01) L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
02) Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)
03) Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
04) Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage)
05) Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
06) Titanic (James Cameron)
07) The Game (David Fincher)
08) Face/Off (John Woo)
09) Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
10) Abre Los Ojos (Alejandro Amenábar)

Honorable Mention: Gattaca (Andrew Niccol), As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks), The Ice Storm (Ang Lee), The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan), Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven), In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute), Breakdown (Jonathan Mostow), Amistad (Steven Spielberg), The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola), Lost Highway (David Lynch), Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni), Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)

Undiscovered: Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami), The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan), The Apostle (Robert Duvall), Cube (Vincenzo Natali), Funny Games (Michael Haneke), Kundun (Martin Scorsese), Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)

Worst of 1997:
01) U Turn (Oliver Stone)
02) Speed 2: Cruise Control (Jan de Bont)
03) The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
04) A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle)
05) Event Horizon (Paul W. S. Anderson)
06) The Postman (Kevin Costner)
07) The Relic (Peter Hyams)
08) Con Air (Simon West)
09) Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher)
10) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)

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