1945

1. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
2. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
4. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne')
5. Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
6. Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)
7. Leave Her To Heaven (John M. Stahl)
8. Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
10. Objective Burma (Raoul Walsh)

Honorable Mentions:
Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer), Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson), I Know Where I'm Going (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), They Were Expendable (John Ford), Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer), The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey), The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin), The Southerner (Jean Renoir)