From the Archives

2009

Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009 (Horace Mitchell)

Star Trek (J. J. Abrams)

Monsters vs. Aliens (Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon)

2008

Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Spanky: To the Pier and Back (Guy Maddin)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)

In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)

Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)

Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)

2007

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)

Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
The Key to Reserva (Martin Scorsese)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike)

Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman)
Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, and Quentin Tarantino)

Honorable mention: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik), 30 Days of Night (David Slade)

2006

The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)

Offside (Jafar Panahi)
Coeurs (Alain Resnais)
The Host (Bong Joon-Ho)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)

The Boss of It All (Lars Von Trier)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott)

Day Watch (Timur Bekmambetov)

Idiocracy (Mike Judge)
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)

Honorable mention: Apocalypto (Mel Gibson), Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles and Sacha Baron Cohen), Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin), Casino Royale (Martin Campbell), The Departed (Martin Scorsese), The Painted Veil (John Curran), United 93 (Paul Greengrass)

2005

The New World (Terrence Malick)
My Dad is 100 Years Old (Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park and Steve Box)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)

The President's Last Bang (Im Sang-Soo)
The Protector [US cut] (Prachya Pinkaew)
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)
Unleashed (Louis Leterrier)

Honorable mention: The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam), The Call of Cthulhu (Andrew Leman), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings), Match Point (Woody Allen), Munich (Steven Spielberg), They're Made Out of Meat (Stephen O'Regan), War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)

2004

2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
Forgiveness (Ian Gabriel)
Spartan (David Mamet)

Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)

The Incredibles (Brad Bird)

House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
Sissy-Boy Slap Party (director’s cut) (Guy Maddin)
Millions (Danny Boyle)
Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)

Troy (Wolfgang Petersen)
District B13 (Pierre Morel)

Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
The World (Jia Zhang Ke)

Team America: World Police (Trey Parker)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran)

Honorable mention: Breaking News (Johnnie To), La Femme de Gilles (Frederic Fonteyne), Ferpect Crime (Alex de la Iglesia), Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque (Jacques Richard), I Died in Childhood (Giorgi Paradjanov), Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson), Les Revenants (Robin Campilo), Ryan (Chris Landreth)

2003

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
Destino (Dominque Monfery)

Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)

The Matrix Reloaded (Larry and Andy Wachowski)
Stander (Bronwen Hughes)
Baadasssss! (Melvin van Peebles)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Honorable mention: Astronauts (Santi Amadeo), Blind Shaft (Li Yang), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (trailer) (McG), Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch), The Core (Jon Amiel), Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola), Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho), Ong-Bak (Prachya Pinkaew), Running on Karma (Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai), Saraband (Ingmar Bergman), Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)

2002

24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
25th Hour (Spike Lee)

Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)
Time Left (Michal Rovner)

Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)

Adaptation (Spike Jonze)

Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)

Honorable mention: Another City (David Hoffos), Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscarelli), Chicken Poets (Meng Jinghui), Dead or Alive: Final (Takashi Miike), Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali), Dolls (Takeshi Kitano), Femme Fatale (Brian DePalma), Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus), Ice Age (trailer) (Chris Wedge), Kedma (Amos Gitai), Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe), The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki), La Turbulence des Fluides (Manon Briand), Windtalkers (John Woo)

2001

Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
blue (Hiroshi Ando)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin)
The Triumph of Love (Claire Peploe)
Love's Refrain (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura)
Pootie Tang (Louis C. K.)
CQ (Roman Coppola)
Musa - The Warrior (Kim Sang-su)
A.I. (Steven Spielberg)
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)

Honorable mention: L'Anglaise et la Duc (Eric Rohmer), Digitopia (John Akomfrah), Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (Shusuke Kaneko), Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota), Josie and the Pussycats (Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont), Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Manic (Jordan Melamed), Missing Young Woman (Lourdes Portillo), Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann), Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh), The Officers Ward (Francois Dupreyon), Quo Vadis (Jerzy Kawalerowicz), Volcano High (Kim Tae-kyun)

2000

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Tears of the Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (Bahman Farmanara)
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
The Foul King (Kim Jeewoon)
George Washington (David Gordon Green)
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
Charlie's Angels (McG)
Timecode (Mike Figgis)

Honorable mention: Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf), Camera (David Cronenberg), The Circle (Jafar Panahi), La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins), Daughters of the Sun (Maryam Shahriar), Entropy 1 (Duraid Munajim), Erik Bruhn: I'm the Same - Only More (Lennart Pasborg), Face (Junji Sakamoto), Film (emend) (deco dawson), GalaxyQuest (Dean Parisot), The Golden Bowl (James Ivory), Hamlet (Michael Almereyda), Hospital Fragment (Guy Maddin), JSA - Joint Security Area (Park Chan-Wook), Meet the Parents (Jay Roach), Memento (Christopher Nolan), Phoenix Tapes (Christophe Girardet and Matthias Muller), Prelude (Michael Snow), The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Twyker), Seance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Sons of Hercules (William Comstock and John Kirk), Subject to a Film: Marnie (Stan Douglas), Time and Tide (Tsui Hark), 24 Hour Psycho (Douglas Gordon), Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan), Variations (Nathaniel Dorsky), Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi)

1999

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
Il Mio viaggio in Italia (Martin Scorsese)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
Diva Dolorosa (Peter Delpeut)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
Time Regained (Raul Ruiz)
The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
Govinda (Lewis Klahr)
Dora-Heita (Kon Ichikawa)
Where a Good Man Goes (Johnnie To)
Rapture (Shirin Neshat)
One Piece! (Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki)
The Matrix (Larry and Andy Wachowski)
Tuvalu (Veit Helmer)

Fight Club (David Fincher)
The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez [and Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard])
Election (Alexander Payne)

Honorable mention: Attack the Gas Station! (Kim Sang-jin), Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze), Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese), Crazy English (Zhang Yuan), The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan), Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (Shusuke Kaneko), Genesis (Cheick Oumar Sissoko), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch), Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano), L.A. Times Ad: The Moving Camera (who knows?), Lies (Jang Sun-Woo), Moonlight Whispers (Akihiko Shiota), Mystery Men (Kinka Usher), Not One Less (Zhang Yimou), Pola X (Leos Carax), Shiri (Kang Je-Kyu), The Terrorist (Santosh Sivan), Titus (Julie Taymor), Une liason pornographique (Frederic Fonteyne), Yesterday Children (Carlos Siguion-Reyna)

1998

Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Battu’s Bioscope (Andrzej Fidyk)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
Psycho (Gus Van Sant)
Run Lola Run (Tom Twyker)
Dr. Akagi (Shohei Imamura)
Hands on a Hardbody (S. R. Bindler)
The Book of Life (Hal Hartley)

Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell)
After Life (Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
Samurai Fiction (Hiroyuki Nakano)
Pleasantville (Gary Ross)

Honorable mention: Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller), Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci), Bulworth (Warren Beatty), The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg), L'Ennui (Cedric Kahn), Eyes of the Spider (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), A Hero Never Dies (Johnnie To), Histoire(s) du cinema (Jean-Luc Godard), The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater), Of Freaks and Men (Alexei Balbanov), Rush Hour (Brett Ratner), Show Me Love (Lukas Moodyson), Your Friends and Neighbors (Neil LaBute)

1997

Kundun (Martin Scorsese)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Face/Off (John Woo)
The Longest Nite (Patrick Yau)
The Edge (Lee Tamahori)
Same Old Song (Alain Resnais)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
Lifeline (Johnnie To)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Bille August)

Honorable mention: Amistad (Steven Spielberg), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Jay Roach), Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith), Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), The Eel (Shohei Imamura), Face (Antonia Bird), Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris), Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary (Laura Angelica Simon), The Fifth Element (Luc Besson), Full Alert (Ringo Lam), Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight (Noam Gonick), L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson) Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni), Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (Wai Ka-Fai), Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson)

1996

News from the Good Lord (Didier Le Pecheur)
Happy End (Peter Tscherkassky)
Crash (David Cronenberg)
Looking for Richard (Al Pacino)
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
Thieves (Andre Techine)
Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer)
Once Upon a Time in Triad Society (Cha Chuen-Yee)
Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton)
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
Fargo (Joel Coen)

Honorable mention: Battle for the Minds (Steven Lipscomb), Big Night (Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott), The Emperor's Shadow (Zhao Xiaowen), Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Gray's Anatomy (Steven Soderbergh), Lost and Found (Lee Chi-Ngai), Michael Collins (Neil Jordan), My Secret Cache (Shinobu Yaguchi), The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman), Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic), Prisoner of the Mountains (Sergei Bodrov), Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)

1995

Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
Heat (Michael Mann)
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
Cinema of Unease (Sam Neill)
The Veiling (Bill Viola)
Forgotten Silver (Peter Jackson and Costa Botes)
2 X 50 Years of French Cinema (Anne-Marie Mieville and Jean-Luc Godard)
Hong Kong Graffiti (Teddy Robin Kwan)
Flirt (Hal Hartley)
Smoke (Wayne Wang)
Toy Story (John Lasseter)
Babe (Chris Noonan)
Elixir (Irina Evteeva)
Beyond Rangoon (John Boorman)
Safe (Todd Haynes)

Honorable mention: The Fourth Part of the Brain (Nenad Dizdarevic), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport), Land and Freedom (Ken Loach), One Hundred Years of Cinema (Pawel Lowinski), Persuasion (Roger Michell), Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee), Yang + Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (Stanley Kwan)

1994

Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)

Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Legends of the Fall (Edward Zwick)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Speed (Jan de Bont)
Barcelona (Whit Stillman)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
The Kingdom (Lars von Trier and Merton Amfred)
Amateur (Hal Hartley)
Serial Mom (John Waters)

Honorable mention: The Awkward Age (Nenad Dizdarevic), Krantiveer (Muhul Anand), Little Women (Gillian Armstrong), Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino), Quiz Show (Robert Redford), The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles), Steam Trek: The Moving Picture (D. Sisterson), Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami), Wing Chun (Yuen Woo-ping)

1993

Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo-ping)
Blue (Derek Jarman)
Fearless (Peter Weir)
Green Snake (Tsui Hark)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
Faraway, So Close! (Wim Wenders)
The Bride with White Hair (Ronny Yu)

Honorable mention: Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (Rob Cohen), The Fugitive (Andrew Davis), In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen), In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan), A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood), Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough), Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi)

1992

Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
Hardboiled (John Woo)
The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker)
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
Careful (Guy Maddin)
The Best Intentions (Bille August)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong)
La Vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki)
God is My Witness (Mukul Anand)
The Sword of Many Loves (Poon Man Kit)

Honorable mention: Deadend of Besiegers (Zhang Siu Wai), Full Contact (Ringo Lam), Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene), Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen), L.627 (Bertrand Tavernier), A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano), The Sun of the Quince (Victor Erice)

1991

The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)
Slacker (Richard Linklater)
La Belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
And Life Goes On (Abbas Kiarostami)
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old (William Kentridge)
Black Robe (Bruce Beresford)
The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch)
En Passant (Atom Egoyan)
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
Kafka (Steven Soderbergh)
Mine (William Kentridge)

Honorable mention: Barton Fink (Joel Coen), Chinese Ghost Story III (Ching Siu-Tung), Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh), New Jack City (Mario van Peebles)

1990

Frankenstein Unbound (Roger Corman)
Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
Branches of the Tree (Satyajit Ray)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)
Monument (William Kentridge)
White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)

Honorable mention: Archangel (Guy Maddin), Bullet in the Head (John Woo), Darkman (Sam Raimi), The Freshman (Andrew Bergman), The Grifters (Stephen Frears), Hardware (Richard Stanley), The Hot Spot (Dennis Hopper), Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne), Metropolitan (Whit Stillman), Mountains of the Moon (Bob Rafelson), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci)

1989

My 20th Century (Ildiko Enyedi)

The Killer (John Woo)
Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Notebook on Cities and Clothes (Wim Wenders)
Johannesburg, the 2nd Greatest City after Paris (William Kentridge)
Why Did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East? (Bae Yong-Kyun)
sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)

Honorable mention: Back to the Future II (Robert Zemeckis), Glory (Edward Zwick)

1988

Decalogue Six (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Decalogue Three (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Decalogue Five (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Decalogue Four (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
Ashik Kerib (Sergei Paradjanov)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
Decalogue Ten (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Decalogue Seven (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Ermanno Olmi)
Have You Seen Drum Recently (Jurgen Schadeberg)
Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)

Honorable mention: Another Woman (Woody Allen), Dangerous Liasons (Stephen Frears), Decalogue Two (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Decalogue Nine (Krzysztof Kieslowski), A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan), The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)

1987

Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)

Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat)
Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)

The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Robocop (Paul Verhoeven)
Project A II (Jackie Chan)
Passage (Bill Viola)
Intervista (Federico Fellini)
Where is My Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami)

Honorable mention: Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Dragons Forever (Sammo Hung), King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard), The Lonely Voice of Man (Alexander Sokurov), Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme)

1986

Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company as revealed through the casting of a state television film (Jean-Luc Godard)
Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Two Friends (Jane Campion)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
84 Charing Cross Road (David Hugh Jones)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy)
A Better Tomorrow (John Woo)

1985

Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
Police (Maurice Pialat)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy)
Police Story (Jackie Chan)
Come and See (Elem Klimov)
Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
Yes Madam (Corey Yuen)

Honorable mentions: Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme (Sergei Paradjanov)

1984

Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Legend of Surami Fortress (Sergei Paradjanov & Dodo Abashidze)
The Terminator (James Cameron)
Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1984 (Michael Radford)
Threads (Mick Jackson)
The Hit (Stephen Frears)
A Christmas Carol (Clive Donner)
Dune (David Lynch)

1983

Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)

Project A (Jackie Chan)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
Confidentially Yours (Francois Truffaut)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)
Gorky Park (Michael Apted)
Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Zelig (Woody Allen)

1982

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer)

A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy (Woody Allen)
Tron (Steven Lisberger)
Conan the Barbarian (John Milius)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Q (Larry Cohen)
Legendary Weapons of China (Liu Chia-Liang)
The Return of Martin Guerre (Daniel Vigne)

1981

The Road Warrior (George Miller)
Mandala (Im Kwon-taek)
Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
Station (Yasuo Furuhata)
Scanners (David Cronenberg)
Eijaniaka (Shohei Imamura)
For Your Eyes Only (John Glen)
Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis)
Kagero-za (Seijun Suzuki)

1980

Deathwatch (Bertrand Tavernier)
Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki)
The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorcese)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys)
Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford)
The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
The Leg Fighters (Tso Nam Lee)

Honorable mention: Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker), The Elephant Man (David Lynch), Return to the 36th Chamber (Liu Chia-Liang), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

1979

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Mad Max (George Miller)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Shaolin Challenges Ninja (Liu Chia-Liang)
The Reflecting Pool (Bill Viola)
Being There (Hal Ashby)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
The Image Maker and the Indians: E. S. Curtis and His 1914 Kwakiutl Movie (David Gerth)
Scenario de Sauve qui peut la vie (Jean-Luc Godard)

Honorable mention: The Great Train Robbery (Michael Crichton)

1978

Filming Othello (Orson Welles)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (Yuen Woo-Ping)
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
Insiang (Lino Brocka)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang)
The Green Room (Francois Truffaut)
Cornell, 1965 (Larry Jordan)
Warlords of Atlantis (Kevin Connor)

1977

Providence (Alain Resnais)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
The Man Who Loved Women (Francois Truffaut)
Eraserhead (David Lynch)
Star Wars (George Lucas)
Amar Akbar Anthony (Manmohan Desai)
Powers of Ten (Charles and Ray Eames)
House (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)

1976

Fellini's Casanova (Federico Fellini)
The Marquise of O... (Eric Rohmer)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
The Ascent (Larisa Sheptiko)
The Italian Machine (David Cronenberg)
The Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
At the Earth's Core (Kevin Connor)
The Human Tornado (Cliff Roquemore)

1975

F for Fake (Orson Welles)
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Shivers (David Cronenberg)
Love and Death (Woody Allen)
Rollerball (Norman Jewison)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
I am a Cat (Kon Ichikawa)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
Return of the Chinese Boxer (Jimmy Wang Yu)

1974

Zardoz (John Boorman)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Battles without Honor or Humanity: Final Episode (Kinji Fukasaku)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
Foxy Brown (Jack Hill)
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)
Reason, Debate and a Tale (Ritwik Ghatak)
Battles without Honor or Humanity: Police Tactics (Kinji Fukasaku)
The Last Days of Planet Earth (Toshio Masuda)

Honorable mention: The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola), Dark Star (John Carpenter), The Girls of Kamare (Rene Vienet [and Norifumi Suzuki and Teruo Ishii]), Juggernaut (Richard Lester), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Alan Gibson), The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami), Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)

1973

Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorcese)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
The Asphyx (Peter Newbrook)
La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri)
Sleeper (Woody Allen)
Badlands (Terence Malick)
Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
Battles without Honor or Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (Kinji Fukasaku)
Allonsanfan (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)

Honorable mention: Battles without Honor or Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku), The Blood Brothers (Chang Cheh), Coffy (Jack Hill), Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray), The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu), Hell Up in Harlem (Larry Cohen), Kiss Me Kill Me (Corrado Farina)

1972

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Shunya Ito)
The Ruling Class (Peter Medak)
Across 110th Street (Barry Shear)
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito)

1971

Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
Shaft (Gordon Parks)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
A Fistful of Dynamite (Sergio Leone)
Bananas (Woody Allen)
Company Limited (Satyajit Ray)
Legend of the Mountain (King Hu)

1970

The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Oshima)
The Ear (Karel Kachyna)
Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Blood on Satan's Claw (Piers Haggard)
Tristana (Luis Bunuel)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Beginning (Gleb Panfilov)
The Kremlin Letter (John Huston)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder)
Eros + Massacre (Yoshishge Yoshida)

Honorable mention: Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer), The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Landscape After Battle (Andrzej Wajda), A Legend for Fountains (Joseph Cornell), Sport, Sport, Sport (Elem Klimov), THX 1138 (George Lucas), Vampyros Lesbos (Jesus Franco)

1969

Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
The Merchant of Venice (Orson Welles)

Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
AKA Serial Killer (Masao Adachi)
Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (Russ Meyer)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
Pirosmani (Georgy Shengalaya)
Everything for Sale (Andrzej Wajda)
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)

Honorable mention: Bambi Meets Godzilla (Marv Newland), Fuego (Armando Bo), A Touch of Zen (King Hu)

1968

The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Head (Bob Rafelson)
Golden Swallow (Chang Cheh)
Petulia (Richard Lester)
Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
Vixen! (Russ Meyer)
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
The Swimmer (Frank Perry)

Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)

Honorable mention: Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman), Spirits of the Dead (Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Federico Fellini), Les voitures d’eau (Pierre Perrault)

1967

Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
Point Blank (John Boorman)
The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski)
Wavelength (Michael Snow)
Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
The Trip (Roger Corman)
La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
No Path Through the Fire (Gleb Panfilov)
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
Viy (Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Yershov and Alexander Ptushko)
La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
Billion Dollar Brain (Ken Russell)

Honorable mention: Bedazzled (Stanley Donen), Common-Law Cabin (Russ Meyer), The Dinosaur and the Baby (Andre Labarthe), Good Morning... and Goodbye! (Russ Meyer), The Living Corpse (Khwaja Sarfaraz), One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh), Velvet Hustler (Toshio Masuda)

1966

It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki)
Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
Come Drink With Me (King Hu)

Kiev Frescos (Sergei Paradjanov)
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
The Nun (Jacques Rivette)

Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer)

Honorable mention: Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar), Masculin Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard), Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey), Mondo Topless (Russ Meyer), The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini), The Story of Asya Klyachina who Loved a Man, But Did Not Marry Him (Andrei Konchalovsky), Wings (Larisa Shepitko)

1965

The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojceich Has)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
Hagop Havnotonian (Sergei Paradjanov)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
Help! (Richard Lester)
Tattooed Life (Seijun Suzuki)
The War Game (Peter Watkins)
Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki)
Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
The Tenth Victim (Elio Petri)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski)

Honorable mention: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo), Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard), Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa), Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha), Temple of the Red Lotus (Xu Zenghong), Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)

1964

Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
I Am Twenty (Marlen Khutsiev)
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
Manji (Yasuzo Masumura)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
Culloden (Peter Watkins)
Lorna (Russ Meyer)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha)
Charulata (Satayjit Ray)
The Last Man on Earth (Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
The Gorgon (Terence Fisher)
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)

Honorable mention: Bardot et Godard (Jacques Rozier), Blind Swordsman: The Adventures of Zatoichi (Kimiyoshi Yasuda), Goodbye, Boys (Mikhail Kalik), Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton), The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni), Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes), Zulu (Cy Endfield)

1963

The Trial (Orson Welles)

High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)

Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
The House is Black (Fourogh Farrokhzad)
Kanto Wanderer (Seijun Suzuki)
Contempt (trailer) (Jean-Luc Godard)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica)
The Great Escape (John Sturges)

Honorable mention: Alone Across the Pacific (Kon Ichikawa), From Russia with Love (Terence Young), The Money Dance (Kon Ichikawa), Raven's End (Bo Widerberg), Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)

1962

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)

The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)
The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
I Am Two (Kon Ichikawa)
Hara-kiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)

Honorable mention: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (Riccardo Freda), Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)

1961

Lola (Jacques Demy)
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
Victim (Basil Dearden)
Nine Days of One Year (Mikhail Romm)
Shadows (John Cassavetes)
Mysterious Island (Cy Endfield)
Junglee (Subodh Mukherjee)

1960

La Dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
Devi (Satyajit Ray)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Woman Who Touched Legs (Yasuzo Masumura)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)

Honorable mention: Beyond the Time Barrier (Edgar Ulmer), The City of the Dead (John Moxey), The Time Machine (George Pal), The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara)

1959

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)

The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
The Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalotozov)
Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)
Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
Lotna (Andrzej Wajda)

Honorable mention: Journey to the Center of the Earth (Henry Levin)

1958

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
Ivan the Terrible II (Sergei Eisenstein)

Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis)
The Horse's Mouth (Ronald Neame)

Bridges-Go-Around (Shirley Clarke)
Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura)

Honorable mention: The Fearmakers (Jacques Tourneur), Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher), The Music Room (Satyajit Ray), Underworld Beauty (Seijun Suzuki)

1957

The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalotozov)
Mambo Girl (Yi Wen)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Alison (John Huston)
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence FIsher)

Honorable mention: Hell Drivers (Cy Endfield), Kronos (Kurt Neumann), Legend of the Lost (Henry Hathaway), The Mysterians (Ishiro Honda), Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)

1956

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
The Searchers (John Ford)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
Number 10 (Harry Smith) (the representative of the Early Abstractions series)
The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot and Pablo Picasso)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)
Punishment Room (Kon Ichikawa)
Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox)

Honorable mention: What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street (Rudy Burckhardt and Joseph Cornell)

1955

Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson)
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
A Lawless Street (Joseph H. Lewis)
Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
Run for Cover (Nicholas Ray)

Honorable mention: Confidential Report (Orson Welles), Night and Fog (Alain Resnais), The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton), Rififi (Jules Dassin)

1954

The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Wuthering Heights (Luis Bunuel)
This Island Earth (Joseph Newman)
The Silver Chalice (Victor Saville)
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)
Suddenly (Lewis Allen)

1953

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The End (Christopher MacLaine)
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Beat the Devil (John Huston)
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
Eaux D'Artifice (Kenneth Anger)

Honorable mention: Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones), The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls), Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa), The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin)

1952

Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
Othello (Orson Welles)
El (Luis Bunuel)
Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed)
Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)
Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
Gods of Bali (Nikola Drakulic [and Robert Snyder])
Neighbours (Norman MacLaren)
The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)

1951

Awara (Raj Kapoor)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Chrichton)
The Thing (Christian Nyby)
The African Queen (John Huston)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
Lightning Strikes Twice (King Vidor)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
His Kind of Woman (John Farrow)

1950

D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate)
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
House by the River (Fritz Lang)
Scandal (Akira Kurosawa)
The Killer That Stalked New York (Earl McEvoy)
Caveman Inki (Chuck Jones)
Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
The Men (Fred Zinneman)

1949

The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Fountainhead (King Vidor)
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
My Love Has Been Burning (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
Barsaat (Raj Kapoor)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)

Honorable mention: Prince of Foxes (Henry King)

1948

Macbeth (Orson Welles)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio DeSica)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa)
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young)
Key Largo (John Huston)
The Woman in White (Peter Godfrey)

1947

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
La Tempestaire (Jean Epstein)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
The Fugitive (John Ford)
One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa)
Born to Kill (Robert Wise)
Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
T-Men (Anthony Mann)

1946

A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
No Regrets for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Utamaro and his Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Nobody Lives Forever (Jean Negulesco)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
The Stranger (Orson Welles)

1945

I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Les Dames de Bois du Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
San Pietro (John Huston)
The Big Sleep (pre-release version) (Howard Hawks)
Ivan the Terrible I (Sergei Eisenstein)
Detour (Edgar Ulmer)
Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
Christmas in Connecticut (Peter Godfrey)
Dillinger (Max Nosseck)

1944

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (Bernard Vorhaus)
A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with his battell fought at Agincourt in France (Laurence Olivier)
Grandpa Called it Art (Walter Hart)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (Mervyn LeRoy)

1943

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir)
None Shall Escape (Andre de Toth)
December 7th (John Ford)
Willoughby’s Magic Hat (Bob Wickersham)
The Desperadoes (Charles Vidor)

1942

Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)

The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
The Battle of Midway (John Ford)
Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster)
Across the Pacific (John Huston)

1941

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Citizen Kane (trailer) (Orson Welles)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
That Night in Rio (Irving Cummings)
49th Parallel (Michael Powell)
Major Barbara (Gabriel Pascal)
Rhapsody in Rivets (Friz Freleng)
The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey)
An Airman's Letter to His Mother (Michael Powell)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Jules Dassin)

1940

The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan and Michael Powell)

Island of Doomed Men (Charles Barton)
Composition 1 (Themis) (Dwinell Grant)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
Contraband (Michael Powell)
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
Gang War (Leo C. Popkin)

1939

Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
Thugs with Dirty Mugs (Tex Avery)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
Stagecoach (John Ford)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)

Honorable mention: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (Norman Foster), Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding), Frontier Marshal (Allan Dwan), The Real Glory (Henry Hathaway)

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz and William Keighley)
La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir)
Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
Ride a Crooked Mile (Alfred E. Green)
Prison Train (Gordon Wiles)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Anatole Litvak)
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (Ford Beebe and Robert Hill)

1937

Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
The River (Pare Lorentz)
The Edge of the World (Michael Powell)
Crossroads (Shen Xiling)
Street Angel (Yuan Mu-jih)
Hospitaliky (Dave Fleischer)
Even -- As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and Le Roy Robbins)
The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
Vogues of 1938 (Irving Cummings)
Nothing Sacred (William Wellman)

1936

Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Rainbow Dance (Len Lye)
Near the Blue Sea (Boris Barnet)
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Flash Gordon (Frederick Stephani)

Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz)
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Honorable mention: Seven Sinners (Albert de Corville)

1935

Wife, Be Like a Rose (Mikio Naruse)
Legong: Dance of the Virgins (Henri de la Falaise)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Deformation of the Setting Sun (Joseph Leclerc)
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
Princess Tam Tam (Edmond Greville)
The Ghost Goes West (Rene Clair)

1934

A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Black Cat (Edgar Ulmer)
The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
Red Hot Mamma (Dave Fleischer)
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
Massacre (Alan Crosland)
Hell in the Heavens (John G. Blystone)
The Private Life of Don Juan (Alexander Korda)
The Mascot (Ladislaw Starewicz)

Honorable mention: Grand Canary (Irving Cummings)

1933

Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
King Kong (Meriam Cooper and Ernest Schoesdack)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley)
Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley)
Betty Boop’s May Party (Dave Fleischer)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz)
The Moving Picture Fight of the Fox and the Possum (Ikuo Oishi)

Honorable mention: Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton), Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber), Misery in the Borinage (Joris Ivens and Henri Storck), The Sin of Nora Moran (Phil Goldstone), The Worst Woman In Paris? (Monta Bell)

1932

Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Music Box (James Parrott)
The Mummy (Karl Fruend)
Betty Boop’s Ups and Downs (Dave Fleischer)
Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You (Dave Fleischer)
The Most Dangerous Game (Ernest B. Schoesdack and Irving Pichel)
Minnie the Moocher (Dave Fleischer)
I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
Freaks (Tod Browning)
Betty Boop’s Bamboo Isle (Dave Fleischer)
White Zombie (Victor Halperin)
Betty Boop, MD (Dave Fleischer)
Mystery Ranch (David Howard)

Honorable mention: Airmail (John Ford), Hell’s Highway (Rowland Brown), Prestige (Tay Garnett), The Red Shadow (Roy Mack & Kurt Neumann), Six Hours to Live (William Dieterle), Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)

1931

Tabu (F. W. Murnau)
The Last Flight (William Dieterle)
M (Fritz Lang)
The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
Bimbo’s Initiation (Dave Fleischer)
Kameradschaft (G. W. Pabst)
Bad Girl (Frank Borzage)
Dangerous Female (Roy Del Ruth)
Dracula (Tod Browning)

1930

Prix de Beaute (silent) (Alfredo Genina)
Prix de Beaute (sound) (Alfredo Genina)
L'Age d'or (Luis Bunuel)
The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
Barnacle Bill (Dave Fleischer)
Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg)
Anna Christie (Jacques Feyder)
Walk Cheerfully (Yasujiro Ozu)
Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalotozov)
Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)

1929

Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)
Brumes d’Automne (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
L'Argent (Marcel L'Herbier)
Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst)
H2O (Ralph Steiner)
Les Mysteres du chateau du De (Man Ray)
Angora Love (Lewis R. Foster)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali)
Autour de L'Argent (Jean Dreville)
Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick)
Dynamite (Cecil B. de Mille)
Red Heroine (Wen Yimin)
Diary of a Lost Girl (G. W. Pabst)

Honorable mention: Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko), Black and Tan (Dudley Murphy), Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock), Piccadilly (E. A. Dupont), Rain (Joris Ivens), The White Hell of Piz Palu (Arnold Fanck and G. W. Pabst), Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang)

1928

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

There It Is (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
L’Etoile de mer (Man Ray)
The Mysterious Lady (Fred Niblo)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)
The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
Moulin Rouge (E. A. Dupont)
Ko-Ko’s Earth Control (Dave Fleischer)
The Circus (Charlie Chaplin)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
The Little Match Girl (Jean Renoir)

Honorable mention: Beggars of Life (William Wellman), Ghosts before Breakfast (Hans Richter), Greeting by George Bernard Shaw (Jack Connolly and George Bernard Shaw), The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey), The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni), Pass the Gravy (Fred L. Guiol), Speedy (Ted Wilde)

1927

Sunrise (F. W. Murnau)
Love (Edmund Goulding)
The Unknown (Tod Browning)
The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde)
The General (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)
Wings (William Wellman)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
The Chess Player (Raymond Bernard)
Chang (Ernest Schoesdack and Merian Cooper)
The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin)

A Wild Roomer (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
October (Sergei Eisenstein)

Honorable mention: Don't Tell Everything (Leo McCarey), King of Kings (Cecil B. de Mille), Many a Slip (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller), The Night of Love (George Fitzmaurice)

1926

Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjostrom)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock)

Now You Tell One (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
Anemic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp)

Egged On (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)

Mama Behave (Leo McCarey)
Don Juan (Alan Crosland)
The Great K & A Train Robbery (Lewis Seiler)
The Black Bird (Tod Browning)

Honorable mention: The Flute of Krishna (Martha Graham), For Heaven’s Sake (Sam Taylor), He Done His Best (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller), Ibanez' Torrent (Monta Bell)

1925

Greed (Erich Von Stroheim)
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
Don Q, Son of Zorro (Donald Crisp)
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian)
Isn’t Life Terrible? (Leo McCarey)
Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo)
No Father to Guide Him (Leo McCarey)

Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch)

Honorable mention: Tumbleweeds (King Baggot)

1924

Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
The Navigator (Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp)
Wild Oranges (King Vidor)
The Last Laugh (F. W. Murnau)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
Land of the Bulls (Musidora)
Kino-Eye (Dziga Vertov)
Gosta Berling's Saga (Mauritz Stiller)
Ballet mecanique (Fernand Leger)
North of 36 (Irvin Willat)

1923

Safety Last (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. de Mille)
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)
Why Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
The Pilgrim (Charlie Chaplin)
Le Retour a la Raison (Man Ray)
Johan Ulfstjerna (John W. Brunius)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley)
Gunnar Hede's Saga (Mauritz Stiller)

1922

Foolish Wives (Erich Von Stroheim)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau)

Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
Lorna Doone (Maurice Tourneur)
Manslaughter (Cecil B. DeMille)
Dr Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)

The Toll of the Sea (Chester M. Franklin)
The Man from Beyond (Burton L. King)
Robin Hood (Allan Dwan)
Grandma’s Boy (Fred C. Newmeyer)

Honorable mention: Cops (Buster Keaton), The Frozen North (Buster Keaton)

1921

Never Weaken (Fred C. Newmeyer)
The Pet (Winsor McCay)

The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjostrom)
Manhatta (Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler)
The Playhouse (Buster Keaton)
The Whistle (Lambert Hillyer)
Johan (Mauritz Stiller)
The Goat (Buster Keaton)
The Ace of Hearts (Wallace Worsley)
The Idle Class (Charlie Chaplin)

The Indian Tomb (Joe May)

Honorable Mention: The Affairs of Anatol (Cecil B. DeMille), The Blot (Lois Weber), The Flying House (Winsor McCay), Gertie on Tour (Winsor McCay), Lotus Blossom (surviving reel) (Frank Grandon & James B. Leong), Seven Years Bad Luck (Max Linder)

1920

Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller)
The Penalty (Wallace Worsley)
The Toll Gate (Lambert Hillyer)
Storia di Una Donna (Eugenio Perego)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
The Last of the Mohicans (Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown)
Sumurun (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Bump (Adrian Brunel)
What Happened to Rosa (Victor Schertzinger)
The Golem (Paul Wegener)

1918

The Sinking of the Lusitania (Winsor McCay)
A.W.O.L. (Charles Bowers)
Tarzan of the Apes (Scott Sidney)
Policy and Pie (Gregory La Cava)
The Outlaw and His Wife (Victor Sjostrom)

1917

The Narrow Trail (Lambert Hillyer and William S. Hart)
Easy Street (Charles Chaplin)
Coney Island (Roscoe Arbuckle)
The Adventurer (Charles Chaplin)
The Cure (Charles Chaplin)
Down the old Potomac (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
The Secret Game (William C. DeMille)

1919

Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith)
The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch)
South (Frank Hurley)
Bumping into Broadway (Hal Roach)
The President (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim)
I Wouldn't Want to Be a Man (Ernst Lubitsch)
Male and Female (Cecil B. DeMille)
The Delicious Little Devil (Robert Z. Leonard)
Passion (Ernst Lubitsch)

1916

Judex (Louis Feuillade)
Intolerance (D. W. Griffith)

Hell's Hinges (William S. Hart)
Where Are My Children (Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley)
The Return of Draw Egan (William S. Hart)
The Ballerina (Mauritz Stiller)
Tigre Reale (Piero Fosco and Giovanni Pastrone)
The Matrimaniac (Paul Powell)
The Night of Revenge (Benjamin Christensen)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Stuart Paton)

1915

Alias Jimmy Valentine (Maurice Tourneur)
A Night at the Show (Charles Chaplin)
Regeneration (Raoul Walsh)
Hypocrites (Lois Weber)
After Death (Yevgeni Bauer)
Rapsodia Satanica (Nino Oxilia)
Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
The Disciple (William S. Hart)
The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)
The Hazards of Helen: Episode 26--The Wild Engine (J. P. McGowan)

Honorable mention: The Bank (Charles Chaplin), The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (Willis O’Brien), The Fairy and the Waif (Marie Hubert Frohman), Fiore di Male (Carmine Gallone)

1914

The Bargain (Reginald Barker)
Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay)
Assunta Spina (Gustavo Serena)
Sangue Bleu (Nino Oxilia)
Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone)
The Mysterious X (Benjamin Christensen)
In the Land of the Head Hunters (Edward S. Curtis)
Martin Eden (Hobart Bosworth)

Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett)

1913

Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (Yevgeni Bauer)
The Mothering Heart (D. W. Griffith)
The Massacre (D. W. Griffith)

The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini)
Traffic in Souls (George Loane Tucker)
The House of Darkness (D. W. Griffith)
Shrapnel Duel (Alberto Vaser)
Death's Marathon (D. W. Griffith)
A House Divided (Alice Guy-Blache)
The Drummer of the 8th (Thomas Ince)

1912

The New York Hat (D. W. Griffith)

The Land Beyond the Sunset (Harold Shaw)
The Female of the Species (D. W. Griffith)
The Cameraman's Revenge (Ladislaw Starewicz)
The Painted Lady (D. W. Griffith)
The Invaders (Francis Ford and/or Thomas Ince)
The Life and Death of King Richard III (James Keane)
The Girl and Her Trust (D. W. Griffith)
Cleopatra (Charles L. Gaskill)
For His Son (D. W. Griffith)

Honorable mention: The Burglar's Dilemma (D. W. Griffith), From the Manger to the Cross (Sydney Olcott), How A Mosquito Operates (Winsor McCay), L'Iris fantastique (Segundo de Chomon), Making an American Citizen (Alice Guy Blache), The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D. W. Griffith), One is Business, The Other Crime (D. W. Griffith), The Sunbeam (D. W. Griffith)

1911

Winsor McCay and His Animated Pictures (Winsor McCay)

The Lonedale Operator (D. W. Griffith)
The Battle (D. W. Griffith)
What Shall We Do With Our Old? (D. W. Griffith)
Enoch Arden (D. W. Griffith)
Swords and Hearts (D. W. Griffith)
Alkali Ike’s Auto (Gilbert M. Anderson)
The Miser's Heart (D. W. Griffith)
The Last Drop of Water (D. W. Griffith)
His Trust Fulfilled (D. W. Griffith)

1910

In the Border States (D. W. Griffith)
The House with Closed Shutters (D. W. Griffith)

Francesca da Rimini (Ugo Falena)
The Fugitive (D. W. Griffith)
The Automatic Moving Company (Emile Cohl)
The Unchanging Sea (D. W. Griffith)
Ramona (D. W. Griffith)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Otis Turner)
A Day in the Life of a Coalminer (Kineto Production)
The Usurer (D. W. Griffith)

1908

The Physician of the Castle (Pathe Freres)
Troubles of a Grass Widower (Max Linder)
The Thieving Hand (Vitagraph)
Moscow Clad in Snow (Pathe Freres)
Magic Bricks (Gaston Velle)

1907

The roller skate craze (Selig)
Aladin et la lampe merveuilleuse (Pathe Freres)
The Eclipse (Georges Melies)
The Two Brothers (William V. Ranous)
The Golden Beetle (Segundo de Chomon)
International contest for the heavyweight championship -- Squires vs. Burns, Ocean View, Cal., July 4th, 1907 (Herbert J. Miles)

1909

The Country Doctor (D. W. Griffith)
Corner in Wheat (D. W. Griffith)
Wilbur Wright and His Flying Machine (Anonymous)
Those Awful Hats (D. W. Griffith)
The Redman's View (D. W. Griffith)
Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves (Segundo de Chomon)
Spring (Louis Feuillade)
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (J. Stuart Blackton)
Nero, or the Fall of Rome (Arturo Ambrosio)
The Sealed Room (D. W. Griffith)

1906

San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake
The (?) Motorist (R. W. Paul)
Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Bld'g (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
Three American Beauties (Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon)
The Mysterious Retort (Georges Melies)
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (J. Stuart Blackton)

1905

Rescued by Rover (Lewin Fitzhamon)
La Revolution en Russie (Lucien Nouquet)
The burglar's slide for life (Edwin S. Porter)
The Living Playing Cards (Georges Melies)
The Black Imp (Georges Melies)

Interior: New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (Billy Bitzer)
Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (Ferdinand Zecca)
An Interesting Story (James Williamson)
Le Roi des dollars (Segundo de Chomon)
2 a.m. in the subway (Billy Bitzer)

1904

Bold Bank Robbery (Lubin)
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Edwin S. Porter)

Panoramic view aisle B, Westinghouse Works (Billy Bitzer)
Panorama view, street car motor room (Billy Bitzer)
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Melies)
The Mermaid (Georges Melies)
The Wonderful Living Fan (Georges Melies)
The Cook in Trouble (Georges Melies)
Tapping a furnace, Westinghouse Works (Billy Bitzer)
How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns (Edison)

1903

The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter)
Daring Daylight Burglary (Sheffield Photographic)
Skyscrapers of New York from North River (James Blair Smith)

At the Foot of the Flatiron (A. E. Weed)

Life of an American Fireman (Edwin S. Porter)
The Georgetown Loop (Colorado) (American Mutoscope and Biograph)
A Romance of the rail (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
A Chess Dispute (R. W. Paul)
As in a looking glass (F. S. Armitage)
The Gay Shoe Clerk (Edwin S. Porter)

Honorable mention: Ameta (F. S. Armitage), Discovery of Bodies (American Mutoscope and Biograph), The Messenger Boy's Mistake (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.), Sick Kitten (George Albert Smith)

1902

The chimney sweep and the miller (Arthur Marvin)
Jack and the Beanstalk (Edwin S. Porter)
Star Theater (Frederick S. Armitage)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies)
Tram Ride into Halifax (Mitchell & Kenyon)
Fun in a Bakery Shop (Edwin S. Porter)
The Draped Model (American Mutoscope and Biograph)
A Perilous Proceeding (James Congdon)
Karina (American Mutoscope and Biograph)

1901

The mob outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
Pan-American Exposition by Night (Edwin S. Porter and James H. White)
The Big Swallow (James Williamson)
Funeral leaving the president's house and church at Canton, Ohio (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
Execution of Czolgosz, with Panorama of Auburn Prison (Edwin S. Porter)
The artist's dilemma (J. Stuart Blackton and/or Albert E. Smith)
Circular Panorama of Electric Tower (Edwin S. Porter and James H. White)
Panorama of esplanade by night (Edwin S. Porter and James H. White)
Fire! (James Williamson)
President Roosevelt at the Canton Station (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)

Honorable mention: Arrival of McKinley's funeral train at Canton, Ohio (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.), The martyred presidents (Edwin S. Porter), Taking President McKinley's body from train at Canton, Ohio (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)

1900

Panorama from the moving boardwalk (James White)
Moving Sidewalks (Lumiere Brothers)
Champs de Mars (James White)
Namo Village, Panorama Taken from a Rickshaw (Lumiere Brothers)
An Artist's Dream (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
Children Gathering Rice Scattered by Western Women (Lumiere Brothers)
Breaking of the crowd at military review at Longchamps (James White)
The Mystic Swing (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
Panorama of Place de L'Opera (James White)
The Enchanted Drawing (J. Stuart Blackton)

Honorable mention: How It Feels to Be Run Over (Cecil Hepworth), Let Me Dream Again (George Albert Smith), A nymph of the waves (American Mutoscope and Biograph)

1899

Fun in camp (James White)
Admiral Dewey receiving the Washington and New York committees (James White)
Admiral Dewey taking leave of Washington committee on the U.S. cruiser
"Olympia" (James White)
New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, no. 2 (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
The Little Girl and Her Cat (Lumiere Brothers)
Procession of Baby Carriages at the Paris Nursery (Lumiere Brothers)
104th Street curve, New York, elevated railway (James White)
Love and War (James White)
The Kiss in the Tunnel (George Albert Smith)
New York police parade, June 1st, 1899 (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)

1898

Pack Train at Chilkoot Pass (Anonymous)
The Four Troublesome Heads (Georges Melies)
Mount Tamalpais R.R., no. 2 (James H. White)
Mount Tamalpais R.R., no. 1 (James H. White)
War correspondents (William Paley)
Love and War (James H. White)
After launching (James H. White)
Reviewing the "Texas" at Grant's Tomb (James H. White)
Mount Taw R.R., no. 3 (James H. White)
Cuban volunteers embarking (William Paley)

1897

Serpentine Dance (Lumiere Brothers)
Chrissie Sheridan (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.)
The Pyramids (Lumiere Brothers)
Paving Machine on the Jonage Canal (Lumiere Brothers)
Harvesters (Lumiere Brothers)
Corner Madison and State streets, Chicago (James White)
Mattress-Maker's Quarrel (Lumiere Brothers)
Cupid and Psyche (James White)
Cattle driven to slaughter (James White)
Niagara Falls (Lumiere Brothers)

Honorable mention: Admiral Cigarette (William Heise)

1896

The Snowball Fight (Lumiere Brothers)
Place du Pont (Lumiere Brothers)

Rip van Winkle (W. K. L. Dickson)
Mounted police charge (James White)
Brooklyn Bridge (Lumiere Brothers)
Arrival of a Train at Battery Place (Lumiere Brothers)
Fulton Street (Lumiere Brothers)
The Muezzin's Prayer (Lumiere Brothers)
Tverskaya Street (Lumiere Brothers)
The burning stable (James White)

1895

Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (Louis and Auguste Lumiere)
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Louis and Auguste Lumiere)
Demolition of a Wall (Louis and Auguste Lumiere)
Boat Leaving the Port (Louis and Auguste Lumiere)
Game of Balls (Louis and Auguste Lumiere)
Rough Sea at Dover (Birt Acres)
Launching of a Ship (Louis and Auguste Lumiere)
Baby's First Steps (Louis and Auguste Lumiere)
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (Alfred Clark)
Place des Cordeliers (Louis and Auguste Lumiere)

1894

Carmencita (W. K. L. Dickson)

Caicedo, King of the Slack Wire (W. K. L. Dickson)
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (W. K. L. Dickson)
Buffalo Dance (W. K. L. Dickson)
Sandow (W. K. L. Dickson)
Bucking Broncho (W. K. L. Dickson)
Glenroy Bros., [no. 2] (W. K. L. Dickson)
Imperial Japanese dance (W. K. L. Dickson)
Corbett and Courtney before the Kinetograph (W. K. L. Dickson)

Honorable mention: Annie Oakley (W. K. L. Dickson), Robetta and Doretto, [no. 2] (W. K. L. Dickson)

Of the making of lists

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