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)