Best Directors : 1950 - 1959


  All-Time   Decade Summary   Films

1915   1920   1930   1940   1950   1960   1970   1980   1990   2000   2010


Rank Avg (Top 5) Avg (All) Films Name
1 91.0% 84.3% 9 Akira Kurosawa
2 90.8% 84.9% 11 Alfred Hitchcock
3 88.6% 86.4% 7 Yasujirô Ozu
4 88.6% 84.4% 9 Billy Wilder
5 88.2% 82.8% 12 Ingmar Bergman
6 87.8% 82.9% 8 Elia Kazan
7 87.0% 78.1% 17 Anthony Mann
8 86.8% 73.3% 15 Nicholas Ray
9 86.4% 80.7% 9 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10 86.4% 78.5% 11 Luis Buñuel
11 86.2% 78.8% 12 John Ford
12 86.0% 86.0% 5 Kenji Mizoguchi
13 85.8% 77.7% 12 George Cukor
14 85.6% 76.5% 15 Vincente Minnelli
15 84.6% 74.6% 14 Robert Wise
16 84.2% 76.5% 11 Stanley Donen
17 84.2% 73.6% 11 Otto Preminger
18 84.0% 81.0% 7 William Wyler
19 83.8% 83.8% 5 Federico Fellini
20 83.8% 80.4% 7 Howard Hawks
21 83.4% 80.0% 8 Fred Zinnemann
22 82.8% 71.2% 9 John Huston
23 82.0% 72.1% 16 Douglas Sirk
24 81.8% 76.3% 8 Samuel Fuller
25 81.8% 73.7% 9 Phil Karlson
26 81.2% 72.4% 10 Robert Aldrich
27 80.8% 74.8% 9 Fritz Lang
28 80.8% 73.2% 9 Henry King
29 80.6% 80.6% 5 Max Ophüls
30 80.4% 72.5% 12 Richard Fleischer
31 80.0% 73.3% 11 Delmer Daves
32 80.0% 73.2% 9 Terence Fisher
33 79.8% 73.6% 8 Roy Ward Baker
34 79.6% 78.5% 6 Hamilton Luske
35 79.4% 79.4% 5 Clyde Geronimi
36 79.0% 76.1% 7 Guru Dutt
37 79.0% 69.6% 16 Michael Curtiz
38 78.4% 73.1% 9 Jack Arnold
39 78.2% 71.3% 10 George Sidney
40 78.2% 69.2% 9 Edward Dmytryk
41 78.2% 68.7% 18 John Sturges
42 78.0% 78.0% 5 George Stevens
43 78.0% 66.5% 16 Raoul Walsh
44 77.2% 77.2% 5 Joshua Logan
45 77.2% 75.3% 6 Don Siegel
46 76.8% 72.5% 8 Walter Lang
47 75.8% 75.0% 6 Daniel Mann
48 75.8% 67.7% 17 Henry Hathaway
49 75.6% 73.0% 6 Anthony Asquith
50 75.6% 69.8% 9 Mervyn LeRoy
51 75.6% 68.4% 12 Mark Robson
52 75.4% 75.4% 5 Anatole Litvak
53 75.4% 72.5% 6 Jacques Tourneur
54 75.2% 68.1% 17 Jean Negulesco
55 75.2% 67.6% 11 Frank Tashlin
56 75.0% 75.0% 5 Ida Lupino
57 74.8% 67.2% 12 Budd Boetticher
58 74.6% 72.0% 7 Richard Quine
59 74.4% 65.8% 10 Richard Brooks
60 74.2% 67.4% 13 Gordon Douglas
61 74.0% 65.9% 13 Henry Koster
62 73.8% 72.8% 6 Michael Anderson
63 73.6% 73.6% 5 Michael Gordon
64 73.6% 68.2% 9 Joseph H. Lewis
65 73.6% 67.6% 12 John Farrow
66 72.4% 66.5% 10 Charles Walters
67 72.2% 69.1% 7 Robert Parrish
68 72.0% 70.0% 6 Melvin Frank
69 72.0% 70.0% 6 Norman Panama
70 71.6% 71.6% 5 Carol Reed
71 71.2% 66.2% 12 George Marshall
72 71.0% 62.5% 15 Richard Thorpe
73 70.8% 69.3% 6 George Seaton
74 70.4% 69.3% 6 André De Toth
75 70.4% 66.6% 9 Vincent Sherman
76 70.4% 64.3% 15 Joseph Pevney
77 70.0% 70.0% 5 Lewis Gilbert
78 70.0% 64.1% 12 Henry Levin
79 69.8% 64.3% 9 William A. Wellman
80 69.4% 65.8% 8 Curtis Bernhardt
81 69.4% 63.3% 8 Nathan Juran
82 69.4% 63.0% 10 Byron Haskin
83 69.2% 67.1% 7 Rudolph Maté
84 69.0% 66.3% 7 Roy Rowland
85 68.8% 66.7% 6 Basil Dearden
86 68.6% 68.6% 5 Jesse Hibbs
87 68.6% 68.6% 5 Ralph Thomas
88 68.6% 66.7% 6 Ishirô Honda
89 68.6% 66.0% 6 Nunnally Johnson
90 68.6% 63.8% 12 Norman Taurog
91 68.4% 66.7% 6 Lewis Allen
92 68.0% 68.0% 5 Cy Endfield
93 68.0% 64.1% 11 Hugo Fregonese
94 67.8% 62.8% 12 George Sherman
95 67.8% 61.8% 9 Stuart Heisler
96 67.4% 64.9% 9 Joseph M. Newman
97 67.4% 61.6% 8 Charles Lamont
98 67.2% 67.2% 5 Andrew Marton
99 67.0% 63.5% 6 Mitchell Leisen
100 66.8% 66.8% 5 Andrew L. Stone
101 66.8% 66.8% 5 Irving Rapper
102 66.8% 63.6% 7 David Butler
103 66.8% 63.1% 9 Lloyd Bacon
104 66.8% 61.9% 7 David Miller
105 66.2% 63.8% 8 William Dieterle
106 66.2% 62.8% 8 Arthur Lubin
107 66.0% 64.2% 6 Roy Del Ruth
108 65.2% 65.2% 5 Gerd Oswald
109 65.0% 65.0% 5 Kurt Neumann
110 64.4% 63.3% 6 Robert D. Webb
111 64.2% 63.1% 7 Jerry Hopper
112 63.4% 59.7% 6 King Vidor
113 63.0% 63.0% 5 Allan Dwan
114 62.8% 60.7% 6 Tay Garnett
115 62.6% 62.6% 5 Hal Walker
116 62.6% 62.0% 6 Lewis R. Foster
117 62.0% 62.0% 5 Victor Saville
118 61.4% 61.4% 5 Dick Powell
119 60.0% 50.6% 8 Roger Corman
120 58.0% 58.0% 5 Edward Ludwig
121 57.2% 57.2% 5 Fred F. Sears
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