1942

1. Casablanca- Michael Curtiz
2. The Palm Beach Story- Preston Sturges
3. The Magnificent Ambersons- Orson Welles
4. Ossessione- Luchino Visconti
5. To be or Not to Be- Ernst Lubitsch
6. Cat People- Jacques Tourneur
7. Listen to Britain- Humphrey Jennings [short]
8. Bambi- David Hand
9. [Yankee Doodle Dandy- Michael Curtiz]
10. Sullivan's Travels- Preston Sturges

Ripe for re-appraisal: Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler), La Nuit Fantastique (Marcel L’Herbier)

Need to see: The 47 Ronin, Part II (Kenji Mizoguchi), Across the Pacific (John Huston), Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh), The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler), In Which We Serve (Noel Coward and David Lean), Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster), Kings Row (Sam Wood), The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder), The Man Who Came to Dinner (William Keighley), The Murderer Lives at Twenty-One (Henri-Georges Clouzot), Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper), One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Once Upon a Honeymoon (Leo McCarey), Pip-Eye, Pup-Eye, Poop-Eye an’ Peep-Eye (Dave Flesicher), The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood), Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy), Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock), Talk of the Town (George Stevens), This Gun For Hire (Frank Tuttle), Les Visiteurs du Soir (Marcel Carne), Went the Day Well? (Cavalcanti), Woman of the Year (George Stevens)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Mrs. Miniver