**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Mad Max: Fury Road* | George Miller | 113 |
| 2 | Inside Out | Pete Docter | 276 |
| 3 | Carol | Todd Haynes | 545 |
| 4 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | J.J. Abrams | 565 |
| 5 | The Witch | Robert Eggers | 751 |
| 6 | Spotlight** | Tom McCarthy | 783 |
| 7 | The Revenant* | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 879 |
| 8 | The Martian* | Ridley Scott | 918 |
| 9 | Creed | Ryan Coogler | 985 |
| 10 | Room* | Lenny Abrahamson | 1124 |
| 11 | Tangerine | Sean Baker | 1263 |
| 12 | Son of Saul | László Nemes | 1320 |
| 13 | The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino | 1357 |
| 14 | Sicario | Denis Villeneuve | 1362 |
| 15 | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | 1534 |
| 16 | Ant-Man | Peyton Reed | 1556 |
| 17 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | Christopher McQuarrie | 1755 |
| 18 | The Invitation | Karyn Kusama | 1928 |
| 19 | Straight Outta Compton | F. Gary Gray | 1986 |
| 20 | Beasts of No Nation | Cary Joji Fukunaga | 2014 |
| 21 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Joss Whedon | 2103 |
| 22 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak | 2198 |
| 23 | Bridge of Spies* | Steven Spielberg | 2216 |
| 24 | Anomalisa | Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman | 2247 |
| 25 | Brooklyn* | John Crowley | 2272 |
| 26 | Amy | Asif Kapadia | 2274 |
| 27 | Spy | Paul Feig | 2506 |
| 28 | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | 2764 |
| 29 | Dope | Rick Famuyiwa | 2932 |
| 30 | 45 Years | Andrew Haigh | 3029 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Moonlight** | Barry Jenkins | 176 |
| 2 | Arrival* | Denis Villeneuve | 466 |
| 3 | La La Land* | Damien Chazelle | 484 |
| 4 | The Handmaiden | Park Chan-wook | 590 |
| 5 | Your Name | Makoto Shinkai | 670 |
| 6 | Moana | Ron Clements and John Musker | 702 |
| 7 | Hidden Figures* | Theodore Melfi | 771 |
| 8 | Zootopia | Byron Howard and Rich Moore | 855 |
| 9 | Captain America: Civil War | Anthony and Joe Russo | 867 |
| 10 | Deadpool | Tim Miller | 888 |
| 11 | Hacksaw Ridge* | Mel Gibson | 972 |
| 12 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Travis Knight | 1058 |
| 13 | Manchester by the Sea* | Kenneth Lonergan | 1171 |
| 14 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Gareth Edwards | 1284 |
| 15 | Train to Busan | Yeon Sang-ho | 1298 |
| 16 | O.J.: Made in America | Ezra Edelman | 1302 |
| 17 | I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck | 1308 |
| 18 | Raw | Julia Ducournau | 1323 |
| 19 | Hell or High Water* | David Mackenzie | 1432 |
| 20 | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | 1541 |
| 21 | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Taika Waititi | 1746 |
| 22 | 13th | Ava DuVernay | 1803 |
| 23 | Doctor Strange | Scott Derrickson | 1810 |
| 24 | The Edge of Seventeen | Kelly Fremon Craig | 1823 |
| 25 | My Life as a Zucchini | Claude Barras | 2030 |
| 26 | Sing Street | John Carney | 2084 |
| 27 | Queen of Katwe | Mira Nair | 2262 |
| 28 | 10 Cloverfield Lane | Dan Trachtenberg | 2263 |
| 29 | Lion* | Garth Davis | 2273 |
| 30 | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | 2342 |
| 31 | The Wailing | Na Hong-jin | 2364 |
| 32 | The Jungle Book | Jon Favreau | 2379 |
| 33 | Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford | 2701 |
| 34 | Silence | Martin Scorsese | 2874 |
| 35 | American Honey | Andrea Arnold | 2954 |
| 36 | Finding Dory | Andrew Stanton | 2959 |
| 37 | Paterson | Jim Jarmusch | 2962 |
| 38 | Cameraperson | Kirsten Johnson | 2965 |
| 39 | Under the Shadow | Babak Anvari | 3057 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Get Out* | Jordan Peele | 187 |
| 2 | Coco | Lee Unkrich | 304 |
| 3 | Call Me by Your Name* | Luca Guadagnino | 361 |
| 4 | Lady Bird* | Greta Gerwig | 416 |
| 5 | Dunkirk* | Christopher Nolan | 460 |
| 6 | Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve | 472 |
| 7 | Logan | James Mangold | 478 |
| 8 | Wonder Woman | Patty Jenkins | 643 |
| 9 | Thor: Ragnarok | Taika Waititi | 756 |
| 10 | Paddington 2 | Paul King | 785 |
| 11 | The Big Sick | Michael Showalter | 832 |
| 12 | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi | Rian Johnson | 938 |
| 13 | The Shape of Water** | Guillermo del Toro | 1100 |
| 14 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* | Martin McDonagh | 1109 |
| 15 | Baby Driver | Edgar Wright | 1146 |
| 16 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Jon Watts | 1159 |
| 17 | It | Andy Muschietti | 1264 |
| 18 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | James Gunn | 1447 |
| 19 | Girls Trip | Malcolm D. Lee | 1459 |
| 20 | Phantom Thread* | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1612 |
| 21 | The LEGO Batman Movie | Chris McKay | 1632 |
| 22 | The Rider | Chloé Zhao | 1648 |
| 23 | The Florida Project | Sean Baker | 1892 |
| 24 | BPM (Beats Per Minute) | Robin Campillo | 1958 |
| 25 | War for the Planet of the Apes | Matt Reeves | 1968 |
| 26 | A Fantastic Woman | Sebastián Lelio | 2092 |
| 27 | Atomic Blonde | David Leitch | 2255 |
| 28 | Good Time | Benny and Josh Safdie | 2268 |
| 29 | God's Own Country | Francis Lee | 2285 |
| 30 | I, Tonya | Craig Gillespie | 2306 |
| 31 | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Chad Stahelski | 2386 |
| 32 | A Ghost Story | David Lowery | 2389 |
| 33 | You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay | 2479 |
| 34 | The Greatest Showman | Michael Gracey | 2540 |
| 35 | Faces Places | JR and Agnès Varda | 2617 |
| 36 | Mother! | Darren Aronofsky | 2629 |
| 37 | The Breadwinner | Nora Twomey | 2785 |
| 38 | First Reformed | Paul Schrader | 2826 |
| 39 | One Cut of the Dead | Shin'ichirô Ueda | 2840 |
| 40 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Jake Kasdan | 2841 |
| 41 | Mudbound | Dee Rees | 2891 |
| 42 | The Killing of a Sacred Deer | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2912 |
| 43 | The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci | 3042 |
| 44 | Wonder | Stephen Chbosky | 3061 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 189 |
| 2 | Black Panther* | Ryan Coogler | 289 |
| 3 | Avengers: Infinity War | Anthony and Joe Russo | 436 |
| 4 | Hereditary | Ari Aster | 575 |
| 5 | Roma* | Alfonso Cuarón | 619 |
| 6 | A Quiet Place | John Krasinski | 705 |
| 7 | Annihilation | Alex Garland | 849 |
| 8 | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | Christopher McQuarrie | 882 |
| 9 | Crazy Rich Asians | Jon M. Chu | 1004 |
| 10 | Shoplifters | Hirokazu Koreeda | 1082 |
| 11 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | 1313 |
| 12 | A Star Is Born* | Bradley Cooper | 1364 |
| 13 | To All the Boys I've Loved Before | Susan Johnson | 1444 |
| 14 | Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird | 1582 |
| 15 | Love, Simon | Greg Berlanti | 1604 |
| 16 | BlacKkKlansman* | Spike Lee | 1719 |
| 17 | Isle of Dogs | Wes Anderson | 1742 |
| 18 | Burning | Lee Chang-dong | 1750 |
| 19 | The Hate U Give | George Tillman Jr. | 1786 |
| 20 | Green Book** | Peter Farrelly | 1920 |
| 21 | The Favourite* | Yorgos Lanthimos | 1946 |
| 22 | Sorry to Bother You | Boots Riley | 1975 |
| 23 | Capernaum | Nadine Labaki | 2045 |
| 24 | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham | 2088 |
| 25 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Marielle Heller | 2135 |
| 26 | Free Solo | Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | 2149 |
| 27 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville | 2172 |
| 28 | Cold War | Pawel Pawlikowski | 2280 |
| 29 | High Life | Claire Denis | 2295 |
| 30 | Deadpool 2 | David Leitch | 2366 |
| 31 | Bohemian Rhapsody* | Bryan Singer | 2381 |
| 32 | Mandy | Panos Cosmatos | 2522 |
| 33 | Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | 2615 |
| 34 | The Tale | Jennifer Fox | 2628 |
| 35 | Upgrade | Leigh Whannell | 2681 |
| 36 | Climax | Gaspar Noé | 2711 |
| 37 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Ol Parker | 2903 |
| 38 | Widows | Steve McQueen | 3011 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Parasite** | Bong Joon Ho | 165 |
| 2 | Avengers: Endgame | Anthony and Joe Russo | 373 |
| 3 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | 452 |
| 4 | Little Women* | Greta Gerwig | 661 |
| 5 | Booksmart | Olivia Wilde | 868 |
| 6 | Joker* | Todd Phillips | 893 |
| 7 | Midsommar | Ari Aster | 943 |
| 8 | The Irishman* | Martin Scorsese | 976 |
| 9 | The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | 1022 |
| 10 | Uncut Gems | Benny and Josh Safdie | 1073 |
| 11 | 1917* | Sam Mendes | 1110 |
| 12 | Knives Out | Rian Johnson | 1135 |
| 13 | Us | Jordan Peele | 1200 |
| 14 | The Farewell | Lulu Wang | 1220 |
| 15 | Ford v Ferrari* | James Mangold | 1442 |
| 16 | Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley | 1448 |
| 17 | Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood* | Quentin Tarantino | 1456 |
| 18 | Marriage Story* | Noah Baumbach | 1539 |
| 19 | Captain Marvel | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | 1871 |
| 20 | For Sama | Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts | 2137 |
| 21 | Jojo Rabbit* | Taika Waititi | 2147 |
| 22 | Klaus | Sergio Pablos | 2406 |
| 23 | Spider-Man: Far from Home | Jon Watts | 2433 |
| 24 | Shazam! | David F. Sandberg | 2548 |
| 25 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Dean DeBlois | 2570 |
| 26 | Pain and Glory | Pedro Almodóvar | 2576 |
| 27 | Saint Maud | Rose Glass | 2642 |
| 28 | Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller | 2748 |
| 29 | Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher | 2842 |
| 30 | The Souvenir | Joanna Hogg | 2908 |
| 31 | Atlantics | Mati Diop | 2983 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
