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| Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles | ||
| It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Frank Capra | ||
| The Third Man (1948) – Carol Reed | ||
| Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – David Lean | ||
| Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Sergio Leone | ||
| ↑ | Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen | |
| Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola | ||
| Unforgiven (1992) – Clint Eastwood | ||
| Fearless (1993) – Peter Weir | ||
| ↑ | Groundhog Day (1993) – Harold Ramis |
| ↓ | Modern Times (1936) – Charles Chaplin | |
| The Searchers (1956) – John Ford | ||
| Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| Some Like It Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder | ||
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
| 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 | ||
| ↓ | Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese | |
| Mad Max 2 (1981) – George Miller | ||
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Steven Spielberg | ||
| ↑ | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Sergio Leone | |
| Raising Arizona (1987) – Joel Coen | ||
| Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton | ||
| Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino | ||
| Smoke (1995) – Wayne Wang, Paul Auster | ||
| The Truman Show (1998) – Peter Weir | ||
| Magnolia (1999) – Paul Thomas Anderson | ||
| ↑ | O’ Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) – Joel Coen |
| The Kid (1921) – Charles Chaplin | ||
| The Gold Rush (1925) – Charles Chaplin | ||
| The General (1926) – Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | ||
| How Green Was My Valley (1941) – John Ford | ||
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston | ||
| Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz | ||
| To Be Or Not to Be (1942) – Ernst Lubitch | ||
| The Killers (1946) – Robert Siodmak | ||
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston | ||
| Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Billy Wilder | ||
| The African Queen (1951) – John Huston | ||
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – Robert Wise | ||
| Strangers On a Train (1951) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) – Vincente Minnelli | ||
| The Quiet Man (1952) – John Ford | ||
| Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa | ||
| Rio Bravo (1958) – Howard Hawks | ||
| Touch of Evil (1958) – Orson Welles | ||
| Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| ↓ | One, Two, Three (1961) – Billy Wilder | |
| Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
| A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Blake Edwards | ||
| N | The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) – Sergio Leone | |
| The Graduate (1967) – Mike Nichols | ||
| Midnight Cowboy (1969) – John Schlesinger | ||
| The Wild Bunch (1969) – Sam Peckinpah | ||
| Dirty Harry (1971) – Don Siegel | ||
| O Lucky Man! (1973) – Lindsay Anderson | ||
| N | Chinatown (1974) – Roman Polanski | |
| The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino | ||
| N | Manhattan (1979) – Woody Allen | |
| The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick | ||
| The Man With Two Brains (1983) – Carl Reiner | ||
| Amadeus (1984) – Milos Forman | ||
| This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner | ||
| N | Back to the Future (1985) – Robert Zemeckis | |
| Witness (1985) – Peter Weir | ||
| Stand By Me (1986) – Rob Reiner | ||
| Barfly (1987) – Barbet Schroeder | ||
| Robocop (1987) – Paul Verhoeven | ||
| Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Tim Burton | ||
| Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese | ||
| Jacob’s Ladder (1990) – Adrian Lyne | ||
| Wild at Heart (1990) – David Lynch | ||
| The Fisher King (1991) – Terry Gilliam | ||
| JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone | ||
| The Crying Game (1992) – Neil Jordan | ||
| Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) – James Foley | ||
| Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Quentin Tarantino | ||
| The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion | ||
| Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg | ||
| ↓ | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – Joel Coen | |
| The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Frank Darabont | ||
| SE7En (1995) – David Fincher | ||
| Fargo (1996) – Joel Coen | ||
| Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle | ||
| Gods and Monsters (1998) – Bill Condon | ||
| Happiness (1998) – Todd Solondz | ||
| American Beauty (1999) – Sam Mendes | ||
| ↓ | Being John Malkovich (1999) – Spike Jonze | |
| The Matrix (1999) – Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski | ||
| The Sixth Sense (1999) – M. Night Shyamalan | ||
| N | The Straight Story (1999) – David Lynch | |
| N | Memento (2000) – Christopher Nolan | |
| N | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) – Ang Lee | |
| N | Amélie (2001) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
| N | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) – Peter Jackson | |
| Moulin Rouge (2001) – Baz Luhrmann | ||
| N | Mulholland Drive (2001) – David Lynch |
THE SYMBOLS
N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
DROPPED OFF THE 2002 LIST:
Horse Feathers (1932)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Body Heat (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Hellraiser (1987)
Cape Fear (1991)
Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991)
Dead Man (1995)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
4 Joel Coen, Alfred Hitchcock
3 Charles Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick,
Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Peter Weir, Billy Wilder
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