| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1901 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney |
| 1902 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 1903 | Lantana | 2001 | Ray Lawrence |
| 1904 | Divided We Fall | 2000 | Jan Hrebejk |
| 1905 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Don Coscarelli |
| 1906 | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento |
| 1907 | Story of G.I. Joe | 1945 | William A. Wellman |
| 1908 | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang |
| 1909 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus |
| 1910 | Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton |
| 1911 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1912 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová |
| 1913 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Wes Anderson |
| 1914 | Smile | 1975 | Michael Ritchie |
| 1915 | Band of Brothers | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To |
| 1916 | Gentleman Jim | 1942 | Raoul Walsh |
| 1917 | Bye Bye Birdie | 1963 | George Sidney |
| 1918 | Shall We Dance | 1937 | Mark Sandrich |
| 1919 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters |
| 1920 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1921 | Indochine | 1992 | Régis Wargnier |
| 1922 | Bob Roberts | 1992 | Tim Robbins |
| 1923 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1924 | Jesus of Montreal | 1989 | Denys Arcand |
| 1925 | Major League | 1989 | David S. Ward |
| 1926 | The Harder They Fall | 1956 | Mark Robson |
| 1927 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam |
| 1928 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel |
| 1929 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1930 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies |
| 1931 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch |
| 1932 | The Crucible | 1996 | Nicholas Hytner |
| 1933 | The Red and the White | 1968 | Miklós Jancsó |
| 1934 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau |
| 1935 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 1936 | The Wedding March | 1928 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 1937 | Blue Collar | 1978 | Paul Schrader |
| 1938 | A Sunday in the Country | 1984 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 1939 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges |
| 1940 | My Cousin Vinny | 1992 | Jonathan Lynn |
| 1941 | The Wild One | 1953 | László Benedek |
| 1942 | Junior Bonner | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1943 | Smoke | 1995 | Wayne Wang |
| 1944 | Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1945 | The More the Merrier | 1943 | George Stevens |
| 1946 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943 | Sam Wood |
| 1947 | Welcome to Sarajevo | 1997 | Michael Winterbottom |
| 1948 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2004 | Rawson Marshall Thurber |
| 1949 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 1950 | About Schmidt | 2002 | Alexander Payne |
| 1951 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1981 | Bob Rafelson |
| 1952 | Pieces of April | 2003 | Peter Hedges |
| 1953 | Léolo | 1992 | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
| 1954 | A River Runs Through It | 1992 | Robert Redford |
| 1955 | An Unmarried Woman | 1978 | Paul Mazursky |
| 1956 | The Firemen's Ball | 1967 | Milos Forman |
| 1957 | Babel | 2006 | Alejandro González Ińárritu |
| 1958 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek |
| 1959 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola |
| 1960 | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier |
| 1961 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut |
| 1962 | All of Me | 1984 | Carl Reiner |
| 1963 | I Was Born, But... | 1932 | Yasujiro Ozu |
| 1964 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 1933 | Fritz Lang |
| 1965 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1988 | Todd Haynes |
| 1966 | Batman | 1966 | Leslie H. Martinson |
| 1967 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich |
| 1968 | 10 Things I Hate about You | 1999 | Gil Junger |
| 1969 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1970 | Runaway Train | 1985 | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| 1971 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1978 | Fred Schepisi |
| 1972 | Carnal Knowledge | 1971 | Mike Nichols |
| 1973 | 1941 | 1979 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1974 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1975 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton |
| 1976 | Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson |
| 1977 | Robin Hood | 1973 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 1978 | Wanda | 1970 | Barbara Loden |
| 1979 | Airport | 1970 | George Seaton |
| 1980 | The Mouse That Roared | 1959 | Jack Arnold |
| 1981 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman |
| 1982 | The Nun's Story | 1959 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1983 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn |
| 1984 | Accattone | 1961 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 1985 | Les Misérables | 1995 | Claude Lelouch |
| 1986 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz |
| 1987 | Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy |
| 1988 | Knute Rockne, All American | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 1989 | The Baker's Wife | 1938 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 1990 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler |
| 1991 | The Woman in the Window | 1944 | Fritz Lang |
| 1992 | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 1993 | Annie Get Your Gun | 1950 | George Sidney |
| 1994 | Antz | 1998 | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson |
| 1995 | Prince of the City | 1981 | Sidney Lumet |
| 1996 | Rock 'n' Roll High School | 1979 | Allan Arkush |
| 1997 | The Golden Coach | 1952 | Jean Renoir |
| 1998 | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément |
| 1999 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher |
| 2000 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan |
