Name a Hollywood director

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Frank Capra— He arrived from Sicily at five and defined screen Americana.
• John Ford— His four Best Director Oscars remain the all-time record.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Adrian Lyne
• Alan J. Pakula
• Alan Parker
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• Alex Garland
• Alexander Payne
• Alfonso Cuarón
• Amy Heckerling
• Andrew Adamson
• Andrew Stanton
• Andy Muschietti
• Andy Serkis
• Ang Lee
• Angelina Jolie
• Antoine Fuqua
• Ari Aster
• Arthur Penn
• Barbra Streisand
• Barry Levinson
• Barry Sonnenfeld
• Baz Luhrmann
• Ben Stiller
• Bennett Miller
• Bill Condon
• Billy Bob Thornton
• Blake Edwards
• Bo Burnham
• Bob Fosse
• Bong Joon-ho
• Brad Bird
• Brett Ratner
• Bryan Singer
• Busby Berkeley
• Buster Keaton
• Byron Howard
• Cameron Crowe
• Carl Reiner
• Carlos Saldanha
• Cary Joji Fukunaga
• Catherine Hardwicke
• Cecil B. DeMille
• Chad Stahelski
• Charlie Kaufman
• Chloé Zhao
• Chris Buck
• Chris Renaud
• Clarence Brown
• Colin Trevorrow
• Curtis Hanson
• D.W. Griffith
• Dan Gilroy
• Daniels
• Danny Boyle
• Danny DeVito
• David Ayer
• David Cronenberg
• David Gordon Green
• David Lean
• David Leitch
• David Yates
• David Zucker
• Debra Granik
• Dennis Dugan
• Dennis Hopper
• Denzel Washington
• Destin Daniel Cretton
• Don Bluth
• Don Siegel
• Doug Liman
• Douglas Sirk
• Edgar Wright
• Edward Dmytryk
• Elaine May
• Eli Roth
• Elia Kazan
• Emerald Fennell
• Emilio Estevez
• Erich von Stroheim
• Ernest Dickerson
• Ernst Lubitsch
• Ethan Hawke
• F. Gary Gray
• F.W. Murnau
• Farrelly Brothers
• Fede Alvarez
• Francis Lawrence
• Frank Borzage
• Frank Darabont
• Frank Lloyd
• Frank Oz
• Franklin J. Schaffner
• Fred Zinnemann
• Fritz Lang
• Gareth Edwards
• Garry Marshall
• Gary Ross
• Gene Kelly
• Genndy Tartakovsky
• George A. Romero
• George Cukor
• George Miller
• George Roy Hill
• George Stevens
• Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Gore Verbinski
• Gus Van Sant
• Hal Ashby
• Harold Ramis
• Henry Hathaway
• Henry Selick
• Herbert Ross
• Howard Hawks
• Hughes Brothers
• Ida Lupino
• Irvin Kershner
• Ivan Reitman
• J. Lee Thompson
• James L. Brooks
• James Mangold
• James Wan
• Jan de Bont
• Jane Campion
• Jason Reitman
• Jay Roach
• Jennifer Lee
• Jerome Robbins
• Jim Abrahams
• Jim Jarmusch
• Jodie Foster
• Joe Dante
• Joel Schumacher
• John Badham
• John Boorman
• John Cassavetes
• John Frankenheimer
• John G. Avildsen
• John Huston
• John Krasinski
• John Landis
• John Lasseter
• John McTiernan
• John Milius
• John Musker
• John Singleton
• John Sturges
• John Waters
• John Woo
• Jon M. Chu
• Jon Turteltaub
• Jon Watts
• Jonah Hill
• Jonathan Demme
• Josef von Sternberg
• Joseph Kosinski
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Josh Boone
• Jules Dassin
• Julie Dash
• Justin Lin— He directed six of the Fast and Furious films.
• Karyn Kusama
• Keenen Ivory Wayans
• Kelly Reichardt
• Kenneth Branagh
• Kevin Reynolds
• King Vidor
• Lawrence Kasdan
• Lee Daniels
• Lee Unkrich
• Leigh Whannell
• Len Wiseman
• Leo McCarey
• Leonard Nimoy
• Lewis Milestone
• Louis Leterrier
• Luca Guadagnino
• Malcolm D. Lee
• Marc Webb
• Marielle Heller
• Mario Van Peebles
• Martin Brest
• Matt Reeves
• Matthew Vaughn
• McG
• Melvin Van Peebles
• Mervyn LeRoy
• Michael Cimino
• Michael Curtiz
• Michael Mann
• Michel Gondry
• Mike Flanagan
• Mike Nichols
• Miloš Forman
• Nancy Meyers
• Neil Breen
• Nia DaCosta
• Nicholas Meyer
• Nicholas Ray
• Nicole Holofcener
• Niki Caro
• Noah Baumbach
• Norman Jewison
• Norman Taurog
• Olivia Wilde
• Otto Preminger
• Paul Feig
• Paul Greengrass
• Paul Schrader
• Paul Verhoeven
• Paul W.S. Anderson
• Penny Marshall
• Pete Docter
• Peter Berg
• Peter Bogdanovich
• Peter Hyams
• Peter Segal
• Peter Weir
• Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
• Phillip Noyce
• Pierre Coffin
• Preston Sturges
• Randal Kleiser
• Raoul Walsh
• Regina King
• Renny Harlin
• Richard Attenborough
• Richard Donner
• Richard Marquand
• Rob Cohen
• Rob Zombie
• Robert Aldrich
• Robert De Niro
• Robert Eggers
• Robert Mulligan
• Robert Rossen
• Robert Siodmak
• Robert Wise
• Roger Donaldson
• Roland Emmerich
• Roman Polanski
• Ron Clements
• Ron Shelton
• Ron Underwood
• Ruben Fleischer
• Sam Mendes
• Sam Peckinpah
• Sam Taylor-Johnson
• Scott Derrickson
• Sean Baker
• Sean Penn
• Seth MacFarlane
• Shawn Levy
• Simon West
• Spike Jonze
• Stanley Donen
• Stanley Kramer
• Stephen Sommers
• Steve McQueen
• Sylvester Stallone
• Taika Waititi
• Taylor Sheridan
• Ti West
• Tim Miller
• Tobe Hooper
• Todd Haynes
• Tom Hanks
• Tom Hooper
• Tom McCarthy
• Tom McGrath
• Tom Shadyac
• Tony Gilroy
• Tony Scott
• Uwe Boll
• Victor Fleming
• Vincente Minnelli
• Walter Hill
• Warren Beatty
• Wes Ball
• William Wellman
• William Wyler
• Wolfgang Petersen
• Yorgos Lanthimos
• Zach Braff

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Adam McKay
• Ava DuVernay
• Barry Jenkins
• Ben Affleck
• Billy Wilder
• Bradley Cooper
• Brian De Palma
• Charlie Chaplin
• Chris Columbus
• Christopher McQuarrie
• Damien Chazelle
• Darren Aronofsky
• David O. Russell
• Denis Villeneuve
• George Clooney
• Guillermo del Toro
• Guy Ritchie
• James Gunn
• Jon Favreau
• Joss Whedon
• Kevin Costner
• Kevin Smith
• Mel Brooks
• Mel Gibson
• Nora Ephron
• Orson Welles
• Patty Jenkins
• Peter Jackson
• Rian Johnson
• Richard Linklater
• Rob Reiner
• Robert Altman
• Robert Redford
• Robert Rodriguez
• Russo Brothers
• Ryan Coogler
• Sidney Lumet
• Sydney Pollack
• The Wachowskis
• Todd Phillips
• Tyler Perry
• William Friedkin

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Alfred Hitchcock
• Christopher Nolan
• Coen Brothers
• David Fincher
• David Lynch
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Greta Gerwig
• J.J. Abrams
• James Cameron
• John Carpenter
• John Hughes
• Jordan Peele
• Judd Apatow
• Kathryn Bigelow
• M. Night Shyamalan
• Michael Bay
• Michael Moore
• Oliver Stone
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• Ridley Scott
• Robert Zemeckis
• Ron Howard
• Sam Raimi
• Sofia Coppola
• Spike Lee
• Stanley Kubrick
• Steven Soderbergh
• Terrence Malick
• Wes Anderson
• Wes Craven
• Zack Snyder

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Ed Wood— He won worst director ever at the Golden Turkey Awards.
• Tommy Wiseau— He financed The Room with six million mystery dollars.

The most common answer on the board.

• Clint Eastwood
• George Lucas
• Martin Scorsese
• Quentin Tarantino
• Steven Spielberg
• Tim Burton
• Woody Allen