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Top Films by Year (1990-1992)

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

1990

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Goodfellas* Martin Scorsese 31
2 Dances with Wolves** Kevin Costner 165
3 Pretty Woman Garry Marshall 272
4 Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton 354
5 The Godfather: Part III* Francis Ford Coppola 387
6 Ghost* Jerry Zucker 409
7 Miller's Crossing Joel Coen 478
8 Cyrano de Bergerac Jean-Paul Rappeneau 696
9 Close Up Abbas Kiarostami 736
10 The Grifters Stephen Frears 771
11 Ju Dou Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang 918
12 An Angel at My Table Jane Campion 998
13 Total Recall Paul Verhoeven 1036
14 Back to the Future Part III Robert Zemeckis 1107
15 Home Alone Chris Columbus 1162
16 La Femme Nikita Luc Besson 1174
17 Misery Rob Reiner 1231
18 Jacob's Ladder Adrian Lyne 1259
19 Europa Europa Agnieszka Holland 1267
20 Truly, Madly, Deeply Anthony Minghella 1285
21 The Nasty Girl Michael Verhoeven 1348
22 Reversal of Fortune Barbet Schroeder 1357
23 The Hunt for Red October John McTiernan 1428
24 Metropolitan Whit Stillman 1540
25 Wild at Heart David Lynch 1559
26 Life Is Sweet Mike Leigh 1582
27 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams Akira Kurosawa 1619
28 Trust Hal Hartley 1657
29 Die Hard 2 Renny Harlin 1788
30 Pump Up the Volume Allan Moyle 1806
31 Henry & June Philip Kaufman 1976
32 Paris is Burning Jennie Livingston 2014
33 Dick Tracy Warren Beatty 2034
34 To Sleep with Anger Charles Burnett 2066
35 King of New York Abel Ferrara 2068
36 Awakenings* Penny Marshall 2087
37 Postcards from the Edge Mike Nichols 2134
38 The Civil War Ken Burns 2204
39 American Dream Barbara Kopple 2217
40 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Pedro Almodóvar 2248
41 Longtime Companion Norman René 2284
42 Bullet in the Head John Woo 2305
43 My Mother's Castle Yves Robert 2375
44 My Father's Glory Yves Robert 2435
45 Archangel Guy Maddin 2500

1991

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs** Jonathan Demme 39
2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day James Cameron 126
3 Thelma & Louise Ridley Scott 188
4 Beauty and the Beast* Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 252
5 Raise the Red Lantern Yimou Zhang 326
6 JFK* Oliver Stone 424
7 Boyz N the Hood John Singleton 520
8 Delicatessen Marc Caro and Jean-Marie Jeunet 662
9 The Double Life of Veronique Krzysztof Kieslowski 952
10 Barton Fink Joel Coen 953
11 La Belle noiseuse Jacques Rivette 956
12 My Own Private Idaho Gus Van Sant 996
13 A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang 1015
14 The Commitments Alan Parker 1058
15 Slacker Richard Linklater 1151
16 The Fisher King Terry Gilliam 1182
17 Naked Lunch David Cronenberg 1224
18 Fried Green Tomatoes Jon Avnet 1289
19 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1367
20 L.A. Story Mick Jackson 1398
21 City Slickers Ron Underwood 1534
22 Bugsy* Barry Levinson 1614
23 City of Hope John Sayles 1660
24 Cape Fear Martin Scorsese 1723
25 Point Break Kathryn Bigelow 1743
26 And Life Goes on Abbas Kiarostami 1823
27 Proof Jocelyn Moorhouse 1857
28 The Lovers on the Bridge Leos Carax 1964
29 Mississippi Masala Mira Nair 2001
30 Flirting John Duigan 2006
31 Black Robe Bruce Beresford 2076
32 What about Bob? Frank Oz 2077
33 Night on Earth Jim Jarmusch 2084
34 Once Upon a Time in China Hark Tsui 2140
35 The Rapture Michael Tolkin 2156
36 Edward II Derek Jarman 2233
37 The Doors Oliver Stone 2263
38 Father of the Bride Charles Shyer 2303
39 Days of Being Wild Kar Wai Wong 2313
40 The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear David Zucker 2327
41 Mediterraneo Gabriele Salvatores 2364
42 Daughters of the Dust Julie Dash 2386
43 Defending Your Life Albert Brooks 2411
44 The Man in the Moon Robert Mulligan 2430
45 Rambling Rose Martha Coolidge 2467
46 Van Gogh Maurice Pialat 2492
47 35 Up Michael Apted 2506
48 Soapdish Michael Hoffman 2513

1992

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Unforgiven** Clint Eastwood 80
2 Reservoir Dogs Quentin Tarantino 90
3 The Last of the Mohicans Michael Mann 467
4 The Crying Game* Neil Jordan 503
5 The Player Robert Altman 506
6 Malcolm X Spike Lee 551
7 Like Water for Chocolate Alfonso Arau 611
8 A League of Their Own Penny Marshall 621
9 Glengarry Glen Ross James Foley 700
10 Aladdin Ron Clements and John Musker 724
11 Basic Instinct Paul Verhoeven 762
12 Howards End* James Ivory 835
13 Strictly Ballroom Baz Luhrmann 836
14 Hard Boiled John Woo 904
15 A Few Good Men* Rob Reiner 1033
16 Alien³ David Fincher 1071
17 Braindead Peter Jackson 1103
18 Bad Lieutenant Abel Ferrara 1154
19 Candyman Bernard Rose 1157
20 Wayne's World Penelope Spheeris 1280
21 Husbands and Wives Woody Allen 1291
22 One False Move Carl Franklin 1305
23 A Midnight Clear Keith Gordon 1328
24 The Story of Qiu Ju Yimou Zhang 1354
25 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me David Lynch 1356
26 Bram Stoker's Dracula Francis Ford Coppola 1401
27 Army of Darkness Sam Raimi 1558
28 Un coeur en hiver Claude Sautet 1577
29 White Men Can't Jump Ron Shelton 1601
30 El Mariachi Robert Rodriguez 1630
31 A River Runs Through It Robert Redford 1633
32 The Long Day Closes Terence Davies 1698
33 Indochine Régis Wargnier 1709
34 Man Bites Dog Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde 1735
35 My Cousin Vinny Jonathan Lynn 1749
36 Orlando Sally Potter 1775
37 Gas Food Lodging Allison Anders 1789
38 Léolo Jean-Claude Lauzon 1855
39 Belle Epoque Fernando Trueba 1858
40 Scent of a Woman* Martin Brest 1871
41 Jamón, jamón J.J. Bigas Luna 1943
42 Brother's Keeper Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky 2052
43 Baraka Ron Fricke 2096
44 The Dream of Light Víctor Erice 2128
45 Bob Roberts Tim Robbins 2278
46 Patriot Games Phillip Noyce 2287
47 Sister Act Emile Ardolino 2307
48 Lessons of Darkness Werner Herzog 2311
49 The Waterdance Neal Jimenez and Michael Steinberg 2337
50 Singles Cameron Crowe 2427
51 Enchanted April Mike Newell 2445
52 The Mighty Ducks Stephen Herek 2483

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

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