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Directors Guild of America Award Nominees   (440)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY VIDEO
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA V
3 Vertigo 1958 Hitchcock, Alfred USA V
5 The Godfather 1972 * Coppola, Francis Ford USA V
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Kelly, Gene / Donen, Stanley USA V
8 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA V
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA V
13 Rashômon 1952 Kurosawa, Akira Japan V
14 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA V
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA V
17 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA V
18 8 1/2 1963 Fellini, Federico Italy / France V
19 Pulp Fiction 1994 Tarantino, Quentin USA V
20 Annie Hall 1977 * Allen, Woody USA V
22 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope
1977 Lucas, George USA V
24 Schindler's List 1993 * Spielberg, Steven USA V
25 All About Eve 1950 * Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA V
26 On the Waterfront 1954 * Kazan, Elia USA V
27 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA V
32 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 Kubrick, Stanley UK V
33 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA V
35 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 * Lean, David UK V
39 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA V
40 The Godfather Part II 1974 * Coppola, Francis Ford USA V
43 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA V
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA V
56 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA V
59 The Graduate 1967 * Nichols, Mike USA V
60 Fanny & Alexander 1983 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany V
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA V
66 The Wild Bunch 1969 Peckinpah, Sam USA V
73 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA V
75 North by Northwest 1959 Hitchcock, Alfred USA V
76 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Spielberg, Steven USA V
78 Unforgiven 1992 * Eastwood, Clint USA V
82 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK V
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 * Lean, David UK / USA V
89 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 * Forman, Milos USA V
91 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA V
92 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA V
94 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 * Demme, Jonathan USA V
101 Rear Window 1954 Hitchcock, Alfred USA V
108 West Side Story 1961 * Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA V
114 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA V
115 Fargo 1996 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK V
119 Saving Private Ryan 1998 * Spielberg, Steven USA V
128 The Apartment 1960 * Wilder, Billy USA V
131 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA V
133 The Last Picture Show 1971 Bogdanovich, Peter USA V
134 Cabaret 1972 Fosse, Bob USA V
136 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA V
137 Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA V
139 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Kazan, Elia USA V
158 The Deer Hunter 1978 * Cimino, Michael USA V
162 My Fair Lady 1964 * Cukor, George USA V
169 Atlantic City 1981 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France V
170 The Hustler 1961 Rossen, Robert USA V
171 Network 1976 Lumet, Sidney USA V
176 The French Connection 1971 * Friedkin, William USA V
177 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Spielberg, Steven USA V
181 American Graffiti 1973 Lucas, George USA V
184 Patton 1970 * Schaffner, Franklin J. USA V
188 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Rafelson, Bob USA V
190 Midnight Cowboy 1969 * Schlesinger, John USA V
197 Red River 1948 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA V
198 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Hill, George Roy USA V
200 Strangers on a Train 1951 Hitchcock, Alfred USA V
210 Shane 1953 Stevens, George USA V
211 Easy Rider 1969 Hopper, Dennis USA V
213 American Beauty 1999 * Mendes, Sam USA V
214 The Piano 1993 Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France V
215 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Allen, Woody USA V
217 All the President's Men 1976 Pakula, Alan J. USA V
221 12 Angry Men 1957 Lumet, Sidney USA V
222 The Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King
2003 * Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand V
227 An American in Paris 1951 Minnelli, Vincente USA V
230 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Kubrick, Stanley UK V
231 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Mulligan, Robert USA V
232 Titanic 1997 * Cameron, James USA V
234 Marty 1955 * Mann, Delbert USA V
236 Gigi 1958 * Minnelli, Vincente USA V
238 The Sound of Music 1965 * Wise, Robert USA V
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 * Zinnemann, Fred USA V
245 Reds 1981 * Beatty, Warren USA V
246 Amadeus 1984 * Forman, Milos USA V
250 Secrets & Lies 1996 Leigh, Mike France / UK V
253 Tootsie 1982 Pollack, Sydney USA V
257 Rocky 1976 * Avildsen, John G. USA V
260 Ben-Hur 1959 * Wyler, William USA V
262 A Star Is Born 1954 Cukor, George USA V
264 The Exorcist 1973 Friedkin, William USA V
268 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 * Benton, Robert USA V
269 Deliverance 1972 Boorman, John USA V
273 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Jewison, Norman USA V
276 The Pianist 2002 Polanski, Roman Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands V
284 Tom Jones 1963 * Richardson, Tony UK V
287 The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring
2001 Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA V
292 Barry Lyndon 1975 Kubrick, Stanley UK V
299 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Lumet, Sidney USA V
306 The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers
2002 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand / Germany V
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307 The Crying Game 1992 Jordan, Neil UK / Japan V
308 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hudson, Hugh UK V
315 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Preminger, Otto USA V
323 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Nichols, Mike USA V
325 Last Tango in Paris 1973 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France V
326 A Place in the Sun 1951 * Stevens, George USA V
330 The Quiet Man 1952 * Ford, John USA V
333 The English Patient 1996 * Minghella, Anthony USA V
340 A Man for All Seasons 1966 * Zinnemann, Fred UK V
342 Gandhi 1982 * Attenborough, Richard UK / India V
344 Platoon 1986 * Stone, Oliver USA V
347 Thelma & Louise 1991 Scott, Ridley USA V
350 The Player 1992 Altman, Robert USA V
351 Being John Malkovich 1999 Jonze, Spike USA V
353 All the King's Men 1949 * Rossen, Robert USA V
354 The Defiant Ones 1958 Kramer, Stanley USA V
355 Hiroshima, mon amour 1960 Resnais, Alain France / Japan V
360 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Lee, Ang USA / UK V
361 The Elephant Man 1980 Lynch, David UK / USA V
363 A Room with a View 1986 Ivory, James UK V
364 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Rosenberg, Stuart USA V
365 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Polanski, Roman USA V
368 Shakespeare in Love 1998 Madden, John USA / UK V
369 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 * Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China V
370 The Killing Fields 1984 Joffé, Roland UK V
372 When Harry Met Sally 1989 Reiner, Rob USA V
376 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Minnelli, Vincente USA V
378 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Huston, John USA V
380 Ordinary People 1980 * Redford, Robert USA V
382 The Insider 1999 Mann, Michael USA V
383 Roman Holiday 1953 Wyler, William USA V
384 Closely Watched Trains 1968 Menzel, Jirí Czechoslovakia V
385 Dances with Wolves 1990 * Costner, Kevin USA V
387 Gladiator 2000 Scott, Ridley UK / USA V
388 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 Sturges, John USA V
389 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras Algeria / France V
392 East of Eden 1955 Kazan, Elia USA V
393 The Last Emperor 1987 * Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK V
395 Sideways 2004 Payne, Alexander USA V
396 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Darabont, Frank USA V
408 Shine 1996 Hicks, Scott Australia V
416 Hud 1963 Ritt, Martin USA V
418 Funny Face 1957 Donen, Stanley USA V
421 Breaking Away 1979 Yates, Peter USA V
424 Lost in Translation 2003 Coppola, Sofia USA / Japan V
427 The Thin Red Line 1998 Malick, Terrence Canada / USA V
437 Rio Bravo 1959 Hawks, Howard USA V
442 Terms of Endearment 1983 * Brooks, James L. USA V
443 Million Dollar Baby 2004 * Eastwood, Clint USA V
448 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Edwards, Blake USA V
449 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Aldrich, Robert USA V
452 Giant 1956 * Stevens, George USA V
459 The Lavender Hill Mob 1952 Crichton, Charles UK V
460 The Big Chill 1983 Kasdan, Lawrence USA V
463 Cinema Paradiso 1990 Tornatore, Giuseppe Italy / France V
464 Brokeback Mountain 2005 * Lee, Ang USA V
466 The Right Stuff 1983 Kaufman, Philip USA V
469 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Kazan, Elia USA V
471 In Cold Blood 1967 Brooks, Richard USA V
472 Imitation of Life 1959 Sirk, Douglas USA V
473 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Donen, Stanley USA V
483 The Color Purple 1985 * Spielberg, Steven USA V
484 Memento 2001 Nolan, Christopher USA V
487 Prizzi's Honor 1985 Huston, John USA V
491 Gangs of New York 2002 Scorsese, Martin USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands V
496 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Clooney, George USA V
497 Mary Poppins 1964 Stevenson, Robert USA V
498 The Aviator 2004 Scorsese, Martin USA / Japan / Germany V
501 Oliver! 1968 Reed, Carol UK V
504 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Figgis, Mike France / USA / UK V
506 Elmer Gantry 1960 Brooks, Richard USA V
508 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Allen, Woody USA V
510 The Sting 1973 * Hill, George Roy USA V
512 Howards End 1992 Ivory, James UK / Japan V
514 Mystic River 2003 Eastwood, Clint USA V
516 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 * Stone, Oliver USA V
519 Traffic 2000 Soderbergh, Steven Germany / USA V
520 The Nun's Story 1959 Zinnemann, Fred USA V
522 Braveheart 1995 Gibson, Mel USA V
524 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Zemeckis, Robert USA V
530 The Hours 2002 Daldry, Stephen USA V
538 Chicago 2002 * Marshall, Rob USA / Canada V
542 Witness 1985 Weir, Peter USA V
544 A Taste of Honey 1962 Richardson, Tony UK V
552 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Kramer, Stanley USA V
557 Das Boot 1982 Petersen, Wolfgang West Germany V
565 The Departed 2006 * Scorsese, Martin USA V
582 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Apted, Michael USA V
585 Apollo 13 1995 * Howard, Ron USA V
586 The Sixth Sense 1999 Shyamalan, M. Night USA V
593 The Longest Day 1962 Annakin, Ken / Marton, Andrew / Wicki, Bernhard / Zanuck, Darryl F. USA V
597 Broadcast News 1987 Brooks, James L. USA V
600 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Newell, Mike UK V
601 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 Pollack, Sydney USA V
604 Life Is Beautiful 1998 Benigni, Roberto Italy V
612 Death of a Salesman 1951 Benedek, László USA
624 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Luhrmann, Baz Australia / USA V
625 The King and I 1956 Lang, Walter USA V
633 Serpico 1973 Lumet, Sidney Italy / USA V
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639 Lolita 1962 Kubrick, Stanley USA / UK V
641 The Queen 2006 Frears, Stephen UK V
649 Darling 1965 Schlesinger, John UK V
650 Jerry Maguire 1996 Crowe, Cameron USA V
658 Out of Africa 1985 Pollack, Sydney USA V
663 A Letter to Three Wives 1948 * Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA V
667 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Dmytryk, Edward USA V
668 Field of Dreams 1989 Robinson, Phil Alden USA V
669 Stalag 17 1953 Wilder, Billy USA V
674 No Country for Old Men 2007 * Coen, Ethan / Coen, Joel USA V
676 Coming Home 1978 Ashby, Hal USA V
677 Babel 2006 Iñárritu, Alejandro González USA V
683 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952