Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa / Japan)
Rififi (Jules Dassin / France)
La Strada (Federico Fellini / Italy)
The Searchers (John Ford)
The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa / Japan)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica / Italy)
1955
Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot / France)
East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati / France)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot / France)
1954
The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls / France)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1953
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)
Roman Holliday (William Wyler)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu / Japan)
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
The Quiet Man (John Ford)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa / Japan)
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
1951
The African Queen (John Huston)
A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
1950
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer / United Kingdom)
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
The Third Man (Carol Reed / United Kingdom)