1939

1. The Rules of the Game- Jean Renoir
2. Stagecoach- John Ford
3. Only Angels Have Wings- Howard Hawks
4. [Ninotchka- Ernst Lubitsch]
5. Destry Rides Again- George Marshall
6. The Wizard of Oz- Victor Fleming
7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington- Frank Capra
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1938

1. Alexander Nevsky- Sergei Eisenstein
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood- William Keighley and Michael Curtiz
3. [Le Quai des Brumes- Marcel Carné]
4. La Bête Humaine- Jean Renoir
5. The Lady Vanishes- Alfred Hitchcock
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1937

1. Grand Illusion- Jean Renoir
2. [Make Way For Tomorrow- Leo McCarey]
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs- David Hand
4. A Day at the Races- Sam Wood
5. The Awful Truth- Leo McCarey
6. A Star Is Born- William Wellman
7. The Edge of the World- Michael Powell
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1936

1. Dodsworth- William Wyler
2. Swing Time- George Stevens
3. Modern Times- Charlie Chaplin
4. Sisters of the Gion- Kenji Mizoguchi
5. Fury- Fritz Lang
6. The Devil Doll- Tod Browning
7. [Libeled Lady- Jack Conway]
8. The Road to Glory- Howard Hawks
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1935

1. Bride of Frankenstein- James Whale
2. The 39 Steps- Alfred Hitchcock
3. A Night at the Opera- Sam Wood
4. Top Hat- Mark Sandrich
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1934

1. L'Atalante- Jean Vigo
2. [It's a Gift- Norman Z. MacLeod]
3. It Happened One Night- Frank Capra
4. The Story of Floating Weeds- Yasujiro Ozu
5. The Scarlet Empress- Josef von Sternberg
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much- Alfred Hitchcock
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1933

1. Duck Soup- Leo McCarey
2. Night on Bald Mountain- Alexander Alexieff and Claire Parker [short]
3. King Kong- Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper
4. The Fatal Glass of Beer- Clyde Bruckman [short]
5. Baby Face- Alfred E. Green
6. Zero de Conduite- Jean Vigo [short]
7. [The Testament of Dr. Mabuse- Fritz Lang]
8. 42nd Street- Lloyd Bacon
9. Blood Money- Rowland Brown
10. I'm No Angel- Wesley Ruggles

1932

1. Freaks- Tod Browning
2. Trouble in Paradise- Ernst Lubitsch
3. Scarface: The Shame of the Nation- Howard Hawks
4. Vampyr- Carl Theodor Dreyer
5. Shanghai Express- Josef Von Sternberg
6. I Was Born, But...- Yasujiro Ozu
7. [Red Dust- Victor Fleming]
8. Boudu Saved From Drowning- Jean Renoir
9. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang- Mervyn LeRoy
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1931

1. M- Fritz Lang
2. City Lights- Charlie Chaplin
3. Enthusiasm- Dziga Vertov
4. Le Million- René Clair
5. [Tabu- F.W. Murnau]
6. Frankenstein- James Whale
7. À Nous la Liberté- René Clair
8. Dracula- Tod Browning
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1930

1. Un Chien Andalou- Luis Bunuel [short]
2. Blood of a Poet- Jean Cocteau [short]
3. The Blue Angel- Josef von Sternberg
4. L'Age d'Or- Luis Bunuel
5. Earth- Alexander Dovzhenko
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