1940

1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
2. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
3. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
4. The Shop around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
6. Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske)
7. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
9. Fantasia (various)
10. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
11. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)

Almost There: Contraband (Michael Powell), Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner), The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges), The Letter (William Wyler), The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian), My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline), The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang), The Thief of Baghdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan).

Have Yet to See: Kitty Foyle (Sam Wood), The Long Voyage Home (John Ford), Northwest Passage (King Vidor), Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen), They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh).