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1927/28
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Wings
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William A. Wellman
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7th Heaven
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Frank Borzage
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The Racket
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Lewis Milestone
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1928/29
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The Broadway Melody
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Harry Beaumont
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Alibi
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Roland West
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The Hollywood Revue
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Charles Reisner
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In Old Arizona
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Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings
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The Patriot
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Ernst Lubitsch
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1929/30
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Lewis Milestone
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The Big House
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George Hill
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Disraeli
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Alfred E. Green
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The Divorcee
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Robert Z. Leonard
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The Love Parade
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Ernst Lubitsch
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1930/31
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Cimarron
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Welsey Ruggles
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East Lynne
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Frank Lloyd
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The Front Page
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Lewis Milestone
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Skippy
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Norman Taurog
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Trader Horn
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W. S. Van Dyke
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1931/32
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Grand Hotel
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Edmund Goulding
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Arrowsmith
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John Ford
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Bad Girl
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Frank Borzage
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The Champ
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King Vidor
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Five Star Final
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Mervyn LeRoy
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One Hour with You
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George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch
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Shanghai Express
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Josef von Sternberg
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The Smiling Lieutenant
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Ernst Lubitsch
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1932/33
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Cavalcade
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Frank Lloyd
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42nd Street
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Lloyd Bacon
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A Farewell to Arms
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Frank Borzage
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
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Mervyn LeRoy
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Lady for a Day
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Frank Capra
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Little Women
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George Cukor
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
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Alexander Corda
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She Done Him Wrong
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Lowell Sherman
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Smilin' Through
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Sidney Franklin
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State Fair
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Henry King
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1934
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It Happened One Night
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Frank Capra
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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Sidney Franklin
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Cleopatra
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Flirtation Walk
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Frank Borzage
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The Gay Divorcee
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Mark Sandrich
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Here Comes the Navy
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Lloyd Bacon
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The House of Rothschild
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Alfred L. Werker
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Imitation of Life
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John M. Stahl
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One Night of Love
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Victor Schertzinger
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The Thin Man
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W. S. Van Dyke
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Viva Villa!
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Jack Conway
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The White Parade
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Irving Cummings
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1935
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Frank Lloyd
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Alice Adams
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George Stevens
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Broadway Melody of 1936
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Roy Del Ruth
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Captain Blood
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Michael Curtiz
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David Copperfield
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George Cukor
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The Informer
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John Ford
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
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Henry Hathaway
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle
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Les Misérables
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Richard Boleslawski
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Naughty Marietta
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Robert Z. Leonard and W. S. Van Dyke
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Ruggles of Red Gap
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Leo McCarey
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Top Hat
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Mark Sandrich
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1936
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The Great Ziegfeld
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Robert Z. Leonard
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Anthony Adverse
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Mervyn LeRoy
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Dodsworth
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William Wyler
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Libeled Lady
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Jack Conway
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Frank Capra
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Romeo and Juliet
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George Cukor
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San Francisco
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W. S. Van Dyke
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
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William Dieterle
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Jack Conway
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Three Smart Girls
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Henry Koster
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1937
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The Life of Emile Zola
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William Dieterle
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The Awful Truth
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Leo McCarey
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Captains Courageous
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Victor Fleming
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Dead End
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William Wyler
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The Good Earth
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Sidney Franklin
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In Old Chicago
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Henry King
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Lost Horizon
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Frank Capra
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
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Henry Koster
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Stage Door
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Gregory La Cava
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A Star Is Born
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William A. Wellman
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1938
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You Can't Take It with You
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Frank Capra
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
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Michael Curtiz
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Henry King
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Boys Town
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Norman Taurog
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The Citadel
|
King Vidor
|
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Four Daughters
|
Michael Curtiz
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Grand Illusion
|
Jean Renoir
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Jezebel
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William Wyler
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Pygmalion
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Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard
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Test Pilot
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Victor Fleming
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1939
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Gone with the Wind
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Victor Fleming
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Dark Victory
|
Edmund Goulding
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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Sam Wood
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Love Affair
|
Leo McCarey
|
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Frank Capra
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Ninotchka
|
Ernst Lubitsch
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Of Mice and Men
|
Lewis Milestone
|
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Stagecoach
|
John Ford
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The Wizard of Oz
|
Victor Fleming
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Wuthering Heights
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William Wyler
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1940
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Rebecca
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Alfred Hitchcock
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All This, and Heaven Too
|
Anatole Litvak
|
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Foreign Correspondent
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
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The Grapes of Wrath
|
John Ford
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The Great Dictator
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
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Kitty Foyle
|
Sam Wood
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The Letter
|
William Wyler
|
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The Long Voyage Home
|
John Ford
|
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Our Town
|
Sam Wood
|
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The Philadelphia Story
|
George Cukor
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1941
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How Green Was My Valley
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John Ford
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Blossoms in the Dust
|
Mervyn LeRoy
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Citizen Kane
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Orson Welles
|
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
|
Alexander Hall
|
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Hold Back the Dawn
|
Mitchell Leisen
|
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The Little Foxes
|
William Wyler
|
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The Maltese Falcon
|
John Huston
|
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One Foot in Heaven
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Irving Rapper
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Sergeant York
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Howard Hawks
|
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Suspicion
|
Alfred Hitchcock
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1942
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Mrs. Miniver
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William Wyler
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49th Parallel
|
Michael Powell
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Kings Row
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Sam Wood
|
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The Magnificent Ambersons
|
Orson Welles
|
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The Pied Piper
|
Irving Pichel
|
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The Pride of the Yankees
|
Sam Wood
|
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Random Harvest
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
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The Talk of the Town
|
George Stevens
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Wake Island
|
John Farrow
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
|
Michael Curtiz
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1943
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Casablanca
|
Michael Curtiz
|
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
|
Sam Wood
|
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Heaven Can Wait
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
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The Human Comedy
|
Clarence Brown
|
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In Which We Serve
|
Noël Coward
|
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Madame Curie
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
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The More the Merrier
|
George Stevens
|
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The Ox-Bow Incident
|
William A. Wellman
|
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The Song of Bernadette
|
Henry King
|
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Watch on the Rhine
|
Herman Shumlin
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1944
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Going My Way
|
Leo McCarey
|
|
Double Indemnity
|
Billy Wilder
|
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Gaslight
|
George Cukor
|
|
Since You Went Away
|
John Cromwell
|
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Wilson
|
Henry King
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1945
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The Lost Weekend
|
Billy Wilder
|
|
Anchors Aweigh
|
George Sidney
|
|
The Bells of St. Mary's
|
Leo McCarey
|
|
Mildred Pierce
|
Michael Curtiz
|
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Spellbound
|
Alfred Hitchcock
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|
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1946
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The Best Years of Our Lives
|
William Wyler
|
|
Henry V
|
Laurence Oliver
|
|
It's a Wonderful Life
|
Frank Capra
|
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The Razor's Edge
|
Edmund Goulding
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The Yearling
|
Clarence Brown
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1947
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|
Gentleman's Agreement
|
Elia Kazan
|
|
The Bishop's Wife
|
Henry Koster
|
|
Crossfire
|
Edward Dmytryk
|
|
Great Expectations
|
David Lean
|
|
Miracle on 34th Street
|
George Seaton
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1948
|
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Hamlet
|
Laurence Oliver
|
|
Johnny Belinda
|
Jean Negulesco
|
|
The Red Shoes
|
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
|
|
The Snake Pit
|
Anatole Litvak
|
|
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
|
John Huston
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1949
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All the King's Men
|
Robert Rossen
|
|
Battleground
|
William A. Wellman
|
|
The Heiress
|
William Wyler
|
|
A Letter to Three Wives
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
|
Twelve O'Clock High
|
Henry King
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1950
|
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All About Eve
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
|
Born Yesterday
|
George Cukor
|
|
Father of the Bride
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
|
King Solomon's Mines
|
Compton Bennett
|
|
Sunset Boulevard
|
Billy Wilder
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1951
|
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An American in Paris
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
|
Decision Before Dawn
|
Anatole Litvak
|
|
A Place in the Sun
|
George Stevens
|
|
Quo Vadis
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
|
A Streetcar Named Desire
|
Elia Kazan
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1952
|
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The Greatest Show on Earth
|
Cecil B. DeMille
|
|
High Noon
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
Ivanhoe
|
Richard Thorpe
|
|
Moulin Rouge
|
John Huston
|
|
The Quiet Man
|
John Ford
|
|
|
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1953
|
|
From Here to Eternity
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
Julius Caesar
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
|
The Robe
|
Henry Koster
|
|
Roman Holiday
|
William Wyler
|
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Shane
|
George Stevens
|
|
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1954
|
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On the Waterfront
|
Elia Kazan
|
|
The Caine Mutiny
|
Edward Dmytryk
|
|
The Country Girl
|
George Seaton
|
|
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
|
Stanley Donen
|
|
Three Coins in the Fountain
|
Jean Negulesco
|
|
|
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1955
|
|
Marty
|
Delbert Mann
|
|
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
|
Henry King
|
|
Mister Roberts
|
John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy
|
|
Picnic
|
Joshua Logan
|
|
The Rose Tattoo
|
Daniel Mann
|
|
|
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1956
|
|
Around the World in 80 Days
|
Michael Anderson
|
|
Friendly Persuasion
|
William Wyler
|
|
Giant
|
George Stevens
|
|
The King and I
|
Walter Lang
|
|
The Ten Commandments
|
Cecil B. DeMille
|
|
|
|
|
1957
|
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai
|
David Lean
|
|
12 Angry Men
|
Sidney Lumet
|
|
Peyton Place
|
Mark Robson
|
|
Sayonara
|
Joshua Logan
|
|
Witness for the Prosecution
|
Billy Wilder
|
|
|
|
|
1958
|
|
Gigi
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
|
Auntie Mame
|
Morton DaCosta
|
|
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
|
Richard Brooks
|
|
The Defiant Ones
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
Separate Tables
|
Delbert Mann
|
|
|
|
|
1959
|
|
Ben-Hur
|
William Wyler
|
|
Anatomy of a Murder
|
Otto Preminger
|
|
The Diary of Anne Frank
|
George Stevens
|
|
The Nun's Story
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
Room at the Top
|
Jack Clayton
|
|
|
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1960
|
|
The Apartment
|
Billy Wilder
|
|
The Alamo
|
John Wayne
|
|
Elmer Gantry
|
Richard Brooks
|
|
Sons and Lovers
|
Jack Cardiff
|
|
The Sundowners
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
|
|
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1961
|
|
West Side Story
|
Robert Wise
|
|
Fanny
|
Joshua Logan
|
|
The Guns of Navarone
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
|
The Hustler
|
Robert Rossen
|
|
Judgment at Nuremberg
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
|
|
|
1962
|
|
Lawrence of Arabia
|
David Lean
|
|
The Longest Day
|
Ken Annakin
|
|
The Music Man
|
Morton DaCosta
|
|
Mutiny on the Bounty
|
Lewis Milestone
|
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Robert Mulligan
|
|
|
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1963
|
|
Tom Jones
|
Tony Richardson
|
|
America America
|
Elia Kazan
|
|
Cleopatra
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
|
How the West Was Won
|
Henry Hathaway
|
|
Lilies of the Field
|
Ralph Nelson
|
|
|
|
|
1964
|
|
My Fair Lady
|
George Cukor
|
|
Becket
|
Peter Glenville
|
|
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
|
Mary Poppins
|
Robert Stevenson
|
|
Zorba the Greek
|
Michael Cacoyannis
|
|
|
|
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1965
|
|
The Sound of Music
|
Robert Wise
|
|
Darling
|
John Schlesinger
|
|
Doctor Zhivago
|
David Lean
|
|
Ship of Fools
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
A Thousand Clowns
|
Fred Coe
|
|
|
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1966
|
|
A Man for All Seasons
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
Alfie
|
Lewis Gilbert
|
|
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
|
Norman Jewison
|
|
The Sand Pebbles
|
Robert Wise
|
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
Mike Nichols
|
|
|
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1967
|
|
In the Heat of the Night
|
Norman Jewison
|
|
Bonnie and Clyde
|
Arthur Penn
|
|
Doctor Dolittle
|
Richard Fleischer
|
|
The Graduate
|
Mike Nichols
|
|
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
|
|
|
1968
|
|
Oliver!
|
Carol Reed
|
|
Funny Girl
|
William Wyler
|
|
The Lion in Winter
|
Anthony Harvey
|
|
Rachel, Rachel
|
Paul Newman
|
|
Romeo and Juliet
|
Franco Zeffirelli
|
|
|
|
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1969
|
|
Midnight Cowboy
|
John Schlesinger
|
|
Anne of the Thousand Days
|
Charles Jarrot
|
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
|
George Roy Hill
|
|
Hello, Dolly!
|
Gene Kelly
|
|
Z
|
Costa-Gavras
|
|
|
|
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1970
|
|
Patton
|
Franklin J. Schaffner
|
|
Airport
|
George Seaton
|
|
Five Easy Pieces
|
Bob Rasfelson
|
|
Love Story
|
Arthur Hiller
|
|
M*A*S*H
|
Robert Altman
|
|
|
|
|
1971
|
|
The French Connection
|
William Friedkin
|
|
A Clockwork Orange
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
|
Fiddler on the Roof
|
Norman Jewison
|
|
The Last Picture Show
|
Peter Bogdanovich
|
|
Nicholas and Alexandra
|
Franklin J. Schaffner
|
|
|
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|
1972
|
|
The Godfather
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
Cabaret
|
Bob Fosse
|
|
Deliverance
|
John Boorman
|
|
The Emigrants
|
Jan Troell
|
|
Sounder
|
Martin Ritt
|
|
|
|
|
1973
|
|
The Sting
|
George Roy Hill
|
|
American Graffiti
|
George Lucas
|
|
Cries and Whispers
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
|
The Exorcist
|
William Friedkin
|
|
A Touch of Class
|
Melvin Frank
|
|
|
|
|
1974
|
|
The Godfather Part II
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
Chinatown
|
Roman Polanski
|
|
The Conversation
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
Lenny
|
Bob Fosse
|
|
The Towering Inferno
|
John Guillermin
|
|
|
|
|
1975
|
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
Miloš Forman
|
|
Barry Lyndon
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
|
Dog Day Afternoon
|
Sidney Lumet
|
|
Jaws
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
Nashville
|
Robert Altman
|
|
|
|
|
1976
|
|
Rocky
|
John G. Avildsen
|
|
All the President's Men
|
Alan J. Pakula
|
|
Bound for Glory
|
Hal Ashby
|
|
Network
|
Sidney Lumet
|
|
Taxi Driver
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
|
|
|
1977
|
|
Annie Hall
|
Woody Allen
|
|
The Goodbye Girl
|
Herbert Ross
|
|
Julia
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
Star Wars
|
George Lucas
|
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The Turning Point
|
Herbert Ross
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