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(In chronological order)
Eddie Cline (W.C.Fields): The Bank Dick (1940)
John Ford: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Ernest Schoedsack: Dr Cyclops (1940)
Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday (1940)
George Cukor: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Ben Sharpsteen (Walt Disney): Pinocchio (1940)
Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca (1940)
Frank Borzage: Strange Cargo (1940)
Charles Chaplin: The Great Dictator (1940)
Dorothy Arzner: Dance Girl Dance (1940)
George Marshall: The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Preston Sturges: The Great McGinty (1940)
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (1941)
Howard Hawks: Sergeant York (1941)
Josef von Sternberg: Shangai Gesture/ Misteri di Shangai (1941)
Walt Disney: Fantasia (1941)
John Ford: How Green Was My Valley (1941)
John Huston: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Preston Sturges: Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Ben Sharpsteen (Walt Disney): Dumbo (1941)
Preston Sturges: The Lady Eve (1941)
Alfred Hitchcock: Suspicion/Il Sospetto (1941)
Manoel DeOliveira: Anikibobo` (1941)
Frank Capra: John Doe (1941)
Alessandro Blasetti: Quattro Passi Fra le Nuvole (1942)
Rene` Clair: I Married A Witch (1942)
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca (1942)
Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Michael Curtiz: Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Jacques Tourneur: Cat People (1942)
Preston Sturges: The Palm Beach Story (1942)
David Hand (Walt Disney): Bambi (1942)
William Wellman: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Ernst Lubitsch: Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Jacques Becker: Groupi Mains-Rouges/ La Casa degli Incubi (1943)
Alfred Hitchcock: Shadow of a Doubt/ L'Ombra del Dubbio (1943)
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Vredens Dag/ Day of Wrath (1943)
Henri Clouzot: Le Corbeau (1943)
Jacques Tourneur: I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
Jean Gremillon: Lumiere d'Ete` (1943)
Michael Powell: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp/ Duello a Berlino (1943)
Preston Sturges: Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Rene` Clair: It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Sergei Eisenstein: Ivan Groznyi/ Ivan the Terrible (1944)
Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity (1944)
Vincente Minnelli: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Otto Preminger: Laura (1944)
Preston Sturges: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Alf Sjoberg: Hets/ Torment/ Spasimo (1944)
Billy Wilder: The Lost Weekend (1945)
Jean Renoir: The Southerner (1945)
Robert Hamer: Dead of Night (1945)
Michael Curtiz: Mildred Pierce (1945)
Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound/Io Ti Salvero` (1945)
Marcel Carne`: Les Enfants du Paradis/ Children of Paradise (1945)
Edgar Ulmer: Detour (1945)
Charles Vidor: Gilda (1946)
Alberto Lattuada: Il Bandito/Bandit (1946)
Luchino Visconti: La Terra Trema (1946)
Robert Siodmak: Spiral Staircase (1946)
Orson Welles: The Stranger (1946)
King Vidor: Duel in the Sun (1946)
Robert Siodmak: Killers (1946)
Michael Powell: A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Edgar Ulmer: Detour (1946)
William Wyler: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Howard Hawks: The Big Sleep (1946)
David Lean: Brief Encounter (1946)
Frank Capra: It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
John Ford: My Darling Clementine (1946)
Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious (1946)
Tay Garnett: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Roberto Rossellini: Roma Citta` Aperta/ Open City (1946)
Vittorio DeSica: Sciuscia` (1946)
Carol Reed: Odd Man Out (1947)
Michael Curtiz: The Unsuspected (1947)
Delmer Daves: Dark Passage (1947)
Nicholas Ray: They Live By Night (1947)
Jacques Tournier: Out Of The Past (1947)
Norman McLeod (Bob Hope): Road to Rio (1947)
David Butler (Bob Hope): Road to Morocco (1947)
Michael Powell: Black Narcissus (1947)
Roberto Rossellini: Deutschland im Jahre Null/ Germania Anno Zero (1947)
Alexander Mackendrick: Whiskey Galore (1948)
Frank Capra: State of the Union (1948)
Anatole Litvak: Sorry Wrong Number (1948)
Robert Siodmak: Criss Cross (1948)
Max Ophuls: Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
Anatole Litvak: Snake Pit (1948)
Henry Hathaway: Call Northside 777 (1948)
Anatole Litvak: Sorry Wrong Number (1948)
John Huston: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Howard Hawks: Red River (1948)
Vittorio DeSica: Ladri di Biciclette/ Bicycle Thieves (1948)
John Ford: Fort Apache (1948)
Jules Dassin: Naked City (1948)
Michael Powell: Red Shoes (1948)
Orson Welles: Lady from Shangai (1948)
Robert Hamer: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Anatole Litvak: Colorado Territory (1949)
Giuseppe DeSantis: Riso Amaro (1949)
John Ford: She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Howard Hawks: I Was a Wale War Bride (1949)
Rudolph Mate: D.O.A. (1949)
Nicholas Ray: Knock On Any Door (1949)
Mark Robson: The Champion (1949)
Yasujiro Ozu: Banshum/ Late Spring (1949)
Joseph Mankiewicz: A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Abraham Polonsky: Force of Evil (1949)
George Cukor: Adam's Rib (1949)
Robert Rossen: All the King's Men (1949)
Carol Reed: The Third Man (1949)
Raoul Walsh: White Heat (1949)
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The Best of the Decade
- Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
- Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons
- Orson Welles: Lady from Shangai
- Charles Chaplin: The Great Dictator
- Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not to Be
- Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity
- Howard Hawks: The Big Sleep
- Frank Capra: John Doe (1941)
- Josef von Sternberg: Shangai Gesture/ Misteri di Shangai
- Frank Capra: It's A Wonderful Life
- Preston Sturges: Sullivan's Travels
- Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday
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The Best of 1940
- Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday
- Charles Chaplin: The Great Dictator
- Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca
- Preston Sturges: The Great McGinty
- George Cukor: The Philadelphia Story
- Frank Borzage: Strange Cargo
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The Best of 1941
- Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
- Frank Capra: John Doe
- Josef von Sternberg: Shangai Gesture/ Misteri di Shangai
- Preston Sturges: Sullivan's Travels
- Alfred Hitchcock: Suspicion/Il Sospetto
- Howard Hawks: Sergeant York
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The Best of 1942
- Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons
- Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not to Be
- Michael Curtiz: Casablanca
- Rene` Clair: I Married A Witch
- Alessandro Blasetti: Quattro Passi Fra le Nuvole
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The Best of 1943
- Ernst Lubitsch: Heaven Can Wait
- Alfred Hitchcock: Shadow of a Doubt/ L'Ombra del Dubbio
- Carl Theodor Dreyer: Vredens Dag/ Day of Wrath
- Jacques Becker: Groupi Mains-Rouges/ La Casa degli Incubi
- Henri Clouzot: Le Corbeau
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The Best of 1944
- Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity
- Otto Preminger: Laura
- Sergei Eisenstein: Ivan Groznyi/ Ivan the Terrible
- Preston Sturges: Hail the Conquering Hero
- Rene` Clair: It Happened Tomorrow
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The Best of 1945
- Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound/Io Ti Salvero`
- Marcel Carne`: Les Enfants du Paradis/ Children of Paradise
- Billy Wilder: The Lost Weekend
- Michael Curtiz: Mildred Pierce
- Jean Renoir: The Southerner
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The Best of 1946
- Howard Hawks: The Big Sleep
- Frank Capra: It's A Wonderful Life
- William Wyler: The Best Years of Our Lives
- Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious
- Michael Powell: A Matter of Life and Death
- Robert Siodmak: Spiral Staircase
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The Best of 1947
- Michael Powell: Black Narcissus
- Roberto Rossellini: Deutschland im Jahre Null/ Germania Anno Zero
- Nicholas Ray: They Live By Night
- Michael Curtiz: The Unsuspected
- Jacques Tournier: Out Of The Past
- Carol Reed: Odd Man Out
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The Best of 1948
- Orson Welles: Lady from Shangai
- John Huston: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- John Ford: Fort Apache
- Michael Powell: Red Shoes
- Vittorio DeSica: Ladri di Biciclette/ Bicycle Thieves
- Anatole Litvak: Sorry Wrong Number
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The Best of 1949
- Howard Hawks: I Was a Wale War Bride
- George Cukor: Adam's Rib
- Yasujiro Ozu: Banshum/ Late Spring
- Mark Robson: The Champion
- Joseph Mankiewicz: A Letter to Three Wives
- Anatole Litvak: Colorado Territory
- Rudolph Mate: D.O.A.
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