The Best Films of the Year (1999, 2003-2025)

I've posted my lists of the best films over the years, 1999, 2003-2025. You can take a look and glance at them. (Revised on 01/5/2026).

1999

1. The Insider  (Mann)

2. Magnolia  (Anderson)

3. The Matrix  (Wachowskis)

4. Being John Malkovich  (Jonze)

5. Fight Club  (Fincher)

6. The Straight Story  (Lynch)

7. The Talented Mr. Ripley  (Minghella)

8. Eyes Wide Shut  (Kubrick) 

9. The Iron Giant  (Bird)

10. American Beauty  (Mendes)

11. The Sixth Sense  (Shyamalan)

12. Topsy-Turvy  (Leigh)

13. Toy Story 2  (Lasseter)

14. All About My Mother  (Almodovar)

15. Galaxy Quest  (Parisot)

2003

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  (Jackson)

2. Lost In Translation   (Coppola)

3. Finding Nemo   (Stanton)

4. Memories of Murder   (Joon-ho)

5. Oldboy   (Chan-Wook)

6. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl   (Verbinski)

7. Mystic River   (Eastwood)

8. Kill Bill Vol. 1   (Tarantino)

9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World  (Weir)

10. Whale Rider   (Caro)

2004
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)

2. Million Dollar Baby  (Eastwood)

3. Hotel Rwanda  (George)
4. Spider-Man 2  (Raimi)

5. Before Sunset (Linklater)
6. Collateral  (Mann)
7. The Incredibles  (Bird)

8. The Aviator   (Scorsese)
9. Sideways  (Payne)
10. Throw Down  (To)

2005
1. Munich (Spielberg)
2. A History of Violence  (Cronenberg)
3. Syriana  (Gaghan)
4. Brokeback Mountain  (Lee)
5. Good Night, and Good Luck (Clooney)
6. Batman Begins  (Nolan)
7. The New World (Malick)
8. March of the Penguins  (Jacquet)
9. King Kong  (Jackson)
10. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Apatow)

2006

1. The Departed (Scorsese)

2. United 93 (Greengrass)

3. Letters from Iwo Jima (Eastwood)

4. Children of Men (Cuaron)

5. Pan's Labyrinth (Del Toro)

6. Babel   (Innaritu)

7. Blood Diamond  (Zwick)

8. Casino Royale   (Campbell)

9. Volver      (Almodovar)

10. Borat      (Charles)

2007
1a. No Country for Old Men     (Coen Bros.)
1b. There Will Be Blood      (Anderson)
3. Ratatouille     (Bird)
4. Michael Clayton     (Gilroy)
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
6. American Gangster      (R. Scott)
7. Juno      (Reitman)
8. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street     (Burton)
9. Zodiac     (Fincher)
10. The Bourne Ultimatum    (Greengrass)

2008
1. The Dark Knight   (Nolan)
2. Slumdog Millionaire    (Boyle)
3. Wall-E     (Stanton)
4. The Wrestler      (Aronofsky)
5. Milk    (Van Sant)
6. Gran Torino     (Eastwood)
7. Frost/Nixon    (Howard)
8. Iron Man     (Favreau)
9. Kung Fu Panda     (Stevenson & Osborne)
10. Revolutionary Road    (Mendes)

2009
1. The Hurt Locker    (Bigelow)
2. Up in the Air       (Reitman)
3. Inglourious Basterds      (Tarantino)
4. Up       (Docter)
5. Moon       (Jones)
6. 500 Days of Summer     (Webb)
7. Fantastic Mr. Fox     (Anderson)
8. Adventureland     (Mottola)
9. Coraline      (Selick)
10. District 9     (Blomkamp)

2010
1. The Social Network      (Fincher)
2. Inception      (Nolan)
3. Winter's Bone     (Granik)
4. Toy Story 3      (Unkrich)
5. The King's Speech      (Hooper)
6. The Fighter      (O'Russell)
7. Inside Job      (Ferguson)
8. Black Swan      (Aronofsky)

9. Blue Valentine    (Cianfrance)
10. 127 Hours      (Boyle)

2011
1. The Descendants   (Payne)
2. Drive   (Refn)
3. A Separation   (Farhadi)
4. Warrior        (O'Connor)
5. Moneyball    (Miller)

6. Hugo     (Scorsese)
7. Take Shelter    (Nichols)

8. Bridesmaids    (Feig)

9. The Artist    (Hazavinicus) 
10. Shame         (McQueen)

2012
1. Moonrise Kingdom       (W. Anderson)

2. Zero Dark Thirty    (Bigelow)

3. Argo        (Affleck)
4. Django Unchained       (Tarantino)
5. Skyfall        (Mendes)
6. The Master       (P.T.Anderson)

7. Lincoln     (Spielberg)

8. End of Watch     (Ayer)
9. Silver Linings Playbook     (O'Russell)

10. Beasts of the Southern Wild     (Zeitlin)

2013

1. The Wolf of Wall Street  (Scorsese)
2. 12 Years A Slave (McQueen)
3. Her (Jonze)
4. Before Midnight  (Linklater)
5. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers)
6. The Wind Rises  (Miyazaki)

7. The Hunt  (Vinterberg)
8. Gravity  (Cuaron)
9. Frances Ha (Baumbach)
10. Nebraska  (Payne)

11. Fruitvale Station  (Coogler)

12. Captain Phillips  (Greengrass)

13. The Spectacular Now  (Ponsoldt)

2014
1. Whiplash  (Chazelle)

2. Boyhood  (Linklater)
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel  (W. Anderson)
4. Gone Girl  (Fincher)

5. Birdman  (Iñarritu)
6. Interstellar  (Nolan)
7. Nightcrawler  (Gilroy)
8. The LEGO Movie  (Lord & Miller)

9. Locke  (Knight)
10. Life Itself   (James)

2015
1. Mad Max: Fury Road  (Miller)
2. Spotlight  (McCarthy)
3. Inside Out (Docter)
4. Room  (Abrahamson)
5. The Revenant  (Iñarritu)
6. The Martian  (Scott)
7. Sicario  (Villeneuve)
8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens  (Abrams)
9. Ex Machina  (Garland)
10. Brooklyn  (Crowley)

2016
1. Arrival (Villeneuve)
2. Hell or High Water   (McKenzie)

3. Your Name   (Shinkai)
4. Moonlight   (Jenkins)
5. La La Land   (Chazelle)
6. Manchester By The Sea   (Lonergan)
7. Sing Street   (Carney)
8. Hacksaw Ridge   (Gibson)
9. Deadpool   (Miller)
10. Zootopia   (Howard & Moore)

2017
1. Blade Runner 2049   (Villeneuve)
2. Lady Bird   (Gerwig)
3. Get Out   (Peele)
4. Logan    (Mangold)
5. The Shape of Water   (Del Toro)
6. Call Me By Your Name   (Guadagnino)

7. Dunkirk   (Nolan)
8. Baby Driver   (Wright)
9. The Big Sick   (Showalter)
10. War for the Planet of the Apes   (Reeves)
11. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri   (McDonagh)
12. Coco   (Unkrich)
13. Wind River   (Sheridan)
14. The Disaster Artist   (Franco)
15. I, Tonya   (Gillespie)

2018
1. Roma    (Cuaron)
2. BlacKkKlansman    (Lee)
3. A Star is Born    (Cooper)
4. Hereditary/A Quiet Place    (Aster/Krasinski)
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse    (Persichetti, Ramsey, Rothman)
6. Eighth Grade    (Burnham)
7. Won't You Be My Neighbor?    (Neville)
8. Black Panther    (Coogler)
9. The Favourite    (Lanthimos)
10. Mission Impossible: Fallout   (McQuarrie)
11. The Rider    (Zhao)
12. Annihilation    (Garland)
13. Game Night    (Daley & Goldstein)
14. If Beale Street Could Talk    (Jenkins)
15. First Reformed    (Schrader)

2019
1. Parasite    (Joon-ho)
2. The Irishman    (Scorsese)
3. 1917    (Mendes)
4. Little Women    (Gerwig)
5. Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood    (Tarantino)

6. Marriage Story   (Baumbach)
7. Jojo Rabbit   (Waititi)
8. Uncut Gems   (Sadie Bros.)
9. Ford v. Ferrari   (Mangold)
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire   (Sciamma)
11. The Farewell    (Wang)
12. The Lighthouse   (Eggers)
13. Knives Out   (Johnson)
(TIE) 14. The Peanut Butter Falcon/Avengers: Endgame    (Nilson & Schwartz/Russo Bros.)

15. Klaus    (Pablos)

2020
1. Nomadland   (Zhao)
2. Sound of Metal   (Marder)
3. Palm Springs   (Barbakow)
4. Lovers Rock   (McQueen)
5. Soul   (Docter)
6. Minari   (Chung)
7. Collective   (Nanau)
8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always   (Hittman)
9. Promising Young Woman   (Fennell)
10. Mangrove   (McQueen)

2021
1. The Worst Person In The World   (Trier)
2. West Side Story   (Spielberg)
3. Drive My Car   (Hamaguchi)
4. Licorice Pizza  (Anderson)
5. The Power of the Dog   (Campion)
6. Nine Days   (Oda)

7. Dune   (Villeneuve)
8. Pig   (Sarnoski)
9. Spider-Man: No Way Home   (Watts)
10. The Green Knight   (Lowery)
11. C'mon C'mon   (Mills)

12. CODA   (Heder)
13. The Mitchells vs. The Machines   (Rianda)
14. Spencer   (Larrain)
15. The Last Duel   (Scott)

2022

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once  (Daniels)
2. TAR (Field)

3. Aftersun   (Wells)
4. Top Gun: Maverick  (Kosinski)
5. RRR   (Rajamouli)
6. The Banshees of Inisherin   (McDonagh)

7. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio   (Del Toro)
8. The Fabelmans  (Spielberg)
9. Decision To Leave   (Chan-Wook)
10. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On   (Camp)
11. NOPE   (Peele)

12. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery    (Johnson)
13. After Yang   (Kogonada)
14. All Quiet on the Western Front  (Berger)
15. The Batman   (Reeves)

16. The Quiet Girl    (Bairead)

17. Barbarian   (Cregger)

18. Pearl/X   (West)

19. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story   (Appel)

20. The Northman   (Eggers)

21. Happening   (Diwan)

22. Hustle   (Zagar)

2023

1. Oppenheimer   (Nolan)

2. Poor Things   (Lanthimos)

3. Past Lives   (Song)

4. The Holdovers   (Payne)

5. Killers of the Flower Moon   (Scorsese)

6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse   (Dos Santos, Powers, Thompson)

7. The Zone of Interest   (Glazer)

8. Anatomy of a Fall   (Triet)

9. Godzilla Minus One   (Yamazaki)

10. The Iron Claw   (Durkin)

11. Perfect Days   (Wenders)

12. American Fiction   (Jefferson)

13. Barbie   (Gerwig)

14. Air   (Affleck)

15. Beyond Utopia   (Gavin)

2024

1. The Brutalist   (Corbet)

2. Anora   (Baker)

3. Dune: Part Two   (Villeneuve)

4. The Substance   (Fargeat)

5. Didi   (Wang)

6. Sing Sing   (Kwedar)

7. Challengers   (Guadagnino)

8. The Wild Robot   (Sanders)

9. Red Rooms   (Plante)

10. Strange Darling   (Mollner)

11. A Real Pain   (Eisenberg)

12. Conclave   (Berger)

13. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga   (Miller)

14. Love Lies Bleeding   (Glass)

15. Nosferatu   (Eggers)

16. Hundreds of Beavers   (Cheslik)

2025

1. One Battle After Another   (Anderson)

2. Sentimental Value   (Trier)

3. Sinners   (Coogler)

4. Marty Supreme   (Safdie)

5. No Other Choice   (Chan-Wook)

6. Sorry, Baby   (Victor)

7. It Was Just An Accident   (Panahi)

8. Bugonia   (Lanthimos)

9. Hamnet   (Zhao)

10. Weapons   (Cregger)

11. Train Dreams   (Bentley)
12. The Life of Chuck   (Flanagan)

13. The Long Walk   (Lawrence)

14. Frankenstein   (Del Toro)

15. Twinless   (Sweeney)

16. Eternity   (Freyne)

17. Splitsville   (Covino)

18. Bring Her Back   (Philippou Bros.)

19. 28 Years Later   (Boyle)

20. Bob Trevino Likes It   (Laymon)

21. F1   (Kosinski)

22. On Becoming A Guinea Fowl   (Nyoni)

23. Black Bag   (Soderbergh)

24. The Baltimorons   (Duplass)

25. The Mastermind   (Reichardt)