1940s

1940

Arizona (Wesley Ruggles)
Fantasia
(Norm Ferguson, et al.)
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
Knute Rockne All American (Lloyd Bacon)
My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline)
Northwest Passage (King Vidor)
Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang)
Santa Fe Trail (Michael Curtiz)
Trail of the Vigilantes (Allan Dwan)
Virginia City (Michael Curtiz)
The Westerner (William Wyler)

1941

Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock)
Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh)
Western Union (Fritz Lang)
The Wolf Man (George Waggner)

1942

Bambi (David Hand & Samuel Armstrong)
It Happened in Flatbush (Ray McCarey)
The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood)
Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Spoilers (Ray Enright)

1943

A Lady Takes a Chance (William A. Seiter)
The Outlaw
(Howard Hughes)
The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)

1944

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
Tall in the Saddle (Edwin L. Marin)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)

1945

Along Came Jones (Stuart Heisler)
Detour
(Edgar G. Ulmer)
Don’t Fence Me In (John English)
Flame of Barbary Coast (Joseph Kane)
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)

1946

The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
Duel in the Sun (King Vidor)
Make Mine Music (Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, et al.)
A Matter of Life & Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Stranger (Orson Welles)
The Virginian (Stuart Gilmore)

1947

Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant)
Crossfire
(Edward Dmytryk)
Fun and Fancy Free (Hamilton Luske, et al.)
Gentlemen’s Agreement (Elia Kazan)
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh)

1948

Blood on the Moon (Robert Wise)
Fort Apache (John Ford)
Four Faces West (Alfred E. Green)
Melody Time (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson & Jack Kinney)
The Naked City (Jules Dassin)
Oliver Twist (David Lean)
The Paleface (Norman Z. McLeod)
Red River (Howard Hawks)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
Station West (Sidney Lanfield)
3 Godfathers (John Ford)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston) [4/28/2011]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston) [2/12/2018]
Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman)

1949

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney & James Algar)
Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh)
The Heiress (William Wyler)
I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
It Happens Every Spring (Lloyd Bacon)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
The Stratton Story (Sam Wood)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Busby Berkeley)
Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock)