Going by IMDb year
Obviously, the lists below are a work in progress....
Last update May 12 2013
2012 (so far)
1. Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
2. Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)
3. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. The Imposter (documentary) (Bart Layton)
5. The Place Beyond The Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
7. Arbitrage (Nicholas Jarecki)
8. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
9. The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg)
10. Everything or Nothing : The Untold Story of 007 (documentary) (Stevan Riley)
11. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
12. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
13. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
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2011:
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
3. Dreams of a Life (documentary) (Carol Morley)
4. The Intouchables (Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano)
5. We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
6. Detachment (Tony Kaye)
7. The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
8. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)
9. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
10. Newlyweds (Edward Burns)
11. The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne's)
12. Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
2010:
1. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
2. Senna (documentary) (Asif Kapadia)
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop (documentary) (Banksy)
4. Armadillo (documentary) (Janus Metz Pedersen)
5. The Trip (Michael Winterbottom)
6. Archipelago (Joanna Hogg)
7. Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
8. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
9. Barney’s Version (Richard J. Lewis)
10. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
11. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
12. All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki)
13. In a Better World (Susanne Bier)
14. Littlerock (Mike Ott)
2009:
1. Mother and Child (Rodrigo García)
2. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
3. Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
4. The Vicious Kind (Lee Toland Krieger)
5. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
6. Mary and Max (Adam Elliot)
7. The Cove (documentary) (Louie Psihoyos)
8. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (documentary) (Michèle Hozer)
9. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
10. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2008:
1. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
2. The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
3. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
4. Henry Poole Is Here (Mark Pellington)
5. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
6. The Stoning of Soraya M. (Cyrus Nowrasteh)
7. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
8. Ghost Town (David Koepp)
9. Worlds Apart (Niels Arden Oplev)
10. Two Lovers (James Gray)
2007:
1. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
2. Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
3. Unrelated (Joanna Hogg)
4. Juno (Jason Reitman)
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
7. You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
8. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
9. Boy A (John Crowley)
10. The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
2006:
1. After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
2. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
3. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
4. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
5. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
6. Paris, je t'aime (multiple directors)
7. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
8. Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
9. Little Children (Todd Field)
10. Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
2005:
1. Match Point (Woody Allen)
2. The World’s Fastest Indian (Roger Donaldson)
3. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
4. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (documentary) (Lian Lunson)
5. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (documentary) (Jeff Feuerzeig)
6. The Descent (Neil Marshall)
7. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
8. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
9. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
10. Chinaman (Henrik Ruben Genz)
2004:
1. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
2. Collateral (Michael Mann)
3. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
4. Super Size Me (documentary) (Morgan Spurlock)
5. A Love Song for Bobby Long (Shainee Gabel)
6. The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
7. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
8. Brothers (Susanne Bier)
9. Head-On (Fatih Akin)
10. Fahrenheit 9/11 (documentary) (Michael Moore)
2003:
1. My Life Without Me (Isabel Coixet)
2. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
3. Tintin and I (documentary) (Anders Østergaard)
4. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
5. The Matrix Reloaded (Wachowski’s)
6. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
7. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
8. Touching The Void (documentary) (Kevin Macdonald)
9. A Decade Under the Influence (documentary) (Ted Demme)
10. The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2002:
1. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
2. The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
3. Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd)
4. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
5. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
6. Open Hearts (Susanne Bier)
7. Dummy (Greg Pritikin)
8. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
10. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
2001:
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
3. Lovely and Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
4. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
5. Tape (Richard Linklater)
6. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (documentary) (Jan Harlan)
7. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
8. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
9. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
10. The Pledge (Sean Penn)
2000:
1. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
2. Meet the Parents (Jay Roach)
3. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
4. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
5. The Beach (Danny Boyle)
6. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
7. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
8. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
9. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
10. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
1999:
1. Fight Club (David Fincher)
2. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. The Matrix (Wachowski’s)
4. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
6. Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold)
7. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
8. The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi)
9. Election (Alexander Payne)
10. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
1998:
1. Rounders (John Dahl)
2. Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo)
3. Following (Christopher Nolan)
4. Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
5. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
6. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
7. American History X (Tony Kaye)
8. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
9. Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
10. The Interview (Craig Monahan)
1997:
1. Titanic (James Cameron)
2. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
3. Good Will Hunting (Gus van Sant)
4. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
5. The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
6. Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
7. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
8. Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
9. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
10. Oscar and Lucinda (Gillian Armstrong)
1996:
1. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
2. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
3. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (documentary) (multiple directors)
4. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
5. Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
6. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
7. Box of Moonlight (Tom DiCillo)
8. The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller)
9. Things I Never Told You (Isabel Coixet)
10. Walking and Talking (Nicole Holofcener)
1995:
1. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
2. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
3. Smoke (Wayne Wang)
4. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
5. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
6. Heat (Michael Mann)
7. GoldenEye (Martin Campbell)
8. Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
9. The Bridges Of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
10. Se7en (David Fincher)
1994:
1. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
2. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
4. Reality Bites (Ben Stiller)
5. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
6. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
7. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
8. Crumb (documentary) (Terry Zwigoff)
9. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
10. Speed (Jan de Bont)
1993:
1. In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
2. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
4. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
5. Alive (Frank Marshall)
6. Naked (Mike Leigh)
7. The Fugitive (Andrew Davis )
8. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
9. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
10. Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough)
1992:
1. Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest)
2. Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
5. Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
6. Far and Away (Ron Howard)
7. Hero (Stephen Frears)
8. Orlando (Sally Potter)
9. Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
10. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
1991:
1. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
4. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds)
5. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
6. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott)
7. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
8. The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
9. Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton)
10. Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
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1990:
1. Trust (Hal Hartley)
2. Green Card (Peter Weir)
3. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
4. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
5. Back to the Future 3 (Robert Zemeckis)
6. Home Alone (Chris Columbus)
7. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
8. Stephen King’s IT (Tommy Lee Wallace)
9. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Mindwalk (Bernt Amadeus Capra)
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1989:
1. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Batman (Tim Burton)
3. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
4. Say Anything (Cameron Crowe)
5. Uncle Buck (John Hughes)
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
7. The Abyss (director’s cut) (James Cameron)
8. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
9. The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
10. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
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1988:
1. Big (Penny Marshall)
2. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
3. Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
4. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
5. Willow (Ron Howard)
6. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
7. Another Woman (Woody Allen)
8. Coming To America (John Landis)
9. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
10. The Big Blue (Luc Besson)
1987:
1. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
2. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Cry Freedom (Richard Attenborough)
4. Predator (John McTiernan)
5. Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
6. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
7. Opera (Dario Argento)
8. Project X (Jonathan Kaplan)
9. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (John Hughes)
10. Amazon Women on the Moon (Joe Dante)
1986:
1. The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir)
2. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
3. Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman)
4. Aliens (James Cameron)
5. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
6. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
7. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy)
8. Clockwise (Christopher Morahan)
9. Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
10. Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
1985:
1. A View To A Kill (John Glen)
2. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
3. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
4. The Goonies (Richard Donner)
5. The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner)
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
7. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
8. Phenomena (Dario Argento)
9. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
10. Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky)
1984:
1. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
2. The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
3. The Terminator (James Cameron)
4. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
5. Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest)
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)
7. Gremlins (Joe Dante)
8. Birdy (Alan Parker)
9. Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis)
10. 28 Up (documentary) (Michael Apted)
1983:
1. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
2. Octopussy (John Glen)
3. The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
4. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
5. Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert)
6. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
7. L’argent (Robert Bresson)
8. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
9. Never Cry Wolf (Carroll Ballard)
10. The Meaning of Life (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
1982:
1. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
2. Blade Runner (director's cut) (Ridley Scott)
3. Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
4. The Wall (Alan Parker)
5. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
6. Tenebre (Dario Argento)
7. First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
8. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
9. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
10. Missing (Costa-Gavras)
1981:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
2. For Your Eyes Only (John Glen)
3. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
4. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
5. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
6. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
7. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller)
8. The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
8. Scanners (David Cronenberg)
10. My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
1980:
1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
3. Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges)
4. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
5. Inferno (Dario Argento)
6. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
7. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
8. The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys)
9. Altered States (Ken Russell)
10. Caught on a Train (Peter Duffell)
1979:
1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Being There (Hal Ashby)
3. Alien (Ridley Scott)
4. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
5. Stalker (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
6. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
7. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
8. The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff)
9. Tess (Roman Polanski)
10. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
1978:
1. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
3. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
4. Interiors (Woody Allen)
5. Watership Down (Martin Rosen)
6. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
7. Superman (Richard Donner)
8. Grease (Randal Kleiser)
9. Magic (Richard Attenborough)
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
1977:
1. Star Wars (George Lucas)
2. The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert)
3. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
4. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
5. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
7. House (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi)
8. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
9. The Last Wave (Peter Weir)
10. 21 Up (documentary) (Michael Apted)
1976:
1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
3. The Omen (Richard Donner)
4. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
5. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
6. The Man Who Fell To Earth (Nicolas Roeg)
7. Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
8. Network (Sidney Lumet)
9. Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
10. Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson)
1975:
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
3. Mirror (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
4. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
5. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
7. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
8. Deep Red (Dario Argento)
9. Shivers (David Cronenberg)
10. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
1974:
1. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
3. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
4. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Man with the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton)
6. Harry and Tonto (Paul Mazursky)
7. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
8. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
10. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
1973:
1. The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann)
2. The Sting (George Roy Hill)
3. Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner)
4. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
5. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
6. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
7. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
8. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
9. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
10. Live and Let Die (Guy Hamilton)
1972:
1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Solaris (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
3. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
4. Deliverance (John Boorman)
5. What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)
6. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
7. Don’t Torture a Duckling (Lucio Fulci)
8. The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame)
9. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
10. Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino)
1971:
1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
3. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
4. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
5. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
6. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
7. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
8. Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian)
9. The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (Sergio Martino)
10. Duel (Steven Spielberg)
1970:
1. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento)
2. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
3. 7 Plus Seven (documentary) (Michael Apted)
4. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
5. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
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1969:
1. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
2. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
4. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt)
6. Women in Love (Ken Russell)
7. Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough)
8. A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson)
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1968:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
4. Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton)
5. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
6. Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman)
7. If (Lindsay Anderson)
8. Bullitt (Peter Yates)
9. The Party (Blake Edwards)
10. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)
1967:
1. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
2. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
3. The Graduate (Mike Nighols)
4. You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert)
5. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
6. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
7. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer)
8. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich)
9. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
10. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
1966:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
2. Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
4. The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
5. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
7. Daisies (Vera Chytilová)
8. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
9. Batman (Leslie H. Martinson)
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1965:
1. A Patch of Blue (Guy Green)
2. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
3. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
4. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
5. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
6. Thunderball (Terence Young)
7. The Collector (William Wyler)
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1964:
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
3. The Night of the Iguana (John Huston)
4. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
5. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
6. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
7. A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester)
8. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Of Human Bondage (Ken Hughes & Henry Hathaway)
10. Seven Up! (documentary) (Michael Apted)
1963:
1. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
2. The Fire Within (Louis Malle)
3. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
4. From Russia With Love (Terence Young)
5. Lilies of the Field (Ralph Nelson)
6. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
7. The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards)
8. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
10. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
1962:
1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
3. Dr. No (Terence Young)
4. Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller)
5. Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards)
6. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
7. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)
9. The Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
10. The Trial (Orson Welles)
1961:
1. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
2. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
4. The Night (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Harry and the Butler (Bent Christensen)
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1960:
1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
3. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
4. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
5. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
6. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
7. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. The Time Machine (George Pal)
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1959:
1. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
2. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
3. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi)
4. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
5. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson)
7. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
8. Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Tchoukhrai)
9. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
10. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
1958:
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer)
3. Separate Tables (Delbert Mann)
4. Ice Cold In Alex (J. Lee Thompson)
5. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
7. The Old Man and the Sea (John Sturges)
8. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
9. The Horse’s Mouth (Ronald Neame)
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1957:
1. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
2. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
3. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
6. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
7. White Nights (Luchino Visconti)
8. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
9. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirô Ozu)
1956:
1. Written On the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
2. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
3. Giant (George Stevens)
4. Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
5. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
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1955:
1. Marty (Delbert Mann)
2. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. The Word (Carl Th. Dreyer)
5. Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
6. To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
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1954:
1. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
2. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
3. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Road (Federico Fellini)
5. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
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1953:
1. Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu)
2. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
3. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
4. House of Wax (Andre de Toth)
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1952:
1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
2. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
3. Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan)
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1951:
1. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
2. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
3. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
4. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
5. The African Queen (John Huston)
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1950:
1. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
2. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
3. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Harvey (Henry Koster)
5. La Ronde (Max Ophüls)
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1940s:
1. Out of the Past (1947) (Jacques Tourneur)
2. Random Harvest (1942) (Mervyn LeRoy)
3. Letter from an unknown woman (1948) (Max Ophüls)
4. Day of Wrath (1943) (Carl Th. Dreyer)
5. Casablanca (1942) (Michael Curtiz)
6. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) (John Huston)
7. Great Expectations (1946) (David Lean)
8. Mildred Pierce (1945) (Michael Curtiz)
9. Double Indemnity (1944) (Billy Wilder)
10. Bicycle Thieves (1948) (Vittorio De Sica)
11. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) (Frank Capra)
12. The Maltese Falcon (1941) (John Huston)
13. Cat People (1942) (Jacques Tourneur)
14. Citizen Kane (1941) (Orson Welles)
15. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) (Frank Capra)
16. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) (Alfred Hitchcock)
17. The Big Sleep (1946) (Howard Hawks)
18. Brief Encounter (1945) (David Lean)
19. The Third Man (1949) (Carol Reed)
20. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) (John Ford)
21. Dead of Night (1945) (multiple directors)
22. Portrait of Jennie (1948) (William Dieterle)
23. Sullivan's Travels (1941) (Preston Sturges)
24. Rope (1948) (Alfred Hitchcock)
25. The Boy With the Green Hair (1948) (Joseph Losey)
1930s:
1. The Wizard of Oz (1939) (Victor Fleming)
2. Modern Times (1936) (Charles Chaplin)
3. It’s a Gift (1934) (Norman Z. McLeod)
4. The Blood of a Poet (1932) (Jean Cocteau)
5. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (James Whale)
6. King Kong (1933) (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
7. Freaks (1932) (Tod Browning)
8. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) (Leo McCarey)
9. Frankenstein (1931) (James Whale)
10. It Happened One Night (1934) (Frank Capra)
11. L’Atalante (1934) (Jean Vigo)
12. I Was Born, But... (1932) (Yasujirô Ozu)
13. Ninotchka (1939) (Ernst Lubitsch)
14. My Man Godfrey (1936) (Gregory La Cava)
1920s:
1. The Gold Rush (1925) (Charles Chaplin)
2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (Robert Wiene)
3. The General (1926) (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (Carl Th. Dreyer)
5. Sherlock Jr. (1924) (Buster Keaton)
6. Nosferatu (1922) (F.W. Murnau)
7. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) (F.W. Murnau)
8. The Kid (1921) (Charles Chaplin)
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