Το Σωματείο Αμερικάνων Σκηνοθετών δημοσίευσε μια λίστα με τις 80 καλύτερα σκηνοθετημένες ταινίες των τελευταίων 80 χρόνων.
Ο Νονός| TITLE | DIRECTOR | YEAR | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 |
| 2. | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 3. | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 1962 |
| 4. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 |
| 5. | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| 6. | The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
| 7. | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | 1979 |
| 8. | Schindler’s List | Steven Spielberg | 1993 |
| 9. | Gone With the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
| 10. | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | 1990 |
| 11. | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 |
| 12. | The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
| 13. | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 |
| 14. | Jaws | Steven Spielberg | 1975 |
| 15. | It’s a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 |
| 16. | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 |
| 17. | The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont | 1994 |
| 18. | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 1967 |
| 19. | Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope | George Lucas | 1977 |
| 20. | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 1982 |

#8. Schindler’s List
| 21. | On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
| 22. | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | 1994 |
| 23. | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | 1982 |
| 24. | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1977 |
| 25. | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | 1998 |
| 26. | Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 27. | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | 1971 |
| 28. | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | 1981 |
| 29. | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
| 30. | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 |

#13. Raging Bull
| 31. | To Kill A Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | 1962 |
| 32. | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 |
| 33. | The Searchers | John Ford | 1956 |
| 34. | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | 1994 |
| 35. | Singin’ in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 1952 |
| 36. | 8 ½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
| 37. | The Third Man | Carol Reed | 1949 |
| 38. | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | 1946 |
| 39. | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 |
| 40. | The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 1957 |

#43. The Sound of Music
| 41. | North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 |
| 42. | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Miloš Forman | 1975 |
| 43. | The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | 1965 |
| 44. | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 |
| 45. | Titanic | James Cameron | 1997 |
| 46. | The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | 1980 |
| 47. | Amadeus | Miloš Forman | 1984 |
| 48. | Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | 1965 |
| 49. | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | 1961 |
| 50. | Some Like it Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |

#56. The Hurt Locker
| 51. | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | 1959 |
| 52. | Fargo | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | 1996 |
| 53. | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | 1991 |
| 54. | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 |
| 55. | Avatar | James Cameron | 2009 |
| 56. | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | 2008 |
| 57. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | 1948 |
| 58. | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 2014 |
| 59. | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 |
| 60. | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | 1978 |

#59. All About Eve (Photo: Photofest)
| 61. | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2007 |
| 62. | The Sting | George Roy Hill | 1973 |
| 63. | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 1969 |
| 64. | Alien | Ridley Scott | 1979 |
| 65. | Rocky | John G. Avildsen | 1976 |
| 66. | The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1970 |
| 67. | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough | 1982 |
| 68. | The Bicycle Thief | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| 69. | Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | 1988 |
| 70. | Brazil | Terry Gilliam | 1985 |

#71. The Grapes of Wrath
| 71. | The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | 1940 |
| 72. | All the President’s Men | Alan J. Pakula | 1976 |
| 73. | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |
| 74. | Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | 1958 |
| 75. | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | 1984 |
| 76. | Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | 1992 |
| 77. | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | 1995 |
| 78. | Network | Sidney Lumet | 1976 |
| 79. | Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 80. | Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 1968 |












