= Jacques Tourneur 0.07%
71 Zhang Yimou 0.07%
72 Bruce Baillie 0.06%
= Charles Burnett 0.06%
= Otto Preminger 0.06%
75 Jacques Rivette 0.06%
76 Chuck Jones 0.06%
= George Stevens 0.06%
= James Whale 0.06%
= John Boorman 0.06%
= Nelson Pereira dos Santos 0.06%
= Robert Aldrich 0.06%
= Samuel Fuller 0.06%
83 Ethan Coen 0.06%
= Joel Coen 0.06%
85 Theodoros Angelopoulos 0.06%
86 Michael Curtiz 0.06%
87 Terence Davies 0.06%
88 Emir Kusturica 0.05%
= Henri-Georges Clouzot 0.05%
= Jonas Mekas 0.05%
= King Hu 0.05%
92 Aleksey German 0.05%
93 Anthony McCall 0.05%
= Gregory J. Markopoulos 0.05%
= João César Monteiro 0.05%
= Peter Greenaway 0.05%
= Terry Gilliam 0.05%
= Tsuchimoto Noriaki 0.05%
99 Roman Polanski 0.05%

Directors Preferred by Women More than by Men

Rank Director % Difference
1 Wong Kar Wai 0.58%
2 Jane Campion 0.57%
3 Chantal Akerman 0.49%
4 Djibril Diop Mambéty 0.47%
5 Lars von Trier 0.46%
6 Abbas Kiarostami 0.43%
7 Claire Denis 0.43%
8 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.37%
9 Michael Haneke 0.37%
10 Douglas Sirk 0.33%
11 Gillo Pontecorvo 0.28%
12 David Lean 0.23%
13 Alain Resnais 0.21%
14 Marcel Ophüls 0.21%
= Thomas Vinterberg 0.21%
16 Ridley Scott 0.21%
17 Agnès Varda 0.20%
18 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 0.20%
19 Jean Vigo 0.20%
20 Maya Deren 0.19%
21 Gene Kelly 0.18%
22 Derek Jarman 0.18%
23 Lucrecia Martel 0.18%
24 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 0.18%
25 Elia Suleiman 0.17%
26 Jean Cocteau 0.17%
27 Stanley Donen 0.17%
28 Alexander Hammid 0.16%
29 John Woo 0.16%
30 Ang Lee 0.16%
31 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 0.16%
32 Ousmane Sembene 0.15%
33 Kathryn Bigelow 0.15%
34 Alexander Mackendrick 0.15%
35 Béla Tarr 0.15%
36 David Lynch 0.15%
37 Pedro Almodóvar 0.14%
38 Kim Ki-Duk 0.14%
39 Gus van Sant 0.14%
40 Preston Sturges 0.13%
41 Dziga Vertov 0.13%
42 James Benning 0.13%
43 Víctor Erice 0.13%
= Wim Wenders 0.13%
45 Ken Loach 0.12%
46 Emeric Pressburger 0.12%
47 Eric Rohmer 0.12%
48 Maysles Brothers 0.12%
= Sally Potter 0.12%
50 Rob Reiner 0.12%
= Vera Chytilová 0.12%
52 Ingmar Bergman 0.11%
53 Ted Kotcheff 0.11%
= Yilmaz Güney 0.11%
55 Chris Marker 0.11%
56 Asghar Farhadi 0.11%
= George Cukor 0.11%
= Robert Wiene 0.11%
59 Elia Kazan 0.11%
60 Edward Yang 0.10%
61 Darren Aronofsky 0.10%
62 Bernardo Bertolucci 0.10%
63 Barbara Loden 0.10%
= Philippe Garrel 0.10%
65 Werner Herzog 0.09%
66 Miyazaki Hayao 0.09%
= Quentin Tarantino 0.09%
68 Abderrahmane Sissako 0.09%
= José Val del Omar 0.09%
= Koreeda Hirokazu 0.09%
= Suzuki Seijun 0.09%
72 G W Pabst 0.09%
= Georges Franju 0.09%
74 Elem Klimov 0.08%
75 Michael Powell 0.08%
76 Aditya Chopra 0.08%
= Andrea Arnold 0.08%
= Bertrand Blier 0.08%
= Bill Forsyth 0.08%
= Carine Adler 0.08%
= Catherine Breillat 0.08%
= Eija Liisa Ahtilla 0.08%
= Jennie Livingston 0.08%
= Julian Schnabel 0.08%
= Lina Wertmüller 0.08%
= Lis Rhodes 0.08%
= Lizzie Borden 0.08%
= Moufida Tlatli 0.08%
= Raoul Peck 0.08%
= Tawfik Saleh 0.08%
91 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 0.08%
92 Bob Fosse 0.08%
= Chen Kaige 0.08%
= Rouben Mamoulian 0.08%
95 Cristi Puiu 0.08%
96 Tsai Ming-Liang 0.07%
97 Michael Snow 0.07%
98 Albert Capellani 0.07%
= Fatih Akin 0.07%
= Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 0.07%
= Harun Farocki 0.07%
= Humberto Solás 0.07%
= James Ivory 0.07%
= Jang Sun-Woo 0.07%
= Mathieu Kassovitz 0.07%
= Milcho Manchevski 0.07%
= Mira Nair 0.07%
= Park Chan-wook 0.07%
109 John Lasseter 0.07%
110 Larisa Shepitko 0.07%
= Patricio Guzmán 0.07%
112 Albert Maysles 0.07%
113 Frantisek Vlácil 0.07%
= Georges Méliès 0.07%
115 Andrei Zvyagintsev 0.06%
= Dario Argento 0.06%
= Julien Duvivier 0.06%
= Kazuo Hara 0.06%
= Lucian Pintilie 0.06%
120 Boris Barnet 0.06%
121 Forough Farrokhzad 0.06%
= Harold Ramis 0.06%
= Jacques Becker 0.06%
= Marguerite Duras 0.06%
125 William Wyler 0.06%
126 Spike Lee 0.05%
127 Andy Warhol 0.05%
128 Krzysztof Kieslowski 0.05%

Coincidentally, every woman mentioned on this page is in the list of directors that women like more than men do.

This page was last modified on August 12, 2013