M O V I E S R A N K E D B Y Y E A R
2005 Ten Best:
1. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, J)
2. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, US)
3. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(Steve Box & Nick Park, UK)
4. Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki, J)
5. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, US)
6. King Kong (Peter Jackson, NZ/US)
7. Funky Forest: The First Contact (Ishii, Ishimine, & Miki, J)
8. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, US)
9. Serenity (Joss Whedon, US)
10. Walk the Line (James Mangold, US)
Worst Movie: Fantastic Four (Tim Story, US)
2004 Ten Best:
1. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, PRC/Fr/G/HK)
2. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, US)
3. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, US)
4. Samaritan Girl (Kim Ki-duk, SK)
5. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk, SK/J)
6. In the Realms of the Unreal (Jessica Yu, US)
7. Zebraman (Takashi Miike, J)
8. Palindromes (Todd Solondz, US)
9. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Fr)
10. Tae Guk Gi (Brotherhood of War) (Kang Je-gyu, SK)
Worst Movie: Garfield (Peter Hewitt, US)
2003 Ten Best:
1. The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, US/NZ)
2. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, US)
3. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, US)
4. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, SK)
5. Big Fish (Tim Burton, US)
6. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, SK/G)
7. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore
Verbinski, US)
8. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, US)
9. Monster (Patty Jenkins, US/G)
10. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, US/J)
Worst Movie: The Cat in the Hat (Bo Welch, US)
2006 Ten Best
1. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, US)
2. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, US/UK)
3. The Banquet (Feng Xiaogang, PRC)
4. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, Mex/Sp/US)
5. Tales from Earthsea (Goro Miyazaki, J)
6. I’m a Cyborg, but That’s Okay (Park Chan-wook, SK)
7. Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff, US)
8. Time (Kim Ki-duk, SK/J)
9. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make
Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles, US)
10. Nacho Libre (Jared Hess, US)
Worst Movie: Pulse (Jim Sonzero, US)
2002 Ten Best:
1. Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz, US)
2. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, SK)
3. Hero (Zhang Yimou, HK/PRC)
4. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, US)
5. The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, US/NZ/G)
6. Sunshine State (John Sayles US)
7. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, Sp)
8. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Br/Fr/US)
9. Break Out (Spark the Lighter) (Kang Hang-jun, SK)
10. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (Peter Care, US)
Worst Movie: The Touch (Peter Pau, Ch/HK/Tw)
2001 Ten Best:
1. The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee, US)
2. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel & Ethan Coen, US)
3. The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, NZ/US)
4. Musa the Warrior (Kim Sung-su, SK/PRC)
5. My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-young, SK)
6. Failan (Song Hae-sung, SK)
7. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, US/Fr)
8. Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun, SK)
9. Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki, J)
10. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Fr/G)
2000 Ten Best:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, US/HK/PRC/Tw)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, HK/Fr/Thai)
3. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, J)
4. Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (Edward Yang, Tw/J)
5. The Isle (Kim Ki-duk, SK)
6. Memento (Christopher Nolan, US)
7. Asako in Ruby Shoes (Lee Je-yong, SK)
8. Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook, SK)
9. Boiler Room (Ben Younger, US)
10. Happy Times (Zhang Yimou, PRC)
Worst Movie: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Ron Howard, US)
1999 Ten Best:
1. Memento Mori (Whispering Corridors 2) (Kim Tae-Yong & Min Kyu-Dong, SK)
2. Go (Doug Liman, US)
3. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, US)
4. Three Kings (David O. Russell, US)
5. Not One Less (Zhang Yimou, PRC)
6. My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, UK/G/Fin/US)
7. The Road Home (Zhang Yimou, PRC)
8. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, US/UK)
9 American Movie (Chris Smith, US)
10. The Emperor and the Assassin (Chen Kaige, Fr/J/PRC)
Worst Movie: Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy, Can/US)
1998 Ten Best:
1. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, US)
2. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, US/UK)
3. Xiu Xiu, the Sent-down Girl (Joan Chen, US/HK/Tw)
4. Happiness (Todd Solondz, US)
5. Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo, US)
6. There’s Something About Mary (Farrally Bros., US)
7. The Cruise (Bennett Miller, US)
8. Mulan (Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook, US)
9. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, UK)
10. After Life (Kore-eda Hirokazu, J)
Worst Movie: The Avengers (Jeremiah S. Chechik, US)
1997 Ten Best:
1. Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, It)
2. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, US)
3. Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano, J)
4. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, US)
5. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, US)
6. The Soong Sisters (Mabel Cheung, HK/J/PRC)
7. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, UK/Fr/G)
8. Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjaerg, Nor)
9. Chinese Box (Wayne Wang, Fr/J/US)
10. The Eel (Shohei Imamura, J)
Worst Movie: A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle, UK/US)
1996 Ten Best:
1. Fargo (Joel Coen, US/UK)
2. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, UK)
3. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, HK)
4. Mother Night (Keith Gordon, US)
5. Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh, US)
6. Lone Star (John Sayles, US)
7. Swingers (Doug Liman, US)
8. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, US)
9. Daytrippers (Greg Mottola, US/Can)
10. Drive (Steve Wang, US)
Worst Movie: Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, US/Aus)
1995 Ten Best:
1. Toy Story (John Lasseter, US)
2. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, J)
3. The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, Fr/G/Sp)
4. Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, US)
5. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, US)
6. The Brady Bunch Movie (Betty Thomas, US)
7. Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (Shusuke Kaneko, J)
8. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, US/UK)
9. Se7en (David Fincher, US)
10. Mallrats (Kevin Smith, US)
Worst Movie: Cutthroat Island (Renny Harlin, US/Fr/It/G)
1994 Ten Best:
1. Barcelona (Whit Stillman, US)
2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, US)
3. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, US)
4. To Live (Zhang Yimou, PRC/HK)
5. Clerks (Kevin Smith, US)
6. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, UK/G/NZ)
7. Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle, UK)
8. Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, Tw/US)
9. Quiz Show (Robert Redford, US)
10. Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi, Fr/It)
Worst Movie: Oleanna (David Mamet, US/UK)
1993 Ten Best:
1. Naked (Mike Leigh, UK)
2. True Romance (Tony Scott, US)
3. The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, US/Tw)
4. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, J)
5. Madadayo (Not Yet) (Akira Kurosawa, J)
6. The Bride with White Hair (Ronny Yu, HK)
7. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (Lasse Hallstrom, US)
8. King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh, US)
9. The Tai Chi Master (Twin Warriors) (Yuen Woo-ping, HK)
10. Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, PRC/HK)
Worst Movie: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (Bill Duke, US)
1992 Ten Best:
1. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, US)
2. Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, US)
3. A Scene at the Sea (Taskeshi Kitano, J)
4. Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris, US)
5. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou, PRC/HK)
6. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, UK/Fr/G)
7. Twin Dragons (Ringo Lam & Tsui Hark, HK)
8. Crimson Pig (Porco Rosso) (Hayao Miyazaki, J/Fr)
9. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, US)
10. The Player (Robert Altman, US)
Worst Movie: Cool World (Ralph Bakshi, US)
1991 Ten Best:
1. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, Fr)
2. Slacker (Richard Linklater, US)
3. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, PRC/HK/Tw)
4. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, J)
5. The Rocketeer (Joe Johnston, US)
6. Tricky Brains (Wong Jing, HK)
7. Swordsman II (Stanley Tong, HK)
8. Alan and Eric Between Hello and Goodbye (Peter Chan, HK)
9. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, US)
10. Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa, J)
1990 Ten Best:
1. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, US)
2. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang, J/PRC)
3. Once a Thief (John Woo, HK)
4. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, US)
5. The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, UK/Can)
6. Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen, US)
7. Bullet in the Head (John Woo, HK)
8. Blood of Heroes (David Webb Peoples, Aus/US)
9. Quick Change (Howard Franklin & Bill Murray, US)
10. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
Worst Movie: Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, US)
1989 Ten Best:
1. The Killer (John Woo, HK)
2. Heathers (Michael Lehmann, US)
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, US)
4. The Little Mermaid (Ron Clemens & John Musker, US)
5. Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mex/It)
6. Parents (Bob Balaban, US/Can)
7. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh, UK)
8. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, US)
9. Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismäki, Fin/Sw)
10. For All Mankind (Al Reinert, US)
Worst Movie: Cyborg (Albert Pyun, US)
1988 Ten Best:
1. Young Guns (Christopher Cain, US)
2. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, US/UK)
3. Summer Vacation: 1999 (Shusuke Kankeo, J)
4. Eight Men Out (John Sayles, US)
5. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, J)
6. As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-Wai, HK)
7. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, US)
8. The Naked Gun (David Zucker, US)
9. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, J)
10. Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou, PRC)
1987 Ten Best:
1. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, US)
2. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, US)
3. Matewan (John Sayles, US)
4. Project A II (Jackie Chan, HK)
5. A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo, HK)
6. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, US)
7. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, US)
8. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, Fr/It/UK)
9. Prisoners of Propaganda (Graham Shirley, Aus)
10. Dragons Forever (Sammo Hung, HK)
1986 Ten Best:
1. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, US)
2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, US)
3. Laputa, Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, J)
4. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, US)
5. The Mission (Roland Joffe, UK)
6. River’s Edge (Tim Hunter, US)
7. Aliens (James Cameron, US/UK)
8. The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, US)
9. Gonza the Spearman (Masahiro Shinoda, J)
10. The Adventures of Milo and Otis (Masanori Hata, J)
Worst Movie: Howard the Duck (Willard Huyck, US)
1985 Ten Best:
1. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, J/Fr)
2. Better Off Dead (Savage Steve Holland, US)
3. Phenomena (Creepers) (Dario Argento, It)
4. Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco, Br/US)
5. My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom, Sw)
6. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, US)
7. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, US)
8. Return to Oz (Walter March, US/UK)
9. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, US)
10. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, US)
Worst Movie: Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino, US)
1984 Ten Best:
1. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, US)
2. Nausicaä of the Valley of Winds (Hayao Miyazaki, J)
3. Antonio Gaudí (Hiroshi Teshigahara, J)
4. Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, PRC)
5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, US)
6. The Terminator (James Cameron, US)
7. Blood Simple (Joel Coen, US)
8. The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein, US)
9. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, It/US)
10. The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe, UK)
Worst Movie: Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (Sam Firstenberg, US)
1983 Ten Best:
1. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, US)
2. The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones, UK)
3. A Christmas Story (Bob Clark, US/Can)
4. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, US)
5. And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini, It/Fr)
6. Project A (Jackie Chan, HK)
7. WarGames (John Badham, US)
8. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, US)
9. The Go Masters (The Unfinished Game) (Duan Ji-shun & Junya Sato, J/PRC)
10. Zelig (Woody Allen, US)
Worst Movie: Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, It/Fr/USSR)
1982 Ten Best:
1. The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura, J)
2. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, WG/Peru)
3. Arcadia of My Youth (Tomoharu Katsumata, J)
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, US)
5. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, US)
6. The Atomic Café (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, & Pierce Rafferty, US)
7. The Last Unicorn (Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr., US/UK/J)
8. Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker, UK)
9. Forbidden Relations (Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs, Hun)
10. Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang, US)
Worst Movie: Ninja Wars (Mitsumasa Saito, J)
1981 Ten Best:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, US)
2. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, WG)
3. Pixote (Survival of the Weakest) (Hector Babenco, Br)
4. Eijanaika (Why Not?) (Shohei Imamura, J)
5. Beau-père (Bertrand Blier, Fr)
6. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, US)
7. Shock Treatment (Jim Sharman, US)
8. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, US)
9. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson, US)
10. Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (Yoshiyuki
Tomino & Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, J)
Worst Movie: Amy (Vincent McEveety, US)
1980 Ten Best:
1. The Empire Strikes Back (Irwin Kershner, US)
2. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, J)
3. The Blues Brothers (John Landis, US)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
5. The Young Master (Jackie Chan, HK)
6. The Elephant Man (David Lynch, US)
7. Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (Chen Chi-Hwa, HK)
8. Ordinary People (Robert Redford, US)
9. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, US)
10. Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles, US)
Worst Movie: Friday the 13th (Sean S. Cunningham, US)
1979 Ten Best:
1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, US)
2. Knockabout (Sammo Hung, HK)
3. Manhattan (Woody Allen, US)
4. Life of Brian (Terry Jones, UK)
5. Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki, J)
6. Alien (Ridley Scott, UK)
7. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, WG/Fr)
8. The Magnificent Butcher (Yuen Woo-ping, HK)
9. Woyzeck (Werner Herxog, WG)
10. Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura, J)
Worst Movie: Cycle Vixens (John Arnoldy & Peter Perry, US)
1978 Ten Best:
1. Interiors (Woody Allen, US)
2. Drunken Master (Yuen Woo-ping, HK)
3. The Boys from Brazil (Franklin J. Schaffner, UK/US)
4. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, US)
5. Watership Down (Martin Rosen, UK/Can)
6. In a Year of Thirteen Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, WG)
7. The Five Deadly Venoms (Chang Cheh, HK)
8. Animal House (John Landis, US)
9. Place without Limits (Arturo Ripstein, Mex)
10. Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (Yuen Woo-ping, HK)
1977 Ten Best:
1. Star Wars: A New Hope (George Lucas, US)
2. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, Fr/Sp)
3. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, US)
4. The Duellists (Ridley Scott, UK)
5. Suspiria (Dario Argento, It)
6. Stroszek (Werner Herxog, WG)
7. The Rescuers (Lounsbery, Reitherman, & Stevens, US)
8. Eraserhead (David Lynch, US)
9. A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, US/UK)
10. Iphigenia (Michael Cacoyannis, Gr)
1976 Ten Best:
1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, US)
2. The Outlaw Josie Wales (Clint Eastwood, US)
3. Seven Beauties (Lena Wertmueller, It)
4. Allegro Non Troppo (Bruno Bozzetto, It)
5. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog, WG)
6. Murder by Death (Robert Moore, US)
7. Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby, US)
8. The Shootist (Don Siegel, US)
9. Network (Sidney Lumet, US)
10. In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, J/Fr)
Worst Movie: Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler (Cesare
Canevari, It)
1975 Ten Best:
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones &
Terry Gilliam, UK)
2. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, UK/US)
3. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, USSR)
4. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, US)
5. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, Aus)
6. F for Fake (Orson Welles, US)
7. Grey Gardens (Hovde, Maysles, Maysles, & Meyer, US)
8. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, US)
9. Love and Death (Woody Allen, US)
10. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrik, UK)
1974 Ten Best:
1. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, US)
2. Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery
of Kaspar Hauser) (Werner Herzog, WG)
3. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel, Sp)
4. The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, US)
5. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, US)
6. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, US)
7. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, US)
8. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, US)
9. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, Fr/It)
10. Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea
of August (Lena Wertmueller, It)
1973 Ten Best:
1. Lady Snowblood (Fujita Toshiya, J)
2. The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, UK/Fr)
3. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, US/Mex)
4. Theater of Blood (Douglas Hickox, UK)
5. Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison, US)
6. Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, Cz/Fr)
7. Love and Anarchy (Lena Wertmueller, It)
8. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, US)
9. American Graffiti (George Lucas, US)
10. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpagh, US)
Worst Movie: Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, It/Fr)
1972 Ten Best:
1. Deliverance (John Boorman, US)
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, WG)
3. The Seduction of Mimi (Lena Wertmueller, It)
4. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston, US)
5. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, US)
6. Baby Cart at the River Styx (Kenji Misumi, J)
7. Snoopy Come Home (Bill Melendez, US)
8. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, Fr/It/Sp)
9. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, Sw)
10. Baby Cart in Peril (Buichi Saito, J)
Worst Movie: Snowball Express (Norman Tokar, US)
1971 Ten Best:
1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
2. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog, WG)
3. Twins of Evil (John Hough, UK)
4. And Now for Something Completely Different (Ian MacNaughton, UK)
5. Macbeth (Roman Polanski, UK/US)
6. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, US)
7. The French Connection (William Friedkin, US)
8. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpagh, UK)
9. Zeppelin (Etienne Périer, UK)
10. Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, It/Fr)
1970 Ten Best:
1. Gimme Shelter (Maysles, Maysles, & Zwerin, US)
2. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mex)
3. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, US)
4. Dodesukaden (Akira Kurosawa, J)
5. The Out of Towners (Arthur Hiller, US)
6. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Michael Fengler, WG)
7. Tristana (Luis Bunuel, Fr/It/Sp)
8. Gamera vs. Jiger (Noriaki Yuasa, J)
9. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, It/WG)
10. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Fleischer, Fukasaku, & Masuda, US/J)
Worst Movie: MASH (Robert Altman, US)
1969 Ten Best:
1. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, US)
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, US)
3. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame, UK)
4. Z (Costa-Gavras, Alg/Fr)
5. The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel, Fr/WG/It)
6. Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda, J)
7. True Grit (Henry Hathaway, US)
8. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckingpagh, US)
9. Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
10. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez, US)
Worst Movie: Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, US)
1968 Ten Best:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, UK/US)
2. The Producers (Mel Brooks, US)
3. Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, US)
4. Horus, Prince of the Sun (Isao Takahata, J)
5. The Lost Continent (Carreras & Norman, UK)
6. The Odd Couple (Gene Saks, US)
7. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, US)
8. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, It)
9. Blackmail Is My Life (Kinji Fukasuku, J)
10. Destroy All Monsters (Ishiró Honda, J)
Worst Movie: The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, UK)
1967 Ten Best:
1. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, US)
2. Wait Until Dark (Terence Young, US
3. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, J)
4. Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, US)
5. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel, Fr/It)
6. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, Fr/It)
7. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, US)
8. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, US)
9. Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, J)
10. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, Fr/It)
Worst Movie: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, US)
1966 Ten Best:
1. Mademoiselle (Tony Richardson, Fr/UK)
2. Seconds (John Frankenheimer, US)
3. La Guerre Est Finie (Alan Resnais, Fr/Sw)
4. The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura, J)
5. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, Sw)
6. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Peter Brook, UK)
7. The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder, US)
8. Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki, J)
9. The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown, US)
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, It)
Worst Movie: Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK/It)
1965 Ten Best:
1. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, J)
2. Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa, J)
3. The Collector (William Wyler, UK/US)
4. Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel, Mex)
5. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, US)
6. The Hill (Sidney Lumet, UK)
7. Chimes at Midnight (Falstaff) (Orson Welles, Sp/Sz)
8. That Darn Cat! (Robert Stevenson, US)
9. Repulsion (Roman Polanski, UK)
10. Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki, J)
Worst Movie: Orgy of the Dead (Stephen C. Apostolof, US)
1964 Ten Best:
1. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, US)
2. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(Stanley Kubrick, US)
3. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, J)
4. The World of Henry Orient (George Roy Hill, US)
5. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, J)
6. Band of Outsiders (Jen-Luc Godard, Fr)
7. The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller, US)
8. Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, J)
9. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, J)
10. Father Goose (Ralph Nelson, US)
1963 Ten Best:
1. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
2. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, J)
3. Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller, US)
4. An Actor’s Revenge (Kon Ichikawa, J)
5. Youth of the Beast (The Brute) (Seijun Suzuki, J)
6. The Great Escape (John Sturges, US)
7. The Trial (Orson Welles, Fr/It/WG)
8. Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, US/UK)
9. Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura, J)
10. The Haunting (Robert Wise, UK)
Worst Movie: The Virgin of Nuremberg (Antonio Margheriti, It)
1962 Ten Best:
1. Chushingura (The 47 Loyal Samurai) (Hiroshi Inagaki, J)
2. Seppuku (Harakiri) (Masaki Kobayashi, J)
3. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, J)
4. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, UK)
5. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, US)
6. Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, US)
7. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, Mex)
8. Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards, US)
9. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, Pol)
10. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, US)
1961 Ten Best:
1. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, J)
2. 101 Dalmatians (Geronimi, Luske, & Reitherman, US)
3. One Two Three (Billy Wilder, US)
4. Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, It)
5. West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, US)
6. One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando, US)
7. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut, Fr)
8. The Parent Trap (Nancy Meyers, US)
9. Mothra (Ishiró Honda, J)
10. The Misfits (John Huston, US)
1960 Ten Best:
1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
2. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, Fr/It/WG)
3. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, US)
4. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, US)
5. The Unforgiven (John Huston, US)
6. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, It)
7. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, UK)
8. The Time Machine (George Pal, US)
9. Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, Sw)
10. School for Scoundrels (Robert Hamer, UK)
Worst Movie: Ocean’s Eleven (Lewis Milestone, US)
1959 Ten Best:
1. Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, US)
2. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, Fr)
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Henry Levin, US)
4. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
5. Ohayo (Good Morning) (Yasujiro Ozu, J)
6. The Gazebo (George Marshall, US)
7. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, Ind)
8. Operation Petticoat (Blake Edwards, US)
9. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, US)
10. Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju, Fr/It)
1958 Ten Best:
1. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, J)
2. Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, It)
3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
4. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, Pol)
5. The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer, US)
6. Enjo (Conflagration) (Kon Ichikawa, J)
7. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, Fr/It)
8. The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita, J)
9. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, US)
10. The Fly (Kurt Neumann, US)
Worst Movie: The Long, Hot Summer (Martin Ritt, US)
1957 Ten Best:
1. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, It/Fr)
2. Kanal (They Loved Life) (Andrzej Wajda, Pol)
3. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, Sw)
4. Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, US)
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, UK/US)
6. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, US)
7. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, J)
8. The Invisible Boy (Herman Hoffman, US)
9. The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa, J)
10. The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Armold, US)
1956 Ten Best:
1. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, J)
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, US)
3. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, US)
4. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, J)
5. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
6. The Bad Seed (Mervyn Le Roy, US)
7. Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, US)
8. Moby Dick (John Huston, UK)
9. The King and I (Walter Lang, US)
10. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
Worst Movie: The Sword and the Dragon (Aleksandr Ptushko, USSR)
1955 Ten Best:
1. Lady and the Tramp (Geronimi, Jackson, & Luske, US)
2. The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
3. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, US)
4. Mr. Arkadin (Confidential Report) (Orson Welles, Fr/Sp/Switz)
5. Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, US)
6. Marty (Delbert Mann, US)
7. Bad Day at Black Rock (Johns Sturges, US)
8. Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (Norman Foster, US)
9. To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
10. Princess Yang Kwei-fei (Yôhiki) (Kenji Mizoguchi, J/HK)
1954 Ten Best:
1. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, J)
2. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, J)
3. Twenty-four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, J)
4. Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
5. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen, US)
6. The Far Country (Anthony Mann, US)
7. Them! (Gordon Douglas, US)
8. The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk, US)
9. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, US)
Worst Movie: The Egyptian (Michael Curtiz, US)
1953 Ten Best:
1. The Wages of Fear (Henri-George Clouzot, Fr/It)
2. Roman Holiday (William Wyler, US)
3. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi,J)
4. Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, & Hamilton Luske, US)
5. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, US)
6. The Mistress (The Wild Geese) (Shirô Toyoda, J)
7. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, J)
8. Little Fugitive (Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, & Ruth Orkin, US)
9. Shane (George Stevens, US)
10. Glen or Glenda? (Ed Wood, US)
Worst Movie: Torpedo Alley (Lew Landers, US)
1952 Ten Best:
1. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, US)
2. Forbidden Games (René Clément, Fr)
3. The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice
(Orson Welles, US/It/Fr/Moroc)
4. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, US)
5. Ikiru (To Live) (Akira Kurosawa, J)
6. The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, US)
7. Limelight (Charles Chaplin, US)
8. Mother (Mikio Naruse, J)
9. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, US)
10. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, J)
Worst Movie: Jack and the Beanstalk (Jean Yarbrough, US)
1951 Ten Best:
1. The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby, US)
2. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, UK)
3. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (Charles Lamont, US)
4. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
5. The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, UK)
6. Summerplay (Illicit Interlude) (Ingmar Bergman, Sw)
7. The African Queen (John Huston, UK/US)
8. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, J)
9. His Kind of Woman (John Farrow, US)
10. The Enforcer (Bretaigne Windust, US)
1950 Ten Best:
1. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, J)
2. Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
3. D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté, US)
4. Cyrano de Bergerac (Michael Gordon, US)
5. The Man Who Cheated Himself (Felix E. Feist, US)
6. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann, US)
7. All About Eve (Jospeh L. Mankiewicz, US)
8. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, US)
9. Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, Mx)
10. Cinderella (Geronimi, Jackson, & Luske, US)
1949 Ten Best:
1. The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK)
2. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, UK)
3. Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, US)
4. White Heat (Raoul Walsh, US)
5. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, J)
6. Twelve O’clock High (Henry King, US)
7. Manon (Henri-George Clouzot, Fr)
8. Mighty Joe Young (Ernest B. Schoedsack, US)
9. Too Late for Tears (Byron Haskin, US)
10. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, US)
Worst Movie: Adam’s Rib (George Cukor, US)
1948 Ten Best:
1. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
2. Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, US)
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, US)
4. Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, US)
5. Fort Apache (John Ford, US)
6. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, It)
7. The Scar (Hollow Triumph) (Steve Sekely, US)
8. The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, UK)
9. A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, US)
10. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, US)
1947 Ten Best:
1. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Jospeh L. Mankiewicz, US)
3. Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, US)
4. Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-George Clouzot, Fr)
5. The Red House (Delmer Daves, US)
6. Life with Father (Michael Curtiz, US)
7. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, UK)
8. The Senator Was Indiscreet (George S. Kaufman, US)
9. Ramrod (André De Toth, US)
10. One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa, J)
1946 Ten Best:
1. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, US)
2. Home Sweet Homicide (Lloyd Bacon, US)
3. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, US)
4. Gilda (Charles Vidor, US)
5. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, US)
6. Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi, J)
7. The Razor’s Edge (Edmund Goulding, US)
8. Road to Utopia (Hal Walker, US)
9. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, US)
10. The Stranger (Orson Welles, US)
Worst Movie: Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, US)
1945 Ten Best:
1. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, US)
2. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (Akira Kurosawa, J)
3. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, Fr)
4. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, US)
5. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, US)
6. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, US)
7. Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
8. The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, US)
9. Betrayal from the East (William A. Berke, US)
10. They Were Expendable (John Ford, US)
1944 Ten Best:
1. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, US)
2. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, US)
3. Laura (Otto Preminger, US)
4. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
5. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, US)
6. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, US)
7. Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, US)
8. Gaslight (George Cukor, US)
9. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, US)
10. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek; (Preston Sturges, US)
1943 Ten Best:
1. Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder, US)
2. Why We Fight (Frank Capra, US)
3. Sugata Sanshiro (Judo Saga) (Akira Kurosawa, J)
4. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman, US)
5. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
6. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, US)
7. The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, US)
8. We Dive at Dawn (Anthony Asquith, UK)
9. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang, US)
10. China (John Farrow, US)
1942 Ten Best:
1. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, US)
2. Bambi (David Hand, US)
3. Road to Morocco (David Butler, US)
4. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, US)
5. This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, US)
6. Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (John Cromwell, US)
7. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
8. Who Done It? (Erle C. Kenton, US)
9. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, US)
10. The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler, US)
orst Movie: Captains of the Clouds (Michael Curtiz, US)
1941 Ten Best:
1. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, US)
2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, US)
3. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen, US)
4. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, US)
5. Sundown (Henry Hathaway, US)
6. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, US)
7. The Little Foxes (William Wyler, US)
8. King of the Zombies (Jean Yarbrough, US)
9. Footsteps in the Dark (Lloyd Bacon, US)
10. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, US)
1940 Ten Best:
1. Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen, US)
2. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
3. Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed, UK)
4. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, US)
5. Fantasia (Jackson, Luske, Armstrong, Ferguson, etc., US)
6. I Love You Again (W. S. Van Dyke, US)
7. The Sea Hawk (Michael Curtiz, US)
8. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
9. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, US)
10. The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, & Tim Whelan, UK/US)
1939 Ten Best:
1. Gunga Din (George Stevens, US)
2. Beau Geste (William A. Wellman, US)
3. Stagecoach (John Ford, US)
4. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, US)
5. Five Came Back (John Farrow, US)
6. Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda, UK)
7. The Flying Deuces (A. Edward Sutherland, US)
8. Daybreak (Michael Carné, Fr)
9. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, US)
10. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, US)
1938 Ten Best:
1. Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, G)
2. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, US)
3. Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, US)
4. A Woman’s Face (Gustaf Molander, Sw)
5. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
6. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein & Dimitri
Vasilyev, USSR)
7. The Devil’s Party (Ray McCarey, US)
8. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, US)
9. Holiday (George Cukor, US)
10. Jezebel (William Wyler, US)
Worst Movie: You Can’t Take It With You (Frank Capra, US)
1937 Ten Best:
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, US)
2. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, Fr)
3. Young and Innocent (The Girl Was Young) (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
4. The Edge of the World (Michael Powell, UK)
5. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, US)
6. First Lady (Staley Logan, US)
7. King Solomon’s Mines (Robert Stevenson, UK)
8. Lost Horizon (Frank Capra, US)
9. Night Must Fall (Richard Thorpe, US)
10. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood, US)
1936 Ten Best:
1. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, US)
2. Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi, J)
3. Fury (Fritz Lang, US)
4. Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, J)
5. Love on the Run (W. S. Van Dyke, US)
6. Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
7. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, US)
8. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, US)
9. Intermezzo (Gustaf Molander, Sw)
10. After the Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke, US)
Worst Movie: The Garden Murder Case (Edwin L. Marin, US)
1935 Ten Best:
1. Mad Love (Karl Freund, US)
2. The Thirty-Nine Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
3. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway, US)
4. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, US)
5. The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg, US)
6. The Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks, US)
7. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, US)
8. Fang and Claw (Frank Buck, US)
9. Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz, US)
10. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, US)
Worst Movie: She (Lansing C. Holden & Irving Pichel, US)
1934 Ten Best:
1. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, US)
2. The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke. US)
3. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, US)
4. It’s a Gift (Norman Z. MacLeod, US)
5. Mauvaise Graine (Bad Seed) (Alexander Esway & Billy Wilder, Fr)
6. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, Fr)
7. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
8. The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch, US)
9. Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, G)
10. The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich, US)
Worst Movie: Four Frightened People (Cecil B. DeMille, US)
1933 Ten Best:
1. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B.
Schoedsack, US)
2. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, US)
3. Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter, US)
4. Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, US)
5. The Son of Kong (Ernest B. Schoedsack, US)
6. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo, Fr)
7. Bring ’em Back Alive (Frank Buck, US)
8. The Ghoul (T. Hayes Hunter, UK)
9. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra, US)
10. The Invisible Man (James Whale, US)
1932 Ten Best:
1. I Was Born, but... (Yasujiro Ozu, J)
2. The Blue Light (Béla Balázs & Leni Riefnestahl, G)
3. Freaks (Tod Browning, US)
4. The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack, US)
5. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, US)
6. Horse Feathers (Norman Z, MacLeod, US)
7. Million Dollar Legs (Edward F. Cline, US)
8. The Old Dark House (James Whale, US)
9. American Madness (Frank Capra, US)
10. Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, US)
1931 Ten Best:
1. Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg, US)
2. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, US)
3. M (Fritz Lang, G)
4. Dracula (Tod Browning, US)
5. Monkey Business (Norman Z, MacLeod, US)
6. La Chienne (Jean Renoir, Fr)
7. The Maltese Falcon (Roy Del Ruth, US)
8. Mädchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan, G)
9. Drácula (George Melford & Enrique Tovar Ávalos, US)
10. Frankenstein (James Whale, US)
1930 Ten Best:
1. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, G)
2. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, US)
3. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman, US)
4. Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, US)
5. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, US)
6. Min and Bill (George W. Hill, US)
7. Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
8. Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, US)
9. The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh, US)
10. Raffles (George Fitzmaurice, US)
