1947 – Shoe-Shine (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
1948 – Monsieur Vincent (Maurice Cloche, France)
1949 – The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
1950 – The Walls of Malapaga (René Clément, France/Italy)
1951 – Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
1952 – Forbidden Games (René Clément, France)
1954 – Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan)
1955 – Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan)
1956 – La Strada (Federico Fellini, Italy)
1957 – The Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, Italy)
1958 – My Uncle (Jacques Tati, France)
1959 – Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, France/Brazil/Italy)
1960 – The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
1961 – Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
1962 – Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon, France)
1963 – 8-1/2 (Federico Fellini, Italy)
1964 – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
1965 – The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakia)
1966 – A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch, France)
1967 – Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, Czechoslovakia)
1968 – War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, USSR)
1969 – Z (Costa-Gavras, Algeria)
1970 – Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, Italy)
1971 – The Garden of the Finzi Continis (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
1972 – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, France)
1973 – Day for Night (François Truffaut, France)
1974 – Amarcord (Federico Fellini, Italy)
1975 – Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, USSR)
1976 – Black and White in Color (Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ivory Coast)
1977 – Madame Rosa (Moshé Mizrahi, France)
1978 – Get out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier, France)
1979 – The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, Federal Republic of Germany)
1980 – Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov, USSR)
1981 – Mephisto (István Szabó, Hungary)
1982 – Volver a Empezar/To Begin Again (José Luis Garci, Spain)
1983 – Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
1984 – Dangerous Moves (Richard Dembo, Switzerland)
1985 – The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, Argentina)
1986 – The Assault (Fons Rademakers, The Netherlands)
1987 – Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel, Denmark)
1988 – Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August, Denmark)
1989 – Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy)
1990 – Journey of Hope (Xavier Koller, Switzerland)
1991 – Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvatores, Italy)
1992 – Indochine (Régis Wargnier, France)
1993 – Belle Epoque (Fernando Trueba, Spain)
1994 – Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia)
1995 – Antonia’s Line (Marleen Gorris, The Netherlands)
1996 – Kolya (Jan Sverák, Czech Republic)
1997 – Character (Mike van Diem, The Netherlands)
1998 – Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, Italy)
1999 – All about My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
2000 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, Taiwan)
2001 – No Man’s Land (Danis Tanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2002 – Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link, Germany)
2003 – The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand, Canada)
2004 – The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar, Spain)
2005 – Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, South Africa)
2006 – The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany)
2007 – The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria)
2008 – Departures (Okuribito) (Yojiro Takita, Japan)
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Best 100 Movies Ever Made – TIME Magazine
American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies of All Times
BAFTA Award for Best Film 1948 –
British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films of the 20th Century
Cahiers du Cinema – Best Movies 1951 – 2006
Cahiers du Cinema: 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World