**—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 | 28 |
| 2 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 98 |
| 3 | Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg | 132 |
| 4 | The Nightmare before Christmas | Henry Selick | 297 |
| 5 | The Piano* | Jane Campion | 306 |
| 6 | Three Colors: Blue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 324 |
| 7 | Dazed and Confused | Richard Linklater | 389 |
| 8 | Naked | Mike Leigh | 639 |
| 9 | Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 675 |
| 10 | The Fugitive* | Andrew Davis | 677 |
| 11 | Farewell My Concubine | Kaige Chen | 715 |
| 12 | Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | 738 |
| 13 | True Romance | Tony Scott | 768 |
| 14 | Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | 804 |
| 15 | Philadelphia | Jonathan Demme | 828 |
| 16 | The Remains of the Day* | James Ivory | 956 |
| 17 | Tombstone | George P. Cosmatos | 1023 |
| 18 | Rudy | David Anspaugh | 1194 |
| 19 | The Sandlot | David M. Evans | 1206 |
| 20 | The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | 1235 |
| 21 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus | 1241 |
| 22 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Lasse Hallström | 1299 |
| 23 | In the Name of the Father* | Jim Sheridan | 1333 |
| 24 | Cool Runnings | Jon Turteltaub | 1370 |
| 25 | Menace II Society | Albert and Allen Hughes | 1586 |
| 26 | The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee | 1595 |
| 27 | A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | 1635 |
| 28 | The Puppet Master | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1665 |
| 29 | Sonatine | Takeshi Kitano | 1726 |
| 30 | The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park | 1954 |
| 31 | Gettysburg | Ronald F. Maxwell | 2033 |
| 32 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm | 2094 |
| 33 | The Secret Garden | Agnieszka Holland | 2237 |
| 34 | Ninja Scroll | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | 2283 |
| 35 | Blue | Derek Jarman | 2296 |
| 36 | In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | 2350 |
| 37 | The Joy Luck Club | Wayne Wang | 2440 |
| 38 | Caro Diario | Nanni Moretti | 2446 |
| 39 | Falling Down | Joel Schumacher | 2511 |
| 40 | Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | 2679 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction* | Quentin Tarantino | 9 |
| 2 | The Shawshank Redemption* | Frank Darabont | 52 |
| 3 | Forrest Gump** | Robert Zemeckis | 107 |
| 4 | The Lion King | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 138 |
| 5 | The Professional | Luc Besson | 253 |
| 6 | Three Colors: Red | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 282 |
| 7 | Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 284 |
| 8 | Clerks. | Kevin Smith | 364 |
| 9 | Chungking Express | Kar-Wai Wong | 403 |
| 10 | Ed Wood | Tim Burton | 435 |
| 11 | Speed | Jan de Bont | 473 |
| 12 | Four Weddings and a Funeral* | Mike Newell | 504 |
| 13 | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 621 |
| 14 | Three Colors: White | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 635 |
| 15 | Sátántangó | Béla Tarr | 650 |
| 16 | Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | 831 |
| 17 | Dumb & Dumber | Peter Farrelly | 939 |
| 18 | The Crow | Alex Proyas | 1005 |
| 19 | The Last Seduction | John Dahl | 1047 |
| 20 | True Lies | James Cameron | 1107 |
| 21 | Natural Born Killers | Oliver Stone | 1226 |
| 22 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott | 1340 |
| 23 | Eat Drink Man Woman | Ang Lee | 1362 |
| 24 | Legends of the Fall | Edward Zwick | 1478 |
| 25 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | Neil Jordan | 1492 |
| 26 | Through the Olive Trees | Abbas Kiarostami | 1499 |
| 27 | The Mask | Chuck Russell | 1585 |
| 28 | To Live | Yimou Zhang | 1616 |
| 29 | Muriel's Wedding | P.J. Hogan | 1640 |
| 30 | Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | 1743 |
| 31 | Drunken Master II | Chia-Liang Liu | 1761 |
| 32 | Little Women | Gillian Armstrong | 1786 |
| 33 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Tom Shadyac | 1817 |
| 34 | Once Were Warriors | Lee Tamahori | 1906 |
| 35 | Quiz Show* | Robert Redford | 2265 |
| 36 | Il Postino* | Michael Radford | 2353 |
| 37 | Before the Rain | Milcho Manchevski | 2442 |
| 38 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan | 2467 |
| 39 | Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | 2537 |
| 40 | Fist of Legend | Gordon Chan | 2555 |
| 41 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel Coen | 2605 |
| 42 | Blue Chips | William Friedkin | 2617 |
| 43 | Stargate | Roland Emmerich | 2739 |
| 44 | Clear and Present Danger | Phillip Noyce | 2786 |
| 45 | The Kingdom | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 2810 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Toy Story | John Lasseter | 50 |
| 2 | Seven | David Fincher | 102 |
| 3 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | 112 |
| 4 | Heat | Michael Mann | 157 |
| 5 | Braveheart** | Mel Gibson | 185 |
| 6 | Clueless | Amy Heckerling | 333 |
| 7 | Twelve Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | 354 |
| 8 | Before Sunrise | Richard Linklater | 373 |
| 9 | Ghost in the Shell | Mamoru Oshii | 374 |
| 10 | Casino | Martin Scorsese | 398 |
| 11 | Hate | Mathieu Kassovitz | 485 |
| 12 | Babe* | Chris Noonan | 492 |
| 13 | Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | 541 |
| 14 | Sense and Sensibility* | Ang Lee | 602 |
| 15 | Apollo 13* | Ron Howard | 776 |
| 16 | Kids | Larry Clark | 922 |
| 17 | The City of Lost Children | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 990 |
| 18 | Underground | Emir Kusturica | 1010 |
| 19 | Safe | Todd Haynes | 1021 |
| 20 | Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis | 1308 |
| 21 | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | 1347 |
| 22 | Dead Man Walking | Tim Robbins | 1363 |
| 23 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | John McTiernan | 1390 |
| 24 | Strange Days | Kathryn Bigelow | 1417 |
| 25 | Friday | F. Gary Gray | 1560 |
| 26 | Desperado | Robert Rodriguez | 1613 |
| 27 | Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | 1634 |
| 28 | Bad Boys | Michael Bay | 1779 |
| 29 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | Todd Solondz | 1927 |
| 30 | A Little Princess | Alfonso Cuarón | 1935 |
| 31 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | 1938 |
| 32 | Nixon | Oliver Stone | 1946 |
| 33 | Whisper of the Heart | Yoshifumi Kondo | 2004 |
| 34 | To Die For | Gus Van Sant | 2024 |
| 35 | While You Were Sleeping | Jon Turteltaub | 2095 |
| 36 | La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | 2129 |
| 37 | Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | 2147 |
| 38 | Get Shorty | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2209 |
| 39 | GoldenEye | Martin Campbell | 2242 |
| 40 | Smoke | Wayne Wang | 2273 |
| 41 | The Celluloid Closet | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2284 |
| 42 | Richard III | Richard Loncraine | 2503 |
| 43 | Billy Madison | Tamra Davis | 2543 |
| 44 | Living in Oblivion | Tom DiCillo | 2571 |
| 45 | Tommy Boy | Peter Segal | 2585 |
| 46 | The American President | Rob Reiner | 2607 |
| 47 | Fallen Angels | Kar-Wai Wong | 2699 |
| 48 | Pocahontas | Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg | 2758 |
| 49 | Ulysses' Gaze | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2781 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
