Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED)

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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 | Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity (12 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)
80 | John Ford, The Quiet Man (12 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)

John Ford's win #4 gets a very solid 80. And now for 1951's winner,
George Stevens for A Place in the Sun

How would you rate this achievement from 0 to 10?

Last Edit: Jul 15, 2024 21:24:06 GMT by JangoB

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stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,538 Likes: 25,641	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED) Jul 14, 2024 21:43:59 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Jul 14, 2024 21:43:59 GMT 8.5.
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TheAlwaysClassy Based Posts: 4,607 Likes: 2,160	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED) Jul 15, 2024 0:37:45 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Jul 15, 2024 0:37:45 GMT 9.5
	Who told you that goddamn lie?

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mikediastavrone96 Global Moderator "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Posts: 5,388 Likes: 5,891	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED) Jul 15, 2024 2:21:52 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 15, 2024 2:21:52 GMT 9.
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countjohn God Tier Posts: 8,562 Likes: 5,807	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED) Jul 15, 2024 2:33:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by countjohn on Jul 15, 2024 2:33:47 GMT 4/10. A gussied up soap opera right down to drenching everything in too much light.

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mrimpossible Badass Posts: 1,629 Likes: 850	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED) Jul 15, 2024 12:18:22 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mrimpossible on Jul 15, 2024 12:18:22 GMT 8.

Tommen_Saperstein Legend you don't understand the essence of brat summer Posts: 17,633 Likes: 11,737	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED) Jul 15, 2024 13:20:07 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 15, 2024 13:20:07 GMT 8

ibbi God Tier "Batman's a scientist" Posts: 5,830 Likes: 5,120	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED) Jul 15, 2024 14:53:31 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ibbi on Jul 15, 2024 14:53:31 GMT Love Stevens, this pic might be my fave of 51, but I think Wyler and certainly Kazan deserved this way more. I’d still go with an 8.

JangoB Legend Posts: 12,212 Likes: 11,133	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1951 (CLOSED) Jul 15, 2024 16:35:22 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JangoB on Jul 15, 2024 16:35:22 GMT 8
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