Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Actors and Directors Pick their Best Movies of the Century


As part of the NY Times Best 100 Movies of the Century, they showed you the specific ballots of some actors, actresses and directors who voted. Interesting results, here: 

Pedro Almodovar: 

- Amour
- Call Me By Your Name
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Dogtooth
- Ida
- La Cienaga
- Phantom Thread
- Roma
- Ten
- Toni Erdmann

Pamela Anderson: 

- Amelie
- Blue Valentine
- A Vida Invisivel
- Lost in Translation
- Requiem for a Dream 
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Lobster
- The Party
- Volver
- White God

Elizabeth Banks: 

- Barbie 
- Bowling for Columbine 
- Inglourious Basterds
- Moonlight
- Mustang
- No Country for Old Men
- Parasite
- Something's Gotta Give
- The Departed
- Toy Story 3

Mike Birbiglia:

- Children of Men
- Frances Ha
- Hot Fuzz
- Idiocracy
- Me and You and Everyone We Know
- Sideways
- Spotlight
- Superbad
- The Squid and the Whale
- Up

Jason Blum:

- Boyhood
- Get Out
- Moneyball
- Moulin Rouge
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Spotlight
- The Big Short
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- There Will Be Blood
- Whiplash

Bong Joon Ho:

- Asako I&II
- Lazzaro Felice
- Mad Max Fury Road
- No Country for Old Men
- Stranger by the Lake
- The Day He Arrives
- The Social Network
- War of the Worlds
- Zodiac

Danielle Brooks: 

- Django Unchained
- Get Out
- Inglourious Basterds
- John Q
- Moonlight
- Parasite
- Sinners
- Summer of Soul
- Whiplash

Mel Brooks:

- A Beautiful Mind
- Bottle Shock
- Hidden Figures
- Inglourious Basterds
- Jojo Rabbit
- Midnight in Paris
- The Bourne Identity
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The King's Speech
- The Pianist

Toni Collette:

- City of God
- Cold War
- Eternal Sunshine
- Lady Bird
- Melancholia
- Parasite
- Roma
- Sing Sing
- The Great Beauty
- The Intouchables

Sofia Coppola:

- Aftersun
- American Psycho
- Force Majeure
- Get Out 
- In the Mood for Love
- Parasite
- Spirited Away
- The Incredibles
- The White Ribbon
- The Zone of Interest

Brian Cox:

- American Utopia
- Eternal Sunshine
- Leviathan
- Million Dollar Baby
- Mulholland Drive
- No Country for Old Men
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Lives of Others
- The Shape of Water
- The White Ribbon

Lena Dunham:

- Fish Tank
- Funny People
- Let the Right One In
- Mulholland Dr
- Mustang
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Shame
- The Broken Circle Breakdown
- The Souvenir
- The Worst Person in the World 

Ava DuVernay:

- Bal
- Brokeback Mountain
- Children of Men
- In the Mood for Love
- Lumumba
- Shoplifters
- Teza
- The Turin Horse
- Time
- Zero Dark Thirty

Robert Eggers:

- Beau Travail
- Burning
- Eternal Sunshine
- Hard to Be a God
- Mr. Turner
- Mulholland Dr
- Son of Saul
- The Piano Teacher
- The Turin Horse
- There Will Be Blood 

Alden Ehrenreich:

- A Separation
- A Serious Man
- Boyhood
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
- Krisha
- Moonlight 
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- The Worst Person in the World
- Wall-E
- You Can Count on Me

Chiwetel Ejiofor:

- 12 Years a Slave
- Citizenfour
- City of God
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Man on Wire
- Searching for Sugar Man
- The Act of Killing
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Under the Skin
- Waltz with Bashir

Brett Goldstein: 

- 45 Years
- Bridesmaids
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Inside Out
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Sexy Beast
- Shoplifters
- The Florida Project
- The Virgin Suicides

Luca Guadagnino:

- A History of Violence
- Fat Girl
- Ghosts of Mars
- In the Mood for Love
- Little Girl
- Me & You
- Millennium Mambo
- Redacted
- Sex is Comedy
- Teza

Bryce Dallas Howard:

- Amelie
- Children of Men
- Eternal Sunshine
- Get Out 
- Her
- Inside Out
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire 
- Spirited Away
- The Florida Project
- The Grand Budapest Hotel 

Barry Jenkins: 

- Cache
- Elephant
- Nickel Boys
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Saint Omer
- Synecdoche, New York
- La Nina Santa
- Vortex
- Zodiac

There are plenty more, but my typing fingers are getting tired. According to Grok, these are the common repeat selections: 

- Mulholland Drive
- Parasite
- Moonlight
- Get Out
- There Will Be Blood
- No Country for Old Men
- In the Mood for Love
- Lost in Translation
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Children of Men
- Spirited Away
- Phantom Thread
- The Social Network
- Brokeback Mountain
- Roma 
- Inglourious Basterds
- City of God
- Eternal Sunshine
- Superbad
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Bridesmaids
- Amour
- Amelie
- Boyhood
- Zodiac
- A Separation
- A Serious Man
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Wall-E
- The Act of Killing
- Under the Skin
- Her
- Memories of Murder
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Toni Erdmann
- The Departed
- The Zone of Interest
- The Florida Project
- Oppenheimer
- A Prophet
- Interstellar
- Oldboy
- The Dark Knight
- The Hurt Locker
- Spotlight
- Up
- Aftersun
- Fish Tank
- Let the Right One In 
- Punch-Drunk Love
- The Tree of Life
- Black Panther
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Call Me By Your Name
- Volver
- Whiplash
- Mad Max Fury Road
- Lady Bird
- Melancholia
- The Worst Person in the World
- 12 Years a Slave
- Pan's Labyrinth
- O Brother Where Art Thou?
- Past Lives
- Almost Famous
- Before Sunset
- Borat
- Yi Yi
- Kill Bill Vol 1
- Michael Clayton
- Anatomy of a Fall 

John Frascella is a 2nd generation Film Critic and Sports Personality. Follow him on Twitter @FrascellaMovies and @NFLFrascella. 

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