Top Ranked Films by Year: the 90s

Based on our compendium of all film polls
[2011 Edition, updated with 2011 polls]
© William L. Sinclair

This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, 2011 Edition that we compiled.

Total Ranked Films in the 90's: 119 (up from 110)

 - [ 1990 ] -
1. Goodfellas - Scorsese, Martin #26 (photo rt)
2. Close-Up - Kiarostami, Abbas #254
3. Days of Being Wild - Wong Kar-Wai #463
4. Edward Scissorhands - Burton, Tim #487
5. Miller's Crossing - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen #671
6. Reversal of Fortune - Schroeder, Barbet #715
7. Grifters, The - Frears, Stephen #898
[Gone: An Angel at My Table, Ju Dou, Miller's Crossing]
Best Picture: Dances With Wolves

- [ 1991 ] -
1. Silence of the Lambs, The - Demme, Jonathan #47 (photo above)
2. Reservoir Dogs - Tarantino, Quentin #129
3. Terminator2: Judgment Day - Cameron, James #186
4. Thelma & Louise - Scott, Ridley #285
5. Double Life of Veronique, The - Kieslowski, Krszystof #342
6. Raise the Red Lantern - Yimou, Zhang #383
7. Barton Fink - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen #466
8. Beauty and the Beast - Trousdale, Gary #541
9. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film - Burns, Rick #917
10. JFK - Stone, Oliver #930
11. Brighter Summer Day, A - Yang, Edward #935
12. Europa - von Trier, Lars #941
13. And Life Goes On - Kiarostami, Abbas #946
14. La Belle Noiseuse - Rivette, Jacques #965
[Gone: Van Gogh]
Best Picture: The Silence of the Lambs

- [ 1992 ] -
1. Unforgiven - Eastwood, Clint #57(photo rt)
2. Player, The - Altman, Robert #366
3. Crying Game, The - Jordan, Neil #500
4. Glengarry Glen Ross (92) Foley, James #823
5. Howards End - Ivory, James #831
[Gone: Orlando, Un Coeur en hiver]
Best Picture: Unforgiven

- [ 1993 ] -
1. Schindler's List #27 - Spielberg, Steven (photo rt)
1. Schindler's List - Spielberg, Steven #30
2. Piano, The - Campion, Jane #108
3. Groundhog Day - Ramis, Harold #174
4. Age of Innocence, The - Scorsese, Martin #415
5. Three Colours: Blue - Kieslowski, Krszystof #418
6. Short Cuts - Altman, Robert #444
7. Dazed and Confused - Linklater, Richard #528
8. Farewell, My Concubine - Chen Kaige #612
9. Fugitive, The - Davis, Andrew #914
10. Nightmare Before Christmas, The - Selick, Henry #953
11. Last Seduction, The - Dahl, John #963
12. Remains of the Day, The - Ivory, James #977
[Gone: The Puppetmaster, Naked]
Best Picture: Schindler's List

- [ 1994 ] -
1. Shawshank Redemption, The - Darabont, Frank #182 (photo rt)
2. Forrest Gump - Zemeckis, Robert #205
3. Three Colours: Red - Kieslowski, Krszystof #273
4. Léon (The Professional,1994) Besson, Luc #312
5. Chungking Express - Wong Kar-Wai #361 [photo above]
6. Lion King, The - Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert #401
7. Ed Wood - Burton, Tim #475
8. Crumb - Zwigoff, Terry #490
9. Sátántangó - Tarr, Béla #540
10. Quiz Show - Redford, Robert #819
11. Little Women - Armstrong, Gillian #824
12. Three Colours: White - Kieslowski, Krszystof #843
[Gone: Through the Olive Trees, Little Women]
Best Picture: Forrest Gump

- [ 1995 ] -
1. Pulp Fiction - Tarantino, Quentin #20 (photo rt)
2. Toy Story - Lasseter, John #72
3. Casino - Scorsese, Martin #120
4. Usual Suspects, The - Singer, Bryan #141
5. Trainspotting - Boyle, Danny #170
6. Heat - Mann, Michael #185
7. Se7en - Fincher, David #298
8. Dead Man - Jarmusch, Jim #421
9. 12 Monkeys - Gilliam, Terry #427
10. Naked - Leigh, Mike #630
11. Underground - Kusturica, Emir #631
12. Braveheart - Gibson, Mel #647
13. Leaving Las Vegas - Figgis, Mike #696
14. Before Sunrise (95) Linklater, Richard #748
15. Welcome to the Dollhouse - Solondz, Todd #750
16. Sense and Sensibility - Lee, Ang #802
17. To Die For - Van Sant, Gus #857
[Gone: Safe]
Best Picture: Braveheart

- [ 1996 ] -
1. Fargo - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen #49 (photo rt)
2. Breaking the Waves - von Trier, Lars #337
3. Secrets & Lies - Leigh, Mike #413
4. English Patient, The - Minghella, Anthony #481
5. Shine - Hicks, Scott #595
6. Moment of Innocence, A - Makhmalbaf, Mohsen #796
7. Crash - Cronenberg, David #862
8. Sling Blade - Thornton, Billy Bob #998
Best Picture: English Patient, The

- [ 1997 ] -
1. L.A. Confidential - Hanson, Curtis #61  (photo rt)
2. Boogie Nights - Anderson, Paul Thomas #212
3. Mononoke-hime - - anime Miyazaki, Hayao #353
4. Sweet Hereafter, The - Egoyan, Atom #354
5. Life is Beautiful - Begnini, Roberto #443
6. Taste of Cherry, A - Kiarostami, Abbas #520
7. Good Will Hunting - Van Sant, Gus #587
8. Lost Highway - Lynch, David #658
9. 4 Little Girls - Lee, Spike #766
10. Titanic - Cameron, James #769
11. Happy Together - Wong Kar-Wai #822
[Gone: Hana-Bi]
Best Picture: Titanic

- [ 1998 ] -
1. Saving Private Ryan - Spielberg, Steven #109 (photo rt)
2. Big Lebowski, The - Coen, Ethan and Joel #259
3. Truman Show, The - Weir, Peter #268
4. Rushmore - Anderson, Wes #304
5. American History X - Kaye, Tony #341
6. Thin Red Line, The - Malick, Terrence #371
7. Celebration (aka Festen) - Vinterberg, Thomas #386
8. Beau Travail - Denis, Claire #465
9. Shakespeare in Love - Madden, John #594
10. Happiness - Solondz, Todd #638
11. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Ritchie, Guy #834
12. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (98) Gilliam, Terry #859
13. 42 UP - Apted, Michael #860
14. Out of Sight - Soderbergh, Steven #978
15. Run Lola Run - Tykwer, Tom #999
[Gone: Flowers of Shanghai]
Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love

 - [ 1999 ] -
1. American Beauty - Mendes, Sam #97
2. Matrix, The - Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski #190 (photo rt)
3. Fight Club - Fincher, David #201
4. All About My Mother - Almodóvar, Pedro #206
5. Being John Malkovich - Jonze, Spike #276
6. Magnolia - Anderson, Paul Thomas #319
7. Toy Story2 - Lasseter, John & Brannon, Ash #483
8. Straight Story, The - Lynch, David #495
9. Insider, The - Mann, Michael #512
10. Sixth Sense, The - Shyamalan, M. Knight #524
11. Wind Will Carry Us, The - Kiarostami, Abbas #536
12. Eyes Wide Shut - Kubrick, Stanley #566
13. Green Mile, The - Darabont, Frank #627
14. Iron Giant, The - Bird, Brad #701
15. My Voyage to Italy - Scorsese, Martin #751
16. Topsy-Turvy - Leigh, Mike #755
17. Boys Don't Cry - Pierce, Kimberly #833
18. American Movie - Smith, Chris #846
Best Picture: American Beauty

All Ranked Films for the Decade
1. Pulp Fiction (1995) Tarantino, Quentin #20
2. Goodfellas (1990) Scorsese, Martin #26
3. Schindler's List (1993) Spielberg, Steven #30
4. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) Demme, Jonathan #47
5. Fargo (1996) Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen #49
6. Unforgiven (1992) Eastwood, Clint #57
7. L.A. Confidential (1997) Hanson, Curtis #61
8. Toy Story (1995) Lasseter, John #72
9. American Beauty (1999) Mendes, Sam #97
10. Piano, The (1993) Campion, Jane #108
11. Saving Private Ryan (1998) Spielberg, Steven #109
12. Casino (1995) Scorsese, Martin #120
13. Reservoir Dogs (1991) Tarantino, Quentin #129
14. Usual Suspects, The (1995) Singer, Bryan #141
15. Trainspotting (1995) Boyle, Danny #170
16. Groundhog Day (1993) Ramis, Harold #174
17. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) Darabont, Frank #182
18. Heat (1995) Mann, Michael #185
19. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Cameron, James #186
20. Matrix, The (1999) Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski #190
21. Fight Club (1999) Fincher, David #201
22. Forrest Gump (1994) Zemeckis, Robert #205
23. All About My Mother (1999) Almodóvar, Pedro #206
24. Boogie Nights (1997) Anderson, Paul Thomas #212
25. Close-Up (1990) Kiarostami, Abbas #254
26. Big Lebowski, The (1998) Coen, Ethan and Joel #259
27. Truman Show, The (1998) Weir, Peter #268
28. Three Colours: Red (1994) Kieslowski, Krszystof #273
29. Being John Malkovich (1999) Jonze, Spike #276
30. Thelma & Louise (1991) Scott, Ridley #285
31. Se7en (1995) Fincher, David #298
32. Rushmore (1998) Anderson, Wes #304
33. Léon (The Professional, 1994) Besson, Luc #312
34. Magnolia (1999) Anderson, Paul Thomas #319
35. Breaking the Waves (1996) von Trier, Lars #337
36. American History X (1998) Kaye, Tony #341
37. Double Life of Veronique, The (1991) Kieslowski, Krszystof #342
38. Mononoke-hime (1997) - anime Miyazaki, Hayao #353
39. Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) Egoyan, Atom #354
40. Chungking Express (1994) Wong Kar-Wai #361
41. Player, The (1992) Altman, Robert #366
42. Thin Red Line, The (1998) Malick, Terrence #371
43. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Yimou, Zhang #383
44. Celebration (aka Festen) (1998) Vinterberg, Thomas #386
45. Lion King, The (1994) Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert #401
46. Secrets & Lies (1996) Leigh, Mike #413
47. Age of Innocence, The (1993) Scorsese, Martin #415
48. Three Colours: Blue (1993) Kieslowski, Krszystof #418
49. Dead Man (1995) Jarmusch, Jim #421
50. 12 Monkeys (1995) Gilliam, Terry #427
51. Life is Beautiful (1997) Begnini, Roberto #443
52. Short Cuts (1993) Altman, Robert #444
53. Days of Being Wild (1990) Wong Kar-Wai #463
54. Beau Travail (1998) Denis, Claire #465
55. Barton Fink (1991) Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen #466
56. Ed Wood (1994) Burton, Tim #475
57. English Patient, The (1996) Minghella, Anthony #481
58. Toy Story 2 (1999) Lasseter, John & Brannon, Ash #483
59. Edward Scissorhands (1990) Burton, Tim #487
60. Crumb (1994) Zwigoff, Terry #490
61. Straight Story, The (1999) Lynch, David #495
62. Crying Game, The (1992) Jordan, Neil #500
63. Insider, The (1999) Mann, Michael #512
64. Taste of Cherry, A (1997) Kiarostami, Abbas #520
65. Sixth Sense, The (1999) Shyamalan, M. Knight #524
66. Dazed and Confused (1993) Linklater, Richard #528
67. Wind Will Carry Us, The (1999) Kiarostami, Abbas #536
68. Sátántangó (1994) Tarr, Béla #540
69. Beauty and the Beast (1992) Trousdale, Gary #541
70. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Kubrick, Stanley #566
71. Good Will Hunting (1997) Van Sant, Gus #587
72. Shakespeare in Love (1998) Madden, John #594
73. Shine (1996) Hicks, Scott #595
74. Farewell, My Concubine (1993) Chen Kaige #612
75. Green Mile, The (1999) Darabont, Frank #627
76. Naked (1993) Leigh, Mike #630
77. Underground (1995) Kusturica, Emir #631
78. Happiness (1998) Solondz, Todd #638
79. Braveheart (1995) Gibson, Mel #647
80. Lost Highway (1997) Lynch, David #658
81. Miller's Crossing (1990) Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen #671
82. Leaving Las Vegas (1996) Figgis, Mike #696
83. Iron Giant, The (1999) Bird, Brad #701
84. Reversal of Fortune (1990) Schroeder, Barbet #715
85. Before Sunrise (95) Linklater, Richard #748
86. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) Solondz, Todd #750
87. My Voyage to Italy (1999) Scorsese, Martin #751
88. Topsy-Turvy (1999) Leigh, Mike #755
89. 4 Little Girls (1997) Lee, Spike #766
90. Titanic (1997) Cameron, James #769
91. Moment of Innocence, A (1996) Makhmalbaf, Mohsen #796
92. Sense and Sensibility (1995) Lee, Ang #802
93. Quiz Show (1994) Redford, Robert #819
94. Happy Together (1997) Wong Kar-Wai #822
95. Glengarry Glen Ross (92) Foley, James #823
96. Little Women (1994) Armstrong, Gillian #824
97. Howards End (1992) Ivory, James #831
98. Boys Don't Cry (1999) Pierce, Kimberly #833
99. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) Ritchie, Guy #834
100. Three Colours: White (1994) Kieslowski, Krszystof #843
101. American Movie (1999) Smith, Chris #846
102. To Die For (1995) Van Sant, Gus #857
103. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (98) Gilliam, Terry #859
104. 42 UP (1998) Apted, Michael #860
105. Crash (1996) Cronenberg, David #862
106. Grifters, The (1990) Frears, Stephen #898
107. Fugitive, The (1993) Davis, Andrew #914
108. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (1991) Burns, Rick #917
109. JFK (1991) Stone, Oliver #930
110. Brighter Summer Day, A (1991) Yang, Edward #935
111. Europa (1991) von Trier, Lars #941
112. And Life Goes On (1991) Kiarostami, Abbas #946
113. Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993) Selick, Henry #953
114. Last Seduction, The (1993) Dahl, John #963
115. La Belle Noiseuse (1991) Rivette, Jacques #965
116. Remains of the Day, The (1993) Ivory, James #977
117. Out of Sight (1998) Soderbergh, Steven #978
118. Sling Blade (1996) Thornton, Billy Bob #998
119. Run Lola Run (1998) Tykwer, Tom #999

Unranked Best Pictures: Dances With Wolves (are you kidding, with Titanic and Braveheart getting ranked?)

My Favorites 1-The Shawshank Redemption, 2-Shakespeare in Love, 3-Silence of the Lambs, 4-Run Lola Run, 5-Groundhog Day, 6-Schindler’s List, 7-The Player, 8-Dances With Wolves, 9-The Grifters, 10-Goodfellas, 11-Chungking Express, 12-Fargo, 13-L.A. Confidential, 14-The Sweet Hereafter, 15-American History X, 16-JFK, 17-Toy Story, 18-Saving Private Ryan, 19-Terminator 2, 20-Leon (The Professional), 21-Pulp Fiction, 22-Being John Malkovich, 23-The Usual Suspects, 24-Good Will Hunting, 25-Unforgiven, 26-Fight Club, 27-To Die For, 28-12 Monkeys, 29-Howard's End, 30-The Thin Red Line, 31-The Crying Game, 32-The Remains of the Day, 33-The Last Seduction, 34-The Matrix

Stephen Frears, who did the excellent con-artist film The Grifters, also directed Dangerous Liaisons, which had arguably the best peformances ever from Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer (Oscar nomination), and Uma Thurman. Being John Malkovich, of course also starred John, and is from the inventive brain of author Charlie Kaufman, who also gave us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York.

Fans of Pulp Fiction need to see Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express, and it's sequel Fallen Angels, as Tarantino said his 3-part film was inspired by these two, which were intended to be one film by Wong but each part was so long that he released them as two films.

Top Ranked Films by Year: the 80s

Based on our compendium of all internet polls
[2011 Edition, updated with polls from 2011]
© William L. Sinclair

This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, 2011 Edition that we compiled.

Total Ranked Films in the 80's:  98 (down from 109, -18%)

- [ 1980 ] -
1. Raging Bull #25 - Scorsese, Martin (photo rt)
2. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - Lucas, George #90
3. Shining, The - Kubrick, Stanley #94
4. Elephant Man, The - Lynch, David #184
5. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #277
6. Atlantic City - Malle, Louis #640
7. Kagemusha - Kurosawa, Akira #680
8. Superman II - Donner, Richard #688
9. Airplane! - Abrahams, Jim #951
10. Sauve qui peut (la vie) - Godard, Jean-Luc #975
[Done: Heaven's Gate, Mon oncle d'Amérique, Bad Timing]
Best Picture: Ordinary People

 - [ 1981 ] -
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Spielberg, Steven #33
2. Das Bööt - Peterson, Wolfgang #233
3. Reds - Beatty, Warren #572 (Directing Oscar, photo rt)
4. Blow Out - De Palma, Brian #759
5. Mad Max2 (The Road Warrior) Miller, George #763
[Gone: The Woman Next Door, Gregory's Girl, Chariots of Fire, Mephisto]
Best Picture: Chariots of Fire

- [ 1982 ] -
1. Blade Runner #13 - Scott, Ridley (photo top)
1. Blade Runner - Scott, Ridley #13
2. Fanny and Alexander - Bergman, Ingmar #46
3. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Spielberg, Steven #100
4. Scarface - De Palma, Brian #198
5. Tootsie - Pollack, Sydney #282
6. Diner - Levinson, Barry #376
7. Gandhi - Attenborough, Richard #377
8. King of Comedy, The - Scorsese, Martin #390
9. Fitzcarraldo - Herzog, Werner #422
10. Thing, The - Carpenter, John #477
11. Passion - Godard, Jean-Luc #950
[Gone: The Night of the Shooting Stars, The Verdict]
Best Picture: Gandhi

- [ 1983 ] -
1. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi - Marquand, Richard #394
2. Videodrome - Cronenberg, David #480
3. Nostalghia - Tarkovsky, Andrei #575
4. Argent, L' - Bresson, Robert #591
5. Local Hero - Forsyth, Bill #704
6. Right Stuff, The - Kaufman, Philip #717
7. Zelig - Allen, Woody #737
[Gone: Sugar Cane Alley (Rue case negres)]
Best Picture: Terms of Endearment

- [ 1984 ] -
1. Amadeus - Forman, Milos #70
2. Terminator, The - Cameron, James #128
2. Once Upon a Time in America #152 (long version) - Leone, Sergio (photo rt)
4. This is Spinal Tap - Reiner, Rob #208
5. Paris, Texas - Wenders, Wim #315
6. Stranger Than Paradise - Jarmusch, Jim #461
7. Blood Simple - Coen Bros. #713
8. Stop Making Sense - Demme, Jonathan #720
9. Love Streams - Cassavetes, John #806
[Gone: Heimat (Homeland), Yellow Earth]
Best Picture: Amadeus

- [ 1985 ] -
1. Ran - Kurosawa, Akira #39
2. Shoah - Lanzmann, Claude #98
3. Brazil - Gilliam, Terry #145 (photo rt)

4. Back to the Future - Zemeckis, Robert #279
5. Come and See - Klimov, Elem #489
6. After Hours - Scorsese, Martin #529
7. Time to Live and the Time to Die, The - Hou Hsiao-Hsien #655
8. My Life as a Dog - Hallström, Lasse #808
9. Room with a View, A - Ivory, James #869
10. Purple Rose of Cairo, The - Allen, Woody #885
[Gone: Vagabond (Santoit ni loi), Witness]
Best Picture: Out of Africa

- [ 1986 ] -
1. Aliens - Cameron, James #75 (photo rt)
2. Blue Velvet - Lynch, David #193
3. Hannah and Her Sisters - Allen, Woody #215
4. Sacrifice, The - Tarkovsky, Andrei #469
5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Hughes, John #533
6. Platoon - Stone, Oliver #542
7. Down by Law - Jarmusch, Jim #568
8. Stand by Me - Reiner, Rob #569
9. Castle in the Sky - Miyazaki, Hayao #666
10. Fly, The - Cronenberg, David #942
Best Picture: Platoon

- [ 1987 ] -
1. Full Metal Jacket - Kubrick, Stanley #135
2. Wings of Desire - Wenders, Wim #165
3. Princess Bride, The - Reiner, Rob #320
4. Evil Dead II - Raimi, Sam #496
5. Dead, The - Huston, John #615
6. Raising Arizona - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen #625
7. Au Revoir, Les Enfants - Malle, Louis #871
8. Last Emperor, The - Bertolucci, Bernardo #899
9. Where is the Friend's Home? - Kiarostami, Abbas #947
[Gone: Law of Desire, Red Sorghum, Yeelen]
 Best Picture: The Last Emperor

- [ 1988 ] -
1. Cinema Paradiso - Tornatore, Giuseppe #118
2. Die Hard - McTiernan, John #220
3. Hotaru no Hakaa (Grave/Fireflies,1988) Takahata, Isao #228
4. Dead Ringers - Cronenberg, David #307
5. Dekalog - Kieslowski, Krszystof #359
6. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - Almodóvar, Pedro #367
7. My Neighbour Totoro - Miyazaki, Hayao #379
8. Landscape in the Mist - Angelopoulos, Theo #438
9. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Zemeckis, Robert #467
10. Last Temptation of Christ, The - Scorsese, Martin #492
11. Thin Blue Line, The - Morris, Errol #689
12. Frantic - Polanski, Roman #721
13. Midnight Run - Brest, Martin #746
14. Fish Called Wanda, A - Crichton, Charles #753
15. Short Film About Killing, A - Kieslowski, Krszystof #768
16. Distant Voices, Still Lives - Davies, Terence #855
17. Akira (anime,1988) Ôtomo, Katsuhiro #905
18. Time of the Gypsies - Kusturica, Emir #922
[Gone: Hôtel Terminus, Dangerous Liaisons, Midnight Run]
Best Picture: Rain Man

- [ 1989 ] -
1. Do The Right Thing - Lee, Spike #105
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors - Allen, Woody #269
3. Dead Poets Society - Weir, Peter #532
4. sex, lies, and videotape - Soderberg, Steve #563
5. Killer, The - Woo, John #668
6. City of Sadness, A - Hou Hsiao-Hsien #670
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Spielberg, Steven #677
8. Say Anything… - Crowe, Cameron #861
9. Black Rain - Scott, Ridley #988
[Gone: When Harry Met Sally, Glory]
Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy

[Note: Where the heck is Gus van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy?]

All Ranked Films of the Decade (80s)
(5 more of this decade moved into the top 100 since 2009

1. Blade Runner (1982) Scott, Ridley #13
2. Raging Bull (1980) Scorsese, Martin #25
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Spielberg, Steven #33
4. Ran (1985) Kurosawa, Akira #39
5. Fanny and Alexander (1982) Bergman, Ingmar #46
6. Amadeus (1984) Forman, Milos #70
7. Aliens (1986) Cameron, James #75
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Lucas, George #90
9. Shining, The (1980) Kubrick, Stanley #94
10. Shoah (1985) Lanzmann, Claude #98
11. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Spielberg, Steven #100
12. Do The Right Thing (1989) Lee, Spike #105
13. Cinema Paradiso (1988) Tornatore, Giuseppe #118
14. Terminator, The (1984) Cameron, James #128
15. Full Metal Jacket (1987) Kubrick, Stanley #135
16. Brazil (1985) Gilliam, Terry #145
17. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Leone, Sergio #152
18. Wings of Desire (1987) Wenders, Wim #165
19. Elephant Man, The (1980) Lynch, David #184
20. Blue Velvet (1986) Lynch, David #193
21. Scarface (1982) De Palma, Brian #198
22. This is Spinal Tap (1984) Reiner, Rob #208
23. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Allen, Woody #215
24. Die Hard (1988) McTiernan, John #220
25. Hotaru no Hakaa (Grave/Fireflies, 1988) Takahata, Isao #228
26. Das Boot (1981) Peterson, Wolfgang #233
27. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Allen, Woody #269
28. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #277
29. Back to the Future (1985) Zemeckis, Robert #279
30. Tootsie (1982) Pollack, Sydney #282
31. Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg, David #307
32. Paris, Texas (1984) Wenders, Wim #315
33. Princess Bride, The (1987) Reiner, Rob #320
34. Dekalog (1988) Kieslowski, Krszystof #359
35. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Almodóvar, Pedro #367
36. Diner (1982) Levinson, Barry #376
37. Gandhi (1982) Attenborough, Richard #377
38. My Neighbour Totoro (1988) Miyazaki, Hayao #379
39. King of Comedy, The (1982) Scorsese, Martin #390
40. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) Marquand, Richard #394
41. Fitzcarraldo (1982) Herzog, Werner #422
42. Landscape in the Mist (1988) Angelopoulos, Theo #438
43. Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Jarmusch, Jim #461
44. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Zemeckis, Robert #467
45. Sacrifice, The (1986) Tarkovsky, Andrei #469
46. Thing, The (1982) Carpenter, John #477
47. Videodrome (1983) Cronenberg, David #480
48. Come and See (1985) Klimov, Elem #489
49. Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988) Scorsese, Martin #492
50. Evil Dead II (1987) Raimi, Sam #496
51. After Hours (1985) Scorsese, Martin #529
52. Dead Poets Society (1989) Weir, Peter #532
53. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Hughes, John #533
54. Platoon (1986) Stone, Oliver #542
55. sex, lies, and videotape (1989) Soderberg, Steve #563
56. Down by Law (1986) Jarmusch, Jim #568
57. Stand by Me (1986) Reiner, Rob #569
58. Reds (1981) Beatty, Warren #572
59. Nostalghia (1983) Tarkovsky, Andrei #575
60. Argent, L' (1983) Bresson, Robert #591
61. Dead, The (1987) Huston, John #615
62. Raising Arizona (1987) Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen #625
63. Atlantic City (1980) Malle, Louis #640
64. Time to Live and the Time to Die, The (1985) Hou Hsiao-Hsien #655
65. Castle in the Sky (1986) Miyazaki, Hayao #666
66. Killer, The (1989) Woo, John #668
67. City of Sadness, A (1989) Hou Hsiao-Hsien #670
68. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Spielberg, Steven #677
69. Kagemusha (1980) Kurosawa, Akira #680
70. Superman II (1980) Donner, Richard #688
71. Thin Blue Line, The (1988) Morris, Errol #689
72. Local Hero (1983) Forsyth, Bill #704
73. Blood Simple (1984) Coen Bros. #713
74. Right Stuff, The (1983) Kaufman, Philip #717
75. Stop Making Sense (1984) Demme, Jonathan #720
76. Frantic (1988) Polanski, Roman #721
77. Zelig (1983) Allen, Woody #737
78. Midnight Run (1988) Brest, Martin #746
79. Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) Crichton, Charles #753
80. Blow Out (1981) De Palma, Brian #759
81. Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior, 1981) Miller, George #763
82. Short Film About Killing, A (1988) Kieslowski, Krszystof #768
83. Love Streams (1984) Cassavetes, John #806
84. My Life as a Dog (1985) Hallström, Lasse #808
85. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Davies, Terence #855
86. Say Anything… (1989) Crowe, Cameron #861
87. Room with a View, A (1986) Ivory, James #869
88. Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987) Malle, Louis #871
89. Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) Allen, Woody #885
90. Last Emperor, The (1987) Bertolucci, Bernardo #899
91. Akira (anime, 1988) Ôtomo, Katsuhiro #905
92. Time of the Gypsies (1988) Kusturica, Emir #922
93. Fly, The (1986) Cronenberg, David #942
94. Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) Kiarostami, Abbas #947
95. Passion (1982) Godard, Jean-Luc #950
96. Airplane! (1980) Abrahams, Jim #951
97. Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) Godard, Jean-Luc #975
98. Black Rain (1989) Scott, Ridley #988

Unranked Best Pictures: Ordinary People, Terms of Endearment, Out of Africa, Chariots of Fire, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy (wow – easily the most, that's 6 of out 10 not ranked)

My Favorites
1-Cinema Paradiso, 2-Hannah and Her Sisters, 3-Once Upon a Time in America, 4-Parenthood, 5-Dangerous Liaisons, 6-Aliens, 7-Field of Dreams, 8-Raging Bull, 9-When Harry Met Sally, 10-Drugstore Cowboy, 11-Gandhi, 12-The Empire Strikes Back, 13-Raiders of the Lost Ark, 14-E.T., 15-Mad Max 2 (Road Warrior), 16-Amadeus, 17-Blade Runner, 18-Fitzcarraldo, 19-Atlantic City, 20-Platoon, 21-Mephisto, 22-The Right Stuff, 23-The Last Emperor, 24-Reds, 25-Das Bööt, 26-Back to the Future

To me, this was a pretty good decade, with lots of classics, especially in science fiction (and I think Blade Runner is way overrated, good but not top 25 all-time – it’s a slow detective story, not much SF in it, I have it ranked 6th among the decades SF; P.K. Dick's novel is much better). Not sure why there are so few rated highly. Why does no one rank Drugstore Cowboy, Field of Dreams and Parenthood? (which was inspired by Hannah and Her Sisters) I have not yet seen the director's cut of The Last Emperor, running four hours.

Top Ranked Films by Year: the 70s

Based on our compendium of all film polls
[2011 Edition, updated with new polls in 2011]
© William L. Sinclair

This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, 2011 edition that we compiled.

Total Ranked Films in the 70's: 120 (down from 139)

- [ 1970 ] -
1. Conformist, The #45 - Bertolucci, Bernardo (photo rt)
2. Patton - Shaffner, Frank #313
3. Performance - Roeg, Nicolas/Donald Cammell #325
4. Five Easy Pieces - Rafelson, Bob #357
5. M*A*S*H - Altman, Robert #407
6. Tristana - Buñuel, Luis #441
7. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - Meyer, Russ #450
8. Le Cercle Rouge - Melville, Jean-Pierre #535
9. Gimme Shelter - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin #604
10. Claire's Knee - Rohmer, Eric #710
11. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Petri, Elio #736
12. Le Boucher - Chabrol, Claude #800
13. Wild Child, The - Truffaut, François #904
14. Hart of London, The - Chambers, Jack #969
15. Spider's Stratagem, The - Bertolucci, Bernardo #992
[Gone: Husbands]
Best Picture: Patton

- [ 1971 ] -
1. Clockwork Orange, A - Kubrick, Stanley #59
2. French Connection, The - Friedkin, William #225
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Altman, Robert #301
4. Last Picture Show, The - Bogdanovich, Peter #311
5. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #406
6. Harold and Maude - Ashby, Hal #448
7. Death in Venice - Visconti, Luchino #514
8. Dirty Harry - Siegel, Don #554
9. Walkabout - Roeg, Nicolas #607
10. Two-Lane Blacktop - Hellman, Monte #667
11. Straw Dogs - Peckinpah, Sam #718
12. Touch of Zen, A - Hu, King #879
13. Devils, The (Devils of Loudun) Russell, Ken #919
14. La Région Centrale - Snow, Michael #985
[Gone: Get Carter, Two English Girls, Murmur of the Heart]
Best Picture: French Connection, The

- [ 1972 ] -
1. Godfather, The #1 - Coppola, Francis
2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God #83 - Herzog, Werner (photo rt)
3. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The - Buñuel, Luis #99
4. Solaris - Tarkovsky, Andrei #115
5. Cabaret - Fosse, Bob #257
6. Cries and Whispers - Bergman, Ingmar #271
7. Deliverance - Boorman, John #356
8. Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #600
[Gone: Sleuth, Ludwig, Fat City, Fellini's Roma, Pakeezah]
Best Picture: Godfather, The

 - [ 1973 ] -
1. Exorcist, The - Friedkin, William #96
2. Spirit of the Beehive, The - Erice, Victor #140
3. Mean Streets - Scorsese, Martin #166
4. Badlands - Malick, Terrence #232
5. Amarcord - Fellini, Federico #253
6. Last Tango in Paris - Bertolucci, Bernardo #261
7. Day for Night - Truffaut, François #332
8. Don't Look Now - Roeg, Nicolas #340
9. Sting, The - Hill, George Roy #400
10. American Graffiti - Lucas, George #460
11. F for Fake - Welles, Orson #468
12. Mother and the Whore, The - Eustache, Jean #493
13. Long Goodbye, The - Altman, Robert #546
14. Scenes from a Marriage - Bergman, Ingmar #662
15. Serpico - Lumet, Sydney #836
16. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - Peckinpah, Sam #936
[Gone: O Lucky Man!]
Best Picture: Sting, The

- [ 1974 ] -
1. Chinatown - Polanski, Roman #5
2. Godfather: Part II, The - Coppola, Francis #15
3. Conversation, The - Coppola, Francis #113
4. Woman Under the Influence, A - Cassavetes, John #177
5. Celine and Julie Go Boating - Rivette, Jacques #202
6. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The - Hooper, Tobe #247
7. Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The - Herzog, Werner #553
8. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Peckinpah, Sam #586
9. Alice in the Cities - Wenders, Wim #702
10. Phantom of Liberty, The - Buñuel, Luis #826
11. Lancelot du Lac - Bresson, Robert #829
[Gone: Arabian Nights, Lacombe, Lucien, Out 1: Spectre]
Best Picture: Godfather: Part II, The

- [ 1975 ] -
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest #44 - Forman, Milos (photo rt)
2. Barry Lyndon - Kubrick, Stanley #56
3. Jaws - Spielberg, Steven #58
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones #87
5. Dog Day Afternoon - Lumet, Sidney #179
6. Jeanne Dielman,23 Quai du Commerce,1080 Bruxelles - Akerman, Chantal #200
7. Nashville - Altman, Robert #224
8. Passenger, The - Antonioni, Michelangelo #249
9. Salo, or the120 Days of Sodom - Pasolini, Pier Paolo #270
10. Travelling Players, The - Angelopoulos, Theo #562
11. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Weir, Peter #628
12. Dersu Uzala - Kurosawa, Akira #645
13. Overlord - Cooper, Stuart #801
14. India Song - Duras, Marguerite #849
15. Fox and His Friends - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #956
[Done: Xala, Overlord, The Man Who Would Be King]
Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

- [ 1976 ] -
1. Taxi Driver #3 - Scorsese, Martin (photo rt)
2. Network - Lumet, Sidney #138
3. Rocky - Avildsen, John G. #274
4. Mirror, The - Tarkovsky, Andrei #306
5. All the President's Men - Pakula, Alan J. #453
6. 1900 - Bertolucci, Bernardo #502
7. Carrie - De Palma, Brian #508
8. Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The - Cassavetes, John #551
9. In the Realm of the Senses - Oshima, Nagisa #581
10. Kings of the Road - Wenders, Wim #641
11. Man Who Fell to Earth, The - Roeg, Nicolas #691
12. Fellini's Casanova - Fellini, Federico #841
13. Intruder, The (L'innocent,1976) Visconti, Luchino #966
[Gone: Man Who Fell to Earth, Outlaw Josey Wales, Assault on Precinct, The Tenant]
Best Picture: Rocky

[This was the 'crime of the century' - not only was Network about 10x better, but Sydney Lumet died in 2011 without ever winning a directing Oscar, losing to the forgotten John Avildsen of Rocky - shoot me now! Lumet directed Network, 12 Angry Men, The Verdict, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Pawnbroker, Fail-Safe, and many others - what else has Avildsen done? Can you name one other film? I can name 10 other boxing films better than Rocky off the top of my head: Golden Boy, Cinderella Man, Raging Bull, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Fighter, Rocco and His Brothers, The Great White Hope, When We Were Kings, Million Dollar Baby, Ali. The boxing in Rocky just doesn't look real in the least]

- [ 1977 ] -
1. Annie Hall #77 - Allen, Woody (photo rt)
2. Killer of Sheep - Burnett, Charles #239
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Spielberg, Steven #283 [photo top]
4. That Obscure Object of Desire - Buñuel, Luis #291
5. Suspiria - Argento, Dario #327
6. Eraserhead - Lynch, David #385
7. Providence - Resnais, Alain #716
[Gone: Ceddo, Hitler: A Film from Germany, Black Sunday, Saturday Night Fever, New York New York, ]
Best Picture: Annie Hall

- [ 1978 ] -
1. Star Wars - Lucas, George #8
2. Days of Heaven - Malick, Terrence #110
3. Deer Hunter, The - Cimino, Michael #111
4. Halloween - Carpenter, John #234
5. Dawn of the Dead - Romero, George A. #431
6. Tree of Wooden Clogs, The - Olmi, Ermanno #548
7. In a Year with13 Moons - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #708
8. Last Waltz , The - Scorsese, Martin #794
9. Superman: The Movie - Donner, Richard #795
Best Picture: Deer Hunter, The

- [ 1979 ] -
1. Apocalypse Now - Coppola, Francis #22
2. Alien - Scott, Ridley #513. Manhattan - Allen, Woody #67 (photo rt)
4. Stalker - Tarkovsky, Andrei #299
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Jones, Terry #426
6. Tristana (1970) Buñuel, Luis #441
7. Marriage of Maria Braun, The - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #478
8. All That Jazz - Fosse, Bob #547
9. Being There - Ashby, Hal #555
10. Breaking Away - Yates, Peter #856
11. Tin Drum, The - Schlöndorff, Volker #901
12. Quadrophenia - Roddam, Franc #918
[Gone: Kramer vs. Kramer]
 Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer


All Ranked Films of the Decade (four in the all-time top 10)

1. Godfather, The (1972)  - Coppola, Francis #1
[Top film altogether in our compendium of all polls]

2. Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese, Martin #3
3. Chinatown (1974) Polanski, Roman #5
4. Star Wars (A New Hope) (1978) Lucas, George #8
5. Godfather: Part II, The (1974) Coppola, Francis #15
6. Apocalypse Now (1979) Coppola, Francis #22
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Forman, Milos #44
8. Conformist, The (1970) Bertolucci, Bernardo #45
9. Alien (1979) Scott, Ridley #51
10. Barry Lyndon (1975) Kubrick, Stanley #56
11. Jaws (1975) Spielberg, Steven #58
12. Clockwork Orange, A (1971) Kubrick, Stanley #59
13. Manhattan (1979) Allen, Woody #67
14. Annie Hall (1977) Allen, Woody #77
15. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Herzog, Werner #83
16. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones #87
17. Exorcist, The (1973) Friedkin, William #96
18. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972) Buñuel, Luis #99
19. Days of Heaven (1978) Malick, Terrence #110
20. Deer Hunter, The (1978) Cimino, Michael #111
21. Conversation, The (1974) Coppola, Francis #113
22. Solaris (1972) Tarkovsky, Andrei #115
23. Network (1976) Lumet, Sidney #138
24. Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973) Erice, Victor #140
25. Mean Streets (1973) Scorsese, Martin #166
26. Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) Cassavetes, John #177
27. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Lumet, Sidney #179
28. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Akerman, Chantal #200
29. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) Rivette, Jacques #202
30. Nashville (1975) Altman, Robert #224
31. French Connection, The (1971) Friedkin, William #225
32. Badlands (1973) Malick, Terrence #232
33. Halloween (1978) Carpenter, John #234
34. Killer of Sheep (1977) Burnett, Charles #239
35. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) Hooper, Tobe #247
36. Passenger, The (1975) Antonioni, Michelangelo #249
37. Amarcord (1973) Fellini, Federico #253
38. Cabaret (1972) Fosse, Bob #257
39. Last Tango in Paris (1973) Bertolucci, Bernardo #261
40. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Pasolini, Pier Paolo #270
41. Cries and Whispers (1972) Bergman, Ingmar #271
42. Rocky (1976) Avildsen, John G. #274
43. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Spielberg, Steven #283
44. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Buñuel, Luis #291
45. Stalker (1979) Tarkovsky, Andrei #299
46. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Altman, Robert #301
47. Mirror, The (1976) Tarkovsky, Andrei #306
48. Last Picture Show, The (1971) Bogdanovich, Peter #311
49. Patton (1970) Shaffner, Frank #313
50. Performance (1970) Roeg, Nicolas/Donald Cammell #325
51. Suspiria (1977) Argento, Dario #327
52. Day for Night (1973) Truffaut, François #332
53. Don't Look Now (1973) Roeg, Nicolas #340
54. Deliverance (1972) Boorman, John #356
55. Five Easy Pieces (1970) Rafelson, Bob #357
56. Eraserhead (1977) Lynch, David #385
57. Sting, The (1973) Hill, George Roy #400
58. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1971) Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #406
59. M*A*S*H (1970) Altman, Robert #407
60. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Jones, Terry #426
61. Dawn of the Dead (1978) Romero, George A. #431
62. Tristana (1970) Buñuel, Luis #441
63. Harold and Maude (1971) Ashby, Hal #448
64. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) Meyer, Russ #450
65. All the President's Men (1972) Pakula, Alan J. #453
66. American Graffiti (1973) Lucas, George #460
67. F for Fake (1973) Welles, Orson #468
68. Marriage of Maria Braun, The (1979) Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #478
69. Mother and the Whore, The (1973) Eustache, Jean #493
70. 1900 (1976) Bertolucci, Bernardo #502
71. Carrie (1976) De Palma, Brian #508
72. Death in Venice (1971) Visconti, Luchino #514
73. Le Cercle Rouge (1970) Melville, Jean-Pierre #535
74. Long Goodbye, The (1973) Altman, Robert #546
75. All That Jazz (1979) Fosse, Bob #547
76. Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978) Olmi, Ermanno #548
77. Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976) Cassavetes, John #551
78. Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The (1974) Herzog, Werner #553
79. Dirty Harry (1971) Siegel, Don #554
80. Being There (1979) Ashby, Hal #555
81. Travelling Players, The (1975) Angelopoulos, Theo #562
82. In the Realm of the Senses (1976) Oshima, Nagisa #581
83. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Peckinpah, Sam #586
84. Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The (1972) Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #600
85. Gimme Shelter (1970) Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin #604
86. Walkabout (1971) Roeg, Nicolas #607
87. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Weir, Peter #628
88. Kings of the Road (1976) Wenders, Wim #641
89. Dersu Uzala (1975) Kurosawa, Akira #645
90. Scenes from a Marriage (1973) Bergman, Ingmar #662
91. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Hellman, Monte #667
92. Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976) Roeg, Nicolas #691
93. Alice in the Cities (1974) Wenders, Wim #702
94. In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #708
95. Claire's Knee (1970) Rohmer, Eric #710
96. Providence (1977) Resnais, Alain #716
97. Straw Dogs (1971) Peckinpah, Sam #718
98. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Petri, Elio #736
99. Last Waltz , The (1978) Scorsese, Martin #794
100. Superman: The Movie (1978) Donner, Richard 795
101. Le Boucher (1970) Chabrol, Claude #800
102. Overlord (1975) Cooper, Stuart #801
103. Phantom of Liberty, The (1974) Buñuel, Luis #826
104. Lancelot du Lac (1974) Bresson, Robert #829
105. Serpico (1973) Lumet, Sydney #836
106. Fellini's Casanova (1976) Fellini, Federico #841
107. India Song (1975) Duras, Marguerite #849
108. Breaking Away (1979) Yates, Peter #856
109. Touch of Zen, A (1971) Hu, King #879
110. Tin Drum, The (1979) Schlöndorff, Volker #901
111. Wild Child, The (1970) Truffaut, François #904
112. Quadrophenia (1979) Roddam, Franc #918
113. The Devils (Devils of Loudun, 1971) Russell, Ken #919
114. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) Peckinpah, Sam #936
115. Fox and His Friends (1975) Fassbinder, Rainer Werner #956
116. Intruder, The (L'innocent, 1976) Visconti, Luchino #966
117. Hart of London, The (1970) Chambers, Jack #969
118. La Région Centrale (1971) Snow, Michael #985
119. Spider's Stratagem, The (1970) Bertolucci, Bernardo #992

Unranked best pictures:
Kramer vs. Kramer (good, I wouldn't rank it either, even sewer rats will drown themselves to save their young; nothing special about parenting in the animal world, it's yer duty! If you can't be a good parent, you're lower than vermin!)

My favorites:
1-The Godfather II, 2-Apocalypse Now, 3-The Conformist, 4-The Conversation, 5-A Clockwork Orange, 6-The Godfather, 7-Network, 8-Taxi Driver, 9-The Deer Hunter, 10-Annie Hall, 11-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 12-McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 13-Manhattan, 14-Aguirre, the Wrath of God
[A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now and Network should have also been best picture winners. Clockwork is ranked 400 positions higher than winner French Connection, and the film Apocalypse lost to isn't even ranked at all]

Note: I wasn't impressed with the 1st Star Wars (first too silly, then too ridiculous), much preferring The Empire Strikes Back; also liked Godfather II much more than I, it added Robert De Niro and Lee Strasburg, the chronological shifts with the early period in Italian - I'm always mesmerized by this and have seen it maybe 10 times vs. 3 for the first

Top Ranked Films by Year: the 60s

The top-ranked films of the 60's on all internet polls combined
[2011 Edition, updated through 2011 polls]
© William L. Sinclair

This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net that we compiled. This decade has the most ranked films so far, passing the 50's by about 20 films.

Total Ranked Films in the 60's: 127 (down from 155)

- [ 1960 ] -
1. Psycho #14 - Hitchcock, Alfred (photo rt)
2. La Dolce Vita - Fellini, Federico #74
3. Apartment, The #82 - Wilder, Billy
4. L'Avventura - Antonioni, Michelangelo #183
5. Peeping Tom - Powell, Michael #358
6. Spartacus - Kubrick, Stanley #387
7. Shoot the Piano Player - Truffaut, François #425
8. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Reisz, Karel #637
9. Cloud-Capped Star, The - Ghatak, Ritwik #770
10. Virgin Spring, The - Bergman, Ingmar #882
[Gone: The Magnificent Seven, Le Trou]
Best Picture: The Apartment

- [ 1961 ] -
1. Jules et Jim - Truffaut, François #73
2. Yojimbo - Kurosawa, Akira #163
3. Hustler, The - Rossen, Robert #207
4. Last Year at Marienbad - Resnais, Alain #213
5. Viridiana - Buñuel, Luis #231
6. West Side Story - Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins #328
7. La Notte - Antonioni, Michelangelo #355
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Edwards, Blake #462
9. Lola - Demy, Jacques #538
10. Salvatore Giuliano - Rosi, Francesco #644
11. Accattone - Pasolini, Pier Paolo #693
12. Through a Glass Darkly - Bergman, Ingmar #740
13. Judgment at Nuremberg - Kramer, Stanley #887
14. Innocents, The - Clayton, Jack #971
[Gone: Splendor in the Grass, The Misfits, The Innocents, Une Femme est une femme]
Best Picture: West Side Story

- [ 1962 ] -
1. Lawrence of Arabia #24 - Lean, David (photo rt)
2. Manchurian Candidate, The - Frankenheimer, John #81
3. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The - Ford, John #107
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Mulligan, Robert #130
5. L'Eclisse - Antonioni, Michelangelo #284
6. Exterminating Angel, The - Buñuel, Luis #363
7. Lolita - Kubrick, Stanley #473
8. Winter Light - Bergman, Ingmar #510
9. Ivan's Childhood - Tarkovsky, Andrei #577
10. Cleo from 5 to 7 - Varda, Agnès #597
11. Autumn Afternoon, An - Ozu, Yasujiro #765
12. Mafioso - Lattuada, Alberto #810
13. Harakiri - Kobayashi, Masaki #865
[Gone: Ride the High Country, Hatari! The 47 Ronin]
Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

- [ 1963 ] -
1. 8½ - Fellini, Federico #40
2. Contempt - Godard, Jean-Luc #89
3. Leopard, The - Visconti, Luchino #151
4. Birds, The - Hitchcock, Alfred #280
5. Great Escape, The - Sturges, John #351
6. Sans soleil - Marker, Chris #442
7. High and Low - Kurosawa, Akira #447
8. Silence, The - Bergman, Ingmar #552
9. El Verdugo - Berlanga, Luis García #646
10. Servant, The - Losey, Joseph #728
11. Tom Jones - Richardson, Tony #757
12. An Actor's Revenge - Ichikawa, Kon #784
13. Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour - Resnais, Alain #815
[Gone: Vivre sa vie, El Verdugo, Barren Lives, America America, Flaming Creatures]
Best Picture: Tom Jones

- [ 1964 ] -
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb #18 - Kubrick, Stanley
2. Gospel According to St. Matthew, The #176 - Pasolini, Pier Paolo (photo rt)
3. Hard Day's Night, A - Lester, Richard #181
4. Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The - Demy, Jacques #187
5. Rocco and His Brothers - Visconti, Luchino #223
6. Band of Outsiders (Bande à part,1964) Godard, Jean-Luc #265
7. Gertrud - Dreyer, Carl #395
8. Red Desert - Antonioni, Michelangelo #405
9. My Fair Lady - Cukor, George #584
10. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Parajanov, Sergei #590
11. Woman in the Dunes - Teshigahara, Hiroshi #635
12. Marnie - Hitchcock, Alfred #679
13. Black God, White Devil - Rocha, Glauber #692
14. Charulata - Ray, Satyajit #695
15. I Am Cuba - Kalatozov, Mikheil #703
16. Goldfinger - Hamilton, Guy #929
Best Picture: My Fair Lady

- [ 1965 ] -
1. Pierrot le fou - Godard, Jean-Luc #124
2. Repulsion - Polanski, Roman #139
3. Juliet of the Spirits - Fellini, Federico #476
4. Sound of Music, The - Wise, Robert #486
5. Doctor Zhivago - Lean, David #497
6. For a Few Dollars More - Leone, Sergio #506
7. Alphaville - Godard, Jean-Luc #543
8. Loves of a Blonde - Forman, Milos #700
9. Red Beard - Kurosawa, Akira #961
[Gone: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Not Reconciled, Art of Vision, Of a Thousand Delights]
Best Picture: Sound of Music, The

- [ 1966 ] -
1. Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The #36 - Leone, Sergio
2. Au Hasard Balthazar #50 - Bresson, Robert
3. Battle of Algiers, The #60 - Pontecorvo, Gillo (photo rt)
4. Persona - Bergman, Ingmar #86
5. Masculine-Feminine - Godard, Jean-Luc #126
6. Blow-Up - Antonioni, Michelangelo #210
7. Andrei Rublev - Tarkovsky, Andrei #238
8. Two or Three Things I Know About Her - Godard, Jean-Luc #339
9. Rise to Power of Louis XIV, The - Rossellini, Roberto #396
10. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Nichols, Mike #403
11. Mouchette - Bresson, Robert #494
12. Closely Watched Trains - Menzel, Jirí #509
13. Chimes at Midnight - Welles, Orson #537
14. Daisies - Chytilová, Vera #811
15. Man for All Seasons, A - Zinnemann, Fred #973
[Gone: Mouchette, A Man for All Seasons, Daisies, The Round-Up, Seven Women, El Dorado]
Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons

 - [ 1967 ] -
1. Graduate, The #84 - Nichols, Mike (photo rt)
2. Bonnie and Clyde - Penn, Arthur #137
3. Playtime - Tati, Jacques #211
4. Belle de jour - Buñuel, Luis #219
5. Le Samouraï - Melville, Jean-Pierre #297
6. Week-End - Godard, Jean-Luc #302
7. Cool Hand Luke - Rosenberg, Stuart #375
8. Wavelength - Snow, Michael #382
9. Point Blank - Boorman, John #549
10. Don't Look Back - Pennebaker, D.A. #714
11. Chelsea Girls - Warhol, Andy #735
12. In Cold Blood - Brooks, Richard #780
13. Young Girls of Rochefort, The - Demy, Jacques #804
14. Terra em Transe - Rocha, Glauber #807
15. In the Heat of the Night - Jewison, Norman #812
[Gone: The Firemen's Ball, Branded to Kill, La Collectionneuse]
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night

- [ 1968 ] -
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick, Stanley  #4 (photo top)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West - Leone, Sergio #52
3. Rosemary's Baby - Polanski, Roman #164
4. Night of the Living Dead - Romero, George A. #266
5. Producers, The - Brooks, Mel #272
6. Faces - Cassavetes, John #432
7. If… - Anderson, Lindsay #521
8. Colour of Pomegranate, The (Sayat Nova,1968) Parajanov, Sergei #574
9. Teorema - Pasolini, Pier Paolo #678
10. Memories of Underdevelopment - Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez #745
11. Funny Girl - Wyler, William #767
12. Party, The - Edwards, Blake #913
13. Hour of the Furnaces, The - Getino, Octavio & Fernando E. Solanas #980
[Gone: The Party, Salesman, The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Shame (Skammen)]
Best Picture: Oliver!

- [ 1969 ] -
1. Wild Bunch, The - Peckinpah, Sam #117
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Hill, George Roy #173
3. Easy Rider - Hopper, Dennis #204
4. Army of Shadows - Melville, Jean-Pierre #275
5. Midnight Cowboy - Schlesinger, John #336
6. My Night at Maud's - Rohmer, Eric #648
7. Kes – Loach, Ken #661
8. Fellini Satyricon - Fellini, Federico #742
9. Antonio das Mortes - Rocha, Glauber #902
10. Damned, The - Visconti, Luchino #990
[Gone: A Touch of Zen, Antonio das Mortes, Tom, Tom the Piper's Son, Z]
Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy

All Ranked Films in the 60s
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey #4 - Kubrick, Stanley
2. Psycho #14 - Hitchcock, Alfred
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb #18 - Kubrick, Stanley (photo rt)
4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Lean, David #24
5. Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The (1966) Leone, Sergio #36
6. 8½ (1963) Fellini, Federico #40
7. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Bresson, Robert #50
8. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Leone, Sergio #52
9. Battle of Algiers, The (1966) Pontecorvo, Gillo #60
10. Jules et Jim (1961) Truffaut, François #73
11. La Dolce Vita (1960) Fellini, Federico #74
12. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) Frankenheimer, John #81
13. Apartment, The (1960) Wilder, Billy #82
14. Graduate, The (1967) Nichols, Mike #84
15. Persona (1966) Bergman, Ingmar #86
16. Contempt (1963) Godard, Jean-Luc #89
17. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) Ford, John #107
18. Wild Bunch, The (1969) Peckinpah, Sam #117
19. Pierrot le fou (1965) Godard, Jean-Luc #124
20. Masculine-Feminine (1966) Godard, Jean-Luc #126
21. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Mulligan, Robert #130
22. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Penn, Arthur #137
23. Repulsion (1965) Polanski, Roman #139
24. Leopard, The (1963) Visconti, Luchino #151
25. Yojimbo (1961) Kurosawa, Akira #163
26. Rosemary's Baby (1968) Polanski, Roman #164
27. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Hill, George Roy #173
28. Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (1964) Pasolini, Pier Paolo #176
29. Hard Day's Night, A (1964) Lester, Richard #181
30. L'Avventura (1960) Antonioni, Michelangelo #183
31. Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964) Demy, Jacques #187
32. Easy Rider (1969) Hopper, Dennis #204
33. Hustler, The (1961) Rossen, Robert #207
34. Blow-Up (1966) Antonioni, Michelangelo #210
35. Playtime (1967) Tati, Jacques #211
36. Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Resnais, Alain #213
37. Belle de jour (1967) Buñuel, Luis #219
38. Rocco and His Brothers (1964) Visconti, Luchino #223
39. Viridiana (1961) Buñuel, Luis #231
40. Andrei Rublev (1966) Tarkovsky, Andrei #238
41. Band of Outsiders (Bande à part, 1964) Godard, Jean-Luc #265
42. Night of the Living Dead (1968) Romero, George A. #266
43. Producers, The (1968) Brooks, Mel #272
44. Army of Shadows (1969) Melville, Jean-Pierre #275
45. Birds, The (1963) Hitchcock, Alfred #280
46. L'Eclisse (1962) Antonioni, Michelangelo #284
47. Le Samouraï (1967) Melville, Jean-Pierre #297
48. Week-End (1967) Godard, Jean-Luc #302
49. West Side Story (1961) Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins #328
50. Midnight Cowboy (1969) Schlesinger, John #336
51. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966) Godard, Jean-Luc #339
52. Great Escape, The (1963) Sturges, John #351
53. La Notte (1961) Antonioni, Michelangelo #355
54. Peeping Tom (1960) Powell, Michael #358
55. Exterminating Angel, The (1962) Buñuel, Luis #363
56. Cool Hand Luke (1967) Rosenberg, Stuart #375
57. Wavelength (1967) Snow, Michael #382
58. Spartacus (1960) Kubrick, Stanley #387
59. Gertrud (1964) Dreyer, Carl #395
60. Rise to Power of Louis XIV, The (1966) Rossellini, Roberto #396
61. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Nichols, Mike #403
62. Red Desert (1964) Antonioni, Michelangelo #405
63. Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Truffaut, François #425
64. Faces (1968) Cassavetes, John #432
65. Sans soleil (1963) Marker, Chris #442
66. High and Low (1963) Kurosawa, Akira #447
67. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Edwards, Blake #462
68. Lolita (1962) Kubrick, Stanley #473
69. Juliet of the Spirits (1965) Fellini, Federico #476
70. Sound of Music, The (1965) Wise, Robert #486
71. Mouchette (1966) Bresson, Robert #494
72. Doctor Zhivago (1965) Lean, David #497
73. For a Few Dollars More (1965) Leone, Sergio #506
74. Closely Watched Trains (1966) Menzel, Jirí #509
75. Winter Light (1962) Bergman, Ingmar #510
76. If… (1968) Anderson, Lindsay #521
77. Chimes at Midnight (1966) Welles, Orson #537
78. Lola (1961) Demy, Jacques #538
79. Alphaville (1965) Godard, Jean-Luc #543
80. Point Blank (1967) Boorman, John #549
81. Silence, The (1963) Bergman, Ingmar #552
82. Colour of Pomegranate, The (Sayat Nova, 1968) Parajanov, Sergei #574
83. Ivan's Childhood (1962) Tarkovsky, Andrei #577
84. My Fair Lady (1964) Cukor, George #584
85. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) Parajanov, Sergei #590
86. Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) Varda, Agnès #597
87. Woman in the Dunes (1964) Teshigahara, Hiroshi #635
88. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Reisz, Karel #637
89. Salvatore Giuliano (1961) Rosi, Francesco #644
90. El Verdugo (1963) Berlanga, Luis García #646
91. My Night at Maud's (1969) Rohmer, Eric #648
92. Kes (1969) Loach, Ken #661
93. Teorema (1968) Pasolini, Pier Paolo #678
94. Marnie (1964) Hitchcock, Alfred #679
95. Black God, White Devil (1964) Rocha, Glauber #692
96. Accattone (1961) Pasolini, Pier Paolo #693
97. Charulata (1964) Ray, Satyajit #695
98. Loves of a Blonde (1965) Forman, Milos #700
99. I Am Cuba (1964) Kalatozov, Mikheil #703
100. Don't Look Back (1967) Pennebaker, D.A. #714
101. Servant, The (1963) Losey, Joseph #728
102. Chelsea Girls (1967) Warhol, Andy #735
103. Through a Glass Darkly (1961) Bergman, Ingmar #740
104. Fellini Satyricon (1969) Fellini, Federico #742
105. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez #745
106. Tom Jones (1963) Richardson, Tony #757
107. Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) Ozu, Yasujiro #765
108. Funny Girl (1968) Wyler, William #767
109. Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960) Ghatak, Ritwik #770
110. In Cold Blood (1967) Brooks, Richard #780
111. An Actor's Revenge (1963) Ichikawa, Kon #784
112. Young Girls of Rochefort, The (1967) Demy, Jacques #804
113. Terra em Transe (1967) Rocha, Glauber #807
114. Mafioso (bw, 1962) Lattuada, Alberto #810
115. Daisies (1966) Chytilová, Vera #811
116. In the Heat of the Night (1967) Jewison, Norman #812
117. Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour (1963) Resnais, Alain #815
118. Harakiri (1962) Kobayashi, Masaki #865
119. Virgin Spring, The (1960) Bergman, Ingmar #882
120. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Kramer, Stanley #887
121. Antonio das Mortes (1969) Rocha, Glauber #902
122. Party, The (1968) Edwards, Blake #913
123. Goldfinger (1964) Hamilton, Guy #929
124. Red Beard (1965) Kurosawa, Akira #961
125. Innocents, The (1961) Clayton, Jack #971
126. Man for All Seasons, A (1966) Zinnemann, Fred #973
127. Hour of the Furnaces, The (1968) Getino, Octavio & Fernando E. Solanas #980
128. Damned, The (1969) Visconti, Luchino #990

The only unranked best picture of the decade is Oliver!

My favorites of the 60s:
1-2001: A Space Odyssey, 2-Lawrence of Arabia, 3-Dr. Strangelove, 4-My Fair Lady, 5-L'avventura, 6-Battle of Algiers, 7-To Kill a Mockingbird, 8-The Graduate, 9-Gospel According to St. Matthew, 10-Midnight Cowboy, 11-A Hard Day's Night, 12-Morgan, 13-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 14-Doctor Zhivago, 15-La Dolce Vita, 16-West Side Story, 17-The Servant, 18-8½, 19-Spartacus, 20-The Hustler

Top Ranked Films by Year: the 50s

Based on our compendium of all film polls

[2011 Edition, updated with 2011 film polls]

© William L. Sinclair

This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net that we compiled. (Photo: Tishiro Mifune, Seven Samurai)

Total Ranked Films in the 50's: 116 (down from 144)

- [ 1950 ] -
1. Sunset Boulevard - Wilder, Billy #19 (photo rt)
2. Rashomon - Kurosawa, Akira #29
3. All About Eve - Mankiewicz, Joseph L. #41
4. Diary of a Country Priest - Bresson, Robert #310
5. In a Lonely Place - Ray, Nicholas #389
6. Los Olvidados - Buñuel, Luis #417
7. Orpheus - Cocteau, Jean #437
8. Asphalt Jungle, The - Huston, John #472
9. Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female,1950) Lewis, Joseph H. #756
[Gone: Harvey, Un Chant d'amour, Stromboli, La Ronde, Wagon Master, The Flowers of St. Francis, Rio Grande]
Best Picture: All About Eve

- [ 1951 ] -
1. Strangers on a Train - Hitchcock, Alfred #157
2. Streetcar Named Desire, A - Kazan, Elia #158
3. Forbidden Games - Clément, René #381
4. African Queen, The - Huston, John #457
5. Ace in the Hole - Wilder, Billy #564
6. Place in the Sun, A - Stevens, George #573
7. An American in Paris - Minnelli, Vincente #579
8. River, The - Renoir, Jean #609
9. Miracle in Milan - De Sica, Vittorio #629
10. Day the Earth Stood Still, The - Wise, Robert #654
11. Plaisir, Le - Ophüls, Max #743
[Gone: The Thing from Another World, Early Summer]
Best Picture: An American in Paris

- [ 1952 ] -
1. Singin' in the Rain - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly #32
2. Umberto D - De Sica, Vittorio #80
3. Ikiru - Kurosawa, Akira #101
4. High Noon - Zinnemann, Fred #106
5. Wages of Fear, The - Clouzot, Henri-Georges #168
6. Golden Coach, The - Renoir, Jean #343
7. Quiet Man, The - Ford, John #423
8. Life of Oharu, The - Mizoguchi, Kenji #634
9. Limelight - Chaplin, Charles #681
10. El - Buñuel, Luis #682
11. Casque d'or - Becker, Jacques #711
12. Europa '51 - Rossellini, Roberto #840
13. Children of Hiroshima - Shindô, Kaneto #889
14. Bad and the Beautiful, The - Minnelli, Vincente #943
[Gone: Othello, The Lusty Men]
Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth

- [ 1953 ] -
1. Tokyo Story - Ozu, Yasujiro #76
2. Ugetsu - Mizoguchi, Kenji #85
3. Earrings of Madame de..., The - Ophuls, Max #136
4. My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) (1963) Godard, Jean-Luc #171
5. Roman Holiday - Wyler, William #318
6. I Vitelloni - Fellini, Federico #346
7. Shane - Stevens, George #404
8. Band Wagon, The - Minnelli, Vincente #439
9. Mr. Hulot's Holiday - Tati, Jacques #456
10. Voyage in Italy - Rossellini, Roberto #530
11. Big Heat, The - Lang, Fritz #561
12. Pickup on South Street - Fuller, Sam #886
13. Stalag17 - Wilder, Billy #927
14. Sawdust and Tinsel - Bergman, Ingmar #974
15. From Here to Eternity #991 - Zinnemann, Fred
[Gone: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anatahan, The Sun Shines Bright, Naked Spur]
Best Picture: From Here to Eternity

- [ 1954 ] -
1. Seven Samurai, The - Kurosawa, Akira #2 (Japanese title: The Magnificent Seven, so when that western was released, they changed this title in the U.S.) [photo top]
2. On the Waterfront - Kazan, Elia #42
3. Rear Window - Hitchcock, Alfred #64
4. La Strada - Fellini, Federico #114
5. Sansho the Bailiff - Mizoguchi, Kenji #240
6. Johnny Guitar - Ray, Nicholas #384
7. Star is Born, A - Cukor, George #458
8. Senso - Visconti, Luchino #485
9. Dial M for Murder - Hitchcock, Alfred #656
10. French Cancan - Renoir, Jean #817
11. Touchez Pas A Grisbi - Becker, Jacques #976
[Gone: The Barefoot Contessa, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]
Best Picture: On the Waterfront

- [ 1955 ] -
1. Night of The Hunter, The - Laughton, Charles #10
2. Pather Panchali / Apu Trilogy I - Ray, Satyajit #62
3. Ordet - Dreyer, Carl #143
4. Diaboliques, Les - Clouzot, Henri-Georges #214
5. Rebel Without a Cause - Ray, Nicholas #263
6. All That Heaven Allows - Sirk, Douglas #324
7. Kiss Me Deadly - Aldrich, Robert #408
8. Night and Fog - Resnais, Alain #411
9. Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yokihi,1955) Mizoguchi, Kenji #412
10. Lola Montès - Ophüls, Max #429
11. Rififi (55) Dassin, Jules #471
12. Smiles of a Summer Night - Bergman, Ingmar #557
13. East of Eden - Kazan, Elia #571
14. Floating Clouds - Naruse, Mikio #636
[Gone: Les Maîtres fous, Moonfleet, Il Bidone]
Best Picture: Marty

- [ 1956 ] -
1. Seventh Seal, The - Bergman, Ingmar #31 (photo rt)
2. Searchers, The - Ford, John #65
3. Man Escaped, A - Bresson, Robert #188
4. Written on the Wind - Sirk, Douglas #255
5. Killing, The - Kubrick, Stanley #364
6. Aparajito - Ray, Satyajit #440
7. Bigger Than Life - Ray, Nicholas #791
8. Bob le flambeur - Melville, Jean-Pierre #908
9. There's Always Tomorrow - Sirk, Douglas #928
[Gone: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, While the City Sleeps, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt]
Best Picture: Around the World in 80 Days

- [ 1957 ] -
1. Paths of Glory - Kubrick, Stanley #91
2. Wild Strawberries - Bergman, Ingmar #104
3. 12 Angry Men - Lumet, Sidney #116
4. Bridge on the River Kwai, The - Lean, David #127
5. Sweet Smell of Success - Mackendrick, Alexander #156
6. Nights of Cabiria - Fellini, Federico #172
7. Throne of Blood - Kurosawa, Akira #243
8. Witness for the Prosecution - Wilder, Billy #724
9. Pyaasa (Thirst) Dutt, Guru #731
10. Affair to Remember, An - McCarey, Leo #789
11. Cranes Are Flying, The - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil #844
12. Funny Face - Donen, Stanley #1000
[Gone: Night of the Demon]
Best Picture: Bridge on the River Kwai, The

- [ 1958 ] -
1. Vertigo - Hitchcock, Alfred #12
2. Touch of Evil - Welles, Orson #38
3. Ashes and Diamonds - Wajda, Andrzej #199
4. Mon oncle - Tati, Jacques #250
5. Music Room, The - Ray, Satyajit #580
6. Hidden Fortress, The - Kurosawa, Akira #787
7. Some Came Running - Minnelli, Vincente #798
[Gone: The Tarnished Angels, Man of the West, The Hidden Fortress, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Murder by Contract, Gigi]
Best Picture: Gigi

- [ 1959 ] -
1. North by Northwest - Hitchcock, Alfred #28
2. 400 Blows, The - Truffaut, François #37
3. Some Like it Hot - Wilder, Billy #66
4. Pickpocket - Bresson, Robert #146
5. Breathless - Godard, Jean-Luc #159
6. Ben-Hur - Wyler, William #222
7. Eyes Without a Face - Franju, Georges #229
8. Hiroshima mon amour - Resnais, Alain #245
9. World of Apu, The - Ray, Satyajit #295
10. Rio Bravo - Hawks, Howard #344
11. Anatomy of a Murder - Preminger, Otto #402
12. Shadows - Cassavetes, John #449
13. Imitation of Life - Sirk, Douglas #518
14. Black Orpheus - Camus, Marcel #706
[Gone: The Tiger of Eschnapur, Kaagaz Ke Phool, The Indian Tomb]
Best Picture: Ben-Hur

All Ranked Films of the Decade
1. Seven Samurai, The (1954) Kurosawa, Akira #2
2. Night of The Hunter, The (1955) Laughton, Charles #10
3. Vertigo (1958) Hitchcock, Alfred #12
4. Sunset Boulevard (1950) Wilder, Billy #19
5. North by Northwest (1959) Hitchcock, Alfred #28
6. Rashomon (1950) Kurosawa, Akira #29
7. Seventh Seal, The (1956) Bergman, Ingmar #31
8. Singin' in the Rain (1952) Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly #32
9. 400 Blows, The (1959) Truffaut, François #37
10. Touch of Evil (1958) Welles, Orson #38
11. All About Eve (1950) Mankiewicz, Joseph L. #41
12. On the Waterfront (1954) Kazan, Elia #42
13. Pather Panchali / Apu Trilogy I (1955) Ray, Satyajit #62
14. Rear Window (1954) Hitchcock, Alfred #64
15. Searchers, The (1956) Ford, John #65
16. Some Like it Hot (1959) Wilder, Billy #66
17. Tokyo Story (1953) Ozu, Yasujiro #76
18. Umberto D (1952) De Sica, Vittorio #80
19. Ugetsu (1953) Mizoguchi, Kenji #85
20. Paths of Glory (1957) Kubrick, Stanley #91
21. Ikiru (1952) Kurosawa, Akira #101
22. Wild Strawberries (1957) Bergman, Ingmar #104
23. High Noon (1952) Zinnemann, Fred #106
24. La Strada (1954) Fellini, Federico #114
25. 12 Angry Men (1957) Lumet, Sidney #116
26. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) Lean, David #127
27. Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953) Ophuls, Max #136
28. Ordet (1955) Dreyer, Carl #143
29. Pickpocket (1959) Bresson, Robert #146
30. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Mackendrick, Alexander #156
31. Strangers on a Train (1951) Hitchcock, Alfred #157
32. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) Kazan, Elia #158
33. Breathless (1959) Godard, Jean-Luc #159
34. Wages of Fear, The (1952) Clouzot, Henri-Georges #168
35. My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) (1963) Godard, Jean-Luc #171
36. Nights of Cabiria (1957) Fellini, Federico #172
37. Man Escaped, A (1956) Bresson, Robert #188
38. Ashes and Diamonds (1958) Wajda, Andrzej #199
39. Diaboliques, Les (1955) Clouzot, Henri-Georges #214
40. Ben-Hur (1959) Wyler, William #222
41. Eyes Without a Face (1959) Franju, Georges #229
42. Sansho the Bailiff (1954) Mizoguchi, Kenji #240
43. Throne of Blood (1957) Kurosawa, Akira #243
44. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Resnais, Alain #245
45. Mon oncle (1958) Tati, Jacques #250
46. Written on the Wind (1956) Sirk, Douglas #255
47. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Ray, Nicholas #263
48. World of Apu, The (1959) Ray, Satyajit #295
49. Diary of a Country Priest (1950) Bresson, Robert #310
50. Roman Holiday (1953) Wyler, William #318
51. All That Heaven Allows (1955) Sirk, Douglas #324
52. Golden Coach, The (1952) Renoir, Jean #343
53. Rio Bravo (1959) Hawks, Howard #344
54. I Vitelloni (1953) Fellini, Federico #346
55. Killing, The (1956) Kubrick, Stanley #364
56. Forbidden Games (1951) Clément, René #381
57. Johnny Guitar (1954) Ray, Nicholas #384
58. In a Lonely Place (1950) Ray, Nicholas #389
59. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Preminger, Otto #402
60. Shane (1953) Stevens, George #404
61. Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Aldrich, Robert #408
62. Night and Fog (1955) Resnais, Alain #411
63. Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yokihi, 1955) Mizoguchi, Kenji #412
64. Los Olvidados (1950) Buñuel, Luis #417
65. Quiet Man, The (1952) Ford, John #423
66. Lola Montès (1955) Ophüls, Max #429
67. Orpheus (1950) Cocteau, Jean #437
68. Band Wagon, The (1953) Minnelli, Vincente #439
69. Aparajito (1956) Ray, Satyajit #440
70. Shadows (1959) Cassavetes, John #449
71. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) Tati, Jacques #456
72. African Queen, The (1951) Huston, John #457
73. Star is Born, A (1954) Cukor, George #458
74. Rififi (55) Dassin, Jules #471
75. Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) Huston, John #472
76. Senso (1954) Visconti, Luchino #485
77. Imitation of Life (1959) Sirk, Douglas #518
78. Voyage in Italy (1953) Rossellini, Roberto #530
79. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Bergman, Ingmar #557
80. Big Heat, The (1953) Lang, Fritz #561
81. Ace in the Hole (1951) Wilder, Billy #564
82. East of Eden (1955) Kazan, Elia #571
83. Place in the Sun, A (1951) Stevens, George #573
84. An American in Paris (1951) Minnelli, Vincente #579
85. Music Room, The (1958) Ray, Satyajit #580
86. River, The (1951) Renoir, Jean #609
87. Miracle in Milan (1951) De Sica, Vittorio #629
88. Life of Oharu, The (1952) Mizoguchi, Kenji #634
89. Floating Clouds (1955) Naruse, Mikio #636
90. Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) Wise, Robert #654
91. Dial M for Murder (1954) Hitchcock, Alfred #656
92. Limelight (1952) Chaplin, Charles #681
93. El (1952) Buñuel, Luis #682
94. Black Orpheus (1959) Camus, Marcel #706
95. Casque d'or (1952) Becker, Jacques #711
96. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Wilder, Billy #724
97. Pyaasa (Thirst, 1957) Dutt, Guru #731
98. Plaisir, Le (1951) Ophüls, Max #743
99. Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female, 1950) Lewis, Joseph H. #756
100. Hidden Fortress, The (1958) Kurosawa, Akira #787
101. Affair to Remember, An (1957) McCarey, Leo #789
102. Bigger Than Life (1956) Ray, Nicholas #791
103. Some Came Running (1958) Minnelli, Vincente #798
104. French Cancan (1954) Renoir, Jean #817
105. Europa '51 (1952) Rossellini, Roberto #840
106. Cranes Are Flying, The (1957) Kalatozishvili, Mikheil #844
107. Pickup on South Street (1953) Fuller, Sam #886
108. Children of Hiroshima (1952) Shindô, Kaneto #889
109. Bob le flambeur (1956) Melville, Jean-Pierre #908
110. Stalag 17 (1953) Wilder, Billy #927
111. There's Always Tomorrow (1956) Sirk, Douglas #928
112. Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952) Minnelli, Vincente #943
113. Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) Bergman, Ingmar #974
114. Touchez Pas A Grisbi (1954) Becker, Jacques #976
115. From Here to Eternity (1953) Zinnemann, Fred #991
116. Funny Face (1957) Donen, Stanley #1000

Unranked best picture winners: Gigi, The Greatest Show on Earth, Marty, Around the World in 80 Days

My Favorites

1-Seven Samurai, 2-All About Eve, 3-Umberto D., 4-Sunset Boulevard, 5-Singin in the Rain, 6-Night of the Hunter,  7-Bridge on the River Kwai, 8-On the Waterfront, 9-The Sweet Smell of Success, 10-Paths of Glory, 11-12 Angry Men, 12-Vertigo, 13-A Streetcar Named Desire, 14-Rashoman, 15-In a Lonely Place, 16-The Seventh Seal, 17-Shane, 18-Ugetsu, 19-Some Like it Hot, 20-Stalag 17