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Shutter Island  (Martin Scorsese)








 

2007

Best of the decade: The 2000s
(Honorable mentions: Juno, Lost in Translation, Requiem for a Dream, Slumdog Millionaire, Wo hu cang long)

Mulholland Dr.  (David Lynch)
The Pianist  (Roman Polanski)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & Kill Bill: Vol. 2  (Quentin Tarantino)
Sin City  (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller & Quentin Tarantino)
Inglourious Basterds  (Quentin Tarantino)
Cidade de Deus - "City of God"  (Fernando Meirelles)
Traffic  (Steven Soderbergh)
The Dark Knight  (Christopher Nolan)
Memento  (Christopher Nolan)
Shi mian mai fu - "House of Flying Daggers"  (2004, Yimou Zhang)

2007

2009
Inglourious Basterds  (Quentin Tarantino)
Up  (Pete Docter)
The Hurt Locker  (Kathryn Bigelow)
Up in the Air  (Jason Reitman)
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte  (Michael Haneke)
Avatar  (James Cameron)
Paranormal Activity  (Oren Peli)
District 9  (Neill Blomkamp)
Moon  (Duncan Jones)
A Serious Man  (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

2008
Slumdog Millionaire  (Danny Boyle)
The Dark Knight  (Christopher Nolan)
Doubt  (John Patrick Shanley)
Wall·E  (Andrew Stanton)
Gran Torino  (Clint Eastwood)
The Wrestler  (Darren Aronofsky)
Milk  (Gus Van Sant)
Revolutionary Road  (Sam Mendes)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall  (Nicholas Stoller)
In Bruges  (Martin McDonagh)

2007
Juno  (Jason Reitman)
No Country for Old Men  (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Eastern Promises  (David Cronenberg)
The Bourne Ultimatum  (Paul Greengrass)
Charlie Wilson's War  (Mike Nichols)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead  (Sidney Lumet)
Into the Wild  (Sean Penn)
Atonement  (Joe Wright)
Ratatouille  (Brad Bird)
3:10 to Yuma  (James Mangold)

2006
The Departed  (Martin Scorsese)
Children of Men  (Alfonso Cuarón)
Blood Diamond  (Edward Zwick)
Zwartboek - "Black Book"  (Paul Verhoeven)
Borat  (Larry Charles)
Little Miss Sunshine  (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
Das Leben der Anderen - "The Lives of Others"  (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
United 93  (Paul Greengrass)
El laberinto del fauno - "Pan's Labyrinth"  (Guillermo del Toro)
300  (Zack Snyder)

2005
Sin City  (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller & Quentin Tarantino)
Good Night, and Good Luck  (George Clooney)
Munich  (Steven Spielberg)
The Constant Gardener  (Fernando Meirelles)
V for Vendetta  (James McTeigue)
Thank You for Smoking  (Jason Reitman)
A History of Violence  (David Cronenberg)
The World's Fastest Indian  (Roger Donaldson)
Brokeback Mountain  (Ang Lee)
Walk the Line  (James Mangold)

2004
Kill Bill: Vol. 2  (Quentin Tarantino)
Shi mian mai fu - "House of Flying Daggers"  (Yimou Zhang)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind  (Michel Gondry)
Finding Neverland  (Marc Forster)
Closer  (Mike Nichols)
Sideways  (Alexander Payne)
Million Dollar Baby  (Clint Eastwood)
Simon  (Eddy Terstall)
Garden State  (Zach Braff)
Before Sunset  (Richard Linklater)

2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 1  (Quentin Tarantino)
Lost in Translation  (Sofia Coppola)
Finding Nemo  (Andrew Stanton)
21 Grams  (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Oldboy  (Chan-wook Park)
The Station Agent  (Thomas McCarthy)
Mystic River  (Clint Eastwood)
Big Fish  (Tim Burton)
Dogville  (Lars von Trier)
Love Actually  (Richard Curtis)

2002
The Pianist  (Roman Polanski)
Cidade de Deus - "City of God"  (Fernando Meirelles)
Hable con ella - "Talk to Her"  (Pedro Almodóvar)
Minority Report  (Steven Spielberg)
Road to Perdition  (Sam Mendes)
The Hours  (Stephen Daldry)
Lilja-4-ever  (Lukas Moodysson)
Catch Me If You Can  (Steven Spielberg)
Signs  (M. Night Shyamalan)
De tweeling - "Twin Sisters"  (Ben Sombogaart)

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Mulholland Dr.  (David Lynch)
Memento  (Christopher Nolan)
Black Hawk Down  (Ridley Scott)
A Beautiful Mind  (
Ron Howard)
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain - "Amélie"  (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Moulin Rouge!  (Baz Luhrmann)
Das Experiment  (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Donnie Darko  (Richard Kelly)
Shrek  (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson)
Nirgendwo in Afrika - "Nowhere in Africa"  (Caroline Link)

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Traffic  (Steven Soderbergh)
Wo hu cang long - "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"  (Ang Lee)
Requiem for a Dream  (Darren Aronofsky)
Gladiator  (Ridley Scott)
Amores perros - "Love's a Bitch"  (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Almost Famous  (Cameron Crowe)
You Can Count on Me  (Kenneth Lonergan)
Dancer in the Dark  (Lars von Trier)
Fa yeung nin wa - "In the Mood for Love"  (Kar Wai Wong)
Quills  (Philip Kaufman)

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Best of the decade: The 1990s
(Honorable mentions: The Big Lebowski, American Beauty, Karakter, Léon, The Matrix, Reservoir Dogs, Se7en)
Pulp Fiction  (Quentin Tarantino)
Fight Club  (David Fincher)
Saving Private Ryan  (Steven Spielberg)
Schindler's List  (Steven Spielberg)
The Usual Suspects  (Bryan Singer)
The Silence of the Lambs  (Jonathan Demme)
The Shawshank Redemption  (Frank Darabont)
Goodfellas  (Martin Scorsese)
Heat  (Michael Mann)
L.A. Confidential  (1997, Curtis Hanson)

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1999
Fight Club  (David Fincher)
American Beauty  (Sam Mendes)
The Matrix  (Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski)
Three Kings  (David O. Russell)
The Green Mile  (Frank Darabont)
Office Space  (Mike Judge)
Being John Malkovich  (Spike Jonze)
The Straight Story  (David Lynch)
The Insider  (Michael Mann)
Magnolia  (Paul Thomas Anderson)

1998
Saving Private Ryan  (Steven Spielberg)
The Big Lebowski  (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
The Truman Show  (Peter Weir)
Out of Sight  (Steven Soderbergh)
American History X  (Tony Kaye)
The Thin Red Line  (Terrence Malick)
Lola Rennt - "Run Lola Run"  (Tom Tykwer)
Elizabeth  (Shekhar Kapur)
Festen - "The Celebration"  (Thomas Vinterberg)
Dark City  (Alex Proyas)

1997
L.A. Confidential  (Curtis Hanson)
Karakter - "Character"  (Mike van Diem)
Titanic  (James Cameron)
As Good As It Gets  (James L. Brooks)
Boogie Nights  (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Gattaca  (Andrew Niccol)
Good Will Hunting  (Gus Van Sant)
Wag the Dog  (Barry Levinson)
Jackie Brown  (Quentin Tarantino)
Mononoke-hime - "Princess Mononoke"  (Hayao Miyazaki)

1996
Fargo  (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
The English Patient  (Anthony Minghella)
Breaking the Waves  (Lars von Trier)
The People vs. Larry Flynt  (Milos Forman)
Trainspotting  (Danny Boyle)
Sling Blade  (Billy Bob Thornton)
Waiting for Guffman  (Christopger Guest)
Shine  (Scott Hicks)
Swingers  (Doug Liman)
Jerry Maguire  (Cameron Crowe)

1995
The Usual Suspects  (Bryan Singer)
Heat  (Michael Mann)
Se7en  (David Fincher)
Braveheart  (Mel Gibson)
Twelve Monkeys  (Terry Gilliam)
La haine  (Mathieu Kassovitz)
Casino  (Martin Scorsese)
Apollo 13  (
Ron Howard)
Leaving Las Vegas  (Mike Figgis)
Sense and Sensibility  (Ang Lee)

1994
Pulp Fiction  (Quentin Tarantino)
The Shawshank Redemption  (Frank Darabont)
Léon  (Luc Besson)
Ed Wood  (Tim Burton)
Heavenly Creatures  (Peter Jackson)
Trois couleurs: rouge  (Kieslowski)
Clerks  (Kevin Smith)
The Lion King  (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)
Forrest Gump  (Robert Zemeckis)
Four Weddings and a Funeral  (Mike Newell)

1993
Schindler's List  (Steven Spielberg)
Menace II Society  (Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes)
Groundhog Day  (Harold Ramis)
True Romance  (Tony Scott)
The Fugitive  (Andrew Davis)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape  (Lasse Hallström)
The Remains of the Day  (James Ivory)
Manhattan Murder Mystery  (Woody Allen)
Tombstone  (George P. Cosmatos)
Six Degrees of Seperation  (Fred Schepisi)

90s

Best of the decade: The 1980s
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back  (Irvin Kershner)
Das Boot  (Wolfgang Petersen)
Platoon  (Oliver Stone)
Amadeus  (Milos Forman)
Raiders of the Lost Ark  (Steven Spielberg)
Full Metal Jacket  (Stanley Kubrick)
Once Upon a Time in America  (Sergio Leone)
The Elephant Man  (David Lynch)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi  (Richard Marquand)
Aliens  (James Cameron)

Best of the decade: The 1970s
The Godfather  (Francis Ford Coppola)
Apocalypse Now  (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Godfather: Part II  (Francis Ford Coppola)
Star Wars  (George Lucas)
Being There  (Hal Ashby)
A Clockwork Orange  (Stanley Kubrick)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  (Milos Forman)
Patton  (Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Sting  (George Roy Hill)
Taxi Driver  (Martin Scorsese)

Best of the decade: The 1960s
2001: A Space Odyssey  (Stanley Kubrick)
Once Upon a Time in the West  (Sergio Leone)
La Battaglia di Algeri - "The Battle of Algiers"  (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Dr. Strangelove  (Stanley Kubrick)
Psycho  (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly  (Sergio Leone)
The Manchurian Candidate  (John Frankenheimer)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid  (George Roy Hill)
Cool Hand Luke  (Stuart Rosenberg)
Lawrence of Arabia  (David Lean)

Best of the decade: The 1950s
Vertigo  (Alfred Hitchcock)
Rear Window  (Alfred Hitchcock)
Sunset Blvd.  (Billy Wilder)
12 Angry Men  (Sidney Lumet)
Some Like It Hot  (Billy Wilder)
Singin' in the Rain  (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
The Searchers  (John Ford)
Det sjunde inseglet - "The Seventh Seal"  (Ingmar Bergman)
Shichinin no samurai - "The Seven Samurai"  (Akira Kurosawa)
The African Queen  (John Huston)

Best of the decade: The 1940s
Casablanca  (Michael Curtiz)
Citizen Kane  (Orson Welles)
The Ox-Bow Incident  (William A. Wellman)
Notorious  (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Big Sleep  (Howard Hawks)
The Philadelphia Story  (George Cukor)
Double Indemnity  (Billy Wilder)
The Third Man  (Carol Reed)
It's a Wonderful Life  (Frank Capra)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre  (John Huston)

Best of the decade: The 1930s
The Wizard of Oz  (Victor Fleming)
My Man Godfrey  (Gregory La Cava)
M  (Fritz Lang)
A Night at the Opera  (Sam Wood)
The Thin Man  (W.S. Van Dyke)
Duck Soup  (Leo McCarey)
La grande illusion - "The Great Illusion"  (Jean Renoir)
Modern Times  (Charles Chaplin)
Bride of Frankenstein  (James Whale)
The 39 Steps  (Alfred Hitchcock)