| 1920-1930 | 1930-1940 | 1940-1950 | 1950-1960 | |
| 1960-1970 | 1970-1980 | 1980-1990 | 1990-1999 | |
| 2000-2009 | 2010-2019 | |||
| The Best of the Century |
Year |
Film |
Director |
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| Silent Films | ||||
| 1923 | Our Hospitality | (Buster Keaton and John Blystone) | ||
| 1924 | Sherlock Jr. | (Buster Keaton) | ||
| 1925 | The Battleship Potemkin | (Sergei Eisenstein) | ||
| The Gold Rush | (Charlie Chaplin) | |||
| 1926 | The General | (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman) | ||
| 1927 | Napoleon | (Abel Gance) | ||
| 1927 | The End of Saint Petersburg | (V.I. Pudovkin) | ||
| 1928 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | (Carl Dreyer) | ||
| 1931 | City Lights | (Charlie Chaplin) | ||
| Sound Films | ||||
| 1931 | M |
(Fritz Lang) | ||
| Marius(2) | (Alexander Korda) | |||
| 1932 | Fanny(3) | (Marc Allegret) | ||
| 1933 | Duck Soup | (Leo McCarey) | ||
| King Kong | (Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper) | |||
| 1934 | It Happened One Night | (Frank Capra) | ||
| 1936 | Modern Times | (Charlie Chaplin) | ||
| Cesar(4) | (Marcel Pagnol) | |||
| 1937 | Grand Illusion | (Jean Renoir) | ||
| 1939 | The Rules of the Game | (Jean Renoir) | ||
| Gone With the Wind | (Victor Fleming) | |||
| The Wizard of Oz | (Victor Fleming) | |||
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | (Frank Capra) | |||
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | (John Ford) | ||
| The Bank Dick | (Edward Cline) | |||
| 1941 | Citizen Kane | (Orson Welles) | ||
| Sullivan's Travels | (Preston Sturges) | |||
| 1943 | Casablanca | (Michael Curtiz) | ||
| 1945 | The Children of Paradise | (Marcel Carne) | ||
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | (William Wyler) | ||
| It's A Wonderful Life | (Frank Capra) | |||
| Notorious | (Alfred Hitchcock) | |||
| 1947 | Great Expectations | (David Lean) | ||
| 1948 | The Bicycle Thief | (Vittorio DeSica) | ||
| The Treasure of Sierra Madre | (John Huston) | |||
| 1950 | All About Eve | (Joseph L.Mankiewicz) | ||
| Sunset Boulevard | (Billy Wilder) | |||
| Los Olvidados | (Luis Bunuel) | |||
| 1951 | A Place in the Sun | (George Stevens) | ||
| 1952 | Ikiru | (Akira Kurosawa) | ||
| High Noon | (Fred Zinnemann) | |||
| 1953 | Tokyo Story | (Yasujiro Ozu) | ||
| The Wages of Fear | (Henri-George Clouzot) | |||
| 1954 | On the Waterfront | (Elia Kazan) | ||
| The Seven Samurai | (Akira Kurosawa) | |||
| La Strada | (Federico Fellini) | |||
| Rear Window | (Alfred Hitchcock) | |||
| Sansho the Bailiff | (Kenji Mizoguchi) | |||
| 1955 | Smiles of A Summer Night | (Ingmar Bergman) | ||
| 1956 | Pather Panchali(5) | (Satiajit Ray) | ||
| The Seventh Seal | (Ingmar Bergman) | |||
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | (David Lean) | ||
| Paths of Glory | (Stanley Kubrick) | |||
| Wild Strawberries | (Ingmar Bergman) | |||
| 1958 | Aparajito(6) | (Satiajit Ray) | ||
| 1959 | The World of Apu(7) | (Satiajit Ray) | ||
| Ben-Hur | (William Wyler) | |||
| 1960 | Psycho | (Alfred Hitchcock) | ||
| 1961 | La Dolce Vita | (Federico Fellini) | ||
| Through a Glass Darkly(8) | (Ingmar Bergman) | |||
| Jules and Jim | (Francois Truffant) | |||
| The Human Condition | (Masaki Kobayashi) | |||
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | (David Lean) | ||
| Winter Light(9) | (Ingmar Bergman) | |||
| 1963 | 8 1/2 | (Federico Fellini) | ||
| Tom Jones | (Tony Richardson) | |||
| The Silence(10) | (Ingmar Bergman) | |||
| 1964 | Dr. Strangelove | (Stanley Kubrick) | ||
| Woman in the Dunes | (Hiroshi Teshigahara) | |||
| Zorba the Greek | (Michael Cacoyannis) | |||
| 1965 | The Shop on Main Street | (Jan Kadar and Elmer Klos) | ||
| 1966 | Blow-Up | (Michelangelo Antonioni) | ||
| 1967 | The Battle of Algiers | (Gillo Pontecorvo) | ||
| The Graduate | (Mike Nichols) | |||
| Persona | (Ingmar Bergman) | |||
| Bonnie and Clyde | (Arthur Penn) | |||
| 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | (Stanley Kubrick) | ||
| War and Peace | (Sergei Bondarchuk) | |||
| The Producers | (Mel Brooks) | |||
| 1969 | The Wild Bunch | (Sam Peckinpah) | ||
| 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | (Stanley Kubrick) | ||
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | (Vittorio De Sica) | |||
| The Emigrants; The New Land | (Jan Troell) | |||
| 1972 | The Godfather | (Francis Ford Coppola) | ||
| Cries and Whispers | (Ingmar Bergman) | |||
| 1974 | The Godfather, Part II | (Francis Ford Coppola) | ||
| Chinatown | (Roman Polanski) | |||
| 1975 | Barry Lyndon | (Stanley Kubrick) | ||
| Love and Death | (Woody Allen) | |||
| 1976 | Seven Beauties | (Lina Wertmuller) | ||
| 1977 | Annie Hall | (Woody Allen) | ||
| 1978 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | (Ermanno Olmi) | ||
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | (Francis Ford Coppola) | ||
| 1980 | Raging Bull | (Martin Scorsese) | ||
| 1983 | Fanny and Alexander | (Ingmar Bergman) | ||
| 1984 | A Passage to India | (David Lean) | ||
| 1985 | Brazil | (Terry Gilliam) | ||
| Ran | (Akira Kurosawa) | |||
| The Home and the World | (Satiajit Ray) | |||
| 1987 | Jean de Florette Manon of the Spring |
(Claude Berri) | ||
| 1989 | Do the Right Thing | (Spike Lee) | ||
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | (Woody Allen) | |||
| 1992 | Raise the Red Lantern | (Zhang Yhimou) | ||
| The Best Intentions | (Bille August) | |||
| 1993 | Schindler's List | (Steven Spielberg) | ||
| The Piano | (Jane Campion) | |||
| 1995 | Before the Rain | (Milcho Manchevski) | ||
| 1996 | The English Patient | (Anthony Minghella) | ||
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | (Steven Spielberg) | ||
| The Truman Show | (Peter Weir) | |||
| Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | |||
| 1999 | Eyes Wide Shut | (Stanley Kubrick) | ||
| 2000 | Werckmeister Harmonies | (Bela Tarr) | ||
| 2001 | The Fellowship of the Ring(11) | (Peter Jackson) | ||
| 2002 | The Two Towers(12) | (Peter Jackson) | ||
| 2003 | The Return of the King(13) | (Peter Jackson) | ||
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | (Guillermo Del Toro) | ||
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | (Paul Thomas Anderson) | ||
| The Lives of Others | (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) | |||
| 2009 | A Serious Man | (Ethan and Joel Coen) | ||
| 2011 | Incendies | (Denis Villeneuve) | ||
| 2012 | Lincoln | (Steven Spielberg) | ||
| 2014 | The Great Beauty | (Paolo Sorrentino) | ||
| 2015 | Ex Machina | (Alex Garland) | ||
| Room | (Lenny Abrahamson) | |||
| 2017 | The Florida Project | (Sean Baker) | ||
| 2018 | Roma | (Alfonso Cuarón) | ||
| 2019 | 1917 | (Sam Mendes) | ||
| Never Look Away | (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) | |||
| THE BEST OF THE CENTURY |
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| Film Artist: | Ingmar Bergman | |||
| Director:(14) | Stanley Kubrick | |||
| Screenwriter: | 1. Ingmar Bergman 2. Woody Allen |
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| Actor: | Marlon Brando | |||
| Actress: | Meryl Streep | |||
| Footnotes | ||||
| 1. Documentaries,
animated and television films are not included. 2. The "Marseilles" Trilogy (These films are included only as part of a trilogy). 3. See footnote 2. 4. See footnote 2. 5. The "Apu" Trilogy. 6. See footnote 5. 7. See footnote 5. 8. The "Reduction" Trilogy- These films are included only as part of a trilogy. They are related solely by theme, not by plot or characters. 9. See footnote 8. 10. See footnote 8. 11. "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy 12. See footnote 11. 13. See footnote 11. 14. Other directors- Ingmar Bergman; David Lean; Akira Kurosawa; Woody Allen; Satiajit Ray; Alfred Hitchcock; Federico Fellini; Jean Renoir; Steven Spielberg; Martin Scorsese; Buster Keaton; Roberto Rossellini; William Wyler |
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