**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fargo* | Joel Coen | 75 |
| 2 | Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | 167 |
| 3 | Jerry Maguire* | Cameron Crowe | 382 |
| 4 | Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | 418 |
| 5 | Secrets & Lies* | Mike Leigh | 470 |
| 6 | The English Patient** | Anthony Minghella | 510 |
| 7 | Scream | Wes Craven | 527 |
| 8 | When We Were Kings | Leon Gast | 569 |
| 9 | Independence Day | Roland Emmerich | 588 |
| 10 | Crash | David Cronenberg | 756 |
| 11 | Lone Star | John Sayles | 821 |
| 12 | Bound | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 839 |
| 13 | Romeo + Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | 901 |
| 14 | The Rock | Michael Bay | 927 |
| 15 | Happy Gilmore | Dennis Dugan | 968 |
| 16 | Waiting for Guffman | Christopher Guest | 999 |
| 17 | Swingers | Doug Liman | 1103 |
| 18 | Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton | 1165 |
| 19 | The Birdcage | Mike Nichols | 1253 |
| 20 | Kingpin | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 1339 |
| 21 | Tin Cup | Ron Shelton | 1359 |
| 22 | Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma | 1435 |
| 23 | Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | 1511 |
| 24 | Primal Fear | Gregory Hoblit | 1558 |
| 25 | From Dusk Till Dawn | Robert Rodriguez | 1648 |
| 26 | Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes | 1672 |
| 27 | Beautiful Thing | Hettie MacDonald | 1694 |
| 28 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 1712 |
| 29 | Mars Attacks! | Tim Burton | 1807 |
| 30 | Shine* | Scott Hicks | 1838 |
| 31 | James and the Giant Peach | Henry Selick | 1867 |
| 32 | Matilda | Danny DeVito | 1970 |
| 33 | Evita | Alan Parker | 2058 |
| 34 | Big Night | Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci | 2071 |
| 35 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Renny Harlin | 2130 |
| 36 | Kolya | Jan Sverák | 2142 |
| 37 | Flirting with Disaster | David O. Russell | 2398 |
| 38 | Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | 2437 |
| 39 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Milos Forman | 2459 |
| 40 | A Time to Kill | Joel Schumacher | 2488 |
| 41 | Space Jam | Joe Pytka | 2525 |
| 42 | Sleepers | Barry Levinson | 2533 |
| 43 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 2613 |
| 44 | Walking and Talking | Nicole Holofcener | 2632 |
| 45 | Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh | 2652 |
| 46 | Citizen Ruth | Alexander Payne | 2664 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | L.A. Confidential* | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
| 2 | Titanic** | James Cameron | 129 |
| 3 | Life Is Beautiful* | Roberto Benigni | 250 |
| 4 | Princess Mononoke | Hayao Miyazaki | 265 |
| 5 | Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson | 319 |
| 6 | Good Will Hunting* | Gus Van Sant | 495 |
| 7 | Starship Troopers | Paul Verhoeven | 549 |
| 8 | The Fifth Element | Luc Besson | 599 |
| 9 | Face/Off | John Woo | 721 |
| 10 | Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | 722 |
| 11 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Jay Roach | 735 |
| 12 | Gattaca | Andrew Niccol | 782 |
| 13 | Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld | 787 |
| 14 | As Good as It Gets* | James L. Brooks | 791 |
| 15 | Lost Highway | David Lynch | 793 |
| 16 | Happy Together | Kar-Wai Wong | 816 |
| 17 | Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | 878 |
| 18 | A Taste of Cherry | Abbas Kiarostami | 893 |
| 19 | The Full Monty* | Peter Cattaneo | 995 |
| 20 | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan | 1025 |
| 21 | Fireworks | Takeshi Kitano | 1069 |
| 22 | Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1080 |
| 23 | The Game | David Fincher | 1173 |
| 24 | The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | 1182 |
| 25 | Contact | Robert Zemeckis | 1222 |
| 26 | Chasing Amy | Kevin Smith | 1263 |
| 27 | Perfect Blue | Satoshi Kon | 1317 |
| 28 | Grosse Pointe Blank | George Armitage | 1434 |
| 29 | Open Your Eyes | Alejandro Amenábar | 1466 |
| 30 | Con Air | Simon West | 1507 |
| 31 | Children of Heaven | Majid Majidi | 1534 |
| 32 | End of Evangelion | Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki | 1591 |
| 33 | Mother and Son | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1652 |
| 34 | Gummo | Harmony Korine | 1828 |
| 35 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | Errol Morris | 1961 |
| 36 | My Best Friend's Wedding | P.J. Hogan | 2040 |
| 37 | In the Company of Men | Neil LaBute | 2066 |
| 38 | Cube | Vincenzo Natali | 2123 |
| 39 | Eve's Bayou | Kasi Lemmons | 2289 |
| 40 | The Devil's Advocate | Taylor Hackford | 2337 |
| 41 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Werner Herzog | 2340 |
| 42 | Air Force One | Wolfgang Petersen | 2347 |
| 43 | Nil by Mouth | Gary Oldman | 2357 |
| 44 | Anastasia | Don Bluth and Gary Goldman | 2530 |
| 45 | Hercules | Ron Clements and John Musker | 2549 |
| 46 | Ma Vie en Rose | Alain Berliner | 2634 |
| 47 | Event Horizon | Paul W.S. Anderson | 2720 |
| 48 | The River | Ming-liang Tsai | 2730 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Saving Private Ryan* | Steven Spielberg | 77 |
| 2 | The Big Lebowski | Joel Coen | 108 |
| 3 | The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 242 |
| 4 | Rushmore | Wes Anderson | 323 |
| 5 | The Thin Red Line* | Terrence Malick | 378 |
| 6 | American History X | Tony Kaye | 428 |
| 7 | There's Something about Mary | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 455 |
| 8 | The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | 525 |
| 9 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | 556 |
| 10 | Shakespeare in Love** | John Madden | 592 |
| 11 | Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | 594 |
| 12 | Pi | Darren Aronofsky | 800 |
| 13 | Dark City | Alex Proyas | 814 |
| 14 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | 860 |
| 15 | Central Station | Walter Salles | 883 |
| 16 | Ring | Hideo Nakata | 889 |
| 17 | Happiness | Todd Solondz | 969 |
| 18 | 42 Up | Michael Apted | 1144 |
| 19 | You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron | 1175 |
| 20 | Mulan | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 1190 |
| 21 | Elizabeth* | Shekhar Kapur | 1240 |
| 22 | Pleasantville | Gary Ross | 1245 |
| 23 | The Wedding Singer | Frank Coraci | 1284 |
| 24 | Show Me Love | Lukas Moodysson | 1443 |
| 25 | Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo | 1465 |
| 26 | Blade | Stephen Norrington | 1484 |
| 27 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | 1598 |
| 28 | He Got Game | Spike Lee | 1675 |
| 29 | The Idiots | Lars von Trier | 1677 |
| 30 | Wild Things | John McNaughton | 1687 |
| 31 | A Bug's Life | John Lasseter | 1689 |
| 32 | Armageddon | Michael Bay | 1748 |
| 33 | Ronin | John Frankenheimer | 1784 |
| 34 | Antz | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson | 2155 |
| 35 | After Life | Hirokazu Koreeda | 2199 |
| 36 | Velvet Goldmine | Todd Haynes | 2307 |
| 37 | Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | 2365 |
| 38 | Following | Christopher Nolan | 2370 |
| 39 | High Art | Lisa Cholodenko | 2389 |
| 40 | The Dinner Game | Francis Veber | 2484 |
| 41 | A Simple Plan | Sam Raimi | 2523 |
| 42 | Black Cat White Cat | Emir Kusturica | 2643 |
| 43 | Rush Hour | Brett Ratner | 2645 |
| 44 | Enemy of the State | Tony Scott | 2655 |
| 45 | What Dreams May Come | Vincent Ward | 2690 |
| 46 | I Stand Alone | Gaspar Noé | 2717 |
| 47 | The Lovers of the Arctic Circle | Julio Medem | 2719 |
| 48 | The Legend of 1900 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 2737 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Matrix | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 35 |
| 2 | Fight Club | David Fincher | 71 |
| 3 | American Beauty** | Sam Mendes | 142 |
| 4 | The Sixth Sense* | M. Night Shyamalan | 187 |
| 5 | All about My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | 257 |
| 6 | The Blair Witch Project | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | 281 |
| 7 | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | 292 |
| 8 | The Iron Giant | Brad Bird | 296 |
| 9 | Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter | 310 |
| 10 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | 346 |
| 11 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | Trey Parker | 407 |
| 12 | The Green Mile* | Frank Darabont | 421 |
| 13 | Audition | Takashi Miike | 511 |
| 14 | Election | Alexander Payne | 546 |
| 15 | Office Space | Mike Judge | 570 |
| 16 | Beau travail | Claire Denis | 646 |
| 17 | Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | 699 |
| 18 | Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot | 810 |
| 19 | Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | 859 |
| 20 | The Straight Story | David Lynch | 916 |
| 21 | Three Kings | David O. Russell | 967 |
| 22 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | 979 |
| 23 | Notting Hill | Roger Michell | 996 |
| 24 | American Pie | Paul Weitz | 1026 |
| 25 | 10 Things I Hate about You | Gil Junger | 1045 |
| 26 | Topsy-Turvy | Mike Leigh | 1048 |
| 27 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | 1093 |
| 28 | The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | 1094 |
| 29 | The Insider* | Michael Mann | 1105 |
| 30 | American Movie | Chris Smith | 1113 |
| 31 | Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | 1432 |
| 32 | Any Given Sunday | Oliver Stone | 1440 |
| 33 | The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas Kiarostami | 1486 |
| 34 | Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders | 1506 |
| 35 | Rosetta | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 1512 |
| 36 | October Sky | Joe Johnston | 1611 |
| 37 | The Boondock Saints | Troy Duffy | 1636 |
| 38 | The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | 1646 |
| 39 | Sleepy Hollow | Tim Burton | 1764 |
| 40 | Girl, Interrupted | James Mangold | 1781 |
| 41 | The Limey | Steven Soderbergh | 1822 |
| 42 | But I'm a Cheerleader | Jamie Babbit | 1952 |
| 43 | Cruel Intentions | Roger Kumble | 2103 |
| 44 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | George Lucas | 2263 |
| 45 | Tarzan | Kevin Lima and Chris Buck | 2288 |
| 46 | Dogma | Kevin Smith | 2371 |
| 47 | The Mummy | Stephen Sommers | 2388 |
| 48 | eXistenZ | David Cronenberg | 2391 |
| 49 | Arlington Road | Mark Pellington | 2449 |
| 50 | Varsity Blues | Brian Robbins | 2480 |
| 51 | Mystery Men | Kinka Usher | 2514 |
| 52 | Man on the Moon | Milos Forman | 2742 |
| 53 | The Thomas Crown Affair | John McTiernan | 2769 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
