2010's

FILMS OF THE YEAR: 2010's

 "Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture." - Denis Villeneuve


2010

  1. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
  2. True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  3. The Social Network (David Fincher)
  4. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
  5. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
  6. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
  7. The Town (Ben Affleck)
  8. Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)
  9. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
  10. 127 Hours (Danny Boyle) 
  11. My Dog Tulip (Paul Fierlinger & Sandra Fierlinger)
  12. The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
  13. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
  14. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen)
  15. The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
  16. The American (Anton Corbijn)
  17. Animal Kingdom (David Michôd)
  18. White Material (Claire Denis)
  19. Get Low (Aaron Schneider)
  20. Leaves of Grass (Tim Blake Nelson)

2011

  1. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  2. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
  4. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
  5. Shame (Steve McQueen) 
  6. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) 
  7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
  8. Another Earth (Mike Cahill)
  9. 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
  10. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
  11. Rango (Gore Verbinski) 
  12. 50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
  13. The Descendants (Alexander Payne) 
  14. Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)
  15. Beginners (Mike Mills)
  16. Win Win (Thomas McCarthy)
  17. Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
  18. Blackthorn (Mateo Gil) 
  19. Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
  20. Headhunters (Morten Tyldum)
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2012

  1. The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg) 
  2. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
  3. A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm)
  4. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan) 
  5. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
  6. Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
  7. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
  8. Argo (Ben Affleck)
  9. Mud (Jeff Nichols)
  10. Intouchables (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) 
  11. Looper (Rian Johnson)
  12. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  13. Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore) 
  14. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell) 
  15. Arbitrage (Nicholas Jarecki)
  16. The Sessions (Ben Lewin)
  17. Ernest et Célestine (Stéphane Aubier, Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar) 
  18. No (Pablo Larraín)
  19. Amour (Michael Haneke)
  20. The Forgiveness of Blood (Joshua Marston)

2013

  1. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
  2. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
  3. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche)
  4. Le Passé (Asghar Farhadi)
  5. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
  6. Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve)
  7. Her (Spike Jonze)
  8. Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée)
  9. American Hustle (David O. Russell)
  10. The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
  11. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
  12. The Way Way Back (Nat Faxon, Jim Rash)
  13. The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt)
  14. Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)
  15. Rush (Ron Howard)
  16. Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
  17. Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)
  18. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
  19. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
  20. Sound City (David Grohl)

2014

  1. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
  2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
  3. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
  4. Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  5. The Babadook (Jennifer Kent)
  6. Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
  7. Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
  8. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
  9. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
  10. Fury (David Ayer)
  11. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
  12. Life Itself (Steve James)
  13. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
  14. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
  15. '71 (Yann Demange)
  16. A Most Wanted Man (Anton Corbijn)
  17. A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor)
  18. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
  19. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
  20. The Drop (Michaël R. Roskam)

2015

  1. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
  2. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
  3. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
  4. The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams)
  6. The Brand New Testament (Jaco Van Dormael)
  7. Macbeth (Justin Kurzel)
  8. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
  9. Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
  10. The Martian (Ridley Scott)
  11. Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
  12. The Big Short (Adam McCay)
  13. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
  14. Carol (Todd Haynes)
  15. Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman)
  16. Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen)
  17. Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
  18. The Little Prince (Mark Osborne)
  19. Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
  20. The Assassin (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)

2016

  1. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
  2. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
  3. The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (Robert Eggers)
  4. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
  5. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
  6. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
  7. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
  8. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
  9. The Boy and the Beast (Mamoru Hosoda)
  10. The Wailing (Hong-jin Na)
  11. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  12. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi)
  13. The Nice Guys (Shane Black)
  14. The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)
  15. Sing Street (John Carney)
  16. Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
  17. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
  18. Zootropolis (Byron Howard & Rich Moore)
  19. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
  20. Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams)

2017

  1. Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
  2. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) 
  3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (Martin McDonagh) 
  4. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
  5. The Lost City of Z (James Gray) 
  6. Logan (James Mangold)
  7. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
  8. War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
  9. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro) 
  10. Wind River (Taylor Sheridann) 
  11. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
  12. The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey)  
  13. The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci)
  14. Get Out (Jordan Peele) 
  15. Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi)
  16. Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow)
  17. Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
  18. Good Time (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
  19. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
  20. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)

2018

  1. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
  2. Hereditary (Ari Aster)
  3. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
  4. Annihilation (Alex Garland)
  5. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  6. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
  7. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
  8. Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada)
  9. Mid90s (Jonah Hill)
  10. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
  11. Searching (Aneesh Chaganty)
  12. The Guilty (Gustav Möller)
  13. Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
  14. Blackkklansman (Spike Lee)
  15. Love, Simon (Greg Berlanti)
  16. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
  17. First Man (Damien Chazelle)
  18. Tully (Jason Reitman)
  19. Widows (Steve McQueen)
  20. Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)

    2019

    1. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
    2. Parasite (Bong Joon Ho)
    3. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
    4. Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
    5. 1917 (Sam Mendes)
    6. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
    7. Joker (Todd Phillips)
    8. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
    9. Pain & Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
    10. Official Secrets (Gavin Hood)
    11. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
    12. Ford v Ferrari (James Mangold)
    13. Us (Jordan Peele)
    14. Waves (Trey Edward Shults)
    15. Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
    16. The Farewell (LuluWang)
    17. Dolemite Is My Name (Craig Brewer)
    18. Dark Water (Todd Haynes)
    19. The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz)
    20. The King (David Michôd)
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