# The best William Wyler films

Three Best Director Oscars and a record twelve nominations: Wyler's finest, ordered from Flickchart, Ranker and Taste of Cinema, from Dodsworth to Funny Girl.

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## Top 15

1. **Mrs. Miniver (1942)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — An English family in wartime; six Oscars including Best Picture.
2. **The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Three veterans come home; seven Oscars including Best Picture.
3. **Roman Holiday (1953)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck; her Oscar-winning breakthrough.
4. **The Heiress (1949)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Olivia de Havilland won the Oscar, from Henry James.
5. **The Letter (1940)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Bette Davis and a shooting in Malaya, from Somerset Maugham.
6. **Wuthering Heights (1939)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon on the moors.
7. **The Little Foxes (1941)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Bette Davis in Lillian Hellman's play.
8. **Jezebel (1938)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Bette Davis's red dress and her second Oscar.
9. **Detective Story (1951)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Kirk Douglas, one day in a New York precinct.
10. **The Collector (1965)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Terence Stamp kidnaps Samantha Eggar.
11. **Ben-Hur (1959)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Charlton Heston and the chariot race; eleven Oscars.
12. **Dodsworth (1936)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Walter Huston, from Sinclair Lewis.
13. **The Big Country (1958)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Gregory Peck and a range war; Oscar for Burl Ives.
14. **Funny Girl (1968)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Barbra Streisand's Oscar-winning film debut.
15. **How to Steal a Million (1966)** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole steal a statue.

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