Rank |
Director |
# of Votes |
% of Votes |
Top Film |
1 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
390 |
3.24% |
Vertigo (1958) |
2 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
311.5 |
2.58% |
Breathless (1960) |
3 |
Orson Welles |
299 |
2.48% |
Citizen Kane (1941) |
4 |
Ozu Yasujirô |
253 |
2.10% |
Tokyo Story (1953) |
5 |
Stanley Kubrick |
252 |
2.09% |
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
6 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
234 |
1.94% |
Mirror (1974) |
7 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
227 |
1.88% |
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
8 |
Federico Fellini |
226 |
1.87% |
8½ (1963) |
9 |
Ingmar Bergman |
225 |
1.87% |
Persona (1966) |
10 |
Jean Renoir |
223 |
1.85% |
Règle du jeu, La (1939) |
11 |
Robert Bresson |
214 |
1.78% |
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) |
12 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
213 |
1.77% |
Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) |
13 |
Akira Kurosawa |
198 |
1.64% |
Seven Samurai (1954) |
14 |
John Ford |
195 |
1.62% |
Searchers, The 91956) |
15 |
Luis Buñuel |
177 |
1.47% |
Viridiana (1961) |
16 |
Martin Scorsese |
172 |
1.43% |
Taxi Driver (1976) |
17 |
F. W. Murnau |
163 |
1.35% |
Sunrise (1927) |
18 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
158 |
1.31% |
Avventura, L' (1960) |
19 |
Charles Chaplin |
149 |
1.24% |
City Lights (1931) |
20 |
David Lynch |
121 |
1.00% |
Mulholland Dr (2003) |
21 |
Billy Wilder |
116 |
0.96% |
Some Like It Hot (1959) |
22 |
Roberto Rossellini |
114 |
0.95% |
Journey to Italy (1954) |
23 |
Fritz Lang |
113 |
0.94% |
Metropolis (1927) |
24 |
Mizoguchi Kenji |
108 |
0.90% |
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) |
25 |
Sergei M Eisenstein |
103 |
0.85% |
Battleship Potemkin (1925) |
26 |
Howard Hawks |
96 |
0.80% |
Rio Bravo (1958) |
27 |
John Cassavetes |
95 |
0.79% |
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) |
28 |
François Truffaut |
92 |
0.76% |
400 Blows, The (1959) |
29 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
89 |
0.74% |
Close-Up (1989) |
= |
Wong Kar Wai |
89 |
0.74% |
In The Mood For Love (2000) |
31 |
Jean Vigo |
87 |
0.72% |
Atalante, L' (1934) |
32 |
Buster Keaton |
84.5 |
0.70% |
General, The (1926) |
33 |
Dziga Vertov |
84 |
0.70% |
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) |
34 |
Vittorio de Sica |
81 |
0.67% |
Bicycle Thieves, The (1948) |
35 |
Chris Marker |
75 |
0.62% |
Jetée, La (1962) |
36 |
Luchino Visconti |
73 |
0.61% |
Leopard, The (1963) |
= |
Satyajit Ray |
73 |
0.61% |
Pather Panchali (1955) |
= |
Terrence Malick |
73 |
0.61% |
Tree of Life, The (2010) |
39 |
Alain Resnais |
69 |
0.57% |
Last Year At Marienbad (1961) |
40 |
Béla Tarr |
68 |
0.56% |
Sátántangó (1994) |
41 |
Woody Allen |
67 |
0.56% |
Annie Hall (1977) |
42 |
Sergio Leone |
66 |
0.55% |
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) |
43 |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
65.18 |
0.54% |
Fear Eats the Soul (1974) |
44 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
61 |
0.51% |
Gospel According to St Matthew, The (1964) |
45 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
59 |
0.49% |
Trouble in Paradise (1932) |
46 |
David Lean |
55 |
0.46% |
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
47 |
Lars von Trier |
54.5 |
0.45% |
Breaking the Waves (1996) |
48 |
Max Ophüls |
54 |
0.45% |
Madame de… (1953) |
= |
Werner Herzog |
54 |
0.45% |
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972) |
50 |
Jacques Tati |
53 |
0.44% |
Playtime (1967) |
= |
Krzysztof Kieslowski |
53 |
0.44% |
Three Colours: Blue (1993) |
= |
Roman Polanski |
53 |
0.44% |
Chinatown (1974) |
53 |
Michael Powell |
52.5 |
0.44% |
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) |
54 |
Chantal Akerman |
50 |
0.41% |
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) |
= |
Claude Lanzmann |
50 |
0.41% |
Shoah (1985) |
56 |
Emeric Pressburger |
48.5 |
0.40% |
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) |
57 |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
48 |
0.40% |
Tropical Malady (2004) |
= |
Edward Yang |
48 |
0.40% |
Brighter Summer Day, A (1991) |
59 |
Hsiao-hsien Hou |
47 |
0.39% |
City of Sadness, A (1989) |
= |
Michael Haneke |
47 |
0.39% |
Hidden (2004) |
61 |
Gillo Pontecorvo |
46 |
0.38% |
Battle of Algiers, The (1966) |
= |
Robert Altman |
46 |
0.38% |
Nashville (1975) |
63 |
D.W. Griffith |
44 |
0.37% |
Intolerance (1916) |
= |
Steven Spielberg |
44 |
0.37% |
E.T. (1982) |
65 |
Ridley Scott |
43 |
0.36% |
Blade Runner (1982) |
66 |
Nicolas Roeg |
42.5 |
0.35% |
Don't Look Now (1973) |
67 |
Claire Denis |
41 |
0.34% |
Beau Travail (1998) |
68 |
Charles Laughton |
39 |
0.32% |
Night of the Hunter, The (1955) |
69 |
Nicholas Ray |
38 |
0.32% |
In a Lonely Place (1950) |
70 |
Jean Eustache |
37.5 |
0.31% |
Maman et la putain, La (1973) |
71 |
Douglas Sirk |
36 |
0.30% |
Imitation of Life (1959) |
= |
Víctor Erice |
36 |
0.30% |
Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973) |
= |
Vincente Minnelli |
36 |
0.30% |
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) |
= |
Wim Wenders |
36 |
0.30% |
Wings of Desire (1987) |
75 |
Jacques Rivette |
35 |
0.29% |
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) |
= |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
35 |
0.29% |
Samouraï, Le (1967) |
= |
Marcel Carné |
35 |
0.29% |
enfants du paradis, Les (1945) |
78 |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
34 |
0.28% |
Conformist, The (1970) |
= |
Sam Peckinpah |
34 |
0.28% |
Wild Bunch, The (1969) |
80 |
Carol Reed |
32 |
0.27% |
Third Man, The (1949) |
81 |
Erich von Stroheim |
31 |
0.26% |
Greed (1925) |
= |
Preston Sturges |
31 |
0.26% |
Lady Eve, The (1941) |
83 |
Leo McCarey |
30 |
0.25% |
Duck Soup (1933) |
= |
Miyazaki Hayao |
30 |
0.25% |
My Neighbour Totoro (1988) |
= |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
30 |
0.25% |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
= |
Quentin Tarantino |
30 |
0.25% |
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
= |
Sergei Parajanov |
30 |
0.25% |
Colour of Pomegranates, The (1968) |
= |
Stanley Donen |
30 |
0.25% |
Singin' in the Rain (1951) |
= |
Theodoros Angelopoulos |
30 |
0.25% |
Travelling Players, The (1975) |
90 |
Jacques Demy |
29 |
0.24% |
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964) |
91 |
Gene Kelly |
28.5 |
0.24% |
Singin' in the Rain (1951) |
92 |
Aleksandr Sokurov |
28 |
0.23% |
Russian Ark (2002) |
93 |
Djibril Diop Mambéty |
27 |
0.22% |
Touki Bouki (1973) |
= |
Eric Rohmer |
27 |
0.22% |
My Night with Maud (1969) |
= |
Michael Snow |
27 |
0.22% |
Wavelength (1967) |
96 |
Elem Klimov |
26 |
0.22% |
Come And See (1985) |
= |
John Huston |
26 |
0.22% |
Treasure of Sierra Madre, The (1947) |
98 |
Michael Curtiz |
25 |
0.21% |
Casablanca (1942) |
99 |
Naruse Mikio |
24 |
0.20% |
Floating Clouds (1955) |
= |
Ousmane Sembene |
24 |
0.20% |
(tie) Black Girl (1965) and Xala (1974) |
101 |
David Cronenberg |
23 |
0.19% |
Videodrome (1983) |
= |
Milos Forman |
23 |
0.19% |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
= |
Victor Fleming |
23 |
0.19% |
Wizard of Oz, The (1939) |
104 |
Ken Loach |
22 |
0.18% |
Kes (1969) |
= |
Maurice Pialat |
22 |
0.18% |
A nos Amours (1983) |
= |
Stan Brakhage |
22 |
0.18% |
Mothlight (1963) |
107 |
Andy Warhol |
21.5 |
0.18% |
Empire (1964) |
108 |
Abel Gance |
21 |
0.17% |
Napoleon (1927) |
= |
Glauber Rocha |
21 |
0.17% |
Black God, White Devil (1964) |
= |
Jacques Tourneur |
21 |
0.17% |
Out of the Past (1947) |
111 |
Mikhail Kalatozov |
20 |
0.17% |
I am Cuba (1964) |
= |
Pedro Almodóvar |
20 |
0.17% |
All About My Mother (1999) |
113 |
Agnès Varda |
19 |
0.16% |
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) |
= |
Spike Lee |
19 |
0.16% |
Do The Right Thing (1989) |
115 |
Danièle Huillet |
18.5 |
0.15% |
Sicilia! (1998) |
= |
Jean-Marie Straub |
18.5 |
0.15% |
Sicilia! (1998) |
117 |
Ethan Coen |
18 |
0.15% |
Big Lebowski, The (1998) |
= |
Jane Campion |
18 |
0.15% |
Piano, The (1992) |
= |
Joel Coen |
18 |
0.15% |
Big Lebowski, The (1998) |
= |
Ritwik Ghatak |
18 |
0.15% |
Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960) |
121 |
Frank Capra |
17 |
0.14% |
It's a Wonderful Life (1947) |
= |
Josef von Sternberg |
17 |
0.14% |
(tie) Saga of Anatahan, The (1953), Scarlet Empress, The (1934), and Shanghai Express (1932) |
= |
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
17 |
0.14% |
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) |
= |
Tsai Ming-Liang |
17 |
0.14% |
Viva l'Amour (1994) |
= |
Zhang Yimou |
17 |
0.14% |
Raise the Red Lantern (1991) |
126 |
Fei Mu |
16 |
0.13% |
Spring in a Small Town (1948) |
= |
Jim Jarmusch |
16 |
0.13% |
Stranger than Paradise (1982) |
= |
Michael Cimino |
16 |
0.13% |
Deer Hunter, The (1977) |
= |
Pedro Costa |
16 |
0.13% |
Colossal Youth (2006) |
130 |
Alexander Mackendrick |
15 |
0.12% |
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) |
= |
Clint Eastwood |
15 |
0.12% |
Unforgiven (1992) |
= |
Mike Leigh |
15 |
0.12% |
Naked (1993) |
= |
Terence Davies |
15 |
0.12% |
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) |
134 |
Aleksandr Dovzhenko |
14 |
0.12% |
Earth (1930) |
= |
Elia Kazan |
14 |
0.12% |
On The Waterfront (1954) |
= |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
14 |
0.12% |
All About Eve (1950) |
= |
Louis Malle |
14 |
0.12% |
Au Revoir les enfants (1987) |
= |
Manoel de Oliveira |
14 |
0.12% |
(tie) Abraham's Valley (1993) and Amor de Perdição (1978) |
= |
Peter Weir |
14 |
0.12% |
Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) |
= |
Robert J. Flaherty |
14 |
0.12% |
Nanook of the North (1922) |
= |
Sidney Lumet |
14 |
0.12% |
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
= |
William Wyler |
14 |
0.12% |
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) |
143 |
Brian De Palma |
13 |
0.11% |
Scarface (1983) |
= |
Frantisek Vlácil |
13 |
0.11% |
Marketa Lazarová (1967) |
= |
Frederick Wiseman |
13 |
0.11% |
Titicut Follies (1967) |
= |
George Lucas |
13 |
0.11% |
Star Wars (1977) |
= |
Georges Méliès |
13 |
0.11% |
Trip to the Moon, A (1902) |
= |
Imamura Shohei |
13 |
0.11% |
(tie) Ballad of Narayama, The (1983), Insect Woman, The (1963), and Vengeance is Mine (1979) |
= |
Jean Cocteau |
13 |
0.11% |
(tie) Belle et la Bete, La (1946) and Orphée (1950) |
= |
Jia Zhang Ke |
13 |
0.11% |
Platform (2000) |
= |
King Vidor |
13 |
0.11% |
Crowd, The (1928) |
= |
Peter Kubelka |
13 |
0.11% |
(tie) Arnulf Rainer (1960) and Unsere Afrikareise (1961) |
= |
Robert Hamer |
13 |
0.11% |
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
154 |
Andrzej Wajda |
12 |
0.10% |
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) |
= |
Cristi Puiu |
12 |
0.10% |
Death of Mr Lazarescu, The (2005) |
= |
Errol Morris |
12 |
0.10% |
Thin Blue Line, The (1989) |
= |
Lucrecia Martel |
12 |
0.10% |
(tie) Ciénaga, La (2001) and Headless Woman, The (2008) |
= |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
12 |
0.10% |
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) |
= |
Raúl Ruiz |
12 |
0.10% |
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) |