**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gladiator** | Ridley Scott | 138 |
| 2 | Memento | Christopher Nolan | 196 |
| 3 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* | Ang Lee | 205 |
| 4 | Requiem for a Dream | Darren Aronofsky | 484 |
| 5 | In the Mood for Love | Kar Wai Wong | 511 |
| 6 | Traffic* | Steven Soderbergh | 599 |
| 7 | Erin Brockovich* | Steven Soderbergh | 618 |
| 8 | Chicken Run | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 707 |
| 9 | High Fidelity | Stephen Frears | 730 |
| 10 | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | 738 |
| 11 | Yi yi: A One and a Two... | Edward Yang | 773 |
| 12 | Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 776 |
| 13 | X-Men | Bryan Singer | 810 |
| 14 | Billy Elliot | Stephen Daldry | 826 |
| 15 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel Coen | 867 |
| 16 | Chocolat* | Lasse Hallström | 937 |
| 17 | Best in Show | Christopher Guest | 995 |
| 18 | Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | 1021 |
| 19 | Meet the Parents | Jay Roach | 1095 |
| 20 | Cast Away | Robert Zemeckis | 1125 |
| 21 | Sexy Beast | Jonathan Glazer | 1152 |
| 22 | Snatch. | Guy Ritchie | 1176 |
| 23 | Bring It On | Peyton Reed | 1275 |
| 24 | You Can Count on Me | Ken Lonergan | 1343 |
| 25 | Battle Royale | Kinji Fukasaku | 1726 |
| 26 | Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | 1790 |
| 27 | Together | Lukas Moodysson | 1897 |
| 28 | The Gleaners & I | Agnès Varda | 1907 |
| 29 | Divided We Fall | Jan Hrebejk | 1968 |
| 30 | George Washington | David Gordon Green | 1974 |
| 31 | American Psycho | Mary Harron | 1986 |
| 32 | Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr | 2022 |
| 33 | Girlfight | Karyn Kusama | 2037 |
| 34 | Remember the Titans | Boaz Yakin | 2049 |
| 35 | Charlie's Angels | McG | 2121 |
| 36 | The Circle | Jafar Panahi | 2159 |
| 37 | The Patriot | Roland Emmerich | 2181 |
| 38 | Chopper | Andrew Dominik | 2219 |
| 39 | Pitch Black | David Twohy | 2250 |
| 40 | Pollock | Ed Harris | 2269 |
| 41 | Platform | Zhang Ke Jia | 2286 |
| 42 | The Dish | Rob Sitch | 2335 |
| 43 | The Emperor's New Groove | Mark Dindal | 2343 |
| 44 | Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood | 2349 |
| 45 | Mission: Impossible II | John Woo | 2392 |
| 46 | The Contender | Rod Lurie | 2426 |
| 47 | Before Night Falls | Julian Schnabel | 2487 |
| 48 | Scary Movie | Keenan Ivory Wayans | 2489 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* | Peter Jackson | 104 |
| 2 | Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 230 |
| 3 | Moulin Rouge!* | Baz Luhrmann | 235 |
| 4 | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | 246 |
| 5 | Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | 269 |
| 6 | Shrek | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 289 |
| 7 | Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | 422 |
| 8 | Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón | 523 |
| 9 | Monsters, Inc. | Peter Docter | 580 |
| 10 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire | 626 |
| 11 | A Beautiful Mind** | Ron Howard | 645 |
| 12 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | Steven Spielberg | 648 |
| 13 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Wes Anderson | 714 |
| 14 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Chris Columbus | 779 |
| 15 | Gosford Park* | Robert Altman | 813 |
| 16 | Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | 864 |
| 17 | The Others | Alejandro Amenábar | 915 |
| 18 | Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff | 967 |
| 19 | Black Hawk Down | Ridley Scott | 1006 |
| 20 | Legally Blonde | Robert Luketic | 1074 |
| 21 | Waking Life | Richard Linklater | 1087 |
| 22 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell | 1140 |
| 23 | Zoolander | Ben Stiller | 1244 |
| 24 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | Stacy Peralta | 1281 |
| 25 | The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) | Zacharias Kunuk | 1408 |
| 26 | Ocean's Eleven | Steven Soderbergh | 1432 |
| 27 | The Devil's Backbone | Guillermo del Toro | 1443 |
| 28 | Time Out | Laurent Cantet | 1560 |
| 29 | Spy Kids | Robert Rodriguez | 1602 |
| 30 | No Man's Land | Danis Tanovic | 1729 |
| 31 | Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | 1747 |
| 32 | In the Bedroom* | Todd Field | 1808 |
| 33 | Lantana | Ray Lawrence | 1836 |
| 34 | Training Day | Antoine Fuqua | 1841 |
| 35 | Nowhere in Africa | Caroline Link | 1843 |
| 36 | The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | 1892 |
| 37 | Band of Brothers | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To | 1956 |
| 38 | Ali | Michael Mann | 2017 |
| 39 | Lovely & Amazing | Nicole Holofcener | 2053 |
| 40 | Thirteen Conversations about One Thing | Jill Sprecher | 2106 |
| 41 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen | 2158 |
| 42 | Monster’s Ball | Marc Forster | 2193 |
| 43 | Planet of the Apes | Tim Burton | 2225 |
| 44 | Winged Migration | Jacques Perrin | 2254 |
| 45 | Hannibal | Ridley Scott | 2291 |
| 46 | Kandahar | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 2301 |
| 47 | The Son's Room | Nanni Moretti | 2310 |
| 48 | Brotherhood of the Wolf | Christophe Gans | 2328 |
| 49 | Frailty | Bill Paxton | 2336 |
| 50 | Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India | Ashutosh Gowariker | 2374 |
| 51 | My Sassy Girl | Jae-young Kwak | 2389 |
| 52 | Read My Lips | Jacques Audiard | 2432 |
| 53 | The Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 2443 |
| 54 | Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2471 |
| 55 | A Knight’s Tale | Brian Helgeland | 2486 |
| 56 | Save the Last Dance | Thomas Carter | 2509 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers* | Peter Jackson | 191 |
| 2 | City of God | Fernando Meirelles | 331 |
| 3 | Spider-Man | Sam Raimi | 574 |
| 4 | The Pianist* | Roman Polanski | 586 |
| 5 | Chicago** | Rob Marshall | 680 |
| 6 | Whale Rider | Niki Caro | 737 |
| 7 | Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | 817 |
| 8 | Bend It Like Beckham | Gurinder Chadha | 853 |
| 9 | Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | 854 |
| 10 | 28 Days Later… | Danny Boyle | 876 |
| 11 | Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes | 883 |
| 12 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | George Lucas | 907 |
| 13 | Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore | 933 |
| 14 | The Hours* | Stephen Daldry | 1044 |
| 15 | Hero | Yimou Zhang | 1060 |
| 16 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | Phillip Noyce | 1102 |
| 17 | Adaptation. | Spike Jonze | 1181 |
| 18 | Road to Perdition | Sam Mendes | 1190 |
| 19 | Gangs of New York* | Martin Scorsese | 1209 |
| 20 | 25th Hour | Spike Lee | 1240 |
| 21 | Secretary | Steven Shainberg | 1272 |
| 22 | Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1314 |
| 23 | The Rookie | John Lee Hancock | 1318 |
| 24 | Spellbound | Jeffrey Blitz | 1407 |
| 25 | 8 Mile | Curtis Hanson | 1440 |
| 26 | The Bourne Identity | Doug Liman | 1458 |
| 27 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Joel Zwick | 1464 |
| 28 | Russian Ark | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1477 |
| 29 | About Schmidt | Alexander Payne | 1543 |
| 30 | 24 Hour Party People | Michael Winterbottom | 1742 |
| 31 | Real Women Have Curves | Patricia Cardoso | 1744 |
| 32 | The Ring | Gore Verbinski | 1757 |
| 33 | Ice Age | Chris Wedge | 1824 |
| 34 | Infernal Affairs | Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak | 1878 |
| 35 | About a Boy | Chris and Paul Weitz | 1922 |
| 36 | The Man Without a Past | Aki Kaurismäki | 1967 |
| 37 | In America | Jim Sheridan | 1973 |
| 38 | The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce | 2048 |
| 39 | Lilo & Stitch | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 2062 |
| 40 | Laurel Canyon | Lisa Cholodenko | 2099 |
| 41 | Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | 2111 |
| 42 | To Be and to Have | Nicolas Philibert | 2154 |
| 43 | Signs | M. Night Shyamalan | 2161 |
| 44 | Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | 2208 |
| 45 | The Good Girl | Miguel Arteta | 2220 |
| 46 | Frida | Julie Taymor | 2304 |
| 47 | Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | 2391 |
| 48 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Chris Columbus | 2410 |
| 49 | The Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan | 2458 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King** | Peter Jackson | 166 |
| 2 | Lost in Translation* | Sofia Coppola | 353 |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Gore Verbinski | 449 |
| 4 | Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton | 485 |
| 5 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | Quentin Tarantino | 492 |
| 6 | X2 | Bryan Singer | 982 |
| 7 | The Barbarian Invasions | Denys Arcand | 1045 |
| 8 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World* | Peter Weir | 1121 |
| 9 | The Triplets of Belleville | Sylvain Chomet | 1138 |
| 10 | Love Actually | Richard Curtis | 1147 |
| 11 | Oldboy | Chan-wook Park | 1203 |
| 12 | The School of Rock | Richard Linklater | 1339 |
| 13 | The Matrix Reloaded | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 1375 |
| 14 | Dogville | Lars von Trier | 1378 |
| 15 | Touching the Void | Kevin Macdonald | 1400 |
| 16 | Big Fish | Tim Burton | 1473 |
| 17 | Mystic River* | Clint Eastwood | 1487 |
| 18 | American Splendor | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini | 1537 |
| 19 | Old School | Todd Phillips | 1571 |
| 20 | The Best of Youth | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1611 |
| 21 | Pieces of April | Peter Hedges | 1626 |
| 22 | Seabiscuit* | Gary Ross | 1684 |
| 23 | The Station Agent | Thomas McCarthy | 1689 |
| 24 | 21 Grams | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 1696 |
| 25 | Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki | 1904 |
| 26 | House of Sand and Fog | Vadim Perelman | 2035 |
| 27 | Something's Gotta Give | Nancy Meyers | 2073 |
| 28 | The Matrix Revolutions | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 2112 |
| 29 | The Last Samurai | Edward Zwick | 2132 |
| 30 | Freaky Friday | Mark Waters | 2138 |
| 31 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | Ki-duk Kim | 2246 |
| 32 | Elephant | Gus Van Sant | 2292 |
| 33 | Good Bye Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | 2475 |
| 34 | Thirteen | Catherine Hardwicke | 2480 |
| 35 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | Errol Morris | 2502 |
| 36 | Cold Mountain | Anthony Minghella | 2507 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 278 |
| 2 | Shaun of the Dead | Edgar Wright | 643 |
| 3 | The Incredibles | Brad Bird | 657 |
| 4 | Million Dollar Baby** | Clint Eastwood | 674 |
| 5 | Spider-Man 2 | Sam Raimi | 940 |
| 6 | Sideways* | Alexander Payne | 941 |
| 7 | Before Sunset | Richard Linklater | 948 |
| 8 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | Quentin Tarantino | 1019 |
| 9 | Hotel Rwanda | Terry George | 1028 |
| 10 | Ray* | Taylor Hackford | 1230 |
| 11 | Napoleon Dynamite | Jared Hess | 1237 |
| 12 | Garden State | Zach Braff | 1260 |
| 13 | The Passion of the Christ | Mel Gibson | 1292 |
| 14 | Crash** | Paul Haggis | 1316 |
| 15 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuarón | 1475 |
| 16 | The Motorcycle Diaries | Walter Salles | 1536 |
| 17 | Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 1576 |
| 18 | Friday Night Lights | Peter Berg and Josh Pate | 1612 |
| 19 | Finding Neverland* | Marc Forster | 1613 |
| 20 | The Aviator* | Martin Scorsese | 1662 |
| 21 | The Sea Inside | Alejandro Amenábar | 1681 |
| 22 | Collateral | Michael Mann | 1759 |
| 23 | The Notebook | Nick Cassavetes | 1762 |
| 24 | Miracle | Gavin O'Connor | 1795 |
| 25 | Shrek 2 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon | 1826 |
| 26 | Mean Girls | Mark Waters | 1867 |
| 27 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | Rawson Marshall Thurber | 1936 |
| 28 | House of Flying Daggers | Yimou Zhang | 1947 |
| 29 | Troy | Wolfgang Petersen | 2051 |
| 30 | Dead Man’s Shoes | Shane Meadows | 2322 |
| 31 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | Michael Moore | 2347 |
| 32 | Kinsey | Bill Condon | 2436 |
| 33 | Bad Education | Pedro Almodóvar | 2488 |
| 34 | 2046 | Kar Wai Wong | 2517 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sin City | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 765 |
| 2 | Brokeback Mountain* | Ang Lee | 893 |
| 3 | Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan | 1005 |
| 4 | King Kong | Peter Jackson | 1364 |
| 5 | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | 1514 |
| 6 | The 40 Year Old Virgin | Judd Apatow | 1590 |
| 7 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Steve Box and Nick Park | 1618 |
| 8 | Wedding Crashers | David Dobkin | 1674 |
| 9 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | George Lucas | 1690 |
| 10 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Mike Newell | 1805 |
| 11 | Hidden | Michael Haneke | 1906 |
| 12 | Cinderella Man | Ron Howard | 1928 |
| 13 | Serenity | Joss Whedon | 1992 |
| 14 | The Descent | Neil Marshall | 2054 |
| 15 | Brick | Rian Johnson | 2104 |
| 16 | Munich* | Steven Spielberg | 2113 |
| 17 | Pride & Prejudice | Joe Wright | 2125 |
| 18 | Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | 2203 |
| 19 | V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | 2283 |
| 20 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Tim Burton | 2334 |
| 21 | Capote* | Bennett Miller | 2367 |
| 22 | Good Night, and Good Luck.* | George Clooney | 2453 |
| 23 | Walk the Line | James Mangold | 2466 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Departed** | Martin Scorsese | 802 |
| 2 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | 894 |
| 3 | Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | 1142 |
| 4 | The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 1273 |
| 5 | Letters from Iwo Jima* | Clint Eastwood | 1482 |
| 6 | Little Miss Sunshine* | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | 1645 |
| 7 | Casino Royale | Martin Campbell | 1869 |
| 8 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Larry Charles | 1966 |
| 9 | Babel* | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 2215 |
| 10 | The Queen* | Stephen Frears | 2369 |
| 11 | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | 2414 |
| 12 | The Prestige | Christopher Nolan | 2417 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | No Country for Old Men** | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1799 |
| 2 | Ratatouille | Brad Bird | 2431 |
| 3 | Hot Fuzz | Edgar Wright | 2462 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
