**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Schindler's List** | Steven Spielberg | 21 |
| 2 | Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg | 83 |
| 3 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 93 |
| 4 | The Nightmare before Christmas | Henry Selick | 231 |
| 5 | The Piano* | Jane Campion | 309 |
| 6 | Three Colors: Blue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 322 |
| 7 | Dazed and Confused | Richard Linklater | 379 |
| 8 | The Fugitive* | Andrew Davis | 519 |
| 9 | Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | 586 |
| 10 | Farewell My Concubine | Kaige Chen | 729 |
| 11 | Philadelphia | Jonathan Demme | 792 |
| 12 | Naked | Mike Leigh | 802 |
| 13 | The Sandlot | David Mickey Evans | 913 |
| 14 | True Romance | Tony Scott | 925 |
| 15 | Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | 945 |
| 16 | The Remains of the Day* | James Ivory | 999 |
| 17 | Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 1032 |
| 18 | Rudy | David Anspaugh | 1096 |
| 19 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus | 1138 |
| 20 | Cool Runnings | Jon Turteltaub | 1144 |
| 21 | Tombstone | George P. Cosmatos | 1213 |
| 22 | A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | 1297 |
| 23 | The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | 1411 |
| 24 | In the Name of the Father* | Jim Sheridan | 1433 |
| 25 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Lasse Hallström | 1540 |
| 26 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm | 1575 |
| 27 | The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee | 1734 |
| 28 | The Joy Luck Club | Wayne Wang | 1868 |
| 29 | The Secret Garden | Agnieszka Holland | 1938 |
| 30 | Menace II Society | Albert and Allen Hughes | 1974 |
| 31 | Gettysburg | Ron Maxwell | 2000 |
| 32 | Blue | Derek Jarman | 2218 |
| 33 | The Puppet Master | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 2291 |
| 34 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Brian Gibson | 2332 |
| 35 | The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park | 2422 |
| 36 | Sonatine | Takeshi Kitano | 2429 |
| 37 | In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | 2442 |
| 38 | Ninja Scroll | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | 2574 |
| 39 | Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | Duwayne Dunham | 2612 |
| 40 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Steven Zaillian | 2731 |
| 41 | Falling Down | Joel Schumacher | 2769 |
| 42 | Demolition Man | Marco Brambilla | 2923 |
| 43 | Addams Family Values | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2945 |
| 44 | Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | 2988 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction* | Quentin Tarantino | 8 |
| 2 | The Shawshank Redemption* | Frank Darabont | 45 |
| 3 | Forrest Gump** | Robert Zemeckis | 72 |
| 4 | The Lion King | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 92 |
| 5 | Three Colors: Red | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 208 |
| 6 | Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 250 |
| 7 | Léon: The Professional | Luc Besson | 259 |
| 8 | Chungking Express | Kar-Wai Wong | 372 |
| 9 | Clerks. | Kevin Smith | 399 |
| 10 | Four Weddings and a Funeral* | Mike Newell | 441 |
| 11 | Speed | Jan de Bont | 547 |
| 12 | Three Colors: White | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 600 |
| 13 | Ed Wood | Tim Burton | 674 |
| 14 | The Crow | Alex Proyas | 772 |
| 15 | Sátántangó | Béla Tarr | 776 |
| 16 | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 932 |
| 17 | Dumb & Dumber | Peter Farrelly | 1014 |
| 18 | True Lies | James Cameron | 1016 |
| 19 | Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | 1086 |
| 20 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott | 1166 |
| 21 | Through the Olive Trees | Abbas Kiarostami | 1267 |
| 22 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | Neil Jordan | 1334 |
| 23 | The Last Seduction | John Dahl | 1338 |
| 24 | Natural Born Killers | Oliver Stone | 1344 |
| 25 | Little Women | Gillian Armstrong | 1377 |
| 26 | Drunken Master II | Chia-Liang Liu | 1402 |
| 27 | To Live | Yimou Zhang | 1584 |
| 28 | Legends of the Fall | Edward Zwick | 1607 |
| 29 | Eat Drink Man Woman | Ang Lee | 1637 |
| 30 | The Mask | Chuck Russell | 1744 |
| 31 | Muriel's Wedding | P.J. Hogan | 1910 |
| 32 | Quiz Show* | Robert Redford | 1956 |
| 33 | Go Fish | Rose Troche | 2054 |
| 34 | Once Were Warriors | Lee Tamahori | 2305 |
| 35 | Crooklyn | Spike Lee | 2363 |
| 36 | Il Postino* | Michael Radford | 2419 |
| 37 | Clear and Present Danger | Phillip Noyce | 2488 |
| 38 | Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | 2500 |
| 39 | Reality Bites | Ben Stiller | 2572 |
| 40 | Serial Mom | John Waters | 2603 |
| 41 | Vive L'Amour | Tsai Ming-liang | 2679 |
| 42 | New Nightmare | Wes Craven | 2690 |
| 43 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel Coen | 2694 |
| 44 | Fist of Legend | Gordon Chan | 2995 |
| 45 | Blue Chips | William Friedkin | 3002 |
| 46 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Tom Shadyac | 3027 |
| 47 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan | 3030 |
| 48 | In the Mouth of Madness | John Carpenter | 3036 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Toy Story | John Lasseter | 38 |
| 2 | Seven | David Fincher | 90 |
| 3 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | 134 |
| 4 | Clueless | Amy Heckerling | 156 |
| 5 | Heat | Michael Mann | 182 |
| 6 | Before Sunrise | Richard Linklater | 263 |
| 7 | Braveheart** | Mel Gibson | 278 |
| 8 | Ghost in the Shell | Mizuho Nishikubo and Mamoru Oshii | 324 |
| 9 | Twelve Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | 331 |
| 10 | Casino | Martin Scorsese | 404 |
| 11 | Hate | Mathieu Kassovitz | 442 |
| 12 | Babe* | Chris Noonan | 650 |
| 13 | Sense and Sensibility* | Ang Lee | 668 |
| 14 | Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | 679 |
| 15 | Apollo 13* | Ron Howard | 857 |
| 16 | The City of Lost Children | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 1041 |
| 17 | Kids | Larry Clark | 1080 |
| 18 | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | 1103 |
| 19 | Friday | F. Gary Gray | 1253 |
| 20 | Strange Days | Kathryn Bigelow | 1301 |
| 21 | Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis | 1337 |
| 22 | Underground | Emir Kusturica | 1365 |
| 23 | Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | 1378 |
| 24 | While You Were Sleeping | Jon Turteltaub | 1436 |
| 25 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | John McTiernan | 1511 |
| 26 | Safe | Todd Haynes | 1547 |
| 27 | Jumanji | Joe Johnston | 1567 |
| 28 | GoldenEye | Martin Campbell | 1635 |
| 29 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | 1740 |
| 30 | Whisper of the Heart | Yoshifumi Kondô | 1775 |
| 31 | Bad Boys | Michael Bay | 1851 |
| 32 | Dead Man Walking | Tim Robbins | 1898 |
| 33 | A Little Princess | Alfonso Cuarón | 2018 |
| 34 | The Brave Heart Will Take the Bride | Aditya Chopra | 2067 |
| 35 | Fallen Angels | Kar-Wai Wong | 2185 |
| 36 | Desperado | Robert Rodriguez | 2235 |
| 37 | The Celluloid Closet | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 38 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | Todd Solondz | 2412 |
| 39 | La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | 2437 |
| 40 | Tommy Boy | Peter Segal | 2483 |
| 41 | Pocahontas | Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg | 2545 |
| 42 | Get Shorty | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2550 |
| 43 | To Die For | Gus Van Sant | 2610 |
| 44 | Waiting to Exhale | Forest Whitaker | 2658 |
| 45 | The American President | Rob Reiner | 2729 |
| 46 | Billy Madison | Tamra Davis | 2733 |
| 47 | The White Balloon | Jafar Panahi | 2770 |
| 48 | Nixon | Oliver Stone | 2803 |
| 49 | Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | 2924 |
| 50 | Now and Then | Lesli Linka Glatter | 2943 |
| 51 | Smoke | Wayne Wang | 2947 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
