Stanley Kubrick Average rating: 8.40 Top 3: • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) • A Clockwork Orange (1971) • Barry Lyndon (1975)

Jonathan Glazer Average rating: 9 Top 3: • Under The Skin (2013) • Birth (2004) • Sexy Beast (2000)

Steve McQueen Average rating: 9 Top 3: • Shame (2011) • Hunger (2008) • 12 Years A Slave (2013)

Darren Aronofsky Average rating: 8.33 Top 3: • Black Swan (2010) • Requiem For A Dream (2000) • mother! (2017)

Average rating: 9 Top 3: • Irreversible (2002) • Climax (2018) • Enter The Void (2009)

Paul Thomas Anderson Average rating: 8.66 Top 3: 1. There Will Be Blood (2007) 2. Phantom Thread (2017) 3. Boogie Nights (1997)

Christopher Nolan Average rating: 8.44 Top 3: 1. Memento (2000) 2. The Dark Knight (2008) 3. The Prestige (2006)

Park-chan Wook Average rating: 8.33 Top 3: • Oldboy (2003) • The Handmaiden (2016) • Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2005)

Spike Jonze Average Rating: 8.25 Top 3: • Her (2013) • Adaptation (2002) • Being John Malkovich (1999)

Yorgos Lanthimos Average rating: 7.4 Top 3: • The Favourite (2018) • The Lobster (2016) • Dogtooth (2009)

Edgar Wright Average rating: 8.75 Top 3: • Hot Fuzz (2007) • Shaun Of The Dead (2004) • Baby Driver (2017)

Quentin Tarantino Average rating: 8.22 Top 3: • Pulp Fiction (1994) • Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) • Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Alejandro González Iñárritu Average rating: 8.5 Top 3: • Amores Perros (2000) • The Revenant (2015) • Birdman (2014)

Michael Haneke Average rating: 8 Top 3: • Amour (2012) • The White Ribbon (2009) • The Piano Teacher (2001)

Martin Scorsese Average rating: 7.8 Top 3: • Goodfellas (1990) • The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) • The Departed (2006)

Asghar Farhadi Average rating: 8 Top 3: • About Elly (2009) • The Past (2013) • A Separation (2011)

David Fincher Average rating: 7.9 Top 3: • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) • Fight Club (1999) • Gone Girl (2014)

Denis Villeneuve Average rating: 8.14 Top 3: • Incendies (2010) • Prisoners (2013) • Arrival (2016)

Masaki Kobayashi Average rating: 8.4 Top 3: • Harakiri (1962) • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) • Kwaidan (1964)

Bong Joon-ho Average rating: 8 Top 3: • Memories of Murder (2003) • Mother (2009) • Snowpiercer (2013)

Damien Chazelle Average rating: 8.33 Top 3: • Whiplash (2014) • La La Land (2016) • First Man (2018)

Danny Boyle Average rating: 7.75 Top 3: • Trainspotting (1996) • Sunshine (2007) • 28 Days Later (2002)

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