**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 87 |
2 | The Philadelphia Story* | George Cukor | 131 |
3 | The Great Dictator* | Charles Chaplin | 183 |
4 | The Grapes of Wrath* | John Ford | 209 |
5 | Pinocchio | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen | 233 |
6 | Fantasia | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 266 |
7 | Rebecca** | Alfred Hitchcock | 299 |
8 | The Shop around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 345 |
9 | The Bank Dick | Edward F. Cline | 1028 |
10 | The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 1090 |
11 | Foreign Correspondent* | Alfred Hitchcock | 2232 |
12 | The Letter* | William Wyler | 2299 |
13 | The Great McGinty | Preston Sturges | 2462 |
14 | Dance, Girl, Dance | Dorothy Arzner | 2547 |
15 | Knute Rockne, All American | Lloyd Bacon | 2630 |
16 | The Westerner | William Wyler | 2724 |
17 | The Mark of Zorro | Rouben Mamoulian | 2763 |
18 | The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | 2778 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Citizen Kane* | Orson Welles | 4 |
2 | The Maltese Falcon* | John Huston | 68 |
3 | The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | 193 |
4 | Sullivan's Travels | Preston Sturges | 252 |
5 | Dumbo | Ben Sharpsteen | 616 |
6 | How Green Was My Valley** | John Ford | 708 |
7 | Sergeant York* | Howard Hawks | 1133 |
8 | The Wolf Man | George Waggner | 1192 |
9 | Ball of Fire | Howard Hawks | 1446 |
10 | The Little Foxes* | William Wyler | 1755 |
11 | High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | 1888 |
12 | Suspicion* | Alfred Hitchcock | 2312 |
13 | They Died with Their Boots on | Raoul Walsh | 2487 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Casablanca** | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
2 | To Be or Not to Be | Ernst Lubitsch | 280 |
3 | Bambi | David Hand | 311 |
4 | The Magnificent Ambersons* | Orson Welles | 405 |
5 | Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 452 |
6 | The Ox-Bow Incident* | William A. Wellman | 539 |
7 | Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | 612 |
8 | Yankee Doodle Dandy* | Michael Curtiz | 687 |
9 | The Palm Beach Story | Preston Sturges | 803 |
10 | The Pride of the Yankees* | Sam Wood | 1014 |
11 | Listen to Britain | Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister | 1481 |
12 | Mrs. Miniver** | William Wyler | 1496 |
13 | Went the Day Well? | Alberto Cavalcanti | 1551 |
14 | In Which We Serve* | Noel Coward and David Lean | 1653 |
15 | Woman of the Year | George Stevens | 1858 |
16 | Road to Morocco | David Butler | 2208 |
17 | Holiday Inn | Mark Sandrich | 2401 |
18 | Saboteur | Alfred Hitchcock | 2562 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 327 |
2 | Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | 432 |
3 | Day of Wrath | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 610 |
4 | Meshes of the Afternoon | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 713 |
5 | I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | 864 |
6 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Preston Sturges | 884 |
7 | Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | 1257 |
8 | Le Corbeau | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1582 |
9 | Cabin in the Sky | Vincente Minnelli | 2013 |
10 | Heaven Can Wait* | Ernst Lubitsch | 2168 |
11 | Fires Were Started | Humphrey Jennings | 2185 |
12 | Stormy Weather | Andrew L. Stone | 2204 |
13 | The Seventh Victim | Mark Robson | 2351 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Double Indemnity* | Billy Wilder | 42 |
2 | Laura | Otto Preminger | 279 |
3 | Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente Minnelli | 283 |
4 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | 533 |
5 | Ivan the Terrible | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 618 |
6 | To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | 683 |
7 | Henry V* | Laurence Olivier | 960 |
8 | National Velvet | Clarence Brown | 1019 |
9 | Gaslight* | George Cukor | 1380 |
10 | Murder, My Sweet | Edward Dmytryk | 1413 |
11 | Hail the Conquering Hero | Preston Sturges | 1497 |
12 | A Canterbury Tale | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 1559 |
13 | The Woman in the Window | Fritz Lang | 1643 |
14 | Going My Way** | Leo McCarey | 1876 |
15 | Ministry of Fear | Fritz Lang | 2653 |
16 | The Curse of the Cat People | Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch | 2693 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.