10.1.2000
| Modern Times (1936) - Charles Chaplin | |
| Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles | |
| It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra | |
| Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Sergio Leone | |
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick | |
| ↑ | Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola |
| Raging Bull (1980) - Martin Scorsese | |
| Unforgiven (1992) - Clint Eastwood | |
| N | Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir |
| N | Smoke (1995) - Wayne Wang, Paul Auster |
s| ↑ | The Gold Rush (1925) - Charles Chaplin |
| The Third Man (1948) - Carol Reed | |
| ↑ | The Searchers (1956) - John Ford |
| Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
| ↓ | Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder |
| One, Two, Three (1961) - Billy Wilder | |
| 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 | |
| ↑ | Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen |
| Mad Max 2 (1981) - George Miller | |
| ↓ | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Steven Spielberg |
| Barfly (1987) - Barbet Schroeder | |
| ↑ | Raising Arizona (1987) - Joel Coen |
| ↑ | The Crying Game (1992) - Neil Jordan |
| Ed Wood (1994) - Tim Burton | |
| ↑ | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) - Joel Coen |
| ↓ | Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino |
| N | Trainspotting (1996) - Danny Boyle |
| ↓ | The Kid (1921) - Charles Chaplin |
| The General (1926) - Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | |
| ↓ | Horse Feathers (1932) - Norman McLeod |
| Sons of the Desert (1933) - William A. Seitler | |
| The Great Dictator (1940) - Charles Chaplin | |
| N | 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 | |
| N | To Have and Have Not (1944) - Howard Hawks |
| The Killers (1946) - Robert Siodmak | |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - John Huston | |
| N | Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy Wilder |
| The African Queen (1951) - John Huston | |
| N | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Robert Wise |
| Strangers On a Train (1951) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
| The Quiet Man (1952) - John Ford | |
| Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
| ↓ | Rio Bravo (1958) - Howard Hawks |
| Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
| Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick | |
| A Shot in the Dark (1964) - Blake Edwards | |
| N | The Graduate (1967) - Mike Nichols |
| N | Midnight Cowboy (1969) - John Schlesinger |
| The Wild Bunch (1969) - Sam Peckinpah | |
| Bananas (1971) - Woody Allen | |
| ↓ | Dirty Harry (1971) - Don Siegel |
| N | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Sidney Lumet |
| N | The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino |
| ↓ | The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick |
| Body Heat (1981) - Lawrence Kasdan | |
| N | Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott |
| The Man With Two Brains (1983) - Carl Reiner | |
| ↓ | Amadeus (1984) - Milos Forman |
| This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - Rob Reiner | |
| Witness (1985) - Peter Weir | |
| ↓ | Year of the Dragon (1985) - Michael Cimino |
| Stand By Me (1986) - Rob Reiner | |
| ↓ | Hellraiser (1987) - Clive Barker |
| Robocop (1987) - Paul Verhoeven | |
| N | Dead Poets Society (1989) - Peter Weir |
| My Left Foot (1989) - Jim Sheridan | |
| Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Tim Burton | |
| Goodfellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese | |
| N | Jacob's Ladder (1990) - Adrian Lyne |
| N | Miami Blues (1990) - George Armitage |
| Wild at Heart (1990) - David Lynch | |
| Cape Fear (1991) - Martin Scorsese | |
| The Fisher King (1991) - Terry Gilliam | |
| JFK (1991) - Oliver Stone | |
| Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991) - James Cameron | |
| ↓ | Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - James Foley |
| N | Raising Cain (1992) - Brian De Palma |
| Reservoir Dogs (1992) - Quentin Tarantino | |
| N | Carlito's Way (1993) - Brian De Palma |
| N | Groundhog Day (1993) - Harold Ramis |
| N | The Piano (1993) - Jane Campion |
| ↓ | Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg |
| Quiz Show (1994) - Robert Redford | |
| N | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Frank Darabont |
| Casino (1995) - Martin Scorsese | |
| N | Dead Man (1995) - Jim Jarmusch |
| N | Dead Man Walking (1995) - Tim Robbins |
| Dolores Claiborne (1995) - Taylor Hackford | |
| ↓ | Se7en (1995) - David Fincher |
| N | Fargo (1996) - Joel Coen |
| N | Gods and Monsters (1998) - Bill Condon |
| N | Happiness (1998) - Todd Solondz |
| N | The Truman Show (1998) - Peter Weir |
| N | The Sixth Sense (1999) - M. Night Shyamalan |
N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
DROPPED OFF THE 1996 LIST:
| Night at the Opera (1935) - Leo McCarey | |
| High Sierra (1941) - Raoul Walsh | |
| Scarlet Street (1945) - Fritz Lang | |
| The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) - Vincente Minnelli | |
| Seven Samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa | |
| Inspector Palmu's Error (1960) - Matti Kassila | |
| The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Sergio Leone | |
| Little Big Man (1970) - Arthur Penn | |
| MASH (1970) - Robert Altman | |
| The Sting (1973) - George Roy Hill | |
| Jaws (1975) - Steven Spielberg | |
| National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) - John Landis | |
| Blues Brothers (1980) - John Landis | |
| E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982) - Steven Spielberg | |
| The World According to Garp (1982) - George Roy Hill | |
| Top Secret! (1984) - David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker | |
| Back to the Future (1985) - Robert Zemeckis | |
| Into the Night (1985) - John Landis | |
| The Fly (1986) - David Cronenberg | |
| Salvador (1986) - Oliver Stone | |
| The Untouchables (1987) - Brian De Palma | |
| The Commitments (1991) - Alan Parker | |
| The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Jonathan Demme | |
| The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - Michael Mann | |
| In the Line of Fire (1993) - Wolfgang Petersen | |
| The Snapper (1993) - Stephen Frears | |
| Forrest Gump (1994) - Robert Zemeckis |
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS: