Thanks to everyone that submitted a ballot and extra special thanks to everyone who hung out in chat with us last night
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Special thanks also to Bondo for upgrading us to premium chat which allowed us to post images and such and made the whole thing a lot more festive!
Did more women directors make the 100 this year?
Yep. 8 versus 5 from last year.
98 Coppola, Sofia (N/E)
96 Breillat, Catherine (N/E)
94 Bigelow, Kathryn (84)
87 Reichardt, Kelly (N/E)
76 Campion, Jane (81)
72 Ramsay, Lynne (95)
42 Varda, Agnès (91)
26 Denis, Claire (37)
Some more stats and comparisons:
Biggest Drops (excluding people that fell off the list)
Michel Gondry
-44Guillermo del Toro
-38James Cameron
-38Terry Gilliam
-36David Lean
-35Biggest Climbs (excluding debuts)
Agnès Varda
+49Robert Bresson
+44Wim Wenders
+44Luis Buñuel
+38Richard Linklater
+36New Entries49. Abbas Kiarostami
52. Andrei Tarkovsky
56. Michael Haneke
60. Carl Theodor Dreyer
60. Brian De Palma
64. Lars von Trier
73. Eric Rohmer
75. Errol Morris
76. James Gray
78. Tsai Ming-liang
80. Frank Borzage
87. Kelly Reichardt
89. Takeshi Kitano
90. Johnnie To
93. Béla Tarr
95. Vincente Minnelli
96. Catherine Breillat
97. Jean Cocteau
98. Sofia Coppola
100. Elia Kazan
Biggest ExitsClint Eastwood (53)
Milos Forman (63)
Jean Pierre Jeunet (66)
John Huston (67)
Ang Lee (69)
Edgar Wright (71)
Peter Jackson (73)
Andrew Stanton (74)
John Hughes (79)
Zhang Yimou (83)
Peter Greenaway (85)
Brad Bird (86)
Rob Reiner (90)
Kevin Smith (92)
John Carpenter (93)
Peter Weir (97)
Michael Curtiz (98)
Satoshi Kon (99)
Jia Zhang Ke (100)
Kenji Mizoguchi (87)
Highest ranked directors to make it with no #1 votes: WKW, Kieślowski and Scorsese.
Highest ranked directors who didn't make anyone's top 10: Fritz Lang, Spike Lee & Spike Jonze.
Directors with the most #1 votes: Hitchcock and Bergman.