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• 2011 Yearbook Entry
2011:
01. The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick
02. Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami
03. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 / David Yates
04. A Separation / Asghar Farhadi
05. Heartbeats / Xavier Dolan
06. Meek’s Cutoff / Kelly Reichart
07. Margaret / Kenneth Lonergan
08. Melancholia / Lars Von Trier
09. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / David Fincher
10. Weekend / Andrew Haigh
11. The Myth of the American Sleepover / David Robert Mitchell
12. Like Crazy / Drake Doremus
13. House of Pleasures / Bertrand Bonello
14. Drive / Nicolas Winding Refn
15. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Tomas Alfredson
16. Polytechnique / Denis Villeneuve
17. Beginners / Mike Mills
18. Submarine / Richard Aoyade
19. The Descendants / Alexander Payne
20. Bridesmaids / Paul Feig
2010:
01. Exit Through the Gift Shop / Banksy
02. Blue Valentine / Derek Cianfrance
03. Valhalla Rising / Nicolas Winding Refn
04. Fish Tank / Andrea Arnold
05. Winter’s Bone / Debra Granik
06. Waiting for ‘Superman’ / Davis Guggenheim
07. Everyone Else / Maren Ade
08. Inception / Christopher Nolan
09. Black Swan / Darren Aronofsky
10. The Social Network / David Fincher
11. Dogtooth / Yorgos Lanthimos
12. True Grit / Joel & Ethan Coen
13. Mugabe and the White African / Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson
14. Another Year / Mike Leigh
15. Greenberg / Noah Baumbach
16. Kisses / Lance Daly
17. Last Train Home / Lixin Fan
18. Four Lions / Christopher Morris
19. Catfish / Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
20. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World / Edgar Wright
Decade: 2009 - 20000:
01. Lord of the Rings / Peter Jackson
02. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Michel Gondry
03. Lost in Translation / Sofia Coppola
04. The New World / Terrence Malick
05. The Assassination of Jesse James by the ... / Andrew Dominik
06. After the Wedding / Susanne Bier
07. Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
08. The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson
09. There Will Be Blood / P.T. Anderson
10. Love, Actually / Richard Curtis
11. Pan’s Labyrinth / Guillermo Del Toro
12. House of Flying Daggers / Zhang Yimou
13. Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
14. The Squid and the Whale / Noah Baumbach
15. The Fountain / Darren Aronofsky
16. Kings & Queen / Arnaud Desplechin
17. Babel / Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
18. Dancer in the Dark / Lars Von Trier
19. Once / John Carney
20. Pulse / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2009:
01. A Serious Man / Joel & Ethan Coen
02. Bright Star / Jane Campion
03. Where the Wild Things Are / Spike Jonze
04. A Single Man / Tom Ford
05. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / David Yates
06. The Hurt Locker / Kathryn Bigelow
07. The Hangover / Todd Phillips
08. Tokyo Sonata / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
09. Antichrist / Lars Von Trier
10. In the Loop / Armando Iannucci
11. Avatar / James Cameron
12. Goodbye Solo / Ramin Bahrani
13. 500 Days of Summer / Marc Webb
14. The White Ribbon / Michael Haneke
15. The Messenger / Oren Moverman
16. Paranormal Activity / Orin Peli
17. Medicine for Melancholy / Barry Jenkins
18. The Cove / Louis Psihoyos
19. Moon / Duncan Jones
20. 35 Shots of Rum / Claire Denis
2008:
01. Revolutionary Road / Sam Mendes
02. The Dark Knight / Christopher Nolan
03. Let the Right One In / Tomas Alfredson
04. Rachel Getting Married / Jonathan Demme
05. The Wrestler / Darren Aronofsky
06. A Christmas Tale / Arnaud Desplechin
07. Happy-Go-Lucky / Mike Leigh
08. In Bruges / Martin McDonough
09. Forgetting Sarah Marshall / Nicholas Stoller
10. Summer Palace / Lou Ye
11. Reprise / Joachim Trier
12. WALL•E / Andrew Stanton
13. Gran Torino / Clint Eastwood
14. Synecdoche, New York / Charlie Kaufman
15. Milk / Gus Van Sant
16. Encounters at the End of the World / Werner Herzog
17. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father / Kurt Kuenne
18. The Class / Laurent Cantet
19. Hunger / Steve McQueen
20. The Last Mistress / Catherine Breillat
2007:
01. The Assassination of Jesse James by the ... / Andrew Dominik
02. After the Wedding / Susanne Bier
03. There Will Be Blood / P.T. Anderson
04. Once / John Carney
05. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / David Yates
06. Juno / Diablo Cody
07. The Orphanage / Juan Antonio Bayona
08. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters / Seth Gordon
09. Gone Baby Gone / Ben Affleck
10. Lust, Caution / Lust, Caution
11. No Country for Old Men / Joel & Ethan Coen
12. Paprika / Satoshi Kon
13. Brand Upon the Brain! / Guy Maddin
14. My Kid Could Paint That / Amir Bar-Lev
15. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Julian Schnabel
16. Rusalka / Anna Melikyan
17. Into the Wild / Sean Penn
18. Superbad / Greg Mottola
19. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / Tim Burton
20. 5 Centimeters per Second / Makoto Shinkai
2006:
01. Pan’s Labyrinth / Guillermo Del Toro
02. The Fountain / Darren Aronofsky
03. Babel / Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
04. Letters from Iwo Jima / Clint Eastwood
05. Half Nelson / Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden
06. The Proposition / John Hillcoat
07. Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron
08. Apocalypto / Mel Gibson
09. The Departed / Martin Scorsese
10. Borat / Larry Charles
11. Brick / Rian Johnson
12. The Lives of Others / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
13. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu
14. Little Children / Todd Field
15. V for Vendetta / James McTeigue
16. Deliver Us From Evil / Amy Berg
17. L’Enfant / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
18. Blood Diamond / Edward Zwick
19. The Last King of Scotland / Kevin McDonald
20. Little Miss Sunshine / Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Ferris
2005:
01. The New World / Terrence Malick
02. The Squid and the Whale / Noah Baumbach
03. Kings & Queen / Arnaud Desplechin
04. Pulse / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
05. Brokeback Mountain / Ang Lee
06. Grizzly Man / Werner Herzog
07. Pride & Prejudice / Joe Wright
08. Memories of Murder / Bong Joon-ho
09. Mysterious Skin / Gregg Araki
10. Me and You and Everyone We Know / Miranda July
11. King Kong / Peter Jackson
12. 3-Iron / Ki-duk Kim
13. Who’s Camus Anyway? / Mitsuo Yanagimachi
14. Rent / Chris Columbus
15. Brodre / Susanne Bier
16. Kingdom of Heaven / Ridley Scott
17. Match Point / Woody Allen
18. Munich / Syeven Spielberg
19. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang / Shane Black
20. Nobody Knows / Hirokazu Koreeda
2004:
01. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Michel Gondry
02. House of Flying Daggers / Zhang Yimou
03. Closer / Mike Nichols
04. Hotel Rwanda / Terry George
05. Dogville / Lars Von Trier
06. The Passion of the Christ / Mel Gibson
07. Hero / Zhang Yimou
08. Primer / Shane Carruth
09. Million Dollar Baby / Clint Eastwood
10. Tokyo Godfathers / Satoshi Kon
11. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / Alfonso Cuaron
12. The Return / Andrei Zvyagintsev
13. The Aviator / Martin Scorsese
14. Garden State / Zach Braff
15. Tarnation / Jonathan Caouette
16. Bad Education / Pedro Almodovar
17. Oasis / Lee Chang-dong
18. The Woodsman / Nicole Kassell
19. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring / Ki-duk Kim
20. Mean Creek / Jacob Aaron Estes
2003:
01. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / Peter Jackson
02. Lost in Translation / Sofia Coppola
03. Love, Actually / Richard Curtis
04. City of God / Fernando Meirelles
05. Millennium Actress / Satoshi Kon
06. Mystic River / Clint Eastwood
07. Bad Santa / Terry Zwigoff
08. Finding Nemo / Andrew Stanton
09. All the Real Girls / David Gordon Green
10. Capturing the Friedmans / Andrew Jarecki
11. Lilya 4-Ever / Lukas Moodysson
12. To Be and to Have / Nicholas Philibert
13. In America / Jim Sheridan
14. The Last Samurai / Edward Zwick
15. The Fog of War / Errol Morris
16. Whale Rider / Niki Caro
17. Sweet Sixteen / Ken Loach
18. Bus 174 / Jose Padilha & Felipe Lacerda
19. The Son / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
20. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / Peter Weir
2002:
01. Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
02. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / Peter Jackson
03. The Hours / Stephen Daldry
04. Talk to Her / Pedro Almodovar
05. All or Nothing / Mike Leigh
06. Gangs of New York / Martin Scorsese
07. The Pianist / Roman Polanski
08. Punch-Drunk Love / P.T. Anderson
09. Adaptation / Spike Jonze
10. The Business of Fancydancing / Sherman Alexie
11. Far from Heaven / Todd Haynes
12. Y Tu Mama Tambien / Alfonso Cuaron
13. Minority Report / Steven Spielberg
14. Hell House / George Ratliff
15. The Piano Teacher / Michael Haneke
16. About a Boy / Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz
17. The Quiet American / Phillip Noyce
18. The Isle / Ki-duk Kim
19. The Fast Runner / Zacharias Kunuk
20. 24 Hour Party People / Michael Winterbottom
2001:
01. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring / Peter Jackson
02. The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson
03. Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
04. Moulin Rouge / Baz Luhrmann
05. In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai
06. Snatch / Guy Ritchie
07. Gosford Park / Robert Altman
08. Amores Perros / Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
09. In the Bedroom / Todd Field
10. Memento / Christopher Nolan
11. A Beautiful Mind / Ron Howard
12. Cure / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
13. Donnie Darko / Richard Kelley
14. Ghost World / Terry Zwigoff
15. Audition / Takashi Miike
16. Amelie / Jean-Pierre Jeunet
17. Shrek / Andrew Adamson
18. Children Underground / Edet Belzberg
19. Hedwig and the Angry Inch / John Cameron Mitchell
20. A.I. Artificial Intelligence / Steven Spielberg
2000:
01. Dancer in the Dark / Lars Von Trier
02. Gladiator / Ridley Scott
03. The Patriot / Roland Emmerich
04. Battle Royale / Kinji Fukasaku
05. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Ang Lee
06. Best in Show / Christopher Guest
07. George Washington / David Gordon Green
08. The Idiots / Lars Von Trier
09. Before Night Falls / Julian Schnabel
10. You Can Count on Me / Ken Lonnergan
11. O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? / Joel & Ethan Coen
12. Sound and Fury / Josh Aronson
13. High Fidelity / Stephen Frears
14. Requiem for a Dream / Darren Aronofsky
15. Barking Dogs Never Bite / Bong Joon-ho
16. Billy Elliot / Stephen Daldry
17. Suzhou River / Lou Ye
18. The Virgin Suicides / Sofia Coppola
19. Unbreakable / M. Night Shyamalan
20. The House of Mirth / Terrence Davis
1999:
01. Being John Malkovich / Spike Jonze
02. Late August, Early September / Olivier Assayas
03. Magnolia / P.T. Anderson
04. The Matrix / Andy & Lana Wachowski
05. The Insider / Michael Mann
06. The Dreamlife of Angels / Erick Zonca
07. Topsy-Turvy / Mike Leigh
08. All About My Mother / Pedro Almodovar
09. Princess Mononoke / Hayao Miyazaki
10. Rosetta / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
11. American Beauty / Alan Ball
12. Last Night / Don McKellar
13. After Life / Hirokazu Kore-eda
14. Three Kings / David O. Russell
15. Perfect Blue / Satoshi Kon
16. My Name Is Joe / Ken Loach
17. Charisma / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
18. Fight Club / David Fincher
19. The Iron Giant / Brad Bird
20. Ride With the Devil / Ang Lee
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In an effort to maintain some level of continuity, every film has been categorized by its US theatrical release year. If a film never receives a US theatrical release, it’s given a “five year buffer period” before it becomes eligible the year of its earliest public release anywhere in the world. —SCM
