**--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 | 22 |
| 2 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 130 |
| 3 | Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg | 149 |
| 4 | The Piano* | Jane Campion | 247 |
| 5 | Three Colors: Blue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 278 |
| 6 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | Henry Selick | 419 |
| 7 | True Romance | Tony Scott | 430 |
| 8 | Dazed and Confused | Richard Linklater | 433 |
| 9 | The Fugitive* | Andrew Davis | 496 |
| 10 | The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | 570 |
| 11 | The Remains of the Day* | James Ivory | 594 |
| 12 | Farewell My Concubine | Kaige Chen | 601 |
| 13 | Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 603 |
| 14 | Naked | Mike Leigh | 632 |
| 15 | Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | 652 |
| 16 | Philadelphia | Jonathan Demme | 898 |
| 17 | Sonatine | Takeshi Kitano | 1079 |
| 18 | The Joy Luck Club | Wayne Wang | 1099 |
| 19 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Steven Zaillian | 1149 |
| 20 | The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park | 1253 |
| 21 | Rudy | David Anspaugh | 1295 |
| 22 | Cool Runnings | Jon Turteltaub | 1309 |
| 23 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Lasse Hallström | 1326 |
| 24 | Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | 1351 |
| 25 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus | 1388 |
| 26 | In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | 1402 |
| 27 | The Puppet Master | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1443 |
| 28 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Brian Gibson | 1451 |
| 29 | Gettysburg | Ronald F. Maxwell | 1548 |
| 30 | Tombstone | George P. Cosmatos | 1573 |
| 31 | Menace II Society | Albert and Allen Hughes | 1632 |
| 32 | Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | 1725 |
| 33 | The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee | 1733 |
| 34 | Shadowlands | Richard Attenborough | 1744 |
| 35 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | François Girard | 1783 |
| 36 | Dave | Ivan Reitman | 1817 |
| 37 | The Blue Kite | Zhuangzhuang Tian | 1891 |
| 38 | Fearless | Peter Weir | 1899 |
| 39 | In the Name of the Father* | Jim Sheridan | 2000 |
| 40 | The Secret Garden | Agnieszka Holland | 2050 |
| 41 | A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | 2071 |
| 42 | Addams Family Values | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2087 |
| 43 | The Snapper | Stephen Frears | 2119 |
| 44 | Caro Diario | Nanni Moretti | 2152 |
| 45 | Much Ado about Nothing | Kenneth Branagh | 2289 |
| 46 | King of the Hill | Steven Soderbergh | 2291 |
| 47 | Ruby in Paradise | Victor Nunez | 2293 |
| 48 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm | 2331 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction* | Quentin Tarantino | 15 |
| 2 | The Shawshank Redemption* | Frank Darabont | 46 |
| 3 | Forrest Gump** | Robert Zemeckis | 93 |
| 4 | Three Colors: Red | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 232 |
| 5 | Four Weddings and a Funeral* | Mike Newell | 267 |
| 6 | The Lion King | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 270 |
| 7 | The Professional | Luc Besson | 282 |
| 8 | Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 292 |
| 9 | Clerks. | Kevin Smith | 322 |
| 10 | Speed | Jan de Bont | 370 |
| 11 | Three Colors: White | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 493 |
| 12 | Ed Wood | Tim Burton | 497 |
| 13 | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 550 |
| 14 | Chungking Express | Kar Wai Wong | 579 |
| 15 | Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | 710 |
| 16 | Natural Born Killers | Oliver Stone | 759 |
| 17 | Little Women | Gillian Armstrong | 894 |
| 18 | The Last Seduction | John Dahl | 934 |
| 19 | Eat Drink Man Woman | Ang Lee | 957 |
| 20 | Muriel's Wedding | P.J. Hogan | 960 |
| 21 | The Crow | Alex Proyas | 968 |
| 22 | Il Postino* | Michael Radford | 977 |
| 23 | Quiz Show* | Robert Redford | 1012 |
| 24 | Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | 1023 |
| 25 | Sátántangó | Béla Tarr | 1155 |
| 26 | To Live | Yimou Zhang | 1221 |
| 27 | Once Were Warriors | Lee Tamahori | 1235 |
| 28 | Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | 1244 |
| 29 | Dumb & Dumber | Peter Farrelly | 1311 |
| 30 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan | 1366 |
| 31 | The Mask | Chuck Russell | 1381 |
| 32 | Clear and Present Danger | Phillip Noyce | 1383 |
| 33 | True Lies | James Cameron | 1411 |
| 34 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | Neil Jordan | 1412 |
| 35 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel Coen | 1435 |
| 36 | Through the Olive Trees | Abbas Kiarostami | 1527 |
| 37 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott | 1541 |
| 38 | Before the Rain | Milcho Manchevski | 1615 |
| 39 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Tom Shadyac | 1667 |
| 40 | The Madness of King George | Nicholas Hytner | 1721 |
| 41 | Vanya on 42nd Street | Louis Malle | 1745 |
| 42 | Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | 1771 |
| 43 | The Secret of Roan Inish | John Sayles | 1814 |
| 44 | Wild Reeds | André Téchiné | 1847 |
| 45 | The Kingdom | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 1960 |
| 46 | Drunken Master II | Chia-Liang Liu | 2076 |
| 47 | Legends of the Fall | Edward Zwick | 2092 |
| 48 | Queen Margot | Patrice Chéreau | 2095 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | 55 |
| 2 | Toy Story | John Lasseter | 64 |
| 3 | Seven | David Fincher | 112 |
| 4 | Braveheart** | Mel Gibson | 116 |
| 5 | Heat | Michael Mann | 150 |
| 6 | Twelve Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | 341 |
| 7 | Babe* | Chris Noonan | 372 |
| 8 | Sense and Sensibility* | Ang Lee | 405 |
| 9 | Clueless | Amy Heckerling | 452 |
| 10 | Apollo 13* | Ron Howard | 485 |
| 11 | Casino | Martin Scorsese | 488 |
| 12 | Before Sunrise | Richard Linklater | 679 |
| 13 | Ghost in the Shell | Mamoru Oshii | 697 |
| 14 | Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | 732 |
| 15 | Hate | Mathieu Kassovitz | 743 |
| 16 | Safe | Todd Haynes | 754 |
| 17 | Dead Man Walking | Tim Robbins | 757 |
| 18 | Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis | 793 |
| 19 | The City of Lost Children | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 901 |
| 20 | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | 964 |
| 21 | Underground | Emir Kusturica | 996 |
| 22 | Richard III | Richard Loncraine | 1175 |
| 23 | Antonia's Line | Marleen Gorris | 1204 |
| 24 | Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | 1293 |
| 25 | Get Shorty | Barry Sonnenfeld | 1374 |
| 26 | Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | 1377 |
| 27 | Desperado | Robert Rodriguez | 1459 |
| 28 | Nixon | Oliver Stone | 1460 |
| 29 | A Little Princess | Alfonso Cuarón | 1464 |
| 30 | Kids | Larry Clark | 1472 |
| 31 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | Todd Solondz | 1626 |
| 32 | The American President | Rob Reiner | 1674 |
| 33 | To Die For | Gus Van Sant | 1690 |
| 34 | Living in Oblivion | Tom DiCillo | 1735 |
| 35 | Mr. Holland's Opus | Stephen Herek | 1780 |
| 36 | GoldenEye | Martin Campbell | 1788 |
| 37 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | 1832 |
| 38 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | John McTiernan | 1846 |
| 39 | Smoke | Wayne Wang | 1943 |
| 40 | Les Misérables | Claude Lelouch | 1985 |
| 41 | A Close Shave | Nick Park | 2003 |
| 42 | Strange Days | Kathryn Bigelow | 2009 |
| 43 | La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | 2094 |
| 44 | While You Were Sleeping | Jon Turteltaub | 2099 |
| 45 | The White Balloon | Jafar Panahi | 2126 |
| 46 | Mallrats | Kevin Smith | 2129 |
| 47 | Home for the Holidays | Jodie Foster | 2201 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
