1959

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)


The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)

Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)
Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais)

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (Charles Guggenheim & John Stix)

Honorable mentions: Araya (Margot Benacerraf), The First Lad (Sergei Paradjanov), Journey to the Center of the Earth (Henry Levin), Lotna (Andrzej Wajda), The Manster (George P. Breakston & Kenneth G. Crane), Maria and Her Days (Cecilia Mangini)