Main list.
Feature films.
Release year.

1913: The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi)
1914: Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
1915: The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith)
1916: Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
1917:
1918: Mickey (F. Richard Jones & James Young)
1919:

1920: Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
1921: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
1922: Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)
1923: Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
1924: Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
1925: Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
1926: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
1927: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
1928: The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
1929: Spies (Fritz Lang)

1930: Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
1931: Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
1932: Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
1933: M (Fritz Lang)
1934: The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
1935: Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
1936: Fury (Fritz Lang)
1937: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
1938: The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
1939: Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)

1940: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1943: The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
1944: Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
1945: The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
1946: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1947: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
1948: Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
1949: The Heiress (William Wyler)

1950: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1951: Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)
1952: The Quiet Man (John Ford)
1953: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
1954: Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
1955: The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
1956: Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
1957: Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)

1960: Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
1961: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
1962: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1963: Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
1964: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
1965: The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
1966: Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
1967: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
1968: The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
1969: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)

1970: My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer)
1971: A New Leaf (Elaine May)
1972: Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
1973: Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
1974: The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
1975: Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
1976: The Marquise of O… (Éric Rohmer)
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
1978: Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
1979: The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1980: Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira)
1981: The Aviator’s Wife (Éric Rohmer)
1982: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1983: Sunless (Chris Marker)
1984: L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
1985: Ran (Kurosawa Akira)
1986: Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
1987: Ishtar (Elaine May)
1988: The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)

1990: The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
1991: Trust (Hal Hartley)
1992: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
1993: Hard-Boiled (John Woo)
1994: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
1995: Heat (Michael Mann)
1996: Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
1997: Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
1998: Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
1999: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)

2000: A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2002: Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
2003: Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2004: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
2005: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2006: Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
2007: Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2008: Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
2009: Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)

2010: The Ghost Writer (Roman Polański)
2011: Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
2012: The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
2013: Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
2014: Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
2015: The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2016: Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
2017: Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
2018: The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
2019: La Flor (Mariano Llinás)

2020: Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
2021: Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2022: The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
2023: Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
2024: The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
2025: Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)

Main list.
Feature films only.
Eligible films only.

1913: The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi)
1914: Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
1915: The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith)
1916: Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
1917:
1918: Mickey (F. Richard Jones & James Young)
1919:

1920: Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
1921: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
1922: Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)
1923: Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
1924: Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
1925: Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
1926: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
1927: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
1928: The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
1929: Spies (Fritz Lang)

1930: Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
1931: Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
1932: Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
1933: M (Fritz Lang)
1934: The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
1935: Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
1936: Fury (Fritz Lang)
1937: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
1938: The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
1939: Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)

1940: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1943: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
1944: Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
1945: The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
1946: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1947: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
1948: Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
1949: The Heiress (William Wyler)

1950: The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
1951: Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)
1952: The Quiet Man (John Ford)
1953: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
1954: Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
1955: The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
1956: Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
1957: Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)

1960: Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
1961: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
1962: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1963: Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
1964: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
1965: The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
1966: Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
1967: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
1968: The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
1969: Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji)

1970: Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
1971: A New Leaf (Elaine May)
1972: Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro)
1973: An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu Yasujiro)
1974: The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
1975: Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
1976: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1977: F for Fake (Orson Welles)
1978: Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
1979: The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1980: Eraserhead (David Lynch)
1981: India Song (Marguerite Duras)
1982: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1983: Sunless (Chris Marker)
1984: L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
1985: Ran (Kurosawa Akira)
1986: Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
1987: Ishtar (Elaine May)
1988: The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman)
1989: Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)

1990: The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
1991: Trust (Hal Hartley)
1992: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
1993: My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao)
1994: The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
1995: Heat (Michael Mann)
1996: Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
1997: Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
1998: Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
1999: Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)

2000: A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2002: Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
2003: Platform (Jia Zhangke)
2004: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
2005: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2006: Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
2007: Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2008: Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
2009: Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)

2010: World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2011: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2012: The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
2013: Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
2014: Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
2015: Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
2016: A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
2017: Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
2018: Legend of the Mountain (King Hu)
2019: La Flor (Mariano Llinás)

2020: Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
2021: Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2022: Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
2023: Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
2024: Beijing Watermelon (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
2025: Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)

Main list.
Release year.
Eligible films only.

1910:
1911:
1912:
1913: Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
1914:
1915: Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
1916:
1917:
1918: Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
1919:

1920:
1921:
1922: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
1923: Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
1924: Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
1925: Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
1926: The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
1927: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
1928: Spies (Fritz Lang)
1929: Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)

1930: Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
1931: M (Fritz Lang)
1932: Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
1933: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
1934: The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
1935: Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
1936: Fury (Fritz Lang)
1937: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
1938: Holiday (George Cukor)
1939: Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)

1940: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
1944: Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
1945: The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
1946: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1947: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
1948: Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
1949: Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro)

1950: La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
1951: Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
1952: The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
1953: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
1954: Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
1955: Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)
1956: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
1957: Pyaasa (Guru Dutt)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)

1960: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
1961: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1962: An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu Yasujiro)
1963: Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
1964: Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
1965: Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
1966: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
1967: The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
1968: Death by Hanging (Oshima Nagisa)
1969: L’Amour fou (Jacques Rivette)

1970: Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
1971: A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
1972: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1973: The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
1974: Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
1975: India Song (Marguerite Duras)
1976: News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
1977: Eraserhead (David Lynch)
1978: Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
1979: Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung)

1980: Simone Barbès or Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
1981: The Aviator’s Wife (Éric Rohmer)
1982: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1983: Sunless (Chris Marker)
1984: Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)
1985: Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
1986: Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
1987: Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
1988: My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao)
1989: A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

1990: Trust (Hal Hartley)
1991: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
1992: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
1993: Naked (Mike Leigh)
1994: Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
1995: Heat (Michael Mann)
1996: Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
1997: Cure (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
1998: The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
1999: Beau Travail (Claire Denis)

2000: A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2002: My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
2003: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
2004: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2005: The Child (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
2006: Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2007: The Trap (Adam Curtis)
2008: Sparrow (Johnnie To)
2009: Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)

2010: Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
2011: The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
2012: Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
2013: Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
2014: Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
2015: Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
2016: Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
2017: Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2018: La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
2019: Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)

2020: Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
2021: Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2022: Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
2023: The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
2024: Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
2025: Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)