The New York Times · 100 films
The New York Times polled 500 influential filmmakers, actors, and critics who each named their top films released since January 1, 2000.
Bong Joon Ho
David Lynch
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wong Kar-Wai
Barry Jenkins
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Michel Gondry
Jordan Peele
Hayao Miyazaki
David Fincher
George Miller
Jonathan Glazer
Alfonso Cuarón
Quentin Tarantino
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Ang Lee
Martin Scorsese
Wes Anderson
Richard Linklater
Spike Jonze
Justine Triet
Christopher Nolan
Denis Villeneuve
Sofia Coppola
Paul Feig
Asghar Farhadi
Andrew Stanton
Jacques Audiard
Clint Eastwood
Luca Guadagnino
Céline Sciamma
Greta Gerwig
Edward Yang
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Park Chan-wook
Bennett Miller
Cameron Crowe
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Steve McQueen
Yorgos Lanthimos
Larry Charles
Guillermo del Toro
Christopher Guest
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Maren Ade
Damien Chazelle
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Tom McCarthy
Todd Field
Kathryn Bigelow
Tomas Alfredson
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Haynes
Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
Sean Baker
Michael Haneke
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Charlotte Wells
Terrence Malick
Pedro Almodóvar
Darren Aronofsky
Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Lars von Trier
Adam McKay
Celine Song
Peter Jackson
Agnès Varda
Noah Baumbach
Andrea Arnold
Ridley Scott
Tony Gilroy
Steven Spielberg
Joachim Trier
Ryan Coogler
Werner Herzog
Greg Mottola
This list was curated by The New York Times.