| — |  ▶ | 12 Years a SlaveSteve McQueen, 2013. A free man kidnapped into slavery, filmed without letting you look away | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | How to Train Your DragonDean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, 2010. A boy and a dragon learning to fly, with a score that lifts | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Memories of MurderBong Joon Ho, 2003. A serial killer case with no ending, and a final look at the camera | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Grand Budapest HotelWes Anderson, 2014. A hotel, a painting, and symmetry deployed as comedy | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Before SunriseRichard Linklater, 1995. Two strangers walk around Vienna and talk until dawn | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Monsters, Inc.Pete Docter and David Silverman, 2001. A door factory, a small child, and a laugh worth more than a scream | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Blade RunnerRidley Scott, 1982. Rain, neon, and a monologue about tears written on the day | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Gone GirlDavid Fincher, 2014. A missing wife, a press conference, and a marriage as a trap | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Ford v FerrariJames Mangold, 2019. Two men build a car to spite a boardroom, at seven thousand revs | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | JawsSteven Spielberg, 1975. A shark you barely see, because the barrel was scarier | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | In the Name of the FatherJim Sheridan, 1993. A false confession and fifteen years of a father and son in a cell | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Spider-Man: No Way HomeJon Watts, 2021. A multiverse reunion that let three generations share a frame | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze ArcTatsuya Yoshihara, 2025. A train, a date, and an anime action sequence that goes fully off | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Wild TalesDamián Szifron, 2014. Six short revenge stories, each one funnier and worse than the last | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Gold RushCharles Chaplin, 1925. A boot eaten with a fork, and a cabin on a cliff edge | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Sherlock Jr.Buster Keaton, 1924. A projectionist walks into the movie screen, in 1924 | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | A Silent Voice: The MovieNaoko Yamada, 2016. A bully and his victim meet years later, both in pieces | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Mary and MaxAdam Elliot, 2009. Claymation pen pals, one in Melbourne and one in New York | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Deer HunterMichael Cimino, 1978. A wedding, a jungle, and a game of Russian roulette | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Wages of FearHenri-Georges Clouzot, 1953. Four men drive nitroglycerin over mountain roads, very slowly | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | LoganJames Mangold, 2017. A western in an X-Men costume, and the costume loses | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | RockyJohn G. Avildsen, 1976. He does not win, and that is why people still run up steps | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black PearlGore Verbinski, 2003. A pirate who moves like he has been drinking for a decade | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The GeneralClyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926. Keaton, a locomotive, and stunts that would not be permitted now | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonFrank Capra, 1939. A filibuster, a small man, and a Senate that has heard enough | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Tokyo StoryYasujirō Ozu, 1953. Parents visit their grown children, who have no time for them | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | La haineMathieu Kassovitz, 1995. Twenty-four hours in the banlieue, and a landing so far so good | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Jai BhimT.J. Gnanavel, 2021. A lawyer takes on a police cover-up in a tribal village | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | SpotlightTom McCarthy, 2015. Reporters knocking on doors, and journalism shown as paperwork | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Sound of MusicRobert Wise, 1965. Hills, an abbey, and songs that will not leave your head | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | MaharajaNithilan Saminathan and R. Nandhakumar, 2024. A barber walks into a police station about a stolen dustbin | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The TerminatorJames Cameron, 1984. A slasher film wearing science fiction, and the phone book scene | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | On the WaterfrontElia Kazan, 1954. I coulda been a contender, said in the back of a car | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Best Years of Our LivesWilliam Wyler, 1946. Three soldiers come home and nothing fits them anymore | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Third ManCarol Reed, 1949. A zither, a Ferris wheel, and a sewer chase in occupied Vienna | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Big LebowskiJoel Coen and Ethan Coen, 1998. A rug, a bowling league, and a plot the hero cannot be bothered with | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The IncrediblesBrad Bird, 2004. A superhero family comedy that is really about middle age | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Before SunsetRichard Linklater, 2004. Nine years later, real time, and a room where the plane can be missed | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Hachi: A Dog's TaleLasse Hallström, 2009. A dog waits at a station, which is the whole film and it works | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | RoomLenny Abrahamson, 2015. A shed, a boy who has never seen sky, and the moment he does | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Chaos Class Failed the ClassErtem Eğilmez, 1975. A Turkish boarding school comedy that the country quotes by heart | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The ExorcistWilliam Friedkin, 1973. A staircase, a bed, and a horror film shot like a drama | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Hotel RwandaTerry George, 2004. A hotel manager improvises bribes to keep a thousand people alive | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Seventh SealIngmar Bergman, 1957. A knight plays chess with Death and stalls for one good deed | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Iron GiantBrad Bird, 1999. A boy, a weapon that chooses not to be one, and Superman | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | PlatoonOliver Stone, 1986. Two sergeants, one platoon, and a war fought inside the unit | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | RushRon Howard, 2013. Two drivers who need each other more than they can admit | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Stand by MeRob Reiner, 1986. Four boys walk along a railway line to see a body | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Wizard of OzVictor Fleming and George Cukor, 1939. A tornado, a colour switch, and a road that everyone can hum | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Battle of AlgiersGillo Pontecorvo, 1966. Occupation and insurgency shot like newsreel, from both sides | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | My Father and My SonÇagan Irmak, 2005. A son brings his family home to a father who has not forgiven him | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Autumn SonataIngmar Bergman, 1978. A mother and daughter at a piano, and decades of damage in one night | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The HandmaidenPark Chan-wook, 2016. A con inside a con, told three times and better each time | — win | — match wins |