Main list.
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: The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
1928: The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
1929: Spione (Fritz Lang)

1930: Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
1931: Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
1932: Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
1933: M (Fritz Lang)
1934: Fantômas (Fejős Pál)
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: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
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: Les Rendez-vous d’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 Dr. (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: Noli me tangere (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: The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
2023: Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
2024: The End of Evangelion (Anno Hideaki)