Best Film Direction - 1940s

#1

Citizen Kane (1941)

#6

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

#18

The Stranger (1946)

#2

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

#13

Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

#28

Key Largo (1948)

#3

Saboteur (1942)

#4

Rope (1948)

#12

Notorious (1946)

#17

Rebecca (1940)

#26

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

#39

Spellbound (1945)

#41

Suspicion (1941)

#46

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

#5

The Great Dictator (1940)

#7

Double Indemnity (1944)

#22

A Foreign Affair (1948)

#30

The Lost Weekend (1945)

#8

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

#34

My Darling Clementine (1946)

#51

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

#9

Red River (1948)

#36

His Girl Friday (1940)

#44

The Big Sleep (1946)

#10

The Red Shoes (1948)

#50

49th Parallel (1942)

#11

Casablanca (1943)

#37

Mildred Pierce (1945)

#49

Flamingo Road (1949)

#14

Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II (1944, 1947)

#15

Laura (1944)

#16

Brief Encounter (1946)

#52

Great Expectations (1947)

#19

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

#35

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

#20

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

#31

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

#21

Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

#23

The Bicycle Thief (1949)

#24

White Heat (1949)

#25

The Southerner (1945)

#27

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

#29

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

#33

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

#32

Penny Serenade (1941)

#47

The Talk of the Town (1942)

#38

Journey Into Fear (1943)

#40

Samson and Delilah (1949)

#42

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

#43

Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

#45

Duel in the Sun (1946)

#48

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

#53

The Search (1948)