1952

1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
3. Singin' In the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
4. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
5. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
6. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
7. Othello (Orson Welles)
8. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
9. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
10. The Marrying Kind (George Cukor)

Honorable Mentions
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray), Carson City (Andre de Toth), Angel Face (Otto Preminger), Bend of the River (Anthony Mann), Casque D'Or (Jacques Becker), Clash By Night (Fritz Lang), Springfield Rifle (Andre de Toth), The White Sheik (Federico Fellini), Monkey Business (Howard Hawks), Pat and Mike (George Cukor)

1953

1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford)
3. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
6. Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
7. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
8. Forbidden Games (Rene' Clement)
9. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
10. Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Honorable Mentions:
From Here To Eternity (Fred Zinnemann), I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini), Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller), Beat the Devil (John Huston), The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), El (Luis Bunuel), Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman), Appointment In Honduras (Jacques Tourneur), Shane (George Stevens), Invaders From Mars (William Cameron Menzies)

1954

1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
4. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
5. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
6. Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
8. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
9. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
10. Crime Wave (Andre De Toth)

Honorable Mentions:
It Should Happen To You (George Cukor), French Cancan (Jean Renoir), Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli), Riding Shotgun (Andre De Toth), Silver Lode (Allan Dwan), Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich), Sabrina (Billy Wilder), The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Where Is Freedom? (Roberto Rossellini), Them! (Gordon Douglas)

1955

1. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
5. Night and Fog (Alain Renais)
6. The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)
7. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
8. The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann)
9. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
10. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mentions:
The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich), A Lawless Street (Joseph H. Lewis), Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles), Rififi (Jules Dassin), To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock), Lola Montes (Max Ophuls), The Man With the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Stranger On Horseback (Jacques Tourneur), East of Eden (Elia Kazan), Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

1956

1. The Searchers (John Ford)
2. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4. Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
6. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
7. Written On the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
8. Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. Attack! (Robert Aldrich)
10. While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)

Honorable Mentions:
Lust For Life (Vincente Minnelli), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang), The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin), Bus Stop (Joshua Logan), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan), Bob Le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Killing (Stanley Kubrick), Elena and Her Men (Jean Renoir), Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox), The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)

1957

1. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
3. The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)
4. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
6. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
7. Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
8. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
9. Men In War (Anthony Mann)
10. Decision At Sundown (Budd Boetticher)

Honorable Mentions:
Bridge On the River Kwai (David Lean), Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick), Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur), Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini), Battle Hymn (Douglas Sirk), Forty Guns (Sam Fuller), Wings of Eagles (John Ford), Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa), Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick), Les Girls (George Cukor)

1958

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
3. Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
5. Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein)
6. Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
7. Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
8. Equinox Flowers (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. The Last Hurrah (John Ford)
10. Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)

Honorable Mentions:
China Doll (Frank Borzage), Wind Across the Everglades (Nicholas Ray), The Line Up (Don Siegel), The Magician (Ingmar Bergman), Jalsaghar (Satyajit Ray), Gigi (Vincente Minnelli), The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa), Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher), Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger), Ashes and Diamonds (Andzej Wajda)

1959

1. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
2. Nazarin (Luis Bunuel)
3. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
4. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
5. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
7. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
9. Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
10. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)

Honorable Mentions:
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller), Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder), Westbound (Budd Boetticher), Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth), A Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann), Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu), Warlock (Edward Dmytryk), Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray), The Horse Soldiers (John Ford)

1960

1. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
5. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
6. Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
7. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
8. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
9. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
10. Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)

Honorable Mentions:
Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard), Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut), Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick), Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher), Let's Make Love (George Cukor), The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford), Horror Hotel (John Llewellyn Moxey), Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli), The Alamo (John Wayne)

1961

1. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
3. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
4. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
7. Breakfast At Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
8. The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. El Cid (Anthony Mann)
10. The Misfits (John Huston)

Honorable Mentions:
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder), Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller), Lola (Jacques Demy), Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa), Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Splendor In the Grass (Elia Kazan), The Hustler (Robert Rossen), The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman), The Last Sunset (Robert Aldrich)

1962

1. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
2. My Life To Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. The Trial (Orson Welles)
4. Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
5. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)
8. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
10. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)

Honorable Mentions:
Knife In the Water (Roman Polanski), Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah), Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean), Lolita (Stanley Kubrick), Mama Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer), Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet), Hell Is For Heroes (Don Siegel), Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)

1963

1. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
2. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
3. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
4. Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller)
8. Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. The Whip and the Body (Mario Bava)
10. Who's Minding the Store (Frank Tashlin)

Honorable Mentions:
The Haunting (Robert Wise), These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey), The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad), Donovan's Reef (John Ford), Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola), Muriel (Alain Resnais), Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy), High and Low (Akira Kurosawa), The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), Charade (Stanley Donen)

1964

1. Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
4. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
5. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. A Shot In the Dark (Blake Edwards)
7. Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
8. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
9. Seven Up! (Paul Almond)
10. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)

Honorable Mentions:
The Disorderly Orderly (Frank Tashlin), The Night of the Iguana (John Huston), Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich), Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy), The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller), Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton), Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer), A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)

1965

1. Chimes At Midnight (Orson Welles)
2. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
4. Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)
5. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
7. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. The Sandpiper (Vincente Minnelli)
9. Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger)
10. Kapurush (Satyajit Ray)

Honorable Mentions:
Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah), The Knack... and How To Get It (Richard Lester), Doctor Zhivago (David Lean), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer), The Great Race (Blake Edwards), In Harm's Way (Otto Preminger), The Greatest Story Ever Told (George Stevens), The Son's of Katie Elder (Henry Hathaway)

1966

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. Masculine Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
6. Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski)
7. Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava)
8. Made In U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. La Guerra Est Finie (Alain Resnais)
10. The Taking of Power By Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)

Honorable Mentions:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols), Seconds (John Frankenheimer), Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling), Nayak (Satyajit Ray), The Professionals (Richard Brooks), Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock), El Dorado (Howard Hawks), The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini), This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones and Ben Washam)

1967

1. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
3. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
4. Le Samurai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
6. La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
7. Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
8. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
9. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)

Honorable Mentions:
The Graduate (Mike Nichols), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (David Swift), Point Blank (John Boorman), La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard), Reflections In a Golden Eye (John Huston), Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Taming of the Shrew (Franco Zeffirelli), The Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman), The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman), Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)

1968

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
3. Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
5. Faces (John Cassavetes)
6. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
7. Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut)
8. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
9. The Rolling Stones: Sympathy For the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)

Honorable Mentions:
The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher), Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman), Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey), Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov), Signs of Life (Werner Herzog), The Party (Blake Edwards), Oliver! (Carol Reed), The Bride Wore Black (Francois Truffaut), if... (Lindsay Anderson), Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

1969

1. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
3. A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson)
4. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
6. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
7. The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel)
8. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
9. The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Love Is Colder Than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Honorable Mentions:
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol), The Damned (Luchino Visconti), Calcutta (Louis Malle), Love and Anger (Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, and Pier Paolo Pasolini), True Grit (Henry Hathaway), Mississippi Mermaid (Francois Truffaut), Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen), One On Top of the Other (Lucio Fulci), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)

1970

1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
3. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Husbands (John Cassavetes)
6. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
7. Dodes'ka-den (Akira Kurosawa)
8. Hi, Mom (Brian De Palma)
9. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
10. Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace and Music (Michael Wadleigh)

Honorable Mentions:
Tristana (Luis Bunuel), The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin), Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville), The American Soldier (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), 7 Plus Seven (Michael Apted), Even Dwarves Started Small (Werner Herzog), The Butcher (Claude Chabrol), El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento), 5 Dolls For an August Moon (Mario Bava)

1971

1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
3. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
4. Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Trafic (Jacques Tati)
6. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
7. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
8. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
9. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
10. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)

Honorable Mentions:
Cat o' Nine Tails (Dario Argento), Whity (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Death In Venice (Luchino Visconti), Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), Four Flies On Gray Velvet (Dario Argento), Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols), Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes), The French Connection (William Friedkin), THX 1138 (George Lucas)

1972

1. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
4. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
9. Images (Robert Altman)
10. What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)

Honorable Mentions:
One P.M. (Jean-Luc Godard and D.A. Pennebaker), Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci), Merchant of the Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Avanti! (Billy Wilder), Chloe In the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer), Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston), Tomorrow (Joseph Anthony), Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven)

1973

1. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
2. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
3. Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
5. Day For Night (Francois Truffaut)
6. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
7. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
8. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
9. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
10. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)

Honorable Mentions:
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman), Breezy (Clint Eastwood), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), Sisters (Brian De Palma), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), The Legend of Hell House (John Hough), High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood), Sleeper (Woody Allen), The Sting (George Roy Hill), Dillinger (John Milius)

1974

1. F For Fake (Orson Welles)
2. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
3. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
5. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
7. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
8. Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
9. California Split (Robert Altman)
10. Black Christmas (Bob Clark)

Honorable Mentions:
Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle), Chinatown (Roman Polanski), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper), Deathdream (Bob Clark), The Great Ecstasy of Sculptor Steiner (s) (Werner Herzog), The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks), Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese), Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)

1975

1. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Nashville (Robert Altman)
3. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
4. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
6. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
8. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
9. Deep Red (Dario Argento)
10. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Honorable Mentions:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman), Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet), Wrong Move (Wim Wenders), Hard Times (Walter Hill), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones), Love and Death (Woody Allen), Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Shivers (David Cronenberg), Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer), The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)

1976

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2. Network (Sidney Lumet)
3. Rocky (John G. Avildson)
4. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
5. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
6. Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
7. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
8. Obsession (Brian De Palma)
9. Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
10. The Shootist (Don Siegel)

Honorable Mentions:
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog), The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), The Marquise of O... (Eric Rohmer), All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula), The Omen (Richard Donner), Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)

1977

1. Star Wars (George Lucas)
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
3. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
4. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
5. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
6. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
7. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
8. 21 Up (Michael Apted)
9. The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven)
10. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)

Honorable Mentions:
Opening Night (John Cassavetes), Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah), New York, New York (Martin Scorsese), 3 Women (Robert Altman), Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), Eraserhead (David Lynch), The American Friend (Wim Wenders), The Man Who Loved Women (Francois Truffaut), Black Sunday (John Frankenheimer)

1978

1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2. In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. Halloween (John Carpenter)
4. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
5. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
7. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
8. Filming Othello (Orson Welles)
9. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
10. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)

Honorable Mentions:
Midnight Express (Alan Parker), The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino), Interiors (Woody Allen), Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), Superman (Richard Donner), The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese), Big Wednesday (John Milius), Piranha (Joe Dante), Death on the Nile (John Guillermin)

1979

1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
3. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. Nosferatu (Werner Herzog)
5. Hardcore (Paul Schrader)
6. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
7. Wise Blood (John Huston)
8. The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Being There (Hal Ashby)
10. 1941 (Steven Spielberg)

Honorable Mention:
Alien (Ridley Scott), The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Muppet Movie (James Frawley), The Warriors (Walter Hill), The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard), Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut), A Perfect Couple (Robert Altman), The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller), The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara), Zombie (Lucio Fulci)

1980

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)
6. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
7. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
8. Inferno (Dario Argento)
9. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
10. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

Honorable Mentions:
The Fog (John Carpenter), Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino), Dressed To Kill (Brian De Palma), The Big Red One (Sam Fuller), Ordinary People (Robert Redford), American Gigolo (Paul Schrader), Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris), Popeye (Robert Altman), From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman), Altered States (Ken Russell)

1981

1. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
3. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
4. My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
5. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Das Boot (Wolfgang Peterson)
7. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
8. The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
9. Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
10. Ms. .45 (Abel Ferrara)

Honorable Mentions:
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi), Excalibur (John Boorman), Scanners (David Cronenberg), Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris), An American Werewolf In London (John Landis), Gallipoli (Peter Weir), Southern Comfort (Walter Hill), The Beyond (Lucio Fulci), Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis), Roadgames (Richard Franklin)

1982

1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
4. Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. White Dog (Sam Fuller)
6. Tenebre (Dario Argento)
7. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
8. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
9. A Good Marriage (Eric Rohmer)
10. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)

Honorable Mentions:
The Thing (John Carpenter), Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Passion (Jean-Luc Godard), The Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen), Cat People (Paul Schrader), The Prefab People (Bela Tarr), Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), First Blood (Ted Kotcheff), Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader and Kevin Rafferty)

1983

1. L'argent (Robert Bresson)
2. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
4. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
5. And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini)
6. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
7. Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
8. Zelig (Woody Allen)
9. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
10. Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)

Honorable Mentions:
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz), Confidentially Yours (Francois Truffaut), Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), Voyage in Time (Andrei Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra), The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah), Monty Python's Meaning of Life (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam), Farewell To Matyora (Elem Klimov), Local Hero (Bill Forsyth), WarGames (John Badham), The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)

1984

1. Once Upon a Time In America (Sergio Leone)
2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
3. Secret Honor (Robert Altman)
4. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
5. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
6. Dune (David Lynch)
7. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
9. Full Moon In Paris (Eric Rohmer)
10. Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell)

Honorable Mentions:
Under the Volcano (John Huston), Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker), A Nightmare On Elm Street (Wes Craven), Meantime (Mike Leigh), Blood Simple (Joel Coen), Red Dawn (John Milius), Streets of Fire (Walter Hill), The Terminator (James Cameron), Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis), Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)

1985

1. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
2. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
4. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
5. 28 Up (Michael Apted)
6. Phenomena (Dario Argento)
7. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
9. Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette)
10. Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)

Honorable Mentions:
Fool For Love (Robert Altman), Code of Silence (Andrew Davis), Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis), Demons (Lamberto Bava), To Live and Die In L.A. (William Friedkin), Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (Paul Schrader), Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper), Detective (Jean-Luc Godard), Legend (Ridley Scott)

1986

1. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
4. Castle In the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
5. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
6. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
7. Summer (Eric Rohmer)
8. My Case (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir)
10. God's Country (Louis Malle)

Honorable Mentions:
Melo (Alain Resnais), The Hitcher (Robert Harmon), The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese), Demons 2 (Lamberto Bava), Crossroads (Walter Hill), ...And the Pursuit of Happiness (Louis Malle), The Three Amigos (John Landis), The Mission (Roland Joffe), Aliens (James Cameron), Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola)

1987

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
2. September (Woody Allen)
3. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
4. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven)
5. Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
7. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
8. Opera (Dario Argento)
9. My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Eric Rohmer)
10. Wall Street (Oliver Stone)

Honorable Mentions:
Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel), The Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter), Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg), Raising Arizona (Joel Coen), Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes), The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner), The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci), Radio Days (Woody Allen), Hope and Glory (John Boorman), Keep Your Right Up (Jean-Luc Godard)

1988

1. Landscape In the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos)
2. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
3. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
4. Medea (Lars Von Trier)
5. A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. Another Woman (Woody Allen)
8. Damnation (Bela Tarr)
9. They Live (John Carpenter)
10. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)

Honorable Mentions:
Bird (Clint Eastwood), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker), Die Hard (John McTiernan), The Adventure of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar), The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell), The Serpent and the Rainbow (Wes Craven), A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton), Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)

1989

1. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
3. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
4. Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
5. Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand)
6. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. The Killer (John Woo)
8. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
9. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
10. The 'Burbs (Joe Dante)

Honorable Mentions:
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowski), My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg), Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore), Dead Poet Society (Peter Weir), Batman (Tim Burton), The Church (Michele Soavi), Born On the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)

1990

1. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
2. White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
3. Vincent and Theo (Robert Altman)
4. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
5. Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
6. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
8. Wild At Heart (David Lynch)
9. The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader)
10. A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer)

Honorable Mentions:
The Witches (Nicolas Roeg), King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci), Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich), Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen), The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola), The Hunt For Red October (John McTiernan), Tremors (Ron Underwood), Home Alone (Chris Columbus)

1991

1. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. JFK (Oliver Stone)
3. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
4. 35 Up (Michael Apted)
5. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
6. Rhapsody In August (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
8. Zentropa (Lars Von Trier)
9. Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese)
10. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)

Honorable Mentions:
Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton), Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou), Jungle Fever (Spike Lee), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai), The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam), Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh), A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron), Delicatessen (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams)

1992

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
2. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
3. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
5. Man Bites Dog (Remy Belvaux)
6. The Story Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
7. Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
8. Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
9. Lessons Of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
10. Betty (Claude Chabrol)

Honorable Mentions:
Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky), The Player (Robert Altman), Alien 3 (David Fincher) Candyman (Bernard Rose), Malcolm X (Spike Lee), The Jar (Ebrahim Forouzesh), Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki), Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski), Dead Alive (Peter Jackson), Noises Off (Peter Bogdanovich)

1993

1. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
3. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
4. Naked (Mike Leigh)
5. Fearless (Peter Weir)
6. Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)
7. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
8. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara)
9. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsaio-Hsien)
10. O Woe Is Me! (Jean-Luc Godard)

Honorable Mentions:
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese), Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa), The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran), It's All True (Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Orson Welles, Richard Wilson), Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg), Trauma (Dario Argento), The Piano (Jane Campion), Hard Target (John Woo), Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis), Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)

1994

1. Satantango (Bela Tarr)
2. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
4. To Live (Zhang Yimou)
5. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
7. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
8. Leon (Luc Besson)
9. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
10. Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette)

Honorable Mentions:
Death and the Maiden (Roman Polanski), The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Wes Craven), The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen), Vanya On 42nd St. (Louis Malle), Ready To Wear (Robert Altman), Il Postino (Michael Radford), Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson), Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee), Legends of the Fall (Edward Zwick)

1995

1. Ulysses' Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos)
2. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
3. JLG/JLG (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Seven (David Fincher)
5. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
6. La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
7. In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
8. Safe (Todd Haynes)
9. Nixon (Oliver Stone)
10. Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)

Honorable Mentions:
Heat (Michael Mann), Braveheart (Mel Gibson), Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsaio-Hsien), Casino (Martin Scorsese), Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins), Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen), Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai), A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Martin Scorsese), Sudden Death (Peter Hyams)

1996

1. Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
2. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
3. Fargo (Joel Coen)
4. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
5. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
6. A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
7. Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh)
8. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
10. Scream (Wes Craven)

Honorable Mentions:
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma), The Stendhal Syndrome (Dario Argento), Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen), City Hall (Harold Becker), Muppet Treasure Island (Brian Henson), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky), Freeway (Matthew Bright)

1997

1. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
3. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
5. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
6. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
7. Affliction (Paul Schrader)
8. The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
9. Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi)
10. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)

Honorable Mentions:
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen), Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Manoel de Oliviera), Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson), Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood), Kundun (Martin Scorsese), Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar), Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant), The End of Violence (Wim Wenders), Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni), Little Dieter Needs To Fly (Werner Herzog)

1998

1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
2. Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos)
3. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
4. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
5. 42 Up (Michael Apted)
6. Happiness (Todd Solondz)
7. Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
8. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
9. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
10. Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)

Honorable Mentions:
Pi (Darren Aronofsky), Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg), A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi), Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon), Dark City (Alex Proyas), The Truman Show (Peter Weir), Antz (Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson), Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo), Jane Austen's Mafia (Jim Abrahams), Bulworth (Warren Beatty)

1999

1. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
6. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
7. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
9. Cookie's Fortune (Robert Altman)
10. The Third Miracle (Agnieszka Holland)

Honorable Mentions:
L'humanite (Bruno Dumont), Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone), Fight Club (David Fincher), The Road Home (Zhang Yimou), eXistenz (David Cronenberg), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch), The Matrix (Larry and Andy Wachowski), Not One Less (Zhang Yimou), Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan), Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)

2000

1. The Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
3. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
4. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
5. Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz)
6. The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Tykwer)
7. Time and Tide (Hark Tsui)
8. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
9. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
10. Dr. T and the Women (Robert Altman)

Honorable Mentions:
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan), Happy Times (Zhang Yimou), Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson), The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran), Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu), Best In Show (Christopher Guest), X-Men (Bryan Singer), Hellraiser: Inferno (Scott Derrickson)

2001

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
3. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
5. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
6. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
8. Tape (Richard Linklater)
9. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
10. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)

Honorable Mentions:
Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann), The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke), In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard), The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer), Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly), Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud), 'R Xmas (Abel Ferrara), Hell House (George Ratliff), Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter and David Silverman), The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo Del Toro)