1949
1. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
2. THE SET-UP (Robert Wise)
3. STRAY DOG (Akira Kurosawa)
4. WHITE HEAT (Raoul Walsh)
5. GUN CRAZY (Joseph H. Lewis)
6. I SHOT JESSE JAMES (Samuel Fuller)
7. INTRUDER IN THE DUST (Clarence Brown)
8. THE WINDOW (Ted Tetzlaff)
9. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (Robert Hamer)
10. SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (John Ford)

Honorable Mention
ON THE TOWN, THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER and THEY LIVE BY NIGHT

Notable Shorts
BEGONE DULL CARE (Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart), DOUGH FOR THE DO-DO (Friz Freleng), PUCE MOMENT(Kenneth Anger)

1948
1. THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE (John Huston)
2. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
3. ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. THE BICYCLE THIEF (Vittorio de Sica)
5. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOW WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
6. THE FALLEN IDOL (Carol Reed)
7. FORCE OF EVIL (Abraham Polonsky)
8. THE SCAR (Steve Sekely)
9. HE WALKED BY NIGHT (Alfred Werker and Anthony Mann)
10. LA TERRA TREMA (Luchino Visconti)

Honorable Mention
DRUNKEN ANGEL, FORT APACHE, JOHNNY BELINDA,THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, RAW DEAL and THE SEARCH

Notable Shorts
BOOGIE DOODLE (Norman McLaren)

1947
1. ODD MAN OUT (Carol Reed)
2. QUAI DES ORFEVRES (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
3. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
4. BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
5. THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (Joesph L. Mankiewicz)
6. BODY AND SOUL (Robert Rossen)
7. MONSIEUR VERDOUX (Charles Chaplin)
8. T-MEN (Anthony Mann)
9. NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Edmund Goulding)
10. BRUTE FORCE (Jules Dassin)

Honorable Mention
KISS OF DEATH and RAILROADED!

Notable Shorts
FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger)

1946
1. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
3. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean)
4. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau)
5. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (John Ford)
7. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (Tay Garnett)
8. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
9. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (William Wyler)
10. THE KILLERS (Robert Siodmak)

1945
1. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (René Clair)
2. CHILDREN OF PARADISE (Marcel Carné)
3. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)
4. A WALK IN THE SUN (Lewis Milestone)
5. OBJECTIVE, BURMA! (Raoul Walsh)
6. I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
7. LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (John M. Stahl)
8. ISLE OF THE DEAD (Mark Robson)
9. SCARLET STREET (Fritz Lang)
10. DEAD OF NIGHT (Cavalcanti/Charles Crichton/Basil Dearden/Robert Hamer)

1944
1. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)
2. MURDER MY SWEET (Edward Dmytryk)
3. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
4. EXPERIMENT PERILOUS (Jacques Tourneur)
5. TO HAVE OR HAVE NOT (Howard Hawks)
6. LAURA (Otto Preminger)
7. A CANTERBURY TALE (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
8. LIFEBOAT (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. THE UNINVITED (Lewis Allen)
10. IMMORTAL BATTALION (Carol Reed)

Honorable Mention
GASLIGHT

Most Overrated
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK

1943
1. LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. LE CORBEAU (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
5. FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO (Billy Wilder)
6. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
7. DAY OF WRATH (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
8. CABIN IN THE SKY (Vincente Minnelli)
9. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (William A. Wellman)
10. AIR FORCE (Howard Hawks)

Notable Shorts
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)

1942
1. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
2. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
3. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)
4. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti)
5. THE PALM BEACH STORY (Preston Sturges)
6. PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (Sam Wood)
7. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (Preston Sturges)
8. TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (Michael Curtiz)
10. SABOTEUR (Alfred Hitchcock)

1941
1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
2. 49th PARALLEL (Michael Powell)
3. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER (William Dieterle)
4. THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston)
5. BALL OF FIRE (Howard Hawks)
6. DUMBO (Ben Sharpsteen)
7. THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. THE LADY EVE (Preston Sturges)
9. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (John Ford)
10. THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK (Robert Florey)

1940
1. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (John Ford)
3. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
4. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. THE MORTAL STORM (Frank Borzage)
7. FANTASIA (Ben Sharpsteen)
8. PINNOCHIO (Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske)
9. THE GREAT DICTATOR (Charles Chaplin)
10. THE GREAT MCGINTY (Preston Sturges)