1941

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
3. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
4. Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
5. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
6. The 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)
7. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
8. That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)

Honorable Mentions:
Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen), The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg), Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks), The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle), The Wolf Man (George Waggner), Tobacco Road (John Ford), Sergeant York (Howard Hawks), The Devil Commands (Edward Dmytryk), They Died With Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh)