1951

1. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
2. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
3. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Ace In the Hole (Billy Wilder)
5. The River (Jean Renoir)
6. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
7. The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
8. Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman)
9. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)

Honorable Mentions:
An American In Paris (Vincente Minnelli), The Prowler (Joseph Losey), Flying Leathernecks (Nicholas Ray), The African Queen (John Huston), Man In the Saddle (Andre De Toth), St. Benny the Dip (Edgar G. Ulmer), The Man In the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick), Susana (Luis Bunuel), The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa), The Enforcer (Bretaigne Windust and Raoul Walsh)