1956

A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
The Searchers (John Ford)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)

The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot and Pablo Picasso)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)

The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)

Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray)


Honorable mention: Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox), Punishment Room (Kon Ichikawa), What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street (Rudy Burckhardt and Joseph Cornell)