1945

1. Children of Paradise- Marcel Carne
2. Detour- Edgar G. Ulmer
3. Dead of Night- Cavalcanti / Basil Dearden / Robert Hamer / Charles Crichton
4. [Ivan the Terrible, Part I- Sergei Eisenstein]
5. Les Dames du Bois du Boulogne- Robert Bresson
6. I Know Where I'm Going!- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
7. The Lost Weekend- Billy Wilder
8. Leave Her to Heaven- John M. Stahl
9. The Clock- Vincente Minnelli
10. Mildred Pierce- Michael Curtiz

Ripe for re-appraisal:

Need to see: And Then There Were None (Rene Clair), Blithe Spirit (David Lean), Blood on the Sun (Frank Lloyd), The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise), Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings), Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger), Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson), Know Your Enemy: Japan (Frank Capra and Joris Ivens), Murder, He Says (George Marshall), Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Roy Rowland), Paris Frills (Jacques Becker), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin), Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang), The Southerner (Jean Renoir), The Story of G.I. Joe (William A. Wellman), Study in Choreography For Camera (Maya Deren), They Were Expendable (John Ford), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan), A Walk in the Sun (Lewis Milestone), The White Gorilla (Harry L. Fraser), Wonder Man (H. Bruce Humberstone)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Lost Weekend