BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century

The 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century is a list compiled in August 2016 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), chosen by a voting poll of 177 film critics from around the world. It was compiled by collating the top ten films submitted by the critics who were asked to list the best films released since year 2000.

Selection criteria

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Christopher Nolan

Wes Anderson

Michael Haneke

Paul Thomas Anderson

Coen Brothers

BBC Culture requested 177 film critics from around the world to submit their responses for ten films which according to them are the greatest. The time period was limited from January 2000 (despite 2001 being the start of the century) to June 2016 (when the responses were completely collected). Each film listed in these responses were then given points based on their ranking. For instance, if a film was ranked at #1 in a critic's list, that film would get 10 points, whereas the one ranked at #10 would get 1 point. The list has 102 titles to be exact, due to a tie between Carlos, Requiem for a Dream, and Toni Erdmann for the 100th rank.^[1][2] With three each, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael Haneke, and Coen Brothers have the largest number of films in the list.

A total of 177 critics from 36 countries participated in the poll, with the largest number (81) from the United States followed by the United Kingdom. Out of the 177, 122 are men and 55 are women, and are primarily newspaper/magazine film reviewers, website film reviewers, academics, and cinema curators.

Full List

No.	Title	Director	Year
1	Mulholland Dr	David Lynch	2001
2	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai	2000
3	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	2007
4	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki	2001
5	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	2014
6	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Michael Gondry	2004
7	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	2011
8	Yi Yi: A One and a Two	Edward Yang	2000
9	A Separation	Asghar Farhadi	2011
10	No Country for Old Men	Coen Brothers	2007
11	Inside Llewyn Davis	Coen Brothers	2013
12	Zodiac	David Fincher	2007
13	Children of Men	Alfonso Cuaron	2006
14	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer	2012
15	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	Cristian Mungiu	2007
16	Holy Motors	Leos Carax	2012
17	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo Del Toro	2006
18	The White Ribbon	Michael Haneke	2009
19	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller	2015
20	Synecdoche, New York	Charlie Kaufman	2008
21	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	2014
22	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	2003
23	Caché	Michael Haneke	2005
24	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson	2012
25	Memento	Christopher Nolan	2001
26	25th Hour	Spike Lee	2002
27	The Social Network	David Fincher	2010
28	Talk to Her	Pedro Almodóvar	2002
29	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton	2008
30	Oldboy	Park Chan-wook	2003
31	Margaret	Kenneth Lonergan	2011
32	The Lives of Others	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	2006
33	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan	2008
34	Son of Saul	László Nemes	2015
35	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee	2000
36	Timbuktu	Abderrahmane Sissako	2014
37	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	2010
38	City of God	Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund	2002
39	The New World	Terrence Malick	2005
40	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee	2005
41	Inside Out	Pete Docter	2015
42	Amour	Michael Haneke	2012
43	Melancholia	Lars von Trier	2011
44	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	2013
45	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	Abdellatif Kechiche	2013
46	Certified Copy	Abbas Kiarostami	2010
47	Leviathan	Andrey Zvyagintsev	2014
48	Brooklyn	John Crowley	2015
49	Goodbye to Language	Jean-Luc Godard	2014
50	The Assassin	Hou Hsiao-hsien	2015
51	Inception	Christopher Nolan	2010
52	Tropical Malady	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	2004
53	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann	2001
54	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	2011
55	Ida	Paweł Pawlikowski	2013
56	Werckmeister Harmonies	Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky	2000
57	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow	2012
58	Moolaadé	Ousmane Sembène	2004
59	A History of Violence	David Cronenberg	2005
60	Syndromes and a Century	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	2006
61	Under the Skin	Jonathan Glazer	2013
62	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	2009
63	The Turin Horse	Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky	2011
64	The Great Beauty	Paolo Sorrentino	2013
65	Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold	2009
66	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	Kim Ki-duk	2003
67	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow	2008
68	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson	2001
69	Carol	Todd Haynes	2015
70	Stories We Tell	Sarah Polley	2012
71	Tabu	Miguel Gomes	2012
72	Only Lovers Left Alive	Jim Jarmusch	2013
73	Before Sunset	Richard Linklater	2004
74	Spring Breakers	Harmony Korine	2012
75	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson	2014
76	Dogville	Lars von Trier	2003
77	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Julian Schnabel	2007
78	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese	2013
79	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe	2000
80	The Return	Andrey Zvyagintsev	2003
81	Shame	Steve McQueen	2011
82	A Serious Man	Coen Brothers	2009
83	Artificial Intelligence: A.I.	Steven Spielberg	2001
84	Her	Spike Jonze	2013
85	A Prophet	Jacques Audiard	2009
86	Far From Heaven	Todd Haynes	2002
87	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	2001
88	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy	2015
89	The Headless Woman	Lucrecia Martel	2008
90	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	2002
91	The Secret in Their Eyes	Juan José Campanella	2009
92	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Andrew Dominik	2007
93	Ratatouille	Brad Bird	2007
94	Let the Right One In	Tomas Alfredson	2008
95	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson	2012
96	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton	2003
97	White Material	Claire Denis	2009
98	Ten	Abbas Kiarostami	2002
99	The Gleaners and I	Agnès Varda	2000
100	Carlos	Olivier Assayas	2010
100	Requiem for a Dream	Darren Aronofsky	2000
100	Toni Erdmann	Maren Ade	2016

References

1. "The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films". BBC. August 23, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
2. "BBC - Culture - The 21st Century's 1-- Greatest Films: Who Voted?". BBC.Com. Retrieved 28 August 2016.