# 2022 #
- Tár (Todd Field)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
- The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
- (1) TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
- Close (Lukas Dhont)
- Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
- Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
- Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
- Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
- Decision to Leave (Chan-wook Park)
- Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
- Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
- Till (Chinonye Chukwu)
- Nope (Jordan Peele)
- (2) RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
- Living (Oliver Hermanus)
- The Northman (Robert Eggers)
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler)
- The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
- The Quiet Girl (Colm Bairéad)
- The Batman (Matt Reeves)
- The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
- Corsage (Marie Kreuzer)
- Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff)
- Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (Anthony Fabian)
- Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
- Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
- No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
- Bardo (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
- Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
- Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson)
- Lucy and Desi (Amy Poehler)
- She Said (Maria Schrader)
- Turning Red (Domee Shi)
- Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
- Alice, Darling (Mary Nighy)
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi)
- Hustle (Jeremiah Zagar)
- The Menu (Mark Mylod)
- Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (Matthew Warchus)
- To Leslie (Michael Morris)
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican)
- Alcarràs (Carla Simón)
# 2021 #
- The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
- Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- (1) DUNE (Denis Villeneuve)
- Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
- Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
- The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
- (2) THE HAND OF GOD (Paolo Sorrentino)
- Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
- (3) KING RICHARD (Reinaldo Marcus Green)
- Don't Look Up (Adam McKay)
- CODA (Sian Heder)
- Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King)
- Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Questlove)
- Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
- (4) THE GREEN KNIGHT (David Lowery)
- Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro)
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer-Camp)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
- A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts)
- Tick, Tick...Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
- Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
- Titane (Julia Ducournau)
- Compartment Number 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
- Cyrano (Joe Wright)
- Annette (Leos Carax)
- (5) THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES (Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe)
- Playground (Laura Wandel)
- The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg)
- Luca (Enrico Casarosa)
- Raya and the Last Dragon (Don Hall, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Paul Briggs, John Ripa)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Destin Daniel Cretton)
- The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
- The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani)
- Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin)
- The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
- The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
- Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
- (6) NO SUDDEN MOVE (Steven Soderbergh)
- (7) PASSING (Rebecca Hall)
- Official Competition (Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat)
- In the Heights (Jon M. Chu)
- Candyman (Nia DaCosta)
- C'Mon C'Mon (Mike Mills)
- The Suicide Squad (James Gunn)
- Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
- Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson)
- Lingui (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
# 2020 #
- Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
- Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
- (1) PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Emerald Fennell)
- The Father (Florian Zeller)
- Mank (David Fincher)
- Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
- (2) THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
- One Night in Miami (Regina King)
- Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
- Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)
- (3) PALM SPRINGS (Max Barbakow)
- (4) MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM (George C. Wolfe)
- (5) NEWS OF THE WORLD (Paul Greengrass)
- Dear Comrades (Andrey Konchalovskiy)
- Soul (Pete Docter, Kemp Powers)
- Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
- Onward (Dan Scanlon)
- (6) THE LIFE AHEAD (Edoardo Ponti)
- David Byrne's American Utopia (Spike Lee)
- Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
- (7) MANGROVE (Steve McQueen)
- (8) THE MIDNIGHT SKY (George Clooney)
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
- The Prom (Ryan Murphy)
- (9) BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM (Jason Woliner)
- On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)
- (10) LET HIM GO (Thomas Bezucha)
- A Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski)
- (11) PIECES OF A WOMAN (Kornél Mundruczó)
- The Outpost (Rod Lurie)
- Riders of Justice (Anders Thomas Jensen)
- Boys State (Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss)
- The Man Who Sold His Skin (Kaouther Ben Hania)
- (12) AMMONITE (Francis Lee)
- (13) TENET (Christopher Nolan)
- (14) CRIP CAMP (James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham)
- Falling (Viggo Mortensen)
- (15) I CARE A LOT (J Blakeson)
- (16) I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (Charlie Kaufman)
- My Octopus Teacher (Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed)
- Apples (Christos Nikou)
- The Forty-Year-Old Version (Radha Blank)
- The Mole Agent (Maite Alberdi)
- Night of the Kings (Philippe Lacôte)
- (17) THE BOYS IN THE BAND (Joe Mantello)
- Dream Horse (Euros Lyn)
- Emma (Autumn de Wilde)
- (18) ENOLA HOLMES (Harry Bradbeer)
- The Half of It (Alice Wu)
- Happiest Season (Clea DuVall)
# 2019 #
- (1) PARASITE (Joon-ho Bong)
- (2) THE IRISHMAN (Martin Scorsese)
- Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
- 1917 (Sam Mendes)
- (3) ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino)
- (4) JOKER (Todd Phillips)
- (5) LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig)
- (6) PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
- (7) JOJO RABBIT (Taika Waititi)
- (8) UNCUT GEMS (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
- Les Misérables (Ladj Ly)
- Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
- (9) FORD V FERRARI (James Mangold)
- The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
- Collective (Alexander Nanau)
- (10) SOUND OF METAL (Darius Marder)
- Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)
- First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
- (11) BOOKSMART (Olivia Wilde)
- La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante)
- (12) DOLEMITE IS MY NAME (Craig Brewer)
- The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
- (13) HUSTLERS (Lorene Scafaria)
- Midsommar (Ari Aster)
- Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
- Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul)
- Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)
- (14) ATLANTICS (Mati Diop)
- (15) THE TWO POPES (Fernando Meirelles)
- Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonca Filho)
- (16) AD ASTRA (James Gray)
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller)
- Two of Us (Filippo Meneghetti)
- (17) LATE NIGHT (Nisha Ganatra)
- The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Iannucci)
- (18) THE REPORT (Scott Z. Burns)
- One Child Nation (Zhang Lynn, Nanfu Wang)
- Bait (Mark Jenkin)
- (19) IT CHAPTER TWO (Andy Muschietti)
- Rocks (Sarah Gavron)
- Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa)
- (20) THE MUSTANG (Laura de Clermont-Tonnerre)
- (21) RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood)
- Waves (Trey Edward Shults)
- (22) ROCKETMAN (Dexter Fletcher)
- David Crosby: Remember My Name (A.J. Eaton)
- (23) BEANPOLE (Kantemir Balagov)
- (24) AMERICAN FACTORY (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)
- (25) HONEYLAND (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov)
# 2018 #
- (1) ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón)
- (2) COLD WAR (Pawel Pawlikowski)
- (3) SHOPLIFTERS (Hirokazu Koreeda)
- (4) GREEN BOOK (Peter Farrelly)
- A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
- (5) IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins)
- BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
- (6) THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- (7) BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler)
- Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
- (8) VICE (Adam McKay)
- (9) FIRST MAN (Damien Chazelle)
- (10) SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)
- Burning (Chang-dong Lee)
- (11) A QUIET PLACE (John Krasinski)
- Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
- (12) AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)
- (13) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (Bryan Singer)
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
- Mary Poppins Returns (Rob Marshall)
- Annihilation (Alex Garland)
- (14) EIGHTH GRADE (Bo Burnham)
- (15) HEREDITARY (Ari Aster)
- (16) WIDOWS (Steve McQueen)
- (17) LEAVE NO TRACE (Debra Granik)
- (18) CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (Marielle Heller)
- (19) THE GUILTY (Gustav Möller)
- (20) CRAZY RICH ASIANS (Jon M. Chu)
- (21) THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville)
- Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (Mark Cousins)
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.)
- (22) THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM (John Chester)
- Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
- (23) DOGMAN (Matteo Garrone)
- (24) THE OLD MAN & THE GUN (David Lowery)
- Diane (Kent Jones)
- Girl (Lukas Dhont)
- (25) STAN & OLLIE (Jon S. Baird)
- Maiden (Alex Holmes)
- (26) BORDER (Ali Abbasi)
- (27) SEARCHING (Aneesh Chaganty)
- Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen)
- (28) DON'T WORRY, HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT (Gus Van Sant)
- The Ghost of Peter Sellers (Peter Medak)
- (29) MID90S (Jonah Hill)
- (30) THE MULE (Clint Eastwood)
- (31) SKIN (Guy Nattiv)
- Juliet, Naked (Jesse Peretz)
- Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
# 2017 #
- (1) THE SHAPE OF WATER (Guillermo del Toro)
- (2) THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Martin McDonagh)
- (3) CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino)
- Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
- (4) LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig)
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
- Get Out (Jordan Peele)
- (5) THE SQUARE (Ruben Östlund)
- Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
- The Post (Steven Spielberg)
- The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
- Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- (6) BABY DRIVER (Edgar Wright)
- A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio)
- I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
- (7) COCO (Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich)
- Darkest Hour (Joe Wright)
- (8) BLADE RUNNER 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
- The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci)
- (9) LOGAN (James Mangold)
- (10) THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco)
- The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
- (11) THE BIG SICK (Michael Showalter)
- (12) DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne)
- (13) IN THE FADE (Fatih Akin)
- (14) FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
- (15) PADDINGTON 2 (Paul King)
- (16) THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- (17) FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER (Angelina Jolie)
- (18) MUDBOUND (Dee Rees)
- (19) FACES PLACES (JR, Agnès Varda)
- The Insult (Ziad Doueiri)
- (20) CITY OF GHOSTS (Matthew Heineman)
- A Prayer Before Dawn (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
- On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
- Wind River (Taylor Sheridan)
- Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)
- (21) HOSTILES (Scott Cooper)
- (22) WONDER WOMAN (Patty Jenkins)
- War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
- (23) MOLLY'S GAME (Aaron Sorkin)
- The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
- Lucky (John Carroll Lynch)
- The Wife (Björn Runge)
- (24) THE BREADWINNER (Nora Twomey)
- 78/52 (Alexandre O. Philippe)
- (25) VICTORIA & ABDUL (Stephen Frears)
- The Meyerowitz Stories (Noah Baumbach)
- Novitiate (Margaret Betts)
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson)
# 2016 #
- (1) LA LA LAND (Damien Chazelle)
- (2) MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins)
- (3) MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
- (4) TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
- (5) ARRIVAL (Denis Villeneuve)
- (6) THE HANDMAIDEN (Chan-wook Park)
- (7) ELLE (Paul Verhoeven)
- (8) FENCES (Denzel Washington)
- (9) HELL OR HIGH WATER (David Mackenzie)
- The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)
- (10) HACKSAW RIDGE (Mel Gibson)
- (11) LION (Garth Davis)
- (12) HIDDEN FIGURES (Theodore Melfi)
- (13) I, DANIEL BLAKE (Ken Loach)
- Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
- (14) HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (Taika Waititi)
- Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)
- (15) JACKIE (Pablo Larraín)
- (16) SING STREET (John Carney)
- (17) NERUDA (Pablo Larraín)
- (18) SULLY (Clint Eastwood)
- (19) LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman)
- (20) KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight)
- (21) DEADPOOL (Tim Miller)
- (22) PATRIOTS DAY (Peter Berg)
- (23) SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
- My Life as a Zucchini (Claude Barras)
- (24) 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills)
- (25) THE BIRTH OF A NATION (Nate Parker)
- (26) ZOOTOPIA (Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Rich Moore)
- (27) THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve)
- (28) FINDING DORY (Angus MacLane, Andrew Stanton)
- (29) MOANA (Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker, Chris Williams)
- (30) NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (Tom Ford)
- (31) THE JUNGLE BOOK (Jon Favreau)
- (32) LOVING (Jeff Nichols)
- Girl With All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy)
- (33) SWISS ARMY MAN (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
- (34) UNDER THE SHADOW (Babak Anvari)
- (35) YOUR NAME (Makoto Shinkai)
- (36) THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig)
- (37) HAIL, CAESAR! (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
- (38) FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (Stephen Frears)
- (39) DON'T THINK TWICE (Mike Birbiglia)
- (40) EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater)
- (41) THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray)
- (42) MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Jeff Nichols)
- (43) TOWER (Keith Maitland)
- Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross)
# 2015 #
- (1) SPOTLIGHT (Tom McCarthy)
- (2) SON OF SAUL (László Nemes)
- (3) MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller)
- (4) THE REVENANT (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- (5) CAROL (Todd Haynes)
- (6) INSIDE OUT (Ronaldo Del Carmen, Pete Docter)
- (7) ROOM (Lenny Abrahamson)
- (8) THE MARTIAN (Ridley Scott)
- (9) THE BIG SHORT (Adam McKay)
- (10) BROOKLYN (John Crowley)
- (11) SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve)
- (12) MUSTANG (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
- (13) BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg)
- (14) STEVE JOBS (Danny Boyle)
- The Assassin (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
- (15) STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (F. Gary Gray)
- (16) DHEEPAN (Jacques Audiard)
- (17) ANOMALISA (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)
- (18) THE LOBSTER (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- (19) ME & EARL & THE DYING GIRL (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
- (20) STAR WARS: EPISODE VII - THE FORCE AWAKENS (J.J. Abrams)
- Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
- (21) LAND OF MINE (Martin Zandvliet)
- (22) CREED (Ryan Coogler)
- (23) BEASTS OF NO NATION (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
- (24) TRAINWRECK (Judd Apatow)
- (25) EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (Ciro Guerra)
- (26) YOUTH (Paolo Sorrentino)
- (27) THE SECOND MOTHER (Anna Muylaert)
- (28) SPY (Paul Feig)
- (29) EX MACHINA (Alex Garland)
- (30) HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (Kent Jones)
- (31) A BIGGER SPLASH (Luca Guadagnino)
- (32) MACBETH (Justin Kurzel)
- (33) THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino)
- (34) THE DANISH GIRL (Tom Hooper)
- (35) A WAR (Tobias Lindholm)
- (36) EYE IN THE SKY (Gavin Hood)
- Born to be Blue (Robert Budreau)
- Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley)
- (37) BLACK MASS (Scott Cooper)
- (38) THE END OF THE TOUR (James Ponsoldt)
- 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
- (39) FURIOUS 7 (James Wan)
- (40) MISSISSIPPI GRIND (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
- (41) AMY (Asif Kapadia)
- (42) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie)
- (43) SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (Mark Burton, Richard Starzak)
- De Palma (Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow)
- Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli)
# 2014 #
- (1) BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater)
- (2) BIRDMAN (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- (3) LEVIATHAN (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
- (4) THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
- (5) THE IMITATION GAME (Morten Tyldum)
- (6) TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
- (7) WHIPLASH (Damien Chazelle)
- Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
- (8) AMERICAN SNIPER (Clint Eastwood)
- (9) NIGHTCRAWLER (Dan Gilroy)
- (10) THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (James Marsh)
- (11) FORCE MAJEURE (Ruben Östlund)
- (12) WILD TALES (Damián Szifrón)
- (13) SELMA (Ava DuVernay)
- (14) MR. TURNER (Mike Leigh)
- (15) THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Joshua Oppenheimer)
- (16) GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
- (17) STILL ALICE (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland)
- (18) CALVARY (John Michael McDonagh)
- (19) A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (J.C. Chandor)
- (20) INTERSTELLAR (Christopher Nolan)
- (21) FOXCATCHER (Bennett Miller)
- (22) THE BABADOOK (Jennifer King)
- (23) PADDINGTON (Paul King)
- (24) THE LEGO MOVIE (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller)
- (25) WINTER SLEEP (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
- (26) PRIDE (Matthew Warchus)
- (27) LIFE ITSELF (Steve James)
- (28) GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
- (29) INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- (30) ST. VINCENT (Theodore Melfi)
- (31) UNBROKEN (Angelina Jolie)
- (32) MOMMY (Xavier Dolan)
- (33) GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (James Gunn)
- (34) EDGE OF TOMORROW (Doug Liman)
- (35) CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras)
- (36) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (Dean DeBlois)
- (37) RED ARMY (Gabe Polsky)
- (38) THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (Peter Strickland)
- The Salt of the Earth (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders)
- Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
- Tony Benn: Will and Testament (Skip Kite)
- (39) THEEB (Naji Abu Nowar)
- (40) GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM (Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz)
- The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans)
- (41) X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (Bryan Singer)
- (42) PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
- The Tribe (Miroslav Slaboshpitsky)
- Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz)
- (43) INTO THE WOODS (Rob Marshall)
# 2013 #
- (1) 12 YEARS A SLAVE (Steve McQueen)
- (2) BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (Abdellatif Kechiche)
- (3) GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuarón)
- (4) IDA (Pawel Pawlikowski)
- (5) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese)
- (6) INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- (7) HER (Spike Jonze)
- (8) THE GREAT BEAUTY (Paolo Sorrentino)
- (9) CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Paul Greengrass)
- (10) NEBRASKA (Alexander Payne)
- (11) AMERICAN HUSTLE (David O. Russell)
- (12) PHILOMENA (Stephen Frears)
- (13) BLUE JASMINE (Woody Allen)
- (14) SHORT TERM 12 (Destin Cretton)
- (15) THE PAST (Asghar Farhadi)
- (16) DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (Jean-Marc Vallée)
- (17) FRUITVALE STATION (Ryan Coogler)
- (18) ALL IS LOST (J.C. Chandor)
- (19) SAVING MR. BANKS (John Lee Hancock)
- (20) THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki)
- (21) SIDE EFFECTS (Steven Soderbergh)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
- (22) PRISONERS (Denis Villeneuve)
- (23) THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Francis Lawrence)
- (24) RUSH (Ron Howard)
- (25) ENOUGH SAID (Nicole Holofcener)
- (26) STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (J.J. Abrams)
- (27) TIM'S VERMEER (Teller)
- (28) BIG BAD WOLVES (Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado)
- (29) THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (Peter Jackson)
- (30) ONLY GOD FORGIVES (Nicolas Winding Refn)
- (31) STOKER (Chan-wook Park)
- Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
- (32) TANGERINES (Zaza Urushadze)
- (33) OMAR (Hany Abu-Assad)
- (34) BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
- (35) THE WAY, WAY BACK (Nat Faxon, Jim Rash)
- The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt)
- Locke (Steven Knight)
- (36) THE LUNCHBOX (Ritesh Batra)
- Bless Me, Ultima (Carl Franklin)
- (37) WE ARE THE BEST! (Lukas Moodysson)
- (38) ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (Jim Jarmusch)
- (39) FROZEN (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee)
- (40) DON JON (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
- (41) ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME (Chiemi Karasawa)
- (42) THIS IS THE END (Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen)
- (43) THE WORLD'S END (Edgar Wright)
- (44) TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM (Morgan Neville)
- Starred Up (David Mackenzie)
# 2012 #
- (1) AMOUR (Michael Haneke)
- (2) ZERO DARK THIRTY (Kathryn Bigelow)
- (3) LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg)
- (4) ARGO (Ben Affleck)
- (5) LIFE OF PI (Ang Lee)
- (6) BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Benh Zeitlin)
- (7) SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (David O. Russell)
- (8) THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- (9) LES MISERABLES (Tom Hooper)
- (10) HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax)
- (11) MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
- (12) THE HUNT (Thomas Vinterberg)
- (13) STORIES WE TELL (Sarah Polley)
- (14) LOOPER (Rian Johnson)
- (15) DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino)
- (16) THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Christopher Nolan)
- (17) A ROYAL AFFAIR (Nikolaj Arcel)
- (18) THE GATEKEEPERS (Dror Moreh)
- (19) SKYFALL (Sam Mendes)
- (20) THE SESSIONS (Ben Lewin)
- (21) NO (Pablo Larraín)
- (22) END OF WATCH (David Ayer)
- (23) THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (Eugene Jarecki)
- (24) WADJDA (Haifaa Al-Mansour)
- (25) BARBARA (Christian Petzold)
- (26) THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (Stephen Chbosky)
- (27) FLIGHT (Robert Zemeckis)
- (28) WEST OF MEMPHIS (Amy Berg)
- (29) MARLEY (Kevin Macdonald)
- (30) IN THE HOUSE (Francois Ozon)
- (31) WAR WITCH (Kim Nguyen)
- The Act of Killing (Christine Cynn, Joshua Oppenheimer)
- (32) ROOM 237 (Rodney Ascher)
- (33) KON-TIKI (Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg)
- (34) THE AVENGERS (Joss Whedon)
- (35) RUST AND BONE (Jacques Audiard)
- (36) THE IMPOSSIBLE (Juan Antonio Bayona)
- (37) ARBITRAGE (Nicholas Jarecki)
- (38) MUD (Jeff Nichols)
- (39) FRANKENWEENIE (Tim Burton)
- (40) EXCISION (Richard Bates Jr)
- (41) THE IMPOSTER (Bart Layton)
- (42) SPRING BREAKERS (Harmony Korine)
- (43) THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (Felix van Groeningen)
- Blancanieves (Pablo Berger)
- (44) A HIJACKING (Tobias Lindholm)
- Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski)
- (45) PROMETHEUS (Ridley Scott)
- (46) SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (2012, Malik Bendjelloul)
- Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
# 2011 #
- (1) A SEPARATION (Asghar Farhadi)
- (2) THE ARTIST (Michel Hazanavicius)
- (3) THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
- (4) HUGO (Martin Scorsese)
- (5) THE DESCENDANTS (Alexander Payne)
- (6) MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier)
- (7) MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen)
- (8) WAR HORSE (Steven Spielberg)
- (9) THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
- (10) MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller)
- (11) LE HAVRE (Aki Kaurismäki)
- Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
- (12) DRIVE (Nicolas Winding Refn)
- (13) THE INTOUCHABLES (Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano)
- (14) THE HELP (Tate Taylor)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (David Yates)
- (15) TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Tomas Alfredson)
- (16) SHAME (Steve McQueen)
- (17) THE IDES OF MARCH (George Clooney)
- (18) FOOTNOTE (Joseph Cedar)
- (19) THE GUARD (John Michael McDonagh)
- (20) MONSIEUR LAZHAR (Philippe Falardeau)
- (21) MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (Sean Durkin)
- (22) 50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
- (23) THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)
- (24) THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodóvar)
- (25) MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (Simon Curtis)
- (26) PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES (Andrew Rossi)
- (27) BUCK (Cindy Meehl)
- (28) A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg)
- In Darkness (Angieszka Holland)
- (29) SUPER 8 (J.J. Abrams)
- (30) PINA (Wim Wenders)
- (31) HEADHUNTERS (Morten Tyldum)
- (32) TAKE SHELTER (Jeff Nichols)
- (33) BRIDESMAIDS (Paul Feig)
- Warrior (Gavin O'Connor)
- Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes)
- Higher Ground (Vera Farmiga)
- (34) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird)
- (35) PARIAH (Dee Rees)
- (36) POLISSE (Maïwenn Le Besco)
- (37) TERRI (Azazel Jacobs)
- (38) WIN WIN (Tom McCarthy)
- (39) X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Matthew Vaughn)
- The Turin Horse (Ágnes Hranìtzky, Béla Tarr)
- (40) PROJECT NIM (James Marsh)
- (41) EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE (Stephen Daldry)
- The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans)
- (42) BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEER'S JOURNEY (Constance Marks, Philip Shane)
# 2010 #
- (1) THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher)
- (2) THE KING'S SPEECH (Tom Hooper)
- (3) INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan)
- (4) BLACK SWAN (Darren Aronofsky)
- (5) TRUE GRIT (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- (6) WINTER'S BONE (Debra Granik)
- (7) TOY STORY 3 (Lee Unkrich)
- (8) THE FIGHTER (David O. Russell)
- (9) INCENDIES (Denis Villeneuve)
- (10) THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Lisa Cholodenko)
- (11) OF GODS AND MEN (Xavier Beauvois)
- (12) CARLOS (Olivier Assayas)
- (13) ANOTHER YEAR (Mike Leigh)
- (14) MONSTERS (Gareth Edwards)
- (15) 127 HOURS (Danny Boyle)
- (16) UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- (17) THE TOWN (Ben Affleck)
- (18) THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polanski)
- (19) IN A BETTER WORLD (Susanne Bier)
- (20) SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright)
- (21) BIUTIFUL (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
- (22) LIFE, ABOVE ALL (Olivier Schmitz)
- (23) KICK-ASS (Matthew Vaughn)
- (24) CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
- (25) MEEK'S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt)
- (26) CYRUS (Jay Duplass, Mike Duplass)
- (27) RABBIT HOLE (John Cameron Mitchell)
- (28) SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese)
- (29) NEVER LET ME GO (Mark Romanek)
- (30) CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (Werner Herzog)
- (31) ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Tim Burton)
- (32) THE AMERICAN (Anton Corbijn)
- (33) FOUR LIONS (Christopher Morris)
- (34) JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK (Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg)
- Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
- The Karate Kid (Harald Zwart)
- 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
- Waste Land (Karen Harley, João Jardin, Lucy Walker)
- (35) BARNEY'S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis)
- (36) ANIMAL KINGDOM (David Michôd)
- (37) FLIPPED (Rob Reiner)
- (38) HEREAFTER (Clint Eastwood)
- (39) BLUE VALENTINE (Derek Cianfrance)
- (40) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders)
- Mysteries of Lisbon (Raoul Ruiz)
- Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press)
- (41) SALT (Phillip Noyce)
- Secretariat (Randall Wallace)
- Tabloid (Errol Morris)
# 2009 #
- (1) A PROPHET (Jacques Audiard)
- (2) THE WHITE RIBBON (Michael Haneke)
- (3) AVATAR (James Cameron)
- (4) PRECIOUS (Lee Daniels)
- (5) UP IN THE AIR (Jason Reitman)
- (6) INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
- (7) THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (Juan José Campanella)
- (8) A SERIOUS MAN (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- (9) AN EDUCATION (Lone Scherfig)
- (10) DISTRICT 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
- (11) FISH TANK (Andrea Arnold)
- (12) UP (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson)
- (13) THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Niels Arden Oplev)
- (14) THE HANGOVER (Todd Phillips)
- (15) I AM LOVE (Luca Guadagnino)
- (16) INVICTUS (Clint Eastwood)
- Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)
- (17) WHITE MATERIAL (Claire Denis)
- (18) (500) DAYS OF SUMMER (Marc Webb)
- (19) BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL - NEW ORLEANS (Werner Herzog)
- (20) STAR TREK (J.J. Abrams)
- (21) IN THE LOOP (Armando Iannucci)
- (22) THE MESSENGER (Oren Moverman)
- (23) FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
- Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
- (24) CORALINE (Henry Selick)
- (25) PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
- (26) SIN NOMBRE (Cary Fukunaga)
- (27) CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (Michael Moore)
- (28) COCO BEFORE CHANEL (Anne Fontaine)
- The Maid (Sebastián Silva)
- (29) MOON (Duncan Jones)
- The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)
- (30) CRAZY HEART (Scott Cooper)
- (31) THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Ron Clements, John Musker)
- (32) THE BLIND SIDE (John Lee Hancock)
- (33) NINE (Rob Marshall)
- (34) THIS IS IT (Kenny Ortega)
- City of Life and Death (Chuan Lu)
- (35) AWAY WE GO (Sam Mendes)
- That Evening Sun (Scott Teems)
- (36) BRUNO (Larry Charles)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
- Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
- (37) LEBANON (Samuel Maoz, Shmulik Maoz)
- The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey)
- (38) THE ROAD (John Hillcoat)
- (39) A SINGLE MAN (Tom Ford)
- Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
- (40) WATCHMEN (Zack Snyder)
# 2008 #
- (1) THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow)
- (2) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan)
- (3) LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Tomas Alfredson)
- (4) WALTZ WITH BASHIR (Ari Folman)
- (5) THE DARK KNIGHT (Christopher Nolan)
- (6) WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
- (7) MILK (Gus Van Sant)
- (8) FROST/NIXON (Ron Howard)
- (9) THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (David Fincher)
- (10) GOMORRAH (Matteo Garrone)
- (11) THE READER (Stephen Daldry)
- (12) THE WRESTLER (Darren Aronofsky)
- (13) HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (Mike Leigh)
- (14) CHANGELING (Clint Eastwood)
- (15) THE CLASS (Laurent Cantet)
- Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
- (16) ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL (Sacha Gervasi)
- (17) DEPARTURES (Yojiro Takita)
- I've Loved You So Long (Philippe Claudel)
- (18) GRAN TORINO (Clint Eastwood)
- Trouble the Water (Carl Deal, Tia Lessin)
- (19) SUMMER HOURS (Olivier Assayas)
- (20) DOUBT (John Patrick Shanley)
- (21) EVERLASTING MOMENTS (Jan Troell)
- (22) MAN ON WIRE (James Marsh)
- 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
- (23) PONYO (Hayao Miyazaki)
- (24) SHINE A LIGHT (Martin Scorsese)
- (25) REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (Sam Mendes)
- (26) IRON MAN (Jon Favreau)
- A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
- (27) FROZEN RIVER (Courtney Hunt)
- Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
- (28) THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (Uli Edel)
- (29) REVANCHE (Götz Spielmann)
- Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
- (30) CLOVERFIELD (Matt Reeves)
- (31) RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (Jonathan Demme)
- (32) INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (Steven Spielberg)
- Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
- (33) IN BRUGES (Martin McDonagh)
- Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
- Julia (Erick Zonca)
- Trucker (James Mottern)
- (34) ME AND ORSON WELLES (Richard Linklater)
- Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
- (35) DISGRACE (Steve Jacobs)
- (36) SKIN (Anthony Fabian)
- (37) CHE: PART ONE (Steven Soderbergh)
- Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)
# 2007 #
- (1) NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- (2) THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- (3) PERSEPOLIS (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi)
- (4) ATONEMENT (Joe Wright)
- (5) JUNO (Jason Reitman)
- Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
- (6) RATATOUILLE (Brad Bird)
- (7) MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy)
- La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan)
- Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
- (8) THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (Andrew Dominik)
- (9) SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (Tim Burton)
- (10) THE KITE RUNNER (Marc Foster)
- (11) ZODIAC (David Fincher)
- (12) THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (Paul Greengrass)
- The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
- Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
- Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney)
- (13) CONTROL (Anton Corbijn)
- (14) SICKO (Michael Moore)
- (15) AMERICAN GANGSTER (Ridley Scott)
- (16) THE COUNTERFEITERS (Stefan Ruzowitzky)
- (17) THE SAVAGES (Tamara Jenkins)
- (18) LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (Craig Gillespie)
- In the Shadow of the Moon (David Sington)
- (19) MONGOL: THE RISE OF GENGHIS KHAN (Sergei Bodrov)
- (20) YOU, THE LIVING (Roy Andersson)
- (21) THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson)
- The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington)
- (22) PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (Oren Peli)
- The Visitor (Tom McCarthy)
- (23) IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (Paul Haggis)
- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
- (24) HAIRSPRAY (Adam Shankman)
- (25) THE ORPHANAGE (Juan Antonio Bayona)
- No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)
- (26) CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (Mike Nichols)
- Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)
- (27) THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (Fatih Akin)
- Starting Out in the Evening (Andrew Wagner)
- Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
- (28) I'M NOT THERE (Todd Haynes)
- Waitress (Adrienne Shelley)
- The Lookout (Scott Frank)
- (29) KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS (Seth Gordon)
- (30) GONE BABY GONE (Ben Affleck)
- (31) THE BRAVE ONE (Neil Jordan)
- (32) KNOCKED UP (Judd Apatow)
# 2006 #
- (1) PAN'S LABYRINTH (Guillermo del Toro)
- (2) THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
- (3) THE QUEEN (Stephen Frears)
- (4) THE DEPARTED (Martin Scorsese)
- (5) BABEL (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- (6) LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
- (7) BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNING OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (Larry Charles)
- (8) VOLVER (Pedro Almodóvar)
- (9) UNITED 93 (Paul Greengrass)
- (10) LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (Clint Eastwood)
- (11) THE HOST (Joon-ho Bong)
- (12) APOCALYPTO (Mel Gibson)
- (13) CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón)
- (14) ONCE (John Carney)
- (15) DREAMGIRLS (Bill Condon)
- (16) LITTLE CHILDREN (Todd Field)
- Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb)
- (17) FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (Clint Eastwood)
- (18) A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (Robert Altman)
- Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr)
- (19) INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
- Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)
- Shut Up and Sing (Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck)
- (20) NOTES ON A SCANDAL (Richard Eyre)
- The Painted Veil (John Curran)
- (21) CASINO ROYALE (Martin Campbell)
- This Is England (Shane Meadows)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)
- Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
- (22) THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (Kevin Macdonald)
- (23) BLACK BOOK (Paul Verhoeven)
- (24) BLOOD DIAMOND (Edward Zwick)
- (25) MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola)
- The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
- (26) AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (Davis Guggenheim)
- (27) CARS (John Lasseter)
- (28) WORLD TRADE CENTER (Oliver Stone)
- (29) THE GROUND TRUTH (Patricia Foulkrod)
- Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
- Offside (Jafar Panahi)
- (30) THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (David Frankel)
- God Grew Tired of Us (Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker)
- The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
- (31) HOLLYWOODLAND (Allen Coulter)
- Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
- 300 (Zack Snyder)
- (32) THE GOOD SHEPHERD (Robert De Niro)
- Longford (Tom Hooper)
# 2005 #
- (1) BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Ang Lee)
- (2) GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (George Clooney)
- (3) CACHÉ (Michael Haneke)
- (4) A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (David Cronenberg)
- (5) CAPOTE (Bennett Miller)
- Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)
- (6) MUNICH (Steven Spielberg)
- (7) THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (Tommy Lee Jones)
- (8) GRIZZLY MAN (Werner Herzog)
- Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)
- (9) KING KONG (Peter Jackson, Bryan Singer)
- (10) THE CONSTANT GARDENER (Fernando Meirelles)
- L'enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
- (11) THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)
- (12) WALK THE LINE (James Mangold)
- (13) SYRIANA (Stephen Gaghan)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)
- (14) MATCH POINT (Woody Allen)
- (15) WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (Steve Box, Nick Park)
- (16) BATMAN BEGINS (Christopher Nolan)
- (17) MURDERBALL (Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro)
- (18) THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu)
- (19) BROKEN FLOWERS (Jim Jarmusch)
- (20) JOYEUX NOËL (Christian Carion)
- (21) ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (Miranda July)
- Junebug (Phil Morrison)
- (22) HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Mike Newell)
- (23) THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
- Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Marc Rothemund)
- (24) PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Joe Wright)
- Nine Lives (Rodrigo García)
- (25) C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
- (26) SIN CITY (Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez)
- (27) V FOR VENDETTA (James McTeigue)
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
- The Upside of Anger (Mike Binder)
- (28) THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Jason Reitman)
- Look Both Ways (Sarah Watt)
- (29) CINDERELLA MAN (Ron Howard)
- Water (Deepa Mehta)
- The Heart of the Game (Ward Serrill)
- (30) THE WEATHER MAN (Gore Verbinski)
- (31) THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (Jacques Audiard)
- (32) THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN (Judd Apatow)
- Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer)
- (33) BREAKFAST ON PLUTO (Neil Jordan)
- Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Rob Marshall)
- (34) PROOF (John Madden)
- Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)
# 2004 #
- (1) SIDEWAYS (Alexander Payne)
- (2) MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Clint Eastwood)
- (3) DOWNFALL (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
- (4) THE AVIATOR (Martin Scorsese)
- (5) CRASH (Paul Haggis)
- (6) ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)
- (7) FINDING NEVERLAND (Marc Forster)
- House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang)
- (8) VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
- Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
- Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
- (9) FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (Michael Moore)
- (10) BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
- 2046 (Kar Wai Wong)
- Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
- (11) THE SEA INSIDE (Alejandro Amenábar)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
- (12) RAY (Taylor Hackford)
- (13) THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird)
- (14) MARIA FULL OF GRACE (Joshua Marston)
- Head-On (Fatih Akin)
- 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim)
- A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- (15) COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)
- The Chorus (Christophe Barratier)
- Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- (16) KINSEY (Bill Condon)
- (17) KILL BILL: VOLUME 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
- Brothers (Susanne Bier)
- Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
- Night Watch (Timur Bekmambetov)
- Born Into Brothels (Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman)
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran)
- Primer (Shane Carruth)
- (18) HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (Hayao Miyazaki)
- (19) CLOSER (Mike Nichols)
- (20) THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (Mel Gibson)
- (21) HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (Alfonso Cuarón)
- Yes (Sally Potter)
- Gunner Palace (Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker)
- My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)
- (22) THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (Jonathan Demme)
- (23) SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright)
- Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg)
- Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
- The Intruder (Claire Denis)
- (24) I HEART HUCKABEES (David O. Russell)
- (25) THE POLAR EXPRESS (Robert Zemeckis)
- Riding Giants (Stacy Peralta)
# 2003 #
- (1) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson)
- (2) LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola)
- The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
- (3) DOGVILLE (Lars von Trier)
- (4) OLDBOY (Chan-wook Park)
- (5) MYSTIC RIVER (Clint Eastwood)
- (6) MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Peter Weir)
- (7) FINDING NEMO (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
- (8) THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (Sylvain Chomet)
- (9) GOODBYE, LENIN! (Wolfgang Becker)
- (10) AMERICAN SPLENDOR (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)
- The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
- (11) CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS (Andrew Jarecki)
- (12) KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
- The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
- Seabiscuit (Gary Ross)
- (13) TOUCHING THE VOID (Kevin Macdonald)
- (14) COLD MOUNTAIN (Anthony Minghella)
- The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick)
- Spring Summer Fall Winter...and Spring (Ki-duk Kim)
- (15) ELEPHANT (Gus Van Sant)
- (16) BIG FISH (Tim Burton)
- My Architect: A Son's Journey (Nathaniel Kahn)
- (17) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (Gore Verbinski)
- House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman)
- The Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (Takeshi Kitano)
- Osama (Siddiq Barmak)
- 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- (18) OPEN RANGE (Kevin Costner)
- (19) THIRTEEN (Catherine Hardwicke)
- Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski)
- The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar)
- Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)
- (20) THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater)
- (21) THE STATION AGENT (Tom McCarthy)
- Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)
- The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
- Tokyo Godfathers (Shogo Furuya, Satoshi Kon)
- The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber)
- (22) MONSTER (Patty Jenkins)
- The Agronomist (Jonathan Demme)
- The Human Stain (Robert Benton)
- (23) OFF THE MAP (Scott Campbell)
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (Rick McKay)
- Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers)
- (24) COFFEE AND CIGARETTES (Jim Jarmusch)
- (25) LOVE ACTUALLY (Richard Curtis)
- Kohi jiko (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
- (26) INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
# 2002 #
- (1) CITY OF GOD (Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles)
- (2) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Peter Jackson)
- (3) THE PIANIST (Roman Polanski)
- Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
- (4) ADAPTATION (Spike Jonze)
- (5) GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese)
- (6) THE HOURS (Stephen Daldry)
- Chicago (Rob Marshall)
- About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
- Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Hero (Yimou Zhang)
- Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
- (7) RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (Phillip Noyce)
- The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
- (8) IRREVERSIBLE (Gaspar Noé)
- The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)
- (9) BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (Michael Moore)
- (10) MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg)
- Infernal Affairs (Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak)
- Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
- (11) ROAD TO PERDITION (Sam Mendes)
- The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
- Whale Rider (Niki Caro)
- The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
- In America (Jim Sheridan)
- 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
- Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
- Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
- Sunshine State (John Sayles)
- (12) 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (Michael Winterbottom)
- (13) SPIDER-MAN (Sam Raimi)
- To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert)
- (14) INSOMNIA (Christopher Nolan)
- Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
- Spider (David Cronenberg)
- Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha)
- The Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)
- Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
- (15) PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- (16) ONE HOUR PHOTO (Mark Romanek)
- The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta)
- (17) THE BOURNE IDENTITY (Doug Liman)
- Nicholas Nickleby (Douglas McGrath)
- Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
- The Crime of Padre Amaro (Carlos Carrera)
- Frida (Julie Taymor)
- After Life (Lucas Belvaux)
- An Amazing Couple (Lucas Belvaux)
# 2001 #
- (1) MULHOLLAND DRIVE (David Lynch)
- Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón)
- (2) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Peter Jackson)
- Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
- (3) AMÉLIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- (4) MOULIN ROUGE! (Baz Luhrmann)
- (5) SHREK (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson)
- Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker)
- (6) GOSFORD PARK (Robert Altman)
- No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic)
- The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
- (7) THE PIANO TEACHER (Michael Haneke)
- (8) GHOST WORLD (Terry Zwigoff)
- The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti)
- In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
- Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
- (9) A BEAUTIFUL MIND (Ron Howard)
- (10) A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
- Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
- (11) THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- (12) DONNIE DARKO (Richard Kelly)
- Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
- Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)
- Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
- Last Orders (Fred Schepisi)
- (13) THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson)
- Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)
- Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
- What Time Is It There? (Ming-liang Tsai)
- (14) OCEAN'S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh)
- Behind the Sun (Walter Salles)
- Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
- Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
- (15) MONSTERS, INC. (Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich)
- Winged Migration (Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, Jacques Perrin)
- (16) BLACK HAWK DOWN (Ridley Scott)
- The Grey Zone (Tim Blake Nelson)
- (17) THE OTHERS (Alejandro Amenábar)
- (18) BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (Sharon Maguire)
- Baran (Majid Majidi)
- Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
- Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
- (19) THE EXPERIMENT (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
- The Pledge (Sean Penn)
- (20) STORYTELLING (Todd Solondz)
- I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
- 13 Conversations About One Thing (Jill Sprecher)
- (21) HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (Chris Columbus)
- Me Without You (Sandra Goldbacher)
- In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
# 2000 #
- (1) CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
- In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong)
- Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
- (2) GLADIATOR (Ridley Scott)
- (3) AMORES PERROS (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- (4) MEMENTO (Christopher Nolan)
- (5) TRAFFIC (Steven Soderbergh)
- (6) BILLY ELLIOT (Stephen Daldry)
- (7) CHICKEN RUN (Peter Lord, Nick Park)
- (8) ALMOST FAMOUS (Cameron Crowe)
- (9) ERIN BROCKOVICH (Steven Soderbergh)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (Ágnes Hrantzky, Béla Tarr)
- Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
- (10) REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (Darren Aronofsky)
- (11) O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
- The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)
- You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
- The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
- Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
- Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
- (12) TOGETHER (Lukas Moodysson)
- A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi)
- (13) BATTLE ROYALE (Kinji Fukasaku)
- Innocence (Paul Cox)
- (14) MEET THE PARENTS (Jay Roach)
- (15) POLLOCK (Ed Harris)
- (16) BEST IN SHOW (Christopher Guest)
- The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini)
- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris)
- (17) CHOCOLAT (Lasse Hallström)
- Calle 54 (Fernando Trueba)
- Faithless (Liv Ullmann)
- Platform (Zhang Ke Jia)
- Lumumba (Raoul Peck)
- Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)
- George Washington (David Gordon Green)
- Chunhyang (Im Kwon-taek)
- The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
- Last Resort (Pawel Pawlikowski)
- Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk)
- Nine Queens (Fabián Bielinsky)
- Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
- (18) CAST AWAY (Robert Zemeckis)
- Quills (Philip Kaufman)
- Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
- The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
- (19) MALÈNA (Giuseppe Tornatore)
- Bread and Roses (Ken Loach)
- Dark Days (Marc Singer)
# 1999 #
- (1) AMERICAN BEAUTY (Sam Mendes)
- (2) ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (Pedro Almodóvar)
- (3) BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze)
- (4) THE INSIDER (Michael Mann)
- (5) THE MATRIX (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski)
- (6) THE SIXTH SENSE (M. Night Shyamalan)
- (7) THREE KINGS (David O. Russell)
- (8) MAGNOLIA (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
- The Straight Story (David Lynch)
- Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
- (9) TOY STORY 2 (Ash Brannon, John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich)
- Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
- (10) THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
- (11) ELECTION (Alexander Payne)
- Audition (Takashi Miike)
- Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz)
- (12) FIGHT CLUB (David Fincher)
- Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
- American Movie (Chris Smith)
- (13) THE IRON GIANT (Brad Bird)
- (14) THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (Lasse Hallström)
- (15) THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (Anthony Minghella)
- The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan)
- (16) EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
- (17) GHOST DOG: WAY OF THE SAMURAI (Jim Jarmusch)
- (18) BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (Wim Wenders)
- Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte)
- Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
- Cradle Will Rock (Tim Robbins)
- The War Zone (Tim Roth)
- (19) EAST IS EAST (Damien O'Donnell)
- Tarzan (Chris Buck, Kevin Lima)
- October Sky (Joe Johnston)
- The Cup (Khyentse Norbu)
- The Green Mile (Frank Darabont)
- The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi)
- Kadosh (Amos Gitai)
- (20) THE HURRICANE (Norman Jewison)
- Go (Doug Liman)
- Les Enfants du Marais (Jean Becker)
- East-West (Régis Wargnier)
- On the Ropes (Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen)
- (21) MAN ON THE MOON (Milos Forman)
- Shower (Yang Zhang)
- Spring Forward (Tom Gilroy)
- The City (David Riker)
- Sunshine (István Szabó)
- The Emperor and the Assassin (Kaige Chen)
# 1998 #
- (1) SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (Steven Spielberg)
- (2) THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg)
- (3) SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (John Madden)
- Happiness (Todd Solondz)
- (4) THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
- Central Station (Walter Salles)
- (5) RUN LOLA RUN (Tom Tykwer)
- (6) RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson)
- (7) THE TRUMAN SHOW (Peter Weir)
- The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca)
- Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur)
- The Idiots (Lars von Trier)
- (8) THE BIG LEBOWSKI (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- Ring (Hideo Nakata)
- Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
- (9) THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly)
- Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
- The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos)
- A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
- Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
- After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
- The General (John Boorman)
- Cabaret Balkan (Goran Paskaljevic)
- Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)
- My Name is Joe (Ken Loach)
- A Bug's Life (John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton)
- (10) PI (Darren Aronofsky)
- Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem)
- (11) BUFFALO '66 (Vincent Gallo)
- (12) PRIMARY COLORS (Mike Nichols)
- Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chéreau)
- Dark City (Alex Proyas)
- (13) HILARY AND JACKIE (Anand Tucker)
- Croupier (Mike Hodges)
- The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford)
- The Last Days (James Moll)
- Tango (Carlos Saura)
- High Art (Lisa Cholodenko)
- (14) PLEASANTVILLE (Gary Ross)
- A Civil Action (Steven Zaillian)
- 42: Forty Two Up (Michael Apted)
- (15) MULAN (Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook)
- Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
- Slam (Marc Levin)
- Love Is the Devil (John Maybury)
- Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)
- The Mighty (Peter Chelsom)
- Black Cat White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
- Under the Sun (Colin Nutley)
# 1997 #
- L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
- (1) TITANIC (James Cameron)
- (2) BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- (3) THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
- (4) THE FULL MONTY (Peter Cattaneo)
- Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
- (5) LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (Roberto Benigni)
- The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan)
- (6) AS GOOD AS IT GETS (James L. Brooks)
- (7) DONNIE BRASCO (Mike Newell)
- (8) GOOD WILL HUNTING (Gus Van Sant)
- Happy Together (Kar Wai Wong)
- Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
- The Thief (Pavel Chukhraj)
- (9) FUNNY GAMES (Michael Haneke)
- Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
- (10) DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (Woody Allen)
- Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez)
- Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
- (11) AMISTAD (Steven Spielberg)
- Live Flesh (Pedro Almodóvar)
- (12) MRS. BROWN (John Madden)
- The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
- The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley)
- Affliction (Paul Schrader)
- 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee)
- (13) WAG THE DOG (Barry Levinson)
- Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
- Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
- (14) THE GAME (David Fincher)
- The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
- Character (Mike van Diem)
- (15) FACE/OFF (John Woo)
- The Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi)
- Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
- In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
- The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
- (16) THE RAINMAKER (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Con Air (Simon West)
- Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
- Men with Guns (John Sayles)
- (17) CHASING AMY (Kevin Smith)
- (18) CONTACT (Robert Zemeckis)
- Ma Vie en Rose (Alain Berliner)
- Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons)
- (19) LOLITA (Adrian Lyne)
- (20) AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (Jay Roach)
- Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar)
- Deja Vu (Henry Jaglom)
- Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman)
# 1996 #
- (1) FARGO (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- (2) SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
- (3) THE ENGLISH PATIENT (Anthony Minghella)
- (4) SHINE (Scott Hicks)
- Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
- (5) TRAINSPOTTING (Danny Boyle)
- Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
- Kolya (Jan Sverák)
- Lone Star (John Sayles)
- (6) THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (Milos Forman)
- (7) INDEPENDENCE DAY (Roland Emmerich)
- Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)
- (8) SLING BLADE (Billy Bob Thornton)
- (9) IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
- Big Night (Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci)
- Ridicule (Patrice Leconte)
- When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
- (10) ROMEO + JULIET (Baz Luhrmann)
- (11) CRASH (David Cronenberg)
- Ponette (Jacques Doillon)
- (12) EVITA (Alan Parker)
- Prisoner of the Mountains (Sergei Bodrov)
- La Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
- A Self-Made Hero (Jacques Audiard)
- Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo)
- Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou)
- Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
- Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
- Courage Under Fire (Edward Zwick)
- (13) SCREAM (Wes Craven)
- Pretty Village Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic)
- Small Faces (Gillies MacKinnon)
- Beyond Silence (Caroline Link)
- The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner)
- Will It Snow For Christmas? (Sandrine Veysset)
- Marvin's Room (Jerry Zaks)
- The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway)
- Mother (Albert Brooks)
- L'Appartement (Gilles Mimouni)
- (14) FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (David O. Russell)
- Thieves (André Téchiné)
- Three Lives and Only One Death (Raoul Ruiz)
- Mary Reilly (Stephen Frears)
- Swingers (Doug Liman)
- Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi)
- (15) HAMSUN (Jan Troell)
- The Leopard Son (Hugo Van Lawick)
- (16) THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Jane Campion)
- Bound (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski)
- James and the Giant Peach (Henry Selick)
# 1995 #
- (1) TOY STORY (John Lasseter)
- The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
- (2) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (Ang Lee)
- (3) BABE (Chris Noonan)
- (4) BRAVEHEART (Mel Gibson)
- (5) CASINO (Martin Scorsese)
- Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
- (6) APOLLO 13 (Ron Howard)
- (7) SEVEN (David Fincher)
- (8) HEAT (Michael Mann)
- La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)
- Safe (Todd Haynes)
- (9) LA HAINE (Mathieu Kassovitz)
- Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
- (10) CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling)
- Les Misérables (Claude Lelouch)
- Antonia's Line (Marleen Gorris)
- Underground (Emir Kusturica)
- Nixon (Oliver Stone)
- (11) DEAD MAN WALKING (Tim Robbins)
- 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
- (12) WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (Todd Solondz)
- Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii)
- Smoke (Paul Auster, Wayne Wang)
- Carrington (Christopher Hampton)
- Richard III (Richard Loncraine)
- Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
- Land and Freedom (Ken Loach)
- Persuasion (Roger Michell)
- The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
- Fallen Angels (Kar Wai Wong)
- Ulysses' Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos)
- Shanghai Triad (Yimou Zhang)
- (13) BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
- Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
- (14) ALL THINGS FAIR (Bo Widerberg)
- Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer)
- To Die For (Gus Van Sant)
- (15) THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (Rob Reiner)
- (16) KIDS (Larry Clark)
- Deseret (James Benning)
- Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra)
- Zero Kelvin (Hans Petter Moland)
- Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)
- The City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- Funny Bones (Peter Chelsom)
- Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo)
- Anne Frank Remembered (Jon Blair)
- A Single Girl (Benoit Jacquot)
- A Bucket of Blood (Michael McDonald)
# 1994 #
- (1) PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino)
- (2) RED (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- (3) THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (Frank Darabont)
- (4) FORREST GUMP (Robert Zemeckis)
- Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
- (5) WHITE (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
- Lamerica (Gianni Amelio)
- (6) FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (Mike Newell)
- (7) QUIZ SHOW (Robert Redford)
- (8) THE LION KING (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff)
- Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
- (9) CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Kar Wai Wong)
- Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
- The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
- Speed (Jan de Bont)
- The Kingdom (Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier)
- To Live (Yimou Zhang)
- Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski)
- (10) IL POSTINO (Michael Radford)
- (11) THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE (Nicholas Hytner)
- Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov)
- Clerks (Kevin Smith)
- Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
- Caro diario (Nanni Moretti)
- Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan)
- Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee)
- (12) NATURAL BORN KILLERS (Oliver Stone)
- Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton)
- (13) ED WOOD (Tim Burton)
- Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori)
- Queen Margot (Patrice Chéreau)
- Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
- Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
- Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
- Léon (Luc Besson)
- Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
- The Legend of Drunken Master (Jackie Chan, Chia-Liang Liu)
- That's Entertainment III (Bud Friedgen, Michael J. Sheridan)
- Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott)
- Ladybird, Ladybird (Ken Loach)
- Ermo (Xiaowen Zhou)
- The New Age (Michael Tolkin)
- Priest (Antonia Bird)
- Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío)
- A Great Day in Harlem (Jean Bach)
- Crooklyn (Spike Lee)
- Farinelli: Il Castrato (Gérard Corbiau)
- Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle)
# 1993 #
- (1) SCHINDLER'S LIST (Steven Spielberg)
- (2) THE PIANO (Jane Campion)
- Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen)
- (3) GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis)
- (4) BLUE (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- (5) JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg)
- Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
- (6) THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (James Ivory)
- The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
- (7) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Martin Scorsese)
- The Blue Kite (Zhuangzhuang Tian)
- (8) NAKED (Mike Leigh)
- The Puppetmaster (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
- Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough)
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Girard)
- The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)
- (9) IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Jim Sheridan)
- (10) PHILADELPHIA (Jonathan Demme)
- (11) THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Henry Selick)
- In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen)
- The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran)
- The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang)
- Iron Monkey (Woo-ping Yuen)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
- (12) WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE (Lasse Hallström)
- Germinal (Claude Berri)
- Tango (Patrice Leconte)
- A Bronx Tale (Robert De Niro)
- King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
- Household Saints (Nancy Savoca)
- Ruby in Paradise (Victor Nunez)
- Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
- Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)
- This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones)
- Dave (Ivan Reitman)
- (13) DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
- Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
- Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos)
- Fearless (Peter Weir)
- Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron)
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm)
- My Favorite Season (André Téchiné)
- Raining Stones (Ken Loach)
- Gettysburg (Ronald F. Maxwell)
- Son of the Shark (Angès Merlet)
- Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee)
- Menace II Society (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
- The Cement Garden (Andrew Birkin)
- The Snapper (Stephen Frears)
- The Boys of St. Vincent (John N. Smith)
# 1992 #
- (1) UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
- The Player (Robert Altman)
- The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
- (2) RESERVOIR DOGS (Quentin Tarantino)
- Howards End (James Ivory)
- (3) MALCOLM X (Spike Lee)
- One False Move (Carl Franklin)
- The Story of Qiu Ju (Yimou Zhang)
- Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
- (4) ALADDIN (Ron Clements, John Musker)
- Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)
- Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
- (5) THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann)
- (6) MAN BITES DOG (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde)
- The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
- Hard Boiled (John Woo)
- The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio)
- Like Water for Chocolate (Alfonso Arau)
- Un Coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet)
- Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
- A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer)
- Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
- Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
- Indochine (Régis Wargnier)
- Dream of Light (Víctor Erice)
- The Best Intentions (Bille August)
- Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders)
- A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
- Peter's Friends (Kenneth Branagh)
- Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan)
- Belle Epoque (Fernando Trueba)
- A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall)
- Enchanted April (Mike Newell)
- (7) EL MARIACHI (Robert Rodriguez)
- The Fencing Master (Pedro Olea)
- (8) SCENT OF A WOMAN (Martin Brest)
- (9) HOFFA (Danny DeVito)
- The Waterdance (Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg)
- (10) BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (Andrew Glassman, Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels)
- Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
- Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield)
- (11) ROMPER STOMPER (Geoffrey Wright)
- Orlando (Sally Potter)
- Red Rock West (John Dahl)
- Olivier Olivier (Agnieszka Holland)
- Khuda Gawah (Mukul Anand)
- A Question of Attribution (John Schlesinger)
- Candyman (Bernard Rose)
- The Accompanist (Claude Miller)
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- Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
- (1) THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Jonathan Demme)
- (2) THELMA & LOUISE (Ridley Scott)
- (3) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)
- (4) THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- (5) TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron)
- La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
- (6) BOYZ N THE HOOD (John Singleton)
- JFK (Oliver Stone)
- Delicatessen (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
- Barton Fink (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
- My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
- (7) BUGSY (Barry Levinson)
- Black Robe (Bruce Beresford)
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, George Hickenlooper)
- The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
- Close to Eden (Nikita Mikhalkov)
- Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui)
- The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
- Slacker (Richard Linklater)
- (8) THE FISHER KING (Terry Gilliam)
- (9) CITY SLICKERS (Ron Underwood)
- Days of Being Wild (Kar Wai Wong)
- A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris)
- The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan)
- Jacquot de Nantes (Agnès Varda)
- City of Hope (John Sayles)
- Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
- (10) THE COMMITMENTS (Alan Parker)
- A Woman's Tale (Paul Cox)
- Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway)
- Tous les matins du monde (Alain Corneau)
- The Prince of Tides (Barbra Streisand)
- Toto the Hero (Jaco van Dormael)
- Rambling Rose (Martha Coolidge)
- Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
- (11) CAPE FEAR (Martin Scorsese)
- (12) EUROPA (Lars von Trier)
- 35 Up (Michael Apted)
- Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan)
- (13) POINT BREAK (Kathryn Bigelow)
- Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvatores)
- Into the Woods (James Lapine)
- Edward II (Derek Jarman)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (Jon Avnet)
- L.A. Story (Mick Jackson)
- Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
- Impromptu (James Lapine)
- Lovers (Vicente Aranda)
may 16 2019 ∞
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