Best film released each year

(using original release date, irrespective of location)

My suggestions:

J'Accuse 1919
Way Down East 1920
The Phantom Carriage 1921
The Thief of Bagdad 1924 / The Great White Silence (doc) 1924
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
Blackmail 1929
Salt for Svanetia 1930
The Blue Angel 1930
Limite 1931
Scarface 1932
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Twentieth Century 1934
A Night at the Opera 1935
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938
Story of the Last Chrysanthemum 1939
Rebecca 1940
Ornamental Hairpin 1941
Casablanca 1942
Day of Wrath 1943
Laura 1944
Rome, Open City 1945
La Belle et La Bete 1946
Out of the Past 1947
Key Largo 1948
Late Spring 1949
Stromboli (italian version) 1950
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
Singin' In the Rain 1952
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Journey to Italy 1954
Pather Panchali 1955
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957
The Music Room 1958
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
The Naked Island 1960
La Jetee 1962
High and Low 1963
Onibaba 1964
Alphaville 1965
Closely Watched Trains 1966
The Graduate 1967
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
Kes 1969
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McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971
Cabaret 1972
La Cousin Jules (doc) 1973 / The Day of the Jackal 1973
The Godfather Part 2 1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
The Passenger 1975
All the President's Men 1976
Killer of Sheep 1977
Superman 1978
Apocalypse Now 1979
Airplane 1980
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
Blade Runner 1982
At First Sight 1983
Stranger Than Paradise 1984
Taipei Story 1985
Blue Velvet 1986
Withnail & I 1987
Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988
When Harry Met Sally 1989 / For All Mankind (doc) 1989
Days of Being Wild 1990
The Commitments 1991
The Player 1992
The Remains of the Day 1993
Vive L'Amour 1994
Seven 1995
A Moment of Innocence 1996 / Voices Through Time (doc) 1996
L.A. Confidential 1997
Saving Private Ryan 1998
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In the Mood for Love 2000
Donnie Darko 2001
Uzak 2002
Café Lumiere 2003
Sideways 2004
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No Country for Old Men 2007
Wall-E 2008
Inglourious Basterds 2009
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011
Frances Ha 2012
The Great Gatsby 2013
Nightcrawler 2014 / The Look of Silence (doc) 2014
Virunga (doc) 2015
La La Land 2016
You Were Never Really Here 2017
Roma 2018
The Lighthouse 2019
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Fire of Love (doc) 2022
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Whitney Houston: A Concert for a New South Africa (doc) 2024

And the best films which weren't the best films:
The General 1926
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
Pandora's Box 1929
The Blue Angel 1930
M 1931
Vampyr 1932
Port of Shadows 1938
The Wizard of Oz 1939
Citizen Kane 1941
Leave Her to Heaven 1945
Panique 1946
My Darling Clementine 1946
Bicycle Thieves 1948
Stray Dog 1949
The Third Man 1949
Rear Window 1954
On the Waterfront 1954
La Pointe Courte 1955
Rebel Without a Cause 1955
12 Angry Men 1957
Elevator to the Gallows 1958
Touch of Evil 1958
North by Northwest 1959
Psycho 1960
La Notte 1961
L'Eclisse 1962
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
Soy Cuba 1964
Le Bonheur 1965
The Sound of Music 1965
For a Few Dollars More 1965
Blow-up 1966
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
Stolen Kisses 1968
The Color of Pomegranates 1969
A Touch of Zen 1971
Two Lane Blacktop 1971
The Andromeda Strain 1971
The Godfather 197
Cabaret 1972
Don't Look Now 1973
Mean Streets 1973
The Godfather Part 2 1974
Fear Eats the Soul 1974
Chinatown 1974
Barry Lyndon 1975
The Passenger 1975
The Mirror 1975
Jaws 1975
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Alien 1979
Body Heat 1981
The King of Comedy 1982
L'Argent 1983
The Runner 1984
The Terminator 1984
Homecoming 1984
Paris, Texas 1984
Taipei Story 1985
Rebels of the Neon God 1992
Pulp Fiction 1994
Mulholland Drive 2001
The Master 2012
Argo 2012
Drive 2012
Whiplash 2014
Embrace of the Serpent 2016
Arrival 2016