| Rank | Avg (Top 5) | Avg (All) | Films | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 93.2% | 78.5% | 46 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2 | 91.4% | 81.1% | 27 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 3 | 91.2% | 74.7% | 35 | Charles Chaplin |
| 4 | 91.0% | 80.7% | 27 | Billy Wilder |
| 5 | 90.8% | 78.4% | 30 | Martin Scorsese |
| 6 | 90.6% | 88.8% | 8 | Satyajit Ray |
| 7 | 90.6% | 82.7% | 19 | Yasujirô Ozu |
| 8 | 90.6% | 70.7% | 67 | Michael Curtiz |
| 9 | 90.4% | 80.1% | 26 | Fritz Lang |
| 10 | 90.4% | 76.0% | 43 | George Cukor |
| 11 | 90.0% | 71.6% | 38 | John Huston |
| 12 | 89.8% | 85.1% | 10 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 13 | 89.8% | 77.1% | 40 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 14 | 89.8% | 76.9% | 32 | Buster Keaton |
| 15 | 89.8% | 75.6% | 14 | Peter Jackson |
| 16 | 89.8% | 74.5% | 57 | John Ford |
| 17 | 89.6% | 86.5% | 11 | Robert Bresson |
| 18 | 89.6% | 82.9% | 29 | William Wyler |
| 19 | 89.6% | 76.0% | 19 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 20 | 89.4% | 84.7% | 9 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 21 | 89.4% | 82.9% | 10 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 22 | 89.4% | 74.2% | 33 | Steven Spielberg |
| 23 | 89.4% | 67.3% | 37 | Sidney Lumet |
| 24 | 89.2% | 82.3% | 24 | Luis Buñuel |
| 25 | 89.2% | 79.6% | 18 | Federico Fellini |
| 26 | 89.2% | 76.8% | 36 | Howard Hawks |
| 27 | 89.2% | 74.2% | 19 | Elia Kazan |
| 28 | 89.2% | 74.1% | 19 | Roman Polanski |
| 29 | 89.0% | 82.8% | 9 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 30 | 89.0% | 82.2% | 10 | Emeric Pressburger |
| 31 | 89.0% | 80.8% | 18 | Michael Powell |
| 32 | 89.0% | 77.0% | 22 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 33 | 89.0% | 72.7% | 39 | King Vidor |
| 34 | 88.8% | 82.6% | 13 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 35 | 88.8% | 81.7% | 13 | Orson Welles |
| 36 | 88.8% | 79.1% | 17 | David Lean |
| 37 | 88.8% | 70.9% | 44 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 38 | 88.6% | 81.4% | 18 | François Truffaut |
| 39 | 88.6% | 78.8% | 13 | Luchino Visconti |
| 40 | 88.4% | 88.4% | 5 | Lee Unkrich |
| 41 | 88.4% | 82.3% | 8 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 42 | 88.4% | 76.1% | 28 | Sam Wood |
| 43 | 88.4% | 71.2% | 50 | Raoul Walsh |
| 44 | 88.4% | 69.4% | 21 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 45 | 88.2% | 84.3% | 12 | Éric Rohmer |
| 46 | 88.2% | 76.0% | 22 | Victor Fleming |
| 47 | 88.0% | 79.3% | 12 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 48 | 88.0% | 77.9% | 19 | Jean Renoir |
| 49 | 88.0% | 75.4% | 14 | Wim Wenders |
| 50 | 88.0% | 75.1% | 17 | James Whale |
| 51 | 87.8% | 84.6% | 9 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 52 | 87.8% | 76.1% | 20 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 53 | 87.8% | 75.3% | 18 | Louis Malle |
| 54 | 87.8% | 73.3% | 35 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 55 | 87.8% | 70.4% | 45 | Woody Allen |
| 56 | 87.6% | 81.4% | 9 | Preston Sturges |
| 57 | 87.6% | 81.1% | 11 | Agnès Varda |
| 58 | 87.6% | 79.8% | 20 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 59 | 87.6% | 77.6% | 19 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 60 | 87.6% | 77.4% | 19 | George Stevens |
| 61 | 87.6% | 76.8% | 16 | Richard Linklater |
| 62 | 87.6% | 73.2% | 29 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 63 | 87.4% | 80.6% | 8 | Kon Ichikawa |
| 64 | 87.4% | 79.8% | 13 | Shôhei Imamura |
| 65 | 87.4% | 74.7% | 34 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 66 | 87.4% | 74.6% | 23 | Carol Reed |
| 67 | 87.4% | 73.1% | 33 | William A. Wellman |
| 68 | 87.2% | 82.6% | 10 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 69 | 87.2% | 80.7% | 7 | Jacques Tati |
| 70 | 87.2% | 77.8% | 12 | Max Ophüls |
| 71 | 87.2% | 74.7% | 17 | Robert Siodmak |
| 72 | 87.2% | 73.2% | 20 | Leo McCarey |
| 73 | 87.2% | 71.0% | 24 | Stanley Donen |
| 74 | 87.2% | 65.9% | 30 | Otto Preminger |
| 75 | 87.0% | 77.0% | 29 | Anthony Mann |
| 76 | 87.0% | 75.1% | 29 | Frank Capra |
| 77 | 87.0% | 72.4% | 26 | Lewis Milestone |
| 78 | 87.0% | 72.1% | 9 | Joe Berlinger |
| 79 | 87.0% | 63.4% | 25 | John Frankenheimer |
| 80 | 86.8% | 81.7% | 11 | John Cassavetes |
| 81 | 86.8% | 81.4% | 10 | Jacques Rivette |
| 82 | 86.8% | 81.4% | 8 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| 83 | 86.8% | 73.1% | 19 | Nicholas Ray |
| 84 | 86.6% | 84.4% | 10 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 85 | 86.6% | 83.3% | 6 | Bill Roberts |
| 86 | 86.6% | 81.3% | 7 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 87 | 86.6% | 77.6% | 23 | Werner Herzog |
| 88 | 86.4% | 78.1% | 11 | Milos Forman |
| 89 | 86.4% | 72.1% | 34 | Clarence Brown |
| 90 | 86.4% | 71.1% | 32 | Robert Wise |
| 91 | 86.4% | 66.1% | 16 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 92 | 86.2% | 79.6% | 12 | Yimou Zhang |
| 93 | 86.2% | 78.3% | 12 | René Clair |
| 94 | 86.2% | 78.0% | 12 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 95 | 86.2% | 77.7% | 13 | Hamilton Luske |
| 96 | 86.2% | 75.0% | 20 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 97 | 86.2% | 64.4% | 21 | Peter Yates |
| 98 | 86.0% | 77.9% | 17 | Ken Loach |
| 99 | 86.0% | 76.7% | 14 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 100 | 86.0% | 72.7% | 27 | Frank Borzage |
| 101 | 86.0% | 70.5% | 22 | Robert Stevenson |
| 102 | 85.8% | 81.5% | 11 | Mike Leigh |
| 103 | 85.8% | 80.7% | 9 | Alain Resnais |
| 104 | 85.8% | 76.0% | 8 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 105 | 85.8% | 73.5% | 22 | Jack Conway |
| 106 | 85.6% | 81.0% | 6 | Sergio Leone |
| 107 | 85.6% | 76.6% | 18 | Ethan Coen |
| 108 | 85.6% | 76.6% | 18 | Joel Coen |
| 109 | 85.6% | 76.1% | 13 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
| 110 | 85.6% | 74.4% | 11 | Ang Lee |
| 111 | 85.6% | 70.9% | 24 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 112 | 85.6% | 70.8% | 33 | William Dieterle |
| 113 | 85.4% | 82.0% | 9 | Christopher Nolan |
| 114 | 85.4% | 82.0% | 7 | Marcel Carné |
| 115 | 85.4% | 78.8% | 9 | F.W. Murnau |
| 116 | 85.4% | 72.1% | 28 | Robert Altman |
| 117 | 85.4% | 70.6% | 24 | Mitchell Leisen |
| 118 | 85.2% | 80.7% | 6 | Brad Bird |
| 119 | 85.2% | 76.1% | 9 | Zoltan Korda |
| 120 | 85.2% | 74.0% | 22 | Don Siegel |
| 121 | 85.2% | 73.2% | 17 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 122 | 85.0% | 82.0% | 7 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou |
| 123 | 85.0% | 76.6% | 16 | D.W. Griffith |
| 124 | 85.0% | 76.3% | 16 | Jules Dassin |
| 125 | 85.0% | 73.7% | 10 | Costa-Gavras |
| 126 | 85.0% | 68.8% | 45 | Henry Hathaway |
| 127 | 84.8% | 83.8% | 6 | Errol Morris |
| 128 | 84.8% | 77.6% | 12 | John Sayles |
| 129 | 84.8% | 76.7% | 16 | Claude Chabrol |
| 130 | 84.8% | 76.1% | 14 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 131 | 84.8% | 73.7% | 15 | Arthur Penn |
| 132 | 84.8% | 73.6% | 10 | Ernest B. Schoedsack |
| 133 | 84.8% | 73.4% | 10 | Alexander Korda |
| 134 | 84.8% | 72.4% | 18 | Jonathan Demme |
| 135 | 84.6% | 77.9% | 10 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 136 | 84.6% | 76.9% | 15 | Samuel Fuller |
| 137 | 84.6% | 74.5% | 15 | Tod Browning |
| 138 | 84.6% | 74.4% | 28 | Edward F. Cline |
| 139 | 84.6% | 72.4% | 32 | Henry King |
| 140 | 84.6% | 69.9% | 28 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 141 | 84.6% | 69.8% | 24 | Robert Aldrich |
| 142 | 84.6% | 69.2% | 36 | Clint Eastwood |
| 143 | 84.6% | 67.8% | 16 | James Ivory |
| 144 | 84.6% | 66.1% | 24 | Ridley Scott |
| 145 | 84.6% | 59.9% | 21 | William Friedkin |
| 146 | 84.4% | 84.4% | 5 | Emir Kusturica |
| 147 | 84.4% | 80.7% | 7 | James Cameron |
| 148 | 84.4% | 78.9% | 9 | Wes Anderson |
| 149 | 84.4% | 77.6% | 12 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 150 | 84.4% | 76.2% | 10 | Mark Sandrich |
| 151 | 84.4% | 68.0% | 21 | Allan Dwan |
| 152 | 84.2% | 76.6% | 11 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 153 | 84.2% | 73.6% | 9 | Edward Sedgwick |
| 154 | 84.2% | 73.4% | 11 | David Lynch |
| 155 | 84.2% | 70.8% | 32 | Robert Z. Leonard |
| 156 | 84.0% | 84.0% | 5 | Nick Park |
| 157 | 84.0% | 78.8% | 11 | Hrishikesh Mukherjee |
| 158 | 83.8% | 81.0% | 6 | Jean-Pierre Dardenne |
| 159 | 83.8% | 81.0% | 6 | Luc Dardenne |
| 160 | 83.8% | 74.1% | 12 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 161 | 83.8% | 71.7% | 23 | Edmund Goulding |
| 162 | 83.8% | 68.1% | 33 | John Sturges |
| 163 | 83.8% | 66.9% | 20 | Richard Brooks |
| 164 | 83.8% | 62.1% | 34 | Blake Edwards |
| 165 | 83.6% | 80.9% | 8 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 166 | 83.6% | 77.0% | 10 | Alex Gibney |
| 167 | 83.6% | 72.0% | 23 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 168 | 83.6% | 71.8% | 8 | Robert Rossen |
| 169 | 83.6% | 70.4% | 23 | Spike Lee |
| 170 | 83.4% | 78.9% | 7 | Fred Niblo |
| 171 | 83.4% | 77.6% | 8 | George W. Hill |
| 172 | 83.4% | 71.9% | 23 | Douglas Sirk |
| 173 | 83.4% | 67.9% | 11 | John Woo |
| 174 | 83.2% | 73.4% | 14 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 175 | 83.2% | 67.4% | 12 | Terry Gilliam |
| 176 | 83.2% | 66.4% | 14 | John Boorman |
| 177 | 83.0% | 80.1% | 7 | Victor Sjöström |
| 178 | 83.0% | 77.4% | 7 | Alexander Payne |
| 179 | 83.0% | 68.9% | 21 | Stephen Frears |
| 180 | 83.0% | 68.0% | 18 | Joseph Losey |
| 181 | 83.0% | 61.2% | 17 | Rob Reiner |
| 182 | 82.8% | 82.8% | 5 | Bill Forsyth |
| 183 | 82.8% | 82.8% | 5 | Maurice Pialat |
| 184 | 82.8% | 77.9% | 8 | Greg MacGillivray |
| 185 | 82.8% | 75.6% | 10 | Jack Kinney |
| 186 | 82.8% | 74.3% | 14 | Peter Weir |
| 187 | 82.8% | 71.5% | 24 | Anatole Litvak |
| 188 | 82.8% | 71.0% | 23 | Basil Dearden |
| 189 | 82.8% | 65.3% | 35 | Richard Fleischer |
| 190 | 82.6% | 72.3% | 12 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 191 | 82.6% | 67.8% | 13 | Gus Van Sant |
| 192 | 82.4% | 82.4% | 5 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 193 | 82.4% | 79.0% | 7 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 194 | 82.4% | 76.8% | 8 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 195 | 82.4% | 70.0% | 11 | Michael Mann |
| 196 | 82.4% | 68.7% | 19 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 197 | 82.2% | 82.2% | 5 | Morgan Neville |
| 198 | 82.2% | 78.7% | 6 | Jacques Demy |
| 199 | 82.2% | 76.7% | 11 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 200 | 82.2% | 75.3% | 11 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 201 | 82.2% | 74.6% | 9 | René Clément |
| 202 | 82.2% | 73.5% | 17 | Busby Berkeley |
| 203 | 82.2% | 73.3% | 8 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 204 | 82.2% | 72.7% | 10 | Gene Kelly |
| 205 | 82.2% | 71.0% | 23 | Delmer Daves |
| 206 | 82.2% | 70.5% | 11 | Danny Boyle |
| 207 | 82.2% | 70.5% | 8 | Jane Campion |
| 208 | 82.2% | 68.2% | 27 | Mark Robson |
| 209 | 82.2% | 68.1% | 18 | Richard Lester |
| 210 | 82.0% | 79.3% | 7 | Kar-Wai Wong |
| 211 | 82.0% | 77.2% | 9 | Peter Greenaway |
| 212 | 82.0% | 74.8% | 10 | Charles Crichton |
| 213 | 82.0% | 69.3% | 8 | David O. Russell |
| 214 | 82.0% | 69.1% | 19 | Anthony Asquith |
| 215 | 82.0% | 67.5% | 10 | Robert Benton |
| 216 | 82.0% | 67.2% | 17 | Sydney Pollack |
| 217 | 82.0% | 65.8% | 24 | Phil Karlson |
| 218 | 81.8% | 80.7% | 6 | Edgar Wright |
| 219 | 81.8% | 73.5% | 10 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 220 | 81.8% | 68.6% | 23 | George Sidney |
| 221 | 81.8% | 68.2% | 14 | John Schlesinger |
| 222 | 81.8% | 67.9% | 13 | Fred Schepisi |
| 223 | 81.8% | 66.5% | 21 | Michael Apted |
| 224 | 81.6% | 75.0% | 7 | Terrence Malick |
| 225 | 81.6% | 72.1% | 18 | William Keighley |
| 226 | 81.4% | 78.3% | 7 | John Musker |
| 227 | 81.4% | 78.3% | 7 | Ron Clements |
| 228 | 81.4% | 75.7% | 7 | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| 229 | 81.4% | 75.1% | 10 | David Fincher |
| 230 | 81.4% | 74.5% | 11 | Michael Haneke |
| 231 | 81.4% | 69.9% | 12 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 232 | 81.4% | 69.1% | 18 | Robert Mulligan |
| 233 | 81.4% | 66.4% | 36 | George Marshall |
| 234 | 81.4% | 63.6% | 21 | Herbert Ross |
| 235 | 81.2% | 68.1% | 14 | Sam Raimi |
| 236 | 81.2% | 67.8% | 26 | David Butler |
| 237 | 81.2% | 67.7% | 21 | Terence Fisher |
| 238 | 81.2% | 66.4% | 22 | Norman Jewison |
| 239 | 81.0% | 81.0% | 5 | Patrice Leconte |
| 240 | 81.0% | 77.7% | 7 | Robert Hamer |
| 241 | 81.0% | 70.2% | 23 | William A. Seiter |
| 242 | 81.0% | 67.8% | 19 | Mike Nichols |
| 243 | 81.0% | 67.7% | 16 | Ronald Neame |
| 244 | 81.0% | 67.0% | 21 | Charles Walters |
| 245 | 81.0% | 62.1% | 26 | Ron Howard |
| 246 | 80.8% | 79.3% | 6 | Robert J. Flaherty |
| 247 | 80.8% | 75.1% | 14 | Sam Taylor |
| 248 | 80.8% | 73.3% | 12 | Mario Monicelli |
| 249 | 80.8% | 71.9% | 18 | Sidney Franklin |
| 250 | 80.8% | 69.8% | 36 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 251 | 80.8% | 67.4% | 25 | Martin Ritt |
| 252 | 80.8% | 65.5% | 11 | Mel Brooks |
| 253 | 80.8% | 63.0% | 10 | Hal Ashby |
| 254 | 80.6% | 76.9% | 7 | John S. Robertson |
| 255 | 80.6% | 74.8% | 11 | Fred C. Newmeyer |
| 256 | 80.6% | 74.7% | 7 | Paul Greengrass |
| 257 | 80.6% | 74.0% | 7 | Kevin Macdonald |
| 258 | 80.6% | 69.3% | 12 | Bryan Forbes |
| 259 | 80.6% | 67.6% | 17 | Roy Ward Baker |
| 260 | 80.6% | 62.7% | 40 | Norman Taurog |
| 261 | 80.4% | 79.5% | 6 | Francesco Rosi |
| 262 | 80.4% | 77.4% | 8 | Seijun Suzuki |
| 263 | 80.4% | 70.6% | 19 | John Cromwell |
| 264 | 80.4% | 69.4% | 18 | David Cronenberg |
| 265 | 80.4% | 69.0% | 24 | Walter Lang |
| 266 | 80.4% | 68.4% | 15 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 267 | 80.4% | 67.3% | 32 | Jean Negulesco |
| 268 | 80.4% | 66.0% | 28 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 269 | 80.2% | 80.2% | 5 | Jean Cocteau |
| 270 | 80.2% | 74.5% | 8 | James Algar |
| 271 | 80.2% | 71.0% | 14 | George Roy Hill |
| 272 | 80.2% | 67.4% | 10 | Philip Kaufman |
| 273 | 80.2% | 66.7% | 18 | Brian De Palma |
| 274 | 80.2% | 63.7% | 19 | Oliver Stone |
| 275 | 80.2% | 60.5% | 27 | Arthur Hiller |
| 276 | 80.2% | 58.1% | 18 | Bruce Beresford |
| 277 | 80.0% | 80.0% | 5 | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| 278 | 79.8% | 79.0% | 6 | Pietro Germi |
| 279 | 79.8% | 75.3% | 7 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 280 | 79.8% | 74.3% | 7 | Dario Argento |
| 281 | 79.8% | 68.9% | 14 | John M. Stahl |
| 282 | 79.8% | 66.4% | 14 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 283 | 79.8% | 66.2% | 13 | Paul Mazursky |
| 284 | 79.8% | 55.5% | 19 | Michael Ritchie |
| 285 | 79.6% | 79.6% | 5 | Andrew Stanton |
| 286 | 79.6% | 79.6% | 5 | Jeff Nichols |
| 287 | 79.6% | 69.0% | 18 | Tim Burton |
| 288 | 79.6% | 68.1% | 34 | Roy Del Ruth |
| 289 | 79.6% | 61.9% | 13 | Paul Schrader |
| 290 | 79.4% | 79.4% | 5 | Bob Fosse |
| 291 | 79.4% | 69.5% | 15 | H.C. Potter |
| 292 | 79.4% | 68.1% | 15 | Irving Rapper |
| 293 | 79.4% | 63.2% | 16 | John Carpenter |
| 294 | 79.2% | 79.2% | 5 | Mikio Naruse |
| 295 | 79.2% | 77.1% | 7 | Andrzej Wajda |
| 296 | 79.2% | 70.4% | 10 | Richard Boleslawski |
| 297 | 79.2% | 66.9% | 21 | Tay Garnett |
| 298 | 79.2% | 64.9% | 13 | George Miller |
| 299 | 79.2% | 62.9% | 12 | Mike Newell |
| 300 | 79.0% | 79.0% | 5 | Bernhard Wicki |
| 301 | 79.0% | 77.0% | 9 | Yash Chopra |
| 302 | 79.0% | 76.1% | 7 | Guru Dutt |
| 303 | 79.0% | 74.1% | 8 | Jackie Chan |
| 304 | 79.0% | 72.6% | 10 | Sidney Lanfield |
| 305 | 79.0% | 70.7% | 10 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 306 | 79.0% | 68.9% | 9 | Volker Schlöndorff |
| 307 | 79.0% | 55.9% | 28 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 308 | 78.8% | 70.7% | 13 | Gregory La Cava |
| 309 | 78.8% | 70.1% | 9 | Karel Reisz |
| 310 | 78.8% | 70.0% | 9 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 311 | 78.8% | 69.1% | 31 | Henry Koster |
| 312 | 78.8% | 68.8% | 24 | John Farrow |
| 313 | 78.8% | 64.6% | 17 | Terence Young |
| 314 | 78.8% | 61.8% | 18 | Lasse Hallström |
| 315 | 78.6% | 74.1% | 7 | Lindsay Anderson |
| 316 | 78.6% | 73.7% | 6 | Ismael Rodríguez |
| 317 | 78.6% | 72.1% | 9 | Claire Denis |
| 318 | 78.6% | 69.7% | 21 | Archie Mayo |
| 319 | 78.6% | 69.0% | 12 | Stanley Kramer |
| 320 | 78.6% | 67.3% | 15 | Joseph H. Lewis |
| 321 | 78.6% | 61.7% | 13 | Ted Kotcheff |
| 322 | 78.4% | 76.9% | 7 | Nagisa Ôshima |
| 323 | 78.4% | 72.1% | 9 | David Mamet |
| 324 | 78.4% | 70.0% | 15 | Delbert Mann |
| 325 | 78.4% | 68.1% | 10 | Joshua Logan |
| 326 | 78.4% | 67.4% | 14 | Jack Arnold |
| 327 | 78.4% | 63.6% | 9 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 328 | 78.4% | 60.8% | 21 | Barry Levinson |
| 329 | 78.2% | 78.2% | 5 | Grigori Kozintsev |
| 330 | 78.2% | 74.3% | 6 | Albert Brooks |
| 331 | 78.2% | 73.7% | 7 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 332 | 78.2% | 73.4% | 7 | James W. Horne |
| 333 | 78.2% | 72.3% | 9 | Herbert Brenon |
| 334 | 78.2% | 70.8% | 8 | Michael Moore |
| 335 | 78.2% | 69.8% | 13 | Erle C. Kenton |
| 336 | 78.2% | 65.0% | 21 | Daniel Mann |
| 337 | 78.2% | 63.4% | 11 | Richard Attenborough |
| 338 | 78.0% | 78.0% | 5 | Aki Kaurismäki |
| 339 | 78.0% | 78.0% | 5 | Laurence Olivier |
| 340 | 78.0% | 78.0% | 5 | Raj Kapoor |
| 341 | 78.0% | 76.3% | 6 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
| 342 | 78.0% | 74.3% | 6 | George Lucas |
| 343 | 78.0% | 73.7% | 7 | Noah Baumbach |
| 344 | 78.0% | 68.1% | 15 | Budd Boetticher |
| 345 | 78.0% | 65.4% | 19 | Richard Quine |
| 346 | 78.0% | 62.6% | 13 | Frank Perry |
| 347 | 78.0% | 58.3% | 28 | Roger Corman |
| 348 | 77.8% | 77.8% | 5 | J.J. Abrams |
| 349 | 77.8% | 77.8% | 5 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 350 | 77.8% | 70.1% | 15 | Irving Pichel |
| 351 | 77.8% | 68.8% | 16 | George Seaton |
| 352 | 77.6% | 73.7% | 7 | Ida Lupino |
| 353 | 77.6% | 70.6% | 10 | Roger Michell |
| 354 | 77.6% | 70.2% | 11 | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| 355 | 77.6% | 69.3% | 10 | Alfred L. Werker |
| 356 | 77.6% | 68.0% | 19 | Tony Richardson |
| 357 | 77.4% | 77.4% | 5 | Alain Corneau |
| 358 | 77.4% | 68.1% | 9 | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| 359 | 77.4% | 67.1% | 14 | Alan Parker |
| 360 | 77.4% | 59.1% | 14 | Roger Donaldson |
| 361 | 77.2% | 77.2% | 5 | John Lasseter |
| 362 | 77.2% | 75.0% | 6 | Derek Jarman |
| 363 | 77.2% | 69.3% | 9 | Lars von Trier |
| 364 | 77.2% | 68.2% | 10 | James Mangold |
| 365 | 77.2% | 67.1% | 15 | Ralph Nelson |
| 366 | 77.2% | 61.6% | 16 | John Badham |
| 367 | 77.2% | 61.1% | 18 | Richard Donner |
| 368 | 77.0% | 77.0% | 5 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 369 | 77.0% | 75.0% | 6 | Chan-wook Park |
| 370 | 77.0% | 72.8% | 6 | Dusan Makavejev |
| 371 | 77.0% | 72.4% | 8 | Clyde Bruckman |
| 372 | 77.0% | 69.1% | 7 | David Yates |
| 373 | 77.0% | 68.1% | 9 | Doug Liman |
| 374 | 77.0% | 68.0% | 16 | Michael Winterbottom |
| 375 | 77.0% | 65.0% | 8 | Cameron Crowe |
| 376 | 77.0% | 64.6% | 14 | Neil Jordan |
| 377 | 77.0% | 64.5% | 12 | Curtis Hanson |
| 378 | 76.8% | 76.8% | 5 | Julien Temple |
| 379 | 76.8% | 76.8% | 5 | Merian C. Cooper |
| 380 | 76.8% | 76.8% | 5 | Taika Waititi |
| 381 | 76.8% | 75.7% | 6 | Elio Petri |
| 382 | 76.8% | 75.0% | 6 | Jerry Schatzberg |
| 383 | 76.8% | 73.9% | 8 | Julien Duvivier |
| 384 | 76.8% | 72.6% | 12 | Martin Fric |
| 385 | 76.8% | 68.4% | 10 | Charles Vidor |
| 386 | 76.8% | 68.3% | 12 | Lewis Allen |
| 387 | 76.8% | 66.6% | 9 | Mario Bava |
| 388 | 76.8% | 61.7% | 11 | Wayne Wang |
| 389 | 76.6% | 76.6% | 5 | Jaco Van Dormael |
| 390 | 76.6% | 71.4% | 11 | Marco Bellocchio |
| 391 | 76.6% | 70.7% | 6 | Jan Troell |
| 392 | 76.6% | 70.2% | 16 | Roy William Neill |
| 393 | 76.6% | 66.7% | 11 | Bryan Singer |
| 394 | 76.6% | 65.3% | 39 | Richard Thorpe |
| 395 | 76.4% | 76.4% | 5 | Mihalis Kakogiannis |
| 396 | 76.4% | 76.4% | 5 | Monte Hellman |
| 397 | 76.4% | 74.3% | 7 | Emilio Fernández |
| 398 | 76.4% | 74.2% | 6 | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| 399 | 76.4% | 71.8% | 6 | Jack Clayton |
| 400 | 76.4% | 69.6% | 10 | Rowland V. Lee |
| 401 | 76.4% | 68.0% | 9 | Guy Green |
| 402 | 76.4% | 60.3% | 19 | Walter Hill |
| 403 | 76.2% | 71.1% | 7 | Jon Favreau |
| 404 | 76.2% | 63.9% | 16 | Ken Annakin |
| 405 | 76.0% | 73.9% | 7 | Rex Ingram |
| 406 | 76.0% | 73.8% | 6 | Nicole Holofcener |
| 407 | 76.0% | 73.4% | 7 | John Boulting |
| 408 | 76.0% | 63.8% | 12 | Andrew Marton |
| 409 | 75.8% | 72.3% | 7 | Sam Mendes |
| 410 | 75.8% | 71.3% | 7 | François Ozon |
| 411 | 75.8% | 70.0% | 6 | Atom Egoyan |
| 412 | 75.8% | 69.4% | 12 | Charles Barton |
| 413 | 75.8% | 69.4% | 10 | John Waters |
| 414 | 75.8% | 69.1% | 11 | Edward Buzzell |
| 415 | 75.8% | 67.9% | 16 | Robert Florey |
| 416 | 75.8% | 67.8% | 24 | Vincent Sherman |
| 417 | 75.8% | 67.4% | 8 | Richard Loncraine |
| 418 | 75.8% | 67.3% | 24 | Alfred E. Green |
| 419 | 75.8% | 67.0% | 14 | Guy Hamilton |
| 420 | 75.8% | 64.6% | 16 | Ken Russell |
| 421 | 75.6% | 68.6% | 10 | George A. Romero |
| 422 | 75.6% | 68.3% | 17 | Frank Lloyd |
| 423 | 75.6% | 67.9% | 7 | Gillian Armstrong |
| 424 | 75.6% | 63.5% | 16 | David Miller |
| 425 | 75.6% | 52.8% | 11 | David Zucker |
| 426 | 75.4% | 75.4% | 5 | Claude Lelouch |
| 427 | 75.4% | 70.7% | 11 | Norman Foster |
| 428 | 75.4% | 70.2% | 9 | Marshall Neilan |
| 429 | 75.4% | 67.6% | 9 | John Berry |
| 430 | 75.4% | 67.0% | 15 | Michael Gordon |
| 431 | 75.4% | 65.7% | 10 | Cy Endfield |
| 432 | 75.4% | 62.7% | 12 | Jonathan Kaplan |
| 433 | 75.4% | 61.5% | 35 | Gordon Douglas |
| 434 | 75.2% | 75.2% | 5 | Masahiro Shinoda |
| 435 | 75.2% | 71.9% | 7 | Carlos Saura |
| 436 | 75.2% | 68.5% | 17 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 437 | 75.2% | 67.6% | 7 | Robert Redford |
| 438 | 75.2% | 67.2% | 16 | Curtis Bernhardt |
| 439 | 75.2% | 62.6% | 19 | Frank Tashlin |
| 440 | 75.2% | 59.5% | 14 | Carl Reiner |
| 441 | 75.0% | 75.0% | 5 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko |
| 442 | 75.0% | 75.0% | 5 | Whit Stillman |
| 443 | 75.0% | 75.0% | 5 | Zoya Akhtar |
| 444 | 75.0% | 65.2% | 11 | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 445 | 75.0% | 63.3% | 14 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 446 | 75.0% | 61.2% | 13 | Alan Rudolph |
| 447 | 75.0% | 57.2% | 15 | John G. Avildsen |
| 448 | 74.8% | 74.8% | 5 | Valerio Zurlini |
| 449 | 74.8% | 71.0% | 6 | Jason Reitman |
| 450 | 74.8% | 70.9% | 8 | Dino Risi |
| 451 | 74.8% | 65.3% | 7 | Mick Jackson |
| 452 | 74.8% | 61.3% | 8 | Jim Sheridan |
| 453 | 74.6% | 74.2% | 6 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 454 | 74.6% | 68.5% | 6 | Mira Nair |
| 455 | 74.6% | 65.1% | 23 | Arthur Lubin |
| 456 | 74.6% | 63.8% | 9 | John Irvin |
| 457 | 74.6% | 63.1% | 17 | Byron Haskin |
| 458 | 74.6% | 61.6% | 14 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 459 | 74.6% | 61.6% | 9 | Peter Medak |
| 460 | 74.4% | 74.4% | 5 | Alastair Fothergill(co-director) |
| 461 | 74.4% | 72.5% | 6 | Todd Haynes |
| 462 | 74.4% | 72.3% | 6 | George Abbott |
| 463 | 74.4% | 72.0% | 7 | Joe May |
| 464 | 74.4% | 69.6% | 10 | Marcel Varnel |
| 465 | 74.4% | 69.2% | 9 | Victor Schertzinger |
| 466 | 74.4% | 69.1% | 11 | Melvin Frank |
| 467 | 74.4% | 68.2% | 13 | Frank Tuttle |
| 468 | 74.4% | 61.5% | 8 | Hark Tsui |
| 469 | 74.4% | 58.0% | 8 | Andrey Konchalovskiy |
| 470 | 74.2% | 73.5% | 6 | Raj Khosla |
| 471 | 74.2% | 72.2% | 6 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| 472 | 74.2% | 67.6% | 9 | George Fitzmaurice |
| 473 | 74.0% | 68.3% | 7 | Ulu Grosbard |
| 474 | 74.0% | 66.6% | 12 | Frank Oz |
| 475 | 74.0% | 66.4% | 17 | Wesley Ruggles |
| 476 | 74.0% | 64.2% | 17 | Victor Saville |
| 477 | 74.0% | 63.4% | 16 | William Castle |
| 478 | 73.8% | 73.8% | 5 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 479 | 73.8% | 73.0% | 6 | Yakov Protazanov |
| 480 | 73.8% | 69.7% | 9 | Alan Crosland |
| 481 | 73.8% | 68.9% | 8 | Dorothy Arzner |
| 482 | 73.8% | 62.6% | 8 | Bud Yorkin |
| 483 | 73.8% | 61.6% | 17 | Michael Anderson |
| 484 | 73.8% | 59.4% | 9 | Joseph Sargent |
| 485 | 73.8% | 59.1% | 13 | Taylor Hackford |
| 486 | 73.6% | 73.6% | 5 | Hal Hartley |
| 487 | 73.6% | 71.1% | 7 | Alberto Lattuada |
| 488 | 73.6% | 70.0% | 17 | Cheh Chang |
| 489 | 73.6% | 68.1% | 11 | A. Edward Sutherland |
| 490 | 73.6% | 67.8% | 13 | Alexander Hall |
| 491 | 73.6% | 66.7% | 7 | John Duigan |
| 492 | 73.6% | 66.2% | 9 | Val Guest |
| 493 | 73.6% | 61.6% | 16 | William Beaudine |
| 494 | 73.4% | 73.4% | 5 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 495 | 73.4% | 71.3% | 6 | David Swift |
| 496 | 73.4% | 69.3% | 11 | André De Toth |
| 497 | 73.4% | 68.9% | 12 | Roy Boulting |
| 498 | 73.4% | 65.2% | 9 | Clarence G. Badger |
| 499 | 73.4% | 65.1% | 14 | Joe Dante |
| 500 | 73.4% | 64.7% | 6 | Martin Brest |
| Rank | Avg (Top 5) | Avg (All) | Films | Name |