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NB: This list is very out-of-date and I may never get round to updating it.

 

1930's1940's1950's
  1. The 39 Steps
    - Alfred Hitchcock, 1935
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  2. Stagecoach
    - John Ford, 1939
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 5
  3. Bringing Up Baby
    - Howard Hawkes, 1938
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  4. All Quiet On The Western Front
    - Lewis Milestone, 1930
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 2
  5. M
    - Fritz Lang, 1931
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  6. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
    - Frank Capra, 1939
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 10
  7. It Happened One Night
    - Frank Capra, 1934
    Oscars: 5, Noms: 0
  8. The Bride Of Frankenstein
    - James Whale, 1935
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1
  9. Modern Times
    - Charlie Chaplin, 1936
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  10. City Lights
    - Charlie Chaplin, 1931
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  1. It's A Wonderful Life
    - Frank Capra, 1946
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 5
  2. Citizen Kane
    - Orson Welles, 1941
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 8
  3. The Third Man
    - Carol Reed, 1949
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 2
  4. Laura
    - Otto Preminger, 1944
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 4
  5. Arsenic And Old Lace
    - Frank Capra, 1944
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  6. Casablanca
    - Michael Curtiz, 1942
    Oscars: 3, Noms: 5
  7. Double Indemnity
    - Billy Wilder, 1944
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 7
  8. The Big Sleep
    - Howard Hawks, 1946
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  9. Nororious
    - Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  10. Rebecca
    - Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 9
  1. Rear Window
    - Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 4
  2. Seven Samurai
    - Akira Kurosawa, 1954
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  3. North By Northwest
    - Alfred Hitchcock, 1959
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 3
  4. 12 Angry Men
    - Sidney Lumet, 1957
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 3
  5. On The Waterfront
    - Eliz Kazan, 1954
    Oscars: 8, Noms: 4
  6. Touch Of Evil
    - Orson Welles, 1958
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  7. Vertigo
    - Alfred Hitchcock, 1959
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  8. Ben-Hur
    - William Wyler, 1959
    Oscars: 11, Noms: 1
  9. Paths Of Glory
    - Stanley Kubrick, 1957
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  10. Rashomon
    - Akira Kurosawa, 1950
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 1

1960's1970's1980's
  1. The Wild Bunch
    - Sam Peckinpah, 1969
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  2. The Graduate
    - Mike Nichols, 1967
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 6
  3. Once Upon A Time In The West
    - Sergio Leone, 1968
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  4. The Great Escape
    - John Sturges, 1963
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1
  5. Dr. Strangelove
    - Stanley Kubrick, 1964
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 4
  6. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
    - Sergio Leone, 1966
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  7. Bonnie And Clyde
    - Arthur Penn, 1967
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 8
  8. Planet Of The Apes
    - Franklin J Schaffner, 1968
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 2
  9. Psycho
    - Alfred Hitchcok, 1960
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 4
  10. 2001: A Spade Odyssey
    - Stanley Kubrick, 1968
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 3
  11. Night Of The Living Dead
    - George A Romero, 1968
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  12. The Apartment
    - Billy Wilder, 1960
    Oscars: 5, Noms: 5
  13. Spartacus
    - Stanley Kubrick, 1960
    Oscars: 4, Noms: 2
  14. La Dolce Vita
    - Federico Fellini, 1960
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 3
  15. The Hustler
    - Robert Rossen, 1961
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 7
  1. The Deer Hunter
    - Michael Cimino, 1978
    Oscars: 5, Noms: 4
  2. A Clockwork Orange
    - Stanley Kubrick, 1971
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 4
  3. The Godfather Parts I & II
    - Francis Coppola, 1972/1974
    Oscars: 9, Noms: 13
  4. Eraserhead
    - David Lynch, 1977
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  5. Taxi Driver
    - Martin Scorsese, 1975
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 4
  6. Alien
    - Ridley Scott, 1979
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 1
  7. Dog Day Afternoon
    - Sidney Lumet, 1975
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 5
  8. Annie Hall
    - Woody Allen, 1977
    Oscars: 4, Noms: 1
  9. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
    - Milos Forman, 1975
    Oscars: 5, Noms: 4
  10. Apocalypse Now
    - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 6
  11. Dirty Harry
    - Don Siegel, 1971
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  12. Deliverance
    - John Boorman, 1972
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 3
  13. Last Tango In Paris
    - Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  14. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
    - Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  15. Star Wars
    - George Lucas, 1977
    Oscars: 7, Noms: 4
  1. Blue Velvet
    - David Lynch, 1986
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1
  2. Blade Runner
    - Ridley Scott, 1982
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  3. Once Upon A Time In America
    - Sergio Leone, 1984
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  4. Withnail & I
    - Bruce Robinson, 1986
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  5. Raging Bull
    - Martin Scorsese, 1980
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 6
  6. Evil Dead II
    - Sam Raimi, 1987
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  7. The Shining
    - Stanley Kubrick, 1980
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  8. Blood Simple
    - The Coen Brothers, 1984
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  9. Cinema Paradiso
    - Guiseppe Tornatore, 1989
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 0
  10. The Elephant Man
    - David Lynch, 1980
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 8
  11. Das Boot
    - Wolfgang Petersen, 1981
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 6
  12. Sex, Lies & Videotape
    - Steven Soderbergh, 1989
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1
  13. Mona Lisa
    - Neil Jordan, 1986
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1
  14. This Is Spinal Tap
    - Rob Reiner, 1984
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  15. Full Metal Jacket
    - Stanley Kubrick, 1987
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1

1990's2000's
  1. Leaving Las Vegas
    - Mike Figgis, 1995
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 3
  2. Miller's Crossing
    - The Coen Brothers, 1990
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  3. The Shawshank Redemption
    - Frank Darabont, 1994
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 7
  4. Magnolia
    - P T Anderson, 1999
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 3
  5. Heat
    - Michael Mann, 1995
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  6. Goodfellas
    - Martin Scorsese, 1990
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 5
  7. Lost Highway
    - David Lynch, 1997
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  8. The Usual Suspects
    - Bryan Singer, 1995
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 0
  9. The Last Seduction
    - John Dahl, 1993
    ineligible for Oscars
  10. American Beauty
    - Sam Mendes, 1999
    Oscars: 5, Noms: 3
  11. Schindler's List
    - Steven Spielberg, 1993
    Oscars: 7, Noms: 5
  12. In The Company Of Men
    - Neil LaBute, 1997
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  13. Happiness
    - Todd Solondz, 1998
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  14. Croupier
    - Mike Hodges, 1998
    ineligible for Oscars
  15. Fargo
    - The Coen Brothers, 1996
    Oscars: 2, Noms: 5
  1. Donnie Darko
    - Richard Kelly, 2001
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  2. Secretary
    - Steven Shainberg, 2002
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 0
  3. Mulholland Dr.
    - David Lynch, 2001
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1
  4. Sexy Beast
    - Jonathan Glazer, 2000
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1
  5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    - Ang Lee, 2000
    Oscars: 4, Noms: 6
  6. 21 Grams
    - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2003
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  7. Requiem For A Dream
    - Darren Aronofsky, 2000
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 1
  8. Battle Royale
    - Kinji Fukasaku, 2000
    ineligible for Oscars
  9. Traffic
    - Steven Soberbergh, 2000
    Oscars: 4, Noms: 1
  10. Memento
    - Christopher Nolan, 2000
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  11. Gladiator
    - Ridley Scott, 2000
    Oscars: 5, Noms: 7
  12. Adaptation
    - Spike Jonze, 2002
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 3
  13. Spiderman
    - Sam Raimi, 2002
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2
  14. Road To Perdition
    - Sam Mendes, 2002
    Oscars: 1, Noms: 5
  15. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    - The Coen Brothers, 2000
    Oscars: 0, Noms: 2