Year-End Lists

Jason Wood: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Spring Breakers
  Harmony Korine
• Bill Cunningham New York
  Richard Press
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nick Bradshaw: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Act of Killing
  Joshua Oppenheimer
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• August and After
  Nathaniel Dorsky
• 5 Broken Cameras
  Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
• The House I Live In
  Eugene Jarecki

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Geoffrey Macnab: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• London: The Modern Babylon
  Julien Temple
• The Hunt
  Thomas Vinterberg
• The Act of Killing
  Joshua Oppenheimer
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Farewell, My Queen
  Benoît Jacquot

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Derek Malcolm: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Beyond the Hills
  Cristian Mungiu
• In the Fog
  Sergei Loznitsa
• Silent Souls
  Aleksei Fedorchenko
• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Ship of Theseus
  Anand Gandhi

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Adrian Martin: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2017 • 2015]

• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• A Woman's Revenge
  Rita Azevedo Gomes
• Almayer’s Folly
  Chantal Akerman
• Night Across the Street
  Raoul Ruiz
• The Last Time I Saw Macao
  João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Melissa Anderson: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

• Barbara
  Christian Petzold
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Magic Mike
  Steven Soderbergh
• Neighboring Sounds
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Anton Bitel: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• American Mary
  Jen and Sylvia Soska
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• Detachment
  Tony Kaye
• Excision
  Richard Bates, Jr.
• A Night of Nightmares
  Buddy Giovinazzo

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

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

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