Year-End Lists

Graham Fuller: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2017]

• The Deep Blue Sea
  Terence Davies
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

William Fowler: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Bruce Lacey Experience
  Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams
• All Divided Selves
  Luke Fowler
• Two Years at Sea
  Ben Rivers
• Dredd 3D
  Pete Travis

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Sergio Angelini: Top Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• To Rome with Love
  Woody Allen
• Killing Them Softly
  Andrew Dominik
• The Dark Knight Rises
  Christopher Nolan
• Skyfall
  Sam Mendes

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Jane Giles: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• London: The Modern Babylon
  Julien Temple
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Keep the Lights On
  Ira Sachs
• Skyfall
  Sam Mendes

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Ryan Gilbey: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2021]

• Nostalgia for the Light
  Patricio Guzmán
• On the Road
  Walter Salles
• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Beauty
  Oliver Hermanus
• Elena
  Andrey Zvyagintsev

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Michael Brooke: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• Caesar Must Die
  Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• Margaret
  Kenneth Lonergan
• Rose
  Wojciech Smarzowski
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Ian Christie: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Shame
  Steve McQueen
• We Went to War
  Michael Grigsby
• The Avengers
  Joss Whedon

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Philip French: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
• Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Michael Atkinson: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
• Post Mortem
  Pablo Larraín
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Alps
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Almayer’s Folly
  Chantal Akerman

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Tim Robey: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Nostalgia for the Light
  Patricio Guzmán
• War Witch
  Kim Nguyen
• Beauty
  Oliver Hermanus

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012