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Perhaps an exercise in futility, but I'm basically using this as a holding place to keep track of all the films I've seen.  Not all of these films are bad, but I didn't like them enough to include in my "Yearly lists".  They are in order of preference, or rather, I actively dislike the ones at the bottom more than the ones at the top.



Pre-1920s

The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, 1917)
The Girl and Her Trust (D. W. Griffith, 1912)
The Eclipse (
Georges Méliès, 1907)
The Merry Jail (Ernst Lubitsch, 1917)
The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915)
Life of an American Fireman (Edwin S. Porter, 1903)


1924

Symphonie diagonale (Viking Eggeling)

1928

Uberfall (Erno Metzner)
Vormittagsspuk (Hans Richter)

1931

The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy)
Taris, champion de natation (Jean Vigo)


1932


I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)

1933

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra)
Prisoner 13 (Fernando de Fuentes)
She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman)
Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (Lewis Milestone)

1936

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
Valse brillante de Chopin (Max Ophuls)

1937

Even: As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay & LeRoy Robbins)

1939


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (George Marshall)
Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)

1940

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)

The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
The Letter (William Wyler)
My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline)

1941

Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
An Airman's Letter to His Mother (Michael Powell)


1943

The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman)
The Ghost Ship (Mark Robson)


1944


Gaslight (George Cukor)
The Children are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica)
The Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak)
Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
Christmas Holiday (Robert Siodmak)

Passage to Marseille (Michael Curtiz)
A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger)
The Three Caballeros (Norman Ferguson)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)

1945

Rome: Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell & Pressburger)
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)

Le Vampire (Jean Painlev
é)
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
The Men Who Tread on Tiger's Tail (Akira Kurosawa)


1946

A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Song of the South (Harve Foster & Wilfred Jackson)
Baseball Bugs (Friz Freleng)

1947


Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton)
The Brasher Doubloon (John Brahm)
La Tempestaire (Jean Epstein)
Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)

1948

Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
The Boy With Green Hair (Joseph Losey)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (Chuck Jones)

1949

Whirlpool (Otto Preminger)
Adam's Rib (George Cukor)
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis)
Long-haired Hare (Chuck Jones)
High Diving Hare (Friz Freleng)

1950

Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
What's Up Doc? (Robert McKimson)
Guernica (Alain Resnais & Robert Hessens)

Cinderella (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
Big House Bunny (Robert McKimson)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)

1951

A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)

The River (Jean Renoir)
Jim Thorpe - All American (Michael Curtiz)
People Will Talk (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Ballot Box Bunny (Friz Freleng)
Cours du Soir (Nicolas Ribowski)
Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica)
Force of Arms (Michael Curtiz)
The African Queen (John Huston)

1952

Macao (Josef von Sternberg)
Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
Monkey Business (Howard Hawks)
High Noon (Fred Zinneman)
Clash by Night (Fritz Lang)
Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
Rabbit's Kin (Robert McKimson)

1953

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)
Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
Bully for Bugs (Chuck Jones)
Shane (George Stevens)
Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Jacques Tati)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)

Sawdust & Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellin)
The Moon is Blue (Otto Preminger)
El Bruto (Luis Bunuel)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland)

1954

Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
Track of the Cat (William Wellman)
Wuthering Heights (Luis Bunuel)
Senso (Luchino Visconti)

La Strada (Federico Fellini)
The Maggie (Alexander Mackendrick)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
Godzilla (Ishiro Honda)

1955

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Hiroshi Inagaki)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
Confidential Report (Orson Welles)

Smiles of a Summer's Night (Ingmar Bergman)
The Lady and the Tramp (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)
Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks)
Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)

1956

The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Flowing (Mikio Naruse)
The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Giant (George Stevens)

1957

Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
Les Mistons (Francois Truffaut)
Funny Face (Stanley Donen)

Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage)
Old Yeller (Robert Stevenson)
An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey)

1958

Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
Nazarin (Luis Bunuel)
The Lineup (Don Siegel)
Auntie Mame (Morton DeCosta)
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (Leo McCarey)
South Pacific (Joshua Logan)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrej Wajda)
Gigi (Vincente Minelli)
Houseboat (Melville Shavelson)

1959

The Diary of Ann Frank (George Stevens)

Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhraj)
Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
Gidget (Paul Wendkos)

1960

Zazie dans le Métro (Louis Malle)
Swiss Family Robinson (Ken Annakin)
The Monkey's Teeth (
René Laloux)

1961

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
Lola (Jacques Demy)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)
West Side Story (Robert Wise)
101 Dalmations (Geronimi, Luske, & Reitherman)

1962

Antoine et Colette (Francois Truffaut)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
Dr. No (Terrence Young)

1963

Suzanne's Career (Eric Rohmer)
Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)

Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Weitherman)
Charade (Stanley Donen)

1964


Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)
Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson)
The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich)
My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Kizo Nagashima & Larry Roemer)
The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards)
Culloden (Peter Watkins)
Les Tempts Mort (René Laloux)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes)
Memory (Osamu Tezuka)

Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel)

1965

The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
The Saragosa Manuscript (Wojciech Has)
Les Escargots (
René Laloux)
Vivian (Bruce Conner)
Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev)
Ten Second Film (Bruce Conner)
The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison)

1966


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)

Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski)
La Guerre est Finie (Alain Resnais)

Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard)
Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock)
A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch)
Daisies (Vera Chytilova)
Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel)
The Tram (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Six Men Getting Six (Six Times) (David Lynch)
Is Paris Burning? (Rene Clement)

1967

La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
Report (Bruce Conner)
The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman)

Casino Royale (Guest, Hughes, Huston, McGrath and Parrish)
In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Stanley Kramer)
Who's that Knocking at My Door? (Martin Scorsese)
The Trip (Roger Corman)
The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich)
The White Rose (Bruce Conner)
Luke (Bruce Conner)

1968

Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)
Faces (John Cassavetes)
Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey)
Charly (Ralph Nelson)

The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)

1969

Frosty the Snowman (Jules Bass)
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
Permian Strata (Bruce Conner)
Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock)

1970

MASH (Robert Altman)
Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
Bed & Board (Francois Truffaut)
Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento)
Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
Trash (Paul Morrissey)
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires)
The Watermelon Man (Melvin Van Peebles)
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
Captain Milkshake (Richard Crawford)

1971

Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
And Now for Something Completely Different (Terry Jones)
Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh)
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson)
Bananas (Woody Allen)

1972

Letter to Jane (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
Blacula (William Crain)
Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese)
Images (Robert Altman)
Pink Flamingos (John Waters)

1973

Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
American Graffiti (George Lucas)
Badlands (Terence Malick)
Sisters (Brian De Palma)
Charlotte's Web (Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto)
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Bill Melendez)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Sleeper (Woody Allen)
Hard Labour (Mike Leigh)

1974

Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev)
Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)

The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
Benji (Joe Camp)
The Amputee (David Lynch)
Je, Tu, Il, Elle (Chantal Akerman)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
Zardoz (John Boorman)
The Cars That Ate Paris (Peter Weir)
Dark Star (John Carpenter)

1975

Love & Death (Woody Allen)
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Shampoo (Hal Ashby)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (Kineto Shîndo)

1976

The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie)
Carrie (Brian De Palma)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner)
Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
The Shaggy D.A. (Robert Stevenson)

1977

The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
New York, New York (Martin Scorsese)
The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray)
Jabberwocky (Terry Gilliam)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)

Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham)
Family Nest (Béla Tarr)
Suspiria (Dario Argento)
Valse Triste (Bruce Conner)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman)
The Serpent's Egg (Ingmar Bergman)

1978

The Buddy Holly Story (Steve Rash)
Superman (Richard Donner)
Animal House (John Landis)
Mongoloid (Bruce Conner)

Grease (Randall Kleiser)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)

1979

My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
Tess (Roman Polanski)
The Brood (David Cronenberg)
Being There (Hal Ashby)
Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raoul Ruiz)
Mad Max (George Miller)
The Muppet Movie (James Frawley)
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Zombi 2 (Lucio Fulci)
Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone)

1980

Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
Lightning Over Water (Wim Wenders & Nicholas Ray)
Mon oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles)
Mark Rappaport: The TV Spinoff (Mark Rappaport)

1981

Thief (Michael Mann)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris)
Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die (Philo Bregstein)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
Friday the 13th, Part II (Steve Miner)

1982

Made in Britain (Alan Clarke)
Ghandi (Richard Attenborough)

Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson & Frank Oz)
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
Tenebrae (Dario Argento)
The Last American Virgin (Boaz Davidson)
Room 666 (Wim Wenders)
Britannia Hospital (Lindsay Anderson)
Airplane II: The Sequel (Ken Finkleman)
Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone)
Annie (John Huston)
Forbidden Relations (Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs)

1983

The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
The Crimson Permanent Insurance (Terry Gilliam)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)
Vacation (Harold Ramis)

Trading Places (John Landis)
The Man With Two Brains (Carl Reiner)
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (Spike Lee)
WarGames (John Badham)
All the Right Moves (Michael Chapman)
Flashdance (Adrian Lyne)
Staying Alive (Sylvester Stallone)
Mr. Mom (Stan Dragoti)

1984

Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker)
The Book of Mary (Anne-Marie Mieville)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
Sixteen Candles (John Hughes)
Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest)
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier)
Splash (Ron Howard)
Police Academy (Hugh Wilson)
Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis)
Revenge of the Nerds (Jeff Kanew)
Footloose (Herbert Ross)

1985

The Goonies (Richard Donner)
Real Genius (Martha Coolidge)
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
Witness (Peter Weir)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
To Live and Die in LA (William Friedkin)
Tokyo-Ga (Wim Wenders)
The Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)
Clue (Jonathan Lynn)
Gymkata (Robert Clouse)
Teen Wolf (Rod Daniel)
Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)
Detective (Jean-Luc Godard)
Weird Science (John Hughes)
Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)
Porky's Revenge (James Komack)
Brewster's Millions (Walter Hill)
Nightmare on Elm Street Part II: Freddy's Revenge (Jack Sholder)
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (Jerry Paris)

1986

The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese)
Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox)
Top Gun (Tony Scott)
Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman)
Stormy Monday (Mike Figgis)
An American Tail (Don Bluth)

Ruthless People (Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker)
Gung Ho (Ron Howard)
Armed and Dangerous (Mark L. Lester)
Labyrinth (Jim Henson)
Short Circuit (John Badham)
Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood)
Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch)
The Bloody Child (Nina Menkes)
The Karate Kid, Part II (John G. Avildsen)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Paul Mazursky)
The Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz)
Youngblood (Peter Markle)
Back to School (Alan Metter)
Howard the Duck (Willard Huyck)

1987

Spaceballs (Mel Brooks)
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
Three O'Clock High (Phil Joanou)
Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne)
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson)
Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner)
King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard)
Adventures in Babysitting (Chris Columbus)

Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
La Bamba (Luis Valdez)
Blind Date (Blake Edwards)
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino)
Beverly Hills Cop II (Tony Scott)
Keep Your Right Up (Jean-Luc Godard)
Three Men and a Baby (Leonard Nimoy)
The Secret of My Success (Herbert Ross)
Throw Mamma from the Train (Danny DeVito)
*batteries not included (Matthew Robbins)
Stakeout (John Badham)
Mannequin (Michael Gottlieb)
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (Joe Roth)
The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher)
Harry and the Hendersons (William Dear)
Teen Wolf Too (Christopher Lietch)
Masters of the Universe (Gary Goddard)
Over the Top (Menahem Golan)

1988

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz)
A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Chrichton)
Willow (Ron Howard)
The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (Richard Linklater)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker)
U2: Rattle and Hum (Phil Joanou)

Biloxi Blues (Mike Nichols)
Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
Ashik Kerib (Sergei Paradjanov)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin)
Crocodile Dundee II (John Cornell)
Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)
Eight Men Out (John Sayles)
Scrooged (Richard Donner)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
Landscapes in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos)
Young Guns (Christopher Cain)
The Cowboy and the Frenchman (David Lynch)
License to Drive (Greg Beeman)
Vice Versa (Brian Gilbert)
Caddyshack II (Allan Arkush)
Stand and Deliver (Ramon Menendez)
School Daze (Spike Lee)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (Wes Craven)
Big Top Pee-wee (Randall Kleiser)

Funny Farm (George Roy Hill)
Short Circuit 2 (Kenneth Johnson)
Twins (Ivan Reitman)
Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious)

1989

Glory (Edward Zwick)
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson)
The 'burbs (Joe Dante)
Samurai Cop (Amir Shervan)
When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner)
Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements & John Musker)
Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Bereson)
The 'burbs (Joe Dante)

Major League (David S. Ward)
Lean on Me (John G. Avildsen)
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
Lethal Weapon II (Richard Donner)
The Wizard (Todd Holland)
Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechlik)
Ghostbusters II (Ivan Reitman)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Joe Johnston)

Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek)
Turner & Hooch (Roger Spottiswoode)
The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito)
Steel Magnolias (Herbert Ross)

Weekend at Bernies (Ted Kotcheff)


1990

Mo' Better Blues (Spike Lee)
My Blue Heaven (Herbert Ross)
Quick Change (Howard Franklin & Bill Murray)
Home Alone (Chris Columbus)
Awakenings (Penny Marshall)

Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
IT (Tommy Lee Wallace)
Lord of the Flies (Harry Hook)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch)

Gremlins II: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
Die Hard II (Renny Harlin)
Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis)
Ghost (Jerry Zucker)
Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty)
Cry-Baby (John Waters)
Postcards (Mark Rappaport)
The Godfather, Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)
Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley)
Flatliners (Joel Schumacher)
Wild Orchid (Zalman King)
Cadillac Man (Roger Donaldson)
Arachnophobia (Frank Marshall)

Kindergarten Cop (Ivan Reitman)
Nuns on the Run (Jonathan Lynn)
Look Who's Talking Too (Amy Heckerling)
Rocky V (John G. Avildsen)
Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso)

1991

Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (David Zucker)
And Life Goes On... (Abbas Kiarostami)
Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
L.A. Story (Mick Jackson)
Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (Nick Park)
Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott)

The Doors (Oliver Stone)
Bugsy (Barry Levinson)
Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese)
Jungle Fever (Spike Lee)
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
Poison (Todd Haynes)
Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan)
Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks)
My Girl (Howard Zieff)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds)
Life Stinks (Mel Brooks)
City Slickers (Ron Underwood)
Zentropa (Lars von Trier)
Doc Hollywood (Michael Katon-Jones)
Backdraft (Ron Howard)
Toy Soldiers (Daniel Petrie Jr.)
Shattered (Wolfgang Petersen)
The Addams Family (Barry Sonenfeld)
The Last Boy Scout (Tony Scott)
Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (Stephen Herek)
Problem Child 2 (Brian Levant)
King Ralph (David S. Ward)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (Michael Pressman)

1992

Careful (Guy Maddin)
My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Chaplin (Richard Attenborough)
Singles (Cameron Crowe)
Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner)
Honeymoon in Vegas (Andrew Bergman)

Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris)
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
The Distinguished Gentleman (Jonathan Lynn)
Alien 3 (David Fincher)
White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton)
A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall)
Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest)
Passenger 57 (Kevin Hooks)
School Ties (Robert Mandel)
Boomerang (Reginald Hudlin)
Under Siege (Andrew Davis)
Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomolies Under America (Craig Baldwin)
Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus)
Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder)
Consenting Adults (Alan J. Pakula)
Mr. Saturday Night (Billy Crystal)
The Cutting Edge (Paul Michael Blaser)
The Mighty Ducks (Stephen Herek)
Poison Ivy (Katt Shea)
Beethoven (Brian Levant)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Franz Rubel Kuzui)
Encino Man (Les Mayfield)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (Robert Spottiswoode)

1993

Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
What's Eating Gilbert's Grape (Lasse Hallstrom)
Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos)
In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen)
The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
Calendar (Atom Egoyan)

Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme)

Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)

The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
Hot Shots! Part Deux (Jim Abrahams)
Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica)
The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Pom Poko (Isao Takahata)
Exterior Night (Mark Rappaport)
Iron Monkey (Woo-ping Yuen)
Grumpy Old Men (Donald Petrie)
The Point of No Return (John Badham)
The Firm (Sydney Pollack)
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro)
Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron)
Wayne's World 2 (Stephen Surjik)
Indecent Proposal (Adrian Lyne)
Rising Sun (Philip Kaufman)
Alive (Frank Marshall)
Rudy (David Anspaugh)
Free Willy (Simon Wincer)
Dennis the Menace (Nick Castle)
Loaded Weapon 1 (Gene Quintano)
Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus)
Dave (Ivan Reitman)
The Pelican Brief (Alan J. Pakula)
The Crush (Alan Shapiro)
Sliver (Phillip Noyce)
Body of Evidence (Uli Edel)
Look Who's Talking Now (Tom Ropelewski)
Made in America (Richard Benjamin)

1994

Dumb and Dumber (Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)
Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen)
Crooklyn (Spike Lee)
Clerks (Kevin Smith)
Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan)
The Ref (Ted Demme)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-Wai)
NYC 3/94 (Hal Hartley)
The Road to Welville (Alan Parker)
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (Peter Segal)
Speed (Jan de Bont)
PCU (Hart Bochner)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac)
Swimming with Sharks (George Huang)
The Crow (Alex Proyas)
Opera No. 1 (Hal Hartley)
The Getaway (Roger Donaldson)
When a Man Loves a Woman (Luis Mandoki)
Cremaster 4 (Matthew Barney)
Felidae (Michael Schaak)
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (Paul Weiland)
Blown Away (Stephen Hopkins)
Beverly Hills Cop III (John Landis)
True Lies (James Cameron)

1995

La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
JLG/JLG (Jean-Luc Godard)
Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld)

Flirt (Hal Hartley)
Tommy Boy (Peter Segal)
On Your Mark (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
Desperado (Richard Rodriguez)

Four Rooms (Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
Bad Boys (Michael Bay)
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (Steve Oedekerk)
Billy Madison (Tamra Davis)
Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
Nine Months (Chris Columbus)
Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin)
Mallrats (Kevin Smith)
Mr. Holland's Opus (Stephen Herek)
Dangerous Minds (John N. Smith)
Cremaster 1 (Matthew Barney)
Kids (Larry Clark)
City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

1996

The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
Swingers (Doug Liman)
2 Days in the Valley (John Herzfeld)
The Rock (Michael Bay)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)

Gabbeh (Mohsen Mahkmalbaf)
The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller)
Scream (Wes Craven)
Primal Fear (Gregory Hoblit)
Tin Cup (Ron Shelton)
Twister (Jan de Bont)
Independence Day (Ronald Emmerich)
Sleepers (Barry Levinson)
Happy Gilmore (Dennis Dugan)
Cannibal! The Musical (Trey Parker)
A Time to Kill (Joel Schumacher)
That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks)
The Nutty Professor (Tom Shadyac)
Beavis and Butt-head Do America (Mike Judge)
She's the One (Edward Burns)
Kazaam (Paul Michael Glaser)
Executive Decision (Stuart Baird)
One Fine Day (Michael Hoffman)
The Fan (Tony Scott)
Bulletproof (Ernest R. Dickerson)
Chain Reaction (Andrew Davis)

1997

Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
Liar Liar (Tom Shadyac)
The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)
Titanic (James Cameron)
Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Jon Amiel)
Seven Years in Tibet (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Prefontaine (Steve James)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
Face/Off (John Woo)
Crash (David Cronenberg)
Hana-bi [Fireworks] (Takeshi Kitano)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
Cremaster 5 (Matthew Barney)
Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld)
Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen)
The Devil's Advocate (Taylor Hackfield)
Con Air (Simon West)
The Jackal (Michael Caton-Jones)
Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode)
Howard Stern's Private Parts (Betty Thomas)
Kiss the Girls (Gary Fleder)
Conspiracy Theory (Richard Donner)
Red Corner (Jon Avnet)
Fool's Rush In (Andy Tennant)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
Scream 2 (Wes Craven)
My Best Friend's Wedding (P.J. Hogan)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jim Gillespie)
An American Werewolf in Paris (Anthony Waller)
Trial & Error (Jonathan Lynn)
In & Out (Frank Oz)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (Guy Maddin)
Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher)

1998

A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson)
Happiness (Todd Solondz)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Can't Hardly Wait (Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan)

Dark City (Alex Proyas)
Half-Baked (Tamra Davis)
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie)
Ronin (John Frankenheimer)
The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos)
Waking Ned Divine (Kirk Jones)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
The Idiots (Lars von Trier)
The Waterboy (Frank Coraci)
The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci)
The Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins)
The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater)
Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
54 (Mark Christopher)
Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer)
Deep Impact (Mimi Leder)
The Negotiator (F. Gary Gray)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata)
The Other Also (Hal Hartley)
Sphere (Barry Levinson)
Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner)
City of Angels (Brad Silberling)
Hope Floats (Forest Whitaker)
The X-Files (Rob Bowman)
Wild Things (John McNaughton)
Meet Joe Black (Martin Brest)
Stepmom (Chris Columbus)

The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez)
Psycho (Gus Van Sant)

Six Days, Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman)
Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (Steve Miner)

1999

Time Regained (Raul Ruiz)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine)
Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
Go (Doug Liman)
The King of Comedy (Stephen Chow)
The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan)

The Green Mile (Frank Darabont)
Human Traffic (Justin Kerrigan)
The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallstrom)
Dogma (Kevin Smith)
Man on the Moon (Milos Forman)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Jay Roach)
The Hurricane (Norman Jewison)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
Audition (Takashi Miike)
Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
Pushing Tin (Mike Newell)
Memento Mori (Tae-Yong Kim & Kyu-Dong Min)
Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike)
Summer of Sam (Spike Lee)
Cremaster 2 (Matthew Barney)
Analyze This (Harold Ramis)
Cruel Intentions (Roger Kumble)
10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger)
The Runaway Bride (Gary Marshall)
Muppets from Space (Tim Hill)
8 MM (Joel Schumacher)
Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone)
The Thirteenth Floor (Josef Rusnak)
The Mummy (Stephen Sommers)
The Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy)

2000

Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker)
Chicken Run (Peter Lord & Nick Park)
Mission to Mars (Brian DePalma)
Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry)
Meet the Parents (Jay Roach)
Fighter (Amir Bar-Lev)
The Cell (Tarsem Singh)
The Whole Nine Yards (Jonathan Lynn)
Finding Forrester (Gus Van Sant)
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)
Road Trip (Todd Phillips)

Chocolat (Lasse Hallstrom)
Quills (Philip Kaufman)
Murderous Maids (Jean-Pierre Denis)
Snatch (Guy Ritchie)
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen)
The Beach (Danny Boyle)
Kimono (Hal Hartley)
Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin)
X-Men (Bryan Singer)
Keeping the Faith (Edward Norton)
Rules of Engagement (William Friedkin)
Men of Honor (George Tillman Jr.)
Scary Movie (Keenen Ivory Wayans)
The Contender (Rod Lurie)
The New Math(s) (Hal Hartley)
Nutty Proffessor II: The Klumps (Peter Segal)
Gone in 60 Seconds (Dominic Sena)
Me, Myself, and Irene (Farrelly Bros.)
Charlie's Angels (McG)
Bedazzled (Harold Ramis)
The Gift (Sam Raimi)
The Isle (Kim Ki-duk)
The Photographer (Jeremy Stein)
The Skulls (Rob Cohen)
Coyote Ugly (David McNally)
Wannabes (Charles Adessi & William DeMeo)
Unbreakable (M. Knight Shyamalan)

Final Destination (James Wong)
Pay it Forward (Mimi Leder)
Honeybee (Melvin James)
The Patriot (Ronald Emmerich)

2001

Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic)
Life and Debt (Stephanie Black)
Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
Take Care of My Cat (Jae-eun Jeong)
Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan)
Blissfully Yours (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans)
The Score (Frank Oz)
Zoolander (Ben Stiller)
Cat Soup (Tatsuo Sato)
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
Frailty (Bill Paxton)
The Tailor of Panama (John Boorman)
The Deep End (Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
American Pie 2 (James B. Rogers)
Ali (Michael Mann)
Don't Say a Word (Gary Fleder)
One Night at McCool's (Harald Zwart)
Swordfish (Dominic Sena)
Bully (Larry Clark)
Saving Silverman (Dennis Dugan)
The New Women (Todd Hughes)
A Knight's Tale (Brian Helgeland)
Scary Movie 2 (Keenen Ivory Wayans)
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith)
Rat Race (Jerry Zucker)
What Girls Learn (Lee Rose)
Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
13 Ghosts (Steve Beck)
3,000 Miles to Graceland (Demian Lichtenstein)
The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen)
Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay)

2002

The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Eugene Jarecki)
Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
The Son (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)

The Kid Stays in the Picture (Nanette Burstein & Brett Morgen)
The Ring (Gore Verbinski)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
The Pianist (Roman Polanski)

Invincible (Werner Herzog)
Resident Evil (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Panic Room (David Fincher)

Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
The Salton Sea (D.J. Caruso)
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
Hart's War (Gregory Hoblit)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Frida (Julie Taymor)
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
Lilo and Stitch (
Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders)
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (Rebecca Miller)
Liberty Stands Still (Kari Skogland)
The Transporter (Corey Yuen)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)
8 Mile (Curtis Hanson)
The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek)
S1m0ne (Andrew Niccol)
Stealing Harvard (Bruce McCulloch)
The Shipment (Alex Wright)
American Psycho 2 (Morgan J. Freeman)

2003


21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen)
Overnight (Mark Brian Smith & Tony Montana)
Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)

Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
Comedian (Christian Charles)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Robert Rodriguez)
Amen. (Constantin Costa-Gavras)
Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)

To Be and To Have (Nicholas Philibert)
The Hulk (Ang Lee)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang)
The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
Rivers & Tides: The Art of Andy Goldsworthy (Thomas Riedelsheimer)
Stevie (Steve James)
In America (Jim Sheridan)
Remembrance of Things to Come (Chris Marker)

Girl With a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber)
A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich)
At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf)
Badder Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
May (Lucky McKee)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe)

Swimming Pool (Francois Ozon)
A Decade Under the Influence (Ted Demme & Richard LaGravenese)
Shattered Glass (Billy Ray)
My Architect: A Son's Journey (Nathaniel Kahn)
Cinemania (Angela Christlieb & Stephen Kizak)
Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
Monster (Patty Jenkins)
Prisoner of Paradise (Malcolm Clarke & Stuart Sender)
Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer)
The Hunted (William Friedkin)
Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt)
Le Divorce (James Ivory)
Northfork (Michael Polish)
The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick)
Old School (Todd Phillips)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin)
The Rundown (Peter Berg)
Pieces of April (Peter Hedges)
Big Fish (Tim Burton)
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (Jan de Bont)
In the Cut (Jan Campion)
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (Claude Lelouch)
Shanghai Knights (David Dobkin)
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)
Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
My Life Without Me (Isabel Coixet)
House of 1,000 Corpses (Rob Zombie)
The Matrix Reloaded (Wachowski Bros.)
Wuthering Heights (Suri Krishnamma)
The Cat in the Hat (Bo Welch)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)

2004


In Good Company (Paul Weitz)
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)

Hero (Yimou Zhang)
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
Sideways (Alexander Payne)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada)

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Xan Cassavetes)
Broken Wings (Nir Bergman)
Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (Takeshi Kitano)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker)
Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Alexander (Oliver Stone)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)

Mitchellville (John Harkrider)
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner)
Closer (Mike Nichols)
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
Infernal Affairs (Andy Lau & Alan Mak)
Born into Brothels (Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman)
The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Solitary Fracture (Deniz Michael)
House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang)
Moolad
é (Ousmane Sembene)
Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
The Ladykillers (Joel Coen)

Undertow (David Gordon Green)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (Robert Greenwald)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Ki-Duk Kim)
Release the Cracken (Essie Cesagarro)
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
This Old Cub (Ron Santo)
Red Lights (Cedric Kahn)
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
Osama (Siddiq Barmak)
The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
I'm Not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores)
Baby Fat (James Tucker)
Le Sacre du Printemps (Oliver Herrmann)
In the Beginning Was the Eye (Bady Minck)
The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
Samaritan Girl (Kim Ki-duk)
Expiration (Gavin Heffernan)
Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, & Conrad Vernon)
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
Finding Neverland (Marc Forster)
Cross Bronx (Larry Golin)
The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams)
Vanity Fair (Mira Nair)
Garden State (Zach Braff)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
American Fame Pt. 1: Drowning River Phoenix (Cam Archer)
The Boy with the Upside-down Smile (John Hansen)
Late Bloomer (Craig Macneill)
Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips)
Open Water (Chris Kentis)
The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber)
Ju-On: The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
The Sisters of Mercy (Hal Hartley)
The Middle of the World (Vicente Amorim)
Motion Studies 3: Gravity (Jake Mahaffy)
The Girl Next Door (Luke Greenfield)

Games People Play (James Ronald Whitney)
Walking Tall (Kevin Bray)
Maid (Nicholas McCarthy & Sam Zuckerman)
The Whole Ten Yards (Howard Deutch)
A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Saw (James Wan)

2005


Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box)
Hostel (Eli Roth)
Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer)
My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)
The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)
Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
Caché (Michael Haneke)
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright)
The Weather Man (Gore Verbinski)
Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
The Matador (Richard Sheperd)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson)

Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan)
In Memory of My Father (Christopher Jaymes)
The Family Stone (Thomas Bezucha)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach)
The Baxter (Michael Showalter)
Match Point (Woody Allen)
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer)
Foxy and the Weight of the World (David & Nathan Zellner)
Capote (Bennett Miller)
Eros (Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (Gary Trousdale)
A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (Bill Paxton)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
Proof (John Madden)
Man Push Cart (Ramin Bahrani)
Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam)
Millions (Danny Boyle)
It's All Gone Pete Tong (Michael Dowse)
Walk the Line (James Mangold)
The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)
Mad Hot Ballroom (Marilyn Agrelo)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan)
West Bank Story (Ari Sandel)
Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)
The Bow (Kim Ki-duk)
Dear Wendy (Thomas Vinterberg)
Palindromes (Todd Solondz)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
Lord of War (Andrew Niccol)
Inside Out (David Ogden)
Trona (David Fenster)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings)
Are We There Yet? (Brian Levant)
Crash (Paul Haggis)

2006

Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
4 (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay)
Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Jackass: Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)

V for Vendetta (John McTeigue)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
Happy Feet (George Miller)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel)
Monster House (Gil Kenan)
Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel)
Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
Clean (Olivier Assayas)
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
The Descent (Neil Marshall)
Find Me Guilty (Sidney Lumet)
Quinceañera (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland
Venus (Roger Michell)
Scoop (Woody Allen)

Inside Man (Spike Lee)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)

Manderlay (Lars von Trier)
Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff)
Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders)
Mission: Impossible III (J. J. Abrams)
One Man Band (Mark Andrews & Andrew Jimenez)
This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick)
Slither (James Gunn)
I Am a Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
The Night Listener (Patrick Stettner)
Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)
My Dad is 100 Years Old (Guy Maddin)
Crank (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
The Last King of Scotland (Kevin MacDonald)
Who Killed the Electric Car? (Chris Paine)
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
Stranger than Fiction (Marc Forster)
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Albert Brooks)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
World Trade Center (Oliver Stone)
Crank (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter)
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski)
Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan)
Water (Deepa Mehta)
Clerks II (Kevin Smith)
Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis)
The Omen (John Moore)
Pulse (Jim Sonzero)
Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas)
Night Watch (Timur Bekmambatov)
Cars (John Lasseter)
Tideland (Terry Gilliam)
Hard Candy (David Slade)
Beer League (Frank Sebastiano)
Lucky Number Slevin (Paul McGuigan)
The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)

Madea's Family Reunion (Tyler Perry)
Little Children (Todd Field)

2007

The Boss of it All (Lars von Trier)
Once (John Carney)
Flanders (Bruno Dumont)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Colon Film for Theaters (Matt Maiellero & Dave Willis)
Offside (Jafar Panahi)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Syndromes and a Century (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
Superbad (Greg Mottola)
This is England (Shane Meadows)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Into Great Silence (
Philip Gröning)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski)
Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days (Christian Mungiu)
No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
The TV Set (Jake Kasdan)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
Regular Lovers (Phillipe Garrel)
Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton)
Sicko (Michael Moore)
My Best Friend (Patrice Leconte)
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman)
I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence)
Black Sheep (Jonathan King)