Sight & Sound: 1992 Directors Poll

Top films as voted by select directors. The Sight & Sound poll is perhaps the most renowned film poll. Critic Roger Ebert described it as "...by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies – the only one most serious movie people take seriously."

# Film Year Country Director
1 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
2 1963 France, Italy Federico Fellini
3 Raging Bull 1980 USA Martin Scorsese
4 La Strada 1954 Italy Federico Fellini
5 L'Atalante 1934 France Jean Vigo
6 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Coppola
7 Modern Times 1936 USA Charlie Chaplin
8 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
9 The Godfather Part II 1974 USA, USA, USA Francis Ford Coppola
10 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
11 Rashomon 1950 Japan Akira Kurosawa
12 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa