**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fargo* | Joel Coen | 67 |
| 2 | Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | 197 |
| 3 | Scream | Wes Craven | 310 |
| 4 | Jerry Maguire* | Cameron Crowe | 487 |
| 5 | When We Were Kings | Leon Gast | 523 |
| 6 | Independence Day | Roland Emmerich | 527 |
| 7 | Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | 580 |
| 8 | The English Patient** | Anthony Minghella | 584 |
| 9 | Secrets & Lies* | Mike Leigh | 629 |
| 10 | Bound | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 698 |
| 11 | Romeo + Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | 826 |
| 12 | The Birdcage | Mike Nichols | 941 |
| 13 | Crash | David Cronenberg | 948 |
| 14 | The Rock | Michael Bay | 978 |
| 15 | Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma | 1055 |
| 16 | Waiting for Guffman | Christopher Guest | 1081 |
| 17 | Happy Gilmore | Dennis Dugan | 1104 |
| 18 | Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton | 1175 |
| 19 | Lone Star | John Sayles | 1179 |
| 20 | The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl Dunye | 1296 |
| 21 | Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes | 1327 |
| 22 | Tin Cup | Ron Shelton | 1453 |
| 23 | Matilda | Danny DeVito | 1495 |
| 24 | Swingers | Doug Liman | 1614 |
| 25 | Primal Fear | Gregory Hoblit | 1711 |
| 26 | Beautiful Thing | Hettie MacDonald | 1739 |
| 27 | Space Jam | Joe Pytka | 1765 |
| 28 | From Dusk Till Dawn | Robert Rodriguez | 1828 |
| 29 | Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | 1834 |
| 30 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 1854 |
| 31 | James and the Giant Peach | Henry Selick | 1955 |
| 32 | Mars Attacks! | Tim Burton | 2083 |
| 33 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 2153 |
| 34 | Set It Off | F. Gary Gray | 2203 |
| 35 | Kingpin | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 2243 |
| 36 | The Craft | Andrew Fleming | 2256 |
| 37 | Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh | 2444 |
| 38 | A Moment of Innocence | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 2533 |
| 39 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Renny Harlin | 2557 |
| 40 | A Time to Kill | Joel Schumacher | 2595 |
| 41 | Shine* | Scott Hicks | 2607 |
| 42 | Big Night | Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci | 2677 |
| 43 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Milos Forman | 2732 |
| 44 | Evita | Alan Parker | 2763 |
| 45 | That Thing You Do! | Tom Hanks | 2931 |
| 46 | Sleepers | Barry Levinson | 2982 |
| 47 | A Summer's Tale | Éric Rohmer | 2991 |
| 48 | Kolya | Jan Sverák | 2999 |
| 49 | Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | 3024 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Titanic** | James Cameron | 96 |
| 2 | L.A. Confidential* | Curtis Hanson | 139 |
| 3 | Princess Mononoke | Hayao Miyazaki | 205 |
| 4 | Life Is Beautiful* | Roberto Benigni | 258 |
| 5 | Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson | 318 |
| 6 | Good Will Hunting* | Gus Van Sant | 339 |
| 7 | The Fifth Element | Luc Besson | 529 |
| 8 | Starship Troopers | Paul Verhoeven | 596 |
| 9 | Gattaca | Andrew Niccol | 623 |
| 10 | Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld | 637 |
| 11 | Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | 688 |
| 12 | Happy Together | Kar-Wai Wong | 735 |
| 13 | Face/Off | John Woo | 744 |
| 14 | A Taste of Cherry | Abbas Kiarostami | 891 |
| 15 | Lost Highway | David Lynch | 940 |
| 16 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Jay Roach | 1008 |
| 17 | Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1077 |
| 18 | The Game | David Fincher | 1099 |
| 19 | As Good as It Gets* | James L. Brooks | 1150 |
| 20 | Perfect Blue | Satoshi Kon | 1162 |
| 21 | Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | 1173 |
| 22 | Fireworks | Takeshi Kitano | 1204 |
| 23 | The Full Monty* | Peter Cattaneo | 1233 |
| 24 | Contact | Robert Zemeckis | 1262 |
| 25 | The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | 1272 |
| 26 | My Best Friend's Wedding | P.J. Hogan | 1345 |
| 27 | End of Evangelion | Hideaki Anno | 1407 |
| 28 | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan | 1427 |
| 29 | Children of Heaven | Majid Majidi | 1431 |
| 30 | Eve's Bayou | Kasi Lemmons | 1518 |
| 31 | Hercules | Ron Clements and John Musker | 1524 |
| 32 | Chasing Amy | Kevin Smith | 1606 |
| 33 | Con Air | Simon West | 1772 |
| 34 | Grosse Pointe Blank | George Armitage | 1886 |
| 35 | Open Your Eyes | Alejandro Amenábar | 2008 |
| 36 | Cube | Vincenzo Natali | 2290 |
| 37 | The Devil's Advocate | Taylor Hackford | 2436 |
| 38 | Gummo | Harmony Korine | 2578 |
| 39 | Mother and Son | Aleksandr Sokurov | 2584 |
| 40 | The River | Tsai Ming-liang | 2601 |
| 41 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Werner Herzog | 2621 |
| 42 | Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 2678 |
| 43 | Scream 2 | Wes Craven | 2739 |
| 44 | Anastasia | Don Bluth and Gary Goldman | 2814 |
| 45 | Ma Vie en Rose | Alain Berliner | 2871 |
| 46 | Nil by Mouth | Gary Oldman | 2974 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Saving Private Ryan* | Steven Spielberg | 60 |
| 2 | The Big Lebowski | Joel Coen | 104 |
| 3 | The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 236 |
| 4 | Rushmore | Wes Anderson | 330 |
| 5 | The Thin Red Line* | Terrence Malick | 380 |
| 6 | American History X | Tony Kaye | 458 |
| 7 | There's Something about Mary | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 583 |
| 8 | Ring | Hideo Nakata | 647 |
| 9 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | 678 |
| 10 | The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | 720 |
| 11 | Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | 750 |
| 12 | You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron | 768 |
| 13 | Dark City | Alex Proyas | 839 |
| 14 | Mulan | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 917 |
| 15 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | 1001 |
| 16 | Pi | Darren Aronofsky | 1005 |
| 17 | Shakespeare in Love** | John Madden | 1026 |
| 18 | 42 Up | Michael Apted | 1083 |
| 19 | Central Station | Walter Salles | 1151 |
| 20 | Happiness | Todd Solondz | 1265 |
| 21 | The Wedding Singer | Frank Coraci | 1303 |
| 22 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | 1353 |
| 23 | Show Me Love | Lukas Moodysson | 1373 |
| 24 | Blade | Stephen Norrington | 1428 |
| 25 | He Got Game | Spike Lee | 1549 |
| 26 | Ronin | John Frankenheimer | 1592 |
| 27 | Wild Things | John McNaughton | 1678 |
| 28 | Pleasantville | Gary Ross | 1694 |
| 29 | The Parent Trap | Nancy Meyers | 1715 |
| 30 | A Bug's Life | John Lasseter | 1841 |
| 31 | Armageddon | Michael Bay | 1903 |
| 32 | Elizabeth* | Shekhar Kapur | 2034 |
| 33 | The Idiots | Lars von Trier | 2072 |
| 34 | High Art | Lisa Cholodenko | 2078 |
| 35 | Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo | 2132 |
| 36 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | 2204 |
| 37 | After Life | Hirokazu Koreeda | 2211 |
| 38 | The Last Days of Disco | Whit Stillman | 2347 |
| 39 | Flowers of Shanghai | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 2416 |
| 40 | The Prince of Egypt | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells | 2446 |
| 41 | Enemy of the State | Tony Scott | 2516 |
| 42 | Velvet Goldmine | Todd Haynes | 2524 |
| 43 | Rush Hour | Brett Ratner | 2554 |
| 44 | A Simple Plan | Sam Raimi | 2587 |
| 45 | The Mask of Zorro | Martin Campbell | 2710 |
| 46 | Stepmom | Chris Columbus | 2794 |
| 47 | Eternity and a Day | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2828 |
| 48 | Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | 2847 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Matrix | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 26 |
| 2 | Fight Club | David Fincher | 71 |
| 3 | The Sixth Sense* | M. Night Shyamalan | 168 |
| 4 | The Iron Giant | Brad Bird | 173 |
| 5 | American Beauty** | Sam Mendes | 218 |
| 6 | Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter | 256 |
| 7 | The Blair Witch Project | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | 271 |
| 8 | The Green Mile* | Frank Darabont | 296 |
| 9 | All about My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | 320 |
| 10 | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | 387 |
| 11 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | 451 |
| 12 | Audition | Takashi Miike | 463 |
| 13 | Beau travail | Claire Denis | 512 |
| 14 | Election | Alexander Payne | 543 |
| 15 | 10 Things I Hate about You | Gil Junger | 557 |
| 16 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | Trey Parker | 578 |
| 17 | Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | 595 |
| 18 | Office Space | Mike Judge | 620 |
| 19 | Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | 663 |
| 20 | The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | 677 |
| 21 | Notting Hill | Roger Michell | 732 |
| 22 | Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot | 759 |
| 23 | The Straight Story | David Lynch | 812 |
| 24 | The Insider* | Michael Mann | 871 |
| 25 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | 980 |
| 26 | American Pie | Paul Weitz | 1196 |
| 27 | But I'm a Cheerleader | Jamie Babbit | 1208 |
| 28 | Three Kings | David O. Russell | 1238 |
| 29 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | 1241 |
| 30 | American Movie | Chris Smith | 1439 |
| 31 | Sleepy Hollow | Tim Burton | 1441 |
| 32 | The Mummy | Stephen Sommers | 1529 |
| 33 | Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders | 1554 |
| 34 | Topsy-Turvy | Mike Leigh | 1573 |
| 35 | Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | 1728 |
| 36 | Any Given Sunday | Oliver Stone | 1729 |
| 37 | October Sky | Joe Johnston | 1833 |
| 38 | Tarzan | Chris Buck and Kevin Lima | 1911 |
| 39 | The Boondock Saints | Troy Duffy | 1941 |
| 40 | The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | 1977 |
| 41 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | George Lucas | 2013 |
| 42 | Cruel Intentions | Roger Kumble | 2041 |
| 43 | Mystery Men | Kinka Usher | 2144 |
| 44 | Rosetta | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 2245 |
| 45 | Girl, Interrupted | James Mangold | 2288 |
| 46 | The Limey | Steven Soderbergh | 2484 |
| 47 | Dogma | Kevin Smith | 2558 |
| 48 | eXistenZ | David Cronenberg | 2564 |
| 49 | The Thomas Crown Affair | John McTiernan | 2774 |
| 50 | The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas Kiarostami | 2808 |
| 51 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Jay Roach | 2877 |
| 52 | Never Been Kissed | Raja Gosnell | 3000 |
| 53 | Man on the Moon | Milos Forman | 3060 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
