1962

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)

The Trial (Orson Welles)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)


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)

Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)

Number 10 (Harry Smith) (the representative of the Early Abstractions series)

Nine Days of One Year (Mikhail Romm)

The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)

Honorable mention: The Damned (Joseph Losey), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (Riccardo Freda), Of Stars and Men (John Hubley), Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)