2009:

1. I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK (Chan-wook Park)
2. The Aerial (Esteban Sapir)
3. Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. Let the Right One in (Tomas Alfredson)

2008: [44]

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
2. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
3. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
4. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
5. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
6. The Band’s Visit (Eran Kolirin)
7. Control (Anton Corbijn)
8. Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
9. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
10. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
11. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
12. Mongol (Sergei Bodrov)
13. The Counterfeiter (Stefan Ruzowitzky)
14. Elite Squad (Jose Padilha)
15. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro)
16. Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
17. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
18. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden (Morgan Spurlock)
19. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
20. Quantum of Solace (Marc Foster)

Also saw: The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Semi-Pro, 27 Dresses, The Andromeda Strain, National Treasure 2, Kung Fu Panda, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, The Onion Movie, Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs, Speed Racer, Wanted, Wall-E, Secret Sunshine, Paranoid Park, Appaloosa, My Blueberry Nights, The Tale of Despereaux, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Run Fatboy Run, Kabluey, Cloverfield, Hallam Foe, The Grand

2007: [64]

1. Once (John Carney)
2. The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
3. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
4. Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer & Peter Djigirr)
5. The Assassination of Jesse James (Andrew Dominik)
6. No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
7. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
8. Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
9. Atonement (Joe Wright)
10. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
11. This is England (Shane Meadows)
12. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
13. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
14. Away from Her (Sarah Polley)
15. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
16. Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
17. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
18. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi)
19. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
20. Superbad (Greg Mottola)

Also saw: 300, Reno 911: Miami, 28 Weeks Later, Evan Almighty, Spider-Man 3, The Simpsons Movie, Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, Smokin’ Aces, Shrek the Third, Epic Movie, The Number 23, Blades of Glory, Reign Over Me, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Death Proof, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Bridge to Terabithia, Paris, Je T’aime, Charlie Wilson’s War, American Gangster, Juno, Black Snake Moan, Hot Fuzz, Planet Terror, Seraphim Falls, Election, Zodiac, The Namesake, Waitress, Sweeney Todd, Blame it on Fidel, The Kite Runner, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, 3:10 to Yuma, Bee Movie, Gone Baby Gone, Fido, Michael Clayton, I Am Legend, Color Me Kubrick, The Pixar Story, 12:08 East to Bucharest, Lars and the Real Girl, The Bourne Ultimatum

2006: [63]

1. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
2. Volver (Pedro Almodoar)
3. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
4. Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol (Chuan Lu)
5. 13 Tzameti (Gela Babluani)
6. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
7. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
8. Pan’s Labrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
9. United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
10. Clerks II (Kevin Smith)
11. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
12. Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)
13. The Queen (Stephen Frears)
14. Brick (Rian Johnson)
15. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
16. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
17. Done the Impossible (Tony Hadlock & Jason Heppler)
18. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
19. The Painted Veil (John Curran)
20. Slither (James Gunn)

Also saw: The Persuit of Happyness, Marie Antoinette, The Proposition, Monster House, Cars, The Last King of Scotland, 16 Blocks, The Descent, Fast Food Nation, Rocky Balboa, Talladega Nights, Stranger Than Fiction, Dreamgirls, Snakes on a Plane, A Prairie Home Companion, Flags of Our Fathers, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Mission: Impossible III, Idiocracy, Deja Vu, Charlotte’s Web, Nacho Libre, Over the Hedge, Happy Feet, The Benchwarmers, Insider Man, Superman Returns, Pink Panther, Night at the Museum, Lady in the Water, Scary Movie 4, The Ant Bully, Click, Employee of the Month, World Trade Center, Conversations with Other Women, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Casino Royale, The Prestige, Sherrybaby, The Science of Sleep, Borat, An Evening with Kevin Smith: Evening Harder

2005: [59]

1. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black)
3. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
4. Lord of War (Andrew Niccol)
5. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
6. Serenity (Joss Whedon)
7. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
8. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
9. The World’s Fastest Indian (Roger Donaldson)
10. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
11. Cache (Michael Haneke)
12. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings)
13. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
14. Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott)
15. 2046 (Kar Wai Wong)
16. Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
17. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
18. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
19. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
20. Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin)

Also saw: Zathura, The Weather Man, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices, MirrorMask, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Howl’s Moving Castle, High Tension, Unleashed, Walk the Line, Everything is Illuminated, King Kong, Good Night and Good Luck, Jarhead, Capote, The New World, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hard Candy, Corpse Bride, The Chronicles of Narnia, Millions, Hitch, Fun with Dick and Jane, North Country, Just Like Heaven, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Island, Constantine, Hostage, Coach Carter, Doom, Robots, Madagascar, Domino, The Pacifier, Ringers: Lord of the Fans, Eros, Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

2004: [32]

1. Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
2. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
3. Finding Neverland (Marc Foster)
4. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
5. Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
6. Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro)
7. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
8. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
10. Infernal Affairs (Wai-keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak)
11. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
13. The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
14. Miracle (Gavin O’Conner)
15. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron)
16. The Punisher (Jonathan Hensleigh)
17. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
18. Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn)
19. 50 First Dates (Peter Segal)
20. Hero (Yimou Zhang)

Also saw: Starsky and Hutch, Mean Girls, The Butterfly Effect, Club Dread, Eurotrip, Meet the Fockers, National Treasure, Spanglish, Collateral, Dodgeball, Friday Night Lights, Vera Drake

2003: [24]

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
2. City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund)
3. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
4. Elephant (Gus van Sant)
5. Bus 174 (Jose Padilha & Felipe Lacerda)
6. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
7. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
8. The Son(Jeane-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
9. Spider (David Cronenberg)
10. The Rundown (Peter Berg)
11. Seabiscuit (Gary Ross)
12. Open Range (Kevin Costner)
13. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
14. The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray)
15. X2: X-Men United (Bryan Singer)
16. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
17. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
18. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Stephen Norrington)
19. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
20. Terminator 3 (Jonathan Mostow)

Also saw: Hulk, School of Rock, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Animatrix

2002:

1. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
3. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
5. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
6. Comedian (Christian Charles)
7. An Evening with Kevin Smith (J.M. Kenny)
8. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
9. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
10. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
11. Changing Lanes (Roger Michell)
12. Panic Room (David Fincher)
13. Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)
14. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
15. Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson)
16. A Season on the Brink (Robert Mandel)
17. The Isle (Ki-duk Kim)
18. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
19. Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill)
20. Fraility (Bill Paxton)

2001:

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
2. A. I. (Steven Spielberg)
3. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
4. 61* (Billy Crystal)
5. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
6. In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong)
7. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
8. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
9. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
10. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
11. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
12. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
13. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel Coen)
14. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith)
15. Kurosawa (Adam Low)
16. Ali (Michael Mann)
17. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Chris Columbus)

2000:

1. Requiem for a Dream (Darrin Aronofsky)
2. Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin)
3. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
4. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
5. The Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy)
6. Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
7. Pitch Black (David Twohy)
8. X-Men (Bryan Singer)
9. Mission: Impossible II (John Woo)
10. Chocolat (Lasse Hallstrom)
11. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
12. The Gift (Sam Raimi)
13. The Whole Nine Yards (Johnathan Lynn)
14. Proof of Life (Taylor Hackford)

1999:

1. The Matrix (Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski)
2. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
3. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
4. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
5. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
6. The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
7. Office Space (Mike Judge)
8. Fight Club (David Fincher)
9. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
10. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
11. American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
12. The Insider (Michael Mann)
13. October Sky (Joe Johnston)
14. Dogma (Kevin Smith)
15. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
16. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
17. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
18. Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone)
19. Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)

1998:

1. Following (Christopher Nolan)
2. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
3. Rounders (John Dahl)
4. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
6. Dark City (Alex Proyas)
7. A Bug’s Life (John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton)
8. Fallen (Gregory Hoblit)
9. Brokedown Palace (Jonathan Kaplan)

1997:

1. Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
2. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
3. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
4. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Titanic (James Cameron)
6. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
7. Happy Together (Kar Wai Wong)
8. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
9. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)
10. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
11. The Game (David Fincher)
12. Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
13. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
14. Lost Highway (David Lynch)

1996:

1. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz
2. Crash (David Cronenberg)
3. Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)
4. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
5. Kingpin (Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly)
6. That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks)
7. The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
8. Beverly Hills Ninja (Dennis Dugan)
9. The Rock (Michael Bay)
10. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)

1995:

1. Se7en (David Fincher)
2. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
3. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
4. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
5. City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro)
6. Four Rooms (Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino)
7. Mallrats (Kevin Smith)
8. Casino (Martin Scorsese)
9. Heavyweights (Steven Brill)
10. Heat (Michael Mann)
11. Casper (Brad Silberling)

1994:

1. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
2. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
3. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Chungking Express (Kar Wai Wong)
5. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
6. Clerks (Kevin Smith)
7. Leon: The Professional (Lus Besson)
8. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
9. Above the Rim (Jeff Pollack)
10. Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
11. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
12. Cronos (Guillermo del Toro)
13. The Little Rascals (Penelope Spheeris)

1993:

1. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
2. Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
4. True Romance (Tony Scott)
5. Rudy (David Anspaugh)
6. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
7. Hocus Pocus (Kenny Ortega)

1992:

1. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
2. Hard Boiled (John Woo)
3. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
4. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola)

1991:

1. Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
2. JFK (Oliver Stone)
3. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse (Fax Bahr & George Hickenlooper)
4. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
5. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
6. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
7. Terminator 2 (James Cameron)
8. Hudson Hawk (Michael Lehmann)
9. The Addams Family (Barry Sonnenfeld)

1990:

1. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen)
4. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
5. Home Alone (Chris Columbus)
6. The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)
7. Back to the Future III (Robert Zemeckis)

1989:

1. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. Tremors (Ron Underwood)
3. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Checkik)
4. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
5. Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
6. UHF (Jay Levey)
7. Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
9. Back to the Future 2 (Robert Zemeckis)

1988:

1. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
4. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
5. Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)
6. Rain Man (Barry Levinson)

1987:

1. L’Homme qui plantait arbres (Frederic Back)
2. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
3. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
4. Predator (John McTiernan)
5. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven)
6. Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
7. Spaceballs (Mel Brooks)
8. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
9. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
10. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)

1986:

1. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
2. Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
3. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
4. Salvador (Oliver Stone)
5. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
6. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes)
7. Aliens (James Cameron)

1985:

1. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
3. Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack)
4. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
5. Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)

1984:

1. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
2. The Terminator (James Cameron)
3. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
4. Revenge of the Nerds (Jeff Kanew)
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)
6. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
7. Amedeus (Milos Forman)
8. Sixteen Candles (John Hughes)
9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
10. The Natural (Barry Levinson)

1983:

1. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
2. Trading Places (John Landis)
3. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
4. The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola)

1982:

1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
2. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
3. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
4. The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth)
5. Tootsie (Sidney Pollack)
6. Rambo: First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)

1981:

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)

1980:

1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
2. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
4. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
5. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
6. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
7. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
8. The Fog (John Carpenter)

1979:

1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Alien (Ridley Scott)
3. Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
4. Manhatten (Woody Allen)
5. Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (Terry Jones)

1978:

1. Superman (Richard Donner)
2. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
3. Days of Heaven (Terrance Malick)

1977:

1. Star Wars: A New Hope (George Lucas)
2. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
3. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
4. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)

1976:

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie)
3. Network (Sidney Lumet)

1975:

1. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
4. Nashville (Robert Altman)
5. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)

1974:

1. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
3. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
5. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)

1973:

1. Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
2. The Sting (George Roy Hill)
3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
4. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
5. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
6. Badlands (Terrence Malick)

1972:

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)

1971:

1. Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer)
2. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

1970:

1. Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2. Equinox (Jack Woods)
3. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Ted Post)

1969:

1. My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)

1968:

1. Planet of the Apes (Franklin Schaffner)
2. The Odd Couple (Gene Saks)
3. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves)

1967:

1. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)

1966:

1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones & Ben Washam)
4. Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut)
5. Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)

1965:

1. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
2. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
3. The Collector (Eric Rohmer)

1964:

1. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
2. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
3. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)

1963:

1. Suzanne’s Career (Eric Rohmer)

1962:

1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
2. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
4. The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer)
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
6. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Dr. No (Terence Young)

1961:

1. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)

1960:

1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
3. The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)

1959:

1. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
2. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
3. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
4. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Ben-Hur (William Wyler)

1958:

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)

1957:

1. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
2. Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
3. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)

1956:

1. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
2. The Searchers (John Ford)
3. Plan 9 From Outer Space (Edward D. Wood Jr.)

1955:

1. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
2. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
3. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)

1954:

1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
5. Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)

1953:

1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
4. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
5. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)

1952:

1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
3. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
4. Clash by Night (Fritz Lang)

1951:

1. Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
2. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Ace in the Hole (John Ford)

1950:

1. Sunset Blvd (Billy Wilder)
2. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)

1949:

1. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
2. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)

1948:

1. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
2. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston)
3. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
4. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton)

1947:

1. One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa)

1946:

1. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
2. Brief Encounter (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
4. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
6. No Regret for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa)

1945:

1. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)

1944 – N/A

1943:

1. This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir)

1942:

1. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
2. To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)

1941:

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
3. Buck Privates (Arthur Lubin)

1940:

1. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
2. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
6. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
7. One Night in the Tropics (A. Edward Sutherland)

1939

1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
3. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)

1938

1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz)
2. Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
3. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)

1937

1. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)

1936

1. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
2. Fury (Fritz Lang)

1935 – N/A

1934 – N/A

1933

1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

1932

1. Scarface (Howard Hawks)

1931

1. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
2. Frankenstein (James Whale)
3. M (Fritz Lang)

1930 – N/A

1929 – N/A

1928:

1. The Circus (Charlie Chaplin)

1927:

1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
2. The General (Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton)

1926:

1. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)

1925:

1. The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
2. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)

1924 – N/A

1923 – N/A

1922:

1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)