| Rank | Avg (Top 5) | Avg (All) | Films | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89.0% | 89.0% | 5 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 2 | 88.0% | 86.6% | 7 | Luis Buñuel |
| 3 | 87.8% | 87.8% | 5 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 4 | 87.6% | 76.2% | 11 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 5 | 87.0% | 72.6% | 11 | John Frankenheimer |
| 6 | 86.2% | 81.3% | 12 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 7 | 84.4% | 80.6% | 8 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 8 | 84.4% | 74.3% | 10 | Sidney Lumet |
| 9 | 83.6% | 77.7% | 6 | Luchino Visconti |
| 10 | 82.8% | 82.8% | 5 | Roman Polanski |
| 11 | 82.6% | 80.6% | 7 | François Truffaut |
| 12 | 82.4% | 73.8% | 10 | Blake Edwards |
| 13 | 82.0% | 82.0% | 5 | Federico Fellini |
| 14 | 81.8% | 81.8% | 5 | Shôhei Imamura |
| 15 | 81.4% | 81.4% | 5 | Billy Wilder |
| 16 | 80.8% | 80.8% | 5 | Alain Resnais |
| 17 | 80.6% | 77.7% | 6 | Arthur Penn |
| 18 | 80.6% | 71.0% | 9 | Bryan Forbes |
| 19 | 80.4% | 78.3% | 7 | Seijun Suzuki |
| 20 | 80.2% | 80.2% | 5 | Sergio Leone |
| 21 | 80.0% | 73.9% | 7 | Richard Lester |
| 22 | 78.8% | 70.7% | 10 | Robert Mulligan |
| 23 | 78.6% | 74.9% | 7 | John Ford |
| 24 | 78.6% | 73.6% | 8 | Basil Dearden |
| 25 | 78.2% | 78.2% | 5 | Don Siegel |
| 26 | 78.2% | 78.2% | 5 | John Schlesinger |
| 27 | 78.2% | 75.8% | 6 | Robert Wise |
| 28 | 78.0% | 78.0% | 5 | Richard Brooks |
| 29 | 78.0% | 71.4% | 9 | Robert Stevenson |
| 30 | 78.0% | 69.1% | 9 | John Sturges |
| 31 | 78.0% | 65.4% | 16 | Roger Corman |
| 32 | 77.8% | 76.2% | 6 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 33 | 77.8% | 71.0% | 8 | Terence Young |
| 34 | 77.6% | 70.5% | 8 | Stanley Donen |
| 35 | 77.6% | 68.9% | 7 | Robert Aldrich |
| 36 | 77.2% | 72.4% | 9 | Ralph Nelson |
| 37 | 77.2% | 70.4% | 7 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 38 | 77.0% | 75.1% | 7 | Stanley Kramer |
| 39 | 76.8% | 76.8% | 5 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 40 | 76.8% | 70.3% | 8 | Mario Bava |
| 41 | 75.8% | 72.1% | 7 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 42 | 75.8% | 70.9% | 11 | Tony Richardson |
| 43 | 75.8% | 68.8% | 9 | Henry Hathaway |
| 44 | 75.0% | 72.3% | 6 | Guy Green |
| 45 | 75.0% | 68.4% | 10 | Delbert Mann |
| 46 | 74.8% | 71.3% | 6 | George Roy Hill |
| 47 | 74.8% | 70.7% | 7 | Norman Jewison |
| 48 | 74.8% | 70.7% | 6 | Sydney Pollack |
| 49 | 74.4% | 70.8% | 8 | Martin Ritt |
| 50 | 74.2% | 71.2% | 6 | Louis Malle |
| 51 | 74.2% | 68.9% | 8 | Ronald Neame |
| 52 | 73.8% | 66.9% | 7 | Richard Fleischer |
| 53 | 73.4% | 71.3% | 6 | David Swift |
| 54 | 73.2% | 62.7% | 12 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 55 | 73.0% | 72.2% | 6 | Henri Verneuil |
| 56 | 73.0% | 66.3% | 8 | Jerry Lewis |
| 57 | 72.0% | 67.4% | 7 | Ken Annakin |
| 58 | 72.0% | 64.5% | 8 | John Huston |
| 59 | 71.2% | 64.7% | 6 | Joseph Losey |
| 60 | 70.6% | 64.5% | 11 | Terence Fisher |
| 61 | 70.4% | 62.9% | 10 | Richard Quine |
| 62 | 70.2% | 67.6% | 7 | Arthur Hiller |
| 63 | 70.0% | 63.7% | 14 | Gerald Thomas |
| 64 | 69.6% | 65.1% | 7 | Jack Smight |
| 65 | 69.6% | 60.2% | 16 | Ishirô Honda |
| 66 | 69.4% | 67.0% | 6 | David Miller |
| 67 | 69.4% | 64.3% | 7 | Charles Walters |
| 68 | 68.8% | 66.8% | 6 | John Guillermin |
| 69 | 68.8% | 61.4% | 7 | Otto Preminger |
| 70 | 68.4% | 68.4% | 5 | George Cukor |
| 71 | 68.2% | 68.2% | 5 | George Pollock |
| 72 | 67.8% | 66.7% | 6 | Henry Koster |
| 73 | 67.8% | 61.0% | 10 | William Castle |
| 74 | 67.2% | 66.0% | 6 | Buzz Kulik |
| 75 | 67.2% | 65.8% | 6 | Norman Tokar |
| 76 | 67.0% | 62.3% | 7 | George Sidney |
| 77 | 67.0% | 61.3% | 7 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 78 | 66.8% | 66.8% | 5 | Freddie Francis |
| 79 | 66.8% | 63.5% | 6 | Michael Gordon |
| 80 | 66.8% | 63.1% | 7 | Henry Levin |
| 81 | 66.6% | 66.6% | 5 | Peter Yates |
| 82 | 66.2% | 63.0% | 6 | Mark Robson |
| 83 | 66.2% | 59.2% | 9 | Daniel Mann |
| 84 | 65.8% | 64.8% | 6 | Delmer Daves |
| 85 | 65.8% | 63.7% | 7 | Burt Kennedy |
| 86 | 65.8% | 59.3% | 15 | Gordon Douglas |
| 87 | 65.6% | 63.5% | 6 | Richard Thorpe |
| 88 | 65.6% | 61.3% | 7 | Andrew Marton |
| 89 | 65.4% | 61.1% | 7 | Jack Cardiff |
| 90 | 65.2% | 65.2% | 5 | Alan Rafkin |
| 91 | 64.4% | 59.5% | 8 | George Marshall |
| 92 | 64.0% | 64.0% | 5 | James Neilson |
| 93 | 64.0% | 64.0% | 5 | Ralph Thomas |
| 94 | 63.6% | 61.9% | 7 | Phil Karlson |
| 95 | 63.4% | 63.4% | 5 | Cy Endfield |
| 96 | 62.8% | 54.1% | 9 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 97 | 61.4% | 61.4% | 5 | Michael Anderson |
| 98 | 60.6% | 60.6% | 5 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 99 | 60.4% | 60.4% | 5 | David Lowell Rich |
| 100 | 60.4% | 55.8% | 8 | Frank Tashlin |
| 101 | 59.6% | 59.6% | 5 | Byron Haskin |
| 102 | 59.2% | 59.2% | 5 | John Rich |
| 103 | 59.0% | 59.0% | 5 | Joshua Logan |
| 104 | 58.8% | 49.4% | 11 | Norman Taurog |
| 105 | 58.6% | 58.6% | 5 | Anthony Asquith |
| 106 | 57.8% | 55.5% | 6 | William Asher |
| 107 | 57.0% | 57.0% | 5 | Paul Wendkos |
| 108 | 56.8% | 56.8% | 5 | Edward L. Cahn |
| 109 | 53.8% | 51.2% | 6 | Don Weis |
| 110 | 49.4% | 49.4% | 5 | Melville Shavelson |
| Rank | Avg (Top 5) | Avg (All) | Films | Name |