1930

The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)

1931

Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
Dracula (Tod Browning)
M (Fritz Lang)

1932

Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod)
Law and Order (Edward L. Cahn)
The Mummy (Karl Freund)

1933

Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)
The Invisible Man (James Whale)

1934

It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)

1935

Alibi Ike (Ray Enright)
Annie Oakley (George Stevens)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)

1936

Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
The Plainsman (Cecil B. DeMille)
Swing Time (George Stevens)

1937

The Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)
Way Out West (James W. Horne)

1938

Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
The Cowboy and the Lady (H.C. Potter)
Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard)

1939

Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
Dodge City (Michael Curtiz)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle)
Jesse James (Henry King)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
The Oklahoma Kid (Lloyd Bacon)
Stagecoach (John Ford)
Union Pacific (Cecil B. DeMille)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)