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Directors According to Critics and to Other Directors

Directors Like by Critics More than by Other Directors

Rank Director % Difference
1 Alfred Hitchcock 1.76%
2 Jean Renoir 0.89%
3 Orson Welles 0.84%
4 John Ford 0.84%
5 F. W. Murnau 0.78%
6 Howard Hawks 0.68%
7 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.62%
8 Jean-Luc Godard 0.53%
9 Dziga Vertov 0.52%
10 Buster Keaton 0.48%
11 Fritz Lang 0.46%
12 Ozu Yasujirô 0.45%
13 Mizoguchi Kenji 0.37%
14 D.W. Griffith 0.36%
15 Wong Kar Wai 0.34%
16 Carl Theodor Dreyer 0.34%
17 Jacques Rivette 0.33%
18 Emeric Pressburger 0.30%
19 David Lynch 0.28%
20 Chris Marker 0.27%
21 Douglas Sirk 0.27%
= Vincente Minnelli 0.27%
23 Erich von Stroheim 0.25%
24 Max Ophüls 0.24%
25 Michael Powell 0.22%
26 Satyajit Ray 0.19%
27 Ernst Lubitsch 0.18%
28 Nicholas Ray 0.17%
29 Edward Yang 0.17%
30 Béla Tarr 0.17%
31 Preston Sturges 0.17%
32 Hsiao-hsien Hou 0.16%
33 Gene Kelly 0.16%
34 Leo McCarey 0.16%
= Sergei Parajanov 0.16%
36 Chantal Akerman 0.16%
= Claude Lanzmann 0.16%
38 Robert Altman 0.15%
39 Agnès Varda 0.15%
40 Terence Davies 0.14%
41 Stanley Donen 0.14%
42 Aleksandr Sokurov 0.13%
43 Otto Preminger 0.13%
44 Michael Snow 0.12%
45 Danièle Huillet 0.12%
= Jean-Marie Straub 0.12%
47 Roberto Rossellini 0.12%
48 Mohsen Makhmalbaf 0.12%
49 Miyazaki Hayao 0.12%
50 Victor Fleming 0.11%
51 Humphrey Jennings 0.11%
52 Pedro Costa 0.11%
53 Víctor Erice 0.11%
54 Louis Feuillade 0.11%
= Raoul Walsh 0.11%
56 Jacques Demy 0.11%
57 Abbas Kiarostami 0.10%
58 Michael Curtiz 0.10%
59 Marcel Carné 0.10%
60 Andrew Stanton 0.09%
= Hollis Frampton 0.09%
= Vera Chytilová 0.09%
63 Wang Bing 0.09%
64 Abel Gance 0.09%
65 Naruse Mikio 0.09%
66 Russ Meyer 0.08%
67 Josef von Sternberg 0.08%
68 Djibril Diop Mambéty 0.08%
69 Alexander Hammid 0.08%
70 King Hu 0.08%
= Monte Hellman 0.08%
= Robert Beavers 0.08%
73 Jean Vigo 0.08%
74 Boris Barnet 0.08%
75 Frantisek Vlácil 0.07%
= Georges Méliès 0.07%
= Jia Zhang Ke 0.07%
= King Vidor 0.07%
79 Blake Edwards 0.07%
= Chuck Jones 0.07%
= Jean Epstein 0.07%
= José Val del Omar 0.07%
= Ken Jacobs 0.07%
= Len Lye 0.07%
85 Fei Mu 0.07%
86 Luchino Visconti 0.07%
87 George A Romero 0.07%
= George Cukor 0.07%
= Marguerite Duras 0.07%
= Victor Sjöström 0.07%
91 Maya Deren 0.06%
92 Carol Reed 0.06%
93 Artavazd Pelechian 0.06%
= Atom Egoyan 0.06%
= Gregory J. Markopoulos 0.06%
= Mervyn LeRoy 0.06%
= Shirley Clarke 0.06%
98 Clint Eastwood 0.06%
99 John Lasseter 0.06%
100 Bong Joon-ho 0.05%
= Kenneth Anger 0.05%
102 Charles Burnett 0.05%
= Guru Dutt 0.05%
= Lindsay Anderson 0.05%
= Tobe Hooper 0.05%
106 Jacques Tourneur 0.05%

Directors Like by Other Directors More than by Critics

Rank Director % Difference
1 Federico Fellini 1.17%
2 Martin Scorsese 0.94%
3 Stanley Kubrick 0.79%
4 Pier Paolo Pasolini 0.71%
5 Ingmar Bergman 0.59%
6 John Cassavetes 0.58%
7 Francis Ford Coppola 0.57%
8 Akira Kurosawa 0.47%
9 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.44%
10 Vittorio de Sica 0.43%
11 Luis Buñuel 0.40%
12 François Truffaut 0.38%
13 Michael Haneke 0.36%
14 Sergio Leone 0.33%
15 Milos Forman 0.32%
16 Woody Allen 0.32%
17 Ken Loach 0.29%
18 Paul Thomas Anderson 0.28%
19 Roy Andersson 0.28%
20 Zhang Yimou 0.27%
21 Werner Herzog 0.27%
22 Sidney Lumet 0.27%
23 Charles Chaplin 0.26%
24 Elem Klimov 0.25%
25 Jim Jarmusch 0.25%
26 Mikhail Kalatozov 0.24%
27 Bernardo Bertolucci 0.23%
28 Peter Weir 0.23%
29 Lars von Trier 0.23%
30 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 0.22%
31 Billy Wilder 0.17%
32 Michael Cimino 0.17%
33 George Roy Hill 0.17%
34 Emir Kusturica 0.16%
35 Tsai Ming-Liang 0.16%
36 Steven Spielberg 0.15%
37 Gus van Sant 0.15%
38 Teshigahara Hiroshi 0.14%
39 Charles Laughton 0.13%
40 Thomas Vinterberg 0.13%
= William Friedkin 0.13%
42 Terrence Malick 0.13%
43 Hal Ashby 0.13%
44 Frederick Wiseman 0.12%
45 Quentin Tarantino 0.12%
46 Bob Rafelson 0.12%
47 Frank Capra 0.12%
48 Elia Kazan 0.11%
49 Costa-Gavras 0.11%
= Raymond Depardon 0.11%
51 Mike Nichols 0.10%
52 Jean-Pierre Melville 0.10%
53 David Perlov 0.10%
54 Maurice Pialat 0.10%
55 Asghar Farhadi 0.09%
= Jacques Becker 0.09%
57 Gillo Pontecorvo 0.09%
58 Alan Clarke 0.09%
= Nelson Pereira dos Santos 0.09%
= Sydney Pollack 0.09%
61 Roman Polanski 0.09%
62 Ethan Coen 0.08%
= Joel Coen 0.08%
64 Brian De Palma 0.08%
65 David Hand et al 0.08%
= Martin Ritt 0.08%
= Mira Nair 0.08%
= Tony Richardson 0.08%
69 Aki Kaurismäki 0.08%
= Jonas Mekas 0.08%
71 Eric Rohmer 0.08%
72 Bob Fosse 0.08%
= Derek Jarman 0.08%
= Godfrey Reggio 0.08%
= Harmony Korine 0.08%
= Luis García Berlanga 0.08%
= Robert Kramer 0.08%
= Tod Browning 0.08%
79 Louis Malle 0.07%
= Robert J. Flaherty 0.07%
81 Bill Douglas 0.07%
= Bruno Dumont 0.07%
= Cristian Mungiu 0.07%
= John Schlesinger 0.07%
= Kitano Takeshi 0.07%
= Lee Chang-dong 0.07%
= Robert Mulligan 0.07%
= Robert Rossen 0.07%
89 Jean-Pierre Dardenne 0.07%
= Luc Dardenne 0.07%
91 Nagisa Oshima 0.07%
92 Jane Campion 0.06%
93 Arthur Penn 0.06%
= Jack Clayton 0.06%
= Larisa Shepitko 0.06%
= Michael Mann 0.06%
= Miklos Jancso 0.06%
= Peter Bogdanovich 0.06%
= Rob Reiner 0.06%
100 David Lean 0.06%
101 Mike Leigh 0.06%
102 Alejandro González Iñárritu 0.06%
= João César Monteiro 0.06%
= Paul Verhoeven 0.06%
105 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 0.06%
106 Andrzej Wajda 0.06%
= Errol Morris 0.06%
= Nuri Bilge Ceylan 0.06%
109 Carine Adler 0.06%
= Edward F Cline 0.06%
= Eija Liisa Ahtilla 0.06%
= Ettore Scola 0.06%
= Hou Hsiao-hsien 0.06%
= Laurent Cantet 0.06%
= Mario Monicelli 0.06%
= Michael Ritchie 0.06%
= Nikita Mikhalkov 0.06%
= Richard Donner 0.06%
= Robert Benton 0.06%
= Sam Mendes 0.06%
= Sam Wood 0.06%
= Steven Soderbergh 0.06%
= Tran Anh Hung 0.06%
124 Nicolas Roeg 0.05%
125 Dennis Hopper 0.05%
126 Joris Ivens 0.05%
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