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Academy Award Best Picture Nominees and Winners Seen

A list of those films I’ve seen of the feature winners for Best Picture and the other Academy Awards that are comprehensive and effectively for the entire film: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Documentary Feature (begun 1940), Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) (Honorary Award 1947-1955 (no award for 1954); begun officially in 1956), Best Animated Feature (begun 2001). Formatting is the same as on my other pages–title (director, year), although I’m well aware that directors receive only Best Director awards.

1. 1929 Winner (Unique and Artistic) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927); (Production)                           Wings (William A. Wellman, 1927)
                Nominees (Unique and Artistic): The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928) (also Best Director (dramatic)                             nominee)
                Best Director Nominees (comedy): Speedy (Ted Wilde, 1928)
3. 1930 Best Director Nominees: Hallelujah (King Vidor, 1929)
4. 1931 Winner Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles, 1931) (also Best Director nominee)
5. 1932 Winner Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932)
6. 1934 Winner (also Best Director) Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd, 1933)
             Nominees: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
7. 1935 Winner (also Best Director) It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
10. 1938 Winner The Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle, 1937) (also Best Director nominee)
             Nominees: Lost Horizon (Frank Capra, 1937), The Good Earth (Sidney Franklin, 1937) (also Best                        Director nominee)
11. 1939 Nominees: The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, 1938), La grande                        illusion/The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
12. 1940 Nominees: Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939), Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) (also Best Director                          nominee), The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
13. 1941 Winner Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) (also Best Director nominee)
               Nominees: The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940)
               Best Director Nominee: The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
14. 1942 Nominees: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) (also Best Director nominee), The Maltese Falcon                        (John Huston, 1941)
15. 1943 Nominees: Kings Row (Sam Wood, 1942) (also Best Director nominee), The Magnificent                                         Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz, 1942) (also Best                             Director nominee)
16. 1944 Winner (also Best Director) Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
               Nominees: Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943) (also Best Director nominee), The Ox-Bow                          Incident (William A. Wellman, 1943)
17. 1945 Winner (also Best Director) Going My Way (Leo McCarey, 1944)
               Nominees: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) (also Best Director nominee), Gaslight (George                      Cukor, 1944)
               Best Director Nominees: Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)
18. 1946 Winner (also Best Director) The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)
               Nominees: Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945) (also Best Director nominee)
19. 1947 Nominees: It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Director Nominees: The Killers (Robert Sidomak, 1946)
20. 1948 Winner (also Best Director) Gentleman’s Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947)
               Best Director Nominees: A Double Life (George Cukor, 1947)
21. 1949 Nominees: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) (also Best Director nominee)
22. 1950 Honorary Award for Most Outstanding Foreign Language Film Released in the United States                            During 1949: Ladri di biciclette/Bicycle Thieves/The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
23. 1951 Nominees: Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Director Nominees: The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950), The Third Man (Carol Reed,                          1949)
24. 1952 Winner An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) (also Best Director nominee)
               Nominees: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951) (also Best Director nominee)
               Honorary Award for Most Outstanding Foreign Language Film Released in the United States                            During 1951: 羅生門/Rashōmon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
25. 1953 Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film Released in the United States in 1952:  Jeux                             interdits/Forbidden Games (René Clément, 1952)
26. 1954 Best Director Nominees: Lili (Charles Walters, 1953), Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953)
27. 1955 Winner (also Best Director) On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
               Nominees: The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk, 1954)
               Honorary Award for Best  Foreign Language Film Released in the United States in 1954: 地獄                            門/Jigokumon/Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinagusa, 1953)
               Best Director Nominees: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953)
29. 1957 Nominees: Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler, 1956) (also Best Director nominee)
               Foreign Language Film: La strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) 
30. 1958 Winner (also Best Director) The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
31. 1959 Winner (also Best Director) Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
               Nominees: Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta, 1958), Separate Tables (Delbert Mann, 1958)
               Foreign Language Film: Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
33. 1961 Winner (also Best Director) The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
               Foreign Language Film: Jungfrukällan/The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)
               Best Director Nominees: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
34. 1962 Winner (also Best Director) West Side Story (Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, 1961)
               Nominees: The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
35. 1963 Winner (also Best Director) Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
               Nominees: To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
               Best Director Nominees: David and Lisa (Frank Perry, 1962)
36. 1964 Winner (also Best Director): Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963)
               Foreign Language Film: 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) (also Best Director nominee)
37. 1965 Nominees: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley                              Kubrick, 1964) (also Best Director nominee), Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) (also                            Best Director nominee)
               Foreign Language Film Nominees:  Les parapluies de Cherbourg/The Umbrellas of Cherbourg                          (Jacques Demy, 1964), 砂の女/Suna no onna/The Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara,                      1964) (also Best Director nominee)
38. 1966 Foreign Language Film Nominees: 怪談/Kaidan/Kwaidan (Masaki Kobasyashi, 1964)
39. 1967 Winner (also Best Director) A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
               Documentary Feature: The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1966)
               Best Director Nominees: Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) 
40. 1968 Winner: In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967)
               Nominees: Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) (also Best Director nominee), The Graduate                          (Mike Nichols, 1967) (Winner: Best Director)
               Foreign Language Film: Ostre sledované vlaky/Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966)
41. 1969 Nominees: The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Director Nominees: 2001 A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
42. 1970 Winner (also Best Director) Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) 
               Best Director Nominees: Alice’s Restaurant (Arthur Penn, 1969)
43. 1971 Nominees: MASH (Robert Altman, 1970) (also Best Director nominee)
              Best Documentary Feature Nominees: Erinnerungen an die Zukunft/Chariots of the Gods (Harald                     Reinl, 1970)
              Best Director Nominees: Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969)
44. 1972 Winner (also Best Director) The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)
               Nominees: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971) (also Best Director nominee), The Last                          Picture Show (Peter Bogdanaovich, 1971) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Foreign Language Film: Il giardino dei Finzi Contini/The Garden of the Finzi-Continis                                (Vittorio De Sica, 1970)
               Nominees: どですかでん/Dodesukaden/Dodes’ka-den (Akira Kurosawa, 1970)
45. 1973 Winner The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) (also Best Director nominee)
               Nominees: Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Foreign Language Film: Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie/The Discreet Charm of the                            Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972)
               Best Documentary Feature: Marjoe (Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan, 1972)
               Best Director Nominees:  Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972)
46. 1974 Winner (also Best Director) The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
               Nominees: American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973) (also Best Director nominee), The Exorcist                           (William Friedkin, 1973) (also Best Director nominee) [although I never saw the original cut]
               Best Foreign Language Film: La Nuit americaine/Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)
47. 1975 Winner (also Best Director) The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
               Nominees: Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) (also Best Director nominee), The Conversation                          (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
48. 1976 Winner (also Best Director) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
               Nominees: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) (also Best Director nominee), Jaws (Steven                              Spielberg, 1975), Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) (also Best Director nominee)
49. 1977 Winner (also Best Director) Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
               Nominees: Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976) (also Best Director nominee), Taxi Driver (Martin                                Scorsese, 1976)
50. 1978 Winner (also Best Director) Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
               Nominees: Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
               Best Director Nominees: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
52. 1980 Best Foreign Language Film: Die Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)
53. 1981 Winner (also Best Director) Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980) 
               Nominees: The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980) (also Best Director nominee), Raging Bull                              (Martin Scorsese, 1980) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Foreign Language Film Nominees: 影武者/Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980), Le dernier                          métro/The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980)
               Best Director Nominees: The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 1980)
54. 1982 Nominees: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) (also Best Director nominee)
55. 1983 Nominees: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982) (also Best Director nominee)
56. 1984 Nominees: The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)
58. 1986 Winner (also Best Director) Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985)
               Nominees: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco, 1985) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Director Nominees: 乱/Ran/Chaos (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
59. 1987 Winner (also Best Director) Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
               Best Director Nominees: Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
61. 1989 Best Director Nominees: A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988), The Last Temptation of                          Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
62. 1990 Winner Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford, 1989)
               Nominees: Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Foreign Language Film: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
               Nominees: Jésus de Montréal/Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand, 1989)
               Best Director nominee: Henry V (Kenneth Branagh, 1989)
63. 1991 Winner (also Best Director) Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
               Nominees: Ghost (Jerry Zucker, 1990), Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
64. 1992 Winner (also Best Director) The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) 
               Nominees: Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, 1991)
               Best Director Nominees: Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
65. 1993 Winner (also Best Director) Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
               Best Director Nominees: The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)
66. 1994 Winner (also Best Director) Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
               Nominees: The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) (also Best                                  Director nominee)
               Best Documentary Feature Nominees: The War Room (Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, 1993)
               Best Director Nominees: Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993)
67.  1995 Winner (also Best Director) Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
                Nominees: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) (also Best Director nominee), Quiz Show                               (Robert Redford, 1994) (also Best Director nominee), The Shawshank Redemption (Frank                             Darabont, 1994)
68. 1996 Winner (also Best Director) Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
               Nominees: Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995), Babe (Chris Noonan, 1995) (also Best Director                                   nominee), Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
               Best Foreign Language Film: Antonia/Antonia’s Line (Marleen Gorris, 1995)
               Best Documentary Feature: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon,                              1996)
69. 1997 Winner (also Best Director) The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996)
               Nominees: Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996) (also Best Director nominee), Shine (Scott Hicks, 1996) (also                        Best Director nominee)
70. 1998 Winner (also Best Director) Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
               Nominees: As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997), Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)                        (also Best Director nominee), L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) (also Best Director                                nominee)
               Best Foreign Language Film Nominees: Вор/Vor/The Thief (Pavel Chukhray, 1997)
               Best Documentary Feature Nominees: 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee, 1997)
71. 1999 Winner Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998) (also Best Director nominee)
               Nominees: Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998), La vita è bella/Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1997) (also Best Director nominee, Best Foreign Language Film), Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998) (also Best Director), The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998) (also Best Director nominee)
                Best Foreign Language Film Nominee: Central do Brasil/Central Station (Walter Salles, 1998) 
                Best Director Nominees: The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
72. 2000 Winner (also Best Director) American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
               Nominees: The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999) (also Best Director nominee), The Sixth Sense (M.                        Night Shyamalan, 1999) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Director Nominees: Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
               Best Foreign Language Film: Todo sobre mi madre/All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar,                            1999)
73. 2001 Winner Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000) (also Best Director nominee)
               Nominees: Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) (also Best Director nominee), Traffic                                (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) (also Best Director), 臥虎藏龍/Wò hǔ cáng lóng/Crouching Tiger,                        Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) (also Best Foreign Language Film Winner; Best Director                              nominee)
               Best Director Nominees: Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry, 2000)
74. 2002 Winner (also Best Director) A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
               Nominees: Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001) (also Best Director nominee), In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001), Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) [theatrical and extended editions] (also Best Director nominee)
                Best Foreign Language Film Nominees: Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain/Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
                Best Animated Feature: Shrek (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson, 2001)
                Best Director Nominees: Black Hawk Dawn (Ridley Scott, 2001), Mullholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
75. 2003 Nominees: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002) [extended edition only]
               Best Documentary Feature: Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)
               Best Animated Feature Nominees: Ice Age (Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha, 2002), Lilo & Stitch (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, 2002), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook, 2002)
76. 2004 Nominees: Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003) (also Best Director nominee), Seabiscuit (Gary Ross, 2003)
               Best Animated Feature: Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, 2003)
               Nominees: Les triplettes de Belleville/The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)
               Best Documentary Feature: The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris, 2003)
               Nominees: Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
77. 2005 Nominees Finding Neverland (Marc Forster, 2004), Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Foreign Language Film Nominees: Les choristes/The Chorus (Christophe Barratier, 2004)
               Best Animated Feature Nominees: Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon, 2004)
78. 2006 Nominees: Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney, 2005) (also Best Director nominee)
               Best Animated Feature Nominees: Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, Mike Johnson, 2005), ハウルの動く城/Hauru no ugoku shiro/Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)
79. 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Nominees: El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
80.  2008 Winner (also Best Director) No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2007)
                Best Director Nominees: Le scaphandre et le papillon/The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
                Best Documentary Feature Nominees: Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007)
82. 2010 Nominees: A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2009), Up (Pete Docter, 2009) (Winner: Best Animated Feature)
83. 2011 Nominees: Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
               Best Documentary Feature: Inside Job (Charles Ferguson, 2010)
84. 2012 Winner The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)
               Best Documentary Feature Nominees:  Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 2011)
85. 2013 Nominees: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
               Best Animated Feature: Brave (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell, 2012)
               Best Documentary Feature Nominees: How to Survive a Plague (David France, 2012)
86. 2014 Best Animated Feature: Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, 2013)
87. 2015 Nominees: Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) (also Best Director nominee)
88. 2016 Winner Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015) (also Best Director nominee)
89. 2017 Nominee La La Land (Winner: Best Director)
Best Documentary Feature Nominees: 13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016), I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016)
90. 2018 Nominees: Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) (also Best Director nominee)
92. 2020 Winner (also Best Director, Best International Feature Film) 기생충/Gisaengchung/Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, 2019)
               Nominees: Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
94. 2022 Best Animated Feature: Encanto (Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith, 2021)
95. 2023 Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, 2022)

Best Films I’ve Seen Each Year

This list, which shall be very fluid, is in no way beholden to the Academy Awards, beginning with the beginning of film history and not based at all on nominations, etc. Some make it on by default simply because I haven’t yet seen anything better from that year. A few years I was unable to decide a winner (1927, 1929, 2007), and other years were difficult, often leading me to drop favorite films in favor of whatever seemed weightier of the finalists (hence the absence of favorite directors of mine including Altman, Argento, Bava, Dante, Herzog, Lynch, Paizs, Raimi, Russell, and Scorsese). I included my ratings. Those with ratings lower than 10 are particularly precarious as I continue to view more films. I suspect there will be the greatest fluctuation before 1920 and after 2000.

Roundhay Garden Scene (Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, 1888) 8
have not seen any films made in 1889
have not seen any films made in 1890
Dickson Greeting (William K.L. Dickson, 1891) 9
have not seen any films made in 1892
Blacksmith Scene (William K.L. Dickson, 1893) 7
Bucking Broncho (William K.L. Dickson, William Heise, 1894) 8
Chapeaux à transformations/Transformation by Hats (Louis Lumière, 1895) 8
L’arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat (Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière, 1896) 8
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (James H. White, 1897) 7
La Lune à un Mètre/A Trip to the Moon/The Astronomer’s Dream/The Man in the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1898) 9
The Blizzard (American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1899) 8
have not seen any films made in 1900
The Haunted Curiosity Shop (Walter R. Booth, 1901) 8
Seeing New York by Yacht (Frederick S. Armitage, A.E. Weed, 1902) 10
Life of an American Fireman (George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter, 1903) 8
Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room (G.W. Bitzer, 1904) 10
Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (G.W. “Billy” Bitzer, 1905) 10
The ‘?’ Motorist (Walter R. Booth, 1906) 10
The ‘Teddy’ Bears (Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter, 1907) 8
La Maison Ensorcelée/The Haunted House (Segundo de Chomón, 1908) 8
Le locataire diabolique/The Diabolical Tenant (Georges Méliès, 1909) 9
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Otis Turner, 1910) 8
Only in the Way (Tanhouser Films, 1911) 7
The Girl and Her Trust (D.W. Griffith, 1912) 9
Сумерки женской души/Sumerki zheskoi dushi/Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (Yevgeni Bauer, 1913) 8
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz/The New Wizard of Oz (J. Farrell MacDonald, 1914) 10
Their One Love (Jack Harvey, 1915) 9
Behind the Screen (Charles Chaplin, 1916) 8
Умирающий лебедь/Umirayushchii lebed/The Dying Swan (Yevgeni Bauer, 1917) 9
The Ghost of Rosy Taylor (Edward Sloman, 1918) 9
Young Mr. Jazz (Hal Roach, 1919) 8
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari./The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. (Robert Wiene, 1920) 10
The Play House (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, 1921) 10
The Electric House (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, 1922) 10
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, 1923) 10
Der letzte Mann/The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924) 10
Стачка/Stachka/Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) 10
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed/The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926) 9
Tie (alphabetical order):
Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt/Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann, 1927) 10
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) 10
Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927) 10
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927) 10
The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928) 10
Tie:
Un chien andalou/An Andalusian Dog (Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, 1929) 10
Человек с киноаппапатом/Chelovek s kinoapparatom/Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) 10
City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930) 10
M (Fritz Lang, 1931) 10
Le sang d’un poète/The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1932) 10
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933) 10
The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934) 9
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935) 9
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936) 10
La grande illusion/The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) 10
La bête humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938) 10
La règle du jeu/The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) 10
The House of the Seven Gables (Joe May, 1940) 9
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 10
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) 10
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hamid, 1943) 10
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944) 10
A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren, 1945) 10
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946) 10
Secret Beyond the Door… (Fritz Lang, 1947) 10
Macbeth (Orson Welles, 1948) 10
静かなる決闘/Shizukanaru kettō/The Quiet Duel (Akira Kurosawa, 1949) 10
Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1950) 10
The Medium (Gian Carlo Menotti, Alexander Hamid, 1951) 10
Le carrosse d’or/The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1952) 10 [English version]
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953) 10
ゴジラ/Gojira/Godzilla (Ishiro Honda, 1954) 10
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 10
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) 10
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) 10
Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958) 10
Les quatre cents coups/The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) 10
Le testament d’Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!/The Testament of Orpheus, or Don’t Ask Me Why! (Jean Cocteau, 1960) 10
L’année dernière à Marienbad/Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) 10
El ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962) 10
Le mépris/Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) 10
Bande à part/Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) 10
Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) 10
Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) 10
Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) 10
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 10
心中天網島/Shinjū: Ten no amijima/Love Suicide: Heaven’s Amijima [Network Island]/Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda, 1969) 10
Valerie a týden divů/Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970) 10
Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1971) 10
Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Morin, 1972) 10
O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973) 10
Le fantôme de la liberté/The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel, 1974) 10
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) 10
Le locataire/The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976) 10
Mababangong bangungot/Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977) 10
火の鳥/Hi no tori/The Phoenix (Kon Ichikawa, Osamu Tezuka, 1978) 10
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (Peter Greenaway, 1979) 10
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) 10
A kékszakállú herceg vára/Bluebeard’s Castle (Miklos Szinétar, 1981) 10
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982) 10
L’argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) 10
Peggy and Fred in Hell, The Prologue (Leslie Thornton, 1984) 10
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985) 10
Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (Mikel B. Anderson, 1986) 10
King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987) 10
Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1988) 10
Split (Chris Shaw, 1989) 10
Kamillions (Mikel B. Anderson, 1990) 10
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991) 10
Careful (Guy Maddin, 1992) 10
青蛇/Ching Se/Green Snake (Hark Tsui, 1993) 10
The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen, 1994) 10
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995) 10
イーハトーブ幻想 Kenjiの春/Ihatôbu gensô, Kenji no haru/Ihatov Illusion Kenji Spring/Spring and Chaos (Shoji Kawamori, 1996) 10
Abre los ojos/Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar, 1997) 10
Le violon rouge/The Red Violin (François Girard, 1998) 10
Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999) 10
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) 10
Éloge de l’amour/In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001) 10
Русский ковчег/Russkiy kovcheg/Russian Ark (Alexsandr Sokurov, 2002) 10
Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands (Guy Maddin, 2003) 10
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard, 2004) 10
MirrorMask (Dave McKean, 2005) 10
Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters (Guy Maddin, 2006) 10
Tie:
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor, 2007) 10
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007) 10
No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen, 2007) 10
Burn After Reading (Joel Coen, 2008) 10
A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2009) 10
También la lluvia/Even the Rain (Icíar Bollaín, 2010) 10
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011) (Best Documentary: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 2011) 10
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012) 10
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2013) 10
Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014) 10
Solace (Afonso Poyart, 2015) 10
The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016) 10
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes, 2017) 10
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018) 10
기생충/Kisaengch’ung/Gisaengchung/Helminth/Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) 10
Come Away (Brenda Chapman, 2020) 10
Encanto (Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith, 2021) 10
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, 2022) 10

Ranking the actual winners:
(Omitting West Side Story until I see it again)

  1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  3. Parasite
  4. No Country for Old Men
  5. Midnight Cowboy
  6. Grand Hotel
  7. The Artist
  8. Annie Hall
  9. The Lost Weekend
  10. Lawrence of Arabia
  11. Rebecca
  12. An American in Paris
  13. Cimarron
  14. Cavalcade
  15. The Godfather: Part II
  16. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  17. Wings
  18. Going My Way
  19. A Man for All Seasons
  20. Tom Jones
  21. Casablanca
  22. Spotlight
  23. A Beautiful Mind
  24. It Happened One Night
  25. On the Waterfront
  26. Platoon
  27. The Godfather
  28. Schindler’s List
  29. The French Connection
  30. The Silence of the Lambs
  31. In the Heat of the Night
  32. The Apartment
  33. The Life of Emile Zola
  34. Gigi
  35. Unforgiven
  36. Ordinary People
  37. The Sting
  38. Dances with Wolves
  39. American Beauty
  40. Gentleman’s Agreement
  41. The English Patient
  42. Driving Miss Daisy
  43. Out of Africa
  44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  45. Forrest Gump
  46. Braveheart
  47. Titanic
  48. Shakespeare in Love
  49. Gladiator
  50. Rocky