**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bride of Frankenstein | James Whale | 123 |
| 2 | Top Hat* | Mark Sandrich | 386 |
| 3 | The 39 Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | 415 |
| 4 | A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | 500 |
| 5 | Triumph of the Will | Leni Riefenstahl | 877 |
| 6 | Mutiny on the Bounty** | Frank Lloyd | 1211 |
| 7 | Captain Blood* | Michael Curtiz | 2016 |
| 8 | Ruggles of Red Gap* | Leo McCarey | 2057 |
| 9 | The Informer* | John Ford | 2294 |
| 10 | David Copperfield* | George Cukor | 2664 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | 61 |
| 2 | Swing Time | George Stevens | 966 |
| 3 | My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | 1216 |
| 4 | Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | 1325 |
| 5 | Dodsworth* | William Wyler | 1669 |
| 6 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* | Frank Capra | 1673 |
| 7 | Fury | Fritz Lang | 1708 |
| 8 | Camille | George Cukor | 2264 |
| 9 | Show Boat | James Whale | 2453 |
| 10 | The Crime of Mr. Lange | Jean Renoir | 2489 |
| 11 | Reefer Madness | Louis J. Gasnier | 2619 |
| 12 | San Francisco* | W.S. Van Dyke | 3018 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | David Hand | 115 |
| 2 | The Grand Illusion* | Jean Renoir | 180 |
| 3 | The Awful Truth* | Leo McCarey | 827 |
| 4 | Pépé Le Moko | Julien Duvivier | 1033 |
| 5 | Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo McCarey | 1279 |
| 6 | Lost Horizon* | Frank Capra | 1500 |
| 7 | Captains Courageous* | Victor Fleming | 1799 |
| 8 | Stella Dallas | King Vidor | 2022 |
| 9 | Way Out West | James W. Horne | 2205 |
| 10 | The Life of Emile Zola** | William Dieterle | 2575 |
| 11 | Stage Door* | Gregory La Cava | 2985 |
| 12 | The Good Earth* | Sidney Franklin | 2992 |
| 13 | You Only Live Once | Fritz Lang | 3016 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 128 |
| 2 | The Adventures of Robin Hood* | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 265 |
| 3 | The Lady Vanishes | Alfred Hitchcock | 574 |
| 4 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | Leni Riefenstahl | 1097 |
| 5 | Alexander Nevsky | Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev | 1116 |
| 6 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | Leni Riefenstahl | 1154 |
| 7 | Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | 1586 |
| 8 | Holiday | George Cukor | 1702 |
| 9 | You Can't Take It with You** | Frank Capra | 1995 |
| 10 | La Bête Humaine | Jean Renoir | 2338 |
| 11 | Jezebel* | William Wyler | 2445 |
| 12 | Port of Shadows | Marcel Carné | 2827 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz* | Victor Fleming | 9 |
| 2 | Gone with the Wind** | Victor Fleming | 31 |
| 3 | The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | 138 |
| 4 | Stagecoach* | John Ford | 183 |
| 5 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* | Frank Capra | 362 |
| 6 | Ninotchka* | Ernst Lubitsch | 573 |
| 7 | Destry Rides Again | George Marshall | 1105 |
| 8 | Wuthering Heights* | William Wyler | 1163 |
| 9 | The Women | George Cukor | 1294 |
| 10 | Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | 1332 |
| 11 | Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | 1482 |
| 12 | Le Jour se lève | Marcel Carné | 1576 |
| 13 | Gunga Din | George Stevens | 1598 |
| 14 | The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1631 |
| 15 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | William Dieterle | 1846 |
| 16 | Goodbye Mr. Chips* | Sam Wood | 2079 |
| 17 | The Roaring Twenties | Raoul Walsh | 2455 |
| 18 | Dodge City | Michael Curtiz | 2761 |
| 19 | Midnight | Mitchell Leisen | 2802 |
| 20 | Love Affair* | Leo McCarey | 2875 |
| 21 | Of Mice and Men* | Lewis Milestone | 2895 |
| 22 | Dark Victory* | Edmund Goulding | 2942 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
