This is a titles-only round-up meant to accompany my recently concluded YEARS IN REVIEW project, where I revealed my choices for the top films in each AMPAS-approved category. There are many more titles I loved in each listed year, but these mentioned here are my very favorite cinematic achievements from 1925 to 2017. Soon to come: the best performances of each year:
1925:
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (USSR, Sergei Eistenstein) (2nd: The Gold
Rush (US, Charles Chaplin), followed by: The Phantom of the Opera (US, Rupert
Julian); Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (US, Fred Niblo); Seven
Chances (US, Buster Keaton); The Freshman (US, Fred C. Newmeyer and
Sam Taylor) (6)
1926:
THE GENERAL (US, Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman) (2nd: Faust
(Germany, F.W. Murnau), followed by: Mother (USSR, Vsevelod I. Pudovkin); The
Lodger (UK, Alfred Hitchcock) (4)
1927:
NAPOLEON (France, Abel Gance) (2nd: Metropolis (Germany,
Fritz Lang), followed by: Sunrise (US, F.W. Murnau); 7th Heaven (US, Frank
Borzage); Wings (US, William Wellman) (5)
1947: MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin) (2nd: Miracle on 34th Street (US, George Seaton), followed by: Nightmare Alley (US, Edmund Goulding); Black Narcissus (UK, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger); Brute Force (US, Jules Dassin); Out of the Past (US, Jacques Tourneur); Body and Soul (US, Robert Rossen); T-Men (US, Anthony Mann) (8)
1948:
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (US, John Huston) (2nd: The Red
Shoes (UK, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger), followed by: The Fallen Idol (UK, Carol
Reed); Bicycle Thieves (Italy, Vittorio De Sica); Germany Year Zero
(Italy/West Germany, Roberto Rossellini); Red River (US, Howard
Hawks); Oliver Twist (UK, David Lean); Letter from an Unknown Woman
(US, Max Ophuls); He Walked By Night (US, Alfred Werker and Anthony
Mann); They Live by Night
(US, Nicholas Ray); Yellow Sky (US, William A. Wellman); Force of Evil (US,
Abraham Polonsky); Key Largo (US, John Huston); Raw Deal (US, Anthony Mann) (14)
1949:
THE SET-UP (US, Robert Wise) (2nd: The Third Man (UK, Carol Reed),
followed by: The Heiress (US, William Wyler); Kind Hearts and
Coronets (UK, Robert Hamer); White Heat (US, Raoul Walsh); Late
Spring (Japan, Yasujiro Ozu); On the Town (US, Stanley Donen and Gene
Kelly); Stray Dog (Japan, Akira Kurosawa); A Letter to Three Wives
(US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz); Battleground (US, William A. Wellman);
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (US, John Ford); The Window (US, Ted
Tetzlaff); Champion (US, Mark Robson) (13)
1950:
SUNSET BLVD. (US, Billy Wilder) (2nd: Gun Crazy (US, Joseph H.
Lewis), followed by: Rashomon (Japan, Akira Kurosawa); Winchester ’73
(US, Anthony Mann); The Asphalt Jungle (US, John Huston); In a Lonely
Place (US, Nicholas Ray); All About Eve (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz);
La Ronde (France, Max Ophuls); Los Olvidados (Mexico, Luis Buñuel);
Wagon Master (US, John Ford) (10)
1951: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (US, Elia Kazan) (2nd: Strangers on a Train (US, Alfred Hitchcock), followed by: Ace in the Hole (US, Billy Wilder); A Place in the Sun (US, George Stevens); The African Queen (UK, John Huston); Early Summer (Japan, Yasujiro Ozu); The Tales of Hoffmann (UK, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger); An American in Paris (US, Vincente Minnelli); The Lavender Hill Mob (UK, Charles Crichton); Diary of a Country Priest (France, Robert Bresson); The Day the Earth Stood Still (US, Robert Wise); On Dangerous Ground (US, Nicholas Ray) (12)
1952:
IKIRU (Japan, Akira Kurosawa) (2nd: Singin’ in the Rain (US,
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly), followed by: Umberto D (Italy,
Vittorio De Sica); High Noon (US, Fred Zinnemann); The Quiet Man (US,
John Ford); The Bad and the Beautiful (US, Vincente Minnelli);
Forbidden Games (France, René Clair); Bend of the River (US, Anthony
Mann); Limelight (UK, Charles Chaplin); The Life of Oharu (Japan,
Kenji Mizoguchi) (10)
1953:
TOKYO STORY (Japan, Yasujiro Ozu) (2nd: The Naked Spur (US, Anthony
Mann), followed by: Madame de… (France, Max Ophuls); I Vitelloni (Italy, Federico Fellini); Shane
(US, George Stevens); Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (France, Jacques
Tati); Gate of Hell (Japan, Teinosuke Kinugasa); The 5000 Fingers of
Dr. T (US, Roy Rowland); The Big Heat (US, Fritz Lang); Summer With
Monika (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman); The Band Wagon
(US, Vincente Minnelli); Ugetsu Monogatari (Japan, Kenji
Mizoguchi); From Here to Eternity (US, Fred Zinnemann); The Wages of
Fear (France, Henri-Georges Clouzot) (14)
1954:
REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock) (2nd: The Seven Samurai (Japan,
Akira Kurosawa), followed by: On the Waterfront (US, Elia Kazan); La
Strada (Italy, Federico Fellini); Salt of the Earth (US, Herbert J.
Biberman); A Star is Born (US, George Cukor); Sansho The Baliff
(Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi); Magnificent Obsession (US, Douglas Sirk);
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (US, Stanley Donen); Johnny Guitar
(US, Nicholas Ray) (10)
1955:
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton) (2nd: Kiss Me, Deadly
(US, Robert Aldrich), followed by: Pather Panchali (India, Satyajit
Ray); East of Eden (US, Elia Kazan); Lola Montes (France, Max Ophuls); All That Heaven Allows (US, Douglas
Sirk); Les Diaboliques (France, Henri-Georges Clouzot); Ordet
(Denmark, Carl Th. Dreyer); Rififi (France, Jules Dassin); The
Big Combo (US, Joseph H. Lewis); The Man from Laramie (US, Anthony
Mann); Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geromini, Wilfred Jackson and Walt
Disney); The Ladykillers (UK, Alexander
Mackendrick); Smiles of a Summer Night (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman) (14)
1956:
THE SEARCHERS (US, John Ford) (2nd: Giant (US, George Stevens),
followed by: Bigger Than Life (US, Nicholas Ray); The Killing (US,
Stanley Kubrick); The Wrong Man (US, Alfred Hitchcock); A Man Escaped
(France, Robert Bresson); Aparajito (India, Satyajit Ray); Bob le
Flambeur (France, Jean-Pierre Melville); The Silent World (France,
Louis Malle and Jacques-Yves Cousteau); Baby Doll (US, Elia Kazan);
There’s Always Tomorrow (US, Douglas Sirk); Early Spring (Japan,
Yasujiro Ozu); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (US, Don Siegel) (13)
1957:
PATHS OF GLORY (US, Stanley Kubrick) (2nd: Wild Strawberries (Sweden,
Ingmar Bergman), followed by: 12 Angry Men (US, Sidney Lumet); The
Seventh Seal (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman); Sweet Smell of Success (US,
Alexander Mackendrick); Nights of Cabiria (Italy, Federico Fellini);
A Face in the Crowd (US, Elia Kazan); Throne of Blood (Japan, Akira
Kurosawa); Funny Face (US, Stanley Donen); The Cranes are Flying
(USSR, Mikhail Kalatozov); On the Bowery (US, Lionel Rogosin); Kanal
(Poland, Andrzej Wajda) (12)
1958:
TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles) (2nd: Vertigo (US, Alfred
Hitchcock), followed by: Ashes and Diamonds (Poland, Andrzej Wajda);
Some Came Running (US, Vincente Minnelli); The Hidden Fortress
(Japan, Akira Kurosawa); Mon Oncle (France, Jacques Tati); Auntie
Mame (US, Morton da Costa); The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
(Czechlosovakia, Karel Zeman); Terror in a Texas Town (US, Joseph H. Lewis); The Horse’s Mouth (UK, Ronald
Neame); Big Deal on
Madonna Street (Italy, Mario Monicelli) (11)
1959:
THE 400 BLOWS (France, François Truffaut) (2nd: Some Like it Hot
(US, Billy Wilder), followed by: North by Northwest (US, Alfred
Hitchcock); Rio Bravo (US, Howard Hawks); Anatomy of a Murder (US,
Otto Preminger); Pickpocket (France, Robert Bresson); Pork Chop Hill
(US, Lewis Milestone); Hiroshima, Mon Amour (France, Alain Resnais);
The Diary of Anne Frank (US, George Stevens); Day of the Outlaw (US,
André de Toth) (10)
1960:
PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock) (2nd: The Virgin Spring (Sweden, Ingmar
Bergman), followed by: Breathless (France, Jean-Luc Godard); La Dolce
Vita (Italy, Federico Fellini); Purple Noon (France/Italy, René
Clément); Shoot the Piano Player (France, François Truffaut);
L’Avventura (Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni); Primary (US, Robert
Drew and Richard Leacock); Spartacus (US, Stanley Kubrick); Jigoku
(Japan, Nobuko Nakagawa); Peeping Tom (UK, Michael Powell); Late
Autumn (Japan, Yasujiro Ozu) (12)
1961:
WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins) (2nd: The
Innocents (UK, Jack Clayton), followed by: The Hustler (US, Robert
Rossen); Through a Glass, Darkly (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman); Yojimbo
(Japan, Akira Kurosawa); Judgment at Nuremberg (US, Stanley Kramer);
Divorce, Italian Style (Italy, Pietro Germi); Splendor in the Grass
(US, Elia Kazan); The End of Summer (Japan, Yasujiro Ozu); One, Two,
Three (US, Billy Wilder) (10)
1962:
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (UK, David Lean) (2nd: The Music Man (US, Morton
Da Costa), followed by: Ride the High Country (US, Sam Peckinpah);
The Exterminating Angel (Mexico, Luis Buñuel); To Kill a Mockingbird
(US, Robert Mulligan); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (US, John
Ford); Sundays and Cybele (France, Serge Bourguignon); Knife in the
Water (Poland, Roman Polanski); Harakiri (Japan, Masaki Kobayashi);
David and Lisa (US, Frank Perry); The Manchurian Candidate (US, John
Frankenheimer); Jules and Jim (France, François Truffaut) (12)
1963:
8½ (Italy, Federico Fellini) (2nd: Hud (US, Martin Ritt), followed by: Contempt (France, Jean-Luc
Godard); High and Low (Japan,
Akira Kurosawa); The Leopard (Italy/US, Luchino Visconti); America,
America (US, Elia Kazan); Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
(US, Robert Drew); Winter Light (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman); The Birds
(US, Alfred Hitchcock); Shock Corridor (US, Samuel Fuller); The
Haunting (US, Robert Wise) (11)
1964:
DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
(US/UK, Stanley Kubrick) (2nd: A Hard Day’s Night (UK, Richard
Lester), followed by: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy,
Pier Paolo Pasolini); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France, Jacques
Demy); I Am Cuba (USSR/Cuba, Mikhail Kalatozov); Culloden (UK, Peter
Watkins); Point of Order (US, Emile de Antonio); Woman in the Dunes
(Japan, Hiroshi Teshigahara); Red Desert (Italy, Michelangelo
Antonioni); Zulu (UK, Cy Endfield); Kwaidan (Japan, Masaki
Kobayashi); Goldfinger (UK, Guy Hamilton) (12)
1965: REPULSION (UK, Roman Polanski) (2nd: The Hill (US/UK, Sidney Lumet), followed by: The Knack, And How to Get It (UK, Richard Lester); The War Game (UK, Peter Watkins); Pierrot le Fou (France, Jean-Luc Godard); Chimes at Midnight (Spain/US, Orson Welles); Doctor Zhivago (US/UK, David Lean); War and Peace (USSR, Sergei Bondarchuk); Alphaville (France, Jean-Luc Godard); The Flight of the Phoenix (US, Robert Aldrich); The Loved One (UK, Tony Richardson); The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia, Jan Kadar) (12)
1965: REPULSION (UK, Roman Polanski) (2nd: The Hill (US/UK, Sidney Lumet), followed by: The Knack, And How to Get It (UK, Richard Lester); The War Game (UK, Peter Watkins); Pierrot le Fou (France, Jean-Luc Godard); Chimes at Midnight (Spain/US, Orson Welles); Doctor Zhivago (US/UK, David Lean); War and Peace (USSR, Sergei Bondarchuk); Alphaville (France, Jean-Luc Godard); The Flight of the Phoenix (US, Robert Aldrich); The Loved One (UK, Tony Richardson); The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia, Jan Kadar) (12)
1966:
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (US, Mike Nichols) (2nd: Persona
(Sweden, Ingmar Bergman), followed by: Blow Up (UK, Michelangelo
Antonioni); A Man for All Seasons (UK, Fred Zinnemann); The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly (Italy, Sergio Leone); Au Hasard, Balthazar (France,
Robert Bresson); Masculin Feminin (France/Sweden, Jean-Luc Godard);
Closely Watched Trains (Czechoslovakia, Jiri Menzel); The Round Up
(Hungary, Miklos Jancso); Seconds (US, John Frankenheimer); The
Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, Gillo Pontecorvo); Andrei Rublev
(USSR, Andrei Tarkovsky); Cul de Sac (UK, Roman Polanski) (13)
1967:
THE GRADUATE (US, Mike Nichols) (2nd: Playtime (France, Jacques
Tati), followed by: Bonnie and Clyde (US, Arthur Penn); Weekend
(France, Jean-Luc Godard); In Cold Blood (US, Richard Brooks);
Mouchette (France, Robert Bresson); Titicut Follies (US, Frederick
Wiseman); Belle de Jour (France, Luis Buñuel); Point Blank (US, John
Boorman); Bedazzled (UK, Stanley Donen); Cool Hand Luke (US, Stuart
Rosenberg); Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth)
(UK, Roy Ward Baker); Don’t Look Back (US, D.A. Pennebaker); Le
Samourai (France, Jean-Pierre Melville); Two For The Road (UK,
Stanley Donen) (15)
1968:
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK/US, Stanley Kubrick) (2nd: Once Upon a Time
in the West (US/Italy, Sergio Leone), followed by: Oliver! (UK, Carol
Reed); Targets (US, Peter Bogdanovich); Petulia (US, Richard Lester); The Color of Pomegranates
(USSR, Sergei Paradjanov); Head (US, Bob Rafelson); Rosemary’s Baby
(US, Roman Polanski); if… (UK, Lindsay Anderson); Yellow Submarine
(UK, George Dunning); Monterey Pop (US, D.A. Pennebaker); Night of
the Living Dead (US, George A. Romero); Shame (Sweden, Ingmar
Bergman); High School (US, Frederick Wiseman); Faces (US, John
Cassavetes); Bullitt (US, Peter Yates) (16)
1969:
THE WILD BUNCH (US, Sam Peckinpah) (2nd: Midnight Cowboy (US, John
Schlesinger), followed by: Z (Algeria/France, Constantin
Costa-Gavras); Salesman (US, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and
Charlotte Zwerin); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (US, George Roy
Hill); The Honeymoon Killers (US, Leonard Kastle); Medium Cool (US,
Haskell Wexler); The
Sorrow and the Pity (France, Marcel Ophuls); They Shoot Horses, Don’t
They? (US, Sydney Pollack); This Man Must Die (France, Claude
Chabrol); Kes (UK, Ken Loach); Fellini Satyricon (Italy, Federico Fellini) (12)
1970:
M*A*S*H (US, Robert Altman) (2nd: Five Easy Pieces (US, Bob
Rafelson), followed by: Gimme Shelter (US, Albert Maysles, David
Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin); The Conformist (Italy, Bernardo
Bertolucci); Claire’s Knee (France, Eric Rohmer); Ryan’s Daughter
(US, David Lean); Patton (US, Franklin J. Schaffner); Woodstock (US,
Michael Wadleigh); The Garden of the Finzi Continis (Italy, Vittorio
de Sica); Husbands (US, John Cassavetes); Wanda (US, Barbara Loden);
Deep End (UK, Jerzy Skolimowski) (12)
1971:
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (US, Peter Bogdanovich) (2nd: A Clockwork
Orange (UK, Stanley Kubrick), followed by: McCabe and Mrs. Miller
(US, Robert Altman); Fiddler on the Roof (US, Norman Jewison); The
French Connection (US, William Friedkin); Punishment Park (UK/US,
Peter Watkins); Sunday, Bloody Sunday (UK, John Schlesinger);
Two-Lane Blacktop (US, Monte Hellman); Carnal Knowledge (US, Mike
Nichols); Macbeth (UK, Roman Polanski); Harold and Maude (US, Hal
Ashby); The Beguiled (US, Don Siegel); Walkabout (Australia, Nicolas
Roeg); Dirty Harry (US, Don Siegel); Klute (US, Alan J. Pakula) (15)
1972:
THE GODFATHER (US, Francis Ford Coppola) (2nd: Cabaret (US, Bob
Fosse), followed by: Cries and Whispers (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman);
Deliverance (US, John Boorman); Aguirre, The Wrath of God (West
Germany, Werner Herzog); Solaris (USSR, Andrei Tarkovsky); The
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France, Luis Buñuel); Images
(Ireland/US, Robert Altman); What’s Up, Doc? (US, Peter Bogdanovich); The Candidate
(US, Michael Ritchie); Last Tango in Paris (France, Bernardo
Bertolucci) (11)
1973:
AMERICAN GRAFFITI (US, George Lucas) (2nd: O Lucky Man! (UK, Lindsay
Anderson), followed by: The Exorcist (US, William Friedkin); Scenes
from a Marriage (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman); Mean Streets (US, Martin
Scorsese); Electra Glide in Blue (US, James William Guercio); Paper
Moon (US, Peter Bogdanovich); Badlands (US, Terrence Malick); The
Long Goodbye (US, Robert Altman); The Sting (US, George Roy Hill);
Amarcord (Italy, Federico Fellini); Painters Painting (US, Emile de
Antonio); The Mother and the Whore (France, Jean Eustache); The
Spirit of the Beehive (Spain, Victor Erice) (14)
1974:
THE GODFATHER PART II (US, Francis Ford Coppola) (2nd: Chinatown (US,
Roman Polanski), followed by: The Conversation (US, Francis Ford
Coppola); A Woman Under the Influence (US, John Cassavetes); The
Parallax View (US, Alan J. Pakula); The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (US,
Tobe Hooper); Young Frankenstein (US, Mel Brooks); General Idi Amin
Dada (France/Switzerland, Barbet Schroeder); Blazing Saddles (US, Mel Brooks); Céline and Julie Go
Boating (France, Jacques Rivette); Edvard Munch (Norway/Sweden, Peter
Watkins); The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (West Germany, Werner Herzog);
Thieves Like Us (US, Robert Altman) (13)
1975:
NASHVILLE (US, Robert Altman) (2nd: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(US, Milos Forman), followed by: Seven Beauties (Italy, Lina
Wertmuller); Dog Day Afternoon (US, Sidney Lumet); Barry Lyndon (UK,
Stanley Kubrick); Jaws (US, Steven Spielberg); Jeanne Dielman, 23
Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium/France, Chantal Akerman);
The Day of the Locust (US, John Schlesinger); Monty Python and the
Holy Grail (UK, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam); Grey Gardens (US,
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer); Tommy
(UK, Ken Russell); Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia, Peter Weir) (12)
1976:
TAXI DRIVER (US, Martin Scorsese) (2nd: Network (US, Sidney Lumet),
followed by: All the President’s Men (US, Alan J. Pakula); Rocky
(US, John G. Avildsen); Bound for Glory (US, Hal Ashby); The Front
(US, Martin Ritt); Small Change (France, François Truffaut); Bugsy
Malone (UK, Alan Parker); Carrie (US, Brian de Palma); Harlan County,
USA (US, Barbara Kopple); The Outlaw Josey Wales (US, Clint
Eastwood); The Bad News Bears (US, Michael Richie) (12)
1977:
ANNIE HALL (US, Woody Allen) (2nd: Eraserhead (US, David Lynch),
followed by: 3 Women (US, Robert Altman); Close Encounters of the
Third Kind (US, Steven Spielberg); Star Wars (US, George Lucas); That
Obscure Object of Desire (France/Spain, Luis Buñuel); Opening Night
(US, John Cassavetes); Sorcerer (US, William Friedkin); The Late Show
(US, Robert Benton); Abigail's Party (UK, Mike Leigh); Oh, God! (US,
Carl Reiner); Padre Padrone (Italy, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani);
Killer of Sheep (US, Charles Burnett) (13)
1978:
THE DEER HUNTER (US, Michael Cimino) (2nd: The Last Waltz (US, Martin
Scorsese), followed by: Days of Heaven (US, Terrence Malick);
Interiors (US, Woody Allen); Straight Time (US, Ulu Grosbard); The
Tree of Wooden Clogs (Italy, Ermanno Olmi); An Unmarried Woman (US,
Paul Mazursky); Who’ll Stop The Rain (US, Karel Reisz); Blue Collar
(US, Paul Schrader); Halloween (US, John Carpenter); Gates of Heaven
(US, Errol Morris); The Silent Partner (Canada, Darryl Duke);
Superman (US, Richard Donner) (13)
1979: ALL THAT JAZZ (US, Bob Fosse) (2nd: Manhattan (US, Woody Allen), followed by: Apocalypse Now (US, Francis Ford Coppola); Tess (UK, Roman Polanski); Breaking Away (US, Peter Yates); The Tin Drum (West Germany, Volker Schlöndorff); Best Boy (US, Ira Wohl); Alien (US/UK, Ridley Scott); Kramer vs. Kramer (US, Robert Benton); A Little Romance (US/France, George Roy Hill); Oblomov (USSR, Nikita Mikhalkov); The Black Stallion (US, Carroll Ballard); Wise Blood (US, John Huston); Over the Edge (US, Jonathan Kaplan); Being There (US, Hal Ashby); Going in Style (US, Martin Brest); Hair (US, Milos Forman); The Onion Field (US, Harold Becker); Phantasm (US, Don Coscarelli) (19)
1980:
RAGING BULL (US, Martin Scorsese) (2nd: Ordinary People (US, Robert
Redford), followed by: The Shining (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick);
Kagemusha (Japan, Akira Kurosawa); The Elephant Man (UK/US, David
Lynch); The Long Riders (US, Walter Hill); Coal Miner’s Daughter
(US, Michael Apted); The Empire Strikes Back (US, Irwin Kershner);
One Trick Pony (US, Robert M. Young); The Stunt Man (US, Richard
Rush); Heaven’s Gate (US, Michael Cimino); Altered States (US, Ken
Russell); Fame (US, Alan Parker); Airplane! (US, Jerry Zucker, David
Zucker, and Jim Abrahams); Used Cars (US, Robert Zemeckis) (15)
1981:
REDS (US, Warren Beatty) (2nd: Das Boot (West Germany, Wolfgang
Petersen), followed by: Prince of the City (US, Sidney Lumet);
Raiders of the Lost Ark (US, Steven Spielberg); Pennies from Heaven
(US, Herbert Ross); Cutter’s Way (US, Ivan Passer); Modern Romance
(US, Albert Brooks); Gregory’s Girl (UK, Bill Forsyth); Pixote
(Brazil, Hector Babenco); Gallipoli (Australia, Peter Weir); My
Dinner With André (US, Louis Malle); Vernon, Florida (US, Erroll
Morris); The Road Warrior (Australia, George Miller) (13)
1982:
FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman) (2nd: Blade Runner (US,
Ridley Scott), followed by: Chilly Scenes of Winter (US, Joan Micklin
Silver); Sophie’s Choice (US, Alan J. Pakula); E.T. The
Extraterrestrial (US, Steven Spielberg); Missing (US, Costa-Gavras);
The Verdict (US, Sidney Lumet); Tootsie (US, Sydney Pollack); Shoot
the Moon (US, Alan Parker); Diner (US, Barry Levinson); Burden of
Dreams (US, Les Blank); The Night of the Shooting Stars (Italy, Paolo
Taviani and Vittorio Taviani); Koyaanisqatsi (US, Godfrey Reggio);
The Thing (US, John Carpenter) (14)
1983:
LOCAL HERO (Scotland, Bill Forsyth) (2nd: The Right Stuff (US, Philip
Kaufman), followed by: The King of Comedy (US, Martin Scorsese); Star
80 (US, Bob Fosse); Entre Nous (France, Diane Kurys); Zelig (US,
Woody Allen); The Dresser (UK, Peter Yates); Silkwood (US, Mike
Nichols); Terms of Endearment (US, James L. Brooks); Marvin and Tige
(US, Eric Weston); The 4th Man (Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven); Monty
Python’s The Meaning of Life (UK, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam);
Lianna (US, John Sayles) (13)
1984:
STOP MAKING SENSE (US, Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads) (2nd: This
is Spinal Tap (US, Rob Reiner), followed by: The Killing Fields (UK,
Roland Joffé); Broadway Danny Rose (US, Woody Allen); The Times of
Harvey Milk (US, Robert Epstein); A Passage to India (UK, David
Lean); Streetwise (US, Martin Bell); Blood Simple (US, Joel Coen); Stranger Than Paradise (US, Jim Jarmusch); Amadeus (US,
Milos Forman); 28 Up (UK, Michael Apted); Threads (UK, Mick Jackson);
Paris, Texas (West Germany/France/US, Wim Wenders); Love Streams (US,
John Cassavetes); Once Upon a Time in America (US, Sergio Leone); The
Terminator (US, James Cameron) (16)
1985:
RAN (Japan, Akira Kurosawa) (2nd: Brazil (UK, Terry Gilliam),
followed by: The Purple Rose of Cairo (US, Woody Allen); After Hours
(US, Martin Scorsese); Lost in America (US, Albert Brooks); Prizzi’s
Honor (US, John Huston); My Life as a Dog (Sweden, Lasse Hallström);
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (US, Tim Burton); Shoah (France/UK, Claude Lanzmann); The Official Story (Argentina, Luis Puenza) (10)
1986:
BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch) (2nd: Sherman’s March (US, Ross
McElwee), followed by: Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring (France,
Claude Berri); The Green Ray (aka Summer) (France, Eric Rohmer); Round Midnight
(US/France, Bertrand Tavernier); Hannah and Her Sisters (US, Woody
Allen); Sid and Nancy (US, Alex Cox); The Sacrifice (Sweden/France,
Andrei Tarkovsky); Aliens (US, James Cameron); The Color of Money
(US, Martin Scorsese); The Mosquito Coast (US, Peter Weir); Something Wild (US, Jonathan Demme) (12)
1987:
WINGS OF DESIRE (West Germany, Wim Wenders) (2nd: Matewan (US, John
Sayles), followed by: The Dead (UK/Ireland, John Huston); Full Metal
Jacket (US, Stanley Kubrick); Hope and Glory (UK, John Boorman);
Broadcast News (US, James L. Brooks); Empire of the Sun (US, Steven
Spielberg); Raising Arizona (US, Joel Coen); Radio Days (US, Woody
Allen); Someone To Love (US, Henry Jaglom); Au Revoir, Les Enfants
(France, Louis Malle) (11)
1988:
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (US, Philip Kaufman) (2nd: The Last
Temptation of Christ (US, Martin Scorsese), followed by: Cinema
Paradiso (Italy, Giuseppe Tornatore); The Thin Blue Line (US, Errol
Morris); Distant Voices, Still Lives (UK, Terence Davies); Tucker:
The Man and His Dream (US, Francis Ford Coppola); Hotel Terminus: The
Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (France, Marcel Ophuls); The Vanishing
(Netherlands/France, George Sluizer); Die Hard (US, John McTiernan);
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (US/UK, Terry Gilliam); High Hopes (UK, Mike Leigh); Who Framed
Roger Rabbit? (US, Robert Zemeckis); Dead Ringers (Canada, David
Cronenberg); Hairspray (US, John Waters) (14)
1989:
DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee) (2nd: Drugstore Cowboy (US, Gus
Van Sant), followed by: Crimes and Misdemeanors (US, Woody Allen);
Mystery Train (US, Jim Jarmusch); Henry V (UK, Kenneth Branagh); Sex,
Lies and Videotape (US, Steven Soderbergh); Jesus of Montreal
(Canada, Denys Arcand); The Seventh Continent (Austria, Michael
Haneke); Field of Dreams (US, Phil Alden Robinson); The Abyss (US,
James Cameron); For All Mankind (US, Al Reinert); My Left Foot (UK/Ireland, Jim Sheridan) (12)
1990:
GOODFELLAS (US, Martin Scorsese) (2nd: Europa Europa
(Germany/France/Poland, Agnieszka Holland), followed by: Life is
Sweet (UK, Mike Leigh); Miller’s Crossing (US, Joel Coen); Mr. and
Mrs. Bridge (US/UK, James Ivory); The Grifters (US, Stephen Frears);
American Dream (US, Barbara Kopple); The Reflecting Skin (Canada,
Philip Ridley); Mindwalk (US, Bernt Capra); Men Don’t Leave (US,
Paul Brickman); Quick Change (US, Howard Franklin and Bill Murray);
Strangers in Good Company (Canada, Cynthia Scott) (12)
1991:
BARTON FINK (US, Joel Coen) (2nd: Raise the Red Lantern (China, Zhang
Yimou), followed by: Defending Your Life (US, Albert Brooks); The
Rapture (US, Michael Tolkin); The Double Life of Véronique
(France/Poland, Krzysztof Kieslowski); Hearts of Darkness: A
Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (US, Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola and George
Hickenlooper); Europa (aka Zentropa) (Germany/Denmark, Lars Von Trier); A Brighter
Summer Day (Taiwan, Edward Yang); The Silence of the Lambs (US,
Jonathan Demme); The Commitments (UK/Ireland, Alan Parker); Cape Fear
(US, Martin Scorsese); Dogfight (US, Nancy Savoca); The Best
Intentions (Sweden, Bille August); Beauty and the Beast (US, Gary
Trousdale and Kirk Wise) (14)
1992:
UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood) (2nd: Howards End (UK, James Ivory),
followed by: The Long Day Closes (UK, Terence Davies); Glengarry Glen
Ross (US, James Foley); Reservoir Dogs (US, Quentin Tarantino); The
Crying Game (UK, Neil Jordan); Hard Boiled (Hong Kong, John Woo); A
Midnight Clear (US, Keith Gordon); Brothers Keeper (US, Joe Berlinger
and Bruce Sinofsky); Bad Lieutenant (US, Abel Ferrara); Malcolm X
(US, Spike Lee) (11)
1993:
SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg) (2nd: Time Indefinite (US,
Ross McElwee), followed by: The Remains of the Day (UK, James Ivory);
Three Colors: Blue (Poland/France, Krzysztof Kieslowski); The Age of
Innocence (US, Martin Scorsese); Naked (UK, Mike Leigh); Short Cuts
(US, Robert Altman); Dazed and Confused (US, Richard Linklater);
Groundhog Day (US, Harold Ramis); Fearless (US, Peter Weir);
Silverlake Life: The View From Here (US, Peter Friedman and Tom
Joslin); King of the Hill (US, Steven Soderburgh) (12)
1994:
PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino) (2nd: Crumb (US, Terry Zwigoff),
followed by: Ed Wood (US, Tim Burton); Three Colors: Red
(France/Poland/Germany, Krzysztof Kieslowski); To Live (China, Zhang
Yimou); Hoop Dreams (US, Steve James); Vanya on 42nd Street (US,
Louis Malle); The Shawshank Redemption (US, Frank Darabont); Little
Women (US, Gillian Armstrong); Natural Born Killers (US, Oliver
Stone); Heavenly Creatures (New Zealand, Peter Jackson); Leon (aka
The Professional) (US/France, Luc Besson) (12)
1995:
TOY STORY (US, John Lasseter) (2nd: Seven (US, David Fincher), followed by: Casino
(US, Martin Scorsese); Babe (Australia, Chris Noonan); Heat (US,
Michael Mann); La Cérémonie (France, Claude Chabrol); Safe (US,
Todd Haynes); Leaving Las Vegas (US, Mike Figgis); Apollo 13 (US, Ron
Howard); Richard III (UK, Richard Loncraine); A Personal Journey With
Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (UK/US, Michael Henry Wilson
and Martin Scorsese); Clueless (US, Amy Heckerling) (12)
1996:
BREAKING THE WAVES (Denmark/UK, Lars Von Trier) (2nd: Fargo (US, Joel
Coen), followed by: Sling Blade (US, Billy Bob Thornton); Secrets and
Lies (UK, Mike Leigh); Ponette (France, Jacques Doillon); Flirting
With Disaster (US, David O. Russell); Citizen Ruth (US, Alexander
Payne); Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (US, Joe
Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky); Lone Star (US, John Sayles); Bottle
Rocket (US, Wes Anderson); Trainspotting (UK, Danny Boyle) (11)
1997:
THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Canada, Atom Egoyan) (2nd: L.A. Confidential
(US, Curtis Hanson), followed by: Jackie Brown (US, Quentin
Tarantino); A Taste of Cherry (Iran, Abbas Kiarostami); Funny Games
(Austria, Michael Haneke); The Ice Storm (US, Ang Lee); Starship
Troopers (US, Paul Verhoeven); Mother and Son (Russia, Aleksandr
Sokurov); Donnie Brasco (US, Mike Newell); Eve’s Bayou (US, Kasi
Lemmons); The Apostle (US, Robert Duvall); Boogie Nights (US, Paul
Thomas Anderson) (12)
1998:
THE THIN RED LINE (US, Terrence Malick) (2nd: Festen (aka The Celebration) (Denmark, Thomas Vinterberg), followed by: The Big Lebowski (US, Joel
Coen); A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (UK/France, James Ivory);
Saving Private Ryan (US, Steven Spielberg); Rushmore (US, Wes
Anderson); A Simple Plan (US, Sam Raimi); Primary Colors (US, Mike
Nichols); Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (US, Terry Gilliam); Out of
Sight (US, Steven Soderbergh) (10)
1999:
MAGNOLIA (US, Paul Thomas Anderson) (2nd: Topsy Turvy (UK, Mike
Leigh), followed by: The Insider (US, Michael Mann); Eyes Wide Shut
(US, Stanley Kubrick); Election (US, Alexander Payne); The Iron Giant
(US, Brad Bird); All About My Mother (Spain, Pedro Almodóvar); The
Matrix (US, Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski); The Gods of Times
Square (US, Richard Sandler); The Straight Story (US, David Lynch);
Office Space (US, Mike Judge); Toy Story 2 (US, Ash Brannon and John
Lasseter); American Movie (US, Chris Smith); The Talented Mr. Ripley
(US, Anthony Minghella); Three Kings (US, David O. Russell); Fight
Club (US, David Fincher); My Best Fiend (Germany, Werner Herzog) (17)
2000:
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (UK, Terrence Davies) (2nd: You Can Count on Me
(US, Kenneth Lonergan), followed by: In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong,
Wong Kar-Wai); Requiem for a Dream (US, Darren Aronofsky); Dancer in
the Dark (Denmark, Lars Von Trier); Amores Perros (Mexico, Aléjandro
González Iñarritu); Traffic (US, Steven Soderbergh); A One and a
Two (aka Yi-Yi) (Taiwan, Edward Yang); Memento (US, Christopher Nolan); O Brother,
Where Art Thou? (US, Joel Coen) (10)
2001:
MULHOLLAND DR. (US, David Lynch) (2nd: Donnie Darko (US, Richard
Kelly), followed by: Gosford Park (UK/US, Robert Altman); Moulin
Rouge! (Australia/US, Baz Luhrmann); In the Bedroom (US, Todd Field);
The Piano Teacher (France, Michael Haneke); Ghost World (US, Terry
Zwigoff); Y Tu Mama También (Mexico, Alfonso Cuaron); Hedwig and the
Angry Inch (US, John Cameron Mitchell); A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(US, Steven Spielberg); Time Out (France, Laurent Cantet); The Royal
Tenenbaums (US, Wes Anderson); Lantana (Australia, Ray Lawrence);
Spirited Away (Japan, Hayao Miyazaki); Monsters Inc. (US, Pete
Docter, Lee Unkrich, and David Silverman) (15)
2002:
FAR FROM HEAVEN (US, Todd Haynes) (2nd: Russian Ark (Russia/Germany,
Aleksandr Sokurov), followed by: All or Nothing (UK, Mike Leigh);
City of God (Brazil, Fernando Meirelles); Catch Me If You Can (US,
Steven Spielberg); The Pianist (France/Poland/Germany/ UK, Roman
Polanski); Chicago (US, Rob Marshall); Punch Drunk Love (US, Paul
Thomas Anderson); 25th Hour (US, Spike Lee); Adaptation (US, Spike
Jonze); To Be and To Have (France, Nicolas Philibert); In America (US,
Jim Sheridan) (12)
2003:
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (US, Thom Andersen) (2nd: Elephant (US, Gus
Van Sant), followed by: Lost in Translation (US, Sofia Coppola); All
the Real Girls (US, David Gordon Green); Oldboy (South Korea, Park
Chan-wook); Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (US,
Peter Weir); Bad Santa (US, Terry Zwigoff); Capturing the Friedmans
(US, Andrew Jarecki); The Brown Bunny (US, Vincent Gallo); Saraband
(Sweden, Ingmar Bergman); The Triplets of Belleville (France, Sylvain
Chomet); The Fog of War (US, Errol Morris) (12)
2004:
SIDEWAYS (US, Alexander Payne) (2nd: Vera Drake (UK, Mike Leigh),
followed by: Nobody Knows (Japan, Hirokazu Kore-Eda); Million Dollar
Baby (US, Clint Eastwood); Downfall (Germany, Oliver Hirschbiegel);
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (US, Michel Gondry); The
Incredibles (US, Brad Bird); Napoleon Dynamite (US, Jared Hess); The
Aviator (US, Martin Scorsese); Birth (US, Jonathan Glazer); Before
Sunset (US, Richard Linklater) (11)
2005:
THE NEW WORLD (US, Terrence Malick) (2nd: Brokeback Mountain (US, Ang
Lee), followed by: Caché (France, Michael Haneke); L’Enfant
(Belgium/France, Jean-Luc Dardenne and Pierre Dardenne); Munich (US,
Steven Spielberg); Grizzly Man (US, Werner Herzog and Timothy
Treadwell); Capote (US, Bennett Miller); The Constant Gardener (UK,
Fernando Meirelles); Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (UK,
Michael Winterbottom); Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (US, Martin
Scorsese); The Squid and the Whale (US, Noam Baumbach) (11)
2006:
UNITED 93 (US, Paul Greengrass) (2nd: The Fall (US/India, Tarsem
Singh), followed by: Children of Men (US/UK, Alfonso Cuarón); The
Lives of Others (Germany, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck); Old Joy
(US, Kelly Reichardt); Little Children (US, Todd Field); Syndromes
and a Century (Thailand, Apichatpong Weerasethakul); Borat: Cultural
Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
(US, Larry Charles); This is England (UK, Shane Meadows); The
Fountain (US, Darren Aronofsky); A Prairie Home Companion (US, Robert
Altman); The Departed (US, Martin Scorsese) (12)
2007:
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (US,
Andrew Dominik) (2nd: There Will Be Blood (US, Paul Thomas Anderson),
followed by: No Country for Old Men (US, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen);
Zodiac (US, David Fincher); The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (US,
Julian Schnabel); No End in Sight (US, Charles Ferguson); Grindhouse
(US, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino); Encounters at the End
of the World (US, Werner Herzog); State Legislature (US, Frederick Wiseman); Silent Light (Mexico, Carlos Reygadas); 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania, Cristian Mungiu) (11)
2008:
WENDY AND LUCY (US, Kelly Reichardt) (2nd: Synecdoche, New York (US,
Charlie Kaufman), followed by: Let The Right One In (Sweden, Tomas
Alfredson); Happy-Go-Lucky (UK, Mike Leigh); The Hurt Locker (US,
Kathryn Bigelow); Still Walking (Japan, Hirokazu Kore-Eda); In Bruges
(UK, Martin McDonagh); The Beaches of Agnès (France, Agnès Varda);
WALL-E (US, Andrew Stanton); Somers Town (UK, Shane Meadows); The
Wrestler (US, Darren Aronofsky); Hunger (UK, Steve McQueen) (12)
2009:
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (US, Quentin Tarantino) (2nd: A Prophet (France,
Jacques Audiard), followed by: Bright Star (Australia, Jane Campion);
A Serious Man (US, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen); Fantastic Mr. Fox (US,
Wes Anderson); Enter the Void (France, Gaspar Noé); The White Ribbon
(Germany/France, Michael Haneke); Big Fan (US, Robert Siegel);
Antichrist (Denmark, Lars Von Trier); Fish Tank (UK, Andrea Arnold);
Collapse (US, Chris Smith) (11)
2010:
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (US, David Fincher) (2nd: Greenberg (US, Noah
Baumbach), followed by: Another Year (UK, Mike Leigh); Uncle Boonmee
Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand, Apichatpong Weerasethakul);
Inside Job (US, Charles Ferguson); The King’s Speech (US/UK, Tom
Hooper); Inception (US, Christopher Nolan); Tiny Furniture (US, Lena
Dunham); Tuesday, After Christmas (Romania, Radu Muntean); Marwencol
(US, Jeff Malmberg); Of Gods and Men (France, Xavier Beauvois); Boxing Gym (US, Frederick Wiseman) (12)
2011:
THE TREE OF LIFE (US, Terrence Malick) (2nd: Once Upon a Time in
Anatolia (Turkey, Nuri Bilge Ceylan), followed by: A Separation
(Iran, Asghar Farhadi); Melancholia (Denmark, Lars Von Trier);
Moneyball (US, Bennett Miller); Margaret (US, Kenneth Lonergan);
General Orders No. 9 (US, Robert Persons); The Artist (France, Michel
Hazanavicius); Oslo, 31st August (Norway, Joachim Trier); Footnote
(Israel, Joseph Cedar); We Need to Talk About Kevin (UK/US, Lynne
Ramsay); Take This Waltz (Canada, Sarah Polley) (12)
2012:
THE MASTER (US, Paul Thomas Anderson) (2nd: Searching for Sugar Man
(Sweden/UK, Malik Bendjelloul), followed by: Amour (France, Michael
Haneke); Zero Dark Thirty (US, Kathryn Bigelow); Compliance (US,
Craig Zobel); Neighboring Sounds (Brazil, Kleber Mendonça Filho);
Araf (aka Somewhere in Between) (Turkey, Yesim Ustaoglu); No (Spain, Pablo
Larrain); Frances Ha (US, Noah Baumbach); Holy Motors (France, Leos
Carax) (10)
2013:
12 YEARS A SLAVE (US, Steve McQueen) (2nd: Her (US, Spike Jonze),
followed by: Blue is the Warmest Color (France/Belgium/Spain,
Abdellatif Kechiche); The Congress (Israel/Germany/France, Ari
Folman); Computer Chess (US, Andrew Bujalski); The Wolf of Wall
Street (US, Martin Scorsese); Gravity (US, Alfonso Cuarón); The
Selfish Giant (UK, Clio Barnard); Under the Skin (US, Jonathan
Glazer); Inside Llewyn Davis (US, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen); Gloria
(Chile, Sebastian Lelio); Nebraska (US, Alexander Payne) (12)
2014:
BOYHOOD (US, Richard Linklater) (2nd: Wild Tales (Argentina, Damián
Szifron), followed by: Birdman, or: The Unexpected Virtue of
Ignorance (US, Alejandro Inarritu); Inherent Vice (US, Paul Thomas
Anderson); We Are the Best! (Sweden, Lukas Moodysson); A Chair Fit
for an Angel (Finland/Canada, Raymond St. Jean); Whiplash (US, Damien
Chazelle); Force Majeure (Sweden, Reuben Ostland); National Gallery
(US, Frederick Wiseman); Leviathan (Russia, Andrey Zvyagintsev); Two
Days, One Night (Belgium, Jean Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne) (11)
2015:
INSIDE OUT (US, Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen) (2nd: 45 Years
(UK, Andrew Haigh), followed by: Creed (US, Ryan Coogler); Amy
(UK/US, Asif Kapadia); The Revenant (US, Alejandro G. Inarritu);
Anomalisa (US, Charles Kaufman and Duke Johnson); Chi-Raq (US, Spike
Lee); James White (US, Josh Mond); The End of the Tour (US, James
Ponsoldt); In Jackson Heights (US, Frederick Wiseman); Gett: The Trial of Viviane
Amsalem (Israel, Shlomi Elkabetz and Ronit Elkabetz) (11)
2016: LA LA LAND (US, Damien Chazelle) (2nd: Manchester by the Sea (US, Kenneth Lonergan), followed by: Paterson (US, Jim Jarmusch); Indignation (US, James Schamus); Love and Friendship (Ireland/France/Netherlands, Whit Stillman); 20th Century Women (US, Mike Mills); I, Daniel Blake (UK, Ken Loach); Little Men (US, Ira Sachs); Southside With You (US, Richard Tanne); Christine (US, Antonio Campos)) (11)
2017: mother! (US, Darren Aronofsky) (2nd: Dunkirk (US/UK, Christopher Nolan), followed by: Phantom Thread (US/UK, Paul Thomas Anderson); Lady Bird (US, Greta Gerwig); The Florida Project (US, Sean Baker); Graduation (Romania, Cristian Mungiu); Maudie (Ireland/Canada, Aisling Walsh); Brawl in Cell Block 99 (US, S. Craig Zahler)) (8)
2005:
THE NEW WORLD (US, Terrence Malick) (2nd: Brokeback Mountain (US, Ang
Lee), followed by: Caché (France, Michael Haneke); L’Enfant
(Belgium/France, Jean-Luc Dardenne and Pierre Dardenne); Munich (US,
Steven Spielberg); Grizzly Man (US, Werner Herzog and Timothy
Treadwell); Capote (US, Bennett Miller); The Constant Gardener (UK,
Fernando Meirelles); Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (UK,
Michael Winterbottom); Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (US, Martin
Scorsese); The Squid and the Whale (US, Noam Baumbach) (11) 
1050 TOTAL
IN NUMBERS ONLY:
1979--19--BEST EVER
1999--17--SECOND BEST
1968--16--THIRD BEST 1
1984--16--THIRD BEST 2
1939--15--FOURTH BEST 1
1967--15--FOURTH BEST 2
1971--15--FOURTH BEST 3
1980--15--FOURTH BEST 4
2001--15--FOURTH BEST 5
1942--14
1948--14
1953--14
1955--14
1973--14
1982--14
1988--14
1991--14
1941--13
1979--19--BEST EVER
1999--17--SECOND BEST
1968--16--THIRD BEST 1
1984--16--THIRD BEST 2
1939--15--FOURTH BEST 1
1967--15--FOURTH BEST 2
1971--15--FOURTH BEST 3
1980--15--FOURTH BEST 4
2001--15--FOURTH BEST 5
1942--14
1948--14
1953--14
1955--14
1973--14
1982--14
1988--14
1991--14
1941--13
1946--13
1949--13
1956--13
1966--13
1966--13
1974--13
1977--13
1978--13
1977--13
1978--13
1981--13
1983--13
2015--13