8.8.2004

| 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) - Lana Wachowski, Lilly 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) - Norman McLeod | |
| The Great Dictator (1940) - Charles Chaplin | |
| The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - John Frankenheimer | |
| Body Heat (1981) - Lawrence Kasdan | |
| Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott | |
| Hellraiser (1987) - Clive Barker | |
| Cape Fear (1991) - Martin Scorsese | |
| Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991) - James Cameron | |
| Dead Man (1995) - Jim Jarmusch | |
| Dead Man Walking (1995) - Tim Robbins |
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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