Includes people credited as directors of photography.
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
2 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 201 |
3 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 371 |
4 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
5 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
6 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 584 |
7 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 628 |
8 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 807 |
9 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard | 985 |
10 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1366 |
11 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1510 |
12 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1569 |
13 | Lola | 1961 | Jacques Demy | 2509 |
14 | A Woman Is a Woman | 1961 | Jean-Luc Godard | 2766 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 52 |
2 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 75 |
3 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 108 |
4 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 189 |
5 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 524 |
6 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 681 |
7 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 733 |
8 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 806 |
9 | True Grit | 2010 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 934 |
10 | Skyfall | 2012 | Sam Mendes | 1259 |
11 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins | 1363 |
12 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1387 |
13 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve | 1562 |
14 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison | 1646 |
15 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 1647 |
16 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | 1889 |
17 | 1984 | 1984 | Michael Radford | 2028 |
18 | The Reader | 2008 | Stephen Daldry | 2056 |
19 | The Secret Garden | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland | 2237 |
20 | The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Joel Coen | 2272 |
21 | Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley | 2327 |
22 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2605 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 10 |
2 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 273 |
3 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 423 |
4 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 429 |
5 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 1007 |
6 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1319 |
7 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1394 |
8 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1528 |
9 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1530 |
10 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 1788 |
11 | Midnight | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen | 1832 |
12 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 2026 |
13 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | 2069 |
14 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 2526 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 258 |
2 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | 426 |
3 | Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 645 |
4 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann | 1199 |
5 | The Birdcage | 1996 | Mike Nichols | 1253 |
6 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 1275 |
7 | The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick | 1494 |
8 | The Revenant | 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1550 |
9 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1567 |
10 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1764 |
11 | A Little Princess | 1995 | Alfonso Cuarón | 1935 |
12 | Like Water for Chocolate | 1992 | Alfonso Arau | 2683 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 105 |
2 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 215 |
3 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 550 |
4 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 647 |
5 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 738 |
6 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 872 |
7 | Scenes from a Marriage | 1974 | Ingmar Bergman | 950 |
8 | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 987 |
9 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman | 1003 |
10 | The Tenant | 1976 | Roman Polanski | 1034 |
11 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1299 |
12 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 1318 |
13 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1409 |
14 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1547 |
15 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 1601 |
16 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman | 1770 |
17 | Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 2355 |
18 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1981 | Bob Rafelson | 2714 |
19 | Chaplin | 1992 | Richard Attenborough | 2770 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 200 |
2 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 272 |
3 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | 274 |
4 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 398 |
5 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 439 |
6 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 529 |
7 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | 579 |
8 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 868 |
9 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | 1032 |
10 | Shutter Island | 2010 | Martin Scorsese | 1083 |
11 | Hugo | 2011 | Martin Scorsese | 1120 |
12 | Natural Born Killers | 1994 | Oliver Stone | 1226 |
13 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1335 |
14 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | 1467 |
15 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1605 |
16 | The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Quentin Tarantino | 1707 |
17 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 1820 |
18 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1946 |
19 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | 1997 | Errol Morris | 1961 |
20 | The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 2805 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
3 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 20 |
4 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 117 |
5 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
6 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 774 |
7 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen | 848 |
8 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 880 |
9 | Zelig | 1983 | Woody Allen | 1328 |
10 | The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula | 1411 |
11 | Broadway Danny Rose | 1984 | Woody Allen | 1461 |
12 | Stardust Memories | 1980 | Woody Allen | 2269 |