Apocalypse Now's Top 10 Films of 2015

The writers/contributors/friends of the site were asked, and the ones who weren't daunted by the question or had better things to do with their life than watch ten new movies responded! 

Sean Van Deuren

1. Mistress America
2. Carol
3. Güeros 
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Sicario
6. Results
7. Girlhood
8. Clouds of Sils Maria
9. Wild Tales
10. A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting Existence

Michelle Siracusa

1. Inside Out
2. Ex Machina
3. Crimson Peak
4. Carol
5. The Man from U.N.C.L.E
6. It Follows
7. These Final Hours
8. Goodnight Mommy
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. The Tale of Tales


Mark Lukenbill

1. I Remember Nothing

2. Carol

3. Mistress America

4. Heaven Knows What

5. Experimenter

6. She's Funny That Way

7. Misunderstood

8. Clouds of Sils Maria

9. Mustang

10. Chi-Raq

11. Phoenix

Tucker Johnson

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
3. Steve Jobs
4. Ex Machina
5. Sicario
6. Crimson Peak
7. Mistress America
8. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
9. Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation
10. Inside Out


Daniel Khan

1. The Assassin 
2. Phoenix
3. Carol
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Chi-raq
6. Steve Jobs
7. Blackhat
8. Sicario
9. Ex Machina
10. James White
11. The Look of Silence
12. Experimenter/The Stanford Prison Experiment
13. It Follows
14. Inside Out
15. Eden
16. Tangerine
17. The Duke of Burgundy 
18. Results
19. GETT: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
20. Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation/The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
21. Creed
22. Brooklyn
23. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
24. The Big Short
25. The Gift

Lucas Mangum

1. It Follows

2. Spring

3. The Final Girls

4. Mad Max: Fury Road

5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

6. Childhood’s End

7. Sicario

8. Kingsman: The Secret Service

9. Trainwreck

10. Der Bunker

Scout Tafoya

These are older releases that finally saw the inside of movie houses this year. 

1. Hard To Be A God

2. Pasolini

3. Jauja

4. Saint Laurent

5. The Look of Silence

6. Beloved Sisters

7. Timbuktu

8. P’tit Quinquin

9. Gerontophilia/Tom At The Farm

10. About Elly

Desmond Thorne

1. Mommy

2. Sicario

3. Carol

4. It Follows

5. Anomalisa

6. Diary of a Teenage Girl

7. Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief

8. Mad Max: Fury Road

9. Tangerine

10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens


Tim Earle

1. Inside Out
2. Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation
3. Phoenix
4. The Big Short
5. Hard to be a God
6. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
7. Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Sicario

10. It Follows

The Best Old Movies of 2015

The following is a list of the best repertory cinema I caught for the first time in 2015. Quite a year for old movies. 

Loving 

The Deep

Black Hand

Underworld U.S.A.

Disco Godfather

The Grifters

Songs From The Second Floor

Nightbreed

A Couch In New York

Insiang

Emitai

Devil In The Flesh

The Decameron

Warrendale

Newsies

My Soul To Take

Summer of Fear

Shocker

Girlfriends

Chiller

Invitation To Hell

Red Eye

Nickelodeon

She Had Her Gun All Ready

Pocket Money

Sometimes A Great Notion

A Cold Night’s Death

A Poem Is A Naked Person

Smile

Prime Cut

The Comb

In Absentia

Witness

The Seagull

Terminal Island

Nadja

The Stone Tape

Fritz The Cat

Granton Trawler

The Artist and the City

Love Streams

I Wish I Knew

Come and Get It

White of the Eye

Wanda

The Red Tent

Violent Road

Esther Kahn

Caught

I Cover The Waterfront

Gang of Four

L’Amour Fou

Lonely Hearts

Mister Buddwing

A Carol For Another Christmas

The Appointment

The Alphabet Murders

You’ll Find Out

Time Without Pity

Air Force

Let’s Get Lost

Trouble In Mind

Two Rode Together

Heaven Can Wait

Truck Turner

Run Wild, Run Free

The Drowning Pool,

The Wings of Eagles

Rain

The Big Night

Men In War

Light Sleeper

Agatha

The Golden Bowl

The Moon and Sixpence

48 Hours

Too Much Johnson

Water For Elephants

Rancho Notorious

Rancho Deluxe

The Long Riders

I Shot Andy Warhol

Abandon Ship!

Far From The Madding Crowd

The Hustler

Hammett

July Rain

Lust For Life

No Skin Off My Ass

The Iceman Cometh

While The City Sleeps

American Guerrilla In The Philippines 

The China Syndrome

Torment

Bridges-Go-Round

All Quiet On The Western Front

I Am Cuba

The Rising of the Moon

Bhowani Junction

Thunder Over The Plains

The Big Clock

Lovely Rita

Trespass

Newsfront

Redland

John Carpenter’s Vampires

Compulsion

10 Rillington Place

Renegade

Letters From A Dead Man

Ten Skies

The Mangler

The Story of G.I. Joe

Gator Bait

Footprints on the Moon

Znoy

Joe Vs. The Volcano

Atlantic City

Nixon

Rabid Dogs

Palm Adore

This is more about discovering my limitations as a cinephile than as a definitive ranking of anything, but I went through every year's crop of films and assigned prizes as if they were all competing at the Cannes Film Festival. This is maybe a little silly, but it was also fun. This stems from my constant frustration that the Palme is not routinely rewarded to the film that breaks the most ground for the art of cinema. Amour springs to mind. Fine enough movie (if you're into that sort of thing) but grammatically conventional. Remember that was the year Holy Motors played in competition. I added the Camera d'Or the year that Cannes did just to stop myself from going totally insane. And I'm playing by Cannes rules in that I'm trying not to give any one film two awards, which means compromise in categories. So, again, not a definitive ranking, just a game. Oh, and I'm starting arbitrarily in 1930.



1930

Palme d’Or: Morocco
Grand Prix: L'Age d'Or
Prix du Jury: Earth
Director: Josef Von Sternberg - The Blue Angel / Morocco
Actor: Lon Chaney - The Unholy Three
Actress: Pola Illéry - Under The Roofs of Paris
Screenplay: The Blue Angel



1931

Palme d’Or: M
Grand Prix: The 3 Penny Opera
Prix du Jury: Night Nurse
Director: Rene Clair - A Nous la Liberte
Actor: Ronald Colman - Arrowsmith
Actress: Dorothy Mackaill - Safe in Hell
Screenplay: Frankenstein



1932

Palme d’Or: Vampyr
Grand Prix: Freaks
Prix du Jury: The Most Dangerous Game
Director: Josef Von Sternberg - Shanghai Express
Actor: Charles Laughton - Island of Lost Souls
Actress: Jean Harlow - Red Dust
Screenplay: Trouble In Paradise



1933

Palme d’Or: Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Grand Prix: King Kong
Prix du Jury: Duck Soup
Director: Fritz Lang - Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Actor: Paul Robeson - Emperor Jones
Actress: Ruby Keeler - 42nd Street
Screenplay: The Emperor Jones



1934

Palme d’Or: The Black Cat
Grand Prix: Man of Aran
Prix du Jury: Dames
Director: Josef Von Sternberg - The Scarlet Empress
Actor: W.C. Fields - It's A Gift
Actress: Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
Screenplay: It Happened One Night


1935

Palme d’Or: La Bandera
Grand Prix: Top Hat
Prix du Jury: The Informer
Director: Karl Freund - Mad Love
Actor: Boris Karloff - The Black Room
Actress: Marlene Dietrich - The Devil is a Woman
Screenplay: A Night at the Opera



1936

Palme d’Or: Follow The Fleet
Grand Prix: Things To Come
Prix du Jury: Fury
Director: Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1937
Actor: William Powell - My Man Godfrey
Actress: Sylvia Sidney - Sabotage
Screenplay: Dodsworth



1937

Palme d’Or: Grand Illusion
Grand Prix: Lost Horizon
Prix du Jury: The Hurricane
Director: Frank Borzage - History is Made at Night
Actor: Victor Moore - Make Way for Tomorrow
Actress: Beulah Bondi - Make Way For Tomorrow
Screenplay: Pepe le Moko


1938

Palme d’Or: Alexander Nevsky
Grand Prix: The Lady Vanishes
Prix du Jury: Bringing up Baby
Director: Marcel Carne - Port of Shadows
Actor: Cary Grant - Holiday
Actress: Simone Simon - La Bete Humaine
Screenplay: The Lady Vanishes


1939

Palme d’Or: Rules of the Game
Grand Prix: Young Mr. Lincoln
Prix du Jury: Only Angels Have Wings
Director: John Ford - Young Mr. Lincoln/Stagecoach
Actor: Jean Gabin - Daybreak
Actress: June Duprez - The Four Feathers
Screenplay: Jamaica Inn



1940

Palme d’Or: The Thief of Bagdad
Grand Prix: Fantasia 
Prix du Jury: Go West
Director: John Ford - The Long Voyage Home
Actor: Cary Grant - His Girl Friday
Actress: Rosalind Russell - His Girl Friday
Screenplay: The Philadelphia Story


1941

Palme d’Or: Citizen Kane 
Grand Prix: Swamp Water
Prix du Jury: The Lady Eve
Director: Michael Curtiz - The Sea Wolf
Actor: Walter Huston - The Devil & Daniel Webster
Actress: Veronica Lake - Sullivan’s Travels
Screenplay: The Maltese Falcon


1942

Palme d’Or: Casablanca
Grand Prix: Cat People
Prix du Jury: The Jungle Book
Director: Orson Welles - The Magnificent Ambersons
Actor: Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
Actress: Simone Simon - Cat People
Screenplay: The Palm Beach Story


1943

Palme d’Or: Le Corbeau
Grand Prix: Cabin In The Sky
Prix du Jury: I Walked With A Zombie
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer - Day of Wrath
Actor: Henry Fonda - The Ox-Bow Incident
Actress: Theresa Wright - Shadow of a Doubt
Screenplay: The 7th Victim


1944

Palme d’Or: Ivan The Terrible 
Grand Prix: Curse of the Cat People
Prix du Jury: The Three Caballeros 
Director: Fritz Lang - Ministry of Fear
Actor: Peter Lorre & Sidney Greenstreet - The Mask of Dimitrios
Actress: Nina Foch - Return of the Vampire
Screenplay: Miracle of Morgan’s Creek


1945 

Palme d’Or: Leave Her To Heaven
Grand Prix: Children of Paradise
Prix du Jury: My Name Is Julia Ross
Director: Edgar Ulmer - Detour / John Brahm - Hangover Square
Actor: Boris Karloff - The Body Snatcher
Actress: Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter
Screenplay: Scarlet Street


1946

Palme d’Or: Beauty & The Beast
Grand Prix: My Darling Clementine
Prix du Jury: Notorious
Director: Orson Welles - The Stranger
Actor: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
Actress: Barbara Stanwyck - The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers
Screenplay: Bedlam



1947

Palme d’Or: Black Narcissus
Grand Prix: The Lady From Shanghai
Prix du Jury: Out Of The Past
Director: Robert Montgomery - Lady In The Lake
Actor: Hume Cronyn - Brute Force
Actress: Kathleen Byron - Black Narcissus
Screenplay: The Ghost & Mrs. Muir


1948 

Palme d’Or: The Red Shoes
Grand Prix: Unfaithfully Yours
Prix du Jury: Portrait of Jennie
Director: Andre De Toth - Pitfall
Actor: Robert Ryan - Act of Violence
Actress: Joan Fontaine - Letter From An Unknown Woman
Screenplay: Treasure of the Sierra Madra


1949

Palme d’Or: The Third Man
Grand Prix: The Small Back Room
Prix du Jury: Criss Cross
Director: Akira Kurosawa - Stray Dog
Actor: Claude Rains - The Passionate Friends
Actress: Jennifer Jones - We Were Strangers
Screenplay: Thieves Highway


1950

Palme d’Or: Rashomon
Grand Prix: Los Olvidados
Prix du Jury: Wagonmaster
Director: Michael Powell - Gone To Earth
Actor: Richard Widmark - Night And The City
Actress: Barbara Stanwyck - The Furies
Screenplay: In A Lonely Place


1951

Palme d’Or: Pandora & The Flying Dutchman
Grand Prix: The Prowler
Prix du Jury: On Dangerous Ground
Director: Michael Powell - Tales of Hoffmann
Actor: Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train
Actress: Katherine Hepburn - The African Queen
Screenplay: Ace In The Hole


1952

Palme d’Or: Forbidden Games
Grand Prix: Singin’ In The Rain
Prix du Jury: Ikiru
Director: Sam Fuller - Park Row
Actor: Robert Mitchum - The Lusty Men
Actress: Simone Signoret - Casque d’Or
Screenplay: Monkey Business


1953

Palme d’Or: Gate of Hell
Grand Prix: Ugetsu
Prix du Jury: The Man Between
Director: Roy Ward Baker - Inferno
Actor: Richard Widmark - Pick-Up On South Street
Actress: Harriett Andersson - Sawdust & Tinsel
Screenplay: The Wages of Fear


1954

Palme d’Or: Seven Samurai
Grand Prix: Sansho The Bailiff 
Prix du Jury: Godzilla
Director: Nicholas Ray - Johnny Guitar
Actor: James Mason - A Star Is Born
Actress: Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession
Screenplay: Rear Window


1955

Palme d’Or: Night of the Hunter
Grand Prix: Lola Montes
Prix du Jury: All That Heaven Allows
Director: Robert Aldrich - Kiss Me Deadly
Actor: James Dean - Rebel Without A Cause
Actress: Marilyn Monroe - The Seven Year Itch
Screenplay: It’s Always Fair Weather


1956

Palme d’Or: The Searchers
Grand Prix: The Killing
Prix du Jury: Moby Dick
Director: Lionel Rogosin - On The Bowery 
Actor: James Mason - Bigger Than Life
Actress: Marilyn Monroe - Bus Stop
Screenplay: Written On The Wind


1957

Palme d’Or: Paths of Glory
Grand Prix: The Seventh Seal
Prix du Jury: Kanal 
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov - The Cranes Are Flying
Actor: Victor Sjöström - Wild Strawberries
Actress: Giulietta Masina - Nights of Cabiria
Screenplay: Sweet Smell of Success


1958

Palme d’Or: Mon Oncle
Grand Prix: Vertigo
Prix du Jury: Ashes & Diamonds
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita - The Ballad of Nayarama
Actor: Robert Taylor - Party Girl
Actress: Jeanne Moreau - The Lovers
Screenplay: The Revenge of Frankenstein


1959

Palme d’Or: Letter Never Sent
Grand Prix: Day of the Outlaw
Prix du Jury: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - North By Northwest
Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai - The Human Condition / Odd Obsession
Actress: Katherine Hepburn - Suddenly Last Summer
Screenplay: Jakten


1960

Palme d’Or: L’Avventura
Grand Prix: La Dolce Vita
Prix du Jury: Home From The Hill
Director: Iosef Kheifits - The Lady With The Dog
Actor: Toshiro Mifune - The Bad Sleep Well
Actress: Edith Scob - Eyes Without A Face
Screenplay: The Ninth Circle


1961

Palme d’Or: Last Year At Marienbad
Grand Prix: Viridiana
Prix du Jury: Il Posto
Director: Allen Baron - Blast of Silence
Actor: Marcella Mastroianni - Divorce Italian Style
Actress: Anna Karina - A Woman Is A Woman
Screenplay: The Innocents


1962

Palme d’Or: L’Eclisse
Grand Prix: Cleo From 5 to 7
Prix du Jury: Ivan’s Childhood
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - La Commare Secca
Actor: Peter O’Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
Actress: Anna Karina - Vivre Sa Vie
Screenplay: The Exterminating Angels


1963

Palme d’Or: 8 1/2
Grand Prix: Contempt
Prix du Jury: An Actor’s Revenge / Youth of the Beast
Director: Ermanno Olmi - I Fidanzati
Actor: Richard Harris - This Sporting Life
Actress: Tippi Hedren - The Birds
Screenplay: High & Low


1964

Palme d’Or: Soy Cuba
Grand Prix: Red Desert
Prix du Jury: Onibaba
Director: Masahiro Shinoda - Pale Flower
Actor: Stanley Baker - Zulu
Actress: Yumiko Nogawa - Gate of Flesh
Screenplay:  Woman In The Dunes


1965

Palme d’Or: Chimes At Midnight 
Grand Prix: Le Bonheur
Prix du Jury: Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
Director: Federico Fellini - Juliet of the Spirits
Actor: Lou Castel - Fists In The Pocket
Actress: Catherine Deneuve - Repulsion
Screenplay: The Hill


1966  

Palme d’Or: Blow-Up
Grand Prix: Tokyo Drifter
Prix du Jury: Battle of Algiers
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Deuxieme Souffle
Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai - Sword of Doom
Actress: Jeanne Moreau - Mademoiselle 
Screenplay: The Pornographers


1967

Palme d’Or: Point Blank
Grand Prix: Marketa Lazarova
Prix du Jury: The Red & The White
Director: Joseph Losey - Accident
Actor: Jo Shishido - Branded To Kill
Actress: Nadine Nortier - Mouchette
Screenplay: Japan’s Longest Day


1968 

Palme d’Or: Kuroneko
Grand Prix: 2001: A Space Oddysey
Prix du Jury: Head
Director: Lindsay Anderson - If….
Actor: Peter O’Toole - The Lion In Winter
Actress: Mia Farrow - Rosemary’s Baby
Screenplay: Kill! 


1969

Palme d’Or: Mr. Freeddom
Grand Prix: The Wild Bunch
Prix du Jury: Army of Shadows
Director: Teruo Ishii - Horrors of Malformed Men
Actor: Peter Cushing - Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Actress: Maria Callas - Medea 
Screenplay: Play Dirty


1970

Palme d’Or: The Conformist
Grand Prix: Le Cercle Rouge
Prix du Jury: Zabriskie Point
Director: Jaromil Jires - Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Actor: Alan Arkin - Catch-22
Actress: Lynn Redgrave - The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Screenplay: The Landlord


1971

Palme d’Or: The Devils
Grand Prix: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Prix du Jury: Punishment Park
Director: Richard C. Sarafian - Man In The Wilderness/Vanishing Point
Actor: Walter Matthau - A New Leaf
Actress: Jane Fonda - Klute
Screenplay: The Last Picture Show


1972

Palme d’Or: Cries & Whispers 
Grand Prix: Solaris
Prix du Jury: Fat City
Director: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Actor: Peter O’Toole - The Ruling Class
Actress: Patty Duke - You’ll Like My Mother
Screenplay: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 


1973

Palme d’Or: Touki Bouki
Grand Prix: The Mansion of Madness
Prix du Jury: The Friends of Eddie Coyle 
Director: William Friedkin - The Exorcist
Actor: Robert Ryan - The Iceman Cometh
Actress: Tatum O’Neil - Paper Moon
Screenplay: The Last Detail


1974

Palme d’Or: The Conversation
Grand Prix: Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Prix du Jury: Sweet Movie
Director: Robert Bresson - Lancelot Du Lac
Actor: Elliott Gould & George Segal - California Split
Actress: Madeleine Kahn - Young Frankenstein
Screenplay: Edvard Munch


1975

Palme d’Or: Maitresse
Grand Prix: The Passenger
Prix du Jury: Salo
Director: Robert Mulligan - The Nickel Ride
Actor: Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
Actress: Delphine Seyreig - Jeanne Dielman
Screenplay: Shivers


1976

Palme d’Or: Private Vices, Public Virtues
Grand Prix: Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Prix du Jury: Who Can Kill A Child? 
Director: Alan Pakula - All The President’s Men
Actor: Peter Falk & John Cassavettes - Mikey & Nicky
Actress: Jodie Foster - The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Screenplay: The Winds of Autumn


1977

Palme d’Or: Sorcerer
Grand Prix: The Devil, Probably
Prix du Jury: Eraserhead
Director: Larisa Shepitko - The Ascent
Actor: John Amplas - Martin
Actress: Gena Rowlands - Opening Night
Screenplay: Providence


1978

Palme d’Or: Killer of Sheep
Grand Prix: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Prix du Jury: Dawn of the Dead
Director: Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
Actor:  Fabrice Luchini - Perceval Le Gallois
Actress: Liv Ulmman & Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata 
Screenplay: The Long Weekend
Camera d’Or: Blue Collar


1979

Palme d’Or: Apocalypse Now
Grand Prix: Nosferatu
Prix du Jury: The Brood
Director: Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
Actor: Ken Watanabe - Vengeance Is Mine
Actress: Sally Field - Norma Rae
Screenplay: Life of Brian
Camera d’Or: Mad Max


1980

Palme d’Or: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Grand Prix: Heaven’s Gate
Prix du Jury: Kagemusha
Director: Dario Argento - Inferno
Actor: Bob Hoskins - The Long Good Friday
Actress: Adrienne Barbeau - The Fog
Screenplay: The Stunt Man
Camera d’Or: The Ninth Configuration


1981

Palme d’Or: Thief
Grand Prix: The Loveless
Prix du Jury: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Director: Tobe Hooper - Funhouse
Actor: Peter Falk - …All The Marbles
Actress: Divine - Polyester
Screenplay: Road Games
Camera d’Or: The Evil Dead


1982

Palme d’Or: Fanny & Alexander 
Grand Prix: Blade Runner
Prix du Jury: The Thing
Director: Tobe Hooper - Poltergeist / Michelangelo Antonioni - Identification of a Woman
Actor: Paul Newman - The Verdict
Actress: Jessica Lange - Frances
Screenplay: Britannia Hospital
Camera d’Or: Diner


1983

Palme d’Or: El Sur
Grand Prix: L’Argent
Prix du Jury: Midnite Spares
Director: John Carpenter - Christine
Actor: Mickey Rourke - Rumble Fish
Actress: Sandrine Bonnaire - A Nos Amours
Screenplay: The Right Stuff
Camera d’Or: The Hunger


1984

Palme d’Or: Stop Making Sense
Grand Prix: Stranger Than Paradise
Prix du Jury: Blood Simple
Director: Russell Mulcahy - Razorback
Actor: Harry Dean Stanton - Paris, Texas
Actress: Karen Allen - Starman
Screenplay: Repo Man
Camera d’Or: This is Spinal Tap


1985

Palme d’Or: Brazil
Grand Prix: To Live And Die in L.A.
Prix du Jury: Runaway Train
Director: Paul Schrader - Mishima
Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai - Ran
Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh - Flesh + Blood
Screenplay: Return of the Living Dead
Camera d’Or: Blood Simple


1986

Palme d’Or: Caravaggio
Grand Prix: Blue Velvet
Prix du Jury: Down By Law
Director: Michael Mann - Manhunter
Actor: Jeff Goldblum - The Fly
Actress: Beatrice Dalle - Betty blue
Screenplay: Hannah & Her Sisters
Camera d’Or: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer


1987

Palme d’Or: Au Revoir Les Enfants
Grand Prix: Ishtar
Prix du Jury: Yeelen
Director: Katheryn Bigelow - Near Dark
Actor: Bruno Ganz & Peter Falk - Wings of Desire
Actress: Holly Hunter - Raising Arizona
Screenplay: Hope & Glory
Camera d’Or: Withnail & I


1988

Palme d’Or: Distant Voices, Still Lives
Grand Prix: Ghosts….of the Civil Dead
Prix du Jury: Another Woman
Director: Tony Randel - Hellbound
Actor: Jeremy Irons - Dead Ringers
Actress: Cyndi Lauper - Vibes
Screenplay: Midnight Run
Camera d’Or: Tales From The Gimli Hospital


1989

Palme d’Or: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover
Grand Prix: Visitor to a Museum
Prix du Jury: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
Director: Krzystof Kieslowski - The Decalogue
Actor: Daniel-Day Lewis - My Left Foot
Actress: Bulle Ogier - Gang of Four
Screenplay: Crimes & Misdemeanors
Camera d’Or: UHF


1990

Palme d’Or: Close-Up
Grand Prix: Wild At Heart
Prix du Jury: Tilai
Director: Abel Ferrara - King of New York
Actor: Jason Patric - After Dark My Sweet
Actress: Meg Ryan - Joe Versus The volcano
Screenplay: Goodfellas
Camera d’Or: Mortu Nega


1991

Palme d’Or: Lovers on the Bridge
Grand Prix: Double Life of Veronique
Prix du Jury: My Own Private Idaho 
Director: Terry Gilliam - The Fisher King
Actor: Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
Actress: Susan Sarandon & Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
Screenplay: The People Under The Stairs
Camera d’Or: No Skin Off My Ass


1992

Palme d’Or: The Long Day Closes
Grand Prix: Bad Lieutenant
Prix du Jury: Last of the Mohicans
Director: Francis Ford Coppola - Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Actor: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Actress: Sheryl Lee - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Screenplay: Diggstown
Camera d’Or: Alien³ 


1993

Palme d’Or: Schindler’s List
Grand Prix: The Age of Innocence
Prix du Jury: Body Snatchers
Director: James Ivory - Remains of the Day
Actor: David Thewlis - Naked
Actress: Juliet Binoche - Blue
Screenplay: King of the Hill
Camera d’Or: Clean, Shaven


1994

Palme d’Or: The Hudsucker Proxy
Grand Prix: Ashes of Time
Prix du Jury: Super 8 1/2
Director: James Grey - Little Odessa
Actor: Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Actress: Kate Winslet & Melanie Lynskey - Heavenly Creatures
Screenplay: Pulp Fiction
Camera d’Or: Shallow Grave


1995

Palme d’Or: 12 Monkeys
Grand Prix: Fallen Angels
Prix du Jury: Dead Man
Director: David Fincher - Seven 
Actor: Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
Actress: Emma Thompson - Sense & Sensibility 
Screenplay: Land & Freedom
Camera d’Or: Toy Story


1996

Palme d’Or: Crash
Grand Prix: Trainspotting
Prix du Jury: Fargo
Director: Steven Soderbergh - Schizolopolis
Actor: Philip Baker Hall - Hard Eight
Actress: Maggie Cheung - Irma Vep
Screenplay: The Bird Cage
Camera d’Or: Bottle Rocket


1997

Palme d’Or: Taste of Cherry
Grand Prix: The Sweet Hereafter
Prix du Jury: L.A. Confidential
Director: David Lynch - Lost Highway
Actor: Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
Actress: Joan Allen - The Ice Storm
Screenplay: Wings of the Dove
Camera d’Or: Mouse Hunt


1998

Palme d’Or: Khrustyalov, My Car! 
Grand Prix: Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
Prix du Jury: Buffalo ’66
Director: Steven Soderbergh - Out of Sight
Actor: Peter Mullan - My Name is Joe
Actress: Jennifer Connely - Dark City
Screenplay: Rushmore
Camera d’Or: Pi


1999

Palme d’Or: Pola X
Grand Prix: Topsy-Turvy
Prix du Jury: Eyes Wide Shut
Director: Martin Scorsese - Bringing Out The Dead
Actor: Denis Lavant - Beau Travail
Actress: Sigourney Weaver - Galaxy Quest
Screenplay: The Insider
Camera d’Or: The Iron Giant


2000

Palme d’Or: In Vanda’s Room
Grand Prix: Together
Prix du Jury: Chicken Run
Director: Wong Kar-Wai - In The Mood For Love
Actor: Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
Actress: Sylvie Testud - Murderous Maids
Screenplay: Together
Camera d’Or: Sexy Beast


2001

Palme d’Or: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Grand Prix: The Devil’s Backbone
Prix du Jury: The Royal Tenenbaums
Director: Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Actor: Lee Kang-Sheng - What Time Is It There?
Actress: Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher
Screenplay: Mulholland Drive
Camera d’Or: Frailty


2002

Palme d’Or: 28 Days Later
Grand Prix: The Pianist
Prix du Jury: Ten
Director: Claire Denis - Friday Night 
Actor: Kurt Russell - Dark Blue
Actress: Samantha Morton - Morvern Callar
Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch Drunk-Love
Camera d’Or: Jackass: The Movie


2003

Palme d’Or: Elephant
Grand Prix: Down With Love
Prix du Jury: Coffee & Cigarettes
Director: Takashi Miike - Gozu
Actor: Russell Crowe - Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
Actress: Eva Green - The Dreamers
Screenplay: Intolerable Cruelty 
Camera d’Or: Shattered Glass


2004

Palme d’Or: Birth
Grand Prix: The Aviator
Prix du Jury: L’Intrus
Director: Cate Shortland - Somersault
Actor: Bill Murray - The Life Aquatic
Actress: Julie Delpy - Before Sunset
Screenplay: Anatomy of Hell
Camera d’Or: Innocence


2005

Palme d’Or: The New World
Grand Prix: Broken Flowers
Prix du Jury: Lady Vengeance
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang - The Wayward Cloud
Actor: John Jarratt - Wolf Creek
Actress: Gretchen Mol - The Notorious Bettie Page
Screenplay: Brick
Camera d’Or: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada


2006

Palme d’Or: Inland Empire
Grand Prix: Big Bang Love: Juvenile A
Prix du Jury: The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Director: Sofia Coppola - Marie Antoinette
Actor: Clive Owen - Children of Men
Actress:  Ivana Baquero - Pan’s Labyrinth
Screenplay: Offside
Camera d’Or: Red Road


2007

Palme d’Or: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Grand Prix: Zodiac
Prix du Jury: Paranoid Park
Director: Andrew Dominik - The Assassnation of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Actor: Daniel-Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Actress: Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère & Adèle Haenel - Water Lilies
Screenplay: Youth Without Youth
Camera d’Or: Water Lilies 


2008

Palme d’Or: Un Lac
Grand Prix: Let The Right One In 
Prix du Jury: Hunger
Director: Matteo Garrone - Gomorrah
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix - Two Lovers
Actress: Arta Dobroshi - Lorna’s Silence
Screenplay: Synecdoche, New York
Camera d’Or: The Escapist


2009

Palme d’Or: White Material
Grand Prix: Lourdes
Prix du Jury: Vincere
Director: Luca Guadanino - I Am Love
Actor: Edward Hogg - White Lightnin’
Actress: Julie Sokolowski - Hadewijch
Screenplay: The City of Life & Death
Camera d’Or: Hierro


2010

Palme d’Or: The Sleeping Beauty 
Grand Prix: Tuesday, After Christmas
Prix du Jury: On Tour
Director: Takashi Miike - 13 Assassins
Actor: Casey Affleck - The Killer Inside Me
Actress: Ellen Barkin - Shit Year
Screenplay: NEDS
Camera d’Or: Two Gates of Sleep


2011

Palme d’Or: The Tree of Life
Grand Prix: The Deep Blue Sea
Prix du Jury: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Director: Bertrand Bonello - House of Tolerance
Actor: Muhammet Uzuner - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Actress: Anna Paquin - Margaret
Screenplay: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Camera d’Or: Two Years At Sea (if this is a technicality fault, then it goes to Coriolanus)


2012

Palme d’Or: Holy Motors / Leviathan
Grand Prix: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
Prix du Jury: Aurora
Director: Marco Bellocchio - Dormant Beauty
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix & Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Actress: Melanie Lynskey - Hello I Must Be Going
Screenplay: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Camera d’Or: The Man With The Iron Fists


2013

Palme d’Or: Hard To Be A God
Grand Prix:  A Touch of Sin
Prix du Jury: A Field In England
Director: James Gray - The Immigrant
Actor: Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
Actress: Scarlett Johansen - Under The Skin
Screenplay: Computer Chess
Camera d’Or: Manakamana


2014

Palme d’Or: Actress
Grand Prix: Pasolini
Prix du Jury: Jauja
Director: Jennifer Kent - The Babadook
Actor: David Oyelowo - Selma
Actress: Nina Hoss - Phoenix
Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Camera d’Or: Over The Garden Wall

The Best Films from 2010-2014

Below is a list of excellent films, to my mind the best, that were made and released between January 01, 2010 and today, December 23nd, 2014. Obviously there are many I haven't seen and I've not included shorts or animated films, for no real reason. Just to make my job easier. I realize there is repetition of auteurs, but it's my dumb list so there. These aren't in any real order. 

1. Hard To Be A God

2. Dormant Beauty

3. Computer Chess

4. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

5. Leviathan ('12)

6. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

7. Holy Motors

8. 13 Assassins

9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

10. The Tree of Life

11. House of Pleasures

12. On Tour

13. The Turin Horse

14. The Immigrant

15. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

16. The Deep Blue Sea

17. The Master

18. The Unspeakable Act

19. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia

20. Cosmopolis

21. Force Majeure

22. In Darkness

23. Tabu

24. Patience (After Sebald)

25. Two Years At Sea

26. Shit Year

27. John Carter

28. The Lone Ranger

29. Certified Copy

30. The Grey

31. The Color Wheel

32. A Separation

33. A Touch of Sin

34. Stranger By The Lake

35. Timbuktu

36. The Strange Case of Angelica

37. Beyond The Hills

38. The Hunter

39. Journey To The West

40. Actress

41. Moebius

42. Under The Skin

43. The Grand Budapest Hotel

44. Only Lovers Left Alive

45. A Field In England

46. Hugo

47. The Sleeping Beauty

48. The Rover

49. Perhaps Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve

50. The Wall

51. Inside Llewyn Davis

52. The Past

53. The Wolf of Wall Street

54. Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari

55. Vanishing Waves

56. In The Fog

57. Never Let Me Go

58. Jealousy

59. A Screaming Man

60. Tuesday After Christmas

61. Beloved Sisters

62. Super 8

63. Norwegian Wood

64. Last of the Unjust

65. NEDs

66. Margaret

67. Melancholia

68. War Horse

69. Art History

70. Manakamana

71. We Need To Talk About Kevin

72. Silver Bullets

73. Foxcatcher

74. The Skin I Live In

75. Silent Souls

76. Anonymous

77. Archipelago

78. Beginners

79. Looper

80. Lore

81. Kati With An I

82. The Bling Ring

83. Alps

84. Wuthering Heights

85. Jauja

86. Killing Them Softly

87. Somewhere

88. One Minute of Darkness

89. Miners Hymns

90. Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project

91. Inherent Vice

92. Keyhole

93. Lines of Wellington 

94. La Noche De Enfrente

95. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

96. Listen Up, Philip 

97. The Mill & The Cross

98. Contagion

99. Mr. Turner

100. Night Moves