Year-End Lists

Demetrios Matheou: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Argo
  Ben Affleck
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• No
  Pablo Larraín

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

So Mayer: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2019]

• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
  Alison Klayman
• Ginger & Rosa
  Sally Potter
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
• I’m Going to Change My Name
  Mariya Saakyan
• The Nine Muses
  John Akomfrah

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Wendy Ide: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Argo
  Ben Affleck
• Killing Them Softly
  Andrew Dominik
• Children of Sarajevo
  Aida Begić

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nicole Brenez: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits
  Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
• Three Sisters
  Wang Bing
• Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You
  Eric Hurtado and Marc Hurtado
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• Our Body Is a Weapon – Prisons
  Clarisse Hahn

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Philip French: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
• Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

William Fowler: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Bruce Lacey Experience
  Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams
• All Divided Selves
  Luke Fowler
• Two Years at Sea
  Ben Rivers
• Dredd 3D
  Pete Travis

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Daniela Michel: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Beyond the Hills
  Cristian Mungiu
• Something in the Air
  Olivier Assayas
• Ginger & Rosa
  Sally Potter
• Post Tenebras Lux
  Carlos Reygadas

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

James Mottram: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• Searching for Sugar Man
  Malik Bendjelloul
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Kate Muir: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Two Years at Sea
  Ben Rivers
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Skyfall
  Sam Mendes

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Kim Newman: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Sightseers
  Ben Wheatley
• Excision
  Richard Bates, Jr.
• Damsels in Distress
  Whit Stillman
• Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012