Tuesday 15 October 2013

Top Ten Best Movies by Year (2000-2013)

More lists for each year will be uploaded soon.

2013 
1. Her | Spike Jonze
2. Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach
3. Blackfish | Gabriela Cowperthwaite
4. 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen
5. The Spectacular Now | James Ponsoldt
6. August: Osage County | John Wells
7. Gravity | Alfonso Cuaron
8. Upstream Color | Shane Carruth
9. The Hunt | Thomas Vinterberg
10. Mud | Jeff Nichols

2012
1. Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin
2. Lore | Cate Shortland
3. Life of Pi | Ang Lee
4. Les Miserables | Tom Hooper
5. Cloud Atlas | Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
6. The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson
7. The Impossible | J.A. Bayona
8. Wreck-It Ralph | Rich Moore
9. Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino
10. Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow

2011
1. The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius
2. A Separation | Asghar Farhadi
3. Weekend | Andrew Haigh
4. Poetry | Chang-don Lee
5. Moneyball | Bennett Miller
6. A Letter to Momo | Hiroyuki Okiura
7. The Kid with a Bike | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
8. We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsay
9. Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher

2010
1. The King's Speech | Tom Hooper
2. Inception | Christopher Nolan
3. Animal Kingdom | David Michod
4. Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold
5. Under the Hawthorn Tree | Yimou Zhang
6. Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich
7. Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky
8. Winter's Bone | Debra Granik
9. Rabbit Hole | John Cameron Mitchell
10. Heartbeats | Xavier Dolan

2009
1. A Single Man | Tom Ford
2. The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow
3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | Niels Arden Oplev
4. Coraline | Christian Alvart
5. The Cove | Louis Psihoyos
6. The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke
7. An Education | Lone Scherfig
8. 500 Days of Summer | Marc Webb
9. Whip It | Drew Barrymore
10. Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino

2008
1. WALL-E | Andrew Stanton
2. Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle
3. Red Cliff | John Woo
4. Doubt | John Patrick Shanley
5. Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood
6. In Bruges | Martin McDonagh
7. Milk | Gus Van Sant
8. Let the Right One In | Tomas Alfredson
9. The Reader | Stephen Daldry
10. Ponyo | Hayao Miyazaki

2007
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel
2. Atonement | Joe Wright
3. Lust, Caution | Ang Lee
4. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Tim Burton
5. There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson
6. No Country For Old Men | Ethan and Joel Cohen
7. La Vie en Rose | Olivier Dahan
8. Ratatouille | Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
9. 3:10 to Yuma | James Mangold
10. Sicko | Michael Moore

2006
1. Babel | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
2. Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro
3. The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
4. The Departed | Martin Scorsese
5. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Mamoru Hosoda
6. Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
7. An Inconvenient Truth | Davis Guggenheim
8. Curse of the Golden Flower | Yimou Zhang
9. Borat | Larry Charles
10. No Regret | Hee-il Leesong

2005
1. Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee
2. Memoirs of a Geisha | Rob Marshall
3. Pride and Prejudice | Joe Wright
4. Howl's Moving Castle | Hayao Miyazaki
5. The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles
6. The Proposition | John Hillcoat
7. Crash | Paul Haggis
8. Transamerica | Duncan Tucker
9. V for Vendetta | James McTeigue
10. North Country | Niki Caro

2004
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry
2. Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel
3. A Very Long Engagement | Jean-Pierre Jeunet
4. 2046 | Kar Wai Wong
5. Hotel Rwanda | Terry George
6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuaron
7. Kill Bill Volume 2 | Quentin Tarantino
8. Mean Girls | Mark Waters
9. The Incredibles | Brad Bird
10. Sideways | Alexander Payne

2003
1. Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola
2. Master and Commander: Far Side of the World | Peter Weir
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson
4. Oldboy | Park Chan-Wook
5. The Triplet's of Belleville | Sylvain Chomet
6. The Station Agent | Thomas McCarthy
7. Kill Bill Volume 1 | Quentin Tarantino
8. Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
9. Big Fish | Tim Burton
10. Monster | Patty Jenkins

2002
1. Chicago | Rob Marshall
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Peter Jackson
3. Road to Perdition | Sam Mendes
4. Hero | Yimou Zhang
5. City of God | Fernando Meirelles
6. Dark Water | Hideo Nakata
7. Far From Heaven | Todd Haynes
8. The Pianist | Roman Polanski
9. The Hours | Stephen Daldry
10. 28 Days Later | Danny Boyle

2001
1. Millennium Actress | Satoshi Kon
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson
3. Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki
4. In the Mood for Love | Kar Wong Wai
5. Y Tu Mama Tambien | Alfonso Cuaron
6. Mulholland Drive | David Lynch
7. Amelie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet
8. Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire
9. Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly
10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Chris Colombus

2000
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee
2. Gladiator | Ridley Scott
3. Billy Elliot | Stephen Daldry
4. Requiem for a Dream | Darren Aronofsky
5. Memento | Christopher Nolan
6. Traffic | Steven Soderbergh
7. Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe
8. Chicken Run | Peter Lord, Nick Park
9. Cast Away | Robert Zemeckis
10. Erin Brockovich | Steven Soderbergh


The weird thing about making these lists is that some years are far better than others. The years 2001, 2002 and 2003 produced a number of 5 Star masterpieces, whereas the years 2006, 2009 and 2010 were not as impressive for me. I have plenty more films to watch, so these lists are far from 'definitive.' I'd appreciate any recommendations in the comments. All I really want is to discover great cinema.


Thanks for reading!

4 comments:

  1. Awesome to see The Artist on the top, it was my favorite too and The King's Speech is also such a fantastic movie, well deserved Oscar statues there. I actually have The Hunt in this year's line up as it was released here in 2013 and I think it will make my top 10 of the year.

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    1. I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves The Artist and The King's Speech :)

      The Hunt was released at a couple of festivals last year, and I saw it in early 2013 so I assumed it was actually 2012. But I think you're right, so I'm gonna change it.

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  2. I've only done Top 10 lists for the years I've been blogging. I agree on some of the films you named in those years and disagree on some others.

    In case you haven't seen them, I'd recommend Children of Men for 2006 and The Man from Earth for 2007. Both are science fiction, but they are SF, not sci-fi. I reviewed them here: http://tipsfromchip.blogspot.com/2011/08/movie-children-of-men-2006.html and here: http://tipsfromchip.blogspot.com/2011/08/movie-man-from-earth-2007.html (both spoiler free) if you are interested in finding out why I'm recommending them.

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    1. I've heard so much about Children of Men. Can't wait to see it :) I've never heard of The Man from Earth though, so that should be interesting.

      Thanks Chip :)

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