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Top Films by Year (2020-2024)

**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

2020

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Soul Pete Docter 1130
2 Nomadland** Chloé Zhao 1654
3 The Invisible Man Leigh Whannell 1687
4 Palm Springs Max Barbakow 1922
5 Wolfwalkers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart 2035
6 Hamilton Thomas Kail 2199
7 Promising Young Woman* Emerald Fennell 2229
8 The Father* Florian Zeller 2378
9 Quo Vadis, Aida? Jasmila Zbanic 2573
10 Shiva Baby Emma Seligman 2815
11 The Half of It Alice Wu 2835
12 Onward Dan Scanlon 2856
13 Happiest Season Clea DuVall 2953
14 Minari* Lee Isaac Chung 2989
15 Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) Cathy Yan 2997

2021

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dune* Denis Villeneuve 1062
2 Spider-Man: No Way Home Jon Watts 1494
3 The Power of the Dog* Jane Campion 1758
4 The Mitchells vs. the Machines Michael Rianda 1794
5 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove 1820
6 West Side Story* Steven Spielberg 1951
7 The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier 2082
8 The Suicide Squad James Gunn 2093
9 Encanto Jared Bush and Byron Howard 2102
10 Drive My Car* Ryûsuke Hamaguchi 2261
11 CODA** Sian Heder 2530
12 Licorice Pizza* Paul Thomas Anderson 2648
13 In the Heights Jon M. Chu 2801
14 Zack Snyder's Justice League Zack Snyder 2832
15 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Destin Daniel Cretton 2834
16 Raya and the Last Dragon Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada 2920
17 Flee Jonas Poher Rasmussen 2921

2022

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Everything Everywhere All at Once** Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert 1093
2 Top Gun: Maverick* Joseph Kosinski 1339
3 Nope Jordan Peele 1789
4 The Batman Matt Reeves 1885
5 Aftersun Charlotte Wells 2810
6 Avatar: The Way of Water* James Cameron 2986
7 RRR S.S. Rajamouli 3039

2023

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson 1292
2 Oppenheimer** Christopher Nolan 1446
3 Killers of the Flower Moon* Martin Scorsese 2409
4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 James Gunn 2726
5 Past Lives* Celine Song 2956
6 Poor Things* Yorgos Lanthimos 3032

2024

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dune: Part Two* Denis Villeneuve 1629

**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

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