Rank the Darbi Award Winners/Nominees for Best Picture (1920-2009)

[Darbicus]

1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
- The Golem (Paul Wegener)
- Way Down East (D.W. Griffith)
- The Witch Woman (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux)


1921: The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram)
- Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith)
- The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjostrom)
- The Play House (Buster Keaton)


1922: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
- Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
- Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)
- Haxan (Benjamin Christensen)
- Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)


1923: Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley)
- La Roue (Abel Gance)
- Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer)
- A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin)


1924: Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
- The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
- Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
- The Thief of Baghdad (Raoul Walsh)


1925: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
- Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo)
- The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
- Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
- Tartuffe (F.W. Murnau)


1926: The General (Buster Keaton)
- 3 Bad Men (John Ford)
- Faust (F.W. Murnau)
- Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown)
- The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjostrom)


1927: Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
- The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
- Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
- Napoleon (Abel Gance)
- The Unknown (Tod Browning)


1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
- The Crowd (King Vidor)
- The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
- The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)


1929: The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
- The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Lucky Star (Frank Borzage)
- Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst)
- Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel)


1930: Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
- L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
- The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
- A Propos de Nice (Jean Vigo)


1931: City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
- La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
- Dracula (Tod Browning)
- M (Fritz Lang)
- Tabu (F.W. Murnau)


1932: Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
- Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
- I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
- Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)


1933: Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
- Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu)
- Land Without Bread (Luis Bunuel)
- Zero de Conduit (Jean Vigo)


1934: L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
- It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
- Les Miserables (Raymond Bernard)
- The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
- A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)


1935: Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
- The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder)
- Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen)
- A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)


1936: The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
- Arigato-San (Hiroshi Shimizu)
- Fury (Fritz Lang)
- Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
- Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)


1937: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
- Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)
- Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
- Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)


1938: The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
- Jezebel (William Wyler)
- The Massuers and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu)
- Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne)


1939: The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
- Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
- The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)


1940: The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
- His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
- The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)


1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
- The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
- The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
- Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)


1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
- Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
- Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)
- The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
- To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)


1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
- Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
- Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
- Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)


1944: Laura (Otto Preminger)
- Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
- Henry V (Laurence Olivier)
- Ivan the Terrible, Part One (Sergei Eisenstein)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)


1945: Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
- Brief Encounter (David Lean)
- Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
- Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
- Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)


1946: Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
- Great Expectations (David Lean)
- It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
- Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)


1947: Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
- The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
- Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
- Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
- Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)


1948: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
- Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica)
- The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
- Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
- The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)


1949: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
- A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
- The Third Man (Carol Reed)


1950: Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
- All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
- Orphee (Jean Cocteau)
- Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)


1951: Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
- Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
- Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
- The River (Jean Renoir)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)


1952: Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
- Forbidden Games (Rene Clement)
- The Quiet Man (John Ford)
- Singin in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)


1953: Ugetsu Monogatori (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
- Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
- The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)


1954: Sansho the Baliff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
- La Strada (Federico Fellini)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)


1955: Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
- All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
- Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
- Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)


1956: The Searchers (John Ford)
- Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
- Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
- A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
- Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)


1957: The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
- The Cranes Are Flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
- Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
- White Nights (Luchino Visconti)


1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
- Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
- The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
- Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)


1959: The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
- Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
- Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
- The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)


1960: Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
- Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
- La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
- L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)


1961: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
- Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
- La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman
- Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)


1962: L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
- Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)


1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
- Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard[/i]
- The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
- The Silence (Ingmar Bergman[/i]
- El Verdugo (Luis Garcia Berlanga)


1964: Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
- Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
- Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
- Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)


1965: Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
- Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
- Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
- The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos)


1966: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
- Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
- The Battle of Algiers (Gilo Pontecorvo)
- Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)


1967: Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil)
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard[/i]
- Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
- Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
- The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso)


1968: The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Cremator (Juraj Herz)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
- Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)


1969: L'Amour Fou (Jacques Rivette)
- Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha)
- Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
- My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
- The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol)


1970: Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
- Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
- The Conformsit (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio de Sica)
- MASH (Robert Altman)


1971: Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
- Il Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
- McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
- Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)


1972: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
- Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeiosie (Luis Bunuel)
- Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette)


1973: Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
- Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
- Badlands (Terrence Malick)
- Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
- Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)


1974: Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (R.W. Fassbinder)
- Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
- F for Fake (Orson Welles)
- The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)


1975: Nashville (Robert Altman)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
- Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
- The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- The Travelling Players (Theodorous Angelopoulos)


1976:Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
- Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
- Network (Sidney Lumet)


1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
- The Ascent (Larisa Sheptiko)
- Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
- Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda)
- Providence (Alain Resnais)


1978: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
- Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
- The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
- The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)


1979: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Manhattan (Woody Allen)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (R.W. Fassbinder)


1980: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
- The Age of the Earth (Glauber Rocha)
- The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
- Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais)


1981: Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette)
- Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda)
- My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
- Lola (R.W. Fassbinder)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)


1982: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
- ET The Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
- Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
- Veronika Voss (R.W. Fassbinder)


1983: Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- El Norte (Gregory Nava)
- Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
- Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
- A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)


1984: Amadeus (Milos Forman)
- Antonio Gaudi (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
- Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
- Love on the Ground (Jacques Rivette)
- Love Streams (John Cassavetes)


1985: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
- Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
- Come and See (Elem Klimov)
- Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
- Vagabond (Agnes Varda)


1986: The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
- Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
- Platoon (Oliver Stone)


1987: Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat)
- Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
- The Dead (John Huston)
- Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)


1988: Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
- Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
- My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)


1989: The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- City of Sadness (Hou Hsaio-Hsien)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
- Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)


1990: Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
- Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
- Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
- Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)


1991: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
- The Beautiful Troublemaker (Jacques Rivette)
- The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- My Own Private Idaho (Gus van Sant)
- Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)


1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood[/i]
- Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
- Rebels of the Neon God (Ming-Liang Tsai)
- Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
- A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer)


1993: Palms (Artour Aristakisian)
- The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
- Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
- Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
- Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)


1994: Satantango (Bela Tarr)
- Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
- Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
- The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
- Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)


1995: Safe (Todd Haynes)
- The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
- Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
- The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- Seven (David Fincher)


1996: The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
- Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
- Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
- La Promesse (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)


1997: A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
- Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
- The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)


1998: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
- An Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)
- Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsaio-Hsien)
- The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
- Rushmore (Wes Anderson)


1999: Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
- Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
- Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)


2000: In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
- O' Brother Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
- Yi Yi (Edward Yang)


2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
- AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
- Memento (Christopher Nolan)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)


2002: Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
- The 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
- Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)


2003: Dogville (Lars von Trier)
- Elephant (Gus van Sant)
- The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
- Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
- The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)


2004: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Downfall (Oliver Hirschbigel)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
- Moolaade (Ousmane Sembene)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)


2005: L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
- Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
- Cache (Michael Haneke)
- A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
- The New World (Terrence Malick)


2006: United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
- Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
- The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
- Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
- Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)


2007: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- Aleksandra (Aleksandr Sokurov)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
- No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)


2008: Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
- Che (Steven Soderbergh)
- The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
- Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)


2009: The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
- Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
- A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)


Whew....anyway have at it...

[moror2804]

Sunset Blvd. FTW! Great list, although I have to admit I haven't watched as many of these as I would have liked.

If only the Oscars or the precursors nominated as many foreign films.

[Dally]

1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
1921: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram)
1922: Haxan (Benjamin Christensen)
1923: La Roue (Abel Gance)
1924: The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
1925: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
1926: The General (Buster Keaton)
1927: Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
1928: The Crowd (King Vidor)
1929: Lucky Star (Frank Borzage)

1930: L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel)
1931: La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
1932: Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
1933: Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
1934: Les Miserables (Raymond Bernard)
1935: Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen)
1936: Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1937: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
1938: Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
1939: Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)

1940: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1944: Laura (Otto Preminger)
1945: Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
1946: It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
1947: Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
1948: The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)

1950: All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1951: Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
1952: Forbidden Games (Rene Clement)
1953: Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
1954: La Strada (Federico Fellini)
1955: Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
1956: Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
1957: The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)

1960: L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1961: Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
1962: The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1964: Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
1965: Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
1966: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
1967: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard[/i]
1968: The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov)
1969: The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol)

1970: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio de Sica)
1971: Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeiosie (Luis Bunuel)
1973: Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
1975: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
1976: Network (Sidney Lumet)
1977: The Ascent (Larisa Sheptiko)
1978: Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
1979: All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)

1980: Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
1982: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
1983: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker) (Meh?)
1984: Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1985: Come and See (Elem Klimov)
1986: Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
1987: The Dead (John Huston)
1988: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)

1990: Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
1991: The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1992: Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
1993: The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
1994: Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1995: Safe (Todd Haynes)
1996: Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
1997: The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
1998: The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
1999: Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2002: Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
2003: Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
2005: The New World (Terrence Malick)
2006: United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
2008: Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
2009: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

[flibber]

Originally Posted by Dally

...

This is the second craziest post in this thread!

[Zuranthium]

1940: The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1944: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
1945: Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
1947: Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
1948: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica)
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)

1950: All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1952: Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa) - wow, you actually nominated Singin in the Rain, though...I give Ikiru my award in 1953 and award Singin this year
1953: Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
1954: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1955: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1956: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson) meh
1957: 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder) meh again

1960: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
1961: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford) - your lack of David Lean saddens me
1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1964: Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
1965: Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
1966: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
1967: n/a - haven't seen enough of these
1968: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
1969: n/a again

1970: The Conformsit (Bernardo Bertolucci)
1971: McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
1972: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
1973: Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
1974: The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
1975: Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
1976: Network (Sidney Lumet)
1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)

1980: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg) Rivette, again?
1982: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1983: Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1984: Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1985: Brazil (Terry Gilliam) you give Miyazki tons of love but not for Nausicaä
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
1987: Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
1988: Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
1989: Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)

1990: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1991: The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
1993: Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
1994: The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
1995: Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater) - not crazy about this selection, although I suppose Safe needs to be reviewed, and I see you nominate Before Sunrise but not Before Sunset
1996: Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
1997: Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
1998: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
1999: Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
2003: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) - I REALLY need to see the omg green of Tropical Malady...the rest of these fail to make my top 5
2005: Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
2006: United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
2007: No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2008: The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
2009: The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

[flibber]

In all seriousness, I've seen at least one film from 69 of your 89 sets of nominees, which actually makes me pretty happy.

[guany]

1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
1921: The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
1922: Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)
1923: Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer)
1924: Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
1925: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
1926: The General (Buster Keaton)
1927: Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1929: Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel)

1930: The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
1931: City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
1932: Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1933: Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
1934: Les Miserables (Raymond Bernard)
1935: The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
1936: Arigato-San (Hiroshi Shimizu)
1937: Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
1938: The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
1939: The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)


1940: Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1944: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
1945: Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1946: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1947: Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
1948: The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)


1950: All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
1952: The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
1953: Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
1954: Sansho the Baliff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1955: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1956: The Searchers (John Ford)
1957: The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)

1960: L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1961: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1962: L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1964: Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
1965: Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
1966: Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1967: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard[/i]
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1969: Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)

1970: The Conformsit (Bernardo Bertolucci)
1971: Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeiosie (Luis Bunuel)
1973: Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
1975: Nashville (Robert Altman)
1976:Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
1979: Manhattan (Woody Allen)

1980: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
1981: My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
1982: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
1983: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
1984: Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1985: Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
1987: Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
1988: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
1989: Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)

1990: Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
1991: The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
1993: Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
1994: Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1995: Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
1996: The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
1997: A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
1998: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
1999: All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)

2000: Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2002: Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
2003: Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
2005: Cache (Michael Haneke)
2006: The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
2007: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2008: The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
2009: The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

[filmy]

1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
1921: The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
1922: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
1923: none seen
1924: Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1925: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
1926: The General (Buster Keaton)
1927: Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1929: The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
1930: Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
1931: M (Fritz Lang)
1932: Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1933: Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
1934: L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
1935: The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
1936: Fury (Fritz Lang)
1937: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
1938: Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
1939: The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
1940: Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1944: Laura (Otto Preminger)
1945: Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
1947: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
1948: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica)
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1950: All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1951: Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
1952: Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
1953: Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
1954: Sansho the Baliff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1955: All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
1956: Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
1957: The Cranes Are Flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
1960: L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1961: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1962: L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1963: Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard[/i]
1964: Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
1965: Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
1966: Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1967: Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1969: Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1970: The Conformsit (Bernardo Bertolucci)
1971: Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeiosie (Luis Bunuel)
1973: Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
1975: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
1976: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
1980: Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais)
1981: My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
1982: ET The Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
1983: Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1984: Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
1985: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
1986: Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
1987: Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
1988: The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
1989: The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1990: Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
1991: Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)
1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood[/i]
1993: The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
1994: Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
1995: Safe (Todd Haynes)
1996: Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
1997: A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
1998: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
1999: The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
2000: Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
2001: AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
2002: Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
2003: Elephant (Gus van Sant)
2004: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2005: The New World (Terrence Malick)
2006: Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2007: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2008: Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
2009: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

[filmy]

Cdmc, he's not asking for your own choices...

[cdmc]

Originally Posted by filmy

Cdmc, he's not asking for your own choices...

[cdmc]

1920:
1921: The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjostrom)
1922: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
1923:
1924:
1925: Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
1926:
1927:
1928: The Crowd (King Vidor)
1929: The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)

1930:
1931: City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
1932: I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
1933:
1934: A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
1935:
1936:
1937: Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
1938:
1939: Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)

1940: The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
1941: The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
1942: To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
1943: Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
1944:
1945: Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1946: It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
1947:
1948: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
1949: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)

1950: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
1951: The River (Jean Renoir)
1952: Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
1953: Ugetsu Monogatori (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1954: The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
1955: Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
1956: The Searchers (John Ford)
1957: Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)

1960: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
1961: Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman[/i]
1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1964: Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
1965: Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
1966: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
1967: Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
1968: The Cremator (Juraj Herz)
1969: My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)

1970: The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
1971: Il Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
1972: Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette)
1973: Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
1974: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (R.W. Fassbinder)
1975: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
1976:Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
1977: The Ascent (Larisa Sheptiko)
1978: Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)

1980: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
1981: Lola (R.W. Fassbinder)
1982: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
1983: Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
1984: Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1985: Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1986: The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1987: Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
1988: The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
1989: City of Sadness (Hou Hsaio-Hsien)

1990: Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
1991: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood[/i]
1993: Palms (Artour Aristakisian)
1994: Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
1995: Safe (Todd Haynes)
1996: Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
1997: Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
1998: Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsaio-Hsien)
1999: The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)

2000: Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
2001: AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
2002: Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
2003: Elephant (Gus van Sant)
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
2005: A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2006: Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2007: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2008: Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
2009: A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)

- not enough seen from the nominees

[Jeff+Chlo]

Ooh, cdmc, I like -usage.

= have seen less than three; but if I have seen anything, my choice.
= have somehow seen them all.

1920:
1921: The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
1922:
1923:
1924:
1925:
1926:
1927: Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
1928: The Crowd (King Vidor)
1929:

1930:
1931: City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
1932: Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1933:
1934: The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
1935: The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
1936: Fury (Fritz Lang)
1937: Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
1938: Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawkes)
1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)

1940: Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1943: Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
1944: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
1945: Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1946: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1947: Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
1948: The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)

1950: All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
1952: Forbidden Games (Rene Clement)
1953: Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
1954: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1955:
1956: Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
1957: The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
1958: Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
1959: The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)

1960: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
1961: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
1962: Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1964: Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
1965: Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
1966: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
1967: Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
1968: Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
1969: Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)

1970:
1971: Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
1973: Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
1975:
1976: Network (Sidney Lumet)
1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978: Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
1979: Manhattan (Woody Allen)

1980: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
1982: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
1983:
1984: Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
1985: Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
1987: Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
1988: The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
1989:

1990: Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
1991: My Own Private Idaho (Gus van Sant)
1992:
1993: Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1994: Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
1995: Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
1996: Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
1997: Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
1998:
1999: All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)

2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2002: Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
2003: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
2005: The New World (Terrence Malick)
2006: Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
2007: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2008: WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
2009: A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)

LMFAO.

[Kgirl]

Jeff? You are needed and wanted in mafia, man

[daveupho]

I'll just pick the winners from the years where I've seen all of your nominees. It's not really fair otherwise!

2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2002: Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
2003: The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)

Done.

[Dally]

1983 was the only year where I was all, eh, with Darbi nominees. So, I had to go with Sans Soleil, which I don't even like.

Our nominees in the late 1920s through 1940s overlap a lot. Meaning, Darbi has good taste.