**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Sunset Blvd.* | Billy Wilder | 25 |
2 | All about Eve** | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
3 | Rashômon | Akira Kurosawa | 72 |
4 | In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 361 |
5 | Los Olvidados | Luis Buñuel | 387 |
6 | Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 505 |
7 | The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 562 |
8 | Winchester '73 | Anthony Mann | 668 |
9 | Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | 785 |
10 | Night and the City | Jules Dassin | 834 |
11 | Cinderella | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 847 |
12 | Harvey | Henry Koster | 907 |
13 | The Gunfighter | Henry King | 1104 |
14 | Born Yesterday* | George Cukor | 1276 |
15 | Rio Grande | John Ford | 1791 |
16 | La Ronde | Max Ophüls | 1803 |
17 | Wagon Master | John Ford | 1890 |
18 | Un chant d'amour | Jean Genet | 2075 |
19 | Stromboli | Roberto Rossellini | 2132 |
20 | Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | 2359 |
21 | Broken Arrow | Delmer Daves | 2475 |
22 | Father of the Bride* | Vincente Minnelli | 2715 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | A Streetcar Named Desire* | Elia Kazan | 196 |
2 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | 245 |
3 | Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
4 | The African Queen | John Huston | 286 |
5 | An American in Paris** | Vincente Minnelli | 391 |
6 | Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 423 |
7 | Diary of a Country Priest | Robert Bresson | 545 |
8 | The Thing from Another World | Christian Nyby | 762 |
9 | A Place in the Sun* | George Stevens | 786 |
10 | The River | Jean Renoir | 1216 |
11 | Alice in Wonderland | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1310 |
12 | Early Summer | Yasujirô Ozu | 1536 |
13 | The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | 1552 |
14 | The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | 1614 |
15 | The Steel Helmet | Samuel Fuller | 1819 |
16 | Scrooge | Brian Desmond Hurst | 1914 |
17 | Othello | Orson Welles | 1917 |
18 | Miracle in Milan | Vittorio De Sica | 2189 |
19 | When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | 2254 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
2 | High Noon* | Fred Zinnemann | 130 |
3 | Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | 256 |
4 | Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | 445 |
5 | The Quiet Man* | John Ford | 619 |
6 | The Life of Oharu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 986 |
7 | Forbidden Games | René Clément | 1089 |
8 | The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | 1292 |
9 | Casque d'Or | Jacques Becker | 1360 |
10 | Limelight | Charles Chaplin | 1485 |
11 | Le Plaisir | Max Ophüls | 1851 |
12 | Rancho Notorious | Fritz Lang | 2156 |
13 | The Narrow Margin | Richard Fleischer | 2216 |
14 | Bend of the River | Anthony Mann | 2464 |
15 | Europa '51 | Roberto Rossellini | 2582 |
16 | Pat and Mike | George Cukor | 2646 |
17 | The Lusty Men | Nicholas Ray | 2668 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Tokyo Story | Yasujirô Ozu | 70 |
2 | The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
3 | Roman Holiday* | William Wyler | 213 |
4 | Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 241 |
5 | Shane* | George Stevens | 341 |
6 | From Here to Eternity** | Fred Zinnemann | 372 |
7 | The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | 429 |
8 | Mr. Hulot's Holiday | Jacques Tati | 453 |
9 | The Earrings of Madame De… | Max Ophüls | 490 |
10 | Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 542 |
11 | The Band Wagon | Vincente Minnelli | 585 |
12 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Howard Hawks | 595 |
13 | Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | 633 |
14 | The Naked Spur | Anthony Mann | 867 |
15 | The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | 871 |
16 | I Vitelloni | Federico Fellini | 1343 |
17 | Peter Pan | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1396 |
18 | Duck Amuck | Chuck Jones | 1469 |
19 | House of Wax | André De Toth | 1711 |
20 | The Cruel Sea | Charles Frend | 1887 |
21 | Calamity Jane | David Butler | 1947 |
22 | Invaders from Mars | William Cameron Menzies | 2000 |
23 | Kiss Me Kate | George Sidney | 2047 |
24 | The Robe* | Henry Koster | 2065 |
25 | El | Luis Buñuel | 2159 |
26 | It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | 2313 |
27 | The Wild One | László Benedek | 2382 |
28 | The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | 2415 |
29 | Crime Wave | André De Toth | 2707 |
30 | How to Marry a Millionaire | Jean Negulesco | 2716 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
2 | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 34 |
3 | On the Waterfront** | Elia Kazan | 64 |
4 | La Strada | Federico Fellini | 276 |
5 | Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | 376 |
6 | A Star Is Born | George Cukor | 396 |
7 | Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | 419 |
8 | Godzilla | Ishirô Honda | 580 |
9 | Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | 826 |
10 | Voyage in Italy | Roberto Rossellini | 937 |
11 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | 1159 |
12 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* | Stanley Donen | 1169 |
13 | Them! | Gordon Douglas | 1188 |
14 | Senso | Luchino Visconti | 1364 |
15 | Sabrina | Billy Wilder | 1394 |
16 | The Caine Mutiny* | Edward Dmytryk | 1508 |
17 | Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | 1698 |
18 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | Jack Arnold | 1849 |
19 | White Christmas | Michael Curtiz | 1873 |
20 | The Crucified Lovers | Kenji Mizoguchi | 2021 |
21 | The Barefoot Contessa | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2375 |
22 | Touchez pas au grisbi | Jacques Becker | 2414 |
23 | Salt of the Earth | Herbert J. Biberman | 2572 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.