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Just as the World Cup is coming to an end, our community-powered Directors’ Cup competition is just starting to heat up. 

The Cup is currently taking a one week break which signifies the halfway mark of round 1. Here’s the top 25 results thus far with the winner of each match-up in bold and the number of votes the director received:

1. Woody Allen (Manhattan) 41 vs. Zoltán Huszárik (Sinbad) 27
2. Abbas Kiarostami (Where Is the Friend’s Home?) 29 vs. Šarūnas Bartas (The Corridor) 33
3. Werner Herzog (Stroszek) 33 vs. Hiroshi Shimizu (Children in the Wind) 28
4. Jacques Tati (Playtime) 33 vs. Joris Ivens (A Tale of the Wind) 28
5. David Lynch (Eraserhead) 35 vs James Benning (Ten Skies) 19
6. Lars von Trier (Antichrist) 28 vs Eric Khoo (No Day Off) 29
7. Andrzej Wajda (Ashes) 12 vs František Vláčil (Marketa Lazarova) 17
8. Jean-Luc Godard (Vivre sa vie) 33 vs. Lucian Pintilie (Reconstruction) 23
9. Hayao Miyazaki (Castle in the Sky) 35 vs Gérard Courant (Cinématon) 12
10. Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) 31 vs Victor Sjöström (A Man There Was) 34
11. Orson Welles (Othello) 20 vs Mikio Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs) 35
12. Francis Ford Coppola (The Rain People) 20 vs Kōji Wakamatsu (Go Go Second Time Virgin) 16
13. Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest) 42 vs Alan Clarke (Elephant) 15
14. Aki Kaurismaki (Drifting Clouds) 27 vs Jan Švankmajer (Conspirators of Pleasure) 9
15. Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher) 30 vs Béla Tarr (Damnation) 35, in OT
16. Terry Gilliam (Brazil) 29 vs Seijun Suzuki (Kagero-za) 33, in OT
17. Takashi Miike (Visitor Q) 29 vs Stan Brakhage (Black Ice) 34
18. William Wyler (Best Years of Our Lives) 35 vs Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Letter to Uncle Boonmee) 14
19. René Laloux (How Wang-Fo was Saved) 21 vs Straub-Huillet (Not Reconciled) 28
20. Richard Fleischer (The Narrow Margin) 26 vs Claire Denis (Friday Night) 16
21. Satyajit Ray (Distant Thunder) 42 vs Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr) 19
22. Krzysztof Kieślowski (Camera Buff) 28 vs Peter Watkins (The War Game) 29
23. Agnès Varda (Salut les Cubains) 23 vs Shūji Terayama (Farewell To the Ark) 22
24. Éric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach) 29 vs Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light) 25
25. Chuck Jones (Robin Hood Daffy)14 vs Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Flowers of Shanghai) 34