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Best Film Direction - 1940s

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1. Orson Welles

#1

Citizen Kane (1941)

#6

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

#18

The Stranger (1946)

Stehako's rating:

8.3

2. John Huston

#2

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

#13

Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

#28

Key Largo (1948)

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3. Alfred Hitchcock

#3

Saboteur (1942)

#4

Rope (1948)

#12

Notorious (1946)

#17

Rebecca (1940)

#26

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

#39

Spellbound (1945)

#41

Suspicion (1941)

#46

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Stehako's rating:

8.9

4. Charles Chaplin

#5

The Great Dictator (1940)

Stehako's rating:

8.9

5. Billy Wilder

#7

Double Indemnity (1944)

#22

A Foreign Affair (1948)

#30

The Lost Weekend (1945)

Stehako's rating:

8.4

6. John Ford

#8

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

#34

My Darling Clementine (1946)

#51

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Stehako's rating:

8.4

7. Howard Hawks

#9

Red River (1948)

#36

His Girl Friday (1940)

#44

The Big Sleep (1946)

Stehako's rating:

8.5

8. Michael Powell

#10

The Red Shoes (1948)

#50

49th Parallel (1942)

7.7

9. Michael Curtiz

#11

Casablanca (1943)

#37

Mildred Pierce (1945)

#49

Flamingo Road (1949)

Stehako's rating:

8.9

10. Sergei M. Eisenstein

#14

Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II (1944, 1947)

Stehako's rating:

8.2

11. Otto Preminger

#15

Laura (1944)

Stehako's rating:

8.5

12. David Lean

#16

Brief Encounter (1946)

#52

Great Expectations (1947)

Stehako's rating:

7.8

13. William A. Wellman

#19

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

#35

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

Stehako's rating:

8.1

14. William Wyler

#20

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

#31

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Stehako's rating:

8.4

15. Elia Kazan

#21

Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Stehako's rating:

8.5

16. Vittorio De Sica

#23

The Bicycle Thief (1949)

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17. Raoul Walsh

#24

White Heat (1949)

Stehako's rating:

8.7

18. Jean Renoir

#25

The Southerner (1945)

Stehako's rating:

8.1

19. George Cukor

#27

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Stehako's rating:

8.6

20. Frank Capra

#29

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

#33

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Stehako's rating:

7.6

21. George Stevens

#32

Penny Serenade (1941)

#47

The Talk of the Town (1942)

Stehako's rating:

6.3

22. Norman Foster

#38

Journey Into Fear (1943)

7.7

23. Cecil B. DeMille

#40

Samson and Delilah (1949)

Stehako's rating:

7.7

24. Vincente Minnelli

#42

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Stehako's rating:

7.1

25. Henry King

#43

Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

Stehako's rating:

7.9

26. King Vidor

#45

Duel in the Sun (1946)

Stehako's rating:

6.8

27. John Cromwell

#48

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Stehako's rating:

8.1

28. Fred Zinnemann

#53

The Search (1948)

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Truly amazing how many great directors emerged from these years...
It's the decade where suspense ruled and Welles revolutionized the directing role with his perfectionism, making way for the sweeping epics of the 1950s.

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