My major focus is on vintage films from the teens to the 60’s. But I do enjoy keeping up with what’s current as well. And here’s a list of personal favorites from the year 2000 on.
FAVORITE FILMS YEAR BY YEAR
2000
DUDE WHERE’S MY CAR?(Danny Leiner) Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott
Runner-Up: CHUCK AND BUCK(Miguel Arteta)
Mike White, Chris Weitz
2001
LAGAAN(Ashutosh Gowariker) Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh
Runner-Up: A.I. ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE(Steven Spielberg) Haley
Joel Osment
2002
FAR FROM HEAVEN(Todd Haynes) Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid
Runner-Up: LOVELY AND AMAZING(Nicole
Holofcener) Catherine Keener
2003
GOOD BYE, LENIN!(Wolfgang Becker) Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass
Runner-Up: RULES (PYAR KA SUPERHIT
FORMULA)(Parvati Balagopalan) Meera Vasudevan
2004
AVP: ALIEN VS PREDATOR(Paul W.S. Anderson) Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen
Runner-up: ALEXANDER(Oliver Stone) Colin
Farrell, Angelina Jolie
2005
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN(Ridley Scott) Orlando Bloom, Eva Green
Runner-up: WAR OF THE WORLDS(Steven
Spielberg) Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning
2006
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER(Zhang Yimou) Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat
Runner-up: CASINO ROYALE(Martin Campbell)
Daniel Craig, Eva Green
2007
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE(Shekhar Kapur) Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen
Runner-Up: THE HOST(Bong Joon-ho) Go
Ah-sung, Byun Hee-bong
2008
JCVD(Mabrouk el Mechri) Jean-Claude Van Damme
Runner-up: CASSANDRA’S DREAM(Woody Allen)
Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell
2009
A SERIOUS MAN(Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) Michael Stuhlbarg
Runner-up: 2012(Roland Emmerich) John
Cusack, Amanda Peet
2010
THE WOLFMAN(Joe Johnston) Benicio del Toro, Emily Blunt
MY NAME IS KHAN(Karan Johar) Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol
2011
THE TREE OF LIFE(Terrence Malick) Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain
Runner-up: RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE
APES(Rupert Wyatt) James Franco
2012
BLANCANIEVES(Pablo Berger) Macarena Garcia, Maribel Verdu
Runner-up: PERFECT SENSE(David
Mackenzie) Ewan McGregor, Eva Green
2013
THIS IS THE END(Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg) Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson
Runner-up: OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL(Sam
Raimi) James Franco, Mila Kunis
2014
MOMMY(Xavier Dolan) Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon
Runner-up: POMPEII(Paul W.S. Anderson)
Kit Harington, Emily Browning
2015
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD(George Miller) Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron
THE REVENANT(Alejandro I. Inarritu)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy
2016
GODS OF EGYPT(Alex Proyas) Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Runner-up: ELLE(Paul Verhoeven) Isabelle
Huppert
2017
THE FLORIDA PROJECT(Sean Baker) Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe
Runner-up: FRANTZ(Francois Ozon) Paula
Beer
2018
STAN & OLLIE(Jon S. Baird) Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly
Runner-up: CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE
ME?(Marielle Heller) Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant
2019
KALANK(Abhishek Varman) Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Sonakshi Sinha
Runner-up: THE KING(David Michod) Timothee
Chalamet, Sean Harris, Robert Pattinson
2020
PINOCCHIO(Matteo Garrone) Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni
Runner-up: PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN(Emerald
Fennell) Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham
2021
ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE: JUSTICE IS GRAY(Zack Snyder) Ben Affleck
Runner-up: RED ROCKET(Sean Baker) Simon
Rex, Bree Elrod
2022
BABYLON(Damien Chazelle) Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt
Runner-up: PONNIYIN SELVAN: I(Mani Ratnam) Vikram, Karthi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan