**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fargo* | Joel Coen | 50 |
| 2 | Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | 128 |
| 3 | The English Patient** | Anthony Minghella | 214 |
| 4 | Scream | Wes Craven | 305 |
| 5 | Jerry Maguire* | Cameron Crowe | 308 |
| 6 | Romeo + Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | 352 |
| 7 | Independence Day | Roland Emmerich | 398 |
| 8 | Secrets & Lies* | Mike Leigh | 436 |
| 9 | Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | 472 |
| 10 | Lone Star | John Sayles | 667 |
| 11 | When We Were Kings | Leon Gast | 752 |
| 12 | Crash | David Cronenberg | 793 |
| 13 | Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton | 805 |
| 14 | Swingers | Doug Liman | 831 |
| 15 | The Rock | Michael Bay | 943 |
| 16 | From Dusk Till Dawn | Robert Rodriguez | 1010 |
| 17 | Shine* | Scott Hicks | 1018 |
| 18 | Flirting with Disaster | David O. Russell | 1035 |
| 19 | Waiting for Guffman | Christopher Guest | 1057 |
| 20 | Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | 1236 |
| 21 | Kolya | Jan Sverák | 1263 |
| 22 | Evita | Alan Parker | 1290 |
| 23 | Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma | 1298 |
| 24 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Milos Forman | 1329 |
| 25 | Fly Away Home | Carroll Ballard | 1393 |
| 26 | Big Night | Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci | 1397 |
| 27 | Kingpin | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 1418 |
| 28 | Tin Cup | Ron Shelton | 1425 |
| 29 | Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh | 1430 |
| 30 | Everyone Says I Love You | Woody Allen | 1452 |
| 31 | Twister | Jan de Bont | 1461 |
| 32 | Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | 1515 |
| 33 | Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes | 1589 |
| 34 | Brassed Off | Mark Herman | 1666 |
| 35 | Bound | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 1750 |
| 36 | The Crucible | Nicholas Hytner | 1780 |
| 37 | Shall We Dance? | Masayuki Suo | 1797 |
| 38 | La Promesse | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 1801 |
| 39 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 1827 |
| 40 | A Time to Kill | Joel Schumacher | 1834 |
| 41 | Schizopolis | Steven Soderbergh | 1900 |
| 42 | The First Wives Club | Hugh Wilson | 1942 |
| 43 | Emma | Douglas McGrath | 1970 |
| 44 | Happy Gilmore | Dennis Dugan | 2061 |
| 45 | Citizen Ruth | Alexander Payne | 2115 |
| 46 | Gabbeh | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 2116 |
| 47 | Ponette | Jacques Doillon | 2222 |
| 48 | James and the Giant Peach | Henry Selick | 2236 |
| 49 | Grace of My Heart | Allison Anders | 2271 |
| 50 | The Nutty Professor | Tom Shadyac | 2281 |
| 51 | The Pillow Book | Peter Greenaway | 2285 |
| 52 | Stealing Beauty | Bernardo Bertolucci | 2300 |
| 53 | The Birdcage | Mike Nichols | 2373 |
| 54 | Primal Fear | Gregory Hoblit | 2438 |
| 55 | The King of Masks | Tian-Ming Wu | 2446 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Titanic** | James Cameron | 79 |
| 2 | L.A. Confidential* | Curtis Hanson | 105 |
| 3 | Life Is Beautiful* | Roberto Benigni | 248 |
| 4 | The Full Monty* | Peter Cattaneo | 391 |
| 5 | Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson | 430 |
| 6 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Jay Roach | 469 |
| 7 | Good Will Hunting* | Gus Van Sant | 474 |
| 8 | As Good as It Gets* | James L. Brooks | 554 |
| 9 | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan | 576 |
| 10 | The Fifth Element | Luc Besson | 579 |
| 11 | Starship Troopers | Paul Verhoeven | 588 |
| 12 | Face/Off | John Woo | 608 |
| 13 | Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld | 610 |
| 14 | Contact | Robert Zemeckis | 750 |
| 15 | Princess Mononoke | Hayao Miyazaki | 791 |
| 16 | Grosse Pointe Blank | George Armitage | 816 |
| 17 | A Taste of Cherry | Abbas Kiarostami | 911 |
| 18 | My Best Friend's Wedding | P.J. Hogan | 958 |
| 19 | Alien: Resurrection | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 997 |
| 20 | Happy Together | Kar Wai Wong | 1032 |
| 21 | The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | 1083 |
| 22 | Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | 1099 |
| 23 | Gattaca | Andrew Niccol | 1180 |
| 24 | Wag the Dog | Barry Levinson | 1217 |
| 25 | Fireworks | Takeshi Kitano | 1261 |
| 26 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | Errol Morris | 1276 |
| 27 | Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | 1341 |
| 28 | Lost Highway | David Lynch | 1344 |
| 29 | Chasing Amy | Kevin Smith | 1345 |
| 30 | In the Company of Men | Neil LaBute | 1363 |
| 31 | The Game | David Fincher | 1377 |
| 32 | The Apostle | Robert Duvall | 1539 |
| 33 | Ulee's Gold | Victor Nunez | 1595 |
| 34 | Con Air | Simon West | 1664 |
| 35 | Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1708 |
| 36 | Air Force One | Wolfgang Petersen | 1779 |
| 37 | Mother and Son | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1910 |
| 38 | Scream 2 | Wes Craven | 1939 |
| 39 | Selena | Gregory Nava | 1951 |
| 40 | Ma Vie en Rose | Alain Berliner | 2043 |
| 41 | The Butcher Boy | Neil Jordan | 2045 |
| 42 | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion | David Mirkin | 2075 |
| 43 | Amistad | Steven Spielberg | 2092 |
| 44 | Cube | Vincenzo Natali | 2148 |
| 45 | Open Your Eyes | Alejandro Amenábar | 2228 |
| 46 | Welcome to Sarajevo | Michael Winterbottom | 2249 |
| 47 | The Castle | Rob Sitch | 2275 |
| 48 | The Spanish Prisoner | David Mamet | 2330 |
| 49 | Deconstructing Harry | Woody Allen | 2371 |
| 50 | Cop Land | James Mangold | 2419 |
| 51 | I Know What You Did Last Summer | Jim Gillespie | 2459 |
| 52 | The Devil's Advocate | Taylor Hackford | 2491 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Saving Private Ryan* | Steven Spielberg | 67 |
| 2 | Shakespeare in Love** | John Madden | 229 |
| 3 | The Big Lebowski | Joel Coen | 283 |
| 4 | The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 366 |
| 5 | There's Something about Mary | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 411 |
| 6 | Rushmore | Wes Anderson | 486 |
| 7 | Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | 489 |
| 8 | The Thin Red Line* | Terrence Malick | 490 |
| 9 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | 603 |
| 10 | A Bug's Life | John Lasseter | 705 |
| 11 | Armageddon | Michael Bay | 712 |
| 12 | The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | 735 |
| 13 | Central Station | Walter Salles | 745 |
| 14 | Happiness | Todd Solondz | 747 |
| 15 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | 761 |
| 16 | American History X | Tony Kaye | 868 |
| 17 | Elizabeth* | Shekhar Kapur | 1039 |
| 18 | After Life | Hirokazu Koreeda | 1048 |
| 19 | Dark City | Alex Proyas | 1072 |
| 20 | Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | 1165 |
| 21 | Pi | Darren Aronofsky | 1171 |
| 22 | Ring | Hideo Nakata | 1189 |
| 23 | The Opposite of Sex | Don Roos | 1220 |
| 24 | Ever After: A Cinderella Story | Andy Tennant | 1252 |
| 25 | You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron | 1358 |
| 26 | Pleasantville | Gary Ross | 1368 |
| 27 | Blade | Stephen Norrington | 1451 |
| 28 | Ronin | John Frankenheimer | 1460 |
| 29 | The Wedding Singer | Frank Coraci | 1470 |
| 30 | The Dinner Game | Francis Veber | 1492 |
| 31 | A Simple Plan | Sam Raimi | 1609 |
| 32 | Stepmom | Chris Columbus | 1647 |
| 33 | Primary Colors | Mike Nichols | 1651 |
| 34 | The Dreamlife of Angels | Erick Zonca | 1712 |
| 35 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | 1753 |
| 36 | Bulworth | Warren Beatty | 1755 |
| 37 | Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo | 1777 |
| 38 | The Mask of Zorro | Martin Campbell | 1804 |
| 39 | Show Me Love | Lukas Moodysson | 1842 |
| 40 | Antz | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson | 1873 |
| 41 | City of Angels | Brad Silberling | 1895 |
| 42 | Mulan | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 2000 |
| 43 | Without Limits | Robert Towne | 2003 |
| 44 | Smoke Signals | Chris Eyre | 2027 |
| 45 | What Dreams May Come | Vincent Ward | 2039 |
| 46 | 42: Forty Two Up | Michael Apted | 2046 |
| 47 | The Idiots | Lars von Trier | 2101 |
| 48 | Velvet Goldmine | Todd Haynes | 2103 |
| 49 | The Prince of Egypt | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells | 2105 |
| 50 | Wild Things | John McNaughton | 2178 |
| 51 | Enemy of the State | Tony Scott | 2381 |
| 52 | Autumn Tale | Eric Rohmer | 2384 |
| 53 | One True Thing | Carl Franklin | 2390 |
| 54 | My Name Is Joe | Ken Loach | 2468 |
| 55 | Eternity and a Day | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2501 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Matrix | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 59 |
| 2 | Fight Club | David Fincher | 118 |
| 3 | American Beauty** | Sam Mendes | 123 |
| 4 | The Sixth Sense* | M. Night Shyamalan | 215 |
| 5 | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | 267 |
| 6 | Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter | 325 |
| 7 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | 356 |
| 8 | The Blair Witch Project | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | 417 |
| 9 | All about My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | 534 |
| 10 | The Green Mile* | Frank Darabont | 568 |
| 11 | The Iron Giant | Brad Bird | 598 |
| 12 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | Trey Parker | 617 |
| 13 | The Insider* | Michael Mann | 636 |
| 14 | Election | Alexander Payne | 664 |
| 15 | American Pie | Paul Weitz | 698 |
| 16 | Three Kings | David O. Russell | 722 |
| 17 | The Straight Story | David Lynch | 740 |
| 18 | Topsy-Turvy | Mike Leigh | 785 |
| 19 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | George Lucas | 857 |
| 20 | Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | 877 |
| 21 | Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | 1025 |
| 22 | Office Space | Mike Judge | 1037 |
| 23 | Beau travail | Claire Denis | 1047 |
| 24 | The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas Kiarostami | 1114 |
| 25 | The Mummy | Stephen Sommers | 1118 |
| 26 | Notting Hill | Roger Michell | 1223 |
| 27 | The Audition | Takashi Miike | 1233 |
| 28 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | 1307 |
| 29 | Tarzan | Kevin Lima and Chris Buck | 1373 |
| 30 | October Sky | Joe Johnston | 1396 |
| 31 | The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | 1495 |
| 32 | Cruel Intentions | Roger Kumble | 1510 |
| 33 | Sleepy Hollow | Tim Burton | 1519 |
| 34 | Rosetta | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 1592 |
| 35 | Stuart Little | Rob Minkoff | 1625 |
| 36 | Any Given Sunday | Oliver Stone | 1711 |
| 37 | The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | 1745 |
| 38 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | 1782 |
| 39 | Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders | 1784 |
| 40 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Jay Roach | 1820 |
| 41 | Dogma | Kevin Smith | 1889 |
| 42 | One Day in September | Kevin Macdonald | 1893 |
| 43 | Never Been Kissed | Raja Gosnell | 1914 |
| 44 | The Limey | Steven Soderbergh | 1944 |
| 45 | Go | Doug Liman | 2011 |
| 46 | The Winslow Boy | David Mamet | 2031 |
| 47 | American Movie | Chris Smith | 2093 |
| 48 | The Cider House Rules* | Lasse Hallström | 2109 |
| 49 | Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot | 2167 |
| 50 | The Thomas Crown Affair | John McTiernan | 2170 |
| 51 | Girl, Interrupted | James Mangold | 2176 |
| 52 | A Walk on the Moon | Tony Goldwyn | 2189 |
| 53 | Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | 2212 |
| 54 | The End of the Affair | Neil Jordan | 2252 |
| 55 | Fantasia/2000 | James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, and Pixote Hunt | 2253 |
| 56 | 10 Things I Hate about You | Gil Junger | 2277 |
| 57 | Jesus' Son | Alison Maclean | 2382 |
| 58 | The Boondock Saints | Troy Duffy | 2416 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
