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Top Films from Medium Sized Studios in North America

The lists below sometimes incorporate more than one entity with the same name.

DreamWorks

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
2 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
3 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 113
4 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 284
5 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 571
6 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 584
7 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 621
8 Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord and Nick Park 747
9 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 796
10 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 Steve Box and Nick Park 951
11 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay 982
12 Meet the Parents 2000 Jay Roach 1066
13 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood 1069
14 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1119
15 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 1138
16 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1224
17 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1380
18 The Ring 2002 Gore Verbinski 1422
19 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg 1449
20 Old School 2003 Todd Phillips 1589
21 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross 1610
22 Band of Brothers 2001 David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To 1915
23 Munich 2005 Steven Spielberg 1923
24 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Clint Eastwood 1944
25 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton 1975
26 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1994
27 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 2054
28 House of Sand and Fog 2003 Vadim Perelman 2134
29 The Prince of Egypt 1998 Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells 2185

Miramax Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
2 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 231
3 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 244
4 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 322
5 Scream1 1996 Wes Craven 324
6 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 351
7 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 387
8 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 533
9 Sin City1 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 575
10 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 589
11 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 624
12 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 701
13 The Others1 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 803
14 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 826
15 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 927
16 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 968
17 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella 983
18 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1056
19 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1085
20 Chocolat 2000 Lasse Hallström 1114
21 Flirting with Disaster 1996 David O. Russell 1125
22 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1219
23 From Dusk Till Dawn1 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1222
24 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1276
25 Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan 1366
26 Kids 1995 Larry Clark 1472
27 Citizen Ruth 1996 Alexander Payne 1492
28 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1495
29 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Woody Allen 1518
30 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1624
31 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 Michael Moore 1673
32 Brassed Off 1996 Mark Herman 1704
33 Scream 21 1997 Wes Craven 1726
34 Spy Kids1 2001 Robert Rodriguez 1768
35 A Walk on the Moon 1999 Tony Goldwyn 1820
36 Bob Roberts 1992 Tim Robbins 1922
37 Smoke 1995 Wayne Wang 1943
38 Welcome to Sarajevo 1997 Michael Winterbottom 1947
39 Emma 1996 Douglas McGrath 2017
40 Queen Margot 1994 Patrice Chéreau 2095
41 The Cider House Rules 1999 Lasse Hallström 2139
42 Enchanted April 1992 Mike Newell 2176
43 Frida 2002 Julie Taymor 2222

1 Produced or co-produced by Dimension Films.

New Line Cinema

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
3 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
4 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
5 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
6 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 345
7 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 373
8 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 401
9 Short Cuts1 1993 Robert Altman 603
10 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 612
11 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 706
12 Dancer in the Dark1 2000 Lars von Trier 780
13 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell 795
14 Dark City 1998 Alex Proyas 868
15 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 991
16 Hairspray 1988 John Waters 1068
17 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 1131
18 Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross 1260
19 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1261
20 The Notebook 2004 Nick Cassavetes 1285
21 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1297
22 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 1311
23 The Mask 1994 Chuck Russell 1381
24 Menace II Society 1993 Albert and Allen Hughes 1632
25 Blade 1998 Stephen Norrington 1700
26 The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci 1779
27 Wedding Crashers 2005 David Dobkin 1855
28 Pump Up the Volume 1990 Allan Moyle 1868
29 About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne 1950
30 Elephant1 2003 Gus Van Sant 2001
31 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 Jay Roach 2135
32 Little Children 2006 Todd Field 2149
33 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder 2268

1 Produced by Fine Line Features.

Orion Pictures Corporation

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
2 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 354
3 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 467
4 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 495
5 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 674
6 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 837
7 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman 1111
8 Arthur 1981 Steve Gordon 1197
9 Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 Susan Seidelman 1227
10 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen 1269
11 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen 1869
12 Prince of the City 1981 Sidney Lumet 1995
13 10 1979 Blake Edwards 2197
14 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz 2305
15 Time after Time 1979 Nicholas Meyer 2320
16 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 2368

RKO Radio Pictures

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
2 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
3 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
4 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
5 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 172
6 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
7 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
8 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 392
9 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 458
10 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 623
11 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 883
12 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava 897
13 They Live by Night 1949 Nicholas Ray 910
14 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 1053
15 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 1098
16 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1102
17 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 1241
18 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise 1275
19 The Informer 1935 John Ford 1441
20 The Spiral Staircase 1945 Robert Siodmak 1564
21 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich 1756
22 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner 1764
23 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 1822
24 Shall We Dance 1937 Mark Sandrich 1918
25 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 2026
26 Love Affair 1939 Leo McCarey 2209
27 Christopher Strong 1933 Dorothy Arzner 2251
28 The Curse of the Cat People 1944 Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch 2294
29 My Favorite Wife 1940 Garson Kanin 2332
30 Follow the Fleet 1936 Mark Sandrich 2354

Samuel Goldwyn Company

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 126
2 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 412
3 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 671
4 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 698
5 Stella Dallas 1937 King Vidor 938
6 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 986
7 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World1 2003 Peter Weir 1056
8 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1076
9 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1603
10 The Madness of King George 1994 Nicholas Hytner 1721
11 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 François Girard 1783
12 City of Hope 1991 John Sayles 1836
13 Dead End 1937 William Wyler 1990

1 Produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films.

United Artists

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 221
2 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 347
3 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 425
4 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 815
5 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 917
6 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George 1060
7 Richard III 1995 Richard Loncraine 1175
8 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven 1293
9 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer 1446
10 Fame 1980 Alan Parker 1486
11 GoldenEye 1995 Martin Campbell 1788
12 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth 1859
13 Pieces of April 2003 Peter Hedges 1952
14 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 John McTiernan 2093
15 Rocky III 1982 Sylvester Stallone 2117
16 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 2308
17 Rocky IV 1985 Sylvester Stallone 2327
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