The Auteurs Poll Results

The results for The Auteurs Poll I conducted are in. You can go to the site where I posted them to see detailed results and discussion.

As voted by 95 users on The Auteurs.com, here are the 10 best films and directors:

The Top Ten Films

1. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941) USA

2. 2001 A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968) USA

3. 8 ½ – Federico Fellini (1963) Italy

4 (tie). The Rules of the Game – Jean Renoir (1939) France

Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954) Japan

6 (tie). The 400 Blows – Francois Truffaut (1959) France

Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958) USA/UK

8. The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodre Dreyer (1928) France

9 (tie). The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972) USA

Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950) Japan

Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) Russia

Taxi Driver- Martin Scorsese (1976) USA

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The Top Ten Directors

1. Stanley Kubrick

2. Federico Fellini

3. Alfred Hitchcock

4 (tie). Ingmar Bergman

Akira Kurosawa

Orson Welles

7. Francis Ford Coppola

8. Andrei Tarkovsky

9. Martin Scorsese

10. Jean-Luc Godard