Top Films by Year (1935-1939)

**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

1935

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Bride of Frankenstein	James Whale	121
2	Top Hat*	Mark Sandrich	172
3	The 39 Steps	Alfred Hitchcock	206
4	A Night at the Opera	Sam Wood	253
5	Mutiny on the Bounty**	Frank Lloyd	447
6	Triumph of the Will	Leni Riefenstahl	465
7	David Copperfield*	George Cukor	1062
8	Ruggles of Red Gap*	Leo McCarey	1398
9	The Informer*	John Ford	1441
10	Anna Karenina	Clarence Brown	1789
11	Captain Blood*	Michael Curtiz	1800
12	Naughty Marietta*	Robert Z. Leonard and W.S. Van Dyke	2311

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Modern Times	Charles Chaplin	108
2	Swing Time	George Stevens	392
3	My Man Godfrey	Gregory La Cava	538
4	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town*	Frank Capra	654
5	Camille	George Cukor	681
6	A Day in the Country	Jean Renoir	696
7	Dodsworth*	William Wyler	698
8	Things to Come	William Cameron Menzies	931
9	Fury	Fritz Lang	1115
10	Show Boat	James Whale	1205
11	The Crime of Mr. Lange	Jean Renoir	1217
12	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Michael Curtiz	1323
13	The Great Ziegfeld**	Robert Z. Leonard	1562
14	The Story of a Cheat	Sacha Guitry	1592
15	César	Marcel Pagnol	1712
16	San Francisco*	W.S. Van Dyke	1854
17	Flash Gordon	Frederick Stephani	2108
18	The Petrified Forest	Archie Mayo	2181
19	Follow the Fleet	Mark Sandrich	2354

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	David Hand	89
2	The Grand Illusion*	Jean Renoir	90
3	The Awful Truth*	Leo McCarey	469
4	Way Out West	James W. Horne	825
5	Stage Door*	Gregory La Cava	897
6	Stella Dallas	King Vidor	938
7	The Life of Emile Zola**	William Dieterle	1027
8	Lost Horizon*	Frank Capra	1128
9	Captains Courageous*	Victor Fleming	1137
10	Pépé Le Moko	Julien Duvivier	1256
11	A Day at the Races	Sam Wood	1385
12	Make Way for Tomorrow	Leo McCarey	1452
13	The Prisoner of Zenda	John Cromwell	1519
14	Nothing Sacred	William A. Wellman	1880
15	Shall We Dance	Mark Sandrich	1918
16	Dead End*	William Wyler	1990
17	The Good Earth*	Sidney Franklin	2112
18	A Star Is Born*	William A. Wellman	2159
19	Oh, Mr. Porter!	Marcel Varnel	2237

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	52
2	The Adventures of Robin Hood*	Michael Curtiz and William Keighley	153
3	The Lady Vanishes	Alfred Hitchcock	376
4	Alexander Nevsky	Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev	523
5	Olympia	Leni Riefenstahl	596
6	Holiday	George Cukor	1034
7	Angels with Dirty Faces	Michael Curtiz	1145
8	Pygmalion*	Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard	1168
9	Jezebel*	William Wyler	1172
10	You Can't Take It with You**	Frank Capra	1389
11	La Bête Humaine	Jean Renoir	1574
12	Port of Shadows	Marcel Carné	1708
13	The Baker's Wife	Marcel Pagnol	1989

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Wizard of Oz*	Victor Fleming	5
2	Gone with the Wind**	Victor Fleming	17
3	The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir	70
4	Stagecoach*	John Ford	106
5	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington*	Frank Capra	156
6	Ninotchka*	Ernst Lubitsch	229
7	Wuthering Heights*	William Wyler	412
8	Gunga Din	George Stevens	623
9	Goodbye Mr. Chips*	Sam Wood	685
10	Young Mr. Lincoln	John Ford	725
11	The Women	George Cukor	835
12	Destry Rides Again	George Marshall	947
13	Le Jour se lève	Marcel Carné	965
14	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	William Dieterle	1102
15	Dark Victory*	Edmund Goulding	1113
16	Only Angels Have Wings	Howard Hawks	1154
17	Midnight	Mitchell Leisen	1177
18	The Roaring Twenties	Raoul Walsh	1184
19	The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums	Kenji Mizoguchi	1357
20	Of Mice and Men*	Lewis Milestone	1575
21	The Four Feathers	Zoltan Korda	1635
22	Beau Geste	William A. Wellman	2147
23	Son of Frankenstein	Rowland V. Lee	2172
24	Love Affair*	Leo McCarey	2209
25	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sidney Lanfield	2301

**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.