Year-End Lists

The Guardian: 50 Best Films of 2015 (of US releases)

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2017]

1. Son of Saul
   László Nemes
2. 45 Years
   Andrew Haigh
3. The Revenant
   Alejandro González Iñárritu
4. Anomalisa
   Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
5. Bridge of Spies
   Steven Spielberg
6. The Look of Silence
   Joshua Oppenheimer
7. Carol
   Todd Haynes
8. Amy
   Asif Kapadia
9. Joy
   David O. Russell
10. Mistress America
    Noah Baumbach
11. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    Roy Andersson
12. While We’re Young
    Noah Baumbach
13. Paddington
    Paul King
14. Mommy
    Xavier Dolan
15. Chi-Raq
    Spike Lee
16. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Marielle Heller
17. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi
    Jafar Panahi
18. Appropriate Behavior
    Desiree Akhavan
19. The Salt of the Earth
    Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
20. Beasts of No Nation
    Cary Joji Fukunaga
21. The Wolfpack
    Crystal Moselle
22. The End of the Tour
    James Ponsoldt
23. Eden
    Mia Hansen-Løve
24. Slow West
    John Maclean
25. White God
    Kornél Mundruczó
26. It Follows
    David Robert Mitchell
27. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
28. The Gift
    Joel Edgerton
29. The Seven Five
    Tiller Russell
30. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
31. The Assassin
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
32. The Nightmare
    Rodney Ascher
33. Red Army
    Gabe Polsky
34. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
35. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
36. Room
    Lenny Abrahamson
37. Creed
    Ryan Coogler
38. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    Ana Lily Amirpour
39. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
40. Black Mass
    Scott Cooper
41. The Tribe
    Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
42. Girlhood
    Céline Sciamma
43. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
44. Spotlight
    Tom McCarthy
45. Sicario
    Denis Villeneuve
46. Macbeth
    Justin Kurzel
47. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
48. Youth
    Paolo Sorrentino
49. Steve Jobs
    Danny Boyle
50. Wild Tales
    Damián Szifrón