Movie Year Director Actor Actor Ranking Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey Beulah Bondi Victor Moore 1 Mississippi Masala 1991 Mira Nair Sarita Choudhury Denzel Washington 9 Claudine 1974 John Berry Diahann Carroll James Earl Jones 60 Lovers and Lollipops 1956 Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin Lori March Gerald S. O’Loughlin 97 Smilin’ Through… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Passions: The Family Cliché