1947

1. Monsieur Verdoux- Charlie Chaplin
2. Black Narcissus- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
3. Out of the Past- Jacques Tourneur
4. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
5. Quai des Orfèvres- Henri-Georges Clouzot
6. Fireworks- Kenneth Anger [short]
7. Dark Passage- Delmer Daves
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Ripe for re-appraisal: The Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery)

Need to see: Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant), Antoine and Antoinette (Jacques Becker), The Bishop’s Wife (Henry Koster), Body and Soul (Robert Rossen), Born to Kill (Robert Wise), Brute Force (Jules Dassin), Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk), Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger), A Double Life (George Cukor), Fiddle-De-Dee (Norman McLaren), Gentleman’s Agreement (Elia Kazan), Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini), Good News (Charles Walters), Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway), Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding), Odd Man Out (Carol Reed), The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock), Pursued (Raoul Walsh), Record of a Tenant Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu), La Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville), T-Men (Anthony Mann)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gentleman’s Agreement
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)