10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1940-х по версии Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine):

1940:
1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
2. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
3. Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen)
4. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
5. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
6. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
7. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. Rebecca (Alred Hitchcock)
9. Fantasia (Lots of People)
10. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mention: My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline), Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy), The Sea Hawk (Micharl Curtiz), A Chump at Oxford (Alfred J. Goulding), They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh), The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan), The Ghost Breakers (George Marshall), The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin), The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges), The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)

Blind Spots: Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster), You’re Missing the Point (Juan Bustillo Oro), The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage), Strange Cargo (Frank Borzage), Edison, the Man (Clarence Brown), City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak), Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen), The Stars Look Down (Carol Reed), Murder Over New York (Harry Lachman), Contraband (Michael Powell), Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (John Cromwell), Santa Fe Trail (Michael Curtiz), Northwest Passage (King Vidor), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor), I Love You Again (W.S. Van Dyke), Torrid Zone (William Keighley), Escape (Mervyn LeRoy), Primrose Path (Gregory La Cava), From Mayerling to Sarajevo (Max Ophüls)

1941:
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
3. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
4. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
5. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
6. The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
7. Hellzapoppin (H.C. Potter)
8. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
9. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)
10. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)

Honorable Mention: Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu), The Maltese Falcon (John Huston), Sergeant York (Howard Hawks), Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen), High Sierra (Raoul Walsh), The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi), Meet John Doe (Frank Capra), Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock), The Shanghai Gesture (Josef Von Sternberg), I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone)

Blind Spots: Swamp Water (Jean Renoir), H.M Pulham, Esq. (King Vidor), Dead Men Tell (Harry Lachman), A Woman’s Face (George Cukor), The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz), Smilin’ Through (Frank Borzage), Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Edward F. Cline), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming), Manpower (Raoul Walsh), Adventures of Captain Marvel (John English & William Witney), It Started With Eve (Henry Koster)

1942:
1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
2. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
4. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
5. The Talk of the Town (George Stevens)
6. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. This Gun For Hire (Frank Tuttle)
8. Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy)
9. There Was a Father (Yasujirô Ozu)
10. Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)

Honorable Mention: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler), Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh), Son of Fury (John Cromwell), Reap the Wild Wind (Cecil B. DeMille), In Which We Serve (Noel Coward and David Lean), In This Our Life (John Huston), Holiday Inn (Mark Sandrich), I Married a Witch (René Clair), Reunion in France (Jules Dassin)

Blind Spots: One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Take a Letter, Darling (Mitchell Liesen), The Pied Piper (Irving Pichel), Once Upon a Honeymoon (Leo McCarey), My Sister Eileen (Alexander Hall), Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy), The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder), Road to Morocco (David Butler), My Favorite Blonde (Sidney Lanfield), For Me and My Gal (Busby Berkeley), The Lady is Willing (Mitchell Liesen), The Black Swan (Henry King), All Through the Night (Vincent Sherman), Tortilla Flat (Victor Fleming), The Devil’s Envoys (Marcel Carne), Castle in the Desert (Harry Lachman), Pardon My Sarong (Erle C. Kenton)

1943:
1. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
2. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang)
3. The Ow-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
4. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
6. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
7. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
9. Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
10. Sahara (Zoltan Korda)

Honorable Mention: Ghost Ship (Mark Robson), Stormy Weather (Andrew L. Stone), Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli), Old Acquaintance (Vincent Sherman), Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch), So Proudly We Hail! (Mark Sandrich), The More the Merrier (George Stevens), Guadalcanal Diary (Lewis Seiler), Air Force (Howard Hawks), Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings)

Blind Spots: This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir), Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder), Mr. Lucky (H.C. Potter), Edge of Darkness (Lewis Milestone), Girl Crazy (Norman Taurog & Busby Berkeley), Hitler’s Children (Edward Dmytryk), The Desperados (Charles Vidor), The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley), The Hard Way (Vincent Sherman), A Night to Remember (Richard Wallace), Thank Your Lucky Stars (David Butler), Munchhausen (Josef von Báky)

1944:
1. Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
2. Dark Waters (Andre de Toth)
3. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
5. The Children are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica)
6. Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak)
7. The Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise)
8. Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
9. Laura (Otto Preminger)
10. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)

Honorable Mention: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder), Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli), Henry V (Laurence Olivier), Mr. Skeffington (Vincent Sherman), Going My Way (Leo McCarey), Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra), The Scarlet Claw (Roy William Neill), Gaslight (George Cukor), Since You Went Away (John Cromwell), Jane Eyre (Robert Stevensen)

Blind Spots: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges), The Suspect (Robert Siodmak), The Great Moment (Preston Sturges), Frenchman’s Creek (Mitchell Leisen), Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson), Bluebeard (Edgar G. Ulmer), Torment (Alf Sjöberg), Mademoiselle Fifi (Robert Wise), The Sullivans (Lloyd Bacon), An American Romance (King Vidor), Block Busters (Wallace Fox), The Uninvited (Lewis Allen), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Mervyn LeRoy)

1945:
1. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
2. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
3. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
4. The Southerner (Jean Renoir)
5. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
6. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
7. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
8. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
9. Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
10. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)

Honorable Mention: My Name Is Julia (Joseph H. Lewis), I Know Where I’m Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin, 1945), Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcani, Charles Crichton, Basi Dearden & Robert Hamer), Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder), Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger), The Enchanted Cottage (John Cromwell), Love Letters (William Dieterle), The House on 92nd Street (Henry Hathaway)

Blind Spots: And Then There Were None (René Clair), The White Gorilla (H.L. Fraser), They Were Expendable (John Ford), Murder, He Says (George Marshall), Wonder Man (H. Bruce Humberstone), A Walk in the Sun (Lewis Milestone), The Story of G.I. Joe (William A. Wellman), The Corn Is Green (Irving Rapper), Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh)

1946:
1. Shoeshine (Vittorio de Sica)
2. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
3. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
4. Great Expectations (David Lean)
5. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
6. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
8. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
9. Gilda (Charles Vidor)
10. Bedlam (Mark Robson)

Honorable Mention: Decoy (Jack Bernhard), Humoresque (Jean Negulesco), Duel in the Sun (King Vidor), The Razor’s Edge (Edmund Goulding), A Scandal in Paris (Douglas Sirk), No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa), The Stranger (Orson Welles), The Killers (Richard Siodmak), Tomorrow is Forever (Irving Pichel), Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)

Blind Spots: Murders Among Us (Wolfgang Staudte), The Kid from Brooklyn (Norman Z. McLeod), Dangerous Money (Terry O. Morse), Dear Alibi (Phil Karlson), I See a Dark Stranger (Frank Launder)

1947:
1. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
2. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
3. Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
4. The Record of a Tenament Gentleman (Yasujirô Ozu)
5. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
6. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
8. Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
9. Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
10. Brute Force (Jules Dassin)

Honorable Mention: Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway), Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt), Railroaded! (Anthony Mann), They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti), Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk), Gentleman’s Agreement (Elia Kazan), Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (John Rawlins), The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock), Born to Kill (Robert Wise), Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

Blind Spots: The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir), Mad Wednesday (Preston Sturges), The Fugitive (John Ford), The Red House (Delmer Daves), Desperate (Anthony Mann), Lured (Douglas Sirk), The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz), Pitfall! (Andre de Toth), Boomerang! (Elia Kazan), Brighton Rock (John Boulting), Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant), A Double Life (George Cukor), The Bishop’s Wife (Henry Koster), Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (Stuart Heisler), Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery)

1948:
1. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
2. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls)
3. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
4. Red River (Howard Hawks)
5. Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
6. Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)
7. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
8. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
9. Oliver Twist (David Lean)
10. The Boy With the Green Hair (Joseph Losey)

Honorable Mention: They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray), Raw Deal (Anthony Mann), The Naked City (Jules Dassin), The Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang), The Big Clock (John Farrow), The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed), Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston), The Street With No Name (William Keighley), La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)

Blind Spots: Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mui), Fort Apache (John Ford), Hen in the Wind (Yasujirô Ozu)

1949:
1. Beyond the Forest (King Vidor)
2. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
3. White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
4. The Great Madcap (Luis Buñuel)
5. Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin)
6. Holiday (Jacque Tati)
7. The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls)
8. Caught (Max Ophüls)
9. Whirlpool (Otto Preminger)
10. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)

Honorable Mention: Reign of Terror (Anthony Mann), On the Town (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly), Adam’s Rib (George Cukor), I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks), The Big Steal (Don Siegel), Whisky Galore! (Alexander Mackendrick), Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis), House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Border Incident (Anthony Mann), and Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)

Blind Spots: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford), Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Queen of Spades (Thorold Dickinson), Champion (Mark Robson), The Secret Garden (Fred M. Wilcox), Home of the Brave (Mark Robson), Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman), Madame Bovary (Vincente Minnelli), Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh), Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak), The Small Back Room (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger), Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown), The Set-Up (Robert Wise), The Window (Ted Tetzlaff), The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman), Battleground (William A. Wellman)