1954

1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
5. Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
6. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
7. Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
8. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
9. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
10. La Pointe-courte (Agnes Varda)
11. Track of the Cat (William Wellman)

Almost There: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk), Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold), Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), Godzilla (Ishiro Honda), Human Desire (Fritz Lang), Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome [short] (Kenneth Anger), Them! (Gordon Douglas), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer).

Have Yet to See: A Star is Born (George Cukor).