Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association: Top 10 Films

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association’s Top 10 Films is a list of 10 films selected by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association to honor the best films of the year.

List

1990s

• 1990:

1. Dances with Wolves (AA)
2. Goodfellas
3. Reversal of Fortune
4. The Grifters
5. Awakenings
6. Metropolitan
7. Miller's Crossing
8. Avalon
9. Edward Scissorhands
10. The Freshman

• 1991:

1. Beauty and the Beast
2. JFK
3. The Silence of the Lambs (AA)
4. Boyz n the Hood
5. Thelma & Louise
6. Bugsy
7. Grand Canyon
8. The Fisher King
9. Barton Fink
10. The Prince of Tides

• 1992:

1. Malcolm X
2. The Player
3. Howards End
4. Unforgiven (AA)
5. The Crying Game
6. Aladdin
7. A Few Good Men
8. Passion Fish
9. Scent of a Woman
10. A League of Their Own

• 1993:

1. Schindler's List (AA)
2. The Piano
3. King of the Hill
4. The Remains of the Day
5. The Fugitive
6. In the Name of the Father
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. The Age of Innocence
9. Philadelphia
10. Sleepless in Seattle

• 1994:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Forrest Gump (AA)
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. The Lion King
5. Three Colors: Red
6. Quiz Show
7. Hoop Dreams
8. Heavenly Creatures
9. Little Women
10. Four Weddings and a Funeral

• 1995:

1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Apollo 13
3. Babe
4. Braveheart (AA)
5. Toy Story
6. A Little Princess
7. The Usual Suspects
8. Se7en
9. Sense and Sensibility
10. Heat

• 1996:

1. Fargo
2. Secrets & Lies
3. Hamlet
4. The English Patient (AA)
5. Jerry Maguire
6. Shine
7. Trainspotting
8. Courage Under Fire
9. Lone Star
10. Breaking the Waves

• 1997:

1. L.A. Confidential
2. Titanic (AA)
3. The Sweet Hereafter
4. Good Will Hunting
5. The Wings of the Dove
6. Boogie Nights
7. The Rainmaker
8. Contact
9. The Full Monty
10. As Good As It Gets

• 1998:

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Thin Red Line
3. The Truman Show
4. Life is Beautiful
5. Shakespeare in Love (AA)
6. Gods and Monsters
7. The Big Lebowski
8. Elizabeth
9. A Simple Plan
10. Out of Sight

• 1999:

1. American Beauty (AA)
2. The Sixth Sense
3. The Iron Giant
4. The Insider
5. Toy Story 2
6. The Matrix
7. Being John Malkovich
8. Fight Club
9. Magnolia
10. The Green Mile

2000s

• 2000:

1. Traffic
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. Gladiator (AA)
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. Almost Famous
6. Erin Brockovich
7. Chicken Run
8. Wonder Boys
9. Finding Forrester
10. You Can Count On Me

• 2001:

1. A Beautiful Mind (AA)
2. Moulin Rouge!
3. Memento
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. In the Bedroom
6. Shrek
7. The Man Who Wasn't There
8. Mulholland Dr.
9. Life as a House
10. Amélie

• 2002:

1. Chicago (AA)
2. Far from Heaven
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. The Pianist
5. About Schmidt
6. Gangs of New York
7. Adaptation.
8. Road to Perdition
9. Catch Me If You Can
10. The Hours

• 2003:

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (AA)
2. Cold Mountain
3. Mystic River
4. Lost in Translation
5. Finding Nemo
6. American Splendor
7. In America
8. Big Fish
9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
10. The Last Samurai

• 2004:

1. Million Dollar Baby (AA)
2. Sideways
3. Finding Neverland
4. The Aviator
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Ray
7. Kinsey
8. The Incredibles
9. A Very Long Engagement
10. Hotel Rwanda

• 2005:

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Capote
3. Good Night, and Good Luck.
4. Crash (AA)
5. Cinderella Man
6. Syriana
7. Pride & Prejudice
8. A History of Violence
9. King Kong
10. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

• 2006:

1. United 93
2. The Departed (AA)
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. The Queen
5. Babel
6. Letters from Iwo Jima
7. Dreamgirls
8. Blood Diamond
9. Little Children
10. Flags of Our Fathers

• 2007:

1. No Country for Old Men (AA)
2. Juno
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Atonement
5. Michael Clayton
6. Into the Wild
7. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8. The Kite Runner
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10. Charlie Wilson's War

• 2008:

1. Slumdog Millionaire (AA)
2. Milk
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. The Wrestler
6. The Visitor
7. Frost/Nixon
8. Doubt
9. WALL-E
10. Happy-Go-Lucky

• 2009:

1. Up in the Air
2. The Hurt Locker (AA)
3. Precious
4. Up
5. An Education
6. A Serious Man
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. District 9
9. Avatar
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox

2010s

• 2010:

1. The Social Network
2. The King's Speech (AA)
3. Black Swan
4. 127 Hours
5. Winter's Bone
6. Inception
7. The Fighter
8. True Grit
9. The Town
10. The Kids Are All Right

• 2011:

1. The Descendants
2. The Artist (AA)
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
4. Midnight in Paris
5. The Tree of Life
6. Hugo
7. 50/50
8. Drive
9. Shame
10. Moneyball

• 2012:

1. Lincoln
2. Argo (AA)
3. Zero Dark Thirty
4. Life of Pi
5. Les Misérables
6. Moonrise Kingdom
7. Silver Linings Playbook
8. Skyfall
9. The Master
10. Beasts of the Southern Wild

• 2013:

1. 12 Years a Slave (AA)
2. Gravity
3. Nebraska
4. American Hustle
5. Dallas Buyers Club
6. Her
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Captain Phillips
10. Mud

• 2014:

1. Birdman (AA)
2. Boyhood
3. The Imitation Game
4. The Theory of Everything
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Whiplash
7. Gone Girl
8. Selma
9. Wild
10. Nightcrawler

• 2015:

1. Spotlight (AA)
2. The Revenant
3. Carol
4. Sicario
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. The Big Short
7. The Martian
8. Room
9. The Danish Girl
10. Brooklyn