Includes people credited as directors of photography.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 297 |
| 2 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton | 535 |
| 3 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 805 |
| 4 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula | 823 |
| 5 | Claire's Knee | 1970 | Eric Rohmer | 1304 |
| 6 | Places in the Heart | 1984 | Robert Benton | 1350 |
| 7 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut | 1636 |
| 8 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1739 |
| 9 | Love on the Run | 1979 | François Truffaut | 2229 |
| 10 | Two English Girls | 1971 | François Truffaut | 2306 |
| 11 | La Collectionneuse | 1967 | Eric Rohmer | 2348 |
| 12 | The Story of Adele H. | 1975 | François Truffaut | 2362 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 81 |
| 2 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 168 |
| 3 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
| 4 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 489 |
| 5 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 551 |
| 6 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 613 |
| 7 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 658 |
| 8 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 699 |
| 9 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1028 |
| 10 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1127 |
| 11 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1347 |
| 12 | Lola | 1961 | Jacques Demy | 1882 |
| 13 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1931 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 177 |
| 2 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 199 |
| 3 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 338 |
| 4 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 409 |
| 5 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt | 724 |
| 6 | Body and Soul | 1947 | Robert Rossen | 785 |
| 7 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 1122 |
| 8 | Shanghai Express | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 1457 |
| 9 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | John Cromwell | 1519 |
| 10 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan | 1775 |
| 11 | Kings Row | 1942 | Sam Wood | 2160 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 10 |
| 2 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 318 |
| 3 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 566 |
| 4 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 638 |
| 5 | The Big Carnival | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 728 |
| 6 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1059 |
| 7 | Midnight | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen | 1177 |
| 8 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | 1278 |
| 9 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1307 |
| 10 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1513 |
| 11 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1625 |
| 12 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 1765 |
| 13 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 1939 |
| 14 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 2205 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 158 |
| 2 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 276 |
| 3 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 443 |
| 4 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 503 |
| 5 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 652 |
| 6 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 958 |
| 7 | Scenes from a Marriage | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman | 979 |
| 8 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman | 1110 |
| 9 | The Tenant | 1976 | Roman Polanski | 1199 |
| 10 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 1266 |
| 11 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1326 |
| 12 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1473 |
| 13 | Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1585 |
| 14 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1911 |
| 15 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1981 | Bob Rafelson | 1951 |
| 16 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 2014 |
| 17 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman | 2035 |
| 18 | Chaplin | 1992 | Richard Attenborough | 2072 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 122 |
| 2 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | 351 |
| 3 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 423 |
| 4 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 488 |
| 5 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | 674 |
| 6 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 701 |
| 7 | Natural Born Killers | 1994 | Oliver Stone | 759 |
| 8 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | 781 |
| 9 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 1120 |
| 10 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1183 |
| 11 | Wag the Dog | 1997 | Barry Levinson | 1261 |
| 12 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | 1997 | Errol Morris | 1279 |
| 13 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 1349 |
| 14 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1460 |
| 15 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1495 |
| 16 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 1738 |
| 17 | City of Hope | 1991 | John Sayles | 1836 |
| 18 | The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 2164 |