2026

The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan)
The Sheep Detectives (Kyle Balda)

Last updated: July 26, 2026

2025

Fiume o Morte! (Igor Bezinovic)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir)
The Disappearance of Captain Nairac (Alison Millar)
Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
Wicked: For Good (Jon M. Chu)

Last updated: August 6, 2026

2024

Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)
Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
Lush: A Far from Home Movie (Phil King)
The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)
The Beekeeper (David Ayer)
That Christmas (Simon Otto)

Last updated: April 12, 2026

2023

Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
The Swan (Wes Anderson)
Poison (Wes Anderson)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Hit Man (Richard Linklater)
Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki)
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
Leave the World Behind (Sam Esmail)
The Rat Catcher (Wes Anderson)

Last updated: June 11, 2024

2022

Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik)

RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)

Shin Ultraman (Shinji Higuchi and Ikki Todoroki)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)

Troll (Roar Uthaug)

Notre memoire (Johanna Makabi)

Last updated: October 16, 2024

2021

Home When You Return (Carl Elsaesser)

Buried News (Bill Morrison)
let me come in (Bill Morrison)
Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)

The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)

Matrix: Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)

The Fallout (Megan Park)

Last updated: December 22, 2022

2020

Still Processing (Sophy Romvari)
Malni: towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka)
Last and First Men (Johann Johannsson)
The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902) (Frank Roumen)
Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
Omelia Contadina (JR & Alice Rohrwacher)
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (Junta Yamaguchi)
So We Live (Rand Abou Fakher)
Soul (Pete Docter and Kemp Powers)
Strasbourg 1518 (Jonathan Glazer)


Honorable mention: Canvas (Frank E. Abney III), Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (David E. Talbert), The Mermaid (Jane Sousa), When Forever Dies (Peet Gelderblom), Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins)

Last updated: April 28, 2026

2019

Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)
Jallikattu (Lijo Jose Pellissery)
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho)

The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yi'nan)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
Us (Jordan Peele)
Aladdin (Guy Ritchie)
Hair Love (Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing, Jr., & Bruce W. Smith)

Last updated: September 25, 2022

2018

The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti, Jr., and Rodney Rothman)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
Bao (Domee Shi)
Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
Free Solo (Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
Project Gutenberg (Felix Chong)
A Wrinkle in Time (Ava DuVernay)
The Most Unknown (Ian Cheney)

Honorable mention: Mission Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie), Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (Andy Serkis)

Last updated: July 25, 2020

2017

Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
Manhunt (John Woo)
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)

It's Him (Sophy Romvari)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)
The Foreigner (Martin Campbell)
Mudbound (Dee Rees)
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
Paddington 2 (Paul King)
Dislocation Blues (Sky Hopinka)

Honorable mention: Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), The Farthest (Emer Reynolds), The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson), What Did Jack Do? (David Lynch)

Last updated: January 23, 2025

2016

Cameraperson (Kristin Johnson)
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi)
Rogue One (Gareth Edwards)
Nine Behind (Sophy Romvari)
Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai)
The Hedonists (Jia Zhang-ke)
The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau)
Central Intelligence (Rawson Marshall Thurber)
Sunspring (Oscar Sharp [and Benjamin])

Last updated: April 26, 2026

2015

The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)
Baahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli)
The Martian (Ridley Scott)

Anthology of the Plot (Arturas Jevdokimovas)
Star Wars: Episode VII -- The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams)
The World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)

Last updated: April 14, 2023

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
Life of Riley (Alain Resnais)

Paddington (Paul King)

Predestination (Michael & Peter Spierig)
Lookback (Facebook)
The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord and Chris Miller)

Last updated: May 21, 2022

2013

Hard to Be a God (Alexei Gherman)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai)
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Tsui Hark)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow & Derek Kwok)
Pet Shop Boys: "Vocal" (Joost Vandebrug)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence)
Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee)

Honorable mention: Get A Horse! (Lauren MacMullan), Jodorowsky's Dune (Frank Pavich), This is the End (Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen)

Last updated: February 19, 2026

2012

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (Jonas Mekas)
Drug War (Johnnie To)
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais [and Bruno Podalydes])
Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
Ted (Seth MacFarlane)

Last updated: January 7, 2014

2011

The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

A Song I Remember (Kyoshi Sugita)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson) 
Pina (Wim Wenders)
Keyhole (Guy Maddin)

Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnston)
War of the Arrows (Kim Han-min)

Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)

Honorable mention: Buck (Cindy Meehl), Immortals (Tarsem Singh)

Last updated: January 30, 2022

2010

Inception (Christopher Nolan)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)

The Murder of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh (Dubai Government Press Office)

Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos)
Tron Legacy (Joseph Kosinski)
Silent Souls (Aleksey Fedorchenko)
Tangled (Nathan Greco and Byron Howard)
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark)
Film Socialism (trailer) (Jean-Luc Godard)

Last updated: March 29, 2020

2009

Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Vengeance (Johnnie To)
The Road (John Hillcoat)
Avatar (James Cameron)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
Up (Pete Docter)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009 (Horace Mitchell)
Star Trek (J. J. Abrams)

Honorable mention: Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders), Monsters vs. Aliens (Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon), Moon (Duncan Jones), Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie), Watchmen (Zack Snyder)

Last updated: September 23, 2017

2008

Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
Ip Man (Wilson Yip)
Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Spanky: To the Pier and Back (Guy Maddin)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Chaser (Na Hong-jin)

Honorable mention: Appaloosa (Ed Harris), The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel), The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan), Man on Wire (James Marsh), Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller), Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)

Last updated: January 22, 2016

2007

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)

Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Shadows in the Palace (Kim Mee-jeung)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
The Key to Reserva (Martin Scorsese)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)

Mad Detective (Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai)
Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike)

Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)

Honorable mention: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik), Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, and Quentin Tarantino), The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman), 30 Days of Night (David Slade)