Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
2024
|
Oppenheimer
|
Christopher Nolan
|
The Zone of Interest
|
Jonathan Glazer
|
Poor Things
|
Yorgos Lanthimos
|
Killers of the Flower Moon
|
Martin Scorsese
|
Anatomy of a Fall
|
Justine Triet
|
2023
|
Everything Everywhere All at Once
|
Daniel Kwan / Daniel Scheinert
|
Tár
|
Todd Field
|
The Banshees of Inisherin
|
Martin McDonagh
|
Triangle of Sadness
|
Ruben Östlund
|
The Fabelmans
|
Steven Spielberg
|
2022
|
The Power of the Dog
|
Jane Campion
|
Licorice Pizza
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
Belfast
|
Kenneth Branagh
|
Drive My Car
|
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
|
West Side Story
|
Steven Spielberg
|
2021
|
Nomadland
|
Chloé Zhao
|
Minari
|
Lee Isaac Chung
|
Promising Young Woman
|
Emerald Fennell
|
Mank
|
David Fincher
|
Another Round
|
Thomas Vinterberg
|
2020
|
Parasite
|
Bong Joon-ho
|
1917
|
Sam Mendes
|
Joker
|
Todd Phillips
|
The Irishman
|
Martin Scorsese
|
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
2019
|
Roma
|
Alfonso Cuarón
|
The Favourite
|
Yorgos Lanthimos
|
BlacKkKlansman
|
Spike Lee
|
Vice
|
Adam McKay
|
Cold War
|
Paweł Pawlikowski
|
2018
|
The Shape of Water
|
Guillermo del Toro
|
Phantom Thread
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
Lady Bird
|
Greta Gerwig
|
Dunkirk
|
Christopher Nolan
|
Get Out
|
Jordan Peele
|
2017
|
La La Land
|
Damien Chazelle
|
Hacksaw Ridge
|
Mel Gibson
|
Moonlight
|
Barry Jenkins
|
Manchester by the Sea
|
Kenneth Lonergan
|
Arrival
|
Denis Villeneuve
|
2016
|
The Revenant
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu
|
Room
|
Lenny Abrahamson
|
Spotlight
|
Tom McCarthy
|
The Big Short
|
Adam McKay
|
Mad Max: Fury Road
|
George Miller
|
2015
|
Birdman
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu
|
The Grand Budapest Hotel
|
Wes Anderson
|
Boyhood
|
Richard Linklater
|
Foxcatcher
|
Bennett Miller
|
The Imitation Game
|
Morten Tyldum
|
2014
|
Gravity
|
Alfonso Cuarón
|
12 Years a Slave
|
Steve McQueen
|
Nebraska
|
Alexander Payne
|
American Hustle
|
David O. Russell
|
The Wolf of Wall Street
|
Martin Scorsese
|
2013
|
Life of Pi
|
Ang Lee
|
Amour
|
Michael Haneke
|
Silver Linings Playbook
|
David O. Russell
|
Lincoln
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild
|
Benh Zeitlin
|
2012
|
The Artist
|
Michel Hazanavicius
|
Midnight in Paris
|
Woody Allen
|
The Tree of Life
|
Terrence Malick
|
The Descendants
|
Alexander Payne
|
Hugo
|
Martin Scorsese
|
2011
|
The King's Speech
|
Tom Hooper
|
Black Swan
|
Darren Aronofsky
|
True Grit
|
Joel Coen / Ethan Coen
|
The Social Network
|
David Fincher
|
The Fighter
|
David O. Russell
|
2010
|
The Hurt Locker
|
Kathryn Bigelow
|
Avatar
|
James Cameron
|
Precious
|
Lee Daniels
|
Up in the Air
|
Jason Reitman
|
Inglourious Basterds
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
2009
|
Slumdog Millionaire
|
Danny Boyle
|
The Reader
|
Stephen Daldry
|
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
|
David Fincher
|
Frost/Nixon
|
Ron Howard
|
Milk
|
Gus Van Sant
|
2008
|
No Country for Old Men
|
Joel Coen / Ethan Coen
|
There Will Be Blood
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
Michael Clayton
|
Tony Gilroy
|
Juno
|
Jason Reitman
|
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
|
Julian Schnabel
|
2007
|
The Departed
|
Martin Scorsese
|
Letters from Iwo Jima
|
Clint Eastwood
|
The Queen
|
Stephen Frears
|
United 93
|
Paul Greengrass
|
Babel
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu
|
2006
|
Brokeback Mountain
|
Ang Lee
|
Good Night, and Good Luck
|
George Clooney
|
Crash
|
Paul Haggis
|
Capote
|
Bennett Miller
|
Munich
|
Steven Spielberg
|
2005
|
Million Dollar Baby
|
Clint Eastwood
|
Ray
|
Taylor Hackford
|
Vera Drake
|
Mike Leigh
|
Sideways
|
Alexander Payne
|
The Aviator
|
Martin Scorsese
|
2004
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
|
Peter Jackson
|
Lost in Translation
|
Sofia Coppola
|
Mystic River
|
Clint Eastwood
|
City of God
|
Fernando Meirelles
|
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
|
Peter Weir
|
2003
|
The Pianist
|
Roman Polanski
|
Talk to Her
|
Pedro Almodóvar
|
The Hours
|
Stephen Daldry
|
Chicago
|
Rob Marshall
|
Gangs of New York
|
Martin Scorsese
|
2002
|
A Beautiful Mind
|
Ron Howard
|
Gosford Park
|
Robert Altman
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
|
Peter Jackson
|
Mulholland Drive
|
David Lynch
|
Black Hawk Down
|
Ridley Scott
|
2001
|
Traffic
|
Steven Soderbergh
|
Erin Brockovich
|
Billy Elliot
|
Stephen Daldry
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
|
Ang Lee
|
Gladiator
|
Ridley Scott
|
2000
|
American Beauty
|
Sam Mendes
|
The Cider House Rules
|
Lasse Hallström
|
Being John Malkovich
|
Spike Jonze
|
The Insider
|
Michael Mann
|
The Sixth Sense
|
M. Night Shyamalan
|
1999
|
Saving Private Ryan
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Life is Beautiful
|
Roberto Benigni
|
Shakespeare in Love
|
John Madden
|
The Thin Red Line
|
Terrence Malick
|
The Truman Show
|
Peter Weir
|
1998
|
Titanic
|
James Cameron
|
The Full Monty
|
Peter Cattaneo
|
The Sweet Hereafter
|
Atom Egoyan
|
L.A. Confidential
|
Curtis Hanson
|
Good Will Hunting
|
Gus Van Sant
|
1997
|
The English Patient
|
Anthony Minghella
|
Fargo
|
Joel Coen
|
The People vs. Larry Flynt
|
Miloš Forman
|
Shine
|
Scott Hicks
|
Secrets & Lies
|
Mike Leigh
|
1996
|
Braveheart
|
Mel Gibson
|
Leaving Las Vegas
|
Mike Figgis
|
Babe
|
Chris Noonan
|
Il Postino: The Postman
|
Michael Radford
|
Dead Man Walking
|
Tim Robbins
|
1995
|
Forrest Gump
|
Robert Zemeckis
|
Bullets over Broadway
|
Woody Allen
|
Three Colours: Red
|
Krzysztof Kieślowski
|
Quiz Show
|
Robert Redford
|
Pulp Fiction
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
1994
|
Schindler's List
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Short Cuts
|
Robert Altman
|
The Piano
|
Jane Campion
|
The Remains of the Day
|
James Ivory
|
In the Name of the Father
|
Jim Sheridan
|
1993
|
Unforgiven
|
Clint Eastwood
|
The Player
|
Robert Altman
|
Scent of a Woman
|
Martin Brest
|
Howards End
|
James Ivory
|
The Crying Game
|
Neil Jordan
|
1992
|
The Silence of the Lambs
|
Jonathan Demme
|
Bugsy
|
Barry Levinson
|
Thelma & Louise
|
Ridley Scott
|
Boyz n the Hood
|
John Singleton
|
JFK
|
Oliver Stone
|
1991
|
Dances with Wolves
|
Kevin Costner
|
The Godfather Part III
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
The Grifters
|
Stephen Frears
|
Reversal of Fortune
|
Barbet Schroeder
|
Goodfellas
|
Martin Scorsese
|
1990
|
Born on the Fourth of July
|
Oliver Stone
|
Crimes and Misdemeanors
|
Woody Allen
|
Henry V
|
Kenneth Branagh
|
My Left Foot
|
Jim Sheridan
|
Dead Poets Society
|
Peter Weir
|
1989
|
Rain Man
|
Barry Levinson
|
A Fish Called Wanda
|
Charles Crichton
|
Working Girl
|
Mike Nichols
|
Mississippi Burning
|
Alan Parker
|
The Last Temptation of Christ
|
Martin Scorsese
|
1988
|
The Last Emperor
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
Hope and Glory
|
John Boorman
|
My Life as a Dog
|
Lasse Hallström
|
Moonstruck
|
Norman Jewison
|
Fatal Attraction
|
Adrian Lyne
|
1987
|
Platoon
|
Oliver Stone
|
Hannah and Her Sisters
|
Woody Allen
|
A Room with a View
|
James Ivory
|
The Mission
|
Roland Joffé
|
Blue Velvet
|
David Lynch
|
1986
|
Out of Africa
|
Sydney Pollack
|
Kiss of the Spider Woman
|
Héctor Babenco
|
Prizzi's Honor
|
John Huston
|
Ran
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
Witness
|
Peter Weir
|
1985
|
Amadeus
|
Miloš Forman
|
Broadway Danny Rose
|
Woody Allen
|
Places in the Heart
|
Robert Benton
|
The Killing Fields
|
Roland Joffé
|
A Passage to India
|
David Lean
|
1984
|
Terms of Endearment
|
James L. Brooks
|
Tender Mercies
|
Bruce Beresford
|
Fanny and Alexander
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
Silkwood
|
Mike Nichols
|
The Dresser
|
Peter Yates
|
1983
|
Gandhi
|
Richard Attenborough
|
The Verdict
|
Sidney Lumet
|
Das Boot
|
Wolfgang Petersen
|
Tootsie
|
Sydney Pollack
|
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
|
Steven Spielberg
|
1982
|
Reds
|
Warren Beatty
|
Chariots of Fire
|
Hugh Hudson
|
Atlantic City
|
Louis Malle
|
On Golden Pond
|
Mark Rydell
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark
|
Steven Spielberg
|
1981
|
Ordinary People
|
Robert Redford
|
The Elephant Man
|
David Lynch
|
Tess
|
Roman Polanski
|
The Stunt Man
|
Richard Rush
|
Raging Bull
|
Martin Scorsese
|
1980
|
Kramer vs. Kramer
|
Robert Benton
|
Apocalypse Now
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
All That Jazz
|
Bob Fosse
|
La Cage aux Folles
|
Édouard Molinaro
|
Breaking Away
|
Peter Yates
|
1979
|
The Deer Hunter
|
Michael Cimino
|
Interiors
|
Woody Allen
|
Coming Home
|
Hal Ashby
|
Heaven Can Wait
|
Warren Beatty / Buck Henry
|
Midnight Express
|
Alan Parker
|
1978
|
Annie Hall
|
Woody Allen
|
Star Wars
|
George Lucas
|
The Turning Point
|
Herbert Ross
|
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Julia
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
1977
|
Rocky
|
John G. Avildsen
|
Face to Face
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
Network
|
Sidney Lumet
|
All the President's Men
|
Alan J. Pakula
|
Seven Beauties
|
Lina Wertmüller
|
1976
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
Miloš Forman
|
Nashville
|
Robert Altman
|
Amarcord
|
Federico Fellini
|
Barry Lyndon
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Dog Day Afternoon
|
Sidney Lumet
|
1975
|
The Godfather Part II
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
A Woman Under the Influence
|
John Cassavetes
|
Lenny
|
Bob Fosse
|
Chinatown
|
Roman Polanski
|
Day for Night
|
François Truffaut
|
1974
|
The Sting
|
George Roy Hill
|
Cries and Whispers
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
Last Tango in Paris
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
The Exorcist
|
William Friedkin
|
American Graffiti
|
George Lucas
|
1973
|
Cabaret
|
Bob Fosse
|
Deliverance
|
John Boorman
|
The Godfather
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Sleuth
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
The Emigrants
|
Jan Troell
|
1972
|
The French Connection
|
William Friedkin
|
The Last Picture Show
|
Peter Bogdanovich
|
Fiddler on the Roof
|
Norman Jewison
|
A Clockwork Orange
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Sunday Bloody Sunday
|
John Schlesinger
|
1971
|
Patton
|
Franklin J. Schaffner
|
M*A*S*H
|
Robert Altman
|
Fellini Satyricon
|
Federico Fellini
|
Love Story
|
Arthur Hiller
|
Women in Love
|
Ken Russell
|
1970
|
Midnight Cowboy
|
John Schlesinger
|
Z
|
Costa-Gavras
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
|
George Roy Hill
|
Alice's Restaurant
|
Arthur Penn
|
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
|
Sydney Pollack
|
1969
|
Oliver!
|
Carol Reed
|
The Lion in Winter
|
Anthony Harvey
|
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
The Battle of Algiers
|
Gillo Pontecorvo
|
Romeo and Juliet
|
Franco Zeffirelli
|
1968
|
The Graduate
|
Mike Nichols
|
In Cold Blood
|
Richard Brooks
|
In the Heat of the Night
|
Norman Jewison
|
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
|
Stanley Kramer
|
Bonnie and Clyde
|
Arthur Penn
|
1967
|
A Man for All Seasons
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
Blowup
|
Michelangelo Antonioni
|
The Professionals
|
Richard Brooks
|
A Man and a Woman
|
Claude Lelouch
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
Mike Nichols
|
1966
|
The Sound of Music
|
Robert Wise
|
Doctor Zhivago
|
David Lean
|
Darling
|
John Schlesinger
|
Woman in the Dunes
|
Hiroshi Teshigahara
|
The Collector
|
William Wyler
|
1965
|
My Fair Lady
|
George Cukor
|
Zorba the Greek
|
Michael Cacoyannis
|
Becket
|
Peter Glenville
|
Dr. Strangelove
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Mary Poppins
|
Robert Stevenson
|
1964
|
Tom Jones
|
Tony Richardson
|
8½
|
Federico Fellini
|
America America
|
Elia Kazan
|
The Cardinal
|
Otto Preminger
|
Hud
|
Martin Ritt
|
1963
|
Lawrence of Arabia
|
David Lean
|
Divorce Italian Style
|
Pietro Germi
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Robert Mulligan
|
The Miracle Worker
|
Arthur Penn
|
David and Lisa
|
Frank Perry
|
1962
|
West Side Story
|
Jerome Robbins / Robert Wise
|
La Dolce Vita
|
Federico Fellini
|
Judgment at Nuremberg
|
Stanley Kramer
|
The Hustler
|
Robert Rossen
|
The Guns of Navarone
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
1961
|
The Apartment
|
Billy Wilder
|
Sons and Lovers
|
Jack Cardiff
|
Never on Sunday
|
Jules Dassin
|
Psycho
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
The Sundowners
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
1960
|
Ben-Hur
|
William Wyler
|
Room at the Top
|
Jack Clayton
|
The Diary of Anne Frank
|
George Stevens
|
Some Like It Hot
|
Billy Wilder
|
The Nun's Story
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
1959
|
Gigi
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
|
Richard Brooks
|
The Defiant Ones
|
Stanley Kramer
|
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
|
Mark Robson
|
I Want to Live!
|
Robert Wise
|
1958
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai
|
David Lean
|
Sayonara
|
Joshua Logan
|
12 Angry Men
|
Sidney Lumet
|
Peyton Place
|
Mark Robson
|
Witness for the Prosecution
|
Billy Wilder
|
1957
|
Giant
|
George Stevens
|
Around the World in 80 Days
|
Michael Anderson
|
The King and I
|
Walter Lang
|
War and Peace
|
King Vidor
|
Friendly Persuasion
|
William Wyler
|
1956
|
Marty
|
Delbert Mann
|
East of Eden
|
Elia Kazan
|
Summertime
|
David Lean
|
Picnic
|
Joshua Logan
|
Bad Day at Black Rock
|
John Sturges
|
1955
|
On the Waterfront
|
Elia Kazan
|
Rear Window
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
The Country Girl
|
George Seaton
|
The High and the Mighty
|
William A. Wellman
|
Sabrina
|
Billy Wilder
|
1954
|
From Here to Eternity
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
Shane
|
George Stevens
|
Lili
|
Charles Walters
|
Stalag 17
|
Billy Wilder
|
Roman Holiday
|
William Wyler
|
1953
|
The Quiet Man
|
John Ford
|
The Greatest Show on Earth
|
Cecil B. DeMille
|
Moulin Rouge
|
John Huston
|
5 Fingers
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
High Noon
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
1952
|
A Place in the Sun
|
George Stevens
|
The African Queen
|
John Huston
|
A Streetcar Named Desire
|
Elia Kazan
|
An American in Paris
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
Detective Story
|
William Wyler
|
1951
|
All About Eve
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
Born Yesterday
|
George Cukor
|
The Asphalt Jungle
|
John Huston
|
The Third Man
|
Carol Reed
|
Sunset Boulevard
|
Billy Wilder
|
1950
|
A Letter to Three Wives
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
The Fallen Idols
|
Carol Reed
|
All the King's Men
|
Robert Rossen
|
Battleground
|
William A. Wellman
|
The Heiress
|
William Wyler
|
1949
|
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
|
John Huston
|
The Snake Pit
|
Anatole Litvak
|
Johnny Belinda
|
Jean Negulesco
|
Hamlet
|
Laurence Olivier
|
The Search
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
1948
|
Gentleman's Agreement
|
Elia Kazan
|
A Double Life
|
George Cukor
|
Crossfire
|
Edward Dmytryk
|
The Bishop's Wife
|
Henry Koster
|
Great Expectations
|
David Lean
|
1947
|
The Best Years of Our Lives
|
William Wyler
|
The Yearling
|
Clarence Brown
|
It's a Wonderful Life
|
Frank Capra
|
Brief Encounter
|
David Lean
|
The Killers
|
Robert Siodmak
|
1946
|
The Lost Weekend
|
Billy Wilder
|
National Velvet
|
Clarence Brown
|
Spellbound
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
The Bells of St. Mary's
|
Leo McCarey
|
The Southerner
|
Jean Renoir
|
1945
|
Going My Way
|
Leo McCarey
|
Lifeboat
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Wilson
|
Henry King
|
Laura
|
Otto Preminger
|
Double Indemnity
|
Billy Wilder
|
1944
|
Casablanca
|
Michael Curtiz
|
The Human Comedy
|
Clarence Brown
|
The Song of Bernadette
|
Henry King
|
Heaven Can Wait
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
The More the Merrier
|
George Stevens
|
1943
|
Mrs. Miniver
|
William Wyler
|
Yankee Doodle Dandy
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Wake Island
|
John Farrow
|
Random Harvest
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
Kings Row
|
Sam Wood
|
1942
|
How Green Was My Valley
|
John Ford
|
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
|
Alexander Hall
|
Sergeant York
|
Howard Hawks
|
Citizen Kane
|
Orson Welles
|
The Little Foxes
|
William Wyler
|
1941
|
The Grapes of Wrath
|
John Ford
|
The Philadelphia Story
|
George Cukor
|
Rebecca
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Kitty Foyle
|
Sam Wood
|
The Letter
|
William Wyler
|
1940
|
Gone with the Wind
|
Victor Fleming
|
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
|
Frank Capra
|
Stagecoach
|
John Ford
|
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
|
Sam Wood
|
Wuthering Heights
|
William Wyler
|
1939
|
You Can't Take It with You
|
Frank Capra
|
Angels with Dirty Faces
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Four Daughters
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Boys Town
|
Norman Taurog
|
The Citadel
|
King Vidor
|
1938
|
The Awful Truth
|
Leo McCarey
|
The Life of Emile Zola
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William Dieterle
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The Good Earth
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Sidney Franklin
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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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1937
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Frank Capra
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My Man Godfrey
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Gregory La Cava
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The Great Ziegfeld
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Robert Z. Leonard
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San Francisco
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W.S. Van Dyke
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Dodsworth
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William Wyler
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1936
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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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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Frank Lloyd
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1935
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It Happened One Night
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Frank Capra
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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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1934
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Cavalcade
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Frank Lloyd
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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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1933
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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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Shanghai Express
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Josef von Sternberg
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1932
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Skippy
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Norman Taurog
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A Free Soul
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Clarence Brown
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The Front Page
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Lewis Milestone
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Cimarron
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Wesley Ruggles
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Morocco
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Josef von Sternberg
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1931
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Lewis Milestone
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Anna Christie
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Clarence Brown
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Romance
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Clarence Brown
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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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Hallelujah!
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King Vidor
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1930
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The Divine Lady
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Frank Lloyd
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Drag
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Frank Lloyd
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Weary River
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Frank Lloyd
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Madame X
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Lionel Barrymore
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The Broadway Melody
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Harry Beaumont
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In Old Arizona
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Irving Cummings
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The Patriot
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Ernst Lubitsch
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1929
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7th Heaven (Dramatic Picture)
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Frank Borzage
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Sorrell and Son (Dramatic Picture)
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Herbert Brenon
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The Crowd (Dramatic Picture)
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King Vidor
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Two Arabian Knights (Comedy Picture)
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Lewis Milestone
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Speedy (Comedy Picture)
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Ted Wilde
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The Circus (Comedy Picture)
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Charlie Chaplin
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