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Why should you consider yourself lucky if you can find a lot of favourites on this list ?

1. Atonement
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Memento
4. Heavenly Creatures
5. The Damned United
6. Four Weddings and a Funeral
7. Moulin Rouge!
8. Manhattan
9. The Thin Red Line
10. Moneyball
11. Edward Scissorhands
12. Gone Baby Gone
13. Zombieland
14. The Road
15. Children of Men
16. The Hurt Locker
17. Sense & Sensibility
18. Pulp Fiction
19. Apollo 13
20. Three Kings
21. Shakespeare in Love
22. About a Boy
23. Precious
24. 127 Hours
25. There will be blood
26. Forrest Gump
27. Hairspray
28. The Sweet Hereafter
29. Quiz Show
30. Oldboy
31. Rain Man
32. Finding Neverland
33. Natural Born Killers
34. A History of Violence
35. The Royal Tenenbaums
36. The Cider House Rules
37. Away from her
38. The Motorcycle Diaries
39. The Crying Game
40. Black Hawk Down
41. Dan in Real Life
42. Driving Miss Daisy
43. Dangerous Liaisons
44. L.A. Confidential
45. Fish Tank
46. (500) days of Summer
47. Pleasantville
48. Traffic
49. Mephisto
50. 50 / 50

Find out after the cut !

Clearly not the greatest mystery of all time, but still, it made you look ! :) If you DID find a lot of favourites, you SHOULD consider yourself lucky, because the 50 directors who were responsible for these 50 films - including several masterpieces - are all expected to have new releases in 2012. Beside the most obvious high-profile pieces (Lincoln, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit etc.), I think it is definitely worth giving a big shout-out to 'The Master' which is Paul Thomas Anderson's first film since the absolutely brilliant 'There Will Be Blood'.

1. Joe Wright – ANNA KARENINA
2. Steven Spielberg – LINCOLN
3. Christopher Nolan – THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
4. Peter Jackson – THE HOBBIT : THE UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
5. Tom Hooper – LES MISERABLES
6. Mike Newell – GREAT EXPECTATIONS
7. Baz Luhrmann – THE GREAT GATSBY
8. Woody Allen – NERO FIDDLED
9. Terrence Malick – UNTITLED TERRENCE MALICK PROJECT
10. Bennett Miller - FOXCATCHER
11. Tim Burton – DARK SHADOWS / FRANKENWEENIE
12. Ben Affleck - ARGO
13. Ruben Fleischer – GANGSTER SQUAD
14. John Hillcoat – THE WETTEST COUNTY
15. Alfonso Cuarón - GRAVITY
16. Kathryn Bigelow – UNTITLED KATHRYN BIGELOW PROJECT
17. Ang Lee – LIFE OF PI
18. Quentin Tarantino – DJANGO UNCHAINED
19. Ron Howard - RUSH
20. David O. Russell – THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
21. John Madden – THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
22. Paul Weitz – BEING FLYNN
23. Lee Daniels – THE PAPERBOY
24. Danny Boyle – TRANCE
25. Paul Thomas Anderson – THE MASTER
26. Robert Zemeckis – FLIGHT
27. Adam Shankman – ROCK OF AGES
28. Atom Egoyan – DEVIL'S KNOT
29. Robert Redford – THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
30. Chan-wook Pak – STOKER
31. Barry Levinson – GOTTI : IN THE SHADOW OF MY FATHER
32. Marc Forster – WORLD WAR Z
33. Oliver Stone – SAVAGES
34. David Cronenberg - COSMOPOLIS
35. Wes Anderson – MOONRISE KINGDOM
36. Lasse Hallström – SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
37. Sarah Polley – TAKE THIS WALTZ
38. Walter Salles – ON THE ROAD
39. Neil Jordan - BYZANTIUM
40. Ridley Scott - PROMETHEUS
41. Peter Hedges – THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN
42. Bruce Beresford – PEACE, LOVE AND MISUNDERSTANDING
43. Stephen Frears – LAY YOUR FAVOURITE
44. Curtis Hanson – OF MEN AND MAVERICKS
45. Andrea Arnold – WUTHERING HEIGHTS
46. Marc Webb – THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
47. Gary Ross – THE HUNGER GAMES
48. Steven Soderbergh – MAGIC MIKE / HAYWIRE
49. Istvan Szabó – THE DOOR
50. Jonathan Levine – WARM BODIES