**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Inception* | Christopher Nolan | 158 |
| 2 | Toy Story 3* | Lee Unkrich | 261 |
| 3 | How to Train Your Dragon | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 502 |
| 4 | The Social Network* | David Fincher | 514 |
| 5 | Black Swan* | Darren Aronofsky | 676 |
| 6 | The King's Speech** | Tom Hooper | 696 |
| 7 | True Grit* | Ethan and Joel Coen | 934 |
| 8 | Winter's Bone* | Debra Granik | 1000 |
| 9 | The Fighter* | David O. Russell | 1063 |
| 10 | Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese | 1083 |
| 11 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | David Yates | 1087 |
| 12 | Senna | Asif Kapadia | 1127 |
| 13 | Tangled | Nathan Greno and Byron Howard | 1129 |
| 14 | Despicable Me | Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud | 1324 |
| 15 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Edgar Wright | 1330 |
| 16 | Kick-Ass | Matthew Vaughn | 1341 |
| 17 | The Kids Are All Right* | Lisa Cholodenko | 1619 |
| 18 | 13 Assassins | Takashi Miike | 1683 |
| 19 | Exit through the Gift Shop | Banksy | 1723 |
| 20 | 127 Hours* | Danny Boyle | 1738 |
| 21 | Inside Job | Charles Ferguson | 1739 |
| 22 | Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | 1829 |
| 23 | Four Lions | Christopher Morris | 1856 |
| 24 | Easy A | Will Gluck | 1903 |
| 25 | Blue Valentine | Derek Cianfrance | 1909 |
| 26 | Animal Kingdom | David Michôd | 2093 |
| 27 | Nostalgia for the Light | Patricio Guzmán | 2140 |
| 28 | Meek's Cutoff | Kelly Reichardt | 2171 |
| 29 | The Illusionist | Sylvain Chomet | 2356 |
| 30 | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2577 |
| 31 | Restrepo | Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger | 2594 |
| 32 | Beginners | Mike Mills | 2611 |
| 33 | Carlos | Olivier Assayas | 2666 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | David Yates | 484 |
| 2 | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | 659 |
| 3 | Bridesmaids | Paul Feig | 724 |
| 4 | A Separation | Asghar Farhadi | 747 |
| 5 | The Intouchables | Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano | 802 |
| 6 | The Artist** | Michel Hazanavicius | 885 |
| 7 | Hugo* | Martin Scorsese | 1120 |
| 8 | Warrior | Gavin O'Connor | 1156 |
| 9 | The Help* | Tate Taylor | 1177 |
| 10 | The Tree of Life* | Terrence Malick | 1275 |
| 11 | The Raid: Redemption | Gareth Evans | 1331 |
| 12 | X-Men: First Class | Matthew Vaughn | 1449 |
| 13 | Weekend | Andrew Haigh | 1572 |
| 14 | Midnight in Paris* | Woody Allen | 1599 |
| 15 | Moneyball* | Bennett Miller | 1657 |
| 16 | Attack the Block | Joe Cornish | 1857 |
| 17 | Thor | Kenneth Branagh | 1864 |
| 18 | Fast Five | Justin Lin | 1882 |
| 19 | Kill List | Ben Wheatley | 1918 |
| 20 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | 1964 |
| 21 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | Brad Bird | 2080 |
| 22 | Melancholia | Lars von Trier | 2088 |
| 23 | Rango | Gore Verbinski | 2164 |
| 24 | The Cabin in the Woods | Drew Goddard | 2184 |
| 25 | The Skin I Live In | Pedro Almodóvar | 2244 |
| 26 | Once upon a Time in Anatolia | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2300 |
| 27 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Rupert Wyatt | 2334 |
| 28 | Pariah | Dee Rees | 2383 |
| 29 | We Need to Talk about Kevin | Lynne Ramsay | 2471 |
| 30 | Captain America: The First Avenger | Joe Johnston | 2620 |
| 31 | Pina | Wim Wenders | 2649 |
| 32 | Crazy, Stupid, Love. | Glenn Ficarra and John Requa | 2657 |
| 33 | The Descendants* | Alexander Payne | 2684 |
| 34 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Tomas Alfredson | 2733 |
| 35 | The Turin Horse | Béla Tarr | 2779 |
| 36 | Margaret | Kenneth Lonergan | 2782 |
| 37 | Shame | Steve McQueen | 2787 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Avengers | Joss Whedon | 540 |
| 2 | Django Unchained* | Quentin Tarantino | 579 |
| 3 | The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan | 614 |
| 4 | Amour* | Michael Haneke | 725 |
| 5 | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | 963 |
| 6 | The Hunt | Thomas Vinterberg | 1077 |
| 7 | Life of Pi* | Ang Lee | 1111 |
| 8 | Skyfall | Sam Mendes | 1259 |
| 9 | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer | 1332 |
| 10 | Zero Dark Thirty* | Kathryn Bigelow | 1419 |
| 11 | Silver Linings Playbook* | David O. Russell | 1441 |
| 12 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | 1541 |
| 13 | Wreck-It Ralph | Rich Moore | 1576 |
| 14 | The Hunger Games | Gary Ross | 1581 |
| 15 | Looper | Rian Johnson | 1603 |
| 16 | Argo** | Ben Affleck | 1660 |
| 17 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Peter Jackson | 1679 |
| 18 | Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley | 1722 |
| 19 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | Don Hertzfeldt | 1783 |
| 20 | Lincoln* | Steven Spielberg | 1814 |
| 21 | Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Mendjelloul | 1905 |
| 22 | 56 Up | Michael Apted | 2035 |
| 23 | Dredd | Pete Travis | 2054 |
| 24 | Les Misérables* | Tom Hooper | 2067 |
| 25 | Holy Motors | Leos Carax | 2112 |
| 26 | Beasts of the Southern Wild* | Benh Zeitlin | 2183 |
| 27 | Brave | Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman | 2463 |
| 28 | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2472 |
| 29 | 21 Jump Street | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2483 |
| 30 | How to Survive a Plague | David France | 2729 |
| 31 | Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach | 2745 |
| 32 | The Imposter | Bart Layton | 2747 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 12 Years a Slave** | Steve McQueen | 543 |
| 2 | Gravity* | Alfonso Cuarón | 645 |
| 3 | Her* | Spike Jonze | 840 |
| 4 | Blue Is the Warmest Color | Abdellatif Kechiche | 935 |
| 5 | Frozen | Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee | 940 |
| 6 | The Wolf of Wall Street* | Martin Scorsese | 1160 |
| 7 | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater | 1336 |
| 8 | Under the Skin | Jonathan Glazer | 1338 |
| 9 | Rush | Ron Howard | 1487 |
| 10 | Prisoners | Denis Villeneuve | 1562 |
| 11 | Dallas Buyers Club* | Jean-Marc Vallée | 1662 |
| 12 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Francis Lawrence | 1950 |
| 13 | Star Trek into Darkness | J.J. Abrams | 2089 |
| 14 | The Great Beauty | Paolo Sorrentino | 2157 |
| 15 | The Tale of Princess Kaguya | Isao Takahata | 2178 |
| 16 | Captain Phillips* | Paul Greengrass | 2181 |
| 17 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Peter Jackson | 2198 |
| 18 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Ethan and Joel Coen | 2259 |
| 19 | Ida | Pawel Pawlikowski | 2274 |
| 20 | Snowpiercer | Bong Joon Ho | 2380 |
| 21 | The Wind Rises | Hayao Miyazaki | 2422 |
| 22 | Stranger by the Lake | Alain Guiraudie | 2443 |
| 23 | Nebraska* | Alexander Payne | 2574 |
| 24 | Iron Man 3 | Shane Black | 2583 |
| 25 | Man of Steel | Zack Snyder | 2589 |
| 26 | The Conjuring | James Wan | 2661 |
| 27 | About Time | Richard Curtis | 2718 |
| 28 | All Is Lost | J.C. Chandor | 2754 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Whiplash* | Damien Chazelle | 583 |
| 2 | Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | 638 |
| 3 | Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn | 648 |
| 4 | Boyhood* | Richard Linklater | 751 |
| 5 | The Grand Budapest Hotel* | Wes Anderson | 917 |
| 6 | The Lego Movie | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 918 |
| 7 | Big Hero 6 | Don Hall and Chris Williams | 1315 |
| 8 | Edge of Tomorrow | Doug Liman | 1421 |
| 9 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1475 |
| 10 | Gone Girl | David Fincher | 1542 |
| 11 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)** | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1567 |
| 12 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bryan Singer | 1575 |
| 13 | Selma* | Ava DuVernay | 1589 |
| 14 | The Imitation Game* | Morten Tyldum | 1668 |
| 15 | The Babadook | Jennifer Kent | 1682 |
| 16 | Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy | 1811 |
| 17 | Ex Machina | Alex Garland | 1983 |
| 18 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Dean DeBlois | 1988 |
| 19 | The Raid 2 | Gareth Evans | 2020 |
| 20 | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | 2057 |
| 21 | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | Ana Lily Amirpour | 2191 |
| 22 | It Follows | David Robert Mitchell | 2221 |
| 23 | American Sniper* | Clint Eastwood | 2281 |
| 24 | Song of the Sea | Tomm Moore | 2345 |
| 25 | John Wick | Chad Stahelski | 2372 |
| 26 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Matt Reeves | 2429 |
| 27 | What We Do in the Shadows | Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi | 2688 |
| 28 | Wild Tales | Damián Szifrón | 2706 |
| 29 | Winter Sleep | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2750 |
| 30 | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras | 2764 |
| 31 | Fury | David Ayer | 2811 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Mad Max: Fury Road* | George Miller | 377 |
| 2 | Inside Out | Pete Docter | 494 |
| 3 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | J.J. Abrams | 925 |
| 4 | Carol | Todd Haynes | 1279 |
| 5 | Spotlight** | Tom McCarthy | 1373 |
| 6 | The Revenant* | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1550 |
| 7 | The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino | 1707 |
| 8 | Room* | Lenny Abrahamson | 2005 |
| 9 | Anomalisa | Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman | 2061 |
| 10 | Tangerine | Sean Baker | 2158 |
| 11 | Creed | Ryan Coogler | 2231 |
| 12 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Joss Whedon | 2249 |
| 13 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | Christopher McQuarrie | 2435 |
| 14 | Son of Saul | László Nemes | 2498 |
| 15 | Ant-Man | Peyton Reed | 2581 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Moonlight** | Barry Jenkins | 741 |
| 2 | La La Land* | Damien Chazelle | 1016 |
| 3 | Zootopia | Byron Howard and Rich Moore | 1039 |
| 4 | Arrival* | Denis Villeneuve | 1223 |
| 5 | Captain America: Civil War | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1289 |
| 6 | Your Name | Makoto Shinkai | 1571 |
| 7 | The Handmaiden | Chan-wook Park | 1632 |
| 8 | Deadpool | Tim Miller | 1700 |
| 9 | Hacksaw Ridge* | Mel Gibson | 1727 |
| 10 | Manchester by the Sea* | Kenneth Lonergan | 1740 |
| 11 | Moana | Ron Clements and John Musker | 1804 |
| 12 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Travis Knight | 1995 |
| 13 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Gareth Edwards | 2060 |
| 14 | Raw | Julia Ducournau | 2152 |
| 15 | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | 2378 |
| 16 | Hell or High Water* | David Mackenzie | 2457 |
| 17 | The Jungle Book | Jon Favreau | 2631 |
| 18 | O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman | 2780 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Coco | Lee Unkrich | 809 |
| 2 | Call Me by Your Name* | Luca Guadagnino | 892 |
| 3 | Get Out* | Jordan Peele | 1061 |
| 4 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* | Martin McDonagh | 1272 |
| 5 | Dunkirk* | Christopher Nolan | 1439 |
| 6 | Wonder Woman | Patty Jenkins | 1453 |
| 7 | Logan | James Mangold | 1505 |
| 8 | Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve | 1647 |
| 9 | Lady Bird* | Greta Gerwig | 1929 |
| 10 | Thor: Ragnarok | Taika Waititi | 1972 |
| 11 | The Shape of Water** | Guillermo del Toro | 2064 |
| 12 | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi | Rian Johnson | 2072 |
| 13 | Paddington 2 | Paul King | 2202 |
| 14 | The Florida Project | Sean Baker | 2452 |
| 15 | Baby Driver | Edgar Wright | 2495 |
| 16 | The Big Sick | Michael Showalter | 2541 |
| 17 | God's Own Country | Francis Lee | 2602 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 1118 |
| 2 | Black Panther* | Ryan Coogler | 1372 |
| 3 | Avengers: Infinity War | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1384 |
| 4 | Roma* | Alfonso Cuarón | 2029 |
| 5 | A Quiet Place | John Krasinski | 2344 |
| 6 | Green Book** | Peter Farrelly | 2390 |
| 7 | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Christopher McQuarrie | 2474 |
| 8 | Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird | 2505 |
| 9 | Annihilation | Alex Garland | 2570 |
| 10 | Hereditary | Ari Aster | 2667 |
| 11 | Crazy Rich Asians | Jon M. Chu | 2678 |
| 12 | Isle of Dogs | Wes Anderson | 2757 |
| 13 | Love, Simon | Greg Berlanti | 2807 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Avengers: Endgame | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1454 |
| 2 | Parasite** | Bong Joon Ho | 2601 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
