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1
Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Newspaper Film • Period Film
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
3
Preston Sturges • Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick
Comedy • Road Movie • Romance
4
Preston Sturges • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Romance
5
Howard Hawks • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, S.Z. Sakall
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Crime Comedy
6
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Mystery
7
George Waggner • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy
Horror • Monster Film • Werewolf Film
8
Raoul Walsh • Starring: Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Drama
9
Frank Capra • Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
10
John Ford • Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Family Drama
11
Howard Hawks • Starring: Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
12
William Dieterle • Starring: Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, Jane Darwell
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
13
Ben Sharpsteen • Starring: Herman Bing, James Baskett, Billy Bletcher
Adventure • Animated Musical • Animation
14
William Wyler • Starring: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
15
Alexander Hall • Starring: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains
Comedy • Fantasy • Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies
16
Raoul Walsh • Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
17
Michael Powell • Starring: Richard George, Eric Portman, Raymond Lovell
Drama • Thriller • War
18
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed
Comedy Thriller • Comedy • Crime
19
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Ida Lupino, Gene Lockhart, Edward G. Robinson
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
20
Victor Fleming • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Drama
21
Arthur Lubin • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson
Comedy • Farce • Haunted House Film
22
H.C. Potter • Starring: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Hugh Herbert
Absurd Comedy • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
23
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
24
Fritz Lang • Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
Adventure • Drama • Political Thriller
25
H. Bruce Humberstone • Starring: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
26
Sam Wood • Starring: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
27
George Stevens • Starring: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
28
Dave Fleischer • Starring: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck
Animation • Based-on-Comics • Cartoon
29
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Daisuke Katô
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama
30
Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
31
Charles Reisner • Starring: Virginia Grey, Tony Martin, Chico Marx
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Screwball Comedy
32
Arthur Lubin • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman
Comedy • Military Comedy • Musical
33
Jack Conway • Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick
Comedy • Farce • Screwball Comedy
34
Robert Clampett • Starring: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
35
George Cukor • Starring: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Drama • Melodrama
36
Edward F. Cline • Starring: W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
37
Jack Kinney
38
Albert S. Rogell • Starring: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Ensemble Film
39
Alexander Korda • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
40
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Comedy • Fantasy • Fantasy Comedy
41
Dave Fleischer • Starring: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Julian Noa
Action • Animation • Based-on-Comics
42
William Keighley • Starring: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin
43
Walter Lang • Starring: Don Ameche, Jack Haley, Cobina Wright, Jr.
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
44
Busby Berkeley • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter
45
Joseph Barbera
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
47
Victor Schertzinger • Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
48
Mitchell Leisen • Starring: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
49
Alfred L. Werker • Starring: Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper
Animation • Comedy
50
Tex Avery • Starring: Mel Blanc
51
Edmund Goulding • Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
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Arthur Lubin • Starring: The Andrews Sisters, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Comedy • Military Comedy • Slapstick
54
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
55
Sidney Lanfield • Starring: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley
Comedy • Musical Romance • Musical
56
Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley • Starring: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr
Drama • Musical • Musical Drama
57
Henry Koster • Starring: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings
58
Fritz Lang • Starring: Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore
Traditional Western • Western
59
Norman Taurog • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Lee J. Cobb, Mary Nash
Drama • Juvenile Delinquency Film • Psychological Drama
60
Arthur Lubin, Ralph Ceder • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye
61
Clarence Brown • Starring: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter
62
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Romance
63
Chuck Jones
64
Gabriel Pascal • Starring: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Satire
65
Anatole Litvak • Starring: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime
66
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth
67
Hiroshi Shimizu • Starring: Shin'ichi Himori, Kanji Kawara, Hiroko Kawasaki
Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Dave Fleischer • Starring: Tedd Pierce, Jack Mercer, Stan Freed
Animation • Comedy • Family-Oriented Fantasy
70
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature
Drama • Film Noir • Melodrama
71
Jean Grémillon • Starring: Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Romance
72
John English, William Witney • Starring: Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict
Adventure • Based-on-Comics • Fantasy
73
Jack King
74
Jean Renoir • Starring: Walter Brennan, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews
75
John Ford • Starring: Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
78
Tex Avery • Starring: Mel Blanc, Danny Webb
79
Tex Avery
80
Charles Vidor • Starring: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes
Based-on-Theatre • Film Noir • Thriller
81
Jean Yarbrough • Starring: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland
Comedy • Horror Comedy • Horror
82
Leslie Howard • Starring: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris
Adventure • Spy Film • War
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George B. Seitz • Starring: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
Comedy • Coming-of-Age • Workplace Comedy
85
George Cukor • Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett
86
Robert Florey • Starring: Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe
87
Friz Freleng
88
Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, John McGuire
Horror • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
89
George Marshall • Starring: James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Horace Heidt
90
George Marshall • Starring: William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor
Action • Traditional Western • Western
91
Mark Sandrich • Starring: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
92
Eugene Forde • Starring: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan
Crime • Detective Film • Mystery
93
Richard Thorpe • Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
94
Phil Rosen • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall
Comedy • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
95
Walter Forde • Starring: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison
Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Crime
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Joseph Schildkraut, Roman Bohnen
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Crime • Horror
98
Dick Lundy
99
Dave Fleischer
100
Harry Lachman • Starring: Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Robert Weldon
Crime • Crime Thriller • Detective Film
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