Best Film of Each Year in Movie History

I'll go back as far to 1999, just because.

- 1999 - South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
- 2000 - X-men
- 2001 - Monsters Inc
- 2002 - Mr. Deeds
- 2003 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- 2004 - Shaun of the Dead
- 2005 - Batman Begins
- 2006 - Borat
- 2007 - This is England
- 2008 - Marley and Me
- 2009 - The Blind Side
- 2010 - Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
- 2011 - Captain America: First Avenger
- 2012 - Dark Knight Rises
- 2013 - The Butler
- 2014 - Guardians of the Galaxy/The Lego Movie

2014 - Boyhood - Richard Linklater
2013 - Before Midnight - Richard Linklater
2012 - Amour - Michael Haneke
2011 - A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
2010 - Confessions - Tetsuya Nakashima
2009 - Breathless - Yang Ik Joon
2008 - Still Walking - Hirokazu Koreeda
2007 - Persepolis - Vincent Paronnaud/Marjane Satrapi
2006 - Away From Her - Sarah Polley
2005 - Cache - Michael Haneke
2004 - 3-Iron - Kim Ki Duk
2003 - Oldboy - Park Chan Wook
2002 - Dolls - Takeshi Kitano
2001 - All About Lily Chou-Chou - Shunji Iwai
2000 - In the Mood For Love - Wong Kar Wai
1999 - The Wind Will Carry Us - Abbas Kiarostami
1998 - Show Me Love - Lukas Moodysson
1997 - The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
1996 - Fargo - The Coen Brothers
1995 - Whisper of the Heart - Yoshifumi Kondo
1994 - Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
1993 - The Piano - Jane Campion
1992 - Glengarry Glen Ross - James Foley
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme
1990 - Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami
1989 - The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway
1988 - Grave of the Fireflies - Isao Takahata
1987 - Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders
1986 - Jean de Florette - Claude Berri
1985 - Come & See - Elem Klimov
1984 - The Killing Fields - Roland Joffe
1983 - The King of Comedy - Martin Scorsese
1982 - Fanny & Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
1981 - Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen
1980 - Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
1979 - Nosferatu the Vampyre - Werner Herzog
1978 - Grease - Randal Kleiser
1977 - Star Wars - George Lucas
1976 - Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman
1974 - A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes
1973 - Spirit of the Beehive - Victor Erice
1972 - The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
1971 - A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
1970 - Bed & Board - Francois Truffaut
1969 - The Cremator - Juraj Herz
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
1967 - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - Stanley Kramer
1966 - Persona - Ingmar Bergman
1965 - Happiness - Agnes Varda
1964 - Hamlet - Grigori Kozintsev
1963 - High & Low - Akira Kurosawa
1962 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan
1961 - The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer - Masaki Kobayashi
1960 - Late Autumn - Yasujiro Ozu
1959 - The World of Apu - Satyajit Ray
1958 - Equinox Flower - Yasujiro Ozu
1957 - Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini
1956 - The Killing - Stanley Kubrick
1955 - Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray
1954 - Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock
1953 - Gate of Hell - Teinosuke Kinugasa
1952 - Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa
1951 - Early Summer - Yasujiro Ozu
1950 - All About Eve - Joseph L Mankiewicz
1949 - Late Spring - Yasujiro Ozu
1948 - Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio De Sica
1947 - Out of the Past - Jacques Tourneur
1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives - William Wyler
1945 - Brief Encounter - David Lean
1944 - Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder
1943 - The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp - Michael Powell/ Emeric Pressburger
1942 - Cat People - Jacques Tourneur
1941 - The Brothers & Sisters of the Toda Family - Yasujiro Ozu
1940 - Rebecca - Alfred Hitchcock
1939 - Wuthering Heights - William Wyler
1938 - Angels With Dirty Faces - Michael Curtiz
1937 - Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs - Jackson/Sharpsteen/Hand/Cottrell
1936 - Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin
1935 - A Night at the Opera - Sam Wood/Edmund Goulding
1934 - It Happened One Night - Frank Capra
1933 - King Kong - Merian C Cooper/Ernest B Schoedsack
1932 - I Was Born But ... - Yasujiro Ozu
1931 - City Lights - Charlie Chaplin
1930 - L'Age d'or - Luis Bunuel
1929 - Un Chien Andalou - Luis Bunuel
1928 - The Circus - Charlie Chaplin
1927 - Sunrise - FW Murnau
1926 - A Page of Madness - Teinosuke Kinugasa
1925 - The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin
1924 - Sherlock Jr - Buster Keaton
1923 - Safety Last - Fred C Newmeyer/Sam Taylor
1922 - Nosferatu - FW Murnau
1921 - The Kid - Charlie Chaplin
1920 - The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - Robert Wiene
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1902 - A Trip to the Moon - Georges Meilies

I'm doing this based on international theatrical release dates (meaning the first time it played worldwide, not including festivals). Orange indicates my favorite film of the decade.

2014 Life Itself (Steve James)
2013 Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
2012 The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2011 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2010 Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
2009 A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
2008 Hunger (Steve McQueen)
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
2006 Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
2005 Capote (Bennett Miller)
2004 Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
2003 Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2002 The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
2001 Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2000 Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
1999 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
1998 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
1997 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
1996 Fargo (Joel Coen)
1995 Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii)
1994 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
1993 Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
1991 Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton)
1990 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1989 Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1988 Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
1987 Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
1986 Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines)
1985 Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1984 Amadeus (Miloš Forman)
1983 El Norte (Gregory Nava)
1982 The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
1980 Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
1979 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
1978 Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
1977 Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1976 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Miloš Forman)
1974 The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
1973 The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
1972 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
1971 Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
1970 Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1969 The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1967 Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1966 Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
1965 The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison)
1964 Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
1963 8½ (Federico Fellini)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
1960 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
1959 The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
1958 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1957 The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
1956 The Searchers (John Ford)
1955 The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder)
1954 On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
1953 From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)
1952 Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
1951 Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1950 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
1949 A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
1947 Body and Soul (Robert Rossen)
1946 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan)
1944 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
1943 Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1942 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1941 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
1939 The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
1938 The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (various)
1936 My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
1935 A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
1934 It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
1933 Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
1932 A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage)
1931 M (Fritz Lang)
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)

Directors with the most mentions:

Four: Ingmar Bergman, Martin Scorsese
Three: Paul Thomas Anderson, Joel Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock
Two: John Ford, Miloš Forman, Jean-Luc Godard, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Melville, Billy Wilder

2014 - Boyhood
2013 - Dallas Buyers Club
2012 - Django Unchained
2011 - Tomboy
2010 - Animal Kingdom
2009 - Moon
2008 - Beautiful Loser
2007 - Into the Wild
2006 - The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2005 - Sky High
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002 - Cidade de Deus (City of God)
2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2000 - Almost Famous
1999 - Magnolia
1998 - The Truman Show
1997 - Boogie Nights
1996 - Fargo
1995 - 12 Monkeys
1994 - Forrest Gump
1993 - Groundhog Day
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1991 - Cape Fear
1990 - Goodfellas
1989 - Dead Poets Society
1988 - Rain Man
1987 - Full Metal Jacket
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1985 - Back to the Future
1984 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
1983 - Videodrome
1982 - Blade Runner
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Arc
1980 - Raging Bull
1979 - Breaking Away
1978 - Midnight Express
1977 - Star Wars
1976 - Taxi Driver
1975 - Barry Lyndon
1974 - Murder on the Orient Express
1973 - Last Tango in Paris
1972 - The Godfather
1971 - The French Connection
1970 - The Great White Hope
1969 - Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967 - The Graduate
1966 - A Man and a Woman
1965 - Ship of Fools
1964 - Dr Strangelove
1963 - This Sporting Life
1962 - To Kill a Mockingbird
1961 - Judgement at Nuremberg
1960 - Hiroshima, My Love
1959 - The Diary of Anne Frank
1958 - Vertigo
1957 - 12 Angry Men
1956 - Around the World in Eighty Days
1955 - Lady and the Tramp
1954 - Seven Samurai
1953 - Stalag 17
1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth
1951 - A Streecar Named Desire
1950 - Sunset Boulevard
1949 - Twelve o'clock high
1948 - Joan of Arc
1947 - The Bishop's Wife
1946 - It's a Wonderful Life
1945 - The Bells of St. Mary's
1944 - The Seventh Cross
1943 - Shadow of a Doubt
1942 - Casablanca
1941 - Citizen Kane
1940 - His Girl Friday

1931 - M
1927 - Metropolis

2014 - Horse Money
2013 - Stranger by the Lake
2012 - Holy Motors
2011 - The Turin Horse
2010 - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2009 - White Material
2008 - Three Monkeys
2007 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2006 - Syndromes and a Century
2005 - Caché
2004 - Tropical Malady
2003 - Goodbye Dragon Inn
2002 - Spirited Away
2001 - Mulholland Drive
2000 - Werckmeister Harmonies

1999 - Beau Travail
1998 - The Thin Red Line
1997 - La Vie de Jésus
1996 - Fargo
1995 - Dead Man
1994 - Sátántangó
1993 - The Puppetmaster
1992 - Quince Tree of the Sun
1991 - A Brighter Summer Day
1990 - Close-Up

1989 - Santa sangre
1988 - Akira
1987 - Where Is The Friend's Home?
1986 - Letters from a Dead Man
1985 - A Time to Live, a Time to Die
1984 - The Terminator
1983 - Nostalghia
1982 - Blade Runner
1981 - The Evil Dead
1980 - Raging Bull

1979 - Stalker
1978 - Autumn Sonata
1977 - Eraserhead
1976 - The Tenant
1975 - The Mirror
1974 - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1973 - The Long Goodbye
1972 - Aguirre: The Wrath of God
1971 - The Devils
1970 - Claire's Knee

1969 - Army of Shadows
1968 - Je t'aime, je t'aime
1967 - Belle de jour
1966 - Persona
1965 - Pierrot le fou
1964 - Charulata
1963 - The Silence
1962 - An Autumn Afternoon
1961 - Last Year at Marienbad
1960 - Psycho

1959 - The World of Apu
1958 - The Music Room
1957 - The Seventh Seal
1956 - A Man Escaped
1955 - Ordet
1954 - Sansho the Bailiff
1953 - Tokyo Story
1952 - Umberto D.
1950 - Orpheus

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TokeZa's Top 100 Movies through Space and Time

TokeZa's inane ramblings about film

Letterboxd profile

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey? Seriously? I guess you haven't seen any other movies released in 1991, that can be the only explanation for this choice.

Gideon58? Seriously? Bill and Ted traveled through time, heaven and hell, battled evil versions of themselves, beat Death in a game of Battleship, just so they could unite the nations and bring about world peace through the power of rock n' roll. It's literally the most important, most bodacious movie ever made.

If I chose the best movie of 1991, I'd probably go with Silence of the Lambs. Although I'm also a big fan of Barton Fink, Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. But I chose the movies I liked the most from their respective years, and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey has been one of my favorites for a long, long time. I've seen it more times than just about any other movie.

Shouldn't you be writing a review that nobody will read instead of mocking my choices?

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American Psycho (2000)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Frida (2002)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Children of Men (2006)
Into the Wild (2007)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Avatar (2009)
Black Swan (2010)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Argo (2012)
American Hustle (2013)
Fury (2014)

2014 - Wild tales
2013 - Blue is the warmest color
2012 - Wolf children
2011 - A separation
2010 - Toy Story 3
2009 - The secret in their eyes
2008 - Wall-e
2007 - Ratatouille
2006 - Little Miss Sunshine
2005 - Match Point
2004 - Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
2003 - Oldboy
2002 - 25th hour
2001 - Spirited away
2000 - Amores perros
1999 - American beauty
1998 - A simple plan
1997 - Princess Mononoke
1996 - Trainspotting
1995 - The bridges of Madison County
1994 - The Shawshank redemption / Pulp Fiction
1993 - Groundhog Day
1992 - Aladdin
1991 - Only yesterday
1990 - Edward Scissorhands
1989 - My left foot
1988 - Grave of the fireflies
1987 - Full metal jacket
1986 - The name of the rose
1985 - Come and see
1984 - Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind
1983 - Videodrome
1982 - The Plague Dogs
1981 - Pixote
1980 - The elephant man
1979 - The life of Brian
1978 - Watership down
1977 - Suspiria
1976 - The tenant
1975 - One flew over the cuckoo's nest
1974 - The godfather Part II (only two watched from this year)
1973 - Scenes from a marriage
1972 - The godfather
1971 - A clockwork orange
1970 - Investigation of a citizen above suspicion
1969 - The wild bunch
1968 - Once upon a time in the West
1967 - Samurai rebellion / Happy end
1966 - Persona
1965 - For a few dollars more
1964 - The umbrellas of Cherbourg
1963 - The executioner
1962 - Days of wine and roses / Harakiri
1961 - Viridiana
1960 - The apartment
1959 - Nazarín
1958 - Cat on a hot tin roof
1957 - Paths of glory / 12 angry men
1956 - A man escaped
1955 - Journey to the beginning of time
1954 - Rear window
1953 - The wages of fear
1952 - Él
1951 - Alice in Wonderland
1950 - All about Eve
1949 - Kind hearts and coronets
1948 - The treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947 - Out of the past
1946 - The killers
1945 - Rome, open city
1944 - Double indemnity
1943 - The Ox-Bow incident (only two watched from this year)
1942 - To be or not to be
1941 - Citizen Kane
1940 - The great dictator
1939 - Stagecoach
1938 - Holiday
1937 - Make way for tomorrow
1936 - Modern times
1935 - A night at the opera
1934 - The goddess
1933 - Duck soup
1932 - Scarface
1931 - City lights
1930 - The blue angel
1929 - Erotikon (only two watched from this year)
1928 - The passion of Joan of Arc
1927 - Metropolis
1926 - A page of madness
1925 - Battleship Potemkin (only two watched from this year)
1924 - Sherlock Jr. (my only entry from this year)
1923 - ????
1922 - Nosferatu (my only entry from this year)
1921 - The kid (my only entry from this year)
1920 - The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (my only entry from this year)
1919 - Broken blossoms (only two watched from this year)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy...r_Best_Picture

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"Oh, so you'd be General, huh? If you were General, I'd be Emperor, and you'd STILL get the sake! So shut up and get the sake!" -Hattori Hanzo

"#GAMEOVER420BLAZIT" -bluedeed

My favourite movie of any given year is rarely concurrent with the academy's choice.

I have a thread going through all these. So I'll keep you updated as to how far I am:
2013: Gravity
2012: Flight
2011: The Descendants
2010: Inception
2009: State of Play
2008: Gran Torino
2007: Gone Baby Gone
2006: Inside Man
2005: Wedding Crashers
2004: Man on Fire
2003: Mystic River
2002: Antwone Fisher

Dont want to make an endless list, but
2011 - I would say The Artist. Well The Artist is a master class movie!

2011 was a tough year. One of the best line up at the Oscars for a long time. Compared to that 2012, was like a soggy bread!

1994 - The Shawshank Redemption.

Of all time (since the inception of a camera) - The Shawshank Redemption.

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My Favorite Films

1979 Life of Brian
1980 The Shining
1981 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
1982 Blade Runner
1983 Scarface
1984 Romancing the Stone
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Stand by Me
1987 Predator
1988 My Neighbour Totoro
1989 Dead Calm
1990 Die Hard 2
1991 Thelma & Louise
1992 My Cousin Vinny
1993 True Romance
1994 Maverick
1995Twelve Monkeys
1996 Fargo
1997 The Fifth Element
1998 Dark City
1999 Eyes Wide Shut
2000 Malena
2001 Mulholland Drive
2002 Chicago
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 Mean Girls
2005 The Island
2006 Pan's Labyrinth
2007 Hot Fuzz
2008 Tropic Thunder
2009 Watchmen
2010 The Town
2011 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
2012 Avengers Assemble
2013 Snowpiercer
2014 Gone Girl

1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 - The Kid
1922 - Nosferatu
1924 - Sherlock Jr.
1925 - The Gold Rush
1926 - The General
1927 - Metropolis
1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929 - Un Chien Andalou

1930 - L'Age d'Or
1931 - City Lights
1932 - Freaks
1933 - Duck Soup
1934 - L'Atalante
1935 - Bride of Frankenstein
1936 - Modern Times
1937 - La Grande Illusion
1938 - Bringing Up Baby
1939 - The Wizard of Oz

1940 - Rebecca
1941 - The Maltese Falcon
1942 - Casablanca
1943 - Meshes of the Afternoon
1944 - Double Indemnity
1945 - Brief Encounter
1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 - Black Narcissus
1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 - The Third Man

1950 - Sunset Blvd.
1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 - Ikiru
1953 - Tokyo Story
1954 - Johnny Guitar
1955 - Rebel Without a Cause
1956 - The Searchers
1957 - The Seventh Seal
1958 - Vertigo
1959 - North by Northwest

1960 - La Dolce Vita
1961 - Last Year at Marienbad
1962 - Jules and Jim
1963 - The Leopard
1964 - Dr. Strangelove
1965 - Pierrot le Fou
1966 - Au Hasard Balthazar
1967 - Bonnie and Clyde
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970 - The Conformist
1971 - McCabe and Mrs. Miller
1972 - Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1973 - The Exorcist
1974 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1975 - The Mirror
1976 - Network
1977 - Annie Hall
1978 - Days of Heaven
1979 - Apocalypse Now

1980 - Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - Blade Runner
1983 - The Outsiders
1984 - Paris, Texas
1985 - Come and See
1986 - Blue Velvet
1987 - Full Metal Jacket
1988 - Akira
1989 - Crimes and Misdemeanors

1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
1992 - Unforgiven
1993 - Three Colors: Blue
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - Before Sunrise
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Boogie Nights
1998 - The Thin Red Line
1999 - All About My Mother

2000 - In the Mood for Love
2001 - Mulholland Dr.
2002 - Talk to Her
2003 - Memories of Murder
2004 - Tropical Malady
2005 - Cache
2006 - Children of Men
2007 - No Country for Old Men
2008 - The Dark Knight
2009 - Inglourious Basterds

2010 - I Saw the Devil
2011 - The Tree of Life
2012 - Moonrise Kingdom
2013 - Inside Llewyn Davis
2014 - Under the Skin

That was fun! In a week I'll probably feel differently about a third of these, but at the moment it's true

Charlie Chaplin leads with four, then Kubrick, Hitchcock, Malick and the Coen Bros with three. All the others are somewhat balanced.