The Independent: The 40 Best Films of the Decade, curated by Clarisse Loughrey, Geoffrey Macnab and Adam White
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
- American Honey — Andrea Arnold
- Paddington 2 — Paul King
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
- 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
- Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Son of Saul — László Nemes
- The Selfish Giant — Clio Barnard
- Stoker — Park Chan-wook
- The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky
- The Social Network — David Fincher
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Her — Spike Jonze
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Boy — Taika Waititi
- Selma — Ava DuVernay
- Melancholia — Lars von Trier
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- Boyhood — Richard Linklater
- The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- The Edge of Seventeen — Kelly Fremon Craig
- Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino