Note: Most films are based on U.S. release dates, but I occasionally rely on a foreign release date.
Updated: 5/16/13
2012: (Ballot here)
1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
2. Cloud Atlas (Andy & Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer)
3. Amour (Michael Haneke)
4. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky)
5. Les Misérables (Tom Hooper)
6. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
7. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)
8. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
9. Alps (Giorgos Lanthimos)
10. The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
2011: (Ballot here)
1. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
3. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
4. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
5. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
6. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. Beginners (Mike Mills)
8. Senna (Asif Kapadia)
9. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
10. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
2010: (Ballot here)
1. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
2. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
4. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
5. The American (Anton Corbijn)
6. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
7. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
8. The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
9. White Material (Claire Denis)
10. Animal Kingdom (David Michod)
2009:
1. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
2. Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
3. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
4. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
5. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
6. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
7. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
8. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)
9. Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
10. Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater)
2008:
1. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
2. The Class (Laurent Cantet)
3. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
4. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
5. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
6. I've Loved You So Long (Philippe Claudel)
7. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
8. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
9. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
10. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
2007:
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
2. Atonement (Joe Wright)
3. Once (John Carney)
4. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
5. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
6. We Own the Night (James Gray)
7. American Gangster (Ridley Scott)
8. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
9. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
2006:
1. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
2. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
3. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
4. The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
5. After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
6. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
7. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
8. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
9. Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
10. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
2005:
1. Caché (Michael Haneke)
2. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
3. Match Point (Woody Allen)
4. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
5. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
6. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
8. Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
9. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
10. Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
2004:
1. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
2. Closer (Mike Nichols)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
4. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
6. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
9. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
10. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
2003:
1. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2. Gerry (Gus van Sant)
3. City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
4. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
7. Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
8. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
9. Bon Voyage (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
10. The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy)
2002:
1. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
3. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
4. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
5. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)
6. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
7. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
8. Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)
9. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
10. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2001:
1. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
3. Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
4. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
5. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
6. Tape (Richard Linklater)
7. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
8. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
9. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
10. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
2000:
1. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
2. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
3. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
4. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
5. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
7. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
8. Snatch (Guy Ritchie)
9. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
10. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
1999:
1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
5. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar)
6. The War Zone (Tim Roth)
7. Titus (Julie Taymor)
8. American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
9. The Insider (Michael Mann)
10. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
1998:
1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
2. Following (Christopher Nolan)
3. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
4. American History X (Tony Kaye)
5. Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
6. Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins)
7. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
8. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
10. Pleasantville (Gary Ross)
1997:
1. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
2. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
4. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
5. Good Will Hunting (Gus van Sant)
6. Titanic (James Cameron)
7. The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)
8. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
10. Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson)
1996:
1. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
2. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
3. Fargo (Joel Coen)
4. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
5. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
6. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
7. Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
8. From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez)
9. Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
10. The Birdcage (Mike Nichols)
1995:
1. Casino (Martin Scorsese)
2. Se7en (David Fincher)
3. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
4. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
5. Heat (Michael Mann)
6. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
7. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
8. The Brothers McMullen (Edward Burns)
9. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
10. Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
1994:
1. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
6. Leon: The Professional (Luc Besson)
7. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
8. Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
9. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
10. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell)
1993:
1. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
3. Naked (Mike Leigh)
4. The Piano (Jane Campion)
5. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
6. True Romance (Tony Scott)
7. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
8. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
9. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
10. Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
1992:
1. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
2. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
3. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
5. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
6. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
7. Enchanted April (Mike Newell)
8. The Player (Robert Altman)
9. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
10. Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
1991:
1. The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
2. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
4. JFK (Oliver Stone)
5. Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton)
6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
7. The Commitments (Alan Parker)
8. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
10. Europa (Lars von Trier)
1990:
1. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
2. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
5. The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan)
6. Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
7. State of Grace (Phil Joanou)
8. The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)
9. Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty)
10. Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner)
1989:
1. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
3. The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
4. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
5. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
6. Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)
7. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
9. The Abyss (James Cameron)
10. The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves)
1988:
1. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
2. A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
6. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
7. Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
8. Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)
9. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
10. Working Girl (Mike Nichols)
1987:
1. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)
3. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
4. Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
5. Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
6. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
7. Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
8. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
9. Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner)
10. Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears)
1986:
1. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
2. Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
3. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
4. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
5. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
6. Aliens (James Cameron)
7. Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
8. The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir)
9. Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox)
10. The Mission (Roland Joffe)
1985:
1. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
2. Witness (Peter Weir)
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
4. No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
6. Rendez-vous (Andre Techine)
7. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
8. The Goonies (Richard Donner)
9. The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
10. Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco)
1984:
1. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
2. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
4. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
5. The Terminator (James Cameron)
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)
7. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
8. Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest)
9. Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)
10. The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
1983:
1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
3. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
4. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
5. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
6. Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
7. Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
8. The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola)
9. Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert)
10. Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)
1982:
1. Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (Ridley Scott)
2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
3. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
4. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
5. One from the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. The Thing (John Carpenter)
7. Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
8. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
9. Missing (Costa-Gavras)
10. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
1981:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
2. Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
4. Thief (Michael Mann)
5. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
6. Reds (Warren Beatty)
7. Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet)
8. Arthur (Steve Gordon)
8. Superman II (Richard Lester)
10. Escape from New York (John Carpenter)
1980:
1. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Big Red One [The Reconstruction] (Samuel Fuller)
3. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
4. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
5. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
6. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
7. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
8. The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)
9. Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted)
10. Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
1979:
1. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
4. Alien (Ridley Scott)
5. The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff)
6. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7. Being There (Hal Ashby)
8. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
10. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1978:
1. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
2. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
3. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
4. Midnight Express (Alan Parker)
5. Interiors (Woody Allen)
6. Halloween (John Carpenter)
7. Superman (Richard Donner)
8. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
9. Grease (Randal Kleiser)
10. Paradise Alley (Sylvester Stallone)
1977:
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
2. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
3. New York, New York (Martin Scorsese)
4. Star Wars (George Lucas)
5. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
6. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
7. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
8. The Goodbye Girl (Herbert Ross)
9. Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
10. Equus (Sidney Lumet)
1976:
1. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
3. Network (Sidney Lumet)
4. Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
5. Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
6. Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
8. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
9. The Scar (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
10. No Deposit, No Return (Norman Tokar)
1975:
1. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
3. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
4. Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack)
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
7. The Story of Adele H. (Francois Truffaut)
8. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Melvin Frank)
9. Shampoo (Hal Ashby)
10. The Return of the Pink Panther (Blake Edwards)
1974:
1. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
2. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
5. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
6. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
7. Lenny (Bob Fosse)
8. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
9. Murder on the Orient Express (Sidney Lumet)
10. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
1973:
1. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
2. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
3. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
4. The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice)
5. Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner)
6. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
7. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
8. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
9. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
10. The Sting (George Roy Hill)
1972:
1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
4. The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame)
5. Deliverance (John Boorman)
6. Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
7. The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah)
8. What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)
9. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Pulp (Mike Hodges)
1971:
1. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
2. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
3. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
5. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
6. THX 1138 (Director's Cut) (George Lucas)
7. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
8. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
9. Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison)
10. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
1970:
1. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
2. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
3. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
4. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
5. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
6. Husbands (John Cassavetes)
7. The Crook (Le Voyou) (Claude Lelouch)
8. Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini)
9. Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)
10. Love Story (Arthur Hiller)
1969:
1. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
2. Kes (Ken Loach)
3. Z (Costa-Gavras)
4. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
5. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
6. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
7. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
8. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt)
1968:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Oliver! (Carol Reed)
3. Bullitt (Peter Yates)
4. Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
6. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey)
7. The Producers (Mel Brooks)
8. Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
9. The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison)
10. The Odd Couple (Gene Saks)
1967:
1. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
2. The Graduate (Mike Nighols)
3. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
5. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
6. In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
7. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
8. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer)
9. Wait Until Dark (Terence Young)
10. Who's That Knocking at My Door (Martin Scorsese)
1966:
1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
3. Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise)
5. The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming (Norman Jewison)
6. A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch)
7. The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder)
8. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
9. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
10. How to Steal a Million (William Wyler)
1965:
1. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
2. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
4. Von Ryan's Express (Mark Robson)
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
6. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt)
7. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
8. Darling (John Schlesinger)
9. A Patch of Blue (Guy Green)
10. The Great Race (Blake Edwards)
1964:
1. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
2. The Night of the Iguana (John Huston)
3. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica)
4. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson)
7. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Becket (Peter Glenville)
9. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
10. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
1963:
1. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
2. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
3. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Charade (Stanley Donen)
5. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook)
7. The Carabineers (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
9. The Haunting (Robert Wise)
10. Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
1962:
1. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
4. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
5. Mutiny on the Bounty (Lewis Milestone)
6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
7. Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi)
8. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
9. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
10. Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards)
1961:
1. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
2. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
3. West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
4. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
5. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
6. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
7. The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson)
8. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)
9. Two Women (Vittorio De Sica)
10. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1960:
1. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
4. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
6. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
8. Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
9. Swiss Family Robinson (Ken Annakin)
10. The Fugitive Kind (Sidney Lumet)
1959:
1. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
3. Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
4. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
6. Ballad of a Soldier (Grigoriy Chukhray)
7. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
8. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
9. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
10. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
1958:
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Separate Tables (Delbert Mann)
3. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
5. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)
7. The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer)
8. Gigi (Vincente Minnelli)
9. No Time for Sergeants (Mervyn LeRoy)
10. The Old Man and the Sea (John Sturges)
1957:
1. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
2. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
4. Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder)
5. Le Notti Bianche (Luchino Visconti)
6. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
7. Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
8. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
10. Pal Joey (George Sidney)
1956:
1. Giant (George Stevens)
2. The Searchers (John Ford)
3. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
4. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
5. And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim)
6. The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)
7. Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Anderson)
8. Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
9. Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler)
10. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
1955:
1. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
3. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
4. The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder)
5. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
6. Mister Roberts (John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy)
7. The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)
9. East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
10. Marty (Delbert Mann)
1954:
1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
4. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
5. Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
6. Hobson's Choice (David Lean)
7. It Should Happen to You (George Cukor)
8. River of No Return (Otto Preminger)
9. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer)
10. A Star is Born (George Cukor)
1953:
1. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)
2. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
3. Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin)
5. Shane (George Stevens)
6. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
7. Mogambo (John Ford)
8. Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
9. House of Wax (Andre de Toth)
10. Beat the Devil (John Huston)
1952:
1. Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
2. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
3. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
4. The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. DeMille)
5. Monkey Business (Howard Hawks)
6. Deadline - U.S.A. (Richard Brooks)
7. Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan)
8. Road to Bali (Hal Walker)
9. Pat and Mike (George Cukor)
10. Son of Paleface (Frank Tashlin)
1951:
1. Decision Before Dawn (Anatole Litvak)
2. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
3. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
4. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
6. The African Queen (John Huston)
7. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
8. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
9. People Will Talk (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Father's Little Dividend (Vincente Minnelli)
1950:
1. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
2. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
3. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
5. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
6. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
7. Harvey (Henry Koster)
8. Born Yesterday (George Cukor)
9. Treasure Island (Byron Haskin)
10. Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli)
1949:
1. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
2. The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
3. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
4. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
6. A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
7. The Fountainhead (King Vidor)
8. Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju)
9. White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
10. Twelve O'Clock High (Henry King)
1948:
1. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
2. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
3. The Naked City (Jules Dassin)
4. Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
5. Key Largo (John Huston)
6. A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder)
7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
8. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
10. Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco)
1947:
1. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
2. Brighton Rock (John Boulting)
3. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
4. Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk)
5. Great Expectations (David Lean)
6. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
7. Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica)
8. Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan)
9. The Bishop's Wife (Henry Koster)
10. Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
1946:
1. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
3. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
4. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
5. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
6. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
7. Gilda (Charles Vidor)
1945:
1. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
2. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
3. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
4. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
5. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
6. Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
8. Christmas in Connecticut (Peter Godfrey)
9. The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey)
1944:
1. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
2. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
3. Gaslight (George Cukor)
4. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)
5. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
6. Going My Way (Leo McCarey)
7. Laura (Otto Preminger)
8. Since You Went Away (John Cromwell)
9. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Passage to Marseille (Michael Curtiz)
1943:
1. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
2. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
3. Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder)
4. The More the Merrier (George Stevens)
5. Sahara (Zoltan Korda)
6. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Watch on the Rhine (Herman Shumlin)
8. Action in the North Atlantic (Lloyd Bacon)
1942:
1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
3. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
4. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler)
7. The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder)
8. Wake Island (John Farrow)
9. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
10. The Talk of the Town (George Stevens)
1941:
1. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
3. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
4. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
5. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
6. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
7. Sergeant York (Howard Hawks)
8. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Penny Serenade (George Stevens)
10. All Through the Night (Vincent Sherman)
1940:
1. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
2. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
4. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
6. Fantasia (multiple directors)
7. Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
8. The Letter (William Wyler)
9. Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster)
10. Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson)
1939:
1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2. Beau Geste (William A. Wellman)
3. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
4. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
6. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
7. Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne)
8. Gunga Din (George Stevens)
9. Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
10. Stagecoach (John Ford)
1938:
1. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
2. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)
5. You Can't Take It with You (Frank Capra)
6. Holiday (George Cukor)
7. Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
8. Jezebel (William Wyler)
9. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Anatole Litvak)
10. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Allan Dwan)
1937:
1. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (multiple directors)
3. The Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle)
4. Topper (Norman Z. McLeod)
5. The Amazing Adventure (Alfred Zeisler)
6. Black Legion (Archie Mayo)
7. San Quentin (Lloyd Bacon)
8. Wee Willie Winkie (John Ford)
1936:
1. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
2. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
3. Bullets or Ballots (William Keighley)
4. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
5. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
6. Dodsworth (William Wyler)
7. San Francisco (W.S. Van Dyke)
8. The Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard)
9. Swing Time (George Stevens)
10. Libeled Lady (Jack Conway)
1935:
1. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)
3. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
4. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
5. Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz)
6. The Informer (John Ford)
7. Alice Adams (George Stevens)
8. Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
9. The Scarlet Pimpernel (Harold Young)
10. The Little Colonel (David Butler)
