| 100% | ANGLEE | 6 | Best Director winner for "Life of Pi" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 86% | ANGLEE | 6 | Best Director Oscar winner for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi |
| 65% | ANG | 3 | Director Lee who won Oscars for "Life of Pi" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 62% | WYLER | 5 | William —, Best Director Oscar winner for Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives and Mrs Miniver |
| 54% | ANG | 3 | ___ Lee (Best Director Oscar winner for "Life of Pi") |
| 54% | STONE | 5 | Oliver —, Best Director Oscar winner for Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July |
| 53% | MALICK | 6 | Terrence —, Best Director Oscar nominee for The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life |
| 52% | ARGO | 4 | Movie that defeated "Life of Pi" and "Lincoln" for the Best Picture Oscar |
| 51% | LEE | 3 | Ang who won a Best Director Oscar for "Life of Pi" |
| 51% | ANG | 3 | Lee who won the Best Director Oscar for "Life of Pi" |
| 47% | LIFE | 4 | "___ of Pi" (2012 film for which Ang Lee won Best Director) |
| 47% | WISE | 4 | Robert —, Best Director Oscar winner for The Sound of Music |
| 46% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner over "Life of Pi" |
| 46% | EASTWOOD | 8 | Clint —, Best Director Oscar winner for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby |
| 46% | DEMME | 5 | Jonathan —, Best Director Oscar winner for The Silence of the Lambs |
| 46% | YANNMARTEL | 10 | *Man Booker Prize winner for "Life of Pi" |
| 46% | MILOS | 5 | Best Director Oscar winner for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus |
| 46% | HUSTON | 6 | John —, Best Director Oscar winner for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 45% | ANG | 3 | Director of Heath and Jake in Brokeback Mountain |
| 45% | FORD | 4 | John —, Best Director Oscar winner for The Quiet Man and The Grapes of Wrath |
| 44% | OBAMA | 5 | Winner of the 2005 and 2007 Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album |
| 44% | ANG | 3 | Life of Pi director |
| 44% | ANGLEE | 6 | Life of Pi director |
| 44% | JACKSON | 7 | Peter —, Best Director Oscar winner for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 43% | COETZEE | 7 | J M —, 1983 Booker Prize winner for Life and Times of Michael K; 2003 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | DAMIENCHAZELLE | 14 | 2016 Best Director winner for “La La Land” |
| 43% | FORMAN | 6 | Best Director winner of the 1980s |
| 43% | JAMESCAMERON | 12 | Best Director and Best Picture Oscar winner who remastered and rereleased "Titanic" as part of its 25th anniversary (2 wds.) |
| 43% | CAPRA | 5 | Best Director winner for "You Can't Take It With You" |