non-genre film, 1900–present

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Murder!   UK  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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1935
The 39 Steps   UK  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1936

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1938
The Lady Vanishes   UK  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1939
Gone with the Wind   USA  VICTOR FLEMING

1940

1941
Suspicion   USA  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1942
Casablanca   USA  MICHAEL CURTIZ

1943
Education for Death   USA  CLYDE GERONIMI
Sahara   USA  ZOLTAN KORDA

1944

1945
Scarlet Street   USA  FRITZ LANG

1946
Shock   USA   ALFRED L. WERKER

1947
Dark Passage   USA  DELMER DAVES
New Orleans   USA   ARTHUR LUBIN
Queen of the Amazons   USA   EDWARD FINNEY

1948
Rope   USA  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1949
Impact   USA   ARTHUR LUBIN

1950

1951
The African Queen   USA  JOHN HUSTON
Strangers on a Train   USA  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro   USA  HENRY KING

1953

1954
Rear Window   USA  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1955
The Damn Busters   UK  MICHAEL ANDERSON
The Trouble with Harry   USA  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1956

1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai   UK / USA   DAVID LEAN
The Wayward Bus   USA   VICTOR VICAS

1958
She Gods of Shark Reef   USA   ROGER CORMAN

1959
The Bat   USA   CRANE WILBUR
The Hound of the Baskervilles   UK  TERENCE FISHER
North by Northwest   USA  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1960
Psycho   USA   ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1961

1962

1963
The Birds   USA  ALFRED HITCHCOCK
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World   USA   STANLEY KRAMER
The Pink Panther   USA   BLAKE EDWARDS

1964
Marnie   USA  ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1965

1966
Single Room Furnished   USA  MATTEO OTTAVIANO

1967

1968

1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid   USA  GEORGE ROY HILL
The Italian Job   UK  PETER COLLINSON
Kes   UK  KEN LOACH

1970

1971
And Now for Something Completely Different   UK  IAN MacNAUGHTON
Duel   USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG
The French Connection   USA  WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
A Journey to Avebury   UK   DEREK JARMAN

1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God   West Germany  WERNER HERZOG

1973

1974

1975
Jaws   USA   STEVEN SPIELBERG
The Return of the Pink Panther   USA   BLAKE EDWARDS

1976
All the President's Men   USA  ALAN J. PAKULA
The Pink Panther Strikes Again   USA   BLAKE EDWARDS
The Gumball Rally   USA   CHARLES BAIL
Marathon Man   USA  JOHN SCHLESINGER
Network   USA  SIDNEY LUMET
Silent Movie   USA  MEL BROOKS
The Song Remains the Same   UK / USA  PETER CLIFTON & JOE MASSOT
Sybil   USA  DANIEL PETRIE
Up!   USA  RUSS MEYER

1977
Abba: The Movie   Australia / Sweden  LASSE HALLSTRÖM
Airport '77   USA  JERRY JAMESON
For the Love of Benji   USA   JOE CAMP
Kentucky Fried Movie   USA  JOHN LANDIS
Saturday Night Fever   USA  JOHN BADHAM
Smokey and the Bandit   USA  HAL NEEDHAM
The Spy Who Loved Me   UK  LEWIS GILBERT
Sweeney!   UK  DAVID WICKES

1978
The Boys from Brazil   UK / USA   FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER
Coma   USA  MICHAEL CRICHTON
Death on the Nile   UK  JOHN GUILLERMIN
The Deer Hunter   USA  MICHAEL CIMINO
Every Which Way But Loose   USA  JAMES FARGO
Grease   USA  RANDAL KLEISER
Jaws 2   USA  JEANNOT SZWARC
Midnight Express l House,  USA  JOHN LANDIS
Revenge of the Pink Panther   UK / USA  BLAKE EDWARDS
The Stud   UK  QUENTIN MASTERS

1979
10   USA  BLAKE EDWARDS
Apocalypse Now   USA  FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Being There   USA  HAL ASHBY
Birth of The Beatles   UK  RICHARD MARQUAND
The China Syndrome   USA  JAMES BRIDGES
Kramer vs. Kramer   USA  ROBERT BENTON
Manhattan   USA  WOODY ALLEN
Monty Python's Life of Brian   UK  TERRY JONES
Moonraker   UK  LEWIS GILBERT

1980
Airplane!   USA  JIM ABRAHAMS, DAVID ZUCKER & JERRY ZUCKER
The Blues Brothers   USA  JOHN LANDIS
The Elephant Man   USA  DAVID LYNCH
Fame   USA  ALAN PARKER
Ordinary People   USA  ROBERT REDFORD

1981
S.O.B.   USA   BLAKE EDWARDS
Das Boot   Germany  WOLFGANG PETERSEN
Chariots of Fire   UK   HUGH HUDSON
Gallipoli   Australia  PETER WEIR
Gregory's Girl   UK  BILL FORSYTH
The Postman Always Rings Twice   USA  BOB RAFELSON
Raiders of the Lost Ark   USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG

1982
Airplane II: The Sequel   USA  KEN FINKLEMAN
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid   USA  CARL REINER
Gandhi   UK / India / USA  RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
Koyaanisqatsi   USA  GODFREY REGGIO
An Officer and a Gentleman   USA  TAYLOR HACKFORD
The Year of Living Dangerously   Australia  PETER WEIR

1983
The Crimson Permanent Assurance   UK  TERRY GILLIAM
Flashdance >  UK  BILL FORSYTH
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence   Japan / UK  NAGISA OSHIMA
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life   UK  TERRY JONES
Octopussy   UK  JOHN GLEN
The Right Stuff   USA  PHILIP KAUFMAN
Sans Soleil   France  CHRIS MARKER
Terms of Endearment   USA  JAMES L. BROOKS
Trading Places   USA  JOHN LANDIS
Yentl   USA  BARBARA STREISAND
Zelig   USA  WOODY ALLEN

1984
Against All Odds   USA  TAYLOR HACKFORD
Amadeus   USA  MILOS FORMAN
Birdy   USA  ALAN PARKER
Footloose   USA  HERBERT ROSS
Kaos   Italy  PAOLO TAVIANI & VITTORIO TAVIANI
The Killing Fields   UK  ROLAND JOFFÉ
The Legend of the Surami Fortress   Russia   SERGEI PARADJANOV
Paris, Texas   West Germany / France / UK / USA  WIM WENDERS
Splash   USA  RON HOWARD
This Is Spinal Tap   USA  ROB REINER

1985
Agnes of God   USA  NORMAN JEWISON
The Color Purple   USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG
The Emerald Forest   UK  JOHN BOORMAN
Kiss of the Spider Woman   Brazil / USA  HÉCTOR BABENCO
Letter to Brezhnev   UK  CHRIS BERNARD
My Beautiful Laundrette   UK  STEPHEN FREARS
National Lampoon's European Vacation   USA  AMY HECKERLING
Out of Africa   USA  SYDNEY POLLACK
A Room with a View   UK  JAMES IVORY

1986
Children of a Lesser God   USA  RANDA HAINES
Crocodile Dundee   Australia / USA  PETER FAIRMAN
F/X   USA  ROBERT MANDEL
The Hitcher   USA  ROBERT HARMON
The Mosquito Coast   USA  PETER WEIR

1987
Bagdad Cafe   Germany   PERCY ADLON
Blind Date   USA   BLAKE EDWARDS
Cry Freedom   UK   RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
Dragnet   USA   TOM MANKIEWICZ
Empire of the Sun   USA   STEVEN SPIELBERG
Fatal Attraction   USA   ADRIAN LYNE
Good Morning, Vietnam   USA   BARRY LEVINSON
Planes, Trains and Automobiles   USA   JOHN HUGHES
Red Sorghum   China   ZHANG YIMOU
Roxanne   USA   FRED SCHEPISI
Surrender   USA   JERRY BELSON
Three Men and a Baby   USA   LEONARD NIMOY
Wall Street   USA   OLIVER STONE

1988
The Big Blue   France / Italy / USA  LUC BESSON
Cinema Paradiso   Italy  GUISEPPE TORNATORE
A Fish Called Wanda   UK / USA  CHARLES CRICHTON, JOHN CLEESE
Gorillas in the Mist   USA  MICHAEL APTED
The Naked Gun   USA  DAVID ZUCKER
Rain Man   USA  BARRY LEVINSON
Who Framed Roger Rabbit   USA  ROBERT ZEMECKIS

1989
Always   USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG
Dead Poets Society   USA  PETER WEIR
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade   USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG
The Metamorphosis – A Study: Nabokov on Kafka   USA  PETER MEDAK
My Left Foot   Ireland / UK  JIM SHERIDAN
Shirley Valentine   UK  LEWIS GILBERT
The War of the Roses   USA  DANNY DeVITO
When Harry Met Sally…   USA  ROB REINER
Wild Orchid   USA  ZALMAN KING

1990
Air America   USA  ROGER SPOTTISWOODE
Dances with Wolves   USA  KEVIN COSTNER
Industrial Symphony No. 1   USA  DAVID LYNCH
Mountains of the Moon   USA  BOB RAFELSON
Three Men and a Little Lady   USA  EMILE ARDOLINO

1991
Backdraft   USA  RON HOWARD
Cape Fear   USA  MARTIN SCORSESE
The Commitments   Ireland / UK / USA  ALAN PARKER
JFK   USA  OLIVER STONE
L.A. Story   USA  MICK JACKSON
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear   USA  DAVID ZUCKER
Other People's Money   USA  NORMAN JEWISON
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves   USA  KEVIN REYNOLDS
The Silence of the Lambs   USA  JONATHAN DEMME
Thelma & Louise   USA  RIDLEY SCOTT

1992
1492: Conquest of Paradise   France / Spain  RIDLEY SCOTT
Basic Instinct   USA / UK / France  PAUL VERHOEVEN
The Bodyguard   USA  MICK JACKSON
The Crying Game   Ireland / UK / Japan  NEIL JORDAN
A Few Good Men   USA  ROB REINER
The Last of the Mohicans   USA  MICHAEL MANN
Lorenzo's Oil   USA  GEORGE MILLER
Malcolm X   USA  SPIKE LEE
The Mambo Kings   USA / France  ARNE GLIMCHER
Patriot Games   USA  PHILLIP NOYCE
A River Runs Through It   USA  ROBERT REDFORD
Sarafina!   USA / South Africa / UK / France  DARREL ROODT
White Men Can't Jump   USA  RON SHELTON

1993
Cliffhanger   USA / France / Italy  RENNY HARLIN
Cool Runnings   USA  JON TURTELTAUB
Grumpy Old Men   USA  DONALD PETRIE
Kalifornia   USA  DOMINIC SENA
Mrs. Doubtfire   USA  CHRIS COLUMBUS
Philadelphia   USA  JONATHAN DEMME
The Piano   New Zealand / Australia / France  JANE CAMPION
Schindler's List   USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG
Sleepless in Seattle   USA  NORA EPHRON
So I Married an Axe Murderer   USA  THOMAS SCHLAMME

1994
Disclosure   USA   BARRY LEVINSON
Ed Wood   USA   TIM BURTON
Forrest Gump   USA   ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Four Weddings and a Funeral   UK  MIKE NEWELL
The Lion King   USA   ROGER ALLERS, ROB MINKOFF
The Madness of King George   UK   NICHOLAS HYTNER
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult   USA  PETER SEGAL
Il Postino   ITALY   MICHAEL RADFORD, MASSIMO TROISI
Pulp Fiction   USA  QUENTIN TARANTINO
The Shawshank Redemption   USA  FRANK DARABONT
Speed   USA   JAN DE BONT

1995
Apollo 13   USA  RON HOWARD
Babe   USA  CHRIS NOONAN
Braveheart   USA  MEL GIBSON
Crimson Tide   USA  TONY SCOTT
Dangerous Minds   USA  JOHN N. SMITH
Don Juan DeMarco   USA  JEREMY LEVEN
Get Shorty   USA  BARRY SONNENFELD
Nine Months   USA  CHRIS COLUMBUS
Pocahontas   USA  MIKE GABRIEL, ERIC GOLDBERG
The Usual Suspects   USA / Germany  BRYAN SINGER

1996
101 Dalmatians   USA  STEPHEN HEREK
The Birdcage   USA  MIKE NICHOLS
Brassed Off   UK  MARK HERMAN
Dead Man Walking   USA  TIM ROBBINS
The English Patient   USA  ANTHONY MINGHELLA
The Ghost and the Darkness   USA   STEPHEN HOPKINS
Jerry Maguire   USA  CAMERON CROWE
Michael Collins   USA  NEIL JORDAN
Mission: Impossible   USA  BRIAN De PALMA
The People vs. Larry Flynt   USA  MILOS FORMAN
The Rock   USA  MICHAEL BAY
Secrets and Lies   UK / France  MIKE LEIGH
Striptease   USA  ANDREW BERGMAN
Trainspotting   UK  DANNY BOYLE
Twister   USA  JAN De BONT

1997
Amistad   USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG
Jackie Brown   USA  QUENTIN TARANTINO
Kundun   USA  MARTIN SCORSESE
The Peacemaker   USA  MIMI LEDER
That Old Feeling   USA  CARL REINER
Titanic   USA  JAMES CAMERON

1998
The Full Monty   UK   PETER CATTANEO
How Stella Got Her Groove Back   USA   KEVIN RODNEY SULLIVAN
Saving Private Ryan   USA   STEVEN SPIELBERG
Shakespeare in Love   USA   JOHN MADDEN

1999
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me   USA   JAY ROACH
Man on the Moon   USA   MILOS FORMAN
Notting Hill   UK / USA  ROGER MICHELL

2000
Best in Show   USA  CHRISTOPHER GUEST
Billy Elliot   UK  STEPHEN DALDRY
Erin Brockovich   USA  STEVEN SODERBERGH
Gladiator   UK / USA  RIDLEY SCOTT
Kevin and Perry Go Large   UK  ED BYE
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?   USA  JOEL COHEN
Vertical Limit   USA  MARTIN CAMPBELL

2001
Blow   USA  TED DEMME
Bridget Jones's Diary   UK / USA / France  SHARON MAGUIRE
Monster's Ball   USA  MARC FORSTER
Y Tu Mama Tambien   Mexico  ALFONSO CUARÓN

2002
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress   China / France  DAI SIJIE
Bend It Like Beckham   UK / Germany  GURINDER CHADHA
Chicago   USA  ROB MARSHALL
My Big Fat Greek Wedding   Canada / USA  JOEL ZWICK
The Pianist   UK / Poland / Germany / France  ROMAN POLANSKI
Shoot or Be Shot / Shooting Stars   USA  J. RANDALL ARGUE
Together   China  CHEN KAIGE

2003
Big Fish   USA  TIM BURTON
Kill Bill, vol. 1   USA  QUENTIN TARANTINO
Lost in Translation   USA  SOFIA COPPOLA
Love Actually   UK / USA / France  RICHARD CURTIS
Mystic River   USA  CLINT EASTWOOD

2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason   UK / France / Germany / Ireland / USA  BEEBAN KIDRON
Inside I'm Dancing / Rory O'Shea Was Here   Ireland / UK / France  DAMIEN O'DONNELL
The Terminal   USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG

2005
Be Cool   USA  F. GARY GRAY
Madagascar   USA  ERIC DARNELL / TOM McGRATH
Munich   USA / Canada  STEVEN SPIELBERG

2006
The Devil Wears Prada   USA  DAVID FRANKEL
Happy Feet   Australia / USA  GEORGE MILLER
The Lives of Others   Germany  FLORIAN HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK
The Reef / Sharkbait   South Korea / USA  HOWARD E. BAKER, JOHN FOX, KYUNG HO LEE
United 93   USA  PAUL GREENGRASS

2007
Hot Fuzz   UK  EDGAR WRIGHT
King Naresuan   Thailand  CHATRICHALERM YUKOL
No Country for Old Men   USA  JOEL COHEN / ETHAN COHEN
Surf's Up   USA  ASH BRANNON, CHRIS BUCK

2008
Kung Fu Panda   USA  JOHN STEVENSON & MARK OSBORNE
Marley & Me   USA  DAVID FRANKEL
Pirates of Langasuka   Thailand  NONZEE NIMIBUTR
Slumdog Millionaire   UK  DANNY BOYLE
You Don't Mess with the Zohan   USA  DENNIS DUGAN

2009
Hachi: A Dog's Tale   USA  LASSE HALLSTRÖM
The Men Who Stare at Goats   USA / UK  GRANT HESLOV
Up   USA  PETE DOCTER

2010
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll   UK  MAT WHITECROSS
Shutter Island   USA  MARTIN SCORSESE
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives   Thailand  APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

2011
Contagion   USA  STEVEN SODERBERGH
The Dilemma   USA  RON HOWARD
The Dog Who Saved Halloween   USA  PETER SULLIVAN
Hop   USA  TIM HILL
Just Go with It   USA  DENNIS DUGAN
Rango   USA  GORE VERBINSKI
Rio   USA  CARLOS SALDANHA

2012
Hitchcock   USA  SACHA GERVASI
Lost in Thailand   China  XU ZHENG
Reef 2: High Tide   South Korea / USA  MARK A.Z. DIPPÉ, TAEDONG PARK

2013
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa   UK  DECLAN LOWNEY
Captain Phillips   USA  PAUL GREENGRASS
Metegol / The Unbeatables   Argentina  JUAN JOSÉ CAMPANELLA
Parkland   USA  PETER LANDESMAN
Prisoners   USA  DENIS VILLENEUVE
The Punk Singer   USA  SINI ANDERSON
Rio 2   USA  CARLOS SALDANHA
Twelve Years a Slave   UK / USA  STEVE McQUEEN

2014
Gone Girl   USA  DAVID FINCHER
The Imitation Game   USA  MORTEN TYLDUM
Lava   USA  JAMES FORD MURPHY
Radhe Radhe – Rites of Holi   USA / India  PRASHANT BHARGAVA
The Theory of Everything   UK  JAMES MARSH

2015
Danny Collins   USA  DAN FOGELMAN
Everest   UK / USA  BALTASAR KORMÁKUR
The Good Dinosaur   USA  PETER SOHN

2016
Miles Ahead   USA  DON CHEADLE
A Street Cat Named Bob   UK  ROGER SPOTTISWOODE

2017
Darkest Hour   UK / USA  JOE WRIGHT
Papillon   Malta / Montenegro / Serbia / USA  MICHAEL NOER

2018
Bohemian Rhapsody   UK / USA  BRYAN SINGER / DEXTER FLETCHER
Green Book   USA  PETER FARRELLY
A Private War   USA  MATTHEW HEINEMAN
Stan & Ollie   Canada / UK / USA  JON S. BAIRD

2019
Apollo 11   USA  TODD DOUGLAS MILLER
The Art of Racing in the Rain   USA  SIMON CURTIS
Red Joan   UK  TREVOR NUNN
Tolkien   UK  DOME KARUKOSKI

2020
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga   USA  DAVID DOBKIN

2021

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2023

2024
Arthur the King   USA  SIMON CELLAN JONES
Bob Marley: One Love   USA  REINALDO MARCUS GREEN
Dog Fugitive   USA  ALEX CHERNEY
Mother's Instinct   USA  BENOÎT DELHOMME

2025