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| # | Preview | Candidate | Win rate | Match win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  | The Shawshank RedemptionFrank Darabont, 1994. Hope is a dangerous thing, and two hours later you believe it anyway | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The GodfatherFrancis Ford Coppola, 1972. The wedding runs outside while the business gets done in the dark office | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Dark KnightChristopher Nolan, 2008. A performance so total that the film around it had to keep up | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Godfather Part IIFrancis Ford Coppola, 1974. Two men rise in parallel and only one of them is still human at the end | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingPeter Jackson, 2003. Every ending it was accused of having too many, it had earned | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | 12 Angry MenSidney Lumet, 1957. One room, one table, and the slow work of changing a mind | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Schindler's ListSteven Spielberg, 1993. Black and white until a red coat walks through it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingPeter Jackson, 2001. The moment the world stops being a map and starts being a walk | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Pulp FictionQuentin Tarantino, 1994. Told out of order because the order was never the point | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersPeter Jackson, 2002. The middle chapter that turned a siege into the whole reason to sit down | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Good, the Bad and the UglySergio Leone, 1966. Three men, one cemetery, and the longest stare in movies | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Forrest GumpRobert Zemeckis, 1994. A life told sideways by the man least equipped to explain it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Fight ClubDavid Fincher, 1999. A joke about consumerism that people keep taking as a lifestyle | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | InceptionChristopher Nolan, 2010. Layers inside layers, and a top that may or may not stop | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes BackIrvin Kershner, 1980. The sequel that got darker and made everyone else start trying it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The MatrixLana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, 1999. A question about what is real that dressed itself in sunglasses | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | InterstellarChristopher Nolan, 2014. Love as a physical force, plus an hour of grief on a water planet | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | GoodFellasMartin Scorsese, 1990. The tracking shot through the kitchen tells you the whole appeal | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestMiloš Forman, 1975. A ward, a nurse, and a man who will not sit down quietly | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | SevenDavid Fincher, 1995. Seven sins, one box, and a question nobody wants answered | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | It's a Wonderful LifeFrank Capra, 1946. A Christmas film that spends most of its runtime in despair | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Silence of the LambsJonathan Demme, 1991. Two people talking through glass, and neither one blinks | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Saving Private RyanSteven Spielberg, 1998. The first twenty minutes rewrote what a war scene sounds like | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Seven SamuraiAkira Kurosawa, 1954. Seven men hired for rice, and the template for every team ever assembled | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Green MileFrank Darabont, 1999. A prison story where the miracle is the one on death row | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | City of GodFernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002. Kids with guns in a favela, shot like the city is running | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Life Is BeautifulRoberto Benigni, 1997. A father turns a camp into a game so his son survives it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Terminator 2: Judgment DayJames Cameron, 1991. The sequel where the monster becomes the thing protecting you | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Back to the FutureRobert Zemeckis, 1985. A clock tower, a lightning bolt, and perfect comic engineering | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New HopeGeorge Lucas, 1977. The film that made everyone want a spaceship and a father problem | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Spirited AwayHayao Miyazaki, 2001. A bathhouse for spirits and a girl who has to remember her name | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody AffairQuentin Tarantino, 2004. Both volumes stitched into one long revenge, the way it was shot | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | GladiatorRidley Scott, 2000. Are you not entertained, asked while the crowd absolutely was | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The PianistRoman Polanski, 2002. Survival told quietly, mostly by a man hiding and playing nothing | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ParasiteBong Joon Ho, 2019. A staircase movie where the descent keeps going lower than you think | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Grave of the FirefliesIsao Takahata, 1988. An animated film that opens by telling you the boy is already dead | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | HarakiriMasaki Kobayashi, 1962. A ronin arrives to commit ritual suicide and tells a story first | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | PsychoAlfred Hitchcock, 1960. The shower scene gets the fame, the parlour conversation does the work | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Lion KingRoger Allers and Rob Minkoff, 1994. A stampede, a cliff, and the first time a lot of us understood loss | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The DepartedMartin Scorsese, 2006. Everyone is undercover and the phone in the pocket is a countdown | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | WhiplashDamien Chazelle, 2014. Not quite my tempo, and the drum kit turns into a boxing ring | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The PrestigeChristopher Nolan, 2006. Two magicians ruin their lives over a trick and never admit it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | American History XTony Kaye, 1998. The curb scene is the one people remember and wish they did not | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseJoaquim Dos Santos and Kemp Powers, 2023. Every frame drawn in a different language of animation | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Léon: The ProfessionalLuc Besson, 1994. A hitman, a houseplant, and a girl who wants to learn the job | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Cinema ParadisoGiuseppe Tornatore, 1988. A projectionist, a boy, and a reel of every kiss ever cut | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | CasablancaMichael Curtiz, 1942. Of all the gin joints, and the ending nobody wanted to rewrite | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The IntouchablesOlivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, 2011. An unlikely friendship that refuses to become a lesson | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Usual SuspectsBryan Singer, 1995. The greatest trick was convincing you the last five minutes were coming | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Django UnchainedQuentin Tarantino, 2012. A western where the revenge is aimed at the institution itself | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | AlienRidley Scott, 1979. In space no one can hear you, and the crew keeps eating anyway | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Rear WindowAlfred Hitchcock, 1954. A man in a wheelchair watches his neighbours and we watch with him | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Modern TimesCharles Chaplin, 1936. Chaplin against the assembly line, still funny about a machine age | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Once Upon a Time in the WestSergio Leone, 1968. A harmonica, a train station, and Leone taking his time on purpose | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | City LightsCharles Chaplin, 1931. The final shot is a face recognising someone, and that is the whole film | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | WALL·EAndrew Stanton, 2008. Forty minutes of near silence, then a love story between two machines | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola, 1979. A boat goes upriver and the film goes somewhere it cannot come back from | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MementoChristopher Nolan, 2000. Told backwards so you know as little as the man taking the photographs | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Avengers: Infinity WarAnthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2018. The one where the villain wins and the credits just let it sit | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The OdysseyChristopher Nolan, 2026. Nolan takes the oldest story about a man trying to get home | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Dune: Part TwoDenis Villeneuve, 2024. Sand, worms, and a messiah story that keeps warning you about messiahs | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Raiders of the Lost ArkSteven Spielberg, 1981. The boulder, the hat, and a hero who is mostly improvising | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseBob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey, 2018. A leap of faith rendered in a style nobody had drawn before | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Lives of OthersFlorian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006. A surveillance officer listens to a life and slowly joins it | — win | — match wins |