2009

1. Dogtooth- Yorgos Lanthimos
2. Up- Pete Docter
3. Inglourious Basterds- Quentin Tarantino
4. Phantoms of Nabua- Apichatpong Weerasethakul [short]
5. Plastic Bag- Ramin Bahrani [short]
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox- Wes Anderson
7. Passing Strange: The Movie- Spike Lee
8. Duplicity- Tony Gilroy
9. Antichrist- Lars von Trier
10. Everyone Else- Maren Ade
11. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench- Damien Chazelle
12. Tetro- Francis Ford Coppola
13. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done- Werner Herzog
14. Stingray Sam- Cory McAbee
15. Father of My Children- Mia Hansen-Løve
16. Humpday- Lynn Shelton
17. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans- Werner Herzog

Ripe for re-appraisal: Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette), The Box (Richard Kelly), Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont), The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh), In the Loop (Armando Iannucci), The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch), A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen), Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)

Need to see: Alamar (Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio), The Army of Crime (Robert Guediguian), Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski), The Exploding Girl (Bradley Rust Gray), Face (Tsai Ming-liang), Kinatay (Brilliante Ma. Mendoza), Lebanon (Samuel Maoz), Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo), The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa), Min Ye… (Souleymane Cissé), Ne Change Rien (Pedro Costa), Police, Adjective (Corneliu Poromboiu), Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (Lee Daniels), Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero), Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Hurt Locker
César Awards, Best Film: A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
Venice, Golden Lion: Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
Toronto, Audience Award: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
Skandies, Best Film: Inglourious Basterds
Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film: Inglourious Basterds