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)