A top 5 film list for each year of cinema.

Director Stats: (Indicates Favourite of the Year)

12 - Ingmar Bergman (2), Martin Scorsese (1)
11 - Billy Wilder (6)
10 -
9 - Akira Kurosawa (4), Kenji Mizoguchi (3)
8 - Fritz Lang (1)
7 - Charlie Chaplin (3), Ernst Lubitsch (2), Yasujirō Ozu (2), The Coen Brothers (1), Stanley Kubrick (1), F.W Murnau (1), Alfred Hitchcock
6 - Carl Theodor Dreyer (2), Frank Capra (1), Howard Hawks (1), Steven Spielberg (1)
5 - Wong Kar-wai (4), Andrei Tarkovsky (4), David Cronenberg (1), Hayao Miyazaki (1), Christopher Nolan (1), Satyajit Ray (1)
4 - Victor Sjöström (2), Spike Jonze (1), Sergio Leone (1), Masaki Kobayashi (1), Orson Welles (1), Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Terry Gilliam, Denis Villeneuve, Edward Yang