With the release of Sight & Sound’s latest Greatest Films of All Time poll that just came out, we decided to make one of our own. Well we didn’t just decide to throw together a list and call it a day. Months of thinking and planning lead to this. Obviously thinking about what movies we would pick was hard and time consuming, but we wanted to be just like the British Film Institute, which publishes Sight & Sound. We asked all of our friends, people we admire and people we hope to become friends with to also send in their picks. Listen to the accompanying podcast to hear our own lists, thoughts on the official one and how our master list all looks. But this post was to delve into the data, information that was far too interesting to just live on a spreadsheet. So enjoy and here is a Letterboxd list for you to use to follow along to or scroll down to the bottom of the article to see all movies listed.
We had seventy-nine people submit ballots, just shy of my goal of one-hundred. One of the questions asked was what is your connection to film? I wanted to know if you wrote about film as either a critic or blogger, talked about film as a podcaster or vlogger, were an industry professional or I gave the option of other for anyone who felt like they didn’t fall into any of the above boxes. No surprise as we are mostly friends with other podcasters, that 42% of respondents can’t shut up about movies, 33% have a voice for newspapers as they prefer to write about cinema and 20% are industry professionals, which accounts for directors, actors, writers, cinematographers and festival programers who all responded. Lastly 5% chose other. These others include someone who runs a film fantasy league, a video store owner, our resident graphic designer and someone who despite not being a regular contributor to the film world, has provided essays on black cinema to numerous outlets.
Looking at the years of movies selected it looks like a nice bell curve. Every decade from the 1920’s to the 1980’s has a gradual increase in films that people voted for starting at 2% topping out at 16%. From the 1990’s onwards to the 2020’s every decade gradually decreases in films chosen from 15% down to 2% again. I expected that recent bias would reign supreme, considering the age of respondents, but was pleasantly surprised that a total of 80% of the 376 movies named were released between 1960 and 2019. The 2020’s had the smallest representation with only eight movies, proving that films need to marinate before they could be considered the greatest of all time and only ten movies from the 1920’s all of which would be considered the building blocks of cinema.
The most recent films to make the list were 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick and Everything Everywhere All At Once showing that recency bias isn’t a thing for some voters. Five films from 2021 made the cut, though some of them are of dubious quality (Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Harder They Fall and tick, tick… BOOM!, which all came from a single voter who’s oldest film came out in 1997), but some that might go down as modern masterpieces like The Worst Person in the World and Pig. The oldest film to make the cut was the 1920 German Expressionist classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. You get other film school 101 entrants like Nosferatu, Sherlock Jr., Battleship Potemkin, The General and more.
It would be far too difficult to properly list genres for all the films, especially when most would be considered Drama first before getting into subgenres. I feel that narrative films can be considered either funny or not funny. But you can sort the list into movies that are documentaries, animation, yes both of which are mediums not genres Jeff Bulmer, films not in English, silent films and shorts. Using this data we can see how everything shakes out, although some films fall in multiple categories (in the case of Dimensions of Dialogue and The House is Black three categories each). A whopping quarter of the films (26% or 101) are not in English. Twenty-five are animated, seventeen are docs, twelve are silent and five are short films (there was no stipulation that the films had to be feature length).
The most interesting data in my opinion comes from the directing side of things. Despite there being 376 films named, only 262 different directors were named (in the case of films with multiple directors each permeation was counted as a single entity). No surprise that the king of Hollywood, Steven Speilberg leads the way with seven films on the list (in order of votes received Jaws, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Saving Private Ryan and The Lost World: Jurassic Park). Stanley Kubrick has six (2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining and Paths of Glory), and considering he only made 13 feature films, that is an impressive ratio. David Fincher (Se7en, The Social Network, Fight Club, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Zodiac) and Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ikiru, Ran and Yojimbo) both have 5 appearances. Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese and Denis Villeneuve each show up four times.
In depressing news, only twenty-two directors (or 8%) are women. I assume there are a few factors at play here, one when looking at the entirety of film history only in the last thirty or so years have women finally been given the chance to helm films on a more regular basis and with most voters tending to look at older films as the founding blocks for greatness it unfortunately removes a lot of opportunities to show up. Second, I also wonder if the male dominated voters also were more likely to exclude films directed by women (likely due to unintentional biases and blindspots than any sort of malice). The Wachowski’s are the only women that even appear more than once (The Matrix, Bound and Speed Racer). Other women to appear with one film each include Chantel Akerman, Niki Caro, Martha Coolidge, Maya Deren, Forough Farrokhzad, Greta Gerwig, Mary Harron, Tamara Jenkins, Vicky Jenson, Naomi Kawase, Barbara Kopple, Karyn Kusama, Nadine Labaki, Kasi Lemmons, Jennie Livingston, Sarah Polley, Kelly Reichardt, Gillian Robespierre, Céline Sciamma, Larisa Shepitko and Agnès Varda.
A fun thing to look at was what franchises got more than one film on our list. With The Godfather topping our list at twenty-one votes, it’s no shock that The Godfather: Part II also ranked highly getting six votes too. All three Lord of the Rings films made the cut too, Fellowship appeared on four lists, Two Towers on three and Return of the King topped them all with six votes. Only one person voted for all three films, despite at least two other people trying to sneak the trilogy on their ballots as one film. The Star Wars franchise had three appearances too with A New Hope tied with Empire Strikes Back then bafflingly someone included Solo: A Star Wars Story. Toy Story and Toy Story 3 were both included, as was Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. The same person that included Solo also included The Lost World: Jurassic Park for some reason, luckily Jurassic Park scored quite high on our list. Then you have the quasi-series of In the Mood for Love and 2046 by Wong Kar-wai and then most dubiously connected there is Batman & Robin and The Dark Knight, films not in the same universe but starring the same character.
Many people complain about how the Oscars are irrelevant or they don’t actually pick the best movies of a given year. When in truth it serves as a capsule of a movie year, for better or worse. In total twenty-six Best Picture winners were named, which amounts to 28% of all winners in the Academy’s ninety-four year history. The Godfather, Casablanca, Parasite, Lawrence of Arabia, Sunset Boulevard, The Godfather: Part II and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King are among the winners. Interestingly the very first Oscar ceremony in 1927 had two awards, Best Picture, which went to Wings (which didn’t make our list) and a now discontinued award Best Unique and Artistic Picture, which went to Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, a film that did make our cut.
The ever popular 1,001 Movies To See Before You Die book series also has a lot of overlap with this list. 213 of our picks appear in the 2022 edition of the list, which means that 56% of our list can be crossed off of their list, or in other words 21% of the 1,001 is on our list.
One big list to consider is the 2012 edition of the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time – Critics Edition, which was the inspiration for this exercise. Their list featured 250 films, and a whopping 108 films overlapped, which is 28% of our list and 43% of theirs.
Lastly I want to thank everyone who participated. For all the people we bugged on social media sites, cold-emailed, annoyed in real life and more. We had eight incredible directors who took the time to respond to our poll and it would be a disservice not to thank them individually. Bing Liu who directed the Oscar nominated Minding the Gap was a complete long shot, I’ve never interacted with him on social media before and he was gracious enough to participate. Hugh Gibson who directed the documentary The Stairs, a film we reviewed on 191: Turning Red and Toronto Set Movies, and showed us support. Jeremy LaLonde who directed two films released in 2022, Ashgrove and Daniel’s Gotta Die and hosts the podcast Black Hole Films a That Shelf production. John Daschbach who directed Come Back Anytime and was interviewed on episode 208: Interview with John Daschbach of Come Back Anytime. Kat Jayme who directed The Grizzlie Truth who Rachel interviewed for POV Magazine. Kyle Edward Ball who directed Skinamirink and Rachel reviewed for Exclaim! and has become very supportive of the podcast. Mark O’Brien who directed The Righteous and was interviewed on episode 165: Fantasia Fest Interviews – The Righteous and Indemnity Directors. Lastly Steven Kosanski who directed Psycho Goreman and was a bit of a social media cold-call, but someone who I’ve interacted with a few times on Twitter. I also want to thank Tanner Zipchen, the former Cinplex in-theater host and now actor, Devan Scott cinematographer and professor, Mathew Gene programmer for Reel Asian Film Festival, writer Brodie Cotnam, actors Jerome Jarvis, Colin Mercer and John NE Hill and director Will Ross.
One fun note, Steven Kosanski marks the only person who both submitted a ballot and had one of their films make the cut. The Void received a vote and thus Kosanski can claim this unique honour!
Here is the list of people who identified as Podcasters or Vloggers and links to their shows. Our resident geek expert Sammy Feilchenfeld, Daniel Krolik from Bad Gay Movies, Jeff Bulmer and Pierre Frigon from Classic Movies Live, Sam Blakeley and Hugh Dempsey from Please Watch This, Calum Macnab from Scaretroducing, Nathan Sizemore and Katey Yost from I Hope You Suffer, Simon Best from Awesome Friday, Paulo Bautista from Oscars Death Race Podcast, Marilee and Kyle Garzon from Once Upon a Time at the Oscars, Harper Thompson from Hawkeyes, Bill Harris from The Green Screen of Death Podcast, Beau Maddox from Collatoral Cinema, Daniel Baptista, Shahbaz Siddiqui and Anthony Gagliardi from The Movie Podcast, Harrison Johnston from The Basement Binge, Chelsea and Elsha from CineGrade, Melanie Daniels, Stacy Glover and Nolan Tuck from Cinema Parlor, Jazzmin Crawley from Girl, That’s Scary, Andy Williams and Sean Wilson from Frame to Frame, Tommy Thevenet from Haven’t Scene It: A Movie Pod, Bob Book from Film & Whisky, Harry Gray from Good Actually, Michael Thomas from The Chatter After, Gareth Jones from MrStillSmiling and Trace Thurman from Horror Queers.
Here is a list of people who identified with being either a Critic or Blogger and links to their sites. Bil Antoniou, Courtney Small, Rachel West and Barbara Goslawski from That Shelf, Matthew Simpson from Awesome Friday, Alisha Mughal and Rose Ho from The Asian Cut, Taylor Baker from Drink in the Movies, Pat Mullen from POV Magazine, Thomas Stoneham-Judge, Todd Pengelly, Marty Millman from This is For Reel, Don Shanahan from Film Obsessive, Sarah Williams from In Review Online, Daniel Joyaux from Third Man Movies, Leo Brady from A Movie Guy, Bernard Ozarowski from The Invention of Dreams, Orla Smith from Seventh Row, Nicholas Sokic and Prabhjot Bains from Exclaim!, Alex Watson from Closer to the Edge, Thom Ernst from Original Cin, David Rush from Old Hollywood, Zoha Junaid from Zoha’s Reviews and Rachel from Performative Gender.
Lastly, thank you to everyone who doesn’t want to be defined by how they love film. Darren Gay owner of Black Dog Video, John Richards owner of Red Carpet Rosters, Adam Davie occasional writer and talker about contemporary Black cinema and of course that incredibly talented Stephanie Prior who designed the logo’s for Contra Zoom and the special artwork for the podcast version of this list.
Of course a huge thank you to Rachel Ho, for giving me constant constructive feedback and all your help.
I hope this was somewhat enjoyable for you to read, and to listen to. Check out all the blogs, podcasts, vlogs, publications and art that the people who took time to participate create. Here is the official list with the number of votes received. When films are tied for votes, they are organized alphabetically.
1. The Godfather (Coppola) – 21 votes
2. Jaws (Spielberg) – 16 votes
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) – 15 votes
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick), Vertigo (Hitchcock) – 13 votes
6. Citizen Kane (Welles) – 12 votes
7. Do the Right Thing (Lee), In the Mood for Love (Wong) – 10 votes
9. Casablanca (Curtiz), GoodFellas (Scorsese), Jurassic Park (Spielberg), Parasite (Bong) – 9 votes
13. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean), Pulp Fiction (Tarantino) – 8 votes
15. 8½ (Fellini), Mulholland Drive (Lynch), Psycho (Hitchcock), The Exorcist (Friedkin) – 7 votes
19. 12 Angry Men (Lumet), Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Ramsey, Persichetti and Rothman), Sunset Boulevard (Wilder), The Godfather: Part II (Coppola), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson), The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont) – 6 votes
26. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra), Moonlight (Jenkins), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma), Rear Window (Hitchcock), Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly and Donen), Star Wars (Lucas), The Empire Strikes Back (Kirshner), The Dark Knight (Nolan), The Matrix (Wachowski’s), The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer), The Silence of the Lambs (Demme), Back to the Future (Zemeckis) – 5 votes
37. Blade Runner (Scott), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg), Rashomon (Kurosawa), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson), The Thing (Carpenter), The Wizard of Oz (Fleming), Tokyo Story (Ozu), WALL·E (Stanton) – 4 votes
46. Airplane! (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker), Alien (Scott), Amélie (Juenet), Barry Lyndon (Kubrick), Dawn of the Dead (Romero), Double Indemnity (Wilder), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry), Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick), Fantasia (Assorted), Halloween (Carpenter), Ikiru (Kurosawa), Inception (Nolan), Interstellar (Nolan), Malcolm X (Lee), Metropolis (Lang), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (McQuarrie), Nashville (Altman), Night of the Living Dead (Romero), Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro), PlayTime (Tati), Primer (Caruth), Se7en (Fincher), Sicario (Villeneuve),
Spirited Away (Miyazaki), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson), The Red Shoes (Pressburger and Powell), The Shining (Kubrick), The Social Network (Fincher), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper), The Third Man (Reed), There Will Be Blood (Anderson), Toy Story (Lasseter) – 3 votes
81. A Brighter Summer Day (Yang), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog), Aladdin (Clements and Musker), All About Eve (Mankiewicz), All About My Mother (Almodovar), Annie Hall (Allen), Apocalypse Now (Coppola), Before Sunrise (Linklater), Black Narcissus (Pressburger and Powell), Breathless (Godard), Cabaret (Fosse), Charade (Donen), City Lights (Chaplin), Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda), Clue (Lynn), Frankenstein (Whale), Freddy Got Fingered (Green), Get Out (Peele), Gone with the Wind (Fleming), Groundhog Day (Ramis), Harlan County U.S.A. (Kopple), Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino), Juno (Reitman), King Kong (Cooper and Schoedsack), L’Avventura (Antonioni), La Dolce Vita (Fellini), M (Lang), Magnolia (Anderson), Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov), Nosferatu (Murnau), Oldboy (Park), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Verbinski), Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki), Raging Bull (Scorsese), Ran (Kurosawa), Safe (Haynes), Schindler’s List (Spielberg), Scream (Craven), Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau), The 400 Blows (Truffaut), The Apartment (Wilder), The Birds (Hitchcock), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene), The Handmaiden (Park), The Lion King (Minkoff and Allers), The New World (Malick), The Night of the Hunter (Laughton), The Searchers (Ford), The Treasure Planet (Petkov), The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese), Top Gun: Maverick (Kosinski), Y Tu Mamá También (Cuarón) – 2 votes
134. 2046 (Wong), 21 Jump Street (Lord and Miller), A Christmas Story (Clark), A Matter of Life and Death (Pressburger and Powell), A Night at the Opera (Wood), A Separation (Farhadi), A Single Man (Ford, T), A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan), A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes), Akira (Otomo), Aliens (Cameron), All That Jazz (Fosse), All the President’s Men (Pakula), Almost Famous (Crowe), American Psycho (Herron), An American in Paris (Minnelli), An Elephant Sitting Still (Bo), Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Gervasi), Arrival (Villeneuve), Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Kunuk), Audition (Miike), Batman & Robin (Schumaker), Battle Royale (Fukasaku), Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstien), Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale and Wise), Bicycle Thieves (De Sica), Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve), Blazing Saddles (Brooks), Blue Is the Warmest Color (Kechiche), Blue Velvet (Lynch), Bonnie and Clyde (Penn), Bound (Wachowski’s), Breaking the Waves (von Trier), Brief Encounter (Lean), Brokeback Mountain (Lee, A), C.R.A.Z.Y. (Vallée), Capernaum (Labaki), Céline (Brisseau), Céline and Julie Go Boating (Rivette), Certain Women (Reichardt), Children of Men (Cuarón), Chinatown (Polanski), Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore), Close-Up (Kiarostami), Coco (Molina and Unkrich), Contempt (Godard), Cover Girl (Vidor), Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, A), Cure (Kurosawa, K), Cutie and the Boxer (Heinzerling), Dark City (Proyas), Diabolique (Cluzot), Die Hard (McTeirnan), Dimensions of Dialogue (Švankmajer), Dont Look Back (Pennebaker), Don’t Look Now (Roeg), Dr. Lamb (Tang and Lee), Drive (Refn), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg), Eighth Grade (Burnham), Eraserhead (Lynch), Eve’s Bayou (Lemmons), Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels), Eyes Without a Face (Franju), Fail Safe (Lumet), Fanny and Alexander (Bergman), Fight Club (Fincher), Forrest Gump (Zemeckis), Galaxy Quest (Parisot), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Reitman), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher), Gladiator (Scott), Halloween II (Rosenthal), Harakiri (Kobayashi), Heat (Mann), Heathers (Lehmann), Hereditary (Aster), His House (Weekes), Hoop Dreams (James), Hot Fuzz (Wright), How Green Was My Valley (Ford), Howards End (Ivory), I, Tonya (Gillespie), Incendies (Villeneuve), Inherent Vice (Anderson), Inside Job (Ferguson), Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen’s), Inside Man (Lee), Inside Out (Doctor), It Happened One Night (Capra), Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman), Jennifer’s Body (Kusama), JFK (Stone), Jules and Jim (Truffaut), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Tarantino), Killer of Sheep (Burnett), Kubo and the Two Strings (Knight), Kwaidan (Kobayashi), L.A. Confidential (Hanson), L.A. Story (Jackson, M), L’Atalante (Vigo), La La Land (Chazelle), Life, and Nothing More… (Kiarostami), Little Women (Gerwig), Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey), Marriage Story (Baumbach), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman), Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli), Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren and Hackenschmied), Modern Times (Chaplin), Moonstruck (Jewison), Moulin Rouge! (Luhrman), Muriel (Resnais), My Cousin Vinny (Lynn), My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki), Naked (Leigh), Napoleon (Gance), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki), Network (Lumet), Night and Fog (Resnais), No Country for Old Men (Coen’s), Not a Pretty Picture (Coolidge), O.J.: Made in America (Edelman), Obvious Child (Robespierre), Ocean’s Eleven (Soderberg), October Sky (Johnston), Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone), One Cut of the Dead (Ueda), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman), Out of Africa (Pollock), Outer Space (Tscherkassky), Paddington 2 (King), Paris Is Burning (Livingston), Pather Panchali (Ray), Paths of Glory (Kubrick), Peking Opera Blues (Hark), Perfect Blue (Kon), Persona (Bergman), Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma), Pickpocket (Bresson), Pierrot le Fou (Godard), Pig (Sarnoski), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Hughes), Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson), Redline (Koike), Rififi (Dasin), Rocky (Avildsen), Roma (Cuarón), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Paosolini), Sans Soleil (Marker), Saved! (Dannelly), Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg), Scarface (de Palma), Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman), Secret Sunshine (Lee), Senna (Kapadia), Shoah (Lanzmann), Shrek (Jenson and Adamson), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Assorted), Solo: A Star Wars Story (Howard), Sorcerer (Friedkin), Speed Racer (Wachowski’s), Stalker (Tarkovsky), Steel Magnolias (Ross), Still the Water (Kawase), Stop Making Sense (Demme), Stories We Tell (Polley), Superbad (Motolla), Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman), Taxi Driver (Scorsese), Terms of Endearment (Brooks, J), The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (Brakhage), The Ascent (Shepitko), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Domink), The Big Lebowski (Coen’s), The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Argento), The Breakfast Club (Hughes), The Descent (Marshall), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnable), The Double Life of Véronique (Kieślowski), The Fab Five (Hehir), The Gay Divorcee (Sandrich), The General (Keaton), The Harder They Fall (Samuel), The House Is Black (Farrokhzad), The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (Kobayashi), The Iron Giant (Bird), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos), The Last of the Mohicans (Mann), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson, W), The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Spielberg), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford), The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer), The Muppets Take Manhattan (Oz), The Philadelphia Story (Cukor), The Princess Bride (Reiner), The Pursuit of Happyness (Muccino), The Rules of the Game (Renoir), The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky), The Savages (Jenkins, T), The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch), The Sting (Hill), The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan), The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata), The Thin Blue Line (Morris), The Town (Affleck), The Tree of Life (Malick), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy), The Untold Story (Yau), The Usual Suspects (Singer), The Vanishing (Sluizer), The Void (Kostanski and Gillespie), The Wild Bunch (Pekinpah), The World of Apu/Apur Sansar (Ray), The Worst Person in the World (Trier), The Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy), This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner), tick, tick…BOOM! (Miranda), Titanic (Cameron), To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch), To Live (Zhang), Touch of Evil (Welles), Toy Story 3 (Unkrich), Training Day (Fuqua), Tremors (Underwood), Three Colors: Blue (Kieślowski), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch), Upstream Color (Carruth), War and Peace (Bondarchuk), Watership Down (Rosen and Hubley), West Side Story (Robbins and Wise), Whale Rider (Caro), What We Do in the Shadows (Waititi and Clement), Where Is My Friend’s House? (Kiarostami), Whiplash (Chazelle), Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara), Yi Yi (Yang), Yojimbo (Kurosawa), Your Name. (Shinkai), Zodiac (Fincher) – 1 vote
