The New York Times: The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century | Award Season

Voted by more than 500 directors, actors and other film people around the world. The companion poll to the Times' television list.

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• The Master
• Melancholia
• Gladiator
• Kill Bill: Volume 1
• Black Swan
• Frances Ha
• Arrival
• In the Mood for Love
• Michael Clayton
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• The Florida Project
• Fish Tank
• Moneyball
• There Will Be Blood
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• A Separation
• The Hurt Locker
• WALL-E
• The Lives of Others
• The Departed
• Memories of Murder
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Moonlight
• Zodiac
• Spotlight
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Best in Show
• Ocean's Eleven
• Boyhood
• Amélie
• 12 Years a Slave
• Bridesmaids
• Yi Yi
• Almost Famous
• TÁR
• Roma
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Adaptation.
• Volver
• Spirited Away
• Interstellar
• The Dark Knight
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Social Network
• Get Out
• Gravity
• Past Lives
• Carol
• A Prophet
• The Tree of Life
• Whiplash
• The Worst Person in the World
• Oppenheimer
• Up
• Amour
• Let the Right One In
• The Gleaners and I
• Memento
• Gone Girl
• Under the Skin
• Aftersun
• Y Tu Mamá También
• A Serious Man
• Black Panther
• Ratatouille
• The Act of Killing
• The Favourite
• No Country for Old Men
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Minority Report
• Phantom Thread
• Oldboy
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Superbad
• City of God
• Inception
• Mulholland Drive
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Inglourious Basterds
• Her
• Call Me by Your Name
• The Zone of Interest
• Lost in Translation
• Grizzly Man
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Uncut Gems
• Parasite
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Brokeback Mountain
• Children of Men
• Toni Erdmann
• Lady Bird
• Before Sunset