IndieWire Poll: Best Films of 2011 [as voted by 162 “critics, bloggers and other tastemakers from around the world”] [See IndieWire for full, browsable results and ballots.]
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- Melancholia — Lars von Trier
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
- Mysteries of Lisbon — Raoul Ruiz
- Hugo — Martin Scorsese
- Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
- Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
- Shame — Steve McQueen
- The Descendants — Alexander Payne
- The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius
- Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
- Martha Marcy May Marlene — Sean Durkin
- A Dangerous Method — David Cronenberg
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Tomas Alfredson
- We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
- Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
- Weekend — Andrew Haigh
- Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
- Nostalgia for the Light — Patricio Guzmán
- The Interrupters — Steve James
- The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
- Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen