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Respondents Who Prefer the Oldest and the Newest Films

The lists below rank voters based on the average year of production of the films on their ballots. Films without a discernable year and films released in installments over multiple years are excluded from the data.

Respondents Who Prefer the Oldest Films

Rank Voter Gender Role Nation Average Year
1 Luke McKernan Male Archivist UK 1925
2 Catherine A. Surowiec Female Critic UK 1934
3 David Rudkin Male Other UK 1936
4 Pierre Rissient Male Programmer France 1937
5 Casper Tybjerg Male Academic Denmark 1938
6 Pierre Leon Male Director France 1938
7 Luís Oliveira Male Programmer Portugal 1939
8 Frank Kessler Male Academic Netherlands 1939
9 Hiroshi Komatsu Male Academic Japan 1939
10 Aki Kaurismäki Male Director Finland 1940
11 Mariann Lewinsky Female Programmer Switz, Italy 1941
12 Norbert Pfaffenbichler Male Director Austria 1941
13 Matthew Sweet Male Critic UK 1941
= Yevgeny Margolit Male Critic Russia 1941
15 Bahman Motamedian Male Director Iran 1941
= Thomas Doherty Male Academic US 1941
17 Patrice Rollet Male Critic France 1942
18 David Meeker Male Academic UK 1942
= Manuel Mozos Male Director Portugal 1942
20 Hong Sangsoo Male Director South Korea 1943
21 Peter Scarlet Male Programmer US, Abu Dhabi 1943
22 Francesco Pitassio Male Academic Italy 1943
23 Santos Zunzunegui Male Academic Spain 1944
24 Gian Luca Farinelli Male Programmer Italy 1944
= Guillermo del Toro Male Director Mexico 1944
26 Orlando Mora Male Programmer Colombia 1944
27 Tom Gunning Male Academic US 1944
28 Charles Barr Male Academic UK 1944
= Peter von Bagh (director) Male Director Finland 1944
30 Leonardo Quaresima Male Academic Italy 1944
= Noel Carroll Male Academic US 1944
32 Pamela Hutchinson Female Critic UK 1945
33 Antonio Rodrigues Male Programmer Portugal 1945
34 Simon Louvish Male Critic US 1945
35 Peter von Bagh Male Programmer Finland, Italy 1945
36 Augusto M Seabra Male Critic Portugal 1945
37 Barry Salt Male Academic Australia, UK 1945
38 Peter Matthews Male Academic UK 1945
39 John Flaus Male Critic Australia 1946
40 Kevin Jackson Male Critic UK 1946
41 Chinlin Hsieh Female Programmer Thailand, France 1946
42 Miguel Marías Male Critic Spain 1946
43 Dan Sallitt Male Critic US 1946
44 Marcos Ortega Male Critic Spain 1946
45 Manoel de Oliveira Male Director Portugal 1946
46 Manuel Asín Male Critic Spain 1946
47 Jeff Masino Male Distributor US 1946
= John Oliver Male Programmer UK 1946
49 Dave Kehr Male Critic US 1946
= José María Caparrós-Lera Male Academic Spain 1946
51 Luciano Monteagudo Male Critic Argentina 1947
= Román Gubern Male Academic Spain 1947
53 Bernard Eisenschitz Male Critic France 1947
= Catherine Portuges Female Academic US 1947
= Graham Fuller Male Critic US 1947
56 Lloyd Kaufman Male Director US 1947
57 Paul Ryan Male Critic UK 1947
58 Marco Müller Male Programmer Italy, Switzerland 1947
= Patrick Russell Male Archivist UK 1947
60 Atilla Dorsay Male Critic Turkey 1947
61 Kristin Thompson Female Academic US 1947
62 Peter Bagrov Male Academic Russia 1947
63 Adriano Aprŕ Male Critic Italy 1947
64 David Robinson Male Programmer UK 1948
65 Isild Le Besco Female Director France 1948
66 Andriy Khalpakhchi Male Programmer Ukraine 1948
= Francine Stock Female Critic UK 1948
= Olivier Pčre Male Programmer France 1948
= Patrick Keiller Male Director UK 1948
= Philip Horne Male Academic UK 1948
71 Pavel Jech Male Academic Czech Republic 1948
= Robert Polito Male Critic US 1948
73 Eric Le Roy Male Archivist France 1948
= Julio Pérez Perucha Male Academic Spain 1948
75 Fabio Troncarelli Male Academic Italy 1948
76 Noël Burch Male Critic France, US 1949
= Richard Koszarski Male Critic US 1949
78 Les Blank Male Director UK 1949
79 Paolo Mereghetti Male Critic Italy 1949
80 Karel Och Male Programmer Czech Republic 1949
= Michael Witt Male Academic UK 1949
= Pedro Butcher Male Critic Brazil 1949
83 Heather Stewart Female Programmer UK 1949
84 Sevin Okyay Male Critic Turkey 1949
85 Carlos Bonfil Male Critic Mexico 1949
86 Andrzej Zulawski Male Director Poland 1949
87 Graham Shirley Male Archivist Australia 1949
= Jon Robertson Male Distributor UK 1949
= Tadeusz Kowalski Male Archivist Poland 1949
90 Daniela Michel Female Programmer Mexico 1950
91 Charles Musser Male Academic US 1950
= Enrique Bolado Male Programmer Spain 1950
= Ralf Schenk Male Academic Germany 1950
94 Ali Smith Female Critic UK 1950
= Núria Bou Female Academic Spain 1950
96 Mehelli Modi Male Distributor UK 1950
97 Luc Sante Male Critic US, Belgium 1950
= Sergey Dvortsevoy Male Director Kazakhstan 1950
99 Jesús Cortés Male Critic Spain 1950
= Raymond Bellour Male Critic France 1950
= Wally Hammond Male Critic UK 1950
102 José Luis Guerín Male Director Spain 1950
103 Báron György Male Critic Hungary 1950

Respondents Who Prefer the Newest Films

Rank Voter Gender Role Nation Average Year
1 Marc Munden Male Director UK 2002
2 Pawel Pawlikowski Male Director UK, Poland 2001
3 Christine Dollhofer Female Programmer Austria 2000
4 Zina Saro-Wiwa Female Director UK, Nigeria 1999
5 Ludmila Cvikova Female Programmer Netherlands 1999
6 Paolo Bertolin Male Programmer Italy 1997
7 Javier Packer-Comyn Male Programmer France 1995
8 Ally Derks Female Programmer Netherlands 1995
9 Daniel Frampton Male Critic UK 1995
= Mania Akbari Female Director Iran 1995
11 Patricio Guzmán Male Director Chile 1995
12 Sarah Turner Female Director UK 1995
13 Cyrus Frisch Male Director Netherlands 1994
14 Ruben Östlund Male Director Sweden 1994
15 Pimpaka Towira Female Director Thailand 1993
= Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Female Director Pakistan 1993
17 Warwick Thornton Male Director Australia 1993
18 Bence Fliegauf Male Director Hungary 1993
19 Emily Richardson Female Director UK 1992
20 Aditya Assarat Male Director Thailand 1992
21 Patricia Rozema Female Director Canada 1991
22 Mohamed Al-Daradji Male Director Iraq, Holland 1991
23 Keith Shiri Male Programmer UK 1991
24 Ik-June Yang Male Director South Korea 1991
25 Rasha Salti Female Programmer Lebanon, US 1990
26 Anna Smith Female Critic UK 1990
27 Angelina Nikonova Female Director Russia 1990
28 Gillies Mackinnon Male Director UK 1990
29 Petra Seliskar Female Director Slovenia 1989
30 Diane Negra Female Academic Ireland 1989
= Isamu Hirabayashi Male Director Japan 1989
32 Lisandro Alonso Male Director Argentina 1988
33 Cui Zi'en Male Director China 1988
= Malgorzata Szumowska Female Director Poland 1988
35 Lalitha Gopalan Female Academic India, US 1988
36 Youngmee Hwang Female Critic Korea 1987
37 Keren Yedaya Female Director Israel 1987
38 Giulio Bursi Male Programmer Italy 1987
= Jay Duplass Male Director US 1987
= Najwa Najjar Female Director Palestine, Jordan 1987
41 James Nolen Male Programmer Australia 1987
= Miranda July Female Director US 1987
43 Rebecca Shatwell Female Programmer UK 1987
44 Vadim Rizov Male Critic US 1987
45 Ahmed Atef Male Director Egypt 1986
= Minky Schlesinger Female Director South Africa 1986
47 David Michôd Male Director Australia 1986
48 Stephen Thrower Male Critic UK 1986
49 Goran Gocic Male Critic Serbia 1986
50 Fernando Meirelles Male Director Brazil 1986
51 Briony Hanson Female Other UK 1985
= Cate Shortland Female Director Australia 1985
53 Lone Scherfig Female Director Denmark 1985
= Marwan Hamed Male Director Egypt 1985
55 David Sorfa Male Academic UK 1985
= Ruth Harley Female Other New Zeland, Australia 1985
57 Lizzie Francke Female Programmer UK 1985
58 Justin Kurzel Male Director Australia 1985
= Maria Kuvshinova Female Critic Russia 1985
60 Mani Haghighi Male Director Iran 1985
61 Khalil Joreige Male Director Lebanon 1984
62 Clio Barnard Female Director UK 1984
= Ferenc Zalaba Male Critic Hungary 1984
= Peter Machen Male Critic South Africa 1984
65 Gareth Evans Male Critic UK 1984
66 Li Hongyu Male Critic China 1984
67 Marcelo Alderete Male Programmer Argentina 1984
68 Ray Carney Male Academic US 1984
69 Mark Sinker Male Critic UK 1983
70 Jirí Barta Male Director Czech Republic 1983
71 Wanuri Kahiu Female Director Kenya 1983
72 Sukhdev Sandhu Male Critic UK 1983
73 Jean-Marc Vallée Male Director Canada 1983
74 Raqs Media Collective Mixed Director India 1982
= Tibor Bíró Male Programmer Hungary 1982
76 Nandini Ramnath Female Critic India 1982
77 Volker Pantenburg Male Academic Germany 1982
78 Audrius Stonys Male Director Lithuania 1982
= Radu Jude Male Director Romania 1982
= Sanam Hasan Female Distributor Pakistan 1982
81 Babak Jalali Male Director Iran 1982
= Baltasar Komákur Male Director Iceland 1982
83 Gonçalo Tocha Male Director Portugal 1982
= Lindiwe Dovey Female Academic UK 1982
85 Mia Hansen-Lřve Female Director France 1982
86 Chris Dercon Male Programmer UK 1982
87 June Givanni Female Programmer Guyana 1981
88 Athina Rachel Tsangari Female Director Greece 1981
= Niki Caro Female Director New Zealand, US 1981
90 Amanda Duthie Female Programmer Australia 1981
= B Ruby Rich Female Academic US 1981
92 Kleber Mendonça Filho Male Director Brazil 1981
= Nana Asfour Female Critic US 1981
94 Janez Burger Male Director Slovenia 1981
= Rima Mismar Female Programmer Lebanon 1981
96 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Male Critic US, Russia 1981
97 Paul Wells Male Academic UK 1981
98 Ben Walters Male Critic UK 1981
= Hind Mezaina Female Critic United Arab Emirates 1981
100 Newton Aduaka Male Director Nigerla 1981
101 Khalo Matabane Male Director South Africa 1980
= Lizelle Bisschoff Female Academic South Africa, UK 1980
103 Jane Yu Female Programmer Taiwan 1980
= Riri Riza Male Director Indonesia 1980
105 Jasper Sharp Male Critic UK 1980
106 Jytte Jensen Female Archivist US 1980
107 Dana Linssen Female Critic Netherlands 1980
= Michael Glawogger Male Director Austria 1980
109 Vlastimir Sudar Male Critic Serbia, UK 1980
110 Barbara Scharres Female Programmer US 1980
= Mingchuam Huang Male Director Taiwan 1980
= Steven Markovitz Male Programmer South Africa 1980
113 Ian Wild Male Programmer UK 1980
114 Ed Park Male Critic US 1980
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