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Year of Release
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Director
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Answer
|
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1927/28
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William E. Wellman
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Wings
|
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1927/28
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Frank Borzage
|
7th Heaven
|
|
1927/28
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Lewis Milestone
|
The Racket
|
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1928/29
|
Harry Beaumont
|
The Broadway Melody
|
|
1928/29
|
Roland West
|
Alibi
|
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1928/29
|
Charles Reisner
|
Hollywood Revue
|
|
1928/29
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Irving Cummings & Raoul Walsh
|
In Old Arizona
|
|
1928/29
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
The Patriot
|
|
1929/30
|
Lewis Milestone
|
All Quiet on the Western Front
|
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1929/30
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George Hill
|
The Big House
|
|
1929/30
|
Alfred E. Green
|
Disraeli
|
|
1929/30
|
Robert Z. Leonard
|
The Divorcee
|
|
1929/30
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
The Love Parade
|
|
1930/31
|
Wesley Ruggles
|
Cimarron
|
|
1930/31
|
Frank Lloyd
|
East Lynne
|
|
1930/31
|
Lewis Milestone
|
The Front Page
|
|
1930/31
|
Norman Taurog
|
Skippy
|
|
1930/31
|
W. S. Van Dyke
|
Trader Horn
|
|
1931/32
|
Edmund Goulding
|
Grand Hotel
|
|
1931/32
|
John Ford
|
Arrowsmith
|
|
1931/32
|
Frank Borzage
|
Bad Girl
|
|
1931/32
|
King Vidor
|
The Champ
|
|
1931/32
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
Five Star Final
|
|
1931/32
|
George Cukor & Ernst Lubitsch
|
One Hour With You
|
|
1931/32
|
Josef von Sternberg
|
Shanghai Express
|
|
1931/32
|
Ernst Lubistch
|
The Smiling Lieutenant
|
|
1932/33
|
Frank Lloyd
|
Cavalcade
|
|
1932/33
|
Lloyd Bacon
|
42nd Street
|
|
1932/33
|
Frank Borzage
|
A Farewell to Arms
|
|
1932/33
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
|
|
1932/33
|
Frank Capra
|
Lady for a Day
|
|
1932/33
|
George Cukor
|
Little Women
|
|
1932/33
|
Alexander Korda
|
The Private Life of Henry VIII
|
|
1932/33
|
Lowell Sherman
|
She Done Him Wrong
|
|
1932/33
|
Sidney Franklin
|
Smilin Through
|
|
1932/33
|
Henry King
|
State Fair
|
|
1934
|
Frank Capra
|
It Happened One Night
|
|
1934
|
Sidney Franklin
|
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
|
|
1934
|
Cecil B. DeMille
|
Cleopatra
|
|
1934
|
Frank Borzage
|
Flirtation Walk
|
|
1934
|
Mark Sandrich
|
The Gay Divorcee
|
|
1934
|
Lloyd Bacon
|
Here Comes the Navy
|
|
1934
|
Alfred L. Werker
|
The House of Rothschild
|
|
1934
|
John M. Stahl
|
Imitation of Life
|
|
1934
|
Victor Schertzinger
|
One Night of Love
|
|
1934
|
W. S. Van Dyke
|
The Thin Man
|
|
1934
|
Jack Conway
|
Viva Villa!
|
|
1934
|
Irving Cummings
|
The White Parade
|
|
1935
|
Frank Lloyd
|
Mutiny on the Bounty
|
|
1935
|
George Stevens
|
Alice Adams
|
|
1935
|
Roy Del Ruth
|
Broadway Melody of 1936
|
|
1935
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Captain Blood
|
|
1935
|
George Cukor
|
David Copperfield
|
|
1935
|
John Ford
|
The Informer
|
|
1935
|
Henry Hathaway
|
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
|
|
1935
|
Max Reinhardt
|
A Midsummer Night's Dream
|
|
1935
|
Richard Boleslawski
|
Les Miserables
|
|
1935
|
Robert Z. Leonard & W. S. Van Dyke
|
Naughty Marietta
|
|
1935
|
Leo McCarey
|
Ruggles of Red Gap
|
|
1935
|
Mark Sandrich
|
Top Hat
|
|
1936
|
Robert Z. Leonard
|
The Great Ziegfeld
|
|
1936
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
Anthony Adverse
|
|
1936
|
William Wyler
|
Dodsworth
|
|
1936
|
Jack Conway
|
Libeled Lady
|
|
1936
|
Frank Capra
|
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
|
|
1936
|
George Cukor
|
Romeo and Juliet
|
|
1936
|
W. S. Van Dyke
|
San Francisco
|
|
1936
|
Henry Blanke
|
The Story of Louis Pastour
|
|
1936
|
Jack Conway
|
A Tale of Two Cities
|
|
1936
|
Henry Roster
|
Three Smart Girls
|
|
1937
|
William Dieterle
|
The Life of Emile Zola
|
|
1937
|
Leo McCarey
|
The Awful Truth
|
|
1937
|
Freddie Bartholomew
|
Captains Courageous
|
|
1937
|
William Wyler
|
Dead End
|
|
1937
|
Sidney Franklin
|
The Good Earth
|
|
1937
|
Henry King
|
In Old Chicago
|
|
1937
|
Frank Capra
|
Lost Horizon
|
|
1937
|
Henry Koster
|
One Hundred Men and a Girl
|
|
1937
|
Gregory La Cava
|
Stage Door
|
|
1937
|
William A. Wellman
|
A Star Is Born
|
|
1938
|
Frank Capra
|
You Can't Take It With You
|
|
1938
|
Michael Curtiz & William Keightley
|
The Adventures of Robin Hood
|
|
1938
|
Henry King
|
Alexander's Ragtime Band
|
|
1938
|
Norman Taurog
|
Boys Town
|
|
1938
|
King Vidor
|
The Citadel
|
|
1938
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Four Daughters
|
|
1938
|
Jean Renoir
|
Grand Illusion
|
|
1938
|
William Wyler
|
Jezebel
|
|
1938
|
Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard
|
Pygmalion
|
|
1938
|
Victor Fleming
|
Pilot Test
|
|
1939
|
Victor Fleming
|
Gone With the Wind
|
|
1939
|
Edmund Goulding
|
Dark Victory
|
|
1939
|
Sam Wood
|
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
|
|
1939
|
Leo McCarey
|
Love Affair
|
|
1939
|
Frank Capra
|
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
|
|
1939
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
Ninotchka
|
|
1939
|
Lewis Milestone
|
Of Mice and Men
|
|
1939
|
John Ford
|
Stagecoach
|
|
1939
|
Victor Fleming
|
Wizard of Oz
|
|
1939
|
William Wyler
|
Wuthering Heights
|
|
1940
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Rebecca
|
|
1940
|
Anatole Litvak
|
All This, and Heaven Too
|
|
1940
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Foreign Correspondant
|
|
1940
|
John Ford
|
The Grapes of Wrath
|
|
1940
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
The Great Dictator
|
|
1940
|
Sam Wood
|
Kitty Foyle
|
|
1940
|
William Wyler
|
The Letter
|
|
1940
|
John Ford
|
The Long Voyage Home
|
|
1940
|
Thornton Wilder
|
Our Town
|
|
1940
|
George Cukor
|
The Philadelphia Story
|
|
1941
|
John Ford
|
How Green Was My Valley
|
|
1941
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
Blossoms in the Dust
|
|
1941
|
Orson Welles
|
Citizen Kane
|
|
1941
|
Alexander Hall
|
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
|
|
1941
|
Mitchell Leisen
|
Hold Back the Dawn
|
|
1941
|
William Wyler
|
The Little Foxes
|
|
1941
|
John Huston
|
The Maltese Falcon
|
|
1941
|
Irving Rapper
|
One Foot In Heaven
|
|
1941
|
Howard Hawks
|
Sergeant York
|
|
1941
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Suspicion
|
|
1942
|
William Wyler
|
Mrs. Miniver
|
|
1942
|
Michael Powell
|
49th Parallel
|
|
1942
|
Sam Wood
|
Kings Row
|
|
1942
|
Orson Welles
|
The Magnificent Ambersons
|
|
1942
|
Irving Pichel
|
The Pied Piper
|
|
1942
|
Sam Wood
|
The Pride of the Yankees
|
|
1942
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
Random Harvest
|
|
1942
|
George Stevens
|
Talk of the Town
|
|
1942
|
John Farrow
|
Wake Island
|
|
1942
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Yankee Doodle Dandy
|
|
1943
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Casablanca
|
|
1943
|
Sam Wood
|
For Whom The Bell Tolls
|
|
1943
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
Heaven Can Wait
|
|
1943
|
Clarence Brown
|
The Human Comedy
|
|
1943
|
Noel Coward
|
In Which We Serve
|
|
1943
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
Madame Curie
|
|
1943
|
George Stevens
|
The More the Merrier
|
|
1943
|
William A. Wellman
|
The Ox-Bow Incident
|
|
1943
|
Henry King
|
The Song of Bernadette
|
|
1943
|
Herman Shumlin
|
Watch on the Rhine
|
|
1944
|
Leo McCarey
|
Going My Way
|
|
1944
|
Billy Wilder
|
Double Indemnity
|
|
1944
|
George Cukor
|
Gaslight
|
|
1944
|
John Cromwell
|
Since You Went Away
|
|
1944
|
Henry King
|
Wilson
|
|
1945
|
Billy Wilder
|
The Lost Weekend
|
|
1945
|
George Sidney
|
Anchors Aweigh
|
|
1945
|
Leo McCarey
|
The Bell of St. Mary's
|
|
1945
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Mildred Pierce
|
|
1945
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Spellbound
|
|
1946
|
William Wyler
|
The Best Years of Our Lives
|
|
1946
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Henry V
|
|
1946
|
Frank Capra
|
It's a Wonderful Life
|
|
1946
|
Edmund Goulding
|
The Razor's Edge
|
|
1946
|
Clarence Brown
|
The Yearling
|
|
1947
|
Elia Kazan
|
Gentleman's Agreement
|
|
1947
|
Henry Koster
|
The Bishop's Wife
|
|
1947
|
Edward Dmytryk
|
Crossfire
|
|
1947
|
David Lean
|
Great Expectations
|
|
1947
|
George Seaton
|
Miracle on 34th Street
|
|
1948
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Hamlet
|
|
1948
|
Jean Negulesco
|
Johnny Belinda
|
|
1948
|
Michael Powell
|
The Red Shoes
|
|
1948
|
Anatole Litvak
|
The Snake Pit
|
|
1948
|
John Huston
|
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
|
|
1949
|
Robert Rossen
|
All the King's Men
|
|
1949
|
William A. Wellman
|
Battleground
|
|
1949
|
William Wyler
|
The Heiress
|
|
1949
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
A Letter to Three Wives
|
|
1949
|
Henry King
|
Twelve O'Clock High
|
|
1950
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
All About Eve
|
|
1950
|
George Cukor
|
Born Yesterday
|
|
1950
|
Vincente Milleni
|
Father of the Bride
|
|
1950
|
Compton Bennett & Andrew Marton
|
King Solomon's Mines
|
|
1950
|
Billy Wilder
|
Sunset Boulevard
|
|
1951
|
Vincente Minelli
|
An American In Paris
|
|
1951
|
Anatole Litvak
|
Decision Before Dawn
|
|
1951
|
George Stevens
|
A Place in the Sun
|
|
1951
|
Mervyn LeRoy
|
Quo Vadis
|
|
1951
|
Elia Kazan
|
A Streetcar Named Desire
|
|
1952
|
Cecil B. DeMille
|
The Greatest Show on Earth
|
|
1952
|
Fred Zinneman
|
High Noon
|
|
1952
|
Richard Thorpe
|
Ivanhoe
|
|
1952
|
John Huston
|
Moulin Rouge
|
|
1952
|
John Ford
|
The Quiet Man
|
|
1953
|
Fred Zinneman
|
From Here to Eternity
|
|
1953
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
Julius Caeser
|
|
1953
|
Henry Koster
|
The Robe
|
|
1953
|
William Wyler
|
Roman Holiday
|
|
1953
|
George Stevens
|
Shane
|
|
1954
|
Elia Kazan
|
On the Waterfront
|
|
1954
|
Edward Dmytryk
|
The Caine Mutiny
|
|
1954
|
George Seaton
|
The Country Girl
|
|
1954
|
Stanley Donen
|
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
|
|
1954
|
Jean Negulesco
|
Three Coins in the Fountain
|
|
1955
|
Delbert Mann
|
Marty
|
|
1955
|
Henry King
|
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
|
|
1955
|
John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy
|
Mister Roberts
|
|
1955
|
Joshua Logan
|
Picnic
|
|
1955
|
Daniel Mann
|
The Rose Tattoo
|
|
1956
|
Michael Anderson
|
Around the World in 80 Days
|
|
1956
|
William Wyler
|
Friendly Persuasion
|
|
1956
|
George Stevens
|
Giant
|
|
1956
|
Walter Lang
|
The King and I
|
|
1956
|
Cecil B. DeMille
|
The Ten Commandments
|
|
1957
|
David Lean
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai
|
|
1957
|
Sidney Lumet
|
12 Angry Men
|
|
1957
|
Mark Robson
|
Peyton Place
|
|
1957
|
Joshua Logan
|
Sayonara
|
|
1957
|
Billy Wilder
|
Witness for the Prosecution
|
|
1958
|
Vincente Minelli
|
Gigi
|
|
1958
|
Morton DaCosta
|
Auntie Mame
|
|
1958
|
Richard Brooks
|
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
|
|
1958
|
Stanley Kramer
|
The Defiant Ones
|
|
1958
|
Delbert Mann
|
Separate Tables
|
|
1959
|
William Wyler
|
Ben-Hur
|
|
1959
|
Otto Preminger
|
Anatomy of a Murder
|
|
1959
|
George Stevens
|
The Diary of Anne Frank
|
|
1959
|
Fred Zinneman
|
The Nun's Story
|
|
1959
|
Jack Clayton
|
Room at the Top
|
|
1960
|
Billy Wilder
|
The Apartment
|
|
1960
|
John Wayne
|
The Alamo
|
|
1960
|
Richard Brooks
|
Elmer Gantry
|
|
1960
|
Jack Cardiff
|
Sons and Lovers
|
|
1960
|
Fred Zinneman
|
The Sundowners
|
|
1961
|
Robert Wise
|
West Side Story
|
|
1961
|
Joshua Logan
|
Fanny
|
|
1961
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
The Guns of Navarone
|
|
1961
|
Robert Rossen
|
The Hustler
|
|
1961
|
Stanley Kramer
|
Judgement at Nuremberg
|
|
1962
|
David Lean
|
Lawrence of Arabia
|
|
1962
|
Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, & Bernhard Wicki
|
The Longest Day
|
|
1962
|
Morton DaCosta
|
The Music Man
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