Directors Guild of America 80 Best Directed Films
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The best-directed films of all time, according to the Directors Guild of America
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
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Chinatown
1974, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 38 top lists Check -
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Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 28 top lists Check -
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
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Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
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Pulp Fiction
1994, in 38 top lists Check -
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982, in 30 top lists Check -
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Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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Saving Private Ryan
1998, in 28 top lists Check -
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Shichinin no samurai
1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1962, in 18 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Searchers
1956, in 26 top lists Check -
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Forrest Gump
1994, in 25 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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8½
1963, in 35 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
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Rear Window
1954, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957, in 32 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, in 35 top lists Check -
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The Sound of Music
1965, in 25 top lists Check -
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Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
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Titanic
1997, in 25 top lists Check -
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The Shining
1980, in 28 top lists Check -
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Amadeus
1984, in 24 top lists Check -
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Doctor Zhivago
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check
Last updated on May 3, 2016; source