Year-End Lists

Roger Clarke: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Francine
  Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky
• Robot & Frank
  Jake Schreier
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• A Simple Life
  Ann Hui
• Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Peter Hames: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• House with a Turret
  Eva Neymann
• Caesar Must Die
  Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
  Alain Resnais
• Imagine
  Andrzej Jakimowski
• I’m Going to Change My Name
  Mariya Saakyan

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Kim Newman: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Sightseers
  Ben Wheatley
• Excision
  Richard Bates, Jr.
• Damsels in Distress
  Whit Stillman
• Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Tom Charity: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Act of Killing
  Joshua Oppenheimer
• Killing Them Softly
  Andrew Dominik
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

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

• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Lawless
  John Hillcoat
• A Royal Affair
  Nikolaj Arcel
• Rust and Bone
  Jacques Audiard
• London: The Modern Babylon
  Julien Temple

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Naman Ramachandran: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Blancanieves
  Pablo Berger
• Skyfall
  Sam Mendes
• Miss Lovely
  Ashim Ahluwalia
• Seven Psychopaths
  Martin McDonagh
• My Brother the Devil
  Sally El Hosaini

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

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

Wendy Ide: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Argo
  Ben Affleck
• Killing Them Softly
  Andrew Dominik
• Children of Sarajevo
  Aida Begić

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