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
Runner-up: 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
2023
OPPENHEIMER(Christopher Nolan) Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt
Runner-up: ASTEROID CITY(Wes Anderson) Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson
