The Top Ten Films of 1923 and Awards

1. Warning Shadows (Robison)
2. Safety Last! (Newmeyer + Taylor)
3. La roue (Gance)
   
4. Die Straße (Grune)
5. Crainquebille (Feyder)
6. The Smiling Madame Beudet (Dulac)
7. Our Hospitality (Blystone + Keaton)
8. The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop (Brecht + Engel)
9. Die Lawine (Curtiz)
10. Merry-Go-Round (Julian + von Stroheim)

BEST DIRECTOR

Abel Gance, La roue

Karl Grune, Die Straße

Arthur Robison, Warning Shadows

Fred C. Newmeyer + Sam Taylor, Safety Last!

Germaine Dulac, The Smiling Madame Beudet

06 Jacques Feyder, Crainquebille

07 John G. Blystone + Buster Keaton, Our Hospitality

08 Michael Curtiz, Die Lawine

09 Bertolt Brecht + Erich Engel, The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop

10 Rupert Hughes, Souls for Sale

BEST ACTOR 

Maurice de Féraudy, Crainquebille

Buster Keaton, Our Hospitality, Three Ages and The Love Nest

Harold Lloyd, Safety Last!

Ramon Novarro, Scaramouche

Séverin-Mars, La roue

06 Lon Chaney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

07 Victor Varconi, Die Lawine

08 Gregori Chmara, Crime and Punishment

09 Charles Chaplin, The Pilgrim

10 Kenneth Harlan, East Side - West Side

BEST ACTRESS

Germaine Dermoz, The Smiling Madame Beudet

Lillian Gish, The White Sister

Mabel Normand, The Extra Girl

Mary Philbin, Merry-Go-Round

Blanche Sweet, Anna Christie

06 Eleanor Boardman, Souls for Sale

07 Norma Talmadge, Within the Law

08 Edna Purviance, A Woman of Paris

09 Mary Kid, Die Lawine

10 TIE Eileen Percy, East Side - West Side AND Colleen Moore, Broken Hearts of Broadway

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alexandre Arquillière, The Smiling Madame Beudet

Jean Forest, Crainquebille

George Hackathorne, Merry-Go-Round

Charles Hill Mailes, East Side - West Side

George Siegmann, Merry-Go-Round

RU Richard Dix, The Ten Commandments

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Lydia Knott, A Woman of Paris

Martha Mansfield, The Silent Command

Lilly Marischka, Die Lawine

Eileen Percy, Within the Law

Irene Rich, Brass

RU Alice Lake, Broken Hearts of Broadway

The Top Ten Films of 1922 and Awards

1. Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Christensen)
2. Nosferatu (Murnau)
3. The Prisoner of Zenda (Ingram)
   
4. Robin Hood (Dwan)
5. The Burning Soil (Murnau)
6. Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
7. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Lang)
8. Monte Cristo (Flynn)
9. Beyond the Rocks (Wood)
10. Phantom (Murnau)

BEST DIRECTOR

Benjamin Christensen, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

Allan Dwan, Robin Hood

Rex Ingram, The Prisoner of Zenda

F.W. Murnau, The Burning Soil

F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu

06 Robert J. Flaherty, Nanook of the North

07 Sam Wood, Beyond the Rocks

08 Maurice Tourneur, Lorna Doone

09 Fritz Lang, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler

10 Jacques Feyder, Crainquebille

BEST ACTOR 

Alfred Abel, Phantom

Douglas Fairbanks, Robin Hood

John Gilbert, Monte Cristo

Maurice de Féraudy, Crainquebille

Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler

06 Max Linder, The Three Must-Get-Theres

07 Lon Chaney, The Trap

08 Ivor Novello, The Bohemian Girl

09 Harold Lloyd, Grandma's Boy

10 Buster Keaton, The Paleface and My Wife's Relations

BEST ACTRESS

Gloria Swanson, Beyond the Rocks

Leatrice Joy, Manslaughter

Helmi Lindelöf, Anna-Liisa

Mabel Normand, Suzanna

Anna May Wong, The Toll of the Sea

06 Madge Bellamy, Lorna Doone

07 Gladys Cooper, The Bohemian Girl

08 Constance Talmadge, The Primitive Lover

09 Helen Ferguson, Hungry Hearts

10 Clara Kimball Young, The Worldly Madonna

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Hakon Ahnfelt-Rønne, Once Upon a Time

Sam de Grasse, Robin Hood

Jean Forest, Crainquebille

Ramon Novarro, The Prisoner of Zenda

Max Schreck, Nosferatu

06 Jean Hersholt, Tess of the Storm Country

07 Harrison Ford, The Primitive Lover

08 C. Aubrey Smith, The Bohemian Girl

09 Alan Hale, The Trap

10 Bernhard Goetzke, Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mae Busch, Foolish Wives

Constance Collier, The Bohemian Girl

Lya de Putti, The Burning Soil

Rosa Rosanova, Hungry Hearts

Alice Terry, The Prisoner of Zenda

06 Dorothy Dalton, Moran of the Lady Letty

07 Clara Bow, Down to the Sea in Ships

08 Kate Price, My Wife's Relations

09 Gloria Hope, Tess of the Storm Country

10 Lois Wilson, Manslaughter

The Top 10 Films of 1921 and Awards

1. Destiny (Lang)
2. The Parson's Widow (Dreyer)
3. The Wildcat (Lubitsch)
4. Eldorado (L'Herbier)
5. Leaves from Satan's Book (Dreyer)
6. Scherben (Pick)
7. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Ingram)
8. Sappho (Buchowetzki)
9. The Kid (Chaplin)
10. Manhatta (Sheeler & Strand)

BEST DIRECTOR
Fritz Lang, Destiny
Marcel L'Herbier, Eldorado
Ernst Lubitsch, The Wildcat
Lulu Pick, Scherben

Victor Sjöström, The Phantom Carriage

runner-up: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Leaves from Satan's Book

BEST ACTOR 
Richard Barthelmess, Tol'able David

Werner Krauss, Scherben

Max Linder, Seven Years Bad Luck
Harold Lloyd, Among Those Present and A Sailor-Made Man
Victor Sjöström, The Phantom Carriage

runner-up: Douglas Fairbanks, The Three Musketeers

BEST ACTRESS

Pola Negri, Sappho and The Wildcat

Asta Nielsen, Hamlet

Mary Pickford, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Through the Back Door and The Love Light

Alice Terry, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Lois Wilson, Miss Lulu Bett

runner-up: Henny Porten, Backstairs and Ève Francis, Eldorado

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Lon Chaney, The Ace of Hearts

Jackie Coogan, The Kid

Bernhard Goetzke, Destiny

Victor Janson, The Wildcat

Fred Thomson, The Love Light

runner-up: Claude Gillingwater, Little Lord Fauntleroy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Gertrude Astor, Through the Back Door

Bebe Daniels, The Affairs of Anatol

Aggie Herring, Among Those Present

Margaret McWade, The Blot

Edith Posca, Scherben

runner-up: Gloria Swanson, The Affairs of Anatol

The Top 10 Films of 1920 and Awards

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine)
2. The Parson's Widow (Dreyer)
3. Erotikon (Stiller)
4. Why Change Your Wife? (DeMille)
5. The Penalty (Worsley)
6. The Golem: How He Came into the World (Boese + Wegener)
7. Within Our Gates (Micheaux)
8. Way Down East (Griffith)
9. Sumurun (Lubitsch)
10. Just Pals (Ford)

BEST DIRECTOR
Cecil B. DeMille, Why Change Your Wife?
Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Parson's Widow
Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates
Mauritz Stiller, Erotikon

Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 

runner-up: Carl Boese + Paul Wegener, The Golem: How He Came Into the World 

BEST ACTOR 
Lon Chaney, The Penalty 

John Barrymore, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

Douglas Fairbanks, The Mark of Zorro 
Buster Keaton, One Week and The Scarecrow 
Werner Krauss, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 

runner-up: Emil Jannings, Anna Boleyn

BEST ACTRESS

Lillian Gish, Way Down East

Gloria Swanson, Why Change Your Wife?

Evelyn Preer, Within Our Gates

Tora Teje, Erotikon

Olive Thomas, The Flapper

runner-up: Barbara Bedford, The Last of the Mohicans

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Richard Barthelmess, Way Down East

Lon Chaney, Outside the Law

Joe Roberts, One Week and Convict 13

George Stone, Just Pals

Lewis Stone, Nomads of the North

runner-up: Henry Woodward, The Last of the Mohicans

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Hildur Carlberg, The Parson's Widow

Bebe Daniels, Why Change Your Wife?

Katherine Johnston, The Flapper

Margarete Kupfer, Sumurun

Anna Q. Nilsson, The Toll Gate

runner-up: Helen Ferguson, Just Pals

Top Ten Films of 1935 and Awards

1. The Good Fairy (Wyler)
2. Hands Across the Table (Leisen)
3. Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey)
4. Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
5. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
6. Top Hat (Sandrich)
7. Carnival in Flanders (Feyder)
8. The Whole Town's Talking (Ford)
9. Magnificent Obsession (Stahl)
10. Alice Adams (Stevens)

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps
Mitchell Leisen, Hands Across the Table
Leo McCarey, Ruggles of Red Gap
James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein
William Wyler, The Good Fairy


BEST ACTOR
Ronald Colman, A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Laughton, Ruggles of Red Gap and Mutiny on the Bounty
Herbert Marshall, If You Could Only Cook
Victor McLaglen, The Informer
Edward G. Robinson, The Whole Town's Talking
runner-up: Errol Flynn, Captain Blood


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Eric Blore, Top Hat

Charles Laughton, Les Misérables
Ralph Morgan, The Good Fairy
Basil Rathbone, Anna Karenina
Charles Ruggles, Ruggles of Red Gap
runner-up: Randolph Scott, Roberta

BEST ACTRESS
Jean Arthur, If You Could Only Cook

Katharine Hepburn, Alice Adams
Carole Lombard, Hands Across the Table
Myrna Loy, Whipsaw
Margaret Sullavan, The Good Fairy
runner-up: Françoise Rosay, Carnival in Flanders

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary Boland, Ruggles of Red Gap

Elsa Lanchester, Bride of Frankenstein
Edna May Oliver, No More Ladies
Marie Prevost, Hands Across the Table
Genevieve Tobin, The Goose and the Gander
runner-up: Frances Dee, Becky Sharp

Top Ten Films of 1934 and Awards

1. Les Misérables (Bernard)
2. Little Man, What Now? (Borzage)
3. The Goddess (Wu)
4. The Merry Widow (Lubitsch)
5. The Scarlet Empress (von Sternberg)
6. The Gay Divorcee (Sandrich)
7. It Happened One Night (Capra)
8. A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu)
9. The Thin Man (Van Dyke)
10. L'Atalante (Vigo)

BEST DIRECTOR

Raymond Bernard, Les Misérables

Frank Borzage, Little Man, What Now?

Ernst Lubitsch, The Merry Widow

Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlett Empress

Yonggang Wu, The Goddess

BEST ACTOR

Harry Baur, Les Misérables

Charles Boyer, Liliom

Fredric March, Death Takes a Holiday

Robert Montgomery, Hide-Out

William Powell, The Thin Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Lionel Atwill, The Age of Innocence

Charles Butterworth, The Cat and the Fiddle (and Forsaking All Others)

Edward Everett Horton, The Gay Divorcee

Charles Laughton, The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Ralph Morgan, The Affairs of Cellini

BEST ACTRESS

Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night 

Carole Lombard, The Gay Bride (and Twentieth Century) 

Dita Parlo, L'Atalante

Lingyu Ruan, The Goddess 

Margaret Sullavan, Little Man, What Now?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Alice Brady, The Gay Divorcée 

Constance Cummings, This Man is Mine 

Glenda Farrell, I've Got Your Number 

Aline MacMahon, Heat Lightning 

Verree Teasdale, Fashions of 1934

Top Ten Films of 1933

1. Bombshell (Fleming)
2. Design for Living (Lubitsch)
3. Zéro de Conduite (Vigo)
4. Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Shimizu)
5. Baby Face (Green)
6. Dinner at Eight (Cukor)
7. Man's Castle (Borzage)
8. Queen Christina (Mamoulian)
9. Liebelei (Ophüls)
10. 42nd Street (Bacon)