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Award Winners - Major Yearly Picture Awards   (967 Most Notable)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Welles, Orson USA DS
5 The Godfather 1972 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBUPS
9 Casablanca 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA DBUPS
10 The 400 Blows 1959 Truffaut, François France D
12 Bicycle Thieves 1948 De Sica, Vittorio Italy D
13 Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DU
15 Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
16 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA D
18 Pulp Fiction 1994 Tarantino, Quentin USA D
19 8 1/2 1963 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
20 Annie Hall 1977 Allen, Woody USA D
21 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong / Taiwan DS
22 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope		 1977 Lucas, George USA DS
24 The Godfather Part II 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBUPS
25 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
26 All About Eve 1950 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DS
27 On the Waterfront 1954 Kazan, Elia USA DU
28 Taxi Driver 1976 Scorsese, Martin USA DUS
30 La Dolce Vita 1960 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
31 The World of Apu 1959 Ray, Satyajit India D
32 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb		 1964 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
33 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
35 Belle de jour 1967 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy D
36 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DUS
38 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain D
40 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA DS
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DS
42 Persona 1966 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
43 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA DBUP
48 Sunset Boulevard 1950 Wilder, Billy USA DS
52 L'Avventura 1960 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France D
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
56 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA DS
57 Do the Right Thing 1989 Lee, Spike USA DU
59 The Graduate 1967 Nichols, Mike USA DS
60 Fanny & Alexander 1982 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden / France / West Germany D
61 Wings of Desire 1987 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France DS
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
71 Forbidden Games 1952 Clément, René France D
73 High Noon 1952 Zinnemann, Fred USA DUS
78 Unforgiven 1992 Eastwood, Clint USA DBUP
79 Diabolique 1955 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Wyler, William USA D
82 The Third Man 1949 Reed, Carol UK D
83 Viridiana 1961 Buñuel, Luis Mexico / Spain D
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA DUS
89 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Forman, Milos USA DBU
91 L.A. Confidential 1997 Hanson, Curtis USA DBS
94 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Demme, Jonathan USA DS
98 Solaris 1972 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union D
107 Blow-Up 1966 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DU
108 West Side Story 1961 Robbins, Jerome / Wise, Robert USA DUPS
111 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
112 It Happened One Night 1934 Capra, Frank USA DU
113 Pather Panchali 1955 Ray, Satyajit India D
115 Fargo 1996 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan USA / UK D
117 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Huston, John USA DUPS
118 Blue Velvet 1986 Lynch, David USA DS
119 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
128 The Apartment 1960 Wilder, Billy USA D
131 The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DU
134 Cabaret 1972 Fosse, Bob USA DUS
136 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA D
137 Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA DUP
139 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Kazan, Elia USA DUPS
140 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Ford, John USA D
143 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France D
147 Shame 1968 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
148 The Seventh Seal 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
156 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Demy, Jacques France / West Germany DUS
157 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
158 The Deer Hunter 1978 Cimino, Michael USA D
159 Lamerica 1994 Amelio, Gianni Italy / France DS
162 My Fair Lady 1964 Cukor, George USA DS
166 Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 Taviani, Paolo / Taviani, Vittorio Italy D
169 Atlantic City 1980 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France DUS
170 The Hustler 1961 Rossen, Robert USA D
171 Network 1976 Lumet, Sidney USA DU
176 The French Connection 1971 Friedkin, William USA D
180 Day for Night 1973 Truffaut, François France / Italy DS
181 American Graffiti 1973 Lucas, George USA Y
182 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Angelopoulos, Theo France / Greece / Italy D
184 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
185 Aparajito 1957 Ray, Satyajit India D
188 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Rafelson, Bob USA Y
190 Midnight Cowboy 1969 Schlesinger, John USA DS
193 L'Eclisse 1962 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
194 La Strada 1954 Fellini, Federico Italy DS
198 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Hill, George Roy USA DBS
205 Red Desert 1964 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France Y
207 Open City 1945 Rossellini, Roberto Italy YU
210 The Double Life of Véronique 1991 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Norway DS
213 American Beauty 1999 Mendes, Sam USA YU
214 The Piano 1993 Campion, Jane Australia / New Zealand / France DS
215 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Allen, Woody USA Y
217 All the President's Men 1976 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
219 Cría cuervos 1976 Saura, Carlos Spain D
222 The Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King		 2003 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand DS
223 Red 1994 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland / France / Switzerland YS
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227 An American in Paris 1951 Minnelli, Vincente USA DUPS
230 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
232 Titanic 1997 Cameron, James USA DS
233 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Milestone, Lewis USA D
234 Marty 1955 Mann, Delbert USA D
236 Gigi 1958 Minnelli, Vincente USA DS
238 The Sound of Music 1965 Wise, Robert USA DS
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 Zinnemann, Fred USA DU
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
246 Amadeus 1984 Forman, Milos USA DUS
250 Secrets & Lies 1996 Leigh, Mike France / UK Y
252 The Lost Weekend 1945 Wilder, Billy USA YS
253 Tootsie 1982 Pollack, Sydney USA DU
255 Days of Heaven 1978 Malick, Terrence USA DUPS
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUPS
257 Rocky 1976 Avildsen, John G. USA DBUPS
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DUS
264 The Exorcist 1973 Friedkin, William USA DUPS
268 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Benton, Robert USA D
271 Amarcord 1973 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
272 Rebecca 1940 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DS
273 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Jewison, Norman USA DS
275 Umberto D. 1952 De Sica, Vittorio Italy Y
276 The Pianist 2002 Polanski, Roman Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands Y
281 Wild Strawberries 1957 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
282 How Green Was My Valley 1941 Ford, John USA DS
284 Tom Jones 1963 Richardson, Tony UK D
286 The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring		 2001 Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA DUS
289 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Wellman, William A. USA Y
293 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
294 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Trousdale, Gary / Wise, Kirk USA DS
296 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong DS
297 Y tu mamá también 2001 Cuarón, Alfonso Mexico / USA D
298 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Lumet, Sidney USA DBU
299 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
300 The Battle of Algiers 1965 Pontecorvo, Gillo Algeria / Italy YS
304 Brief Encounter 1945 Lean, David UK Y
305 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 Dieterle, William USA D
307 The Crying Game 1992 Jordan, Neil UK / Japan Y
308 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hudson, Hugh UK YU
309 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Lloyd, Frank USA YS
311 Cries and Whispers 1972 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
317 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DUS
318 Mulholland Dr. 2001 Lynch, David France / USA DUS
320 Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 Malle, Louis France / West Germany D
321 Talk to Her 2002 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
322 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Capra, Frank USA D
323 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Nichols, Mike USA DUPS
324 The Wages of Fear 1953 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France / Italy D
325 The Leopard 1963 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YUS
326 A Place in the Sun 1951 Stevens, George USA YS
326 Wuthering Heights 1939 Wyler, William USA YS
330 The Quiet Man 1952 Ford, John USA D
333 The English Patient 1996 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
334 All About My Mother 1999 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain / France DS
336 Dumbo 1941 Sharpsteen, Ben / Armstrong, Samuel / Ferguson, Norman / Jackson, Wilfred / Kinney, Jack / Roberts, Bill USA DS
338 Yi Yi 2000 Yang, Edward Taiwan / Japan D
339 Crumb 1994 Zwigoff, Terry USA D
340 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Zinnemann, Fred UK D
342 Gandhi 1982 Attenborough, Richard UK / India DUP
343 The Full Monty 1997 Cattaneo, Peter UK YU
344 Platoon 1986 Stone, Oliver USA DUPS
350 The Player 1992 Altman, Robert USA YU
351 Being John Malkovich 1999 Jonze, Spike USA Y
353 All the King's Men 1949 Rossen, Robert USA D
354 The Defiant Ones 1958 Kramer, Stanley USA Y
355 Hiroshima, mon amour 1959 Resnais, Alain France / Japan Y
356 City of God 2002 Meirelles, Fernando / Lund, Kátia Brazil / France / USA Y
360 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Lee, Ang USA / UK Y
361 The Elephant Man 1980 Lynch, David UK / USA D
363 A Room with a View 1985 Ivory, James UK DB
367 The Usual Suspects 1995 Singer, Bryan USA / Germany DBUP
368 Shakespeare in Love 1998 Madden, John USA / UK Y
369 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China YU
370 The Killing Fields 1984 Joffé, Roland UK YUP
373 Mon oncle 1958 Tati, Jacques Italy / France Y
374 Boogie Nights 1997 Anderson, Paul Thomas USA Y
380 Ordinary People 1980 Redford, Robert USA YUP
381 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong / France / Thailand DS
382 The Insider 1999 Mann, Michael USA Y
384 The Celebration 1998 Vinterberg, Thomas Denmark / Sweden D
384 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Menzel, Jirí Czechoslovakia D
385 Dances with Wolves 1990 Costner, Kevin USA DUS
387 Gladiator 2000 Scott, Ridley UK / USA DS
389 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras Algeria / France Y
390 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Teshigahara, Hiroshi Japan D
392 East of Eden 1955 Kazan, Elia USA YU
393 The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DB
395 Sideways 2004 Payne, Alexander USA DUS
398 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jarmusch, Jim USA / West Germany D
400 Ordet 1955 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark Y
408 Shine 1996 Hicks, Scott Australia YUS
409 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Arcand, Denys Canada / France D
416 The Dead 1987 Huston, John UK Y
420 Breaking Away 1979 Yates, Peter USA Y
422 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 LeRoy, Mervyn USA Y
424 Lost in Translation 2003 Coppola, Sofia USA / Japan Y
428 Pixote 1981 Babenco, Hector Brazil Y
432 If... 1968 Anderson, Lindsay UK D
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434 The Informer 1935 Ford, John USA DUS
440 Breaking the Waves 1996 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Norway Y
441 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Egoyan, Atom Canada D
442 Terms of Endearment 1983 Brooks, James L. USA DUP
443 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Eastwood, Clint USA DBUPS
451 Giant 1956 Stevens, George USA YUPS
455 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / West Germany Y
456 Mon Oncle d'Amérique 1980 Resnais, Alain France Y
459 The Big Chill 1983 Kasdan, Lawrence USA Y
463 Cinema Paradiso 1989 Tornatore, Giuseppe Italy / France DS
464 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Lee, Ang USA D
470 Jean de Florette 1986 Berri, Claude France / Switzerland / Italy DS
475 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain D
480 Amélie 2001 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / Germany DS
482 Paisan 1946 Rossellini, Roberto Italy Y
483 The Color Purple 1985 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
485 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Allen, Woody USA Y
487 Prizzi's Honor 1985 Huston, John USA Y
488 Kagemusha 1980 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
494 Happiness 1998 Solondz, Todd USA Y
497 The Aviator 2004 Scorsese, Martin USA / Japan / Germany DS
500 Oliver! 1968 Reed, Carol UK DUS
503 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Figgis, Mike France / USA / UK Y
504 Babe 1995 Noonan, Chris Australia / USA YU
508 The Go-Between 1970 Losey, Joseph UK YS
509 The Sting 1973 Hill, George Roy USA DU
510 The Road Warrior 1981 Miller, George Australia DBU
511 Howards End 1992 Ivory, James UK / Japan Y
512 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Malle, Louis France / West Germany / Italy D
513 Mystic River 2003 Eastwood, Clint USA DS
514 Going My Way 1944 McCarey, Leo USA DUS
515 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Stone, Oliver USA DUS
516 Room at the Top 1959 Clayton, Jack UK Y
517 All That Jazz 1979 Fosse, Bob USA DS
518 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Clooney, George USA DB
519 Traffic 2000 Soderbergh, Steven Germany / USA Y
520 The Nun's Story 1959 Zinnemann, Fred USA DUS
521 The Tin Drum 1979 Schlöndorff, Volker West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia YS
522 Braveheart 1995 Gibson, Mel USA DUS
526 Olympia Part One:
Festival of the Nations		 1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
527 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
527 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Tarantino, Quentin USA DBUP
529 Melvin and Howard 1980 Demme, Jonathan USA Y
530 The Hours 2002 Daldry, Stephen USA YU
532 Amores perros 2000 Iñárritu, Alejandro González Mexico YU
533 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Buñuel, Luis France / Spain Y
534 Taste of Cherry 1997 Kiarostami, Abbas France / Iran Y
538 Chicago 2002 Marshall, Rob USA / Canada DBS
539 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Fellini, Federico Italy / France / West Germany YS
540 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Zeffirelli, Franco UK / Italy YUPS
541 My Left Foot 1989 Sheridan, Jim Ireland / UK DS
547 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras USA D
550 Europa Europa 1990 Holland, Agnieszka Germany / France / Poland Y
551 The Cranes Are Flying 1957 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union Y
554 Blue 1993 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Switzerland / UK Y
559 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 del Toro, Guillermo Mexico / Spain / USA DB
568 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Rappeneau, Jean-Paul France Y
573 Paris, Texas 1984 Wenders, Wim UK / France / West Germany / USA Y
581 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Apted, Michael USA DS
584 Apollo 13 1995 Howard, Ron USA DUPS
587 Three Kings 1999 Russell, David O. USA YU
589 The Departed 2006 Scorsese, Martin USA DU
590 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Kadár, Ján / Klos, Elmar Czechoslovakia Y
591 Hope and Glory 1987 Boorman, John UK Y
593 Brazil 1985 Gilliam, Terry UK D
594 The Longest Day 1962 Annakin, Ken / Marton, Andrew / Wicki, Bernhard / Zanuck, Darryl F. USA DBUS
597 Billy Elliot 2000 Daldry, Stephen UK / France Y
598 Broadcast News 1987 Brooks, James L. USA Y
598 The Story of Qiu Ju 1992 Zhang, Yimou China / Hong Kong D
600 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Newell, Mike UK Y
601 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 Pollack, Sydney USA D
602 Olympia Part Two:
Festival of Beauty		 1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
604 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Benigni, Roberto Italy Y
606 Crossfire 1947 Dmytryk, Edward USA YU
607 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Olmi, Ermanno Italy / France Y
608 sex, lies, and videotape 1989 Soderbergh, Steven USA Y
616 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 August, Bille Denmark / Sweden D
618 Trainspotting 1996 Boyle, Danny UK Y
620 Far from Heaven 2002 Haynes, Todd France / USA YS
622 Carmen Jones 1954 Preminger, Otto USA YS
623 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Ophüls, Marcel France / Switzerland / West Germany Y
623 Wild Reeds 1994 Téchiné, André France DU
624 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Luhrmann, Baz Australia / USA DUS
625 The King and I 1956 Lang, Walter USA DS
625 The Straight Story 1999 Lynch, David France / UK / USA Y
629 War and Peace 1968 Bondarchuk, Sergei Soviet Union D
630 Manon of the Spring 1986 Berri, Claude Italy / France / Switzerland DS
631 A Sunday in the Country 1984 Tavernier, Bertrand France Y
637 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Jackson, Peter UK / Germany / New Zealand Y
648 Darling 1965 Schlesinger, John UK Y
651 Grand Hotel 1932 Goulding, Edmund USA D
653 Genevieve 1953 Cornelius, Henry UK
656 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1975 Herzog, Werner West Germany Y
657 Out of Africa 1985 Pollack, Sydney USA YS
658 No Man's Land 2001 Tanovic, Danis Bosnia-Herzegovina / Slovenia / Italy / France / UK / Belgium D
661 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Van Sant, Gus USA YUP
662 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA Y
669 Bull Durham 1988 Shelton, Ron<