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Poll: The National Film Registry's Elite Directors

A poll by TheMovieSmith.
The United States National Film Preservation Board created the National Film Registry in 1988 to preserve films which are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Every year up to 25 films are selected and they range the gambit from experimental films and shorts to epic feature films spanning the last one thirty years of cinema.

Many actors, actresses, crew members and directors can lay claim to taking part in one of history's best films. However, since the collection is ever expanding there are certain individuals which have stood out as prolific contributors to the archive.

Which director with seven or more titles in National Film Registry do you consider the best?

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    John Ford

    11 titles: The Iron Horse (1924), The Informer (1935), Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and How the West Was Won (1962) (The Civil War Segment).
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    Howard Hawks

    10 titles: Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), Ball of Fire (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), and Rio Bravo (1959).
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    William Wyler

    10 titles: Dodsworth (1936), Jezebel (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Heiress (1949), Roman Holiday (1953), Ben-Hur (1959), and Funny Girl (1968).
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    George Cukor

    9 titles: Gone with the Wind (1939), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), The Women (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), Adam's Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954), and My Fair Lady (1964).
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    Alfred Hitchcock

    9 titles: Rebecca (1940), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963).
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    Leo McCarey

    9 titles: Mighty Like a Moose (1926), Pass the Gravy (1928), The Battle of the Century (1927), Big Business (1929), Duck Soup (1933), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), The Awful Truth (1937), and Going My Way (1944).
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    Elia Kazan

    8 titles: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), East of Eden (1955), A Face in the Crowd (1957), Wild River (1960), and America America (1963).
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    Frank Capra

    7 titles: The Strong Man (1926), Power of the Press (1943), It Happened One Night (1934), Lost Horizon (1937), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Why We Fight (1942), and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
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    Buster Keaton

    7 titles: One Week (1920), Cops (1922), Sherlock Jr. (1924), The Navigator (1924), The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928).
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    Steven Spielberg

    7 titles: Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
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    George Stevens

    7 titles: Swing Time (1936), Gunga Din (1939), Woman of the Year (1942), George Stevens' World War II Footage (1946), A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), and Giant (1956).
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    Billy Wilder

    7 titles: Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Blvd. (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Sabrina (1954), Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Apartment (1960).

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