National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

• 1960:
  1. Sons and Lovers
  2. The Alamo
  3. The Sundowners
  4. Inherit the Wind
  5. Sunrise at Campobello
  6. Elmer Gantry
  7. Home from the Hill
  8. The Apartment (AA)
  9. Wild River
  10. The Ark at the Top of the Stairs

• 1961:
  1. Question 7
  2. The Hustler
  3. West Side Story (AA)
  4. The Innocents
  5. The Hoodlum Priest
  6. Summer and Smoke
  7. The Young Doctors
  8. Judgment at Nuremberg
  9. One, Two, Three
  10. Fanny

• 1962:
  1. The Longest Day
  2. Billy Budd
  3. The Miracle Worker
  4. Lawrence of Arabia (AA)
  5. Long Day's Journey Into Night
  6. Whistle Down the Wind
  7. Requiem for a Heavyweight
  8. A Taste of Honey
  9. Birdman of Alcatraz
  10. War Hunt

• 1963:
  1. Tom Jones (AA)
  2. Lilies of the Field
  3. All the Way Home
  4. Hud
  5. This Sporting Life
  6. Lord of the Flies
  7. The L-Shaped Room
  8. The Great Escape
  9. How the West Was Won
  10. The Cardinal

• 1964:
  1. Becket
  2. My Fair Lady (AA)
  3. The Girl with Green Eyes
  4. The World of Henry Orient
  5. Zorba the Greek
  6. Topkapi
  7. The Chalk Garden
  8. The Finest Hours
  9. Four Days in November
  10. Séance on a Wet Afternoon

• 1965:
  1. The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
  2. The Agony and the Ecstasy
  3. Doctor Zhivago
  4. Ship of Fools
  5. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
  6. Darling
  7. The Greatest Story Ever Told
  8. A Thousand Clowns
  9. The Train
  10. The Sound of Music (AA)

• 1966:
  1. A Man for All Seasons (AA)
  2. Born Free
  3. Alfie
  4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  5. The Bible
  6. Georgy Girl
  7. Years of Lightning
  8. Days of Drums
  9. It Happened Here
  10. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming & Shakespeare Wallah

• 1967:
  1. Far from the Madding Crowd
  2. The Whisperers
  3. Ulysses
  4. In Cold Blood
  5. The Family Way
  6. The Taming of the Shrew
  7. Doctor Doolittle
  8. The Graduate
  9. The Comedians
  10. Accident

• 1968:
  1. The Shoes of the Fisherman
  2. Romeo and Juliet
  3. Yellow Submarine
  4. Charly
  5. Rachel, Rachel
  6. The Subject was Roses
  7. The Lion in Winter
  8. Planet of the Apes
  9. Oliver! (AA)
  10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

• 1969:
  1. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  2. Ring of Bright Water
  3. Topaz
  4. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  5. Battle of Britain
  6. The Loves of Isadora
  7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  8. Support Your Local Sheriff!
  9. The Grit
  10. Midnight Cowboy (AA)

• 1970:
  1. Patton (AA)
  2. Kes
  3. Women in Love
  4. Five Easy Pieces
  5. Ryan's Daughter
  6. I Never Sang for My Father
  7. Diary of a Mad Housewife
  8. Love Story
  9. The Virgin and the Gypsy
  10. Tora! Tora! Tora!

• 1971:
  1. Macbeth
  2. The Boyfriend
  3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  4. The French Connection (AA)
  5. The Last Picture Show
  6. Nicholas and Alexandra
  7. The Go-Between
  8. King Lear
  9. The Tales of Beatrix Potter
  10. Death in Venice

• 1972:
  1. Cabaret
  2. Man of La Mancha
  3. The Godfather (AA)
  4. Sounder
  5. 1776
  6. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
  7. Deliverance
  8. The Ruling Class
  9. The Candidate
  10. Frenzy

• 1973:
  1. The Sting
  2. Paper Moon
  3. Bang the Drum Slowly
  4. Serpico
  5. O Lucky Man!
  6. The Last American Hero
  7. The Hireling
  8. The Day of the Dolphin
  9. The Way We Were
  10. -

1974:

• 1. The Conversation
  2. Murder on the Orient Express
  3. Chinatown
  4. The Last Detail
  5. Harry and Tonto
  6. A Woman Under the Influence
  7. Thieves Like Us
  8. Lenny
  9. Daisy Miller
  10. The Three Musketeers

• 1975:
  1. Nashville
  2. Barry Lyndon
  3. Conduct Unbecoming
  4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (AA)
  5. Lies My Father Told Me
  6. Dog Day Afternoon
  7. The Day of the Locust
  8. The Passenger
  9. Hearts of the West
  10. Farewell, My Lovely & Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

• 1976:
  1. All the President's Men
  2. Network
  3. Rocky (AA)
  4. The Last Tycoon
  5. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
  6. The Front
  7. The Shootist
  8. Family Plot
  9. Silent Movie
  10. Obsession

• 1977:
  1. The Turning Point
  2. Annie Hall (AA)
  3. Julia
  4. Star Wars
  5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  6. The Late Show
  7. Saturday Night Fever
  8. Equus
  9. The Picture Show Man
  10. Harlan County, USA

• 1978:
  1. Days of Heaven
  2. Coming Home
  3. Interiors
  4. Superman
  5. Movie Movie
  6. Midnight Express
  7. An Unmarried Woman
  8. Pretty Baby
  9. Girlfriends
  10. Comes a Horseman

• 1979:
  1. Manhattan
  2. Yanks
  3. The Europeans
  4. The China Syndrome
  5. Breaking Away
  6. Apocalypse Now
  7. Being There
  8. Time After Time
  9. North Dallas Forty
  10. Kramer vs. Kramer (AA)

• 1980:
  1. Ordinary People (AA)
  2. Raging Bull
  3. Coal Miner's Daughter
  4. Tess
  5. Melvin and Howard
  6. The Great Santini
  7. The Elephant Man
  8. The Stunt Man
  9. My Bodyguard
  10. Resurrection

• 1981:
  1. Chariots of Fire (AA)
  2. Reds
  3. Atlantic City
  4. Stevie
  5. Gallipoli
  6. On Golden Pond
  7. Prince of the City
  8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  9. Heartland
  10. Ticket to Heaven & Breaker Morant

• 1982:
  1. Gandhi (AA)
  2. The Verdict
  3. Sophie's Choice
  4. An Officer and a Gentleman
  5. Missing
  6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  7. The World According to Garp
  8. Tootsie
  9. Moonlighting
  10. The Chosen

• 1983:
  1. Betrayal
  2. Terms of Endearment (AA)
  3. Educating Rita
  4. Tender Mercies
  5. The Dresser
  6. The Right Stuff
  7. Testament
  8. Local Hero
  9. The Big Chill
  10. Cross Creek & Yentl

• 1984:
  1. A Passage to India
  2. Paris, Texas
  3. The Killing Fields
  4. Places in the Heart
  5. Mass Appeal
  6. Country
  7. A Soldier's Story
  8. Birdy
  9. Careful
  10. He Might Hear You & Under the Volcano

• 1985:
  1. The Color Purple
  2. Out of Africa (AA)
  3. The Trip to Bountiful
  4. Witness
  5. Kiss of the Spider Woman
  6. Prizzi's Honor
  7. Back to the Future
  8. The Shooting Party
  9. Blood Simple
  10. Dreamchild

• 1986:
  1. A Room with a View
  2. Hannah and Her Sisters
  3. My Beautiful Laundrette
  4. The Fly
  5. Stand By Me
  6. The Color of Money
  7. Children of a Lesser God
  8. 'Round Midnight
  9. Peggy Sue Got Married
  10. The Mission

• 1987:
  1. Empire of the Sun
  2. The Last Emperor (AA)
  3. Broadcast News
  4. The Untouchables
  5. Gaby: A True Story
  6. Cry Freedom
  7. Fatal Attraction
  8. Hope and Glory
  9. Wall Street
  10. Full Metal Jacket

• 1988:
  1. Mississippi Burning
  2. Dangerous Liaisons
  3. The Accused
  4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  5. The Last Temptation of Christ
  6. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
  7. Big
  8. Running on Empty
  9. Gorillas in the Mist
  10. Midnight Run

• 1989:
  1. Driving Miss Daisy (AA)
  2. Henry V
  3. Sex, Lies, and Videotape
  4. The Fabulous Baker Boys
  5. My Left Foot
  6. Dead Poets Society
  7. Crimes and Misdemeanors
  8. Born on the Fourth of July
  9. Glory
  10. Field of Dreams

• 1990:
  1. Dances With Wolves (AA)
  2. Hamlet
  3. GoodFellas
  4. Awakenings
  5. Reversal of Fortune
  6. Miller's Crossing
  7. Metropolitan
  8. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
  9. Avalon
  10. The Grifters

• 1991:
  1. The Silence of the Lambs (AA)
  2. Bugsy
  3. Grand Canyon
  4. Thelma & Louise
  5. Homicide
  6. Dead Again
  7. Boyz N the Hood
  8. Rambling Rose
  9. Frankie and Johnny
  10. Jungle Fever

• 1992:
  1. Howards End
  2. The Crying Game
  3. Glengarry Glen Ross
  4. A Few Good Men
  5. The Player
  6. Unforgiven (AA)
  7. One False Move
  8. Peter's Friends
  9. Bob Roberts
  10. Malcolm X

• 1993:
  1. Schindler's List (AA)
  2. The Age of Innocence
  3. The Remains of the Day
  4. The Piano
  5. Shadowlands
  6. In the Name of the Father
  7. Philadelphia
  8. Much Ado About Nothing
  9. Short Cuts
  10. The Joy Luck Club

• 1994:
  1. Forrest Gump (AA)
  2. Pulp Fiction
  3. Quiz Show
  4. Four Weddings and a Funeral
  5. Bullets Over Broadway
  6. Ed Wood
  7. The Shawshank Redemption
  8. Nobody's Fool
  9. The Madness of King George
  10. Tom & Viv
  11. Heavenly Creatures

• 1995:
  1. Sense and Sensibility
  2. Apollo 13
  3. Carrington
  4. Leaving Las Vegas
  5. The American President
  6. Mighty Aphrodite
  7. Smoke
  8. Persuasion
  9. Braveheart (AA)
  10. The Usual Suspects

• 1996:
  1. Shine
  2. The English Patient (AA)
  3. Fargo
  4. Secrets & Lies
  5. Everyone Says I Love You
  6. Evita
  7. Sling Blade
  8. Trainspotting
  9. The People vs. Larry Flynt
  10. Breaking the Waves and Jerry Maguire

• 1997:
  1. L.A. Confidential
  2. As Good As It Gets
  3. The Wings of the Dove
  4. Good Will Hunting
  5. Titanic (AA)
  6. The Sweet Hereafter
  7. Boogie Nights
  8. The Full Monty
  9. The Rainmaker
  10. Jackie Brown

• 1998:
  1. Gods and Monsters
  2. Saving Private Ryan
  3. Elizabeth
  4. Happiness
  5. Shakespeare in Love (AA)
  6. The Butcher Boy
  7. Lolita
  8. The Thin Red Line
  9. A Simple Plan
  10. Dancing at Lughnasa

• 1999:
  1. American Beauty (AA)
  2. The Talented Mr. Ripley
  3. Magnolia
  4. The Insider
  5. The Straight Story
  6. Cradle Will Rock
  7. Boys Don't Cry
  8. Being John Malkovich
  9. Tumbleweeds
  10. Three Kings

• 2000:
  1. Quills
  2. Traffic
  3. Croupier
  4. You Can Count On Me
  5. Billy Elliott
  6. Before Night Falls
  7. Gladiator (AA)
  8. Wonder Boys
  9. Sunshine
  10. Dancer in the Dark

• 2001:
  1. Moulin Rouge!
  2. In the Bedroom
  3. Ocean's Eleven
  4. Memento
  5. Monster's Ball
  6. Black Hawk Down
  7. The Man Who Wasn't There
  8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  9. The Pledge
  10. Mulholland Dr.

• 2002:
  1. The Hours
  2. Chicago (AA)
  3. Gangs of New York
  4. The Quiet American
  5. Adaptation.
  6. Rabbit-Proof Fence
  7. The Pianist
  8. Far From Heaven
  9. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
  10. Frida

• 2003:
  1. The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King
  2. Mystic River
  3. The Last Samurai
  4. The Station Agent
  5. 21 Grams
  6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  7. Lost in Translation
  8. Cold Mountain
  9. In America
  10. Seabiscuit

• 2004:
  1. Finding Neverland
  2. The Aviator
  3. Closer
  4. Million Dollar Baby (AA)
  5. Sideways
  6. Kinsey
  7. Vera Drake
  8. Ray
  9. Collateral
  10. Hotel Rwanda

• 2005:
  1. Good Night, and Good Luck.
  2. Brokeback Mountain
  3. Capote
  4. Crash (AA)
  5. A History of Violence
  6. Match Point
  7. Memoirs of a Geisha
  8. Munich
  9. Syriana
  10. Walk the Line