|
Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
|
2025
|
One Battle After Another
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
|
Sinners
|
Ryan Coogler
|
|
Frankenstein
|
Guillermo del Toro
|
|
It Was Just an Accident
|
Jafar Panahi
|
|
Sentimental Value
|
Joachim Trier
|
|
Hamnet
|
Chloé Zhao
|
|
2024
|
The Brutalist
|
Brady Corbet
|
|
All We Imagine as Light
|
Payal Kapadia
|
|
Anora
|
Sean Baker
|
|
Conclave
|
Edward Berger
|
|
Emilia Pérez
|
Jacques Audiard
|
|
The Substance
|
Coralie Fargeat
|
|
2023
|
Oppenheimer
|
Christopher Nolan
|
|
Barbie
|
Greta Gerwig
|
|
Killers of the Flower Moon
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
Maestro
|
Bradley Cooper
|
|
Past Lives
|
Celine Song
|
|
Poor Things
|
Yorgos Lanthimos
|
|
2022
|
The Fabelmans
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
Avatar: The Way of Water
|
James Cameron
|
|
The Banshees of Inisherin
|
Martin McDonagh
|
|
Elvis
|
Baz Luhrmann
|
|
Everything Everywhere All at Once
|
Daniel Kwan / Daniel Scheinert
|
|
2021
|
The Power of the Dog
|
Jane Campion
|
|
Belfast
|
Kenneth Branagh
|
|
Dune
|
Denis Villeneuve
|
|
The Lost Daughter
|
Maggie Gyllenhaal
|
|
West Side Story
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
2020
|
Nomadland
|
Chloé Zhao
|
|
Mank
|
David Fincher
|
|
One Night in Miami...
|
Regina King
|
|
Promising Young Woman
|
Emerald Fennell
|
|
The Trial of the Chicago 7
|
Aaron Sorkin
|
|
2019
|
1917
|
Sam Mendes
|
|
The Irishman
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
Joker
|
Todd Phillips
|
|
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
|
Parasite
|
Bong Joon-ho
|
|
2018
|
Roma
|
Alfonso Cuarón
|
|
BlacKkKlansman
|
Spike Lee
|
|
Green Book
|
Peter Farrelly
|
|
A Star Is Born
|
Bradley Cooper
|
|
Vice
|
Adam McKay
|
|
2017
|
The Shape of Water
|
Guillermo del Toro
|
|
All the Money in the World
|
Ridley Scott
|
|
Dunkirk
|
Christopher Nolan
|
|
The Post
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
|
Martin McDonagh
|
|
2016
|
La La Land
|
Damien Chazelle
|
|
Hacksaw Ridge
|
Mel Gibson
|
|
Moonlight
|
Barry Jenkins
|
|
Manchester by the Sea
|
Kenneth Lonergan
|
|
Nocturnal Animals
|
Tom Ford
|
|
2015
|
The Revenant
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu
|
|
Carol
|
Todd Haynes
|
|
Mad Max: Fury Road
|
George Miller
|
|
The Martian
|
Ridley Scott
|
|
Spotlight
|
Tom McCarthy
|
|
2014
|
Boyhood
|
Richard Linklater
|
|
Birdman
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu
|
|
Gone Girl
|
David Fincher
|
|
The Grand Budapest Hotel
|
Wes Anderson
|
|
Selma
|
Ava DuVernay
|
|
2013
|
Gravity
|
Alfonso Cuarón
|
|
12 Years a Slave
|
Steve McQueen
|
|
American Hustle
|
David O. Russell
|
|
Captain Phillips
|
Paul Greengrass
|
|
Nebraska
|
Alexander Payne
|
|
2012
|
Argo
|
Ben Affleck
|
|
Django Unchained
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
|
Life of Pi
|
Ang Lee
|
|
Lincoln
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
Zero Dark Thirty
|
Kathryn Bigelow
|
|
2011
|
Hugo
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
The Artist
|
Michel Hazanavicius
|
|
The Descendants
|
Alexander Payne
|
|
The Ides of March
|
George Clooney
|
|
Midnight in Paris
|
Woody Allen
|
|
2010
|
The Social Network
|
David Fincher
|
|
Black Swan
|
Darren Aronofsky
|
|
The Fighter
|
David O. Russell
|
|
Inception
|
Christopher Nolan
|
|
The King's Speech
|
Tom Hooper
|
|
2009
|
Avatar
|
James Cameron
|
|
The Hurt Locker
|
Kathryn Bigelow
|
|
Inglourious Basterds
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
|
Invictus
|
Clint Eastwood
|
|
Up in the Air
|
Jason Reitman
|
|
2008
|
Slumdog Millionaire
|
Danny Boyle
|
|
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
|
David Fincher
|
|
Frost/Nixon
|
Ron Howard
|
|
The Reader
|
Stephen Daldry
|
|
Revolutionary Road
|
Sam Mendes
|
|
2007
|
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
|
Julian Schnabel
|
|
American Gangster
|
Ridley Scott
|
|
Atonement
|
Joe Wright
|
|
No Country for Old Men
|
Joel Coen / Ethan Coen
|
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
|
Tim Burton
|
|
2006
|
The Departed
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
Babel
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu
|
|
Flags of Our Fathers
|
Clint Eastwood
|
|
Letters from Iwo Jima
|
Clint Eastwood
|
|
The Queen
|
Stephen Frears
|
|
2005
|
Brokeback Mountain
|
Ang Lee
|
|
The Constant Gardener
|
Fernando Meirelles
|
|
Good Night, and Good Luck
|
George Clooney
|
|
King Kong
|
Peter Jackson
|
|
Match Point
|
Woody Allen
|
|
Munich
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
2004
|
Million Dollar Baby
|
Clint Eastwood
|
|
The Aviator
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
Closer
|
Mike Nichols
|
|
Finding Neverland
|
Marc Forster
|
|
Sideways
|
Alexander Payne
|
|
2003
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
|
Peter Jackson
|
|
Cold Mountain
|
Anthony Minghella
|
|
Lost in Translation
|
Sofia Coppola
|
|
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
|
Peter Weir
|
|
Mystic River
|
Clint Eastwood
|
|
2002
|
Gangs of New York
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
About Schmidt
|
Alexander Payne
|
|
Adaptation
|
Spike Jonze
|
|
Chicago
|
Rob Marshall
|
|
The Hours
|
Stephen Daldry
|
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
|
Peter Jackson
|
|
2001
|
Gosford Park
|
Robert Altman
|
|
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
A Beautiful Mind
|
Ron Howard
|
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
|
Peter Jackson
|
|
Moulin Rouge!
|
Baz Luhrmann
|
|
Mulholland Drive
|
David Lynch
|
|
2000
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
|
Ang Lee
|
|
Erin Brockovich
|
Steven Soderbergh
|
|
Gladiator
|
Ridley Scott
|
|
Sunshine
|
István Szabó
|
|
Traffic
|
Steven Soderbergh
|
|
1999
|
American Beauty
|
Sam Mendes
|
|
The End of the Affair
|
Neil Jordan
|
|
The Hurricane
|
Norman Jewison
|
|
The Insider
|
Michael Mann
|
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley
|
Anthony Minghella
|
|
1998
|
Saving Private Ryan
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
Elizabeth
|
Shekhar Kapur
|
|
The Horse Whisperer
|
Robert Redford
|
|
Shakespeare in Love
|
John Madden
|
|
The Truman Show
|
Peter Weir
|
|
1997
|
Titanic
|
James Cameron
|
|
Amistad
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
As Good as It Gets
|
James L. Brooks
|
|
The Boxer
|
Jim Sheridan
|
|
L.A. Confidential
|
Curtis Hanson
|
|
1996
|
The People vs. Larry Flynt
|
Miloš Forman
|
|
The English Patient
|
Anthony Minghella
|
|
Evita
|
Alan Parker
|
|
Fargo
|
Joel Coen
|
|
Shine
|
Scott Hicks
|
|
1995
|
Braveheart
|
Mel Gibson
|
|
The American President
|
Rob Reiner
|
|
Apollo 13
|
Ron Howard
|
|
Casino
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
Leaving Las Vegas
|
Mike Figgis
|
|
Sense and Sensibility
|
Ang Lee
|
|
1994
|
Forrest Gump
|
Robert Zemeckis
|
|
Legends of the Fall
|
Edward Zwick
|
|
Natural Born Killers
|
Oliver Stone
|
|
Pulp Fiction
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
|
Quiz Show
|
Robert Redford
|
|
1993
|
Schindler's List
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
The Age of Innocence
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
The Fugitive
|
Andrew Davis
|
|
The Piano
|
Jane Campion
|
|
The Remains of the Day
|
James Ivory
|
|
1992
|
Unforgiven
|
Clint Eastwood
|
|
A Few Good Men
|
Rob Reiner
|
|
Howards End
|
James Ivory
|
|
The Player
|
Robert Altman
|
|
A River Runs Through It
|
Robert Redford
|
|
1991
|
JFK
|
Oliver Stone
|
|
Bugsy
|
Barry Levinson
|
|
The Fisher King
|
Terry Gilliam
|
|
The Prince of Tides
|
Barbra Streisand
|
|
The Silence of the Lambs
|
Jonathan Demme
|
|
1990
|
Dances with Wolves
|
Kevin Costner
|
|
The Godfather Part III
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
Goodfellas
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
Reversal of Fortune
|
Barbet Schroeder
|
|
The Sheltering Sky
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
|
1989
|
Born on the Fourth of July
|
Oliver Stone
|
|
Dead Poets Society
|
Peter Weir
|
|
Do the Right Thing
|
Spike Lee
|
|
Glory
|
Edward Zwick
|
|
When Harry Met Sally...
|
Rob Reiner
|
|
1988
|
Bird
|
Clint Eastwood
|
|
A Cry in the Dark
|
Fred Schepisi
|
|
Mississippi Burning
|
Alan Parker
|
|
Rain Man
|
Barry Levinson
|
|
Running on Empty
|
Sidney Lumet
|
|
Working Girl
|
Mike Nichols
|
|
1987
|
The Last Emperor
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
|
Broadcast News
|
James L. Brooks
|
|
Cry Freedom
|
Richard Attenborough
|
|
Fatal Attraction
|
Adrian Lyne
|
|
Hope and Glory
|
John Boorman
|
|
1986
|
Platoon
|
Oliver Stone
|
|
Hannah and Her Sisters
|
Woody Allen
|
|
The Mission
|
Roland Joffé
|
|
A Room with a View
|
James Ivory
|
|
Stand by Me
|
Rob Reiner
|
|
1985
|
Prizzi's Honor
|
John Huston
|
|
A Chorus Line
|
Richard Attenborough
|
|
The Color Purple
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
Out of Africa
|
Sydney Pollack
|
|
Witness
|
Peter Weir
|
|
1984
|
Amadeus
|
Miloš Forman
|
|
The Cotton Club
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
The Killing Fields
|
Roland Joffé
|
|
Once Upon a Time in America
|
Sergio Leone
|
|
A Passage to India
|
David Lean
|
|
1983
|
Yentl
|
Barbra Streisand
|
|
The Dresser
|
Peter Yates
|
|
Fanny and Alexander
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
|
Silkwood
|
Mike Nichols
|
|
Tender Mercies
|
Bruce Beresford
|
|
Terms of Endearment
|
James L. Brooks
|
|
1982
|
Gandhi
|
Richard Attenborough
|
|
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
Missing
|
Constantin Costa-Gavras
|
|
Tootsie
|
Sydney Pollack
|
|
The Verdict
|
Sidney Lumet
|
|
1981
|
Reds
|
Warren Beatty
|
|
Atlantic City
|
Louis Malle
|
|
On Golden Pond
|
Mark Rydell
|
|
Prince of the City
|
Sidney Lumet
|
|
Ragtime
|
Miloš Forman
|
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
1980
|
Ordinary People
|
Robert Redford
|
|
The Elephant Man
|
David Lynch
|
|
Raging Bull
|
Martin Scorsese
|
|
The Stunt Man
|
Richard Rush
|
|
Tess
|
Roman Polanski
|
|
1979
|
Apocalypse Now
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
Being There
|
Hal Ashby
|
|
Breaking Away
|
Peter Yates
|
|
The China Syndrome
|
James Bridges
|
|
Kramer vs. Kramer
|
Robert Benton
|
|
1978
|
The Deer Hunter
|
Michael Cimino
|
|
Coming Home
|
Hal Ashby
|
|
Days of Heaven
|
Terrence Malick
|
|
Interiors
|
Woody Allen
|
|
Midnight Express
|
Alan Parker
|
|
An Unmarried Woman
|
Paul Mazursky
|
|
1977
|
The Turning Point
|
Herbert Ross
|
|
Annie Hall
|
Woody Allen
|
|
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
|
Steven Spielberg
|
|
Julia
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
Star Wars
|
George Lucas
|
|
1976
|
Network
|
Sidney Lumet
|
|
All the President's Men
|
Alan J. Pakula
|
|
Bound for Glory
|
Hal Ashby
|
|
Marathon Man
|
John Schlesinger
|
|
Rocky
|
John G. Avildsen
|
|
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
|
|
1974
|
Chinatown
|
Roman Polanski
|
|
The Conversation
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
The Godfather Part II
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
Lenny
|
Bob Fosse
|
|
A Woman Under the Influence
|
John Cassavetes
|
|
1973
|
The Exorcist
|
William Friedkin
|
|
American Graffiti
|
George Lucas
|
|
The Day of the Jackal
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
Last Tango in Paris
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
|
Paper Moon
|
Peter Bogdanovich
|
|
1972
|
The Godfather
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
|
Avanti!
|
Billy Wilder
|
|
Cabaret
|
Bob Fosse
|
|
Deliverance
|
John Boorman
|
|
Frenzy
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
1971
|
The French Connection
|
William Friedkin
|
|
A Clockwork Orange
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
|
Fiddler on the Roof
|
Norman Jewison
|
|
The Last Picture Show
|
Peter Bogdanovich
|
|
Summer of '42
|
Robert Mulligan
|
|
1970
|
Love Story
|
Arthur Hiller
|
|
Five Easy Pieces
|
Bob Rafelson
|
|
M*A*S*H
|
Robert Altman
|
|
Patton
|
Franklin J. Schaffner
|
|
Women in Love
|
Ken Russell
|
|
1969
|
Anne of the Thousand Days
|
Charles Jarrott
|
|
Hello, Dolly!
|
Gene Kelly
|
|
Midnight Cowboy
|
John Schlesinger
|
|
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
|
Sydney Pollack
|
|
1968
|
Rachel, Rachel
|
Paul Newman
|
|
Funny Girl
|
William Wyler
|
|
The Lion in Winter
|
Anthony Harvey
|
|
Oliver!
|
Carol Reed
|
|
Romeo and Juliet
|
Franco Zeffirelli
|
|
1967
|
The Graduate
|
Mike Nichols
|
|
Bonnie and Clyde
|
Arthur Penn
|
|
The Fox
|
Mark Rydell
|
|
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
In the Heat of the Night
|
Norman Jewison
|
|
1966
|
A Man for All Seasons
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
Alfie
|
Lewis Gilbert
|
|
A Man and a Woman
|
Claude Lelouch
|
|
The Sand Pebbles
|
Robert Wise
|
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
Mike Nichols
|
|
1965
|
Doctor Zhivago
|
David Lean
|
|
The Collector
|
William Wyler
|
|
Darling
|
John Schlesinger
|
|
A Patch of Blue
|
Guy Green
|
|
The Sound of Music
|
Robert Wise
|
|
1964
|
My Fair Lady
|
George Cukor
|
|
Becket
|
Peter Glenville
|
|
The Night of the Iguana
|
John Huston
|
|
Seven Days in May
|
John Frankenheimer
|
|
Zorba the Greek
|
Michael Cacoyannis
|
|
1963
|
America America
|
Elia Kazan
|
|
The Cardinal
|
Otto Preminger
|
|
The Caretakers
|
Hall Bartlett
|
|
Cleopatra
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
|
The Haunting
|
Robert Wise
|
|
Hud
|
Martin Ritt
|
|
Tom Jones
|
Tony Richardson
|
|
The Ugly American
|
George Englund
|
|
1962
|
Lawrence of Arabia
|
David Lean
|
|
The Chapman Report
|
George Cukor
|
|
Days of Wine and Roses
|
Blake Edwards
|
|
Freud: The Secret Passion
|
John Huston
|
|
Gypsy
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
|
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
|
Martin Ritt
|
|
Lolita
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
|
The Manchurian Candidate
|
John Frankenheimer
|
|
The Music Man
|
Morton DaCosta
|
|
My Son, the Hero (Los Hermanos Del Hierro)
|
Ismael Rodriguez
|
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Robert Mulligan
|
|
1961
|
Judgment at Nuremberg
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
The Children's Hour
|
William Wyler
|
|
El Cid
|
Anthony Mann
|
|
The Guns of Navarone
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
|
West Side Story
|
Jerome Robbins / Robert Wise
|
|
1960
|
Sons and Lovers
|
Jack Cardiff
|
|
The Apartment
|
Billy Wilder
|
|
Elmer Gantry
|
Richard Brooks
|
|
Spartacus
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
|
The Sundowners
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
1959
|
Ben-Hur
|
William Wyler
|
|
Anatomy of a Murder
|
Otto Preminger
|
|
The Diary of Anne Frank
|
George Stevens
|
|
The Nun's Story
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
On the Beach
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
1958
|
Gigi
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
|
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
|
Richard Brooks
|
|
The Defiant Ones
|
Stanley Kramer
|
|
I Want to Live!
|
Robert Wise
|
|
Separate Tables
|
Delbert Mann
|
|
1957
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai
|
David Lean
|
|
12 Angry Men
|
Sidney Lumet
|
|
A Hatful of Rain
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
Sayonara
|
Joshua Logan
|
|
Witness for the Prosecution
|
Billy Wilder
|
|
1956
|
Baby Doll
|
Elia Kazan
|
|
Around the World in 80 Days
|
Michael Anderson
|
|
Giant
|
George Stevens
|
|
Lust for Life
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
|
War and Peace
|
King Vidor
|
|
1955
|
Picnic
|
Joshua Logan
|
|
1954
|
On the Waterfront
|
Elia Kazan
|
|
1953
|
From Here to Eternity
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
|
1952
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The Greatest Show on Earth
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Cecil B. DeMille
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The Happy Time
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Richard Fleischer
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The Quiet Man
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John Ford
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1951
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Death of a Salesman
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László Benedek
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An American in Paris
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Vincente Minnelli
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A Place in the Sun
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George Stevens
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1950
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Sunset Boulevard
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Billy Wilder
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All About Eve
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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The Asphalt Jungle
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John Huston
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Born Yesterday
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George Cukor
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1949
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All the King's Men
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Robert Rossen
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1948
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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John Huston
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1947
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Gentleman's Agreement
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Elia Kazan
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1946
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It's a Wonderful Life
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Frank Capra
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1945
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The Lost Weekend
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Billy Wilder
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1944
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Going My Way
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Leo McCarey
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette
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Henry King
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