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Total: 86  
Seen: 23 (26.7%)
See Again: 2 (2.3%)
Unseen: 61 (70.9%)

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Best Director

1. 7th Heaven (1927)  - Frank Borzage
2. The Divine Lady (1929)  - Frank Lloyd
3. All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)  - Lewis Milestone
4. Skippy (1931)  - Norman Taurog
5. Bad Girl (1931)  - Frank Borzage
6. Cavalcade (1933)  - Frank Lloyd
7. It Happened One Night (1934)  - Frank Capra
8. The Informer (1935)  - John Ford
9. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)  - Frank Capra
10. The Awful Truth (1937)  - Leo McCarey
11. You Can't Take It With You (1938)  - Frank Capra
12. Gone With the Wind (1939)  - Victor Fleming
13. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)  - John Ford
14. How Green Was My Valley (1941)  - John Ford
15. Mrs. Miniver (1942)  - William Wyler
16. Casablanca (1942)  - Michael Curtiz
17. Going My Way (1944)  - Leo McCarey
18. The Lost Weekend (1945)  - Billy Wilder
19. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)  - William Wyler
20. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)  - Elia Kazan
21. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)  - John Huston
22. A Letter To Three Wives (1949)  - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
23. All About Eve (1950)  - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
24. A Place In the Sun (1951)  - George Stevens
25. The Quiet Man (1952)  - John Ford
26. From Here To Eternity (1953)  - Fred Zinneman
27. On the Waterfront (1954)  - Elia Kazan
28. Marty (1955)  - Delbert Mann
29. Giant (1956)  - George Stevens
30. The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)  - David Lean
31. Gigi (1958)  - Vincente Minnelli
32. Ben-Hur (1959)  - William Wyler
33. The Apartment (1960)  - Billy Wilder
34. West Side Story (1961)  - Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise
35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)  - David Lean
36. Tom Jones (1963)  - Tony Richardson
37. My Fair Lady (1964)  - George Cukor
38. The Sound of Music (1965)  - Robert Wise
39. A Man For All Seasons (1966)  - Fred Zinnemann
40. The Graduate (1967)  - Mike Nichols
41. Oliver! (1968)  - Carol Reed
42. Midnight Cowboy (1969)  - John Schlesinger
43. Patton (1970)  - Franklin J. Schaffner
44. The French Connection (1971)  - William Friedkin
45. Cabaret (1972)  - Bob Fosse
46. The Sting (1973)  - George Roy Hill
47. The Godfather, Part II (1974)  - Francis Ford Coppola
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)  - Milos Forman
49. Rocky (1976)  - John G. Avildson
50. Annie Hall (1977)  - Woody Allen
51. The Deer Hunter (1978)  - Michael Cimino
52. Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)  - Robert Benton
53. Ordinary People (1980)  - Robert Redford
54. Reds (1981)  - Warren Beatty
55. Gandhi (1982)  - Richard Attenborough
56. Terms of Endearment (1983)  - James L. Brooks
57. Amadeus (1984)  - Milos Forman
58. Out of Africa (1985)  - Sydney Pollack
59. Platoon (1986)  - Oliver Stone
60. The Last Emperor (1987)  - Bernado Bertolucci
61. Rain Man (1988)  - Barry Levinson
62. Born On the Fourth of July (1989)  - Oliver Stone
63. Dances With Wolves (1990)  - Kevin Costner
64. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)  - Jonathan Demme
65. Unforgiven (1992)  - Clint Eastwood
66. Schindler's List (1993)  - Steven Spielberg
67. Forrest Gump (1994)  - Robert Zemeckis
68. Braveheart (1995)  - Mel Gibson
69. The English Patient (1996)  - Anthony Minghella
70. Titanic (1997)  - James Cameron
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)  - Steven Spielberg
72. American Beauty (1999)  - Sam Mendes
73. Traffic (2000)  - Steven Soderbegh
74. A Beautiful Mind (2001)  - Ron Howard
75. The Pianist (2002)  - Roman Polanski
76. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)  - Peter Jackson
77. Million Dollar Baby (2004)  - Clint Eastwood
78. Brokeback Mountain (2005)  - Ang Lee
79. The Departed (2006)  - Martin Scorsese
80. No Country For Old Men (2007)  - Joel and Ethan Coen
81. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)  - Danny Boyle
82. The Hurt Locker (2009)  - Kathryn Bigelow
83. The King's Speech (2010)  - Tom Hooper
84. The Artist (2011)  - Michel Hazanavicius
85. Life of Pi (2012)  - Ang Lee
86. Gravity (2013)  - Alfonso Cuaron