best films 1959

Anatomy of a murder  (Usa/Austria)  Otto Preminger
Floating weeds  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Imitation of life  (Usa/Germany)  Douglas Sirk
Kaagaz ke phool  (India) Guru Dutt
Nazarin  (Mexico/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
North by northwest  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Pickpocket  (France) Robert Bresson
Rio bravo  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
The 400 blows  (France)  Francois Truffaut
The world of apu  (India)  Satyajit Ray


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: North by northwest
Best Director:  Luis Bunuel

Achievement Award:  Otto Preminger

best films 1958

Ashes and diamonds  (Poland)  Andrsej Wajda
Big deal on madonna street (Italy) Mario Monicelli
Cairo station  (Egypt)  Youssef Chahine

Cranes are flying (Russia) Mikhael Kalatzov
Madhumati  (India)  Bimal Roy
Mon oncle  (France)  Jacques Tati
Rally round the flag boys  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
Some came running  (Usa)  Vincente Minnelli
The music room  (India)  Satyajit Ray
Vertigo  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Vertigo
Best Director: Vincente Minnelli
Best Performer:  Burt Ives 

Achievement Award:  Jacques Tati

best films 1957

An affair to remember (Usa) Leo Mccarey
Forty guns  (Usa)  Sam Fuller
Le notti bianche  (Italy)  Luchino Visconti
Nights of cabiria  (Italy) Frederic Fellini
Pyassa  (India)  Guru Dutt
The sweet smell of success  (Usa/Britain)  Alexander Mackendrick
Throne of blood  (Japan)  Akira Kuroswawa
Wild strawberries  (Sweden)  Ingmar Bergman
Will success spoil rock hunter  (Usa)  Frank Tashlin
Witness for the prosecution  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder



The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Le notti bianche
Best Director:  Frederic Fellini
Best Performer:  Marcello Mastroianni

Achievement Award: Akira Kurosawa

best films 1956

A man escaped  (France)  Robert Bresson
Bigger than life  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Crazy fruit  (Japan)  Ko nakahira
Early spring  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Flowing  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
The girl cant help it  (Usa)  Frank Tashlin
The killing  (Usa)  Stanley Kubrick
The red balloon (France)  Albert Lamorisse

The searchers  (Usa)  John Ford

Written on the wind  (Usa/Germany)  Douglas Sirk


The Golden Gongs 

Best Film:  A man escaped
Best Director: Nicholas Ray
Best Performer: Elisha Cook jr

Achievement Award: Frank Tashlin

best films 1955

All that heaven allows  (Usa/Germany)  Douglas Sirk
Death of a cyclist  (Spain)  Juan Bardem
Floating clouds  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
Kiss me deadly  (Usa)  Robert Aldrich
Lola montes  (France/Germany) Max Ophuls

Mr Arkadin (Spain/Usa) Orson Welles
Ordet  (Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
Pather panchali  (India)  Satjayit Ray
The criminal life of archiboldo de cruz  (Mexico/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
The night of the hunter  (Usa/Britain)  Charles Laughton



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Pather Panchali
Best Director:  Carl Dreyer
Best Performer:  Jay C Flippen

Achievement Award:  Douglas Sirk

best films 1954

A star is born  (Usa)  George Cukor
French cancan  (France)  Jean Renoir
Johnny guitar  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Rear window  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Sansho the bailiff  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
Sound of the mountain  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
The seven samurai  (Japan)  Akira Kurosawa
Track of the cat  (Usa) William Wellman
Voyage in italy  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini

Wagonmaster (Usa) John Ford



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Rear Window
Best Director:  Roberto Rosselini
Best Performer:  Thomas Mitchell

Achievement Award:  William Wellman

best films 1953

Gentlemen prefer blondes  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
I vitelloni  (Italy)  Frederic Fellini
Late chrysanthemums  (Japan) Mikio Naruse
Monsiuer hulots holiday  (France)  Jacques Tati
Roman holiday  (Usa)  William Wyler
The earrings of madame de .. (France/Germany)  Max Ophuls
The golden coach  (France) Jean Renoir
The naked spur  (Usa)  Anthony Mann
Tokyo story  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Ugetsu  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Ugetsu
Best Director:  Jean Renoir
Best Performer:  Robert Mitchum

Achievement Award:  Frederic Fellini

best films 1952

Bend of the river  (Usa)  Anthony Mann
El  (Mexico/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
Europa 51  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
Le plaisir  (France/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Lightning  (Japan) Mikio Naruse
Limelight  (Usa/Britain)  Charles Chaplin
Monkey business  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
The life of oharu  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The prowler  (Usa)  Joseph Losey 

The thing from another world (Usa) Christian Nyby



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The Life of Oharu
Best Director:  Mikio Naruse
Best Performer:  Michael Redgrave

Achievement Award:  Anthony Mann

best films 1951

Ace in the hole  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder
Awaara  (India)  Raj Kapoor
Diary of a country priest  (France) Robert Bresson
Early summer  (Japan) Yasijuro Ozu
Fixed bayonets  (Usa)  Sam Fuller
On dangerous ground  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Steel helmet  (Usa) Sam Fuller
Strangers on a train  (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
The kaiser's lackey  (Germany)  Wolfgang Staudte
The lavender hill mob  (Britain)  Charles Crichton
The man in the white suit  (Britain)  Alexander Mckendrick
The river  (India/France)  Jean Renoir


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Diary of a Country Priest
Best Director:  Billy Wilder
Best Performer:  Ward Bond

Achievement Award: Sam Fuller

best films 1950

All about eve  (Usa)  Joseph Mankiewicz
Gun crazy (Usa) Joseph Lewis
Harvey  (Usa/Germany)  Henry Koster
La ronde  (France/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Los olvidados  (Mexico/Spain) Luis Bunuel
In a lonely place  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Stars in my crown  (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Sunset boulevard  (Usa/Austria) Billy Wilder
The flowers of st francis  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
White heat (Usa) |Raoul Walsh



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  In a lonely place
Best Director:  Roberto Rosselini
Best Performer:  Karl Malden

Achievement Award:  Billy Wilder


Hall of Fame

Victor Sjostrom 28

Georges Melies 26

Albert Capellani 24

Yevgeni Bauer 21

Yasujiro Ozu 20

Howard Hawks 20
Alfred Hitchcock 19

Sergei Eisenstein 18
Jean Renoir 17

Kenji Mizoguchi 17 

Dw Griffiths 16

Michael Powell 15

Josef Sternberg 15

Carl Dreyer 15
Roberto Rosselini 14
Jean Epstein 14

Ernst Lubitsch 13

Alexander Dovshenko 13

Orson Welles 13

John Ford 13

Max Ophuls 13

FW Murnau 13

Fritz Lang 13
Maurtitz Stiller 12
Charles Chaplin 12

Ferdinand Zecca 11
King Vidor  9
Maurice Tourneur 9
Ladislas Starevich 9
Edwin Porter 8

Erich Stronheim 8

Leo Mccarey 8
Raoul Walsh 7
Vsevelod Pudovkin 7
GW Pabst 7
Frank Borzage 7
James Whale 7

Michel Carne 7
Jacques Tourneur 7
Marcus Pagnol 7
Louis Feuillade7
John Stahl 7

Lucien Nonguet

Giovanni Pastrone

Francesco Bertlini

Leonce Perret

Robert Weine

Andre Antoine

Hiroshi Shimizu

Nicholas Ray

Mario Caserini

Gustavo Serena

Harold Lloyd

Sadao Yamanaka

Mikio Naruse

Michael Curtiz

Mitchell Liesen

Preston Sturges

George Cukor

cineometer 1950: Usa 158, Fra 65, Rus 29, Jap 26, Ger 26, Bri 17, Swe 15, Ita 13, Chi 6, Den 5, Ind 3, Mex 3,

best films 1949

Andaz  (India)  Mehboob Khan
Beyond the forest  (Usa)  King Vidor
Crows and sparrows  (China)  Zheng Junli
I was a male war bride  (Usa) Howard Hawks
Kind hearts and coronets  (Britain)  Robert Hamer
Late spring  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Mahal  (India) Kamal Amrohi
Rendezvous in july  (France)  Jacques Becker
The reckless moment  (Usa/Germany)  Max Ophuls
The third man  (Britain)  Carol Reed


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Late Spring
Best Director: Max Ophuls
Best Performer:  Millard Mitchell

Achievement Award:  Jacques Becker

best films 1947 - 1948

1947

Antoine and antoinette  (France)  Jacques Becker
Black narcissus  (Britain)  Michael Powell
Daisy kenyon  (Usa/ Austria)  Otto Preminger
Monsieur verdoux  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin 

Out of the past (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Panique  (France)  Julien Duvivier
Phoenix  (Japan) Keisuke Kinoshita
Record of a tenement gentleman  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
The loves of sumako the actress  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The unsuspected  (Usa/Hungary)  Michael Curtiz

1948

Bicycle thieves  (Italy)  Vittoria de Sica 

Children of the beehive (Japan) Hiroshi Shimizu

Fort apache (Usa) John Ford
Germany year zero  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
Inspiration  (Czechoslovakia)  Karel Zeman
La terra trema  (Italy) Luchino Visconte
Letter from an unknown woman  (Usa/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Spring in a small town  (China)  Fei Mu
The red shoes  (Britain)  Michael Powell
They live by night  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray


The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures:  Monsieur Verdoux, Spring in a small town
Best Director:  Michael Powell, Max Ophuls
Best Performer:  Richard Widmark

Achievement Award: Michael Curtiz, Luchino Visconte

best films 1945 - 1946

1945

Children of paradise  (France)  Marcel Carne
Detour  (Usa/Austria) Edgar Ulmer
I know where i'm going  (Britain) Michael Powell

Leave her to heaven (Usa/Azerbijan) John Stahl
Les dames du bois des boulogne  (France)  Robert Bresson
Mildred Pierce  (Usa/Hungary)  Michael Curtis
Rome open city  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
Scarlet street  (Usa/Germany)  Fritz Lang
The killers  (Usa/Germany)  Robert Siodmak
They were expendable  (Usa) John Ford

1946

A matter of life and death  (Britain)  Michael Powell

Beauty and the beast  (France)  Jean Cocteau
Canyon passage  (Usa/France)  Jacques Tourneur
Cluny Brown  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
Gilda  (Usa/Hungary) Charles Vidor
My darling clementine  (Usa)  John Ford
Notorious  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Paisan  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
The best years of our lives  (Usa)  William Wyler
Utamaro and his five women  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi



The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures: Open City, A matter of life and death
Best Directors:  Marcel Carne, Roberto Rossellini
Best Performer:  Anna Magnani

Achievement Award:  John Stahl, WIlliam Wyler

best films 1944

At land (Usa/Ukraine) Maya Dern

A canterbury tale  (Britain)  Michael Powell
Curse of the cat people  (Usa)  Robert Wise
Double indemnity  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder
Ivan the terrible  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Laura  (Usa/Austria)  Otto Preminger
Lifeboat  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Maria candelaria  (Mexico)  Emilio Fernandez
The miracle of morgan's creek  (Usa) Preston Sturges
To have and have not  (Usa)  Howard Hawks


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Ivan the Terrible
Best Director: Howard Hawks
Best Performer: Walter Brennan

Achievement Award: Emilio Fernandez

best films 1943

Air force  (Usa)  Howard Hawks

Day of wrath  (Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
Flor silvestre  (Mexico) Emilio Fernandez
Heaven can wait  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
I walked with a zombie  (Usa/France)  Jacques Tourneur
Les anges des peches  (France)  Robert Bresson 
Obsessione  (Italy)  Luchino Visconte
Shadow of a doubt  (Usa/Britian)  Alfred Hitchcock
The life and death of colonel blimp  (Britain)  Michael Powell
The seventh victim  (Usa) Mark Robson


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  Day of Wrath
Best Director:  Michael Powell
Best Performer:  Charles Lane

Achievement Award:  Jacques Tourneur

best films 1942

Aniki bobo  (Portugal)  Manuel Oliviera
Cat people  (Usa/France)  Jacques Tourneur
Gentleman jim  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh
Men of the mountain  (Hungary)  Istvan Szots
The magnificent ambersons  (Usa)  Orson Welles
The man who came to dinner  (Usa) William Keighley
The palm beach story  (Usa)  Preston Sturges
There was a father  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
To be or not to be  (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
Went the day well  (Britain/Brazil)  Alberto Cavalcanti


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Director: Orson Welles
Best Performer:  Monty Woolley

Achievement Award:  Manoel Oliviera

best films 1940 - 1941

1940

Foreign correspondent  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
His girl friday  (Usa)  Howard Hawks

London can take it  (Britain) Humphrey Jennings

Pinnochio  (Usa) Walt Disney
Rebecca  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Remember the night  (Usa)  Mitchell Liesen
Remorques (France) Jean Gremillon
The philadelphia story  (Usa)  George Cukor
The mortal storm  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
The shop around the corner  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch


1941

Citizen kane  (Usa)  Orson Welles
Hellzapoppin  (Usa)  HC Potter
Hold back the dawn  (Usa)  Mitchell Liesen
How green was my valley  (Usa)  John Ford
Ornamental hairpin  (Japan)  Hiroshi Shimizu
Sullivans travels  (Usa)  Preston Sturges
Suspicion  (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
The devil and daniel webster  (Usa/Germany)  William Dieterle

The great dictator  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin
The shanghai gesture  (Usa/Austria) Josef Sternberg


The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures: His Girl Friday, Citizen Kane
Best Directors:  George Cukor, John Ford
Best Performers:  Jane Darwel, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Collinge

Achievement Awards:  Mitchell Liesen, Preston Sturges


The Hall of Fame

Victor Sjostrom 28
George Melies   26
Albert Capellani 24
Yevgeni Bauer    21

Jean Renoir 17

DW Griffiths  16 

Kenji Mizoguchi  15
Alfred Hitchcock  14

Howard Hawks  14
Jean Epstein 14

Josef Sternberg  14
Yasujiro Ozu 13
Alexander Dovshenko  13
Sergei Eisenstein 13
FW Murnau  13

Fritz Lang  13
Mauritz Stiller  12

Ferdinand Zecca  11
Ernst Lubitsch  10
Carl Dreyer  10

Maurice Tourneur 9

Ladislas Starevich 9

Edwin Porter  8

Leo Mccarey 8

Erich Stronheim 8
GW Pabst 7

|Frank Borzage  7 

Vsevelod Pudovkin 7

King Vidor 7 

James Whale 7

Marcus Pagnol  7

Louis Feuillade 7

John Ford 6
Andre Antoine 6
Charlie Chaplin 6
Leonce Perret  6
Robert Weine 6

Lucien Nonguet 6
Mario Caserini 5
Francesca Bertilini 5
Giovanne Pastrone 5
Mikio Naruse  5
Sadao Yamanaka  5

George Cukor 5

Raoul Walsh 5

Harold Lloyd 5
Gustava Serena  5

cineometer 1940: Usa 104, Fra 56, Ger 26, Rus 26, Jap 18, Swe 15, Ita 9, Bri 8, Chi 4, Den 4

best films 1939

Love affair  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
Midnight  (Usa) Michell Leisen
Ninotchka  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
Stagecoach (Usa) John Ford
The roaring twenties  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh
The rules of the game  (France)  Jean Renoir
The story of the last chrysanthemums  (Japan) Kenji Mizoguchi
The whole family works  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse 

When tomorrow comes (Usa) John Stahl
Young mr lincoln  (Usa) John Ford


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The rules of the game
Best Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Best Performer: Claudette Colbert

Achievement Award:  John Ford

best films 1938

Alexander nevsky  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Bringing up baby  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
Flowers have fallen  (Japan) Tamizo Ishida
Four daughters  (Usa/Hungary) Michael Curtiz
La bete humaine  (France)  Jean Renoir

Quai des brumes (France) Michel Carne
Stella dallas  (Usa)  King Vidor
The lady vanishes  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
The bakers wife  (France) Marcus Pagnol
Two masseurs and a woman  (Japan)  Hiroshi Shimizu



The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Bringing up baby
Best Director:  Alfred Hitchcock
Best Performers:  Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne

Achievement Award:  Michel Carne

best films 1937

Holiday (Usa) George Cukor

Humanity and paper balloons  (Japan) Sadao Yamanaka
Make way for tomorrow  (Usa) Leo Mccarey
Stage door  (Usa)  Gregory La Cava 
Street angel  (China)  Yuan Muzhi
The awful truth  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
The grand illusion  (France)  Jean Renoir
The great garrick  (Usa/Britain)  James Whale

Way out west  (Usa) James Horne
Young and innocent  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Make way for tomorrow
Best Director:  Sadao Yamanaka
Best Performer: Barbara Stanwyck

Achievement Award: James Horne

best films 1936

A day in the country  (France)  Jean Renoir
By the bluest of blue seas  (Russia) Boris Barnet
Modern times  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin
Mr thank you  (Japan)  Hiroshi Shimizu
Osaka elegy  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
Rose hobart  (Usa)  Joseph Cornell
Sisters of the gion  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The crime of monsieur lange  (France)  Jean Renoir
The only son (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
The story of a cheat (France) Sacha Guitry

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Sisters of the gion
Best Director:  Boris Barnet
Best Performer: Paul Robeson

Achievement Award: Hiroshi Shimizu

best films 1935

An inn in tokyo  (Japan)  Yusijiro  Ozu
Bride of frankenstein  (Usa/Britain)  James Whale
Crime and punishment  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Little man what now  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
Pot worth a million ryo  (Japan)  Sadao Yamanaka
Ruggles of red gap  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
Steamboat round the bend  (Usa) John Ford
The devil is a woman  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
The downfall of osen  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The thirty nine steps (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Three sisters with maiden hearts  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
Wife be like a rose  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse


The Golden Gongs:

Best Picture:  The downfall of osen
Best Director:  Josef Sternberg
Best Performer:  Edward Arnold

Achievement Award:  Mikio Naruse

best films 1934

A story of floating weeds  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Imitation of life  (Usa) John Stahl
It happened one night  (Usa/Italy) Frank Capra
Judge priest  (Usa) John Ford
L'atalante  (France)  Jean Vigo
La signora di tutti  (Italy/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Masquerade (Austria) Willi Forst
Our neighbour miss yae  (Japan)  Yasujiro Shimazu
Shen nu  (China)  Wu Yonggang
The man who knew too much  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
The scarlet empress  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
The thin man  (Usa)  WS Van Dyke
Twentieth century  (Usa)  Howard Hawks


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: A Story of Floating Weeds
Best Director:  Jean Vigo
Best Performer: Ruan Lingyu

Achievement Award:  Alfred Hitchcock

best films 1933

Bombshell  (Usa)  Victor Fleming
Daybreak  (China)  Sun Yu

42nd St (Usa) Lloyd Bacon
Hallelujah i'm a bum  (Usa)  Lewis Milestone
Liebelei  (Germany) Max Ophuls
Mans castle  (Usa) Frank Borzage
Passing fancy  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Only yesterday  (Usa)  John  Stahl
Sons of the desert (Usa) William Seiter
The invisible man  (Usa/Britain)  James Whale
Topaze  (Usa/Argentina)  Harry D'arrast


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The invisible man
Best Director: Max Ophuls
Best Performer: Una O Connor

Achievement Award:  Frank Borzage

best films 1931

An american tragedy  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Blonde crazy  (Usa)  Roy del Ruth
Dishonoured  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Kameradschaft  (Germany) George Pabst
La chienne  (France)  Jean Renoir
M  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
Marius  (France/Hungary)  Alexander Korda/Marcus Pagnol
The champ  (Usa)  King Vidor
The peach girl  (China)  Bu Wancang 

The public enemy (Usa) William Wellman


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Marius
Best Director:  Fritz Lang
Best Performer:  Wallace Beery

Achievement Award:  William Wellman

best films 1932

Back street  (Usa/Azerbijan)  John Stahl
Boudu saved from drowning  (France)  Jean Renoir
Fanny  (France)  Marcus Pagnol
I was born but  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Me and my gal  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh
Night at the crossroads  (France)  Jean Renoir
Scarface  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
Trouble in paradise  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
Vampyr  (Germany/Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
Where now are the dreams of youth  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu


Best Picture:  Boudu saved from drowning
Best Director:  Yasujiro Ozu
Best Performer:  Raimu

Achievement Award:  Howard Hawks

best films 1930

Au bonheur des dames  (France)  Julien Duvivier
Earth  (Russia)  Alexander Dovshenko
L'age d'or  (France/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
Laughter  (Usa/Argentina)  Harry D'arrast
Morocco  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Prix de beaute  (France/Italy)  Augusto Genina
The blue angel  (Germany/Austria)  Josef Sternberg 
The dawn patrol  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
The tale of the fox  (France/Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
Westfront 1918  (Germany)  GW Pabst


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Earth
Best Director: Alexander Dovshenko
Best Performer:  Marlene Dietrich

Achievement Award:  Luis Bunuel


The Hall of Fame 

Victor Sjostrom           
Georges Melies           
Albert Capellani           
Yevgeni Bauer   
Jean Epstein        
DW Griffiths              
Alexander Dovshenko
FW Murnau
Mauritz Stiller
Sergei Eisenstein           
Ferdinand Zecca
Carl Dreyer
Ernst Lubitsch
Andre Antoine
Maurice Tourneur
Ladislas Starevich
Edwin Porter
Vsevelod Pudovkin
King Vidor
Leonce Perret
Josef Sternberg
GW Pabst
Fritz Lang
Robert Weine
Mario Caserini
Giovanne Pastrone
Francesca Bertilini
Lucien Nonguet
Charlie Chaplin
Erich Stronheim
Gustavo Serena
Louis Feuillade
Abel Gance
Alfred Hitchcock
Harold Lloyd
Marcel L'Herbier
Cecil B Demille
Max Linder                  

cineometer 1930: Usa 48, Fra 42, Rus 26, Ger 22, Swe 15, Ita 8, Den 4, Bri 2, Oz 1, Ind 1
                                            

best films 1929

Arsenal  (Russia)  Alexander Dovshenko
Blackmail  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Hallelujah  (Usa) King Vidor
Lands end  (France/Poland)  Jean Epstein
Lucky star  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
Pandora's box  (Germany)  GW Pabst
Rails  (Italy)  Mario Camerini
Sunnyside up  (Usa)  David Butler
The general line  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
The wonderful lie of nina petrovna  (Germany)  Hans Schwartz


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Lands End
Best Director: Alexander Dovshenko
Best Performer:  Louise Brooks

Achievement Award:  GW Pabst

best films 1928

Abwege  (Germany)  GW Pabst
Beggars of life  (Usa)  William Wellman
Homecoming  (Germany/Austria)  Joe May
Storm over asia  (Russia)  Vsevelod Pudovkin
The docks of new york  (Usa/Austria) Josef Sternberg
The fall of the house of usher  (France)  Jean Epstein
The magical clock  (France/Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
The passion of joan of arc  (France/Denmark) Carl Dreyer
Zvenigora  (Russia)  Alexander Dovshenko


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  The Passion of Joan of Arc
Best Director:  Jean Epstein
Best Performer:  Janet Gaynor

Achievement Award:  Josef Sternberg

best films 1927

Bed and sofa  (Russia)  Abram Room
Napoleon (France) Abel Gance
October  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Show people  (Usa)  King Vidor
S.v.d  (Russia)  Grigori Kozintsev
The end of st petersburg  (Russia)  Vsevelod Pudovkin
Underworld  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Women of ryazan  (Russia)  Olga Preobrazhenskaya


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  October
Best Director:  Abel Gance

Achievement Award: Grigori Kozintsev

best films 1926

Faust  (Germany)  Fw Murnau
Metropolis  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
Mother  (Russia)  Vsevelod Pudovkin

The general (Usa) Buster Keaton

The kid brother (Usa) Harold Lloyd
The lodger  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
The overcoat  (Russia)  Grigori Kozintsev
The student prince of old heidelberg  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Mother
Best Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Best Performer: John Gilbert

Achievement Award:  Buster Keaton

best films 1925

Battleship potemkin  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Stella dallas  (Usa)  Henry King
Strike  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
The big parade  (Usa)  King Vidor
The freshman  (Usa)  Harold Lloyd
The joyless street  (Germany) G W Pabst
The scarlet letter  (Usa/Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Visage d'enfants  (France/Belgium)  Jacques Feyder


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Battleship Potemkin
Best Director: King Vidor
Best Performer: Belle Bennett

Achievement Award:  Harold Lloyd

best films 1924

Greed  (Usa/Austria)  Erich von Stronheim
He who gets slapped  (Usa/Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Lady windermeres fan  (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
Lazybones  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
Mikael  (Germany/Denmark)  Carl Dreyer

Sherlock jr (Usa) Buster Keaton
Siegfried  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
The last laugh  (Germany)  FW Murnau
The marriage circle  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
The thief of baghdad  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: He Who Gets Slapped
Best Director: Erich Stronheim
Best Performance:  Adolphe Menjou

Achievement Award: Ernst Lubitsch

best films 1923

Couer fidele  (France)  Jean Epstein
Gosta berling  (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
L'inhumaine  (France)  Marcel L'Herbier
Norrtullsligan  (Sweden)  Per Lindberg
Raskalnikov  (Germany)  Robert Wiene
Safety last/Girl shy  (Usa)  Harold Lloyd
The covered wagon  (Usa)  James Cruze
The ten commandments  (Usa)  Cecil B Demille


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Couer Fidele
Best Director: Jean Epstein
Best Performer: Tora Teje


Achievement Award: Marcel L'Herbier

best films 1922

Burning soil  (Germany) Fw Murnau
Crainquebille  (France/Belgium)  Jacques Feyder
Foolish wives  (Usa/Austria)  Erich von Stronheim
Love's crucible  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Nanook of the north  (Usa)  Robert Flaherty
Nosferatu  (Germany)  Fw Murnau
Phantoms  (Germany)  Fw Murnau
The dark road  (Germany)  Fw Murnau


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Nosferatu
Best Director: FW Murnau
Best Performer: Jenny Hasselqvist

Achievement Award: Robert Flaherty

best films 1921

Destiny  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
El dorado  (France)  Marcel L'Herbier
High and dizzy/Never weaken  (Usa)  Hal Roach
Johan  (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
La terre  (France)  Andre Antoine
Scherben  (Germany/Romania)  Lupu Pick
The four horsemen of the apocalypse  (Usa/Ireland) Rex Ingram
The phantom carriage  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom


 The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: La Terre
Best Director: Fritz Lang
Best Performer:  Harold Lloyd

Achievement Award:  Hal Roach

best films 1920

Last of the mohicans  (Usa/France)  Maurice Tourneur
Seduction (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
The cabinet of dr caligari  (Germany)  Robert Wiene
The flapper  (Usa)  Alan Crosland
The golem  (Germany) Paul Wegener
The monastery of sendomir  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
The parson's widow  (Sweden/Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
The swallow and the titmouse  (France)  Andre Antoine


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  The cabinet of dr caligari
Best Director:  Maurice Tourneur
Best Performer: Olive Thomas

Achievement Award:  Carl Dreyer


The Hall of Fame 

George Melies                                
Albert Capellani                            
Yevgeni Bauer                                
Victor Sjostrom                      
DW Griffith                    
Mauritz Stiller                 
Ferdinand Zecca             
Maurice Tourneur
Edwin Porter       
Leonce Perret
Ladislas Starevich     
Giovanne Pastrone              
Francesca Bertilini
Robert Weine               
Lucien Nonguet
Charlie Chaplin         
Gustavo Serena
Louis Feuillade
Mario Caserini
Andre Antoine
Max Linder
Lucien Nonguet
Cecil B Demille
Benjamin Christensen
Harold Shaw
Alice Guy Blanche
Vincent Hellbron
James Williamson
Carl Dreyer
Paul Wegener
Erich Stronheim
Raymond Longford
Holger Madsen
Dadasaheb Phalke
Enrico Guazanni
Urban Gad
August Blom 

cineometer 1920: Fra 27, Usa 18, Rus 12, Swe 10, Ita 7, Ger 4, Den 4, Oz 1, Ind 1, Bri 1
              

best films 1919

Blind husbands  (Usa/Austria)  Erich von stronheim
Broken blossoms  (Usa)  DW Griffiths
Sir arne's treasure  (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
Song of the scarlet flower  (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
The president  (Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
The sentimental bloke  (Australia)  Raymond Longford
The sons of ingmar  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Way down east  (Usa)  DW Griffiths


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Sir Arnes Treasure
Best Director:  Mauritz Stiller

Achievement Award: Erich Stronheim

best films 1916-1918

1916-1917

A life for a life  (Russia) Yvgeni Bauer
A man there was  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Pride of the clan  (Usa/France)  Maurice Tourneur
The dying swan  (Russia)  Ygveni Bauer
The girl from stormycroft  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
The tramp  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin

Best Picture:  The Girl from Stormycroft
Best Director:: Victor Sjostrom
Best Performer: Greta Almroth

Achievement Award:  Maurice Tourneur

1917-1918

Amarilly of clothes line alley  (Usa)  Marshall Neilan 

Police (Usa/Britain) Charlie Chaplin
Stella maris  (Usa)  Marshall Neilan
The king of paris  (Russia)  Yvgeni Bauer
The outlaw and his wife  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
The immigrant  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin



The Golden Gongs

Best Film: The Outlaw and his Wife
Best Director:  Victor Sjostrom
Best Performance: Mary Pickford

Achievement Award:  Charlie Chaplin

best films 1915-1916

After death  (Russia) Yvgeni Bauer
Assunta spina  (Italy) Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena
Carmen  (Usa)  Cecil B Demille
Children of the age  (Russia)  Yvgeni Bauer
Dreams  (Russia)  Yvgeni Bauer
Tigre reale (Italy)  Giovanni Pastrone



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Assunta Spina
Best Director: Yvgeni Bauer
Best Performer: Lyda Borelli

Achievement Award:  Cecil B Demille

best films 1914-1915

Lay down your arms  (Denmark)  Holger Madsen
Mysterious x  (Denmark)  Benjamin Christensen
Silent witnesses  (Russia)  Ygveni Bauer
The curse of greed  (France)  Leonce Perret
The happiness of eternal night  (Russia) Ygveni Bauer
The wishing ring  (Usa/France)  Maurice Tourneur 


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Silent Witnesses
Best Director:  Ygveni Bauer
Best Performer:  Vera Kholodnaya

Achievement Award:  Benjamin Christensen

best films 1913

Germinal  (France) Albert Capellani
Ma l'amor mio non muore  (Italy) Mario Caserini
Ingeborg holm  (Sweden) Victor Sjostrom
Raja harishchandra  (India) Dadasaheb Phalke
Twilight of a woman's soul  (Russia) Yevgeni Bauer
The child of paris  (France) Leonce Perret
The last days of pompei  (Italy) Mario Caserini
The student of prague  (Germany) Paul Wegener


Best Picture:  Germinal
Best Director: Mario Caserini
Best Performer: Lyda Borelli

Achievement Award:  Yevgeni Bauer

best films 1912

A romany spy  (Germany/Denmark) Urban Gad
The ant and the grasshopper  (Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
The cameraman's revenge  (Russia) Ladislas Starevich
The heart and money  (France) Leonce Perret, Louis Feuillade
The insects christmas  (Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
The land beyond the sunset  (Usa)  Harold Shaw
The rocks of kador  (France) Leonce Perret
Quo vadis  (Italy)  Enrico Guazzoni


Best Picture: The ant and the grasshopper
Best Director: Leonce Perret
Best Performer: Asta Nielsen

Achievement Award:  Harold Shaw

best films 1909 - 1911

1909-1910

A corner in wheat(Usa)  Dw Griffith
Fairy of the surf  (France)  Louis Feuillade
The unchanging sea  (Usa) DW Griffith
In the border states  (Usa) DW Griffith

Best Picture: A corner of wheat
Best Director: DW Griffith
Best Performer:  Charles West

Achievement Award:  Louis Feuillade


1911

Enoch arden  (Usa)  DW Griffith
Max and the mother in law (France)  Max Linder, Lucien Nonguet
The ballet dancer  (Denmark)  August Blom
The fall of troy  (Italy) Giovanni Pastrone
The odyssey  (Italy)  Francesco Bertolini

Best Picture:  The Fall of Troy
Best Director: DW Griffith
Best Performer:  Linda Arvidson

Achievement Award:  Max Linder, Lucien Nonguet 

cineometer 1910:

France 20, Usa 4, Bri 1

best films 1906 -1908

1906

Alladin and his wonder lamp  (France) Albert Capellani
L'age du couer  (France) Albert Capellani
Mortelle idylle  (France)  Albert Capellani
Pauvre mere  (France) Albert Capellani
The merry frolics of satan  (France) George Melies

Best Picture: The merry frolics of satan
Best Director:  Albert Capellani

Achievement Award:  Albert Capellani

1907-1908

L'arlessienne  (France)  Albert Capellani
L'assommoir  (France)  Albert Capellani
The skaters debut/his first cigar  (France) Max Linder
The white gloves (France)  Albert Capellani
Un heroine de quatre ans  (France)  Louis Feulillade, Alice Guy

Best Picture:  L'arlessiene
Best Director: Albert Capellani
Best Performer: Max Linder

Achievement Award:  Alice Guy Blanche, Louis Feuillade

1901 - 05

1901

Fire!  (Britain) James Williamson
History of a crime  (France) Ferdinand Zecca
The peeping tom  (France) Ferdinand Zecca

Best Picture: History of a Crime
Best Director: Ferdinand Zecca

Achievement Award:  James Williamson

1902

A trip to the moon  (France) George Melies
Ali baba and the forty thieves  (France)  Ferdinand Zecca
Jack and the beanstalk  (Usa)  Edwin Porter

Best Picture: A Trip to the Moon
Best Director: George Melies

Achievement Award: Edwin Porter

1903

A kingdom of fairies  (France)  George Melies
The great train robbery  (Usa)  Edwin Porter
William Tell  (France)  Lucien Nongue, Ferdinand Zecca

Best Picture:  A kingdom of fairies
Best Director:  Edwin Porter

Achievement Award:  Lucien Nonguet 

1904/1905

Christopher columbus  (France) Vincent Lorant Heilbronn
The impossible voyage  (France) George Melies
The night before christmas  (Usa)  Edwin Porter

Best Picture:  The impossible voyage
Best Director:  George Melies

Achievement Award:  Vincent Lorant Heilbronn