☆ | Title | Year | Director |
| In the Land of the Head Hunters | 1914 | Edward S. Curtis |
| Birth of a Nation, The | 1915 | D.W. Griffith |
| Häxan | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen |
| Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty |
| Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau |
| Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton |
| Battleship Potemkin, The | 1925 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| Jazz Singer, The | 1927 | Alan Crosland |
★ | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang |
★ | Passion of Joan of Arc, The | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
★ | Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov |
★ | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone |
| City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning |
| Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale |
★ | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
★ | Boudu Saved from Drowning | 1932 | Jean Renoir |
| Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning |
| Horse Feathers | 1932 | Norman Z. McLeod |
★ | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey |
| Ecstasy | 1933 | Gustav Machaty |
| King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack |
| Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo |
| It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra |
★ | Thin Man, The | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke |
★ | 39 Steps, The | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale |
| Night at the Opera, A | 1935 | Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding |
| Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich |
★ | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin |
| Life of Emile Zola, The | 1937 | William Dieterle |
| Pépé le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier |
★ | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson |
| Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks |
★ | Lady Vanishes, The | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Gone With the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
| Gulliver's Travels | 1939 | Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky, Orestes Calpini |
★ | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra |
| Son of Frankenstein | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee |
| Wizard of Oz, The | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
| Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar |
★ | Great Dictator, The | 1940 | Charles Chaplin |
| Philadelphia Story, The | 1940 | George Cukor |
| Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske |
| Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock |
★ | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| Dumbo | 1941 | Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson |
| Lady Eve, The | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
| Maltese Falcon, The | 1941 | John Huston |
| Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Bambi | 1942 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand |
★ | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
★ | I Walked with a Zombie | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur |
| Song of Bernadette, The | 1943 | Henry King |
★ | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder |
| Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean |
★ | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
| Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini |
| Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau |
★ | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra |
| Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
★ | Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica |
| Germany, Year Zero | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini |
| Louisiana Story | 1948 | Robert J. Flaherty |
★ | Red Shoes, The | 1948 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock |
★ | Third Man, The | 1949 | Carol Reed |
| All About Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske |
| Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa |
★ | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
| Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske |
| American in Paris, An | 1951 | Vicente Minelli |
★ | Browning Version, The | 1951 | Anthony Asquith |
| Day the Earth Stood Still, The | 1951 | Robert Wise |
| Quo Vadis | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann |
★ | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Quiet Man,The | 1952 | John Ford |
| Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly |
| Band Wagon, The | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli |
| Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wilfred Jackon |
| Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujiro Ozu |
★ | Ugetsu Monogatari | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Wages of Fear, The | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| Dial M For Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan |
| Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
★ | Seven Samurai, The | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| Dreams | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Lady and the Tramp, The | 1955 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske |
| Man With the Golden Arm, The | 1955 | Otto Preminger |
| Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann |
★ | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
| Richard III | 1955 | Laurence Olivier |
| Seven Year Itch, The | 1955 | Billy Wilder |
| Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman |
★ | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray |
| King and I, The | 1956 | Walter Lang |
| Moby Dick | 1956 | John Huston |
| Searchers, The | 1956 | John Ford |
| 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet |
| Albert Schweitzer | 1957 | Jerome Hill |
| Bridge on the River Kwai, The | 1957 | David Lean |
| Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick |
★ | Seventh Seal, The | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The | 1958 | Nathan H. Juran |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
| Gigi | 1958 | Vicente Minnelli |
| Magician, The | 1958 | Ingmar Bergman |
| South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan |
| Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
★ | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 400 Blows, The | 1959 | François Truffaut |
| Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
| Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus |
| House on Haunted Hill | 1959 | William Castle |
★ | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1959 | Edward D. Wood Jr. |
| Teenagers from Outer Space | 1959 | Tom Graeff |
| Warlock | 1959 | Edward Dmytryk |
| World of Apu, The | 1959 | Satyajit Ray |
★ | Apartment, The | 1960 | Billy Wilder |
| Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Stanley Kramer |
| Magnificent Seven, The | 1960 | John Sturges |
| Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Virgin Spring, The | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards |
| Hustler, The | 1961 | Robert Rossen |
| Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer |
| One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman |
| Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman |
★ | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel |
| Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Birdman of Alcatraz, The | 1962 | John Frankenheimer |
| Cleo From 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda |
| Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young |
| Exterminating Angel, The | 1962 | Luis Buñuel |
★ | Jules et Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean |
| Manchurian Candidate, The | 1962 | John Frankenheimer |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan |
| 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
| Birds, The | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| McLintock | 1963 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| Silence, The | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Sword in the Stone, The | 1963 | Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi, David Hand |
| This Sporting Life | 1963 | Lindsay Anderson |
★ | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
★ | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville |
| Culloden | 1964 | Peter Watkins |
| Dog Star Man | 1964 | Stan Brakhage |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Fistful of Dollars, A | 1964 | Sergio Leone |
| Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton |
| Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson |
| No Exit | 1964 | Philip Saville |
| What a Way to Go | 1964 | J. Lee Thompson |
| Agony and the Ecstasy, The | 1965 | Carol Reed |
| Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | 1965 | Russ Meyer |
★ | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski |
| Sound of Music, The | 1965 | Robert Wise |
| Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young |
| Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Battle of Algiers, The | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
★ | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michaelangelo Antonioni |
| Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilova |
| Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The | 1966 | Sergio Leone |
| Man For All Seasons, A | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann |
| Manos: The Hands of Fate | 1966 | Harold P. Warren |
| Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
| War Game, The | 1966 | Michael Aspel |
★ | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn |
| Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Graduate, The | 1967 | Mike Nichols |
| Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner | 1967 | Stanley Kramer |
| Jungle Book, The | 1967 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| Thoroughly Modern Millie | 1967 | George Roy Hill |
| Titicut Follies | 1967 | Frederick Wiseman |
| To Sir, with Love | 1967 | James Clavell |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim |
| Birthday Party, The | 1968 | William Friedkin |
| Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson |
| Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone |
| Rachel, Rachel | 1968 | Paul Newman |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli |
★ | Rosemary’s Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski |
| Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill |
| Color of Pomegranates, The | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov |
★ | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger |
| Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini |
| Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras |
| Conformist, The | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
★ | Five Easy Pieces | 1970 | Bob Rafelson |
| Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn |
| M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman |
| Patton | 1970 | Franklin Schaffner |
| Brian’s Song | 1971 | Buzz Kulik |
★ | Clockwork Orange, A | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel |
| French Connection, The | 1971 | William Friedkin |
| Frog Prince, The | 1971 | Jim Henson |
| Harold and Maude | 1971 | Hal Ashby |
| Point, The | 1971 | Fred Wolf |
| THX 1138 | 1971 | George Lucas |
| W. R.: Mysteries of the Organism | 1971 | Dusan Makavejev |
| Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart |
| Aguirre, The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog |
| Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse |
| Canterbury Tales, The | 1972 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman |
| Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The | 1972 | Luis Buñuel |
| Fritz the Cat | 1972 | Ralph Bakshi |
★ | Godfather, The | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Jeremiah Johnson | 1972 | Sydney Pollack |
| Marjoe | 1972 | Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan |
| Roma | 1972 | Federico Fellini |
| Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas |
★ | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick |
| Charlotte’s Web | 1973 | Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto |
| Enter the Dragon | 1973 | Robert Clouse |
| Exorcist, The | 1973 | William Friedkin |
| Fantastic Planet | 1973 | René Laloux |
| Holy Mountain, The | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| Paper Chase, The | 1973 | James Bridges |
| River Called Titas, A | 1973 | Ritwik Ghatak |
| Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer |
| Spirit of the Beehive, The | 1973 | Victor Erice |
| Sting, The | 1973 | George Roy Hill |
| Touki Bouki | 1973 | Djibril Diop Mambéty |
| Wicker Man, The | 1973 | Robert Hardy |
| Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese |
| Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark |
| Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks |
| Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
| Godfather, The: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Rhinoceros | 1974 | Tom O’Horgan |
★ | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks |
| Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Dersu Uzala | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet |
| Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg |
| Magic Flute, The | 1975 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Miloš Forman |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir |
★ | Rocky Horror Picture Show, The | 1975 | Jim Sharman |
| Stepford Wives, The | 1975 | Bryan Forbes |
| All the President’s Men | 1976 | Alan Pakula |
| Bad News Bears, The | 1976 | Michael Ritchie |
| Carrie | 1976 | Brian de Palma |
| Cria Cuervos | 1976 | Carlos Saura |
| Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger |
| Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet |
| Outlaw Josey Wales, The | 1976 | Clint Eastwood |
| Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen |
★ | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
| Tenant, The | 1976 | Roman Polanski |
| Young Dr. Freud | 1976 | Axel Corti |
| Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg |
| Country Wife, The | 1977 | Donald McWhinnie |
| Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas | 1977 | Jim Henson |
| Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch |
| High Anxiety | 1977 | Mel Brooks |
| House | 1977 | Nobuhiko Obayashi |
| Pumping Iron | 1977 | George Butler, Robert Fiore |
| Saturday Night Fever | 1977 | John Badham |
★ | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope | 1977 | George Lucas |
| Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento |
| Animal House | 1978 | John Landis |
| Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero |
★ | Deer Hunter, The | 1978 | Michael Cimino |
| Grease | 1978 | Randal Kleiser |
| Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter |
| Killer of Sheep | 1978 | Charles Burnett |
| Lord of the Rings, The | 1978 | Ralph Bakshi |
| Scared Straight! | 1978 | Arnold Shapiro |
| Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner |
| Up in Smoke | 1978 | Lou Adler |
| Wiz, The | 1978 | Sidney Lumet |
| Agatha | 1979 | Michael Apted |
| Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott |
★ | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby |
| Black Hole, The | 1979 | Gary Nelson |
| China Syndrome, The | 1979 | James Bridges |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton |
| Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones |
| Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller |
| Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog |
| Quadrophenia | 1979 | Franc Roddam |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | 1979 | Robert Wise |
| Wise Blood | 1979 | John Huston |
| Airplane! | 1980 | Jim Abrahams |
| Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell |
| Blues Brothers, The | 1980 | John Landis |
| Caddyshack | 1980 | Harold Ramis |
| Elephant Man, The | 1980 | David Lynch |
| Friday the 13th | 1980 | Sean S. Cunningham |
| Gods Must Be Crazy, The | 1980 | Jamie Uys |
| Ordinary People | 1980 | Robert Redford |
| Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese |
★ | Shining, The | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner |
| Body Heat | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Hugh Hudson |
| Evil Dead, The | 1981 | Sam Raimi |
| Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller |
| My Dinner With Andre | 1981 | Louis Malle |
★ | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg |
| Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty |
| Shock Treatment | 1981 | Jim Sharman |
| Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, The | 1981 | Franklin Melton |
| Annie | 1982 | John Huston |
| Basket Case | 1982 | Frank Henenlotter |
| Before Mickey Mouse: | 1982 | Ron Schwarz |
| Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott |
| Creepshow | 1982 | George A. Romero |
| Dark Crystal, The | 1982 | Frank Oz, Jim Henson |
| Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid | 1982 | Carl Reiner |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg |
★ | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | 1982 | Amy Heckerling |
| Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog |
| Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough |
| King of Comedy, The | 1982 | Martin Scorsese |
| Koyaanisqatsi | 1982 | Godfrey Reggio |
| My Favorite Year | 1982 | Richard Benjamin |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker |
| Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper |
| Secret of NIMH, The | 1982 | Don Bluth |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer |
| Thing, The | 1982 | John Carpenter |
| Accidental Death of an Anarchist | 1983 | Alan Horrox |
| Christmas Story, A | 1983 | Bob Clark |
★ | Fourth Man, The | 1983 | Paul Verhoeven |
| Krull | 1983 | Peter Yates |
| Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Jones |
| National Lampoon’s Vacation | 1983 | Harold Ramis |
| Out of Africa | 1983 | Sydney Pollack |
| Risky Business | 1983 | Paul Brickman |
| Sans Soleil Sunless | 1983 | Chris Marker |
| Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand |
| Terms of Endearment | 1983 | James L. Brooks |
| Trading Places | 1983 | John Landis |
| Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg |
| War Games | 1983 | John Badham |
★ | Amadeus | 1984 | Miloš Forman |
| Beverly Hills Cop | 1984 | Martin Brest |
| Children of the Corn | 1984 | Fritz Kiersch |
| Footloose | 1984 | Herbert Ross |
| Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman |
| Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante |
| Karate Kid, The | 1984 | John Avildsen |
| Killing Fields, The | 1984 | Roland Joffé |
| Neverending Story, The | 1984 | Wolfgang Peterson |
| Nightmare on Elm Street, A | 1984 | Wes Craven |
| Police Academy | 1984 | Hugh Wilson |
| Red Dawn | 1984 | John Milius |
| Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox |
| Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Robert Zemeckis |
| Sam’s Son | 1984 | Michael Landon |
| Stop Making Sense | 1984 | Jonathan Demme |
| Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch |
| Terminator, The | 1984 | James Cameron |
| This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner |
| Times of Harvey Milk, The | 1984 | Rob Epstein |
| Adventures of Mark Twain, The | 1985 | Will Vinton |
| After Hours | 1985 | Martin Scorsese |
| Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis |
| Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam |
| Breakfast Club, The | 1985 | John Hughes |
| Ciudad y los perros, La | 1985 | Francisco José Lombardi |
| Clue | 1985 | Jonathan Lynn |
| Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
| Emerald Forest, The | 1985 | John Boorman |
| Flesh and Blood | 1985 | Paul Verhoeven |
| Goonies, The | 1985 | Richard Donner |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1985 | Héctor Babenco |
| Mask | 1985 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| My Beautiful Laundrette | 1985 | Stephen Frears |
| Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | 1985 | Jack Sholder |
| Pale Rider | 1985 | Clint Eastwood |
| Pee Wee’s Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton |
| St. Elmo’s Fire | 1985 | Joel Schumacher |
★ | Tampopo | 1985 | Juzo Itami |
| The Official Story | 1985 | Luis Puenzo |
| Vision Quest | 1985 | Harold Becker |
| Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir |
| Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron |
| American Tail, An | 1986 | Don Bluth |
| Big Trouble in Little China | 1986 | John Carpenter |
★ | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch |
| Crocodile Dundee | 1986 | Peter Faiman |
| Crossroads | 1986 | Walter Hill |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes |
| Fly, The | 1986 | David Cronenberg |
| Golden Child, The | 1986 | Michael Ritchie |
| Great Mouse Detective, The | 1986 | Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michiner, John Musker |
| Highlander | 1986 | Russell Mulcahy |
| Hoosiers | 1986 | David Anspaugh |
| Howard the Duck | 1986 | Willard Huyck |
| Labyrinth | 1986 | Jim Henson |
| Maximum Overdrive | 1986 | Stephen King |
| Mosquito Coast, The | 1986 | Peter Weir |
| Name of the Rose, The | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
| Sherman's March | 1986 | Ross McElwee |
| Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | 1986 | Leonard Nimoy |
| Top Gun | 1986 | Tony Scott |
| Babette's Feast | 1987 | Gabriel Axel |
| Beverly Hills Cop II | 1987 | Tony Scott |
| Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks |
★ | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg |
| Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Adrian Lyne |
| Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Hamburger Hill | 1987 | John Irvin |
| Harry and the Hendersons | 1987 | William Dear |
| Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker |
| Hunk, The | 1987 | Lawrence Bassoff |
| Innerspace | 1987 | Joe Dante |
| Last Emperor, The | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Masters of the Universe | 1987 | Gary Goddard |
| Moonstruck | 1987 | Norman Jewison |
| Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | 1987 | Chuck Russell |
| Planes, Trains & Automobiles | 1987 | John Hughes |
| Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan |
| Princess Bride, The | 1987 | Rob Reiner |
| Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven |
| Running Man, The | 1987 | Paul Michael Glaser |
| Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks |
| Untouchables, The | 1987 | Brian de Palma |
| Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone |
| Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders |
| Witches of Eastwick, The | 1987 | George Miller |
| Accidental Tourist, The | 1988 | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam |
| Ariel | 1988 | Aki Kaurismaki |
| Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton |
| Bird | 1988 | Clint Eastwood |
| Bull Durham | 1988 | Ron Shelton |
| Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan |
| Earth Girls are Easy | 1988 | Julien Temple |
| Ernest Saves Christmas | 1988 | John R. Cherry III |
| Fish Called Wanda, A | 1988 | Charles Crichton |
| Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | Isao Takahata |
| Hairspray | 1988 | John Waters |
| Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | 1988 | Marcel Ophüls |
| Killer Klowns from Outer Space | 1988 | Stephen Chiodo |
| Land Before Time, The | 1988 | Don Bluth |
| My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Naked Gun, The: From the Police Squad Files | 1988 | David Zucker |
| Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | 1988 | Renny Harlin |
★ | Rain Man | 1988 | Barry Levinson |
| Scrooged | 1988 | Richard Donner |
| Stand and Deliver | 1988 | Ramón Menéndez |
| Talk Radio | 1988 | Oliver Stone |
| Thin Blue Line, The | 1988 | Errol Morris |
| Torch Song Trilogy | 1988 | Paul Bogart |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almovodar |
| Adam Clayton Powell | 1989 | Richard Kilberg |
| Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis |
| Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton |
| Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek |
| Burbs, The | 1989 | Joe Dante |
| Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death | 1989 | J. F. Lawton |
| Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir |
★ | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee |
| Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Bruce Beresford |
| Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson |
| Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick |
| Heathers | 1989 | Michael Lehmann |
| Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh |
| Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | 1989 | Joe Johnston |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg |
| Little Mermaid, The | 1989 | Ron Clements, John Musker |
| Look Who’s Talking | 1989 | Amy Heckerling |
| My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan |
| National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | 1989 | Jeremiah S. Chechik |
| Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | 1989 | Stephen Hawkins |
| UHF | 1989 | Jay Levey |
| American Dream | 1990 | Barbara Kopple |
| Arachnophobia | 1990 | Frank Marshall |
| Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall |
| Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| Dances With Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner |
| Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty |
| Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton |
| Ghost | 1990 | Jerry Zucker |
| Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese |
| Hamlet | 1990 | Franco Zeffirelli |
| Home Alone | 1990 | Chris Columbus |
| Hunt for Red October, The | 1990 | Jan de Bont |
| Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne |
| Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner |
| Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall |
| Pump Up the Volume | 1990 | Allan Moyle |
| RoboCop 2 | 1990 | Irvin Kershner |
★ | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 1990 | Steve Barron |
| Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven |
| Tremors | 1990 | Ron Underwood |
| Two Jakes, The | 1990 | Jack Nicholson |
| Wild At Heart | 1990 | David Lynch |
| Addams Family, The | 1991 | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise |
| Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey | 1991 | Peter Hewitt |
| Boyz 'n the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton |
| Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Ernest Scared Stupid | 1991 | John R. Cherry III |
| Hook | 1991 | Steven Spielberg |
| JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone |
| Point Break | 1991 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 1991 | Kevin Reynolds |
| Rocketeer, The | 1991 | Joe Johnston |
| Silence of the Lambs, The | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | 1991 | Nicholas Meyer |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | 1991 | Dave Green |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron |
★ | Thelma and Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott |
| Until the End of the World | 1991 | Wim Wenders |
| Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements, John Musker |
| Army of Darkness | 1992 | Sam Raimi |
| Basic Instinct | 1992 | Jan de Bont |
| Beethoven | 1992 | Brian Levant |
| Beethoven Lives Upstairs | 1992 | David Devine |
| Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose |
| Crying Game, The | 1992 | Neil Jordan |
| FernGully: The Last Rainforest | 1992 | Bill Kroyer |
| Few Good Men, A | 1992 | Rob Reiner |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley |
| Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | 1992 | Chris Columbus |
| Mariachi, El | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez |
| Mighty Ducks, The | 1992 | Stephen Herek |
| Muppet Christmas Carol, The | 1992 | Brian Henson |
| My Cousin Vinny | 1992 | Jonathan Lynn |
| Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino |
| River Runs Through It, A | 1992 | Robert Redford |
| Sister Act | 1992 | Ernile Ardolino |
★ | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood |
| Wayne’s World | 1992 | Penelope Spheeris |
| White Men Can't Jump | 1992 | Ron Shelton |
| Age of Innocence, The | 1993 | Martin Scorsese |
| Benny & Joon | 1993 | Jeremiah S. Chechik |
| Coneheads | 1993 | Steve Barron |
| Cool Runnings | 1993 | Jon Turteltaub |
| Demolition Man | 1993 | Marco Brambilla |
| Dennis the Menace | 1993 | Nick Castle |
| Falling Down | 1993 | Joel Schumacher |
| Free Willy | 1993 | Simon Wincer |
| Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis |
| In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Peterson |
★ | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
| Kalifornia | 1993 | Dominic Sena |
| Mrs. Doubtfire | 1993 | Chris Columbus |
| Nightmare Before Christmas, The | 1993 | Henry Selick |
| Philadelphia | 1993 | Jonathan Demme |
| Robin Hood: Men in Tights | 1993 | Mel Brooks |
| Rudy | 1993 | David Anspaugh |
| Sandlot, The | 1993 | David Mickey Evans |
| Schindler’s List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian |
| Secret Garden, The | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland |
| Six Degrees of Separation | 1993 | Fred Schepisi |
| So I Married an Axe Murderer | 1993 | Thomas Schlamme |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | 1993 | Stuart Gillard |
| Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey | 1993 | Steven M. Martin, Robert Stone |
| Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | 1993 | François Girard |
| Three Colours: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott |
| Wayne’s World 2 | 1993 | Stephen Surjik |
| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | 1994 | Tom Shadyac |
| Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The | 1994 | Stephan Elliot |
| Airheads | 1994 | Michael Lehmann |
| Angels in the Outfield | 1994 | William Dear |
| Blown Away | 1994 | Stephen Hopkins |
| Clerks | 1994 | Kevin Smith |
| Death and the Maiden | 1994 | Roman Polanski |
| Dumb and Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly |
| Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton |
| Flintstones, The | 1994 | Brian Levant |
| Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis |
| Hoop Dreams | 1994 | Steve James |
| Interview With the Vampire | 1994 | Neil Jordan |
| Leon: The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson |
| Lion King, The | 1994 | Roger Allers |
| Mask, The | 1994 | Chuck Russell |
| Natural Born Killers | 1994 | Oliver Stone |
| Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford |
| Reality Bites | 1994 | Ben Stiller |
| Return of Jafar, The | 1994 | Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove |
| Santa Clause, The | 1994 | John Pasquin |
| Sátántangó | 1994 | Bela Tarr |
★ | Shawshank Redemption, The | 1994 | Frank Darabont |
| Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont |
| Star Trek: Generations | 1994 | David Carson |
| Three Colours: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Three Colours: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Touch of Genius, A: The Life and Times of Nicolas Slonimsky | 1994 | John Huszar |
| Wes Craven's New Nightmare | 1994 | Wes Craven |
| When a Man Loves a Woman | 1994 | Luis Mandoki |
| 12 Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam |
| Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls | 1995 | Steve Oedekerk |
| American President, The | 1995 | Rob Reiner |
| Angels and Insects | 1995 | Philip Haas |
| Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard |
| Babe | 1995 | Chris Noonan |
| Basketball Diaries, The | 1995 | Scott Kalvert |
| Brady Bunch Movie, The | 1995 | Betty Thomas |
| Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson |
| Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling |
| Congo | 1995 | Frank Marshall |
| Crumb | 1995 | Terry Zwigoff |
| Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez |
| Four Rooms | 1995 | Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino |
| Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| GoldenEye | 1995 | Martin Campbell |
| Halfmoon | 1995 | Frieder Schlaich |
| Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann |
| Karen Blixen - Storyteller | 1995 | Christian Braad Thomsen |
| Net, The | 1995 | Irwin Winkler |
| Operation Dumbo Drop | 1995 | Simon Wincer |
★ | Se7en | 1995 | David Fincher |
| Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation | 1995 | Kim Henkel |
| To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | 1995 | Beeban Kidron |
| Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter |
| Usual Suspects, The | 1995 | Bryan Singer |
| Basquiat | 1996 | Julian Schnabel |
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | 1996 | Mike Judge |
| Big Night | 1996 | Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci |
| Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson |
| English Patient, The | 1996 | Anthony Minghella |
★ | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Happy Gilmore | 1996 | Dennis Dugan |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame, The | 1996 | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise |
| Independence Day | 1996 | Roland Emmerich |
| Jerry Maguire | 1996 | Cameron Crowe |
| Long Kiss Goodnight, The | 1996 | Renny Harlin |
| Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton |
| Rock, The | 1996 | Michael Bay |
| Romeo + Juliet | 1996 | Baz Luhrmann |
| Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven |
| Shine | 1996 | Scott Hicks |
| Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton |
| Space Jam | 1996 | Joe Pytka |
| Spy Hard | 1996 | Rick Friedberg |
| Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Jonathan Frakes |
| Trees Lounge | 1996 | Steve Buscemi |
| Very Brady Sequel, A | 1996 | Arlene Sanford |
| Waiting for Guffman | 1996 | Christopher Guest |
| When We Were Kings | 1996 | Leon Gast |
| White Squall | 1996 | Ridley Scott |
| Air Force One | 1997 | Wolfgang Peterson |
| Anastasia | 1997 | Don Bluth, Gary Goldman |
| As Good as it Gets | 1997 | James L. Brooks |
| Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach |
| Batman & Robin | 1997 | Joel Schumacher |
| Bean | 1997 | Mel Smith |
| Conspiracy Theory | 1997 | Richard Donner |
| Face/Off | 1997 | John Woo |
| Fifth Element, The | 1997 | Luc Besson |
| Full Monty, The | 1997 | Peter Cattaneo |
| Game, The | 1997 | David Fincher |
| Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol |
| George of the Jungle | 1997 | Sam Weisman |
| Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant |
| Grosse Pointe Blank | 1997 | George Armitage |
| Hercules | 1997 | Ron Clements, John Musker |
| I Know What You Did Last Summer | 1997 | Jim Gillespie |
| Jackie Brown | 1997 | Quentin Tarantino |
★ | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson |
| Life is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni |
| Lost World: Jurassic Park, The | 1997 | Steven Spielberg |
| Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| Perfect Blue | 1997 | Satoshi Kon |
| Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Private Parts | 1997 | Betty Thomas |
| Scream 2 | 1997 | Wes Craven |
| Seven Years in Tibet | 1997 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven |
| Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron |
| Tomorrow Never Dies | 1997 | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Trekkies | 1997 | Roger Nygard |
★ | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye |
| BASEketball | 1998 | David Zucker |
| Beloved | 1998 | Jonathan Demme |
| Big Lebowski, The | 1998 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Bulworth | 1998 | Warren Beatty |
| Dark City | 1998 | Alex Proyas |
| Faculty, The | 1998 | Robert Rodriguez |
| Half Baked | 1998 | Tamra Davis |
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1998 | Guy Ritchie |
| Mask of Zorro, The | 1998 | Martin Campbell |
| Mighty Joe Young | 1998 | Ron Underwood |
| Patch Adams | 1998 | Tom Shadyac |
| Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky |
| Prince of Egypt, The | 1998 | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells |
| Red Violin, The | 1998 | Francois Girard |
| Ringu | 1998 | Hideo Nakata |
| Rounders | 1998 | John Dahl |
| Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Twyker |
| Rushmore | 1998 | Wes Anderson |
| Safe House | 1998 | Eric Stahl |
| Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg |
| Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden |
| Smoke Signals | 1998 | Chris Eyre |
| Star Trek: Insurrection | 1998 | Jonathan Frakes |
| There’s Something About Mary | 1998 | Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly |
| Truman Show, The | 1998 | Peter Weir |
| Waterboy, The | 1998 | Frank Coraci |
| Wild Things | 1998 | John McNaughton |
| X Files, The | 1998 | Rob Bowman |
| 13th Warrior, The | 1999 | John McTiernan |
| All About My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almovodar |
★ | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes |
| Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | 1999 | Jay Roach |
| Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze |
| Blair Witch Project, The | 1999 | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez. |
| Boondock Saints, The | 1999 | Troy Duffy |
| Buena Vista Social Club | 1999 | Wim Wenders |
| Detroit Rock City | 1999 | Adam Rifkin |
| Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith |
| Election | 1999 | Alexander Payne |
| End of Days | 1999 | Peter Hyams |
| Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Fantasia 2000 | 1999 | James Algar, Gaetan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi |
| Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher |
| Galaxy Quest | 1999 | Dean Parisot |
| In Dreams | 1999 | Neil Jordan |
| Insider, The | 1999 | Michael Mann |
| Lengua de las Mariposas, La | 1999 | José Luis Cuerda |
| Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Mansfield Park | 1999 | Patricia Rozema |
| Matrix, The | 1999 | Lara Wachowski, Andy Wachowski |
| Mummy, The | 1999 | Stephen Sommers |
| Muppets From Space | 1999 | Tim Hill |
| My Best Fiend | 1999 | Werner Herzog |
| October Sky | 1999 | Joe Johnston |
| Office Space | 1999 | Mike Judge |
| One Day in September | 1999 | Kevin Macconald |
| Sixth Sense, The | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker |
| Specialist, The | 1999 | Eyal Sivan |
| Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas |
| Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell |
| Topsy Turvy | 1999 | Mike Leigh |
| Wings of Hope | 1999 | Werner Herzog |
| Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe |
| Amores Perros | 2000 | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Best in Show | 2000 | Christopher Guest |
| Boiler Room | 2000 | Ben Younger |
| Cast Away | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee |
| Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars Von Trier |
| Emperor’s New Groove, The | 2000 | Mark Dindal |
| Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott |
| High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears |
| In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai |
| Lumumba | 2000 | Raoul Peck |
| Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach |
| Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan |
| Mulholland Dr. | 2000 | David Lynch |
| Patriot, The | 2000 | Roland Emmerich |
| Pay it Forward | 2000 | Mimi Leder |
| Perfect Storm, The | 2000 | Wolfgang Peterson |
| Quills | 2000 | Philip Kaufman |
| Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin |
| Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky |
| Snatch | 2000 | Guy Ritchie |
| The Cell | 2000 | Tarsem Singh |
| Thirteen Days | 2000 | Roger Donaldson |
★ | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh |
| Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| Vatel | 2000 | Roland Joffé |
| What Women Want | 2000 | Nancy Meyers |
| Wonder Boys | 2000 | Curtis Hanson |
| X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer |
| You Can Count On Me | 2000 | Kenneth Lonergan |
| A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg |
| Along Came a Spider | 2001 | Lee Tamahori |
| Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Animal, The | 2001 | Luke Greenfield |
| Beautiful Mind, A | 2001 | Ron Howard |
| Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott |
| Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus |
| Hearts in Atlantis | 2001 | Scott Hicks |
| Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | 2001 | Kevin Smith |
| K-PAX | 2001 | Iain Softley |
| Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The | 2001 | Peter Jackson |
| Millennium Actress | 2001 | Satoshi Kon |
| Nowhere in Africa | 2001 | Caroline Link |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2001 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Ocean’s Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh |
| Planet of the Apes | 2001 | Tim Burton |
| Scary Movie 2 | 2001 | Keenan Ivory Wayans |
| Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson |
★ | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Super Troopers | 2001 | Jay Chandrasekhar |
| Vanilla Sky | 2001 | Cameron Crowe |
| Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater |
| Y Tu Mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Zoolander | 2001 | Ben Stiller |
| About Schmidt | 2002 | Alexander Payne |
| Adaptation | 2002 | Spike Jonze |
| Austin Powers in Goldmember | 2002 | Jay Roach |
| Biggie & Tupac | 2002 | Nick Broomfield |
| Blue Crush | 2002 | John Stockwell |
| Bourne Identity, The | 2002 | Doug Liman |
| Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore |
| Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg |
| Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall |
★ | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund |
| Crime of Padre Amaro, The | 2002 | Carlos Carrera |
| Death to Smoochy | 2002 | Danny DeVito |
| Dirty Pretty Things | 2002 | Stephen Frears |
| Drumline | 2002 | Charles Stone III |
| Friday After Next | 2002 | Marcus Raboy |
| Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese |
| He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not | 2002 | Laetitia Colombani |
| Hours, The | 2002 | Stephen Daldry |
| Importance of Being Earnest, The | 2002 | Oliver Parker |
| In America | 2002 | Jim Sheridan |
| In This World | 2002 | Michael Winterbottom |
| Legend of Leigh Bowery, The | 2002 | Charles Atlas |
| Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The | 2002 | Peter Jackson |
| Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg |
| Mothman Prophecies, The | 2002 | Mark Pellington |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | Joel Zwick |
| Pianist, The | 2002 | Roman Polanski |
| Resident Evil | 2002 | Paul W. S. Anderson |
| Ring, The | 2002 | Gore Verbinski |
| Road to Perdition | 2002 | Sam Mendes |
| Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sakurov |
| S1m0ne | 2002 | Andrew Niccol |
| Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| Spellbound | 2002 | Jeff Blitz |
| Star Trek: Nemesis | 2002 | Stuart Baird |
| Trials of Henry Kissinger, The | 2002 | Eugene Jarecki |
| Undercover Brother | 2002 | Malcolm D. Lee |
| Weather Underground, The | 2002 | Sam Green, Bill Siegel |
★ | American Splendor | 2003 | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini |
| Danny Deckchair | 2003 | Jeff Balsmeyer |
| Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star | 2003 | Sam Weisman |
| Elf | 2003 | Jon Favreau |
| Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton |
| Fog of War, The | 2003 | Errol Morris |
| Freddy vs. Jason | 2003 | Ronny Yu |
| Guy Thing, A | 2003 | Chris Koch |
| Hangman’s Curse | 2003 | Rafal Zielinski |
| Holes | 2003 | Andrew Davis |
| House of 1000 Corpses | 2003 | Rob Zombie |
| Hulk | 2003 | Ang Lee |
| Italian Job, The | 2003 | F. Gary Gray |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Last Samurai, The | 2003 | Edward Zwick |
| Lion in Winter, The | 2003 | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The | 2003 | Peter Jackson |
| Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola |
| Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir |
| Matchstick Men | 2003 | Ridley Scott |
| Matrix Reloaded, The | 2003 | Lara Wachowski, Andy Wachowski |
| Matrix Revolutions, The | 2003 | Lara Wachowski, Andy Wachowski |
| Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood |
| Old School | 2003 | Todd Phillips |
| Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park |
| Pelota vasca, La: La piel contra la piedra | 2003 | Julio Medem |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski |
| School of Rock | 2003 | Richard Linklater |
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | 2003 | Jonathan Mostow |
| Tintin et Moi | 2003 | Anders Høgsbro Østergaard |
| Under the Tuscan Sun | 2003 | Audrey Wells |
| X2: X-Men United | 2003 | Bryan Singer |
| 50 First Dates | 2004 | Peter Segal |
| Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | 2004 | Adam McKay |
| Aviator, The | 2004 | Martin Scorsese |
| Beyond the Sea | 2004 | Kevin Spacey |
| Butterfly Effect, The | 2004 | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber |
| Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann |
| Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis |
| Day After Tomorrow, The | 2004 | Roland Emmerich |
| De-Lovely | 2004 | Irwin Winkler |
| Diarios de Motocicleta | 2004 | Walter Salles |
| Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry |
| EuroTrip | 2004 | Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, David Mandel |
| Garfield: The Movie | 2004 | Peter Hewitt |
| H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer | 2004 | John Borowski |
| Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle | 2004 | Danny Leiner |
| Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George |
| Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| I, Robot | 2004 | Alex Proyas |
| Incredibles, The | 2004 | Brad Bird |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Kinsey | 2004 | Bill Condon |
| Loss of Nameless Things, The | 2004 | Bill Rose |
| Machinist, The | 2004 | Brad Anderson |
| Maria, Full of Grace | 2004 | Joshua Marston |
★ | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood |
| Napoleon Dynamite | 2004 | Jared Hess |
| National Treasure | 2004 | John Turteltaub |
| Passion of the Christ, The | 2004 | Mel Gibson |
| Ray | 2004 | Taylor Hackford |
| Shadow of Fear | 2004 | Rich Cowan |
| Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright |
| Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon |
| Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne |
| Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi |
| Stepford Wives,The | 2004 | Frank Oz |
| Team America: World Police | 2004 | Trey Parker |
| Trekkies 2 | 2004 | Roger Nygard |
| What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? | 2004 | William Arntz, Betty Chasse, Mark Vicente |
| Word Wars | 2004 | Eric Chaikin, Julian Petrillo |
| A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg |
| Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan |
| Brick | 2005 | Rian Johnson |
★ | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee |
| Caché | 2005 | Michael Haneke |
| Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller |
| Good Night, and Good Luck | 2005 | George Clooney |
| Grizzly Man | 2005 | Werner Herzog |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell |
| Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The | 2005 | Garth Jennings |
| Jarhead | 2005 | Sam Mendes |
| King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson |
| Land of the Dead | 2005 | George A. Romero |
| Madagascar | 2005 | Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath |
| New World, The | 2005 | Terence Malick |
| No Direction Home | 2005 | Martin Scorsese |
| Pacifier, The | 2005 | Adam Shankman |
| Producers, The | 2005 | Susan Stroman |
| Rent | 2005 | Chris Columbus |
| Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez |
| Sophie Scholl: The Final Days | 2005 | Marc Rothemund |
| Squid and the Whale, The | 2005 | Noah Baumbach |
| Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas |
| Thank You for Smoking | 2005 | Jason Reitman |
| Tsotsi | 2005 | Gavin Hood |
| Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold |
| White Noise | 2005 | Geoffrey Sax |
| Apocalypto | 2006 | Mel Gibson |
| Babel | 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | 2006 | Larry Charles |
| Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell |
| Chalk | 2006 | Mike Akel |
★ | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Clerks II | 2006 | Kevin Smith |
| Cocaine Cowboys | 2006 | Billy Corben |
| Departed, The | 2006 | Martin Scorsese |
| Fall, The | 2006 | Tarsem Singh |
| Forgiving Dr. Mengele | 2006 | Cheri Pugh, Bob Hercules |
| Half Nelson | 2006 | Ryan Fleck |
| Happy Feet | 2006 | George Miller |
| Holiday, The | 2006 | Nancy Meyers |
| Idiocracy | 2006 | Mike Judge |
| Illusionist, The | 2006 | Neil Burger |
| Inconvenient Truth, An | 2006 | Davis Guggenheim |
| Last King of Scotland, The | 2006 | Kevin Macdonald |
| Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | Jonathan Dayton |
| Lives of Others, The | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| Manufactured Landscapes | 2006 | Jennifer Baichwal |
| Miss Potter | 2006 | Chris Noonan |
| Pan’s Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro |
| Pinochet’s Last Stand | 2006 | Richard Curson Smith |
| Prestige, The | 2006 | Christopher Nolan |
| Queen, The | 2006 | Stephen Frears |
| Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man | 2006 | Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan |
| Scanner Darkly, A | 2006 | Richard Linklater |
| Science of Sleep, The | 2006 | Michel Gondry |
| Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | 2006 | Adam McKay |
| Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | 2006 | Liam Lynch |
| Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? | 2006 | John Scheinfeld |
| WordPlay | 2006 | Patrick Creadon |
| American Gangster | 2007 | Ridley Scott |
| Atonement | 2007 | Joe Wright |
| Battle in Seattle | 2007 | Stuart Townsend |
| Bourne Ultimatum, The | 2007 | Paul Greengrass |
| Darjeeling Limited, The | 2007 | Wes Anderson |
| Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The | 2007 | Julian Schnabel |
| Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright |
| I’m Not There | 2007 | Todd Haynes |
★ | Juno | 2007 | Jason Reitman |
| Lost for Words | 2007 | Joshua Whitehead |
| Michael Clayton | 2007 | Tony Gilroy |
| No Country For Old Men | 2007 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| REC | 2007 | Paco Plaza, Jaume Balagueró |
| Rendition | 2007 | Gavin Hood |
| Runnin’ Down a Dream | 2007 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Sicko | 2007 | Michael Moore |
| Simpsons Movie, The | 2007 | David Silverman |
| There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Transformers | 2007 | Michael Bay |
| Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher |
| Burn After Reading | 2008 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The | 2008 | David Fincher |
| Dark Knight, The | 2008 | Christopher Nolan |
| Departures | 2008 | Yojiro Takita |
| Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley |
| Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed | 2008 | Nathan Frankowski |
| Food, Inc | 2008 | Robert Kenner |
| Frost/Nixon | 2008 | Ron Howard |
| Get Smart | 2008 | Peter Segal |
★ | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood |
| Hurt Locker, The | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh |
| Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau |
| Man on Wire | 2008 | James Marsh |
| Pineapple Express | 2008 | David Gordon Green |
| Rachel Getting Married | 2008 | Jonathan Demme |
| Rembrandt's J'Accuse | 2008 | Peter Greenaway |
| Revolutionary Road | 2008 | Sam Mendes |
| Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle |
| Synecdoche; New York | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman |
| Tropic Thunder | 2008 | Ben Stiller |
| Wrecking Crew, The | 2008 | Denny Tedesco |
| Wrestler, The | 2008 | Darren Aronofsky |
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno | 2008 | Kevin Smith |
| Art of the Steal, The | 2009 | Don Argott |
| Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron |
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orelans | 2009 | Werner Herzog |
| Blind Side, The | 2009 | John Lee Hancock |
| Capitalism: A Love Story | 2009 | Michael Moore |
| CBGB | 2009 | Mandy Stein |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson |
| Fat Head | 2009 | Tom Naughton |
| Hangover, The | 2009 | Todd Phillips |
| Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Invictus | 2009 | Clint Eastwood |
| Julie & Julia | 2009 | Nora Ephron |
| Maiden Heist, The | 2009 | Peter Hewitt |
| Men Who Stare at Goats, The | 2009 | Grant Heslov |
| Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones |
| Secret in Their Eyes, The | 2009 | Juan José Campanella |
★ | Serious Man, A | 2009 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Star Trek | 2009 | J. J. Abrams |
| Tales from the Script | 2009 | Peter Hanson |
| Transcendent Man | 2009 | Barry Ptolemy |
| Up in the Air | 2009 | Jason Reitman |
| Zombieland | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer |
| Bhutto | 2010 | Duane Baughman, Johnny O’Hara |
| Bill Cunningham New York | 2010 | Richard Press |
| Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky |
| Cave of Forgotten Dreams | 2010 | Werner Herzog |
| DMT: The Spirit Molecule | 2010 | Mitch Schultz |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Banksy, Jaimie D’Cruz |
★ | Happy People | 2010 | Werner Herzog |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates |
| Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan |
| Rubber | 2010 | Quentin Dupieux |
| Senna | 2010 | Asif Kapadia |
| Social Network, The | 2010 | David Fincher |
| Tucker & Dale vs. Evil | 2010 | Eli Craig |
| Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | 2010 | Apichatpong Weerasethaukl |
| William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | 2010 | Yoni Leyser |
| Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The | 2011 | John Madden |
| Bridesmaids | 2011 | Paul Feig |
| Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard |
| Descendants, The | 2011 | Alexander Payne |
| Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | 2011 | Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Frédéric Tcheng, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt |
| Eames: The Artist and Painter | 2011 | Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates |
| Hugo | 2011 | Martin Scorsese |
| Intouchables, The | 2011 | Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano |
| Island President, The | 2011 | Jon Shenk |
| Kumaré | 2011 | Vikram Gandhi |
| Midnight in Paris | 2011 | Woody Allen |
| Pruitt-Igoe Myth, The | 2011 | Chad Freidrichs |
★ | Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick |
| Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O’Connor |
| Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck |
| Central Park Five, The | 2012 | Ken Burns |
| Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Electoral Dysfunction | 2012 | David Deschamps, Bennett Singer, Leslie D. Farrell |
| FDR: American Badass | 2012 | Garrett Brawith |
| Genius on Hold | 2012 | Gregory Marquette |
| Hunger Games, The | 2012 | Gary Ross |
| Hunt, The | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| Iron Sky | 2012 | Timo Vuorensola |
| Late Quartet, A | 2012 | Yaron Zilberman |
| Life of Pi | 2012 | Ang Lee |
| Lincoln | 2012 | Steven Spielberg |
| Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present | 2012 | Matthew Akers |
| Marley | 2012 | Kevin Macdonald |
| No | 2012 | Pablo Larraín |
| Quartet | 2012 | Dustin Hoffman |
★ | Silver Linings Playbook | 2012 | David O. Russell |
| Sleepwalk with Me | 2012 | Mike Birbiglia |
| Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen |
★ | American Hustle | 2013 | David O. Russell |
| American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs | 2013 | Grace Lee |
| August, Osage County | 2013 | John Wells |
| Behind the Candelabra | 2013 | Steven Soderbergh |
| Blue is the Warmest Color | 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| Conjuring, The | 2013 | James Wan |
| Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | John Mark Vallee |
| Galapagos Affair, The: Satan Came to Eden | 2013 | Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller |
| Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Hawking | 2013 | Stephen Finnigan |
| Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze |
| I Am Divine | 2013 | Jeffrey Schwarz |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Jodorowsky’s Dune | 2013 | Frank Pavich |
| Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons | 2013 | Stephen Chow, Derek Kwok |
| Knights of Badassdom | 2013 | Joe Lynch |
| Master Builder, A | 2013 | Jonathan Demme |
| Nebraska | 2013 | Alexander Payne |
| Philomena | 2013 | Stephen Frears |
| Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve |
| Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court | 2013 | Sam Taplin |
| Sharknado | 2013 | Anthony C. Ferrante |
| Square, The | 2013 | Jehane Noujaim |
| Under the Skin | 2013 | Jonathan Glazer |
| Wolf of Wall Street, The | 2013 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1964 | 2014 | Stephen Ives |
| American Sniper | 2014 | Clint Eastwood |
| Babadook, The | 2014 | Jennifer Kent |
★ | Birdman | 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Blue Room, The | 2014 | Mathieu Amalric |
| Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater |
| Chaos on the Bridge | 2014 | William Shatner |
| Citizenfour | 2014 | Laura Poitras |
| Creep | 2014 | Patrick Kack-Brice |
| Ex Machina | 2014 | Alex Garland |
| Gone Girl | 2014 | David Fincher |
| Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn |
| Honest Liar, An | 2014 | Tyler Measom, Justin Weinstein |
| Imitation Game, The | 2014 | Morten Tyldum |
| Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan |
| Interview, The | 2014 | Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg |
| Iris | 2014 | Albert Maysles |
| It Follows | 2014 | David Robert Mitchell |
| John Wick | 2014 | Chad Stahelski, David Leitch |
| Judge, The | 2014 | David Dobkin |
| Love and Mercy | 2014 | Bill Pohlad |
| Mr Turner | 2014 | Mike Leigh |
| Nightcrawler | 2014 | Dan Gilroy |
| Other One, The: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir | 2014 | Mike Fleiss |
| Richard Pryor: Icon | 2014 | Jodi Flynn |
| Selma | 2014 | Ava DuVernay |
| Sharknado 2: The Second One | 2014 | Anthony C. Ferrante |
| Theory of Everything, The | 2014 | James Marsh |
| What We Do in the Shadows | 2014 | Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement |
| Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle |
| Wild | 2014 | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| Art House | 2015 | Don Freeman |
| Best of Enemies | 2015 | Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville |
| Big Eyes | 2015 | Tim Burton |
| Big Short, The | 2015 | Adam McKay |
| Bridge of Spies | 2015 | Steven Spielberg |
| Brooklyn | 2015 | John Crowley |
| Bunker, The | 2015 | Nikias Chryssos |
| Concussion | 2015 | Peter Landesman |
| End of the Tour, The | 2015 | James Ponsoldt |
| Four Falls of Buffalo, The | 2015 | Ken Rodgers |
| Game Show Dynamos | 2015 | Patricia Boiko |
| Hateful Eight, The | 2015 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter |
| Joy | 2015 | David O. Russell |
| Jumbo Wild | 2015 | Nick Waggoner |
| Lobster, The | 2015 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller |
| Man from U.N.C.L.E., The | 2015 | Guy Ritchie |
| Martian, The | 2015 | Ridley Scott |
| Prince of Pennsylvania, The | 2015 | Jesse Vile |
| Remember | 2015 | Atom Egoyan |
| Revenant, The | 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Room | 2015 | Lenny Abrahamson |
| Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! | 2015 | Anthony C. Ferrante |
★ | Spotlight | 2015 | Tom McCarthy |
| Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens | 2015 | J. J. Abrams |
| Steve Jobs | 2015 | Danny Boyle |
| Straight Outta Compton | 2015 | F. Gary Gray |
| Tangerine | 2015 | Sean Baker |
| Trumbo | 2015 | Jay Roach |
| Very Murray Christmas, A | 2015 | Sofia Coppola |
| Wave, The | 2015 | Roar Uthaug |
| What Happened, Miss Simone? | 2015 | Liz Garbus |
| Witch, The | 2015 | Robert Eggers |
| 10 Cloverfield Lane | 2016 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 13th | 2016 | Ava DuVernay |
| 85 Bears, The | 2016 | Jason Hehir |
| Amanda Knox | 2016 | Brian McGinn, Rod Blackhurst |
| Arrival | 2016 | Denis Villeneuve |
| Assassin’s Creed | 2016 | Justin Kurzel |
| Before the Flood | 2016 | Fisher Stevens |
| Captain Fantastic | 2016 | Matt Ross |
| Deadpool | 2016 | Tim Miller |
| Doctor Strange | 2016 | Scott Derrickson |
| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | 2016 | David Yates |
| Fences | 2016 | Denzel Washington |
| Genius | 2016 | Michael Grandage |
| Ghostbusters | 2016 | Paul Feig |
| Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | Mel Gibson |
| Hail, Caesar! | 2016 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Hell or High Water | 2016 | David Mackenzie |
| Hidden Figures | 2016 | Theodore Melfi |
| Hush | 2016 | Mike Flanagan |
| I, Daniel Blake | 2016 | Ken Loach |
| La La Land | 2016 | Damien Chazelle |
| Lion | 2016 | Garth Davis |
| Lost City of Z, The | 2016 | James Gray |
★ | Manchester by the Sea | 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan |
| Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins |
| Obit | 2016 | Vanessa Gould |
| Patriots Day | 2016 | Peter Berg |
| Pee Wee’s Big Holiday | 2016 | John Lee |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2016 | Gareth Edwards |
| Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens | 2016 | Anthony C. Ferrante |
| Star Trek Beyond | 2016 | Justin Lin |
| Swiss Army Man | 2016 | Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert |
| Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve |
| Borg vs. McEnroe | 2017 | Janus Metz |
| Call Me By Your Name | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino |
| Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina |
| Columbus | 2017 | Kogonada |
| Darkest Hour | 2017 | Joe Wright |
| Death of Stalin, The | 2017 | Armando Ianucci |
| Disaster Artist, The | 2017 | James Franco |
| Dunkirk | 2017 | Christopher Nolan |
| Florida Project, The | 2017 | Sean Baker |
| Get Me Roger Stone | 2017 | Daniel DiMauro, Morgan Pehme, Dylan Bank |
| Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele |
| Glass Castle, The | 2017 | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| I, Tonya | 2017 | Craig Gillespie |
| Icarus | 2017 | Bryan Fogel |
| It | 2017 | Andrés Muschietti |
| Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond | 2017 | Chris Smith |
| Lady Bird | 2017 | Greta Gerwig |
| Loving Vincent | 2017 | Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman |
| Lucky | 2017 | John Carroll Lynch |
| Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much | 2017 | C. J. Wallis |
| Phantom Thread | 2017 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Post, The | 2017 | Steven Spielberg |
| Shape of Water, The | 2017 | Guillermo del Toro |
| Sharknado 5: Global Swarming | 2017 | Anthony C. Ferrante |
| Square, The | 2017 | Ruben Ostlund |
| Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi | 2017 | Rian Johnson |
★ | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | Martin McDonagh |
| Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox | 2017 | James Maycock |
| Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, The | 2017 | Jennifer Kroot |
| Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | 2017 | Luc Besson |
| Wonder Woman | 2017 | Patty Jenkins |
| Andhadhun | 2018 | Sriram Raghavan |
| Annihilation | 2018 | Alex Garland |
| Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The | 2018 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Bird Box | 2018 | Susanne Bier |
| Black Panther | 2018 | Ryan Coogler |
| BlacKkKlansman | 2018 | Spike Lee |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | 2018 | Bryan Singer |
| Burning | 2018 | Lee Chang-Dong |
| Capernaum | 2018 | Nadine Labaki |
| Crazy Rich Asians | 2018 | Jon M. Chu |
| Deadpool 2 | 2018 | David Leitch |
| Eighth Grade | 2018 | Bo Burnham |
| Eva A-7063 | 2018 | Ted Green |
| Favourite, The | 2018 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Free Solo | 2018 | Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi |
| Green Book | 2018 | Peter Farrelly |
| Happytime Murders, The | 2018 | Brian Henson |
| Hereditary | 2018 | Ari Aster |
| Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson |
| Leave No Trace | 2018 | Debra Granik |
| Mandy | 2018 | Panos Cosmatos |
| Quiet Place, A | 2018 | John Krasinski |
| Quincy | 2018 | Rashida Jones, Alan Hicks |
| Rachel Divide, The | 2018 | Laura Brownson |
| RBG | 2018 | Julie Cohen, Betsy West |
| Ready Player One | 2018 | Steven Spielberg |
★ | Roma | 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Seagull, The | 2018 | Michael Mayer |
| Shirkers | 2018 | Sandi Tan |
| Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti |
| Star is Born, A | 2018 | Bradley Cooper |
| Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski | 2018 | Ireneusz Dobrowolski |
| They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead | 2018 | Morgan Neville |
| Three Identical Strangers | 2018 | Tim Wardle |
| Vice | 2018 | Brian A. Miller |
| 1917 | 2019 | Sam Mendes |
| Ad Astra | 2019 | James Gray |
| Atlantics | 2019 | Mati Diop |
| Band Vs. Brand | 2019 | Bob Nalbandian |
| Booksmart | 2019 | Olivia Wilde |
| El Camino | 2019 | Vince Gilligan |
| Farewell, The | 2019 | Lulu Wang |
| Ford v. Ferrari | 2019 | James Mangold |
| FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened | 2019 | Chris Smith |
| I Am Mother | 2019 | Grant Sputore |
| Inventor, The | 2019 | Alex Gibney |
| Irishman, The | 2019 | Martin Scorsese |
| It Chapter Two | 2019 | Andrés Muschietti |
| Jojo Rabbit | 2019 | Taika Waititi |
★ | Joker | 2019 | Todd Phillips |
| Knives Out | 2019 | Rian Johnson |
| Leaving Neverland | 2019 | Dan Reed |
| Lifeline: Clyfford Still | 2019 | Dennis Scholl |
| Lighthouse, The | 2019 | Robert Eggers |
| Little Women | 2019 | Greta Gerwig |
| Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom | 2019 | Pawo Chonying Dorji |
| Marriage Story | 2019 | Noah Baumbach |
| Midsommar | 2019 | Ari Aster |
| Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | 2019 | Stanley Nelson Jr. |
| Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood | 2019 | Quentin Tarantino |
| Parasite | 2019 | Bong Jun Ho |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 2019 | Celine Sciamma |
| Rocketman | 2019 | Dexter Fletcher |
| Saint Maud | 2019 | Rose Glass |
| Sister Aimee | 2019 | Marie Schlingmann, Samantah Buck |
| Sound of Metal | 2019 | Darius Marder |
| Uncut Gems | 2019 | Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie |
| Wandering Earth, The | 2019 | Frant Gwo |
| Another Round | 2020 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| Black Bear | 2020 | Lawrence Michael Levine |
| Dick Johnson Is Dead | 2020 | Kirsten Johnson |
| Enola Holmes | 2020 | Harry Bradbeer |
| Eurovision | 2020 | David Dobkin |
| Father, The | 2020 | Florian Zeller |
| Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | 2020 | George C. Wolfe |
| Mank | 2020 | David Fincher |
| Minari | 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung |
| Nomadland | 2020 | Chloe Zhao |
| One Night in Miami | 2020 | Regina King |
| Promising Young Woman | 2020 | Emerald Fennell |
| Quo Vadis, Aida? | 2020 | Jasmila Žbanić |
★ | Riders of Justice | 2020 | Anders Thomas Jensen |
| Rose Island | 2020 | Sydney Sibilia |
| Run | 2020 | Aneesh Chaganty |
| Trial of the Chicago 7, The | 2020 | Aaron Sorkin |
| Zappa | 2020 | Alex Winter |
| Belfast | 2021 | Kenneth Branagh |
| Belle | 2021 | Mamoru Hosoda |
| CODA | 2021 | Sian Heder |
| Dig, The | 2021 | Simon Stone |
| Don't Look Up | 2021 | Adam McKay |
| Drive My Car | 2021 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
| Dune | 2021 | Denis Villeneuve |
| Free Guy | 2021 | Shawn Levy |
| Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman | 2021 | Herb Stratford |
| Hit the Road | 2021 | Panah Panahi |
| House of Gucci | 2021 | Ridley Scott |
| Humans, The | 2021 | Stephen Karam |
| In the Heights | 2021 | Jon M. Chu |
| Judas and the Black Messiah | 2021 | Shaka King |
| King Richard | 2021 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| Last Night in Soho | 2021 | Edgar Wright |
| Lead Me Home | 2021 | Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk |
| Licorice Pizza | 2021 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Matrix, The: Resurrections | 2021 | Lara Wachowski |
| Neptune Frost | 2021 | Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman |
| Nightmare Alley | 2021 | Guillermo del Toro |
| Pig | 2021 | Michael Sarnoski |
| Power of the Dog, The | 2021 | Jane Campion |
| South Park: Post Covid | 2021 | Trey Parker |
| Titane | 2021 | Julia Ducournau |
★ | Verdens verste menneske | 2021 | Joachim Trier |
| West Side Story | 2021 | Steven Spielberg |
| WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn | 2021 | Jed Rothstein |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | 2022 | Edward Berger |
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | 2022 | Laura Poitras |
| Banshees of Inisherin, The | 2022 | Martin McDonagh |
| Barbarian | 2022 | Zach Cregger |
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe | 2022 | John Rice, Albert Calleros |
| Elvis | 2022 | Baz Luhrmann |
| Everything Everywhere All At Once | 2022 | Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert |
| Fabelmans, The | 2022 | Steven Spielberg |
| Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | 2022 | Rian Johnson |
| Hustle | 2022 | Jeremiah Zagar |
| Navalny | 2022 | Daniel Roher |
| RRR | 2022 | S. S. Rajamouli |
| South Park: The Streaming Wars | 2022 | Trey Parker |
★ | Tár | 2022 | Todd Field |
| Top Gun: Maverick | 2022 | Joseph Kosinski |
| Triangle of Sadness | 2022 | Ruben Östlund |
| Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | 2022 | Eric Appel |
| Women Talking | 2022 | Sarah Polley |
| Wonder, The | 2022 | Sebastian Lelio |
| Barbie | 2023 | Greta Gerwig |
| No One Will Save You | 2023 | Brian Duffield |
★ | Oppenheimer | 2023 | Christopher Nolan |
| Renfield | 2023 | Chris McKay |
| South Park: Joining the Panderverse | 2023 | Trey Parker
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