1946

1. Notorious- Alfred Hitchcock
2. The Big Sleep- Howard Hawks
3. Beauty and the Beast- Jean Cocteau
4. Stairway to Heaven- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
5. Brief Encounter- David Lean
6. The Best Years of Our Lives- William Wyler
7. My Darling Clementine- John Ford
8. [Great Expectations- David Lean]
9. Gilda- Charles Vidor
10. Rome, Open City- Roberto Rossellini
11. It's a Wonderful Life- Frank Capra
12. The Murderers Are Among Us- Wolfgang Staudte
13. The Killers- Robert Siodmak

Ripe for re-appraisal:

Need to see: La Bataille du Rail (Rene Clement), Bedlam (Mark Robson), Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur), Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch), Devil in the Flesh (Claude Autant-Lara), Diary of a Chambermaid (Jean Renoir), Fragment of Seeking (Curtis Harrington), Green For Danger (Sidney Gilliat), The Harvey Girls (George Sidney), Hoppity Pop (Norman McLaren), Humoresque (Jean Negulesco), Iris and the Lieutenant (Alf Sjoberg), The Man I Love (Raoul Walsh), My Reputation (Curtis Bernhardt), No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa), Paisan (Roberto Rossellini), The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett), Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren), A Scandal in Paris (Douglas Sirk), Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica), The Stone Flower (Aleksandr Ptushko), The Stranger (Orson Welles), Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi),

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) Torment (Alf Sjöberg), The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder), The Red Meadows (Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.), Brief Encounter, Portrait of Maria (Emilio Fernández), Neecha Nagar (Chetan Anand), The Turning Point (Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler), La symphonie pastorale (Jean Delannoy), The Last Chance (Leopold Lindtberg), Men Without Wings (František Čáp), Rome, Open City