Directors of Sight and Sound's 10 Greatest Films: 2012 Critics Poll

Entertainment: Movies Directors

1 Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock (1958) 2. Citizen Kane, Orson Welles (1941) 3 Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu (1953) 4. Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir (1939) 5. Sunrise, F.W. Murnau (1927) 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick (1968) 7. The Searchers, John Ford (1956) 8. Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov (1929) 9. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Dreyer (1928) 10. 8-1/2, Federico Fellini (1963)

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3

1

Alfred Hitchcock

Filmmaker

34.88% (15 of 43 votes)

6

2

Orson Welles

Actor

29.03% (9 of 31 votes)

7

3

Yasujiro Ozu

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 3 votes)

8

4

Jean Renoir

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

9

5

F.W. Murnau

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

1

6

Stanley Kubrick

Filmmaker

72.73% (16 of 22 votes)

2

7

John Ford

Filmmaker

60.0% (3 of 5 votes)

4

8

Dziga Vertov

Filmmaker

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

10

9

Carl Dreyer

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 2 votes)

5

10

Federico Fellini

Filmmaker

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)