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