**—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 | 155 |
| 2 | Top Hat* | Mark Sandrich | 330 |
| 3 | A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | 340 |
| 4 | The 39 Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | 355 |
| 5 | Triumph of the Will | Leni Riefenstahl | 590 |
| 6 | Mutiny on the Bounty** | Frank Lloyd | 1074 |
| 7 | Ruggles of Red Gap* | Leo McCarey | 1651 |
| 8 | The Informer* | John Ford | 1868 |
| 9 | Captain Blood* | Michael Curtiz | 2176 |
| 10 | David Copperfield* | George Cukor | 2568 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | 53 |
| 2 | Swing Time | George Stevens | 772 |
| 3 | My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | 788 |
| 4 | Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | 1022 |
| 5 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* | Frank Capra | 1191 |
| 6 | Dodsworth* | William Wyler | 1212 |
| 7 | Fury | Fritz Lang | 1385 |
| 8 | The Crime of Mr. Lange | Jean Renoir | 1766 |
| 9 | Camille | George Cukor | 2006 |
| 10 | Show Boat | James Whale | 2083 |
| 11 | Sabotage | Alfred Hitchcock | 2257 |
| 12 | Reefer Madness | Louis J. Gasnier | 2329 |
| 13 | The Story of a Cheat | Sacha Guitry | 2448 |
| 14 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Michael Curtiz | 2493 |
| 15 | The Petrified Forest | Archie Mayo | 2765 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | David Hand | 104 |
| 2 | The Grand Illusion* | Jean Renoir | 122 |
| 3 | The Awful Truth* | Leo McCarey | 758 |
| 4 | Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo McCarey | 949 |
| 5 | Way Out West | James W. Horne | 1109 |
| 6 | Pépé Le Moko | Julien Duvivier | 1243 |
| 7 | Lost Horizon* | Frank Capra | 1248 |
| 8 | Stella Dallas | King Vidor | 1913 |
| 9 | The Life of Emile Zola** | William Dieterle | 1936 |
| 10 | Captains Courageous* | Victor Fleming | 2092 |
| 11 | Stage Door* | Gregory La Cava | 2186 |
| 12 | Dead End* | William Wyler | 2470 |
| 13 | Le Roman de Renard | Irene and Wladyslaw Starewicz | 2628 |
| 14 | A Day at the Races | Sam Wood | 2681 |
| 15 | The Good Earth* | Sidney Franklin | 2689 |
| 16 | You Only Live Once | Fritz Lang | 2802 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 91 |
| 2 | The Adventures of Robin Hood* | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 212 |
| 3 | The Lady Vanishes | Alfred Hitchcock | 523 |
| 4 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | Leni Riefenstahl | 734 |
| 5 | Alexander Nevsky | Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilyev | 760 |
| 6 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | Leni Riefenstahl | 790 |
| 7 | Holiday | George Cukor | 1270 |
| 8 | Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | 1382 |
| 9 | You Can't Take It with You** | Frank Capra | 1644 |
| 10 | La Bête Humaine | Jean Renoir | 1767 |
| 11 | Jezebel* | William Wyler | 1824 |
| 12 | Port of Shadows | Marcel Carné | 1841 |
| 13 | Pygmalion* | Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard | 1940 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz* | Victor Fleming | 15 |
| 2 | Gone with the Wind** | Victor Fleming | 32 |
| 3 | The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | 99 |
| 4 | Stagecoach* | John Ford | 140 |
| 5 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* | Frank Capra | 303 |
| 6 | Ninotchka* | Ernst Lubitsch | 401 |
| 7 | Destry Rides Again | George Marshall | 836 |
| 8 | Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | 975 |
| 9 | Le Jour se lève | Marcel Carné | 1124 |
| 10 | Wuthering Heights* | William Wyler | 1136 |
| 11 | Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | 1142 |
| 12 | The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1162 |
| 13 | Gunga Din | George Stevens | 1213 |
| 14 | The Women | George Cukor | 1294 |
| 15 | The Roaring Twenties | Raoul Walsh | 1456 |
| 16 | Goodbye Mr. Chips* | Sam Wood | 1621 |
| 17 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | William Dieterle | 1656 |
| 18 | Midnight | Mitchell Leisen | 1832 |
| 19 | Dark Victory* | Edmund Goulding | 2100 |
| 20 | Dodge City | Michael Curtiz | 2540 |
| 21 | Of Mice and Men* | Lewis Milestone | 2789 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
