1990's

1990:
1. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
2. Miller's Crossing (Coen)
3. Edward Scissorhands (Burton)
4. Close-Up (Kiarostami)
5. Wild at Heart (Lynch)
6. Dances with Wolves (Costner)
7. Nikita (Besson)
8. Jacob's Ladder (Lyne)
9t. Archangel (Maddin)
9t. Metropolitan (Stillman)

Near Misses:
Total Recall (Verhoeven)
Trust (Hartley)
Pump Up the Volume (Moyle)
Twin Peaks Pilot (Lynch)
Misery (Reiner)
The Grifters (Frears)


1991:
1. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
2. Barton Fink (Coen)
3. JFK (Stone)
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron)
5t. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang)
5t. Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale/Wise)
7. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
8. Days of Being Wild (Wong)
9. Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet)
10. The Rapture (Tolkin)

Close:
Prospero's Books (Greenaway)
La Belle noiseuse (Rivette)


1992:
1. Unforgiven (Eastwood)
2. The Player (Altman)
3. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
4t. Husbands and Wives (Allen)
4t. Lessons of Darkness (Herzog)
6. Malcolm X (S. Lee)
7t. Orlando (Potter)
7t. Hard-Boiled (Woo)
9t. Baraka (Fricke)
9t. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch)

Close:
Careful (Maddin)
Porco Rosso (Miyazaki)


1993:
1. Schindler's List (Spielberg)
2. Naked (Leigh)
3. Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski)
4. Groundhog Day (Ramis)
5. Wallace & Gromit in the Wrong Trousers (Park)
6. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick)
7. Short Cuts (Altman)
8. Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
9t. Sonatine (Kitano)
9t. The Piano (Campion)

Almost:
Jurassic Park (Spielberg)


1994:
1. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
2. Chungking Express (Wong)
3. Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski)
4. Ed Wood (Burton)
5. Exotica (Egoyan)
6. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
7. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
8. Sátántangó (Tarr)
9. Crumb (Zwigoff)
10. Three Colors: White (Kieslowski)

So Close:
Hoop Dreams (James)
Léon (Besson)


1995:
1. Se7en (Fincher)
2. Dead Man (Jarmusch)
3. Whisper of the Heart (Kondo)
4. Before Sunrise (Linklater)
T5. Heat (Mann)
T5. Twelve Monkeys (Gilliam)
7. Safe (Haynes)
8. Toy Story (Lasseter)
9. Cyclo (Tran)
10. Underground (Kusturica)

So very close:
La Haine (Kassovitz)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz)
Maborosi (Koreeda)


1996:
1. Fargo (Coen)
2. Trainspotting (Boyle)
3. Breaking the Waves (Trier)
4. Secrets and Lies (Leigh)
5. Lone Star (Sayles)
6. La Promesse (Dardennes)
7. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Berlinger/Sinofsky)
8. Waiting for Guffman (Guest)
9. Bottle Rocket (W. Anderson)
10t. Freeway (Bright)
10t. Crash (Cronenberg)
10t. Sling Blade (Thornton)

Not quite:
Kids Return (Kitano)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Trousdale/Wise)

1997:
1. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
2. Jackie Brown (Tarantino)
3t. Hana-bi (Kitano)
3t. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)
5. Lost Highway (Lynch)
6. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
7. Funny Games (Haneke)
8. In the Company of Men (LaBute)
9. L.A. Confidential (Hanson)
10. Cure (K. Kurosawa)

Almost there
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Herzog)

1998:

1. Rushmore (W. Anderson)

2. The Big Lebowski (Coen)

3. The Thin Red Line (Malick)

4. Run, Lola, Run (Tykwer)

5. The Truman Show (Weir)

6. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)

7. The Celebration (Vinterberg)

8. Pleasantville (Ross)

9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam)

10. Fucking Åmål (Moodysson)

Almost there:

Out of Sight (Soderbergh)

Buffalo '66 (Gallo)

The Hole (Tsai)

1999:

1. Being John Malkovich (Jonze)

2. Magnolia (P.T. Anderson)

3. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)

4. Fight Club (Fincher)

5t. Election (Payne)

5t. The Straight Story (Lynch)

7t. Ratcatcher (Ramsay)

7t. Kikujiro (Kitano)

9. Beau Travail (Denis)

10. Boys Don't Cry (Peirce)

Almost there:

The Insider (Mann)

Three Kings (Russell)

Toy Story 2 (Lasseter/Brannon/Unkrich)

Audition (Miike)