1950

1. Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel)
2. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
3. The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
4. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
5. Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
6. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
7. House By the River (Fritz Lang)
8. La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
9. Wagon Master (John Ford)
10. Broken Arrow (Delmer Daves)

Honorable Mentions:
D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate'), Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa), All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock), Night and the City (Jules Dassin), The Baron of Arizona (Sam Fuller), Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger), Panic In the Streets (Elia Kazan), No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli)