Top-10 Films by Year

Note: These lists are subject to change as I see more films and/or my tastes morph.

2010
1 Inception
2 Toy Story 3
3 True Grit
4 The Social Network
5 The Fighter
6 The King’s Speech
7 Winter’s Bone
8 127 Hours
9 Inside Job
10 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
2009
1 Up
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 A Serious Man
4 Avatar
5 The Hurt Locker
6 Where the Wild Things Are
7 The Informant!
8 (500) Days of Summer
9 Moon
10 District 9
2008
1 The Dark Knight
2 WALL-E
3 Doubt
4 Gran Torino
5 Young@Heart
6 Slumdog Millionaire
7 Milk
8 The Reader
9 Waltz With Bashir
10 Man On Wire
2007
1 There Will Be Blood
2 No Country for Old Men
3 The Darjeeling Limited
4 Ratatouille
5 Juno
6 Into the Wild
7 Hot Fuzz
8 Michael Clayton
9 Lars and the Real Girl
10 Atonement
2006
1 Children of Men
2 The Departed
3 The Queen
4 The Prestige
5 United 93
6 Babel
7 Pan’s Labyrinth
8 Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima
9 Little Miss Sunshine
10 Marie Antoinette
2005
1 Munich
2 Good Night, and Good Luck
3 Batman Begins
4 Crash
5 The New World
6 The Constant Gardener
7 Capote
8 Brokeback Mountain
9 Joyeux Noël
10 March of the Penguins
2004
1 The Incredibles
2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3 Hotel Rwanda
4 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5 Million Dollar Baby
6 Spiderman 2
7 Born into Brothels
8 Sideways
9 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10 The Bourne Supremacy
2003
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2 Lost in Translation
3 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
4 American Splendor
5 Finding Nemo
6 Mystic River
7 Bonhoeffer
8 Dirty Pretty Things
9 X2: X-Men United
10 (tie) Shattered Glass
10 (tie) In America
2002
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2 Adaptation
3 Gangs of New York
4 Spirited Away
5 About a Boy
6 Punch-Drunk Love
7 Road to Perdition
8 City of God
9 The Pianist
10 The Bourne Identity
2001
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2 The Royal Tennenbaums
3 Moulin Rouge!
4 Amelie
5 Monsters, Inc.
6 Ocean’s 11
7 A Beautiful Mind
8 The Man Who Wasn’t There
9 The Endurance
10 Memento
Honorable Mention Apocalypse Now! Redux, I couldn’t count this outright since it’s along the lines of a director’s cut, but it is significantly different than the original.
2000
1 (tie) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
1 (tie) Traffic
3 Cast Away
4 Billy Elliot
5 One Day in September
6 Chicken Run
7 The Princess and the Warrior
8 Wonder Boys
9 Bamboozled
10 George Washington
1999
1 Fight Club
2 Magnolia
3 Three Kings
4 The Iron Giant
5 American Beauty
6 The Insider
7 Being John Malkovich
8 Eyes Wide Shut
9 Toy Story 2
10 Run Lola Run
1998
1 Saving Private Ryan
2 The Truman Show
3 The Thin Red Line
4 Prince of Egypt
5 Rushmore
6 The Big Lebowski
7 Out of Sight
8 Waking Ned Devine
9 Elizabeth
10 A Simple Plan
1997
1 L. A. Confidential
2 The Apostle
3 As Good as it Gets
4 Good Will Hunting
5 Men in Black
6 Contact
7 Titanic
8 Gattaca
9 Waiting for Guffman
10 Wag the Dog
1996
1 Sling Blade
2 Fargo
3 William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juilet
4 Swingers
5 Bottle Rocket
6 Shine
7 Trainspotting
8 Michael Collins
9 A Family Thing
10 The English Patient
1995
1 Braveheart
2 The Usual Suspects
3 Heat
4 Apollo 13
5 The City of Lost Children
6 Dead Man Walking
7 Toy Story
8 12 Monkeys
9 Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave
10 Tommy Boy

One Response to Top-10 Films by Year

  1. Tom Pratt

    Fun list.

    Only one quibble.

    I think you’ve got Memento and Run Lola Run too low in their respective years.

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