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1	Alfred Hitchcock	3.1597	57	1920s - 10 1930s - 15 1940s - 14 1950s - 11 1960s - 5 1970s - 2	1. Rear Window (1954) 2. Vertigo (1958) 3. Rebecca (1940) 4. North by Northwest (1959) See all Alfred Hitchcock movie rankings
2	Otto Preminger	2.9814	37	1930s - 4 1940s - 10 1950s - 13 1960s - 6 1970s - 4	1. Laura (1944) 2. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 3. Angel Face (1952) 4. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) See all Otto Preminger movie rankings
3	Orson Welles	2.8953	20	1930s - 2 1940s - 5 1950s - 3 1960s - 4 1970s - 4 1980s - 1 1990s - 1	1. Citizen Kane (1941) 2. Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) 3. Mr. Arkadin (1955) 4. Stranger, The (1946) See all Orson Welles movie rankings
4	Brian De Palma	2.8787	33	1960s - 8 1970s - 7 1980s - 8 1990s - 4 2000s - 6	1. Blow Out (1981) 2. Dressed to Kill (1980) 3. Mission: Impossible (1996) 4. Body Double (1984) See all Brian De Palma movie rankings
5	W.S. Van Dyke	2.8007	65	1910s - 6 1920s - 33 1930s - 21 1940s - 5	1. Thin Man, The (1934) 2. After the Thin Man (1936) 3. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) 4. Another Thin Man (1939) See all W.S. Van Dyke movie rankings
6	Sidney Lumet	2.7868	41	1950s - 4 1960s - 9 1970s - 10 1980s - 10 1990s - 5 2000s - 3	1. 12 Angry Men (1957) 2. Deathtrap (1982) 3. Equus (1977) 4. Murder on the Orient Express (1974) See all Sidney Lumet movie rankings
7	David Lynch	2.7821	17	1960s - 2 1970s - 3 1980s - 3 1990s - 4 2000s - 5	1. Mulholland Drive (2001) 2. Blue Velvet (1986) 3. Inland Empire (2006) 4. Lost Highway (1997) See all David Lynch movie rankings
8	Wes Craven	2.6014	19	1970s - 3 1980s - 7 1990s - 6 2000s - 3	1. Scream (1996) 2. Scream 2 (1997) 3. New Nightmare (1994) 4. Scream 3 (2000) See all Wes Craven movie rankings
9	Dario Argento	2.5567	16	1970s - 5 1980s - 4 1990s - 2 2000s - 5	1. Phenomena (1985) 2. Inferno (1980) 3. Cat o' Nine Tails, The (1971) 4. Trauma (1993) See all Dario Argento movie rankings
10	Roy William Neill	2.5413	74	1910s - 6 1920s - 20 1930s - 28 1940s - 20	1. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) 2. Black Angel (1946) 3. Woman in Green, The (1945) 4. Terror by Night (1946) See all Roy William Neill movie rankings

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