Best Directors : 1940 - 1949


  All-Time   Decade Summary   Films

1915   1920   1930   1940   1950   1960   1970   1980   1990   2000   2010


Rank Avg (Top 5) Avg (All) Films Name
1 89.0% 85.3% 7 Emeric Pressburger
2 89.0% 85.1% 9 Michael Powell
3 88.6% 83.6% 8 William Wyler
4 88.6% 79.3% 11 Howard Hawks
5 88.4% 83.0% 7 Billy Wilder
6 88.4% 79.6% 12 Alfred Hitchcock
7 87.6% 83.8% 8 Preston Sturges
8 87.6% 79.4% 12 John Ford
9 87.4% 79.7% 9 Carol Reed
10 87.4% 74.1% 19 Raoul Walsh
11 86.6% 83.3% 6 Bill Roberts
12 86.4% 82.3% 8 David Lean
13 86.2% 72.6% 16 Michael Curtiz
14 85.4% 77.9% 9 John Huston
15 85.2% 85.2% 5 Orson Welles
16 85.0% 82.2% 6 George Stevens
17 85.0% 77.6% 11 Robert Siodmak
18 84.2% 79.7% 7 George Cukor
19 83.8% 78.8% 8 Jacques Tourneur
20 83.0% 83.0% 5 Fred Zinnemann
21 83.0% 79.7% 7 Fritz Lang
22 82.6% 75.5% 11 Sam Wood
23 82.4% 75.6% 9 Jack Kinney
24 82.2% 80.3% 6 Clarence Brown
25 82.2% 78.5% 6 Wilfred Jackson
26 81.6% 72.3% 13 Mervyn LeRoy
27 81.4% 77.3% 7 Akira Kurosawa
28 81.0% 75.5% 8 Anthony Mann
29 81.0% 75.4% 8 Frank Capra
30 81.0% 73.8% 10 Vincente Minnelli
31 80.6% 77.3% 7 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
32 80.2% 78.3% 6 Robert Wise
33 79.8% 75.0% 7 Jules Dassin
34 79.6% 79.6% 5 Edward F. Cline
35 79.4% 79.4% 5 Robert Hamer
36 79.4% 72.8% 8 Irving Rapper
37 79.0% 76.4% 7 Mark Robson
38 79.0% 73.9% 10 Anatole Litvak
39 79.0% 71.9% 10 Mitchell Leisen
40 78.8% 78.8% 5 Ernst Lubitsch
41 78.8% 73.0% 11 William Dieterle
42 78.8% 71.8% 9 H.C. Potter
43 78.6% 73.3% 10 Henry King
44 78.4% 75.8% 6 Hamilton Luske
45 78.4% 73.8% 9 Busby Berkeley
46 78.0% 73.0% 8 William A. Wellman
47 77.6% 77.6% 5 Vittorio De Sica
48 77.6% 72.4% 10 Jean Negulesco
49 77.6% 72.3% 9 Henry Hathaway
50 77.6% 69.9% 9 Norman Z. McLeod
51 76.8% 76.8% 5 W.S. Van Dyke
52 76.8% 75.5% 6 John Cromwell
53 76.8% 73.9% 7 Edmund Goulding
54 76.4% 76.4% 5 Alberto Cavalcanti
55 76.4% 75.2% 6 Emilio Fernández
56 76.0% 70.5% 11 Roy William Neill
57 75.8% 72.5% 8 Charles Barton
58 75.8% 70.9% 11 Vincent Sherman
59 75.6% 75.6% 5 King Vidor
60 75.6% 72.7% 7 Tay Garnett
61 75.6% 71.1% 8 John Farrow
62 75.4% 73.4% 7 Henry Koster
63 75.4% 72.8% 6 Delmer Daves
64 75.2% 75.2% 5 Frank Borzage
65 75.2% 67.8% 9 Erle C. Kenton
66 75.0% 75.0% 5 René Clair
67 75.0% 72.7% 6 William Keighley
68 75.0% 70.8% 9 Edward Dmytryk
69 74.8% 72.4% 8 Basil Dearden
70 74.8% 68.9% 10 George Marshall
71 74.6% 71.0% 9 Irving Pichel
72 74.6% 69.5% 11 Arthur Lubin
73 74.4% 71.9% 7 Lloyd Bacon
74 74.2% 74.2% 5 Charles Vidor
75 74.2% 74.2% 5 Zoltan Korda
76 73.0% 71.5% 6 George Sidney
77 73.0% 70.7% 7 Curtis Bernhardt
78 73.0% 67.5% 6 Otto Preminger
79 73.0% 67.4% 8 Charles Lamont
80 72.8% 69.9% 7 Robert Z. Leonard
81 72.8% 69.7% 7 Lewis Milestone
82 72.8% 68.5% 6 H. Bruce Humberstone
83 72.6% 72.6% 5 Clyde Geronimi
84 72.4% 70.5% 6 Sidney Lanfield
85 72.2% 69.8% 6 Lewis Allen
86 72.2% 65.9% 8 John M. Stahl
87 71.6% 70.2% 6 David Butler
88 71.6% 70.0% 6 Jean Renoir
89 71.4% 66.9% 11 Richard Thorpe
90 71.2% 67.4% 11 Walter Lang
91 70.8% 70.8% 5 William A. Seiter
92 70.8% 67.6% 8 Stuart Heisler
93 70.2% 70.2% 5 Jack Conway
94 69.6% 69.6% 5 Elia Kazan
95 69.4% 69.4% 5 John Brahm
96 69.0% 68.0% 6 Robert Florey
97 68.8% 68.8% 5 Richard Wallace
98 68.6% 68.6% 5 Frank Launder
99 68.6% 67.5% 6 Alfred L. Werker
100 68.6% 67.5% 6 Norman Taurog
101 68.6% 65.8% 6 Joseph H. Lewis
102 68.4% 68.4% 5 Allan Dwan
103 68.4% 66.0% 7 Roy Del Ruth
104 68.4% 65.8% 6 Henry Levin
105 68.2% 65.5% 6 Ingmar Bergman
106 68.0% 68.0% 5 Cecil B. DeMille
107 68.0% 68.0% 5 Victor Saville
108 68.0% 63.6% 15 Joseph Kane
109 67.8% 65.1% 9 Lewis Seiler
110 67.4% 67.4% 5 George B. Seitz
111 67.4% 67.4% 5 Peter Godfrey
112 67.4% 67.4% 5 S. Sylvan Simon
113 67.4% 60.7% 7 Jean Yarbrough
114 67.2% 66.5% 6 Archie Mayo
115 66.8% 66.8% 5 Charles Frend
116 66.6% 66.0% 6 Irving Cummings
117 66.0% 66.0% 5 Alfred E. Green
118 65.8% 63.6% 8 Edwin L. Marin
119 65.4% 62.2% 9 Sam Newfield
120 65.2% 65.2% 5 Lesley Selander
121 64.8% 64.8% 5 Irving Reis
122 64.8% 64.8% 5 Ray Enright
123 64.8% 63.7% 6 John Rawlins
124 61.8% 61.8% 5 Wesley Ruggles
125 60.4% 59.2% 6 William Nigh
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