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

Directors Preferred by Voters from Non-English-Speaking Nations More than by Voters from English-Speaking Nations

Rank Director % Difference
1 Charles Chaplin 1.50%
2 Federico Fellini 1.32%
3 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.85%
4 Jean-Luc Godard 0.82%
5 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.65%
6 John Ford 0.65%
7 Luis Buñuel 0.63%
8 Fritz Lang 0.63%
9 Ingmar Bergman 0.60%
10 Roberto Rossellini 0.57%
11 Ozu Yasujirô 0.46%
12 Luchino Visconti 0.45%
13 John Cassavetes 0.43%
14 Lars von Trier 0.41%
15 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.40%
16 Francis Ford Coppola 0.37%
17 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 0.34%
18 Akira Kurosawa 0.33%
19 Pier Paolo Pasolini 0.32%
20 Jean Eustache 0.27%
21 François Truffaut 0.25%
22 Theodoros Angelopoulos 0.22%
23 Carl Theodor Dreyer 0.21%
24 Abbas Kiarostami 0.21%
25 Ernst Lubitsch 0.19%
26 Quentin Tarantino 0.18%
27 D.W. Griffith 0.18%
28 Edward Yang 0.18%
29 Milos Forman 0.17%
30 Erich von Stroheim 0.17%
31 Béla Tarr 0.17%
32 Manoel de Oliveira 0.16%
33 Miklos Jancso 0.13%
34 Emir Kusturica 0.13%
= Jonas Mekas 0.13%
= Philippe Garrel 0.13%
37 Michael Haneke 0.13%
38 Fei Mu 0.12%
39 Ritwik Ghatak 0.12%
40 Sergei Parajanov 0.12%
41 Luis García Berlanga 0.11%
42 Victor Sjöström 0.11%
43 Lav Díaz 0.11%
44 Zhang Yimou 0.11%
45 Blake Edwards 0.10%
= José Val del Omar 0.10%
47 Carlos Reygadas 0.10%
48 Aki Kaurismäki 0.09%
49 Andrzej Wajda 0.09%
= Cristi Puiu 0.09%
51 Pedro Costa 0.09%
52 Jacques Tati 0.09%
53 Boris Barnet 0.09%
54 João César Monteiro 0.08%
= Youssef Chahine 0.08%
56 Bob Fosse 0.08%
57 Dusan Makavejev 0.08%
58 Gus van Sant 0.08%
59 Frantisek Vlácil 0.08%
60 Vittorio de Sica 0.08%
61 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 0.07%
= Tsai Ming-Liang 0.07%
63 Glauber Rocha 0.07%
64 Sergio Leone 0.07%
65 Alain Resnais 0.07%
66 Anne-Marie Miéville 0.06%
= Cristian Mungiu 0.06%
= Jean Grémillon 0.06%
= Lee Chang-dong 0.06%
= Majid Majidi 0.06%
= Raymond Depardon 0.06%
72 Charles Laughton 0.06%
73 Jean Epstein 0.06%
= Kim Ki-Duk 0.06%
75 Peter Bogdanovich 0.06%
76 Ridley Scott 0.06%
77 Bob Rafelson 0.06%
= John Carpenter 0.06%
= Mohsen Makhmalbaf 0.06%
80 Raúl Ruiz 0.06%
81 Hsiao-hsien Hou 0.06%
82 Robert J. Flaherty 0.06%
83 Jim Jarmusch 0.06%
84 Mikhail Kalatozov 0.06%
85 Miyazaki Hayao 0.05%

Directors Preferred by Voters from English-Speaking Nations More than by Voters from Non-English-Speaking Nations

Rank Director % Difference
1 Alfred Hitchcock 0.59%
2 Michael Powell 0.55%
3 Emeric Pressburger 0.55%
4 Nicolas Roeg 0.49%
5 Chantal Akerman 0.46%
6 Orson Welles 0.43%
7 David Lean 0.38%
8 Roman Polanski 0.37%
9 Chris Marker 0.37%
10 Jacques Rivette 0.37%
11 Preston Sturges 0.36%
12 Gillo Pontecorvo 0.35%
= Robert Altman 0.35%
14 David Lynch 0.27%
15 Claire Denis 0.27%
16 Alexander Mackendrick 0.26%
17 Stanley Kubrick 0.26%
18 Vincente Minnelli 0.25%
19 Buster Keaton 0.25%
20 Carol Reed 0.25%
21 Jean Vigo 0.23%
22 Spike Lee 0.23%
23 Martin Scorsese 0.22%
24 Agnès Varda 0.19%
25 Jean Cocteau 0.19%
= Robert Hamer 0.19%
27 Terrence Malick 0.18%
28 Andy Warhol 0.18%
29 Ousmane Sembene 0.18%
30 Ken Loach 0.18%
31 Dziga Vertov 0.17%
32 Todd Haynes 0.17%
33 Stanley Donen 0.16%
34 Jacques Demy 0.16%
35 Michael Snow 0.16%
36 Max Ophüls 0.16%
37 Frank Capra 0.16%
38 Steven Spielberg 0.15%
39 Nicholas Ray 0.15%
40 Bernardo Bertolucci 0.15%
= Sam Peckinpah 0.15%
42 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 0.15%
43 Donald Cammell 0.15%
44 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 0.14%
45 Errol Morris 0.14%
46 Gene Kelly 0.14%
47 Humphrey Jennings 0.14%
48 Jean-Pierre Melville 0.13%
49 Jean Renoir 0.13%
50 Claude Lanzmann 0.12%
51 Charles Burnett 0.12%
= Georges Franju 0.12%
53 Bruce Conner 0.12%
= Harold Ramis 0.12%
= Kobayashi Masaki 0.12%
= Louis Feuillade 0.12%
57 Derek Jarman 0.12%
= Margaret Tait 0.12%
59 Woody Allen 0.12%
60 Howard Hawks 0.11%
61 Stan Brakhage 0.11%
62 Jane Campion 0.11%
63 Barbara Loden 0.10%
= Yuri Norstein 0.10%
65 Ken Russell 0.10%
= Kenneth Anger 0.10%
= Patricio Guzmán 0.10%
= Rob Reiner 0.10%
69 Ken Jacobs 0.10%
= Len Lye 0.10%
= Richard Linklater 0.10%
72 David Cronenberg 0.09%
73 Abel Gance 0.09%
= Jacques Tourneur 0.09%
75 Ethan Coen 0.09%
= Joel Coen 0.09%
77 G W Pabst 0.09%
78 George A Romero 0.09%
79 Ermanno Olmi 0.09%
= Rouben Mamoulian 0.09%
= Russ Meyer 0.09%
82 Mervyn LeRoy 0.09%
= Michel Gondry 0.09%
84 Douglas Sirk 0.08%
85 Charlie Kaufman 0.08%
86 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 0.07%
87 Lucrecia Martel 0.07%
88 Henri-Georges Clouzot 0.07%
= Peter Watkins 0.07%
90 Andrew Stanton 0.07%
= Andrzej Zulawski 0.07%
= Jack Clayton 0.07%
= Mike Nichols 0.07%
94 Auguste Lumière 0.07%
95 Alan Clarke 0.07%
= Chuck Jones 0.07%
= George Stevens 0.07%
= John Boorman 0.07%
= Sydney Pollack 0.07%
100 Stewart McAllister 0.07%
101 John Lasseter 0.07%
102 John Schlesinger 0.07%
= John Waters 0.07%
= Mel Brooks 0.07%
105 Michael Curtiz 0.06%
106 Edgar G. Ulmer 0.06%
= Paul Morrissey 0.06%
108 Josef von Sternberg 0.06%
109 Terence Davies 0.06%
110 Billy Wilder 0.06%
111 George Lucas 0.06%
112 Bruce Baillie 0.06%
= Lindsay Anderson 0.06%
= Otto Preminger 0.06%
= Tobe Hooper 0.06%
116 Francesco Rosi 0.05%
= Peter Tscherkassky 0.05%
118 Atom Egoyan 0.05%
= Gregory J. Markopoulos 0.05%
= Leni Riefenstahl 0.05%
= Mark Sandrich 0.05%
= Paul Verhoeven 0.05%
= Shirley Clarke 0.05%
= Tsuchimoto Noriaki 0.05%
125 Abel Ferrara 0.05%
= Albert Lamorisse 0.05%
= Bruce Robinson 0.05%
= Elaine May 0.05%
= Guillermo del Toro 0.05%
= Haile Gerima 0.05%
= James Ivory 0.05%
= Nathaniel Dorsky 0.05%
= Oscar Micheaux 0.05%
= Philip Kaufman 0.05%
= Richard Lester 0.05%
= Samira Makhmalbaf 0.05%
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