9.9.1996
| Modern Times (1936) - Charles Chaplin | |
| Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles | |
| It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra | |
| Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder | |
| ↑ | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Sergio Leone |
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick | |
| ↑ | Raging Bull (1980) - Martin Scorsese |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Steven Spielberg | |
| ↑ | Unforgiven (1992) - Clint Eastwood |
| Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino |
| The Kid (1921) - Charles Chaplin | |
| ↑ | Horse Feathers (1932) - Norman McLeod |
| The Third Man (1948) - Carol Reed | |
| Rio Bravo (1958) - Howard Hawks | |
| N | One, Two, Three (1961) - Billy Wilder |
| Dirty Harry (1971) - Don Siegel | |
| The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola | |
| The Godfather Part II (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola | |
| ↑ | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Milos Forman |
| ↓ | Taxi Driver (1976) - Martin Scorsese |
| The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick | |
| ↓ | Mad Max 2 (1981) - George Miller |
| Amadeus (1984) - Milos Forman | |
| ↑ | Year of the Dragon (1985) - Michael Cimino |
| ↓ | Barfly (1987) - Barbet Schroeder |
| Hellraiser (1987) - Clive Barker | |
| Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - James Foley | |
| Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg | |
| N | Ed Wood (1994) - Tim Burton |
| N | Se7en (1995) - David Fincher |
| ↓ | The Gold Rush (1925) - Charles Chaplin |
| The General (1926) - Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | |
| Sons of the Desert (1933) - William A. Seitler | |
| Night at the Opera (1935) - Leo McCarey | |
| The Great Dictator (1940) - Charles Chaplin | |
| High Sierra (1941) - Raoul Walsh | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) - John Huston | |
| Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz | |
| N | To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Ernst Lubitch |
| N | Scarlet Street (1945) - Fritz Lang |
| The Killers (1946) - Robert Siodmak | |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - John Huston | |
| The African Queen (1951) - John Huston | |
| Strangers On a Train (1951) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
| N | The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) - Vincente Minnelli |
| N | The Quiet Man (1952) - John Ford |
| Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
| N | Seven Samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa |
| The Searchers (1956) - John Ford | |
| N | Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock |
| Inspector Palmu's Error (1960) - Matti Kassila | |
| Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
| Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick | |
| A Shot in the Dark (1964) - Blake Edwards | |
| The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Sergio Leone | |
| The Wild Bunch (1969) - Sam Peckinpah | |
| Little Big Man (1970) - Arthur Penn | |
| MASH (1970) - Robert Altman | |
| Bananas (1971) - Woody Allen | |
| The Sting (1973) - George Roy Hill | |
| ↓ | Jaws (1975) - Steven Spielberg |
| Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen | |
| ↓ | National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) - John Landis |
| Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola | |
| Blues Brothers (1980) - John Landis | |
| N | Body Heat (1981) - Lawrence Kasdan |
| E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982) - Steven Spielberg | |
| The World According to Garp (1982) - George Roy Hill | |
| The Man With Two Brains (1983) - Carl Reiner | |
| ↓ | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - Rob Reiner |
| Top Secret! (1984) - David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker | |
| Back to the Future (1985) - Robert Zemeckis | |
| ↓ | Into the Night (1985) - John Landis |
| Witness (1985) - Peter Weir | |
| The Fly (1986) - David Cronenberg | |
| Salvador (1986) - Oliver Stone | |
| Stand By Me (1986) - Rob Reiner | |
| Raising Arizona (1987) - Joel Coen | |
| ↓ | Robocop (1987) - Paul Verhoeven |
| The Untouchables (1987) - Brian De Palma | |
| My Left Foot (1989) - Jim Sheridan | |
| ↓ | Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Tim Burton |
| N | Goodfellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese |
| Wild at Heart (1990) - David Lynch | |
| Cape Fear (1991) - Martin Scorsese | |
| The Commitments (1991) - Alan Parker | |
| The Fisher King (1991) - Terry Gilliam | |
| JFK (1991) - Oliver Stone | |
| The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Jonathan Demme | |
| ↓ | Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991) - James Cameron |
| The Crying Game (1992) - Neil Jordan | |
| The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - Michael Mann | |
| Reservoir Dogs (1992) - Quentin Tarantino | |
| In the Line of Fire (1993) - Wolfgang Petersen | |
| The Snapper (1993) - Stephen Frears | |
| Forrest Gump (1994) - Robert Zemeckis | |
| N | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) - Joel Coen |
| Quiz Show (1994) - Robert Redford | |
| N | Casino (1995) - Martin Scorsese |
| N | Dolores Claiborne (1995) - Taylor Hackford |
THE SYMBOLS
N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
DROPPED OFF THE 1995 LIST:
| To Have and Have Not (1944) - Howard Hawks | |
| On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan | |
| The Unknown Soldier (1955) - Edvin Laine | |
| Goldfinger (1964) - Guy Hamilton | |
| The Graduate (1967) - Mike Nichols | |
| Pähkähullu Suomi (1967) - Jukka Virtanen | |
| Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Sidney Lumet | |
| The Eye of the Needle (1981) - Richard Marquand | |
| 48 Hrs. (1982) - Walter Hill | |
| Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott | |
| Angel Heart (1987) - Alan Parker | |
| House of Games (1987) - David Mamet | |
| Singles (1992) - Cameron Crowe |
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
5 Martin Scorsese
3 Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg
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