Films: 1996

1. Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)

2. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)

3. The Promise (Dardenne Brothers)

4. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)

5. Fargo (The Coen Brothers)

6. When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)

7. Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)

8. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)

9. The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)

10. I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron)

11. Hard Eight (P.T. Anderson)

12. Waiting For Guffman (Christopher Guest)

13. The Rock (Michael Bay)

14. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)

15. Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)

16. Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou)

17. Basquiat (Julian Schnabel)

18. The Long Kiss Goodnight (Renny Harlin)

19. Kingpin (Farrelly Brothers)

20. Swingers (Doug Liman)

21. Twister (Jan de Bont)

22. The Birdcage (Mike Nichols)

23. Flirting With Disaster (David O. Russell)

24. The Flower of My Secret (Pedro Almodovar)

25. Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)

26. Sleepers (Barry Levinson)

27. The Fan (Tony Scott)

28. Beautiful Girls (Hettie MacDonald)

29. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)

30.  Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh)

31. Get On the Bus (Spike Lee)

32. Crash (David Cronenberg)

33. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne)

34. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)

35. The Craft (Andrew Fleming)

36. A Time to Kill (Joel Schumacher)

37. Courage Under Fire (Edward Zwick)

38. Multiplicity (Harold Ramis)

39. From Dusk Til Dawn (Robert Rodriguez)

40. Primal Fear (Gregory Hoblit)

41. The Funeral (Abel Ferrara)

42. Ransom (Ron Howard)

43. Scream (Wes Craven)

31. Broken Arrow (John Woo)

44. Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton)

45, Last Man Standing (Walter Hill)

46. The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller)

47. Girl 6 (Spike Lee)

48. Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi)

49. City Hall (Harold Becker)

50. Tin Cup (Ron Shelton)

51. The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Michael Lehmann)

52. Escape from L.A. (John Carpenter)

53. Fear (James Foley)

54. Stealing Beauty (Bernardo Bertolucci)

55. Barb Wire (David Hogan)

56. That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks)

57. Freeway (Matthew Bright)

58. Extreme Measures (Michael Apted)

59. Mulholland Falls (Lee Tamahori)

60. Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong)

61. Looking For Richard (Al Pacino)

62. The Great White Hype (Reginald Hudlin)

63. She’s the One (Ed Burns)

64. Executive Decision (Stuart Biard)

65. Independence Day (Roland Emmerich)

66. The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)

67. 2 Days in the Valley (John Herzfeld)

68. Eye for an Eye (John Schlesinger)

69. Black Sheep (Penelope Spheeris)

70. Jingle All the Way (Brian Levant)

71. If Lucy Fell (Eric Schaeffer)

72. Bio-Dome (Jason Bloom)

73. Happy Gilmore (Dennis Dugan)

74. Thinner (Tom Holland)

75. High School High (Hart Bochner)

76. Jack (Francis Ford Coppola)

77. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (Mike Judge)

BEST ACTOR: Lili Taylor in I Shot Andy Warhol

BEST DIRECTOR: Lars Von Trier for Breaking the Waves

BEST SCREENPLAY: Mike Leigh for Secrets & Lies