1940's

FILMS OF THE YEAR: THE 1940's

"An Audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius" - Billy Wilder


1949
  1. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
  2. White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
  3. Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
  4. Battleground (William A. Wellman)
  5. Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
  6. The Heiress (William Wyler)
  7. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
  8. The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
  9. Le silence de la mer (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  10. They Live By Night (Nicolas Ray)
Honourary Mentions:
All the King's Men (Robert Rossen)
D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté)

1948
  1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
  2. The Red Shows (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  3. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
  4. Yellow Sky (Wiliam A. Wellman)
  5. Red River (Howard Hawks)
  6. The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
  7. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
  8. The Big Clock (John Farrow)
  9. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
  10. Key Largo (John Huston)
Honourary Mentions:
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
He Walked by Night (Alfred l. Werker)
Brighton Rock (John Boulting)
Unfaithful Yours (Preston Struges)
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton)

1947
  1. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  3. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
  4. Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
  5. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
  6. A Double Life (George Cukor)
  7. Brute Force (Jules Dassin)
  8. Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
  9. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  10. Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway)
Honourary Mentions:
T-Men (Anthony Mann)
Boomerand! (Elia Kazan)

1946
  1. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
  2. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
  3. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. The Big Sleep (Howard Hocks)
  5. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  6. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
  7. Great Expectations (David Lean)
  8. The Stranger (Orson Welles)
  9. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
  10. La belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau)
Honourary Mentions:
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone)
The Dark Mirror (Robert Siodmak)

1945
  1. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
  2. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
  3. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
  4. Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti/Charles Crichton/Basil Dearden/Robert Hamer)
  5. The Story of G.I.Joe (William A. Wellman)
  6. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stah)
  7. The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak)
  8. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin)
  9. I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  10. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
Honourary Mentions:
Conflict (Curtis Bernhardt)
And Then There Were None (René Clair)

1944
  1. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
  2. Laura (Otto Preminger)
  3. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
  5. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
  6. The Lodger (John Brahm)
  7. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Mervyn LeRoy)
  8. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
  9. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)
  10. Henry V (Lawrence Olivier)
1943
  1. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
  2. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  3. Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder)
  4. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
  5. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  6. Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang)
  7. Le corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  8. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. Sahara (Zoltan Korda)
  10. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
1942
  1. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
  3. This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle)
  4. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
  5. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
  6. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
  7. Kid Glove Killer (Fred Zinnemann)
  8. The Man Who Came to Dinner (William Keighley)
  9. I Married A Witch (René Clair)
  10. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
1941
  1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
  2. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
  3. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges) 
  4. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  5. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
  6. Sergeant York (Howard Hawks)
  7. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) 
  8. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
  9. The Wolf Man (George Waggner)
  10. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
1940
  1. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
  3. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
  4. Fantasia (James Algar/Samuel Armstrong)
  5. Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed)
  6. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin) 
  8. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
  9. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
  10. The Thief of Bagdad (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Honourary Mentions:
Pinocchio (Norman Ferguson/T. Hee)
The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian)
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