Apparently, these are the best directed movies ever made. Agree?

The Directors Guild of America, celebrating its 80th year, asked its members to vote for the best directed movies since 1936. And now, they’ve revealed the top 80.

The Directors Guild of America, celebrating its 80th year, asked its members to vote for the best directed movies since 1936. And now, they’ve revealed the top 80.

A still from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather.

Here is the top 10

1. The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 19722. Citizen Kane Orson Welles 19413. Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 19624. 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 19685. Casablanca Michael Curtiz 19426. The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola 19747. Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 19798. Schindler’s List Steven Spielberg 19939. Gone With the Wind Victor Fleming 193910. Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 1990

The most notable takeaway from this top 10 is that three Francis Ford Coppola films have been included. Each one deservedly so. Citizen Kane was named number one in the American Film Institute’s top 100 films of all time, but the directors have pushed it to number two in favour of Coppola’s crime epic.

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane.

While the list does a great job of including the most obvious choices, it doesn’t quite find room for some modern classics. There’s room for just one Coen Brothers movie (Fargo) and one by Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood). Surprisingly, there’s no Christopher Nolan or Michael Mann film in the list. Directors with multiple films featured on the list include Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Staley Kubrick, Sergio Leone and James Cameron.

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Here’s the rest of the list for you to debate over:

11. Chinatown Roman Polanski 197412. The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 193913. Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 198014. Jaws Steven Spielberg 197515. It’s a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 194616. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 196417. The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont 199418. The Graduate Mike Nichols 196719. Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope George Lucas 197720. Blade Runner Ridley Scott 198221. On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 195422. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 199423. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 198224. Annie Hall Woody Allen 197725. Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg 199826. Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa 195427. A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 197128. Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 198129. Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 195830. Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 195031. To Kill A Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 196232. Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 196033. The Searchers John Ford 195634. Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 199435. Singin’ in the Rain Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 195236. 8 ½ Federico Fellini 196337. The Third Man Carol Reed 194938. The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 194639. Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock 195440. The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean 195741. North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 195942. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Miloš Forman 197543. The Sound of Music Robert Wise 196544. Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 197645. Titanic James Cameron 199746. The Shining Stanley Kubrick 198047. Amadeus Miloš Forman 198448. Doctor Zhivago David Lean 196549. West Side Story Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 196150. Some Like it Hot Billy Wilder 195951. Ben-Hur William Wyler 195952. Fargo Ethan Coen, Joel Coen 199653. The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 199154. The Apartment Billy Wilder 196055. Avatar James Cameron 200956. The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow 200857. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 194858. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro G. Iñárritu 201459. All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 195060. The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino 197861. There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson 200762. The Sting George Roy Hill 197363. The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 196964. Alien Ridley Scott 197965. Rocky John G. Avildsen 197666. The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci 197067. Gandhi Richard Attenborough 198268. The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica 194869. Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore 198870. Brazil Terry Gilliam 198571. The Grapes of Wrath John Ford 194072. All the President’s Men Alan J. Pakula 197673. Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick 197574. Touch of Evil Orson Welles 195875. Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone 198476. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 199277. The Usual Suspects Bryan Singer 199578. Network Sidney Lumet 197679. Rashomon Akira Kurosawa 195080. Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone 1968

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