Ranking Best Director Winners

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Snick's Guy
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My Top Five:

1) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve
2) Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front
3) David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
4) Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List
5) Mike Nichols, The Graduate

My Bottom Five:

1) Mel Gibson, Braveheart
2) Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind
3) Kevin Costner, Dances With Wolves
4) Robert Redford, Ordinary People
5) Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
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And they are...

1 John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath 1940
2 John Ford, How Green Was My Valley 1941
3 John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy 1969
4 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve 1950
5 Billy Wilder, The Apartment 1960
6 Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
7 William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
8 David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia 1962
9 Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List 1993
10 Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront 1954
11 Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth 1937
12 Mike Nichols, The Graduate 1967
13 John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
14 Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons 1966
15 Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain 2005
16 Michael Curtiz, Casablanca 1943
17 Frank Borzage, 7th Heaven 1928
18 David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
19 John Ford, The Informer 1935
20 George Cukor, My Fair Lady 1964
21 Robert Wise, The Sound of Music 1965
22 Vincente Minnelli, Gigi 1958
23 Victor Flemming, Gone With the Wind 1939
24 Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity 1953
25 John Ford, The Quiet Man 1952
26 Frank Capra, It Happened One Night 1934
27 Bob Fosse, Cabaret 1972
28 Steven Speilberg, Saving Private Ryan 1998
29 Tony Richardson, Tom Jones 1963
30 William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver 1942
31 George Stevens, Giant 1956
32 Woody Allen, Annie Hall 1977
33 Leo McCarey, Going My Way 1944
34 Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, West Side Story 1961
35 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives 1949
36 Robert Redford, Ordinary People 1980
37 Warren Beatty, Reds 1981
38 Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven 1992
39 Martin Scorsese, The Departed 2006
40 Francis Ford Copolla, The Godfather Part II 1974
41 Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend 1945
42 James Cameron, Titanic 1997
43 Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs 1991
44 Oliver Stone, Platoon 1986
45 Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker 2009
46 Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July 1989
47 Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936
48 Roman Polanski, The Pianist 2002
49 Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire 2008
50 Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby 2004
51 Delbert Mann, Marty 1955
52 Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
53 George Stevens, A Place in the Sun 1951
54 Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
55 Carol Reed, Oliver! 1968
56 Anthony Minghella, The English Pateint 1996
57 Sam Mendes, American Beauty 1999
58 Steven Soderbergh, Traffic 2000
59 Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men 2007
60 Peter Jackson, LOTR: The Return of the King 2003
61 Norman Taurog, Skippy 1931
62 Richard Attenborough, Gandhi 1982
63 Bernardo Betolucci, The Last Emperor 1987
64 James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment 1983
65 Barry Levinson, Rain Man 1988
66 Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump 1994
67 William Wyler, Ben-Hur 1959
68 Milos Forman, Amadeus 1984
69 Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton 1970
70 Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement 1947
71 Frank Lloyd, The Divine Lady 1929
72 William Friedkin, The French Connection 1971
73 Frank Capra, You Can’t Take It With You 1938
74 Frank Borzage, Bad Girl 1932
75 George Roy Hill, The Sting 1973
76 Frank Lloyd, Cavalcade 1933
77 Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa 1985
78 Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter 1978
79 Kevin Costner, Dances With Wolves 1990
80 John G. Avildsen, Rocky 1976
81 Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind 2001
82 Mel Gibson, Braveheart 1995
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