Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1971 (CLOSED)

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THE RESULTS
99 | Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part II (18 votes)
97 | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (21 votes)
94 | Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs (23 votes)
92 | Bong Joon-ho, Parasite (23 votes)
92 | Miloš Forman, Amadeus (16 votes)
91 | Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven (17 votes)
90 | Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List (23 votes)
89 | Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter (17 votes)
88 | Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (23 votes)
87 | Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain (17 votes)
87 | Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor (10 votes)
87 | Bob Fosse, Cabaret (10 votes)
86 | Miloš Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (18 votes)
85 | Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (22 votes)
84 | Oliver Stone, Platoon (18 votes)
83 | Damien Chazelle, La La Land (23 votes)
83 | Roman Polanski, The Pianist (18 votes)
83 | Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan (17 votes)
82 | Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker (22 votes)
82 | Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity (21 votes)
82 | Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July (12 votes)
81 | Martin Scorsese, The Departed (21 votes)
80 | Mel Gibson, Braveheart (17 votes)
79 | Woody Allen, Annie Hall (17 votes)
78 | James Cameron, Titanic (16 votes)
78 | Robert Redford, Ordinary People (14 votes)
77 | George Roy Hill, The Sting (16 votes)
77 | Richard Attenborough, Gandhi (14 votes)
76 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman (25 votes)
76 | Chloé Zhao, Nomadland (19 votes)
76 | Warren Beatty, Reds (16 votes)
76 | John G. Avildsen, Rocky (13 votes)
75 | Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog (21 votes)
75 | Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist (18 votes)
73 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant (24 votes)
73 | Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump (21 votes)
72 | Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water (21 votes)
72 | Ang Lee, Life of Pi (17 votes)
72 | Alfonso Cuarón, Roma (16 votes)
72 | Steven Soderbergh, Traffic (15 votes)
68 | Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves (13 votes)
68 | Barry Levinson, Rain Man (13 votes)
65 | Anthony Minghella, The English Patient (15 votes)
62 | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once (23 votes)
62 | Sam Mendes, American Beauty (19 votes)
59 | Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire (16 votes)
59 | Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer (14 votes)
58 | James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment (16 votes)
56 | Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (17 votes)
54 | Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind (16 votes)
51 | Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa (13 votes)
44 | Tom Hooper, The King's Speech (15 votes)

Not a lot of votes for Bob Fosse but the result is still impressive as he gets a great 87. And now for 1971's winner,
William Friedkin for The French Connection

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