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Directors Preferred by Voters from Non-English-Speaking Nations and by voters from English-Speaking Nations

Top Directors According to Voters from Non-English-Speaking Nations

Rank Director # of Votes % of Votes
1 Jean-Luc Godard 185 2.98%
2 Alfred Hitchcock 183 2.95%
3 Federico Fellini 156 2.51%
4 Andrei Tarkovsky 146 2.35%
5 Ozu Yasujirô 144 2.32%
6 Orson Welles 141 2.27%
7 Ingmar Bergman 134 2.16%
8 Francis Ford Coppola 128 2.06%
9 Charles Chaplin 122 1.96%
= Stanley Kubrick 122 1.96%
11 John Ford 120 1.93%
12 Carl Theodor Dreyer 116 1.87%
13 Akira Kurosawa 112 1.80%
14 Jean Renoir 111 1.79%
15 Luis Buñuel 110 1.77%
= Robert Bresson 110 1.77%
17 Michelangelo Antonioni 101 1.63%
18 F. W. Murnau 85 1.37%
19 Martin Scorsese 82 1.32%
20 Fritz Lang 77 1.24%
21 Roberto Rossellini 76 1.22%
22 Sergei M Eisenstein 65 1.05%
23 John Cassavetes 62 1.00%
24 Billy Wilder 58 0.93%
25 Mizoguchi Kenji 56 0.90%
26 François Truffaut 55 0.89%
27 David Lynch 54 0.87%
28 Abbas Kiarostami 52 0.84%
29 Luchino Visconti 51 0.82%
30 Wong Kar Wai 47 0.76%
31 Howard Hawks 46 0.74%
32 Vittorio de Sica 44 0.71%
33 Pier Paolo Pasolini 41 0.66%
34 Lars von Trier 40.5 0.65%
35 Béla Tarr 40 0.64%
36 Dziga Vertov 38 0.61%
= Jean Vigo 38 0.61%
= Satyajit Ray 38 0.61%
39 Alain Resnais 37.5 0.60%
40 Buster Keaton 36 0.58%
= Ernst Lubitsch 36 0.58%
= Sergio Leone 36 0.58%
43 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 35 0.56%
44 Terrence Malick 32 0.52%
45 Woody Allen 31 0.50%
46 Edward Yang 30 0.48%
= Jacques Tati 30 0.48%
48 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 29.09 0.47%
49 D.W. Griffith 28 0.45%
= Krzysztof Kieslowski 28 0.45%
= Michael Haneke 28 0.45%
= Werner Herzog 28 0.45%
53 Chris Marker 27.5 0.44%
= Jean Eustache 27.5 0.44%
55 Hsiao-hsien Hou 26 0.42%
56 Ridley Scott 24 0.39%
57 Max Ophüls 23 0.37%
58 Charles Laughton 22 0.35%
= Claude Lanzmann 22 0.35%
= Theodoros Angelopoulos 22 0.35%
61 Erich von Stroheim 21 0.34%
= Quentin Tarantino 21 0.34%
63 Wim Wenders 20 0.32%
64 Sergei Parajanov 19 0.31%
= Víctor Erice 19 0.31%
66 Marcel Carné 18 0.29%
= Steven Spielberg 18 0.29%
68 David Lean 17 0.27%
= Milos Forman 17 0.27%
= Miyazaki Hayao 17 0.27%
71 Douglas Sirk 16 0.26%
= Roman Polanski 16 0.26%
73 Aleksandr Sokurov 15 0.24%
= Leo McCarey 15 0.24%
= Nicholas Ray 15 0.24%
= Paul Thomas Anderson 15 0.24%
77 Jean-Pierre Melville 14 0.23%
78 Bernardo Bertolucci 13 0.21%
= Claire Denis 13 0.21%
= Djibril Diop Mambéty 13 0.21%
= Elem Klimov 13 0.21%
= Eric Rohmer 13 0.21%
= Gillo Pontecorvo 13 0.21%
= Glauber Rocha 13 0.21%
= Ritwik Ghatak 13 0.21%
= Robert Altman 13 0.21%
= Sam Peckinpah 13 0.21%
88 Chantal Akerman 12 0.19%
= Fei Mu 12 0.19%
= John Huston 12 0.19%
= Manoel de Oliveira 12 0.19%
= Mikhail Kalatozov 12 0.19%
= Naruse Mikio 12 0.19%
= Zhang Yimou 12 0.19%
95 Maurice Pialat 11 0.18%
= Michael Curtiz 11 0.18%
= Pedro Almodóvar 11 0.18%
= Pedro Costa 11 0.18%
= Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 11 0.18%
= Tsai Ming-Liang 11 0.18%
= Victor Fleming 11 0.18%
= Vincente Minnelli 11 0.18%
103 Danièle Huillet 10.5 0.17%
= Gene Kelly 10.5 0.17%
= Jean-Marie Straub 10.5 0.17%
= Michael Powell 10.5 0.17%
= Stanley Donen 10.5 0.17%
108 Jacques Demy 10 0.16%
= Jim Jarmusch 10 0.16%
110 Andrzej Wajda 9 0.14%
= Carol Reed 9 0.14%
= Clint Eastwood 9 0.14%
= Cristi Puiu 9 0.14%
= David Cronenberg 9 0.14%
= Emir Kusturica 9 0.14%
= Frantisek Vlácil 9 0.14%
= Jonas Mekas 9 0.14%
= Lav Díaz 9 0.14%
= Michael Cimino 9 0.14%
= Michael Snow 9 0.14%
= Philippe Garrel 9 0.14%
= Robert J. Flaherty 9 0.14%
= Emeric Pressburger 8.5 0.14%
124 Abel Gance 8 0.13%
= Aki Kaurismäki 8 0.13%
= Gus van Sant 8 0.13%
= Jacques Tourneur 8 0.13%
= Miklos Jancso 8 0.13%
= Peter Kubelka 8 0.13%
= Raúl Ruiz 8 0.13%
= Stan Brakhage 8 0.13%
= Victor Sjöström 8 0.13%
133 Bob Rafelson 7 0.11%
= Carlos Reygadas 7 0.11%
= Dusan Makavejev 7 0.11%
= Elia Kazan 7 0.11%
= Frederick Wiseman 7 0.11%
= Georges Méliès 7 0.11%
= Guru Dutt 7 0.11%
= Jacques Rivette 7 0.11%
= John Carpenter 7 0.11%
= Josef von Sternberg 7 0.11%
= King Vidor 7 0.11%
= Luis García Berlanga 7 0.11%
= Mike Leigh 7 0.11%
= Mohsen Makhmalbaf 7 0.11%
= Nagisa Oshima 7 0.11%
= Nicolas Roeg 7 0.11%
= Ousmane Sembene 7 0.11%
= Peter Weir 7 0.11%
151 Ethan Coen 6.5 0.10%
= Joel Coen 6.5 0.10%

Top Directors According to Voters from English-Speaking Nations

Rank Director # of Votes % of Votes
1 Alfred Hitchcock 207 3.54%
2 Orson Welles 158 2.70%
3 Stanley Kubrick 130 2.22%
4 Jean-Luc Godard 126.5 2.16%
5 Jean Renoir 112 1.91%
6 Ozu Yasujirô 109 1.86%
7 Robert Bresson 104 1.78%
8 Francis Ford Coppola 99 1.69%
9 Carl Theodor Dreyer 97 1.66%
10 Ingmar Bergman 91 1.55%
11 Martin Scorsese 90 1.54%
12 Andrei Tarkovsky 88 1.50%
13 Akira Kurosawa 86 1.47%
14 F. W. Murnau 78 1.33%
15 John Ford 75 1.28%
16 Federico Fellini 70 1.20%
17 David Lynch 67 1.14%
= Luis Buñuel 67 1.14%
19 Billy Wilder 58 0.99%
20 Michelangelo Antonioni 57 0.97%
21 Mizoguchi Kenji 52 0.89%
22 Howard Hawks 50 0.85%
23 Jean Vigo 49 0.84%
24 Buster Keaton 48.5 0.83%
25 Chris Marker 47.5 0.81%
26 Dziga Vertov 46 0.79%
27 Michael Powell 42 0.72%
= Wong Kar Wai 42 0.72%
29 Terrence Malick 41 0.70%
30 Emeric Pressburger 40 0.68%
31 Chantal Akerman 38 0.65%
= David Lean 38 0.65%
= Roberto Rossellini 38 0.65%
= Sergei M Eisenstein 38 0.65%
35 Abbas Kiarostami 37 0.63%
= François Truffaut 37 0.63%
= Roman Polanski 37 0.63%
= Vittorio de Sica 37 0.63%
39 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 36.09 0.62%
40 Fritz Lang 36 0.61%
= Woody Allen 36 0.61%
42 Nicolas Roeg 35.5 0.61%
43 Satyajit Ray 35 0.60%
44 Gillo Pontecorvo 33 0.56%
= John Cassavetes 33 0.56%
= Robert Altman 33 0.56%
47 Alain Resnais 31.5 0.54%
48 Max Ophüls 31 0.53%
49 Sergio Leone 30 0.51%
50 Béla Tarr 28 0.48%
= Claire Denis 28 0.48%
= Claude Lanzmann 28 0.48%
= Jacques Rivette 28 0.48%
54 Charles Chaplin 27 0.46%
55 Preston Sturges 26 0.44%
= Steven Spielberg 26 0.44%
= Werner Herzog 26 0.44%
58 Krzysztof Kieslowski 25 0.43%
= Vincente Minnelli 25 0.43%
60 Carol Reed 23 0.39%
= Ernst Lubitsch 23 0.39%
= Jacques Tati 23 0.39%
= Nicholas Ray 23 0.39%
64 Luchino Visconti 22 0.38%
65 Bernardo Bertolucci 21 0.36%
= Hsiao-hsien Hou 21 0.36%
= Jean-Pierre Melville 21 0.36%
= Sam Peckinpah 21 0.36%
69 Douglas Sirk 20 0.34%
= Pier Paolo Pasolini 20 0.34%
71 Stanley Donen 19.5 0.33%
72 Jacques Demy 19 0.32%
= Michael Haneke 19 0.32%
= Ridley Scott 19 0.32%
75 Edward Yang 18 0.31%
= Gene Kelly 18 0.31%
= Michael Snow 18 0.31%
78 Charles Laughton 17 0.29%
= Marcel Carné 17 0.29%
= Ousmane Sembene 17 0.29%
= Víctor Erice 17 0.29%
82 Andy Warhol 16 0.27%
= D.W. Griffith 16 0.27%
= Ken Loach 16 0.27%
= Spike Lee 16 0.27%
= Wim Wenders 16 0.27%
87 Agnès Varda 15 0.26%
= Alexander Mackendrick 15 0.26%
= Leo McCarey 15 0.26%
= Paul Thomas Anderson 15 0.26%
91 David Cronenberg 14 0.24%
= Djibril Diop Mambéty 14 0.24%
= Eric Rohmer 14 0.24%
= John Huston 14 0.24%
= Lars von Trier 14 0.24%
= Michael Curtiz 14 0.24%
= Stan Brakhage 14 0.24%
98 Abel Gance 13 0.22%
= Aleksandr Sokurov 13 0.22%
= Apichatpong Weerasethakul 13 0.22%
= Elem Klimov 13 0.22%
= Frank Capra 13 0.22%
= Jacques Tourneur 13 0.22%
= Miyazaki Hayao 13 0.22%
105 Jane Campion 12 0.20%
= Jean Cocteau 12 0.20%
= Naruse Mikio 12 0.20%
= Robert Hamer 12 0.20%
= Victor Fleming 12 0.20%
110 Ethan Coen 11.5 0.20%
= Joel Coen 11.5 0.20%
112 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 11 0.19%
= Maurice Pialat 11 0.19%
= Sergei Parajanov 11 0.19%
115 Erich von Stroheim 10 0.17%
= Errol Morris 10 0.17%
= Jean Eustache 10 0.17%
= Josef von Sternberg 10 0.17%
= Todd Haynes 10 0.17%
120 Donald Cammell 9.5 0.16%
= Humphrey Jennings 9.5 0.16%
122 Charles Burnett 9 0.15%
= Georges Franju 9 0.15%
= Joseph L. Mankiewicz 9 0.15%
= Pedro Almodóvar 9 0.15%
= Quentin Tarantino 9 0.15%
= Terence Davies 9 0.15%
128 Barbara Loden 8 0.14%
= Bruce Conner 8 0.14%
= Danièle Huillet 8 0.14%
= G W Pabst 8 0.14%
= George Lucas 8 0.14%
= Glauber Rocha 8 0.14%
= Harold Ramis 8 0.14%
= Jean-Marie Straub 8 0.14%
= Kobayashi Masaki 8 0.14%
= Louis Feuillade 8 0.14%
= Louis Malle 8 0.14%
= Lucrecia Martel 8 0.14%
= Mike Leigh 8 0.14%
= Mikhail Kalatozov 8 0.14%
= Sidney Lumet 8 0.14%
= Theodoros Angelopoulos 8 0.14%
= William Wyler 8 0.14%
= Yuri Norstein 8 0.14%
146 Brian De Palma 7 0.12%
= Bruce Baillie 7 0.12%
= Derek Jarman 7 0.12%
= Elia Kazan 7 0.12%
= George A Romero 7 0.12%
= Henri-Georges Clouzot 7 0.12%
= Imamura Shohei 7 0.12%
= Jia Zhang Ke 7 0.12%
= Ken Russell 7 0.12%
= Kenneth Anger 7 0.12%
= Lindsay Anderson 7 0.12%
= Margaret Tait 7 0.12%
= Michael Cimino 7 0.12%
= Nuri Bilge Ceylan 7 0.12%
= Otto Preminger 7 0.12%
= Patricio Guzmán 7 0.12%
= Peter Watkins 7 0.12%
= Peter Weir 7 0.12%
= Rob Reiner 7 0.12%
= Tobe Hooper 7 0.12%
166 Maya Deren 6.5 0.11%
167 Andrew Stanton 6 0.10%
= Andrzej Zulawski 6 0.10%
= Clint Eastwood 6 0.10%
= David Fincher 6 0.10%
= Ermanno Olmi 6 0.10%
= Frederick Wiseman 6 0.10%
= Georges Méliès 6 0.10%
= Jack Clayton 6 0.10%
= Jan Svankmajer 6 0.10%
= Jim Jarmusch 6 0.10%
= Ken Jacobs 6 0.10%
= King Vidor 6 0.10%
= Len Lye 6 0.10%
= Marcel Ophüls 6 0.10%
= Mike Nichols 6 0.10%
= Milos Forman 6 0.10%
= Richard Linklater 6 0.10%
= Rouben Mamoulian 6 0.10%
= Russ Meyer 6 0.10%
= Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 6 0.10%
= Tsai Ming-Liang 6 0.10%
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