10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1940-х по версии Jeffrey M. Anderson (Combustible Celluloid):

1949
1. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
3. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
4. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
5. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
6. Caught (Max Ophuls)
7. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
8. Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati)
9. I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
10. I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)

Runners up: Border Incident (Anthony Mann), The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls), The Set-Up (Robert Wise), Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin), Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock)

1948
1. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
2. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
3. Red River (Howard Hawks)
4. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
6. He Walked by Night (Alfred Werker, Anthony Mann)
7. Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
8. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
9. Macbeth (Orson Welles)
10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)

Runners up: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton) Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky), Fort Apache (John Ford), Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini), Hamlet (Laurence Olivier), Louisiana Story (Robert J. Flaherty), Oliver Twist (David Lean), Raw Deal (Anthony Mann), La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti), They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)

1947
1. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
2. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
3. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
4. T-Men (Anthony Mann)
5. The Fugitive (John Ford)
6. Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton)
7. Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang)
8. Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
9. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Pursued (Raoul Walsh)

Runners up: The Cat Concerto (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna), The Devil Thumbs a Ride (Felix Feist), A Double Life (George Cukor), King-Size Canary (Tex Avery), Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding), Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot), Railroaded! (Anthony Mann)

1946
1. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
2. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
4. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
5. Great Expectations (David Lean)
6. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
7. The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
8. Gilda (Charles Vidor)
9. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
10. The Stranger (Orson Welles)

Runners up: La Belle et la Bete (Jean Cocteau), The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler), Northwest Hounded Police (Tex Avery), Bedlam (Mark Robson),

1945
1. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
2. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
3. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
4. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
5. I Know Where I'm Going (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
6. Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti/Basil Dearden/Charles Crichton/Robert Hamer)
7. The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
8. The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
9. Les Dames du Bois de Boulongne (Robert Bresson)
10. The Southerner (Jean Renoir)

Runners up: Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson), Falbalas (Jacques Becker), Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock), They Were Expendable (John Ford)

1944
1. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
2. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
3. The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
4. Bluebeard (Edgar G. Ulmer)
5. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
6. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
7. When Strangers Marry (William Castle)
8. Laura (Otto Preminger)
9. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)

Runners up: Dark Waters (Andre de Toth), Gaslight (George Cukor), Mademoiselle Fifi (Robert Wise), The Three Caballeros (Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi), Screwball Squirrel (Tex Avery)

1943
1. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
2. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
3. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
4. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
5. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
6. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
8. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster)
10. Air Force (Howard Hawks)

Runners up: The Ox-Bow Incident (Robert Stevenson), Jane Eyre (William A. Seiter), Sahara (Zoltan Korda), A Lady Takes a Chance (William A. Seiter), Son of Dracula (Robert Siodmak), Who Killed Who? (Tex Avery)

1942
1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
2. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
3. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
4. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
5. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
6. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Woman of the Year (George Stevens)
8. The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder)
9. Bambi (David Hand)
10. You Were Never Lovelier (William A. Seiter)

Runners up: There Was a Father (Yasujiro Ozu), Saludos Amigos (Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney)

1941
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
3. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
4. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
5. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
6. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
7. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
8. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
9. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)

Runners up: The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg), The Wolf Man (George Waggner), The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle), Superman (Dave Fliescher)

1940
1. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
2. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
3. Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen)
4. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
6. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
7. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
8. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
9. They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh)
10. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)

Runners up: Broadway Melody of 1940 (Norman Taurog), Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock), The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges), The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May), The Long Voyage Home (John Ford), Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen), The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang), The Sea Hawk (Michael Curtiz), The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan)