Includes people credited as directors of photography.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 295 |
| 2 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton | 448 |
| 3 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula | 775 |
| 4 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 1023 |
| 5 | Places in the Heart | 1984 | Robert Benton | 1193 |
| 6 | Claire's Knee | 1970 | Eric Rohmer | 1268 |
| 7 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut | 1426 |
| 8 | Two English Girls | 1971 | François Truffaut | 1438 |
| 9 | The Story of Adele H. | 1975 | François Truffaut | 1756 |
| 10 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1814 |
| 11 | Love on the Run | 1979 | François Truffaut | 1909 |
| 12 | Bed and Board | 1970 | François Truffaut | 2130 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 77 |
| 2 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 154 |
| 3 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 373 |
| 4 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 483 |
| 5 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 521 |
| 6 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 552 |
| 7 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 596 |
| 8 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 873 |
| 9 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 966 |
| 10 | Lola | 1961 | Jacques Demy | 1215 |
| 11 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1243 |
| 12 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1449 |
| 13 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1769 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 158 |
| 2 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 170 |
| 3 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 257 |
| 4 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 337 |
| 5 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt | 531 |
| 6 | Body and Soul | 1947 | Robert Rossen | 936 |
| 7 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 1068 |
| 8 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | John Cromwell | 1253 |
| 9 | Shanghai Express | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 1383 |
| 10 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan | 1529 |
| 11 | Kings Row | 1942 | Sam Wood | 1654 |
| 12 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | 1948 | H.C. Potter | 2376 |
| 13 | Hombre | 1967 | Martin Ritt | 2421 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 12 |
| 2 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 404 |
| 3 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 558 |
| 4 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 582 |
| 5 | The Big Carnival | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 830 |
| 6 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | 922 |
| 7 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 960 |
| 8 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1016 |
| 9 | Midnight | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen | 1059 |
| 10 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1489 |
| 11 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 1553 |
| 12 | The Uninvited | 1944 | Lewis Allen | 1605 |
| 13 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 1888 |
| 14 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1952 |
| 15 | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | 1935 | Henry Hathaway | 2124 |
| 16 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 2175 |
| 17 | Separate Tables | 1958 | Delbert Mann | 2437 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 151 |
| 2 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 247 |
| 3 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 365 |
| 4 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 488 |
| 5 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 539 |
| 6 | Scenes from a Marriage | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman | 799 |
| 7 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 845 |
| 8 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman | 901 |
| 9 | Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1194 |
| 10 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1199 |
| 11 | The Tenant | 1976 | Roman Polanski | 1469 |
| 12 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1561 |
| 13 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman | 1706 |
| 14 | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1872 |
| 15 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1908 |
| 16 | Winter Light | 1962 | Ingmar Bergman | 2047 |
| 17 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 2164 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 111 |
| 2 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 424 |
| 3 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | 492 |
| 4 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 560 |
| 5 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | 678 |
| 6 | Natural Born Killers | 1994 | Oliver Stone | 709 |
| 7 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | 852 |
| 8 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 1019 |
| 9 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1033 |
| 10 | Wag the Dog | 1997 | Barry Levinson | 1217 |
| 11 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | 1997 | Errol Morris | 1276 |
| 12 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 1333 |
| 13 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 1562 |
| 14 | City of Hope | 1991 | John Sayles | 1660 |
| 15 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1662 |
| 16 | The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 2263 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 1 |
| 2 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 68 |
| 3 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 96 |
| 4 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 299 |
| 5 | Ball of Fire | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 890 |
| 6 | The Little Foxes | 1941 | William Wyler | 1308 |
| 7 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 1802 |
| 8 | The Long Voyage Home | 1940 | John Ford | 2095 |
| 9 | Song of the South | 1946 | Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson | 2108 |
| 10 | The Bishop's Wife | 1947 | Henry Koster | 2190 |
| 11 | Les Misérables | 1935 | Richard Boleslawski | 2425 |