Top Directors (by average)

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	Name	Average	Votes	# Movies	Movies #1
1	Chris Marker	18.38	8	24	Les statues meurent aussi
2	Shôhei Imamura	18.25	8	4	The Ballad of Narayama
3	John Cassavetes	18.09	11	12	Opening Night
4	Krzysztof Kieslowski	18	7	17	The Double Life of Veronique
5	Andrew Marton	17.8	5	31	King Solomon's Mines
6	Satyajit Ray	17.71	7	32	The Music Room
7	Frank Capra	17.49	39	47	Platinum Blonde
8	Jean Cocteau	17.43	7	9	Orpheus
9	Bernhard Wicki	17.4	5	14	The Bridge
10	Yasujirô Ozu	17.4	5	51	Tokyo Story
11	Sergei M. Eisenstein	17.38	13	22	Ten Days That Shook the World
12	Luchino Visconti	17.38	16	17	Ludwig
13	Robert Bresson	17.33	9	13	Balthazar
14	Marcel Carné	17.21	14	22	Children of Paradise
15	Roger Allers	17.15	39	2	The Lion King
16	Abbas Kiarostami	17.13	15	27	Taste of Cherry
17	Isao Takahata	17	20	4	Grave of the Fireflies
18	Adam Elliot	17	7	2	Mary and Max
19	Kelly Reichardt	17	5	3	Meek's Cutoff / Meek's Oregon 1845 Cutoff
20	Charles Laughton	17	11	1	The Night of the Hunter
21	Andrei Tarkovsky	16.94	31	9	Nostalghia
22	Tod Browning	16.93	15	48	West of Zanzibar
23	F.W. Murnau	16.86	28	20	Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
24	Lynne Ramsay	16.83	6	4	We Need to Talk About Kevin
25	Vittorio De Sica	16.82	17	35	Umberto D.
26	Charles Chaplin	16.8	109	18	Modern Times
27	Sergio Leone	16.77	175	7	Once Upon a Time in the West
28	Ettore Scola	16.73	15	36	Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
29	Frank Borzage	16.71	14	85	Street Angel
30	Jules Dassin	16.71	7	24	Rififi
31	Marcel Pagnol	16.67	12	20	Cigalon
32	Emeric Pressburger	16.67	6	7	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
33	René Clément	16.65	17	20	Joy House
34	Tom Hooper	16.64	33	2	The King's Speech
35	Michael Powell	16.63	8	9	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
36	Tony Kaye	16.62	29	6	American History X
37	Chang-dong Lee	16.6	5	5	Oasis
38	Geoffrey Enthoven	16.6	5	1	Come As You Are
39	Henry Levin	16.6	5	1	Journey to the Center of the Earth
40	Henri-Georges Clouzot	16.56	32	16	L'enfer
41	Jerome Robbins	16.56	9	1	West Side Story
42	Asghar Farhadi	16.5	12	5	About Elly
43	Tonino Valerii	16.44	9	16	My Name Is Nobody
44	Frank Darabont	16.44	94	7	The Shawshank Redemption
45	Charles Crichton	16.4	5	25	Dead of Night
46	Guillem Morales	16.4	5	1	Julia's Eyes
47	Nathan Greno	16.38	26	1	Tangled
48	Stanley Kubrick	16.37	315	14	Barry Lyndon
49	Fatih Akin	16.36	11	12	The Edge of Heaven
50	Jacques Becker	16.36	14	17	The Night Watch
51	Richard Marquand	16.32	50	8	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
52	Michael Cimino	16.29	34	8	Heaven's Gate
53	Tony Gatlif	16.29	7	18	Safe Journey
54	William A. Wellman	16.29	7	77	Wings
55	Ari Folman	16.27	11	1	Waltz with Bashir
56	Kátia Lund	16.25	12	2	City of God
57	Ingmar Bergman	16.23	43	60	The Silence
58	Yôjirô Takita	16.2	5	42	Departures
59	Buster Keaton	16.2	10	9	The Navigator
60	Andrzej Zulawski	16.2	5	12	That Most Important Thing: Love
61	Fred Zinnemann	16.19	21	27	Menschen am Sonntag
62	Milos Forman	16.18	65	15	Valmont
63	Joseph Losey	16.18	11	31	The Servant
64	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	16.18	40	23	People Will Talk
65	William Keighley	16.17	6	2	The Adventures of Robin Hood
66	Dalton Trumbo	16.17	6	1	Johnny Got His Gun
67	Ermanno Olmi	16.17	6	48	Singing Behind Screens
68	Fritz Lang	16.16	62	44	Between Two Worlds
69	Joss Whedon	16.16	19	2	The Avengers
70	Arnaud Desplechin	16.15	13	8	La sentinelle
71	Tate Taylor	16.14	14	1	The Help
72	Theodoros Angelopoulos	16.14	14	18	Landscape in the Mist
73	Ken Annakin	16.13	8	47	The Call of the Wild
74	Lee Unkrich	16.13	32	1	Toy Story 3
75	Brad Anderson	16.11	9	8	The Machinist
76	Nicholas Ray	16.11	28	24	Bitter Victory
77	Hong-jin Na	16.08	13	2	The Chaser
78	Claude Sautet	16.08	13	14	César and Rosalie
79	Hayao Miyazaki	16.06	183	10	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
80	Quentin Tarantino	16.04	401	14	Pulp Fiction
81	Christopher Nolan	16.03	264	9	Inception
82	Yimou Zhang	16.03	35	20	Ju Dou
83	Jean-Pierre Melville	16	34	13	Army of Shadows
84	Clyde Bruckman	16	7	8	The General
85	Raymond Depardon	16	14	21	Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa
86	Merian C. Cooper	16	11	5	Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
87	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	16	14	39	Pandora's Box
88	Robert Aldrich	16	19	28	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
89	Steve McQueen	16	14	2	Hunger
90	Leo McCarey	16	7	23	Ruggles of Red Gap
91	Robert Siodmak	16	5	2	The Killers
92	Howard Hawks	15.98	66	41	Hatari!
93	Elia Kazan	15.97	29	19	America, America
94	Kar Wai Wong	15.93	41	11	Fallen Angels
95	Rupert Wyatt	15.92	24	2	Rise of the Planet of the Apes
96	Orson Welles	15.92	36	24	F for Fake
97	Julian Schnabel	15.91	11	5	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
98	Luis Buñuel	15.91	32	32	The Exterminating Angel
99	Jacques Tourneur	15.9	10	40	Night of the Demon
100	Youssef Chahine	15.89	19	39	Al-yawm al-Sadis
101	Wai-keung Lau	15.89	18	38	Infernal Affairs
102	Billy Wilder	15.88	83	26	Stalag 17
103	Carl Theodor Dreyer	15.88	8	13	The Passion of Joan of Arc
104	John Ford	15.87	87	115	3 Godfathers
105	Douglas Sirk	15.87	15	39	Hitler's Madman
106	Akira Kurosawa	15.87	45	31	Dersu Uzala
107	Ernst Lubitsch	15.86	14	63	To Be or Not to Be
108	Irvin Kershner	15.84	62	17	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
109	Peter Jackson	15.83	279	13	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
110	Mel Gibson	15.83	53	4	Braveheart
111	Julien Duvivier	15.82	17	69	Marianne of My Youth
112	Michelangelo Antonioni	15.82	22	21	Identification of a Woman
113	David Lean	15.82	38	17	Brief Encounter
114	Agnès Varda	15.81	16	28	Cleo from 5 to 7
115	Olivier Nakache	15.8	46	4	Untouchable
116	Eric Toledano	15.8	46	4	Untouchable
117	Herbert Ross	15.8	5	25	Play It Again, Sam
118	Jean-Jacques Beineix	15.8	5	8	The Moon in the Gutter
119	Arthur Penn	15.8	30	18	The Missouri Breaks
120	David Fincher	15.79	345	19	Seven
121	Maurice Pialat	15.78	9	11	To Our Loves
122	Sean Penn	15.76	38	5	The Indian Runner
123	Eric Bress	15.75	12	1	The Butterfly Effect
124	J. Mackye Gruber	15.75	12	2	The Butterfly Effect
125	Andrew Stanton	15.74	82	3	Finding Nemo
126	Nikita Mikhalkov	15.73	11	17	Close to Eden
127	Franklin J. Schaffner	15.73	22	19	Planet of the Apes
128	François Truffaut	15.71	35	23	Les deux anglaises et le continent
129	Francis Ford Coppola	15.71	215	29	The Godfather
130	Bennett Miller	15.71	17	3	Capote
131	Stanley Donen	15.7	10	28	Funny Face
132	Darren Aronofsky	15.69	118	6	Requiem for a Dream
133	Nanni Moretti	15.69	26	14	Red Lob
134	James Cameron	15.69	283	13	Titanic
135	Paul Thomas Anderson	15.68	47	6	There Will Be Blood
136	David Lynch	15.68	182	20	Mulholland Dr.
137	Pierre Pinaud	15.67	6	1	Parlez-moi de vous
138	Luigi Comencini	15.67	9	47	Lo Scopone scientifico
139	Jack Arnold	15.67	6	31	The Incredible Shrinking Man
140	Zach Braff	15.67	12	1	Garden State
141	Pete Docter	15.66	65	2	Monsters, Inc.
142	Maïwenn Le Besco	15.63	19	3	Poliss
143	Neill Blomkamp	15.62	21	2	District 9
144	George Lucas	15.62	220	8	Star Wars: Episodio IV - Una nueva esperanza
145	Peter Greenaway	15.62	13	28	8 ½ Women
146	Hirokazu Koreeda	15.62	13	13	Nobody Knows
147	John Maybury	15.6	5	11	Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
148	Todd Field	15.6	5	2	Little Children
149	Andrew Niccol	15.59	74	5	Lord of War
150	Kevin Costner	15.58	52	3	Dances with Wolves
151	Jacques Demy	15.57	14	20	Bay of Angels
152	John Schlesinger	15.56	18	23	Visions of Eight
153	Bob Peterson	15.55	33	2	Up
154	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	15.53	15	1	The Secret World of Arrietty
155	Alan Mak	15.53	19	13	Infernal Affairs
156	Federico Fellini	15.52	33	25	Fellini's Roma
157	Tommy Lee Jones	15.5	12	1	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
158	Mario Monicelli	15.5	14	63	The Organizer
159	Cary Fukunaga	15.5	8	2	Sin Nombre
160	Sung-su Kim	15.5	6	6	The Warrior
161	Ki-duk Kim	15.5	18	17	Time
162	Lone Scherfig	15.5	14	8	One Day
163	Carol Reed	15.5	12	30	The Third Man
164	Barry Cook	15.5	34	2	Mulan
165	Tony Bancroft	15.5	34	1	Mulan
166	Pedro Almodóvar	15.49	71	19	Matador
167	Michael Curtiz	15.49	43	166	Captain Blood
168	Jean Renoir	15.48	23	35	Boudu Saved from Drowning
169	Jacques Audiard	15.47	36	7	See How They Fall
170	Roberto Benigni	15.46	37	9	Life Is Beautiful
171	Michel Leclerc	15.45	11	1	The Names of Love
172	Takeshi Kitano	15.45	71	16	Boiling Point
173	William Wyler	15.45	29	46	The Best Years of Our Lives
174	Otto Preminger	15.44	34	37	Angel Face
175	Jeff Nichols	15.4	10	3	Take Shelter
176	Thomas Bezucha	15.4	5	3	The Family Stone
177	Mike Binder	15.4	5	2	Reign Over Me
178	Gérald Hustache-Mathieu	15.4	10	1	Poupoupidou
179	Henry Selick	15.4	30	4	The Nightmare Before Christmas
180	Rodrigo Plá	15.4	5	3	La zona
181	Pier Paolo Pasolini	15.39	18	22	Arabian Nights
182	James Gray	15.39	49	4	We Own the Night
183	Daniel Auteuil	15.38	8	1	The Well Digger's Daughter
184	Julie Delpy	15.38	16	5	2 Days in Paris
185	Martin Scorsese	15.37	425	41	Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory
186	Paul Haggis	15.37	35	3	Crash
187	Stuart Rosenberg	15.36	11	20	Brubaker
188	Victor Fleming	15.36	22	41	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
189	Brian Helgeland	15.35	17	4	A Knight's Tale
190	Jim Jarmusch	15.35	40	13	Stranger Than Paradise
191	Chris Sanders	15.35	43	2	How to Train Your Dragon
192	Dean DeBlois	15.35	43	3	How to Train Your Dragon
193	Louis Malle	15.33	18	26	Lacombe, Lucien
194	Fernando Trueba	15.33	6	3	Lumière et compagnie
195	Shekhar Kapur	15.33	9	7	Bandit Queen
196	Jane Campion	15.3	23	11	An Angel at My Table
197	Wes Anderson	15.3	46	7	Moonrise Kingdom
198	Robert Wise	15.3	30	41	The Sand Pebbles
199	Alfred Hitchcock	15.3	274	54	Psycho
200	Costa-Gavras	15.3	27	20	L'aveu

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