We’ll start the results tomorrow morning, but please enjoy the build-up here.
A reminder of last time, way back in 2018:
| Rank | Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2 | Mulholland Drive | 2001 | David Lynch |
| 3 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen |
| 4 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 5 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry |
| 6 | Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins |
| 7 | Caché (Hidden) | 2005 | Michael Haneke |
| 8 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| 9 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola |
| 10 | Pan’s Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 11 | Oldboy | 2003 | Park Chan-wook |
| 12 | The Master | 2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 13 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller |
| 14 | Let the Right One In | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson |
| 15 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan |
| 16 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher |
| 17 | Wall-E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton |
| 18 | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson |
| 19 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich |
| 20 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater |
| 21 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund |
| 22 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle |
| 23 | Dogtooth | 2009 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 24 | Under the Skin | 2013 | Jonathan Glazer |
| 25 | The Raid: Redemption | 2011 | Gareth Evans |
| 26 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly |
| 27 | Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze |
| 28 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele |
| 29 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson |
| 30 | Drive | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 31 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke |
| 32 | Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 33 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen |
| 34 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson |
| 35 | Call Me by Your Name | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino |
| 36 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik |
| 37 | Arrival | 2016 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 38 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick |
| 39 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen |
| 40 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh |
| 41 | Paddington 2 | 2017 | Paul King |
| 42 | The Florida Project | 2017 | Sean Baker |
| 43 | The Witch | 2015 | Robert Eggers |
| 44 | Toni Erdmann | 2016 | Maren Ade |
| 45 | Phantom Thread | 2017 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 46 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird |
| 47 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar-wai |
| 48 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 49 | Carol | 2015 | Todd Haynes |
| 50 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe |
| 51 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 52 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard |
| 53 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird |
| 54 | Manchester by the Sea | 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 55 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 56 | American Honey | 2016 | Andrea Arnold |
| 57 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter & Bob Peterson |
| 58 | Punch Drunk Love | 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 59 | Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater |
| 60 | Room | 2015 | Lenny Abrahamson |
| 61 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones |
| 62 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright |
| 63 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee |
| 64 | Lady Bird | 2017 | Greta Gerwig |
| 65 | Nightcrawler | 2014 | Dan Gilroy |
| 66 | Ex Machina | 2014 | Alex Garland |
| 67 | Adaptation | 2002 | Spike Jonze |
| 68 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson |
| 69 | Black Panther | 2018 | Ryan Coogler |
| 70 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan |
| 71 | Still Walking | 2008 | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| 72 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff |
| 73 | Slow West | 2015 | John Maclean |
| 74 | Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman |
| 75 | The Social Network | 2010 | David Fincher |
| 76 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 77 | The Skin I Live In | 2011 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 78 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr |
| 79 | Beau Travail | 1999 | Claire Denis |
| 80 | Amour | 2012 | Michael Haneke |
| 81 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski |
| 82 | Nebraska | 2013 | Alexander Payne |
| 83 | Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Joel & Ethan Coen |
| 84 | The Orphanage | 2007 | J. A. Bayona |
| 85 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan |
| 86 | The Handmaiden | 2016 | Park Chan-wook |
| 87 | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson |
| 88 | Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne |
| 89 | Melancholia | 2011 | Lars von Trier |
| 90 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen |
| 91 | A Ghost Story | 2017 | David Lowery |
| 92 | Hereditary | 2018 | Ari Aster |
| 93 | John Wick | 2014 | Chad Stahelski & David Leitch |
| 94 | A Separation | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi |
| 95 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 96 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee |
| 97 | Leave No Trace | 2018 | Debra Granik |
| 98 | Red Road | 2006 | Andrea Arnold |
| 99 | The Death of Stalin | 2017 | Armando Iannucci |
| 100 | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | 2016 | Taika Waititi |