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THE RESULTS
99 | Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part II (18 votes)
98 | David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (17 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)
92 | Mike Nichols, The Graduate (16 votes)
91 | Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven (17 votes)
90 | Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List (23 votes)
90 | David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai (16 votes)
89 | Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter (17 votes)
88 | Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (23 votes)
88 | Billy Wilder, The Apartment (16 votes)
88 | William Friedkin, The French Connection (14 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)
86 | Robert Wise, The Sound of Music (11 votes)
85 | Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (22 votes)
85 | William Wyler, Ben-Hur (11 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)
83 | Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton (12 votes)
82 | Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker (22 votes)
82 | Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity (21 votes)
82 | John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy (14 votes)
82 | George Stevens, Giant (13 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)
79 | Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, West Side Story (14 votes)
78 | Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront (18 votes)
78 | James Cameron, Titanic (16 votes)
78 | Robert Redford, Ordinary People (14 votes)
78 | Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons (13 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)
76 | Delbert Mann, Marty (12 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)
65 | Tony Richardson, Tom Jones (11 votes)
62 | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once (23 votes)
62 | Sam Mendes, American Beauty (19 votes)
60 | Carol Reed, Oliver! (9 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)
53 | George Cukor, My Fair Lady (9 votes)
51 | Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa (13 votes)
45 | Vincente Minnelli, Gigi (12 votes)
44 | Tom Hooper, The King's Speech (15 votes)

Our not-controversial-at-all 1954 round ends with Elia Kazan getting a solid 78, despite some big (and understandable) objections to his work. And now for 1953's winner,
Fred Zinnemann for From Here to Eternity

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stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,538 Likes: 25,641 Member is Online	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1953 (CLOSED) Jul 12, 2024 22:25:25 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Jul 12, 2024 22:25:25 GMT 10.
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Jul 12, 2024 23:01:25 GMT finniussnrub said:

You guys really showed Kazan, that guy who died over 20 years ago will really think about his life choices now.

Anyway, 9 for Zinnemann

Don't think he would have cared even if he was still alive but at least we finally got him.....

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	"I'm here, I'm still waiting".

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