2015
All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I…
See notes for year list links. Up to a top 20 for years before 2010. Updated: March 22nd, 2024
Matches with the Best Picture Oscar: Parasite (2019), The Shape of Water (2017), The Deer Hunter (1978), Midnight Cowboy (1969), The Apartment (1960), Marty (1955), On The Waterfront (1954), It Happened One Night (1934) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
Directors with multiple top films:
Wes Anderson – 7 (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The French Dispatch, Asteroid City, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More)
Charlie Chaplin – 6 (A Woman of Paris, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight)
Charlie Kaufman – 3 (Synecdoche New York, Anomalisa, I'm Thinking of Ending Things)
Fritz Lang – 3 (Metropolis, M, Scarlet Street)
Mike Leigh – 3 (High Hopes, Naked, Secrets & Lies)
Billy Wilder – 3 (Sunset Blvd, Ace in the Hole, The Apartment)
Paul Thomas Anderson – 2 (Boogie Nights, Magnolia)
Frank Capra – 2 (It Happened One Night, It's A Wonderful Life)
Damien Chazelle – 2 (Whiplash, La La Land)
Bob Fosse – 2 (Lenny, All That Jazz)
Howard Hawks – 2 (Scarface, Bringing Up Baby)
Ernst Lubitsch – 2 (Design for Living, To Be Or Not To Be)
Sidney Lumet – 2 (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon)
Alain Resnais – 2 (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Je t'aime, Je t'aime)
Martin Scorsese – 2 (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas)
William Wyler – 2 (The Heiress, The Big Country)
More of my personal lists:
• Top Films of All-Time
• Top Directors.
• Top Films Leftovers.
• Top TV Shows.
• My Blu-Ray / Criterion Collections.
