Η Βρετανική Ακαδημία Κινηματογράφου (BFI) και το περιοδικό Sight & Sound, το 2002, μετά από ψηφοφορία, κριτικοί και σκηνοθέτες, επέλεξαν τα καλύτερα στις παρακάτω λίστες:

Critics' Top Ten Poll (μέχρι και το 2002)
01. Citizen Kane
02. Vertigo
03. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
04. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
05. Tokyo Story
06. 2001: A Space Odyssey
07. The Battleship Potemkin
07. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
09. 8½
10. Singin' in the Rain

ακολουθούν The Seven Samurai και The Searchers.

Directors' Top Ten Poll (μέχρι και το 2002)
01. Citizen Kane
02. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
03. 8½
04. Lawrence of Arabia
05. Dr. Strangelove
06. Bicycle Thieves
06. Raging Bull
06. Vertigo
09. Rashomon
09. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
09. Seven Samurai

Critics' Top Ten Directors
01. Orson Welles
02. Alfred Hitchcock
03. Jean-Luc Godard
04. Jean Renoir
05. Stanley Kubrick
06. Akira Kurosawa
07. Federico Fellini
08. John Ford
09. Sergei Eisenstein
10. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Yasujiro Ozu

Directors' Top Ten Directors
01. Orson Welles
02. Federico Fellini
03. Akira Kurosawa
04. Francis Ford Coppola
05. Alfred Hitchcock
06. Stanley Kubrick
07. Billy Wilder
08. Ingmar Bergman
09. Martin Scorsese
09. David Lean
09. Jean Renoir

Critics' Top Ten Films of the Past 25 Years (2002)
01. Apocalypse Now
02. Raging Bull
03. Fanny and Alexander
04. Goodfellas
05. Blue Velvet
06. Do the Right Thing
07. Blade Runner
08. Chungking Express
09. Distant Voices, Still Lives
10. Once Upon A Time in America
10. Yi yi: A One and a Two...

Critics' Top Ten Directors of the Past 25 Years (2002)
01. Martin Scorsese
02. Krzysztof Kieslowski
03. Wong Kar-Wai
04. Abbas Kiarostami
05. Michael Mann
06. David Lynch
07. Pedro Almodóvar
08. Francis Ford Coppola
09. Spike Lee
09. Ingmar Bergman

Top Films of the Year
2005
01. Brokeback Mountain
02. A History of Violence
03. La niña santa (The Holy Girl)
04. 2046
05. Mysterious Skin
06. Le conseguenze dell'amore (The Consequences of Love)
07. The Descent
08. Moolaadé
09. Sud pralad (Tropical Malady)
10. De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped)
11. Gegen die Wand (Head-On)
12. Hauru no Ugoku Shiro (Howl's Moving Castle)
13. Last Days
14. Solntse (The Sun)

2006
01. Caché
02. Volver
03. The Departed
04. The Queen
05. Red Road
06. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
07. İklimler (Climates)
08. The New World
09. United 93
10. Pan's Labyrinth

2007
01. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
02. Inland Empire
03. Zodiac
04. I'm Not There
05. Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
06. Silent Light
07. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
08. Syndromes and a Century
09. No Country for Old Men
10. Eastern Promises

2008
01. Hunger
02. There Will Be Blood
03. WALL-E
04. Gomorra
05. A Christmas Tale
05. Entre les murs
07. Of Time and the City
08. Happy-Go-Lucky
09. The Headless Woman
10. Let The Right One In

2009
01. A Prophet
02. The Hurt Locker
02. 35 Shots of Rum
04. The White Ribbon
05. Let The Right One In
06. Up
06. White Material
08. Bright Star
08. Antichrist
10. Inglourious Basterds