The Great Movie Tournament - Nominations Thread: 2010s
And here we go!
This is the nominations thread for the fourth portion of The Great Movie Tournament (fourth of ten) where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 2010s (from 2010 to 2019). For our purposes, an eligible film must be a feature narrative film (no short films or documentaries) and its first release date must be between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2019 according to IMDb (sometimes films will premiere at festivals one year but have a wide release the following year; we'll use the IMDb and Wikipedia convention of the year of initial exhibition).
Participation is very much encouraged and extremely welcomed, but please do follow these guidelines for this nomination process (subject to adjustment):
- You can nominate one film per post, and you can nominate another film after four other members have made their nominations.
- You can second one film per post, and you can second another film after two other members have made their seconds.
- If possible, please include a trailer and/or a scene from the film using Spoiler tags (this version http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...ns/spoiler.gif and delete the s in https for YouTube links when embedding a video, making sure to use the full URL from the address bar, not the sharing link).
- Nominations can also be optionally accompanied by year of release and director.
Once 320 nominated films have been seconded, the tournament will begin, following the structure shown below (an overall event overview thread is posted with links to all the polls so members can easily navigate during the tournament). Each poll will be open for 7 days and any tiebreaker polls will be open for 4 days.
- Round 1: 32 groups of 10 titles - top 6 move on
- Round 2: 32 groups of 6 titles - top 4 move on
- Round 3: 32 groups of 4 titles - top 2 move on
- Round 4: 16 groups of 4 titles - top 2 move on
- Round 5: 16 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Octofinals: 8 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Quarterfinals: 4 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Final: 1 group of 2 titles - top 1 is the winner
This post will be updated with the list of nominated and seconded titles as they come in. You can also keep up to date with this handy Google Sheet.
Enjoy and have fun!
List of seconded films:- 12 Years a Slave (2013), dir. Steve McQueen
- Hereditary (2018), dir. Ari Aster
- Parasite (2019), dir. Bong Joon-ho
- Moonlight (2016), dir. Barry Jenkins
- Avengers: Endgame (2019), dir. Anthony and Joe Russo
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), dir. George Miller
- The Social Network (2010), dir. David Fincher
- The Revenant (2015), dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Inception (2010), dir. Christopher Nolan
- A Quiet Place (2018), dir. John Krasinski
- Call Me by Your Name (2017), dir. Luca Guadagnino
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017), dir. Denis Villeneuve
- Cold Fish (2010), dir. Sion Sono
- Skyfall (2012), dir. Sam Mendes
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
- John Wick (2014), dir. Chad Stahelski
- Joker (2019), dir. Todd Phillips
- The Drop (2014), dir. Michaël R. Roskam
- Wind River (2017), dir. Taylor Sheridan
- Shutter Island (2010), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Us (2019), dir. Jordan Peele
- Sicario (2015), dir. Denis Villeneuve
- Wonder Woman (2017), dir. Patty Jenkins
- Whiplash (2014), dir. Damien Chazelle
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), dir. Chad Stahelski
- Arrival (2016), dir. Denis Villeneuve
- Melancholia (2011), dir. Lars von Trier
- It (2017), dir. Andy Muschietti
- Logan (2017), dir. James Mangold
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), dir. Anthony and Joe Russo
- Get Out (2017), dir. Jordan Peele
- BlacKkKlansman (2018), dir. Spike Lee
- Black Swan (2010), dir. Darren Aronofsky
- Annihilation (2018), dir. Alex Garland
- The Tree of Life (2011), dir. Terrence Malick
- The Raid 2 (2014), dir. Gareth Evans
- Train to Busan (2016), dir. Yeon Sang-ho
- Rogue One (2016), dir. Gareth Edwards
- Ex Machina (2014), dir. Alex Garland
- Nightcrawler (2014), dir. Dan Gilroy
- Winter's Bone (2010), dir. Debra Granik
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), dir. Lynne Ramsay
- Song of the Sea (2014), dir. Tomm Moore
- A Ghost Story (2017), dir. David Lowery
- Bridesmaids (2011), dir. Paul Feig
- Hell or High Water (2016), dir. David Mackenzie
- Her (2013), dir. Spike Jonze
- Deadpool (2016), dir. Tim Miller
- Edge of Tomorrow (2014), dir. Doug Liman
- Leave No Trace (2018), dir. Debra Granik
- Ford v Ferrari (2019), dir. James Mangold
- Tully (2018), dir. Jason Reitman
- American Hustle (2013), dir. David O. Russell
- Baby Driver (2017), dir. Edgar Wright
- Boyhood (2014), dir. Richard Linklater
- Booksmart (2019), dir. Olivia Wilde
- The Disaster Artist (2017), dir. James Franco
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), dir. Quentin Tarantino
- Snowpiercer (2013), dir. Bong Joon-ho
- Roma (2018), dir. Alfonso Cuarón
- Under the Skin (2013), dir. Jonathan Glazer
- Spotlight (2015), dir. Tom McCarthy
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), dir. Martin Scorsese
- The Shape of Water (2017), dir. Guillermo del Toro
- The Woman (2011), dir. Lucky McKee
- 1917 (2019), dir. Sam Mendes
- True Grit (2010), dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), dir. Stephen Chbosky
- Ready Player One (2018), dir. Steven Spielberg
- The Witch (2015), dir. Robert Eggers
- Enemy (2013), dir. Denis Villeneuve
- Jojo Rabbit (2019), dir. Taika Waititi
- You Were Never Really Here (2017), dir. Lynne Ramsay
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017), dir. Taika Waititi
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), dir. Martin McDonagh
- The Babadook (2014), dir. Jennifer Kent
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012), dir. Christopher Nolan
- The Cabin in the Woods (2012), dir. Drew Goddard
- Four Lions (2010), dir. Chris Morris
- Dunkirk (2017), dir. Christopher Nolan
- The Kids Are All Right (2010), dir. Lisa Cholodenko
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), dir. Matthew Vaughn
- Django Unchained (2012), dir. Quentin Tarantino
- Jurassic World (2015), dir. Colin Trevorrow
- A Star is Born (2018), dir. Bradley Cooper
- The Greatest Showman (2017), dir. Michael Gracey
- Trouble with the Curve (2012), dir. Clint Eastwood
- Lady Bird (2017), dir. Greta Gerwig
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), dir. James Gunn
- Looper (2012), dir. Rian Johnson
- Gone Girl (2014), dir. David Fincher
- First Reformed (2017), dir. Paul Schrader
- Game Night (2018), dir. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
- The Hateful Eight (2015), dir. Quentin Tarantino
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), dir. Rupert Wyatt
- Hacksaw Ridge (2016), dir. Mel Gibson
- Gravity (2013), dir. Alfonso Cuarón
- Birdman (2014), dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Black Panther (2018), dir. Ryan Coogler
- Mother! (2017), dir. Darren Aronofsky
- Knives Out (2019), dir. Rian Johnson
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), dir. Christopher McQuarrie
- The Equalizer (2014), dir. Antoine Fuqua
- The Death of Stalin (2017), dir. Armando Iannucci
- The Favourite (2018), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
- Upgrade (2018), dir. Leigh Whannell
- The Irishman (2019), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Coherence (2013), dir. James Ward Byrkit
- Prisoners (2013), dir. Denis Villeneuve
- Carol (2015), dir. Todd Haynes
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018), dir. Anthony and Joe Russo
- La La Land (2016), dir. Damien Chazelle
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), dir. Dan Trachtenberg
- The Lighthouse (2019), dir. Robert Eggers
- Selma (2014), dir. Ava DuVernay
- Captain Phillips (2013), dir. Paul Greengrass
- Lincoln (2012), dir. Steven Spielberg
- Thoroughbreds (2017), dir. Cory Finley
- Midsommar (2019), dir. Ari Aster
- Interstellar (2014), dir. Christopher Nolan
- Happy Death Day (2017), dir. Christopher Landon
- It Follows (2014), dir. David Robert Mitchell
- Drive (2011), dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
- Midnight in Paris (2011), dir. Woody Allen
- World War Z (2013), dir. Marc Forster
- The Fighter (2010), dir. David O Russell
- Never Let Me Go (2010), dir. Mark Romanek
- The Town (2010), dir. Ben Affleck
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), dir. Wes Anderson
- The Big Short (2015), dir. Adam McKay
- Argo (2012), dir. Ben Affleck
- I Saw the Devil (2010), dir. Kim Jee-woon
- The Vast of Night (2019), dir. Andrew Patterson
- The Raid (2011), dir. Gareth Evans
- Your Name (2016), dir. Makoto Shinkai
- The Edge of Seventeen (2016), dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), dir. Céline Sciamma
- Prometheus (2012), dir. Ridley Scott
- Life of Pi (2012), dir. Ang Lee
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), dir. Taika Waititi
- Hidden Figures (2016), dir. Theodore Melfi
- The Martian (2015), dir. Ridley Scott
- Enough Said (2013), dir. Nicole Holofcener
- Manchester by the Sea (2016), dir. Kenneth Lonergan
- Doctor Sleep (2019), dir. Mike Flanagan
- The Double (2013), dir. Richard Ayoade
- Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), dir. Travis Knight
- Super 8 (2011), dir. J. J. Abrams
- Goodnight Mommy (2014), dir. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
- Frozen (2013), dir. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
- The Avengers (2012), dir. Joss Whedon
- Darkest Hour (2017), dir. Joe Wright
- Split (2016), dir. M. Night Shyamalan
- Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), dir. Jon Watts
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2016), dir. J. J. Abrams
- We're the Millers (2013), dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
- Isle of Dogs (2018), dir. Wes Anderson
- Coco (2017), dir. Lee Unkrich
- Burning (2018), dir. Lee Chang-dong
- Brooklyn (2015), dir. John Crowley
- Eighth Grade (2018), dir. Bo Burnham
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019), dir. Chad Stahelski
- Inside Out (2015), dir. Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
- The Handmaiden (2016), dir. Park Chan-wook
- I, Tonya (2017), dir. Craig Gillespie
- Bridge of Spies (2015), dir. Steven Spielberg
- The Master (2012), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
- Incendies (2010), dir. Denis Villeneuve
- Bone Tomahawk (2015), dir. S. Craig Zahler
- Blue Ruin (2013), dir. Jeremy Saulnier
- The Ghost Writer (2010), dir. Roman Polanski
- End of Watch (2012), dir. David Ayer
- Shoplifters (2018), dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Predestination (2014), dir. Michael and Peter Spierig
- The Nice Guys (2016), dir. Shane Black
- Little Women (2019), dir. Greta Gerwig
- What We Do in the Shadows (2014), dir. Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
- The Gentlemen (2019), dir. Guy Ritchie
- Holy Motors (2012), dir. Leos Carax
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), dir. Benh Zeitlin
- The Lost City of Z (2016), dir. James Gray
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
- War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), dir. Matt Reeves
- Toy Story 3 (2010), dir. Lee Unkrich
- Captain America: Civil War (2016), dir. Anthony and Joe Russo
- The Imitation Game (2014), dir. Morten Tyldum
- This is the End (2013), dir. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
- The Artist (2011), dir. Michel Hazanavicius
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012), dir. David O. Russell
- Green Book (2018), dir. Peter Farrelly
- Dredd (2012), dir. Pete Travis
- Warrior (2011), dir. Gavin O'Connor
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), dir. Bryan Singer
- Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), dir. Bryan Singer
- Spectre (2015), dir. Sam Mendes
- Rocketman (2019), dir. Dexter Fletcher
- Straight Outta Compton (2015), dir. F. Gary Gray
- The Gift (2015), dir. Joel Edgerton
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
- Shazam! (2019), dir. David F. Sandberg
- God's Own Country (2017), dir. Francis Lee
- Son of Saul (2015), dir. László Nemes
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), dir. Barry Jenkins
- Crazy Rich Asians (2018), dir. Jon M. Chu
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), dir. Rian Johnson
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), dir. David Yates
- Horrible Bosses (2011), dir. Seth Gordon
- Phantom Thread (2017), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Farewell (2019), dir. Lulu Wang
- Man of Steel (2013), dir. Zack Snyder
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), dir. Peter Jackson
- Amour (2012), dir. Michael Haneke
- Legend (2015), dir. Brian Helgeland
- Wreck-It Ralph (2012), dir. Rich Moore
- American Sniper (2014), dir. Clint Eastwood
- The Heat (2013), dir. Paul Feig
- Pitch Perfect (2012), dir. Jason Moore
- Marriage Story (2019), dir. Noah Baumbach
- A Most Violent Year (2014), dir. J. C. Chandor
- Calvary (2014), dir. John Michael McDonagh
- 1922 (2017), dir. Zak Hilditch
- Loving Vincent (2017), dir. Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
- Hush (2016), dir. Mike Flanagan
- Uncut Gems (2019), dir. Josh and Benny Safdie
- Jackie (2016), dir. Pablo Larraín
- Toni Erdmann (2016), dir. Maren Ade
- Passengers (2016), dir. Morten Tyldum
- Out of the Furnace (2013), dir. Scott Cooper
- Blue Valentine (2010), dir. Derek Cianfrance
- 127 Hours (2010), dir. Danny Boyle
- Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2011), dir. Eli Craig
- Contagion (2011), dir. Steven Soderbergh
- Mudbound (2017), dir. Dee Rees
- Overlord (2018), dir. Julius Avery
- Stoker (2013), dir. Park Chan-wook
- The Invitation (2015), dir. Karyn Kusama
- Her Smell (2018), dir. Alex Ross Perry
- Before Midnight (2013), dir. Richard Linklater
- The King's Speech (2010), dir. Tom Hooper
- Zootopia (2016), dir. Byron Howard and Rich Moore
- Green Room (2015), dir. Jeremy Saulnier
- Tangerine (2015), dir. Sean Baker
- The Hunger Games (2012), dir. Gary Ross
- Creed (2015), dir. Ryan Coogler
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2015), dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
- Halloween (2018), dir. David Gordon Green
- Easy A (2010), dir. Will Gluck
- A Girl at My Door (2014), dir. July Jung
- Dolemite is My Name (2019), dir. Craig Brewer
- A Monster Calls (2016), dir. J. A. Bayona
- Take Shelter (2011), dir. Jeff Nichols
- The Guest (2014), dir. Adam Wingard
- Don't Breathe (2016), dir. Fede Álvarez
- Insidious (2010), dir. James Wan
- The Big Sick (2017), dir. Michael Showalter
- Blue Jasmine (2013), dir. Woody Allen
- The Jungle Book (2016), dir. Jon Favreau
- The Descendants (2011), dir. Alexander Payne
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012), dir. Kathryn Bigelow
- 13 Assassins (2010), dir. Takashi Miike
- Mandy (2018), dir. Panos Cosmatos
- This is 40 (2012), dir. Judd Apatow
- It's a Disaster (2012), dir. Todd Berger
- A Separation (2011), dir. Asghar Farhadi
- Young Adult (2011), dir. Jason Reitman
- John Dies at the End (2012), dir. Don Coscarelli
- Anomalisa (2015), dir. Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
- Killer Joe (2011), dir. William Friedkin
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), dir. James Gunn
- Room (2015), dir. Lenny Abrahamson
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), dir. Brad Bird
- Kong: Skull Island (2017), dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts
- Ted (2012), dir. Seth MacFarlane
- Stake Land (2010), dir. Jim Mickle
- Another Year (2010), dir. Mike Leigh
- Love, Simon (2018), dir. Greg Berlanti
- My Life as a Zucchini (2016), dir. Claude Barras
- Shame (2011), dir. Steve McQueen
- The Nightingale (2018), dir. Jennifer Kent
- Dallas Buyers Club (2013), dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
- Fury (2014), dir. David Ayer
- Toy Story 4 (2019), dir. Josh Cooley
- Mustang (2015), dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Crawl (2019), dir. Alexandre Aja
- Rush (2013), dir. Ron Howard
- Yesterday (2019), dir. Danny Boyle
- Compliance (2012), dir. Craig Zobel
- Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
- Molly's Game (2017), dir. Aaron Sorkin
- It Comes at Night (2017), dir. Trey Edward Shults
- Attack the Block (2011), dir. Joe Cornish
- Upstream Color (2013), dir. Shane Carruth
- Raw (2016), dir. Julia Ducournau
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), dir. J. J. Abrams
- Blue is the Warmest Color (2013), dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
- Jane Eyre (2011), dir. Cary Fukunaga
- The Lego Movie (2014), dir. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
- Instant Family (2018), dir. Sean Anders
- Hugo (2011), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), dir. Joss Whedon
- The Lobster (2015), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
- Pain and Glory (2019), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Gerald's Game (2017), dir. Mike Flanagan
- Doctor Strange (2016), dir. Scott Derrickson
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), dir. David Yates
- Certified Copy (2010), dir. Abbas Kiarostami
- Godzilla (2014), dir. Gareth Edwards
- Finding Dory (2016), dir. Andrew Stanton
- A Most Wanted Man (2014), dir. Anton Corbijn
- Midnight Special (2016), dir. Jeff Nichols
- Locke (2013), dir. Steven Knight
- Let Me In (2010), dir. Matt Reeves
- Widows (2018), dir. Steve McQueen
- Moneyball (2011), dir. Bennett Miller
- Nocturnal Animals (2016), dir. Tom Ford
- While We're Young (2014), dir. Noah Baumbach
- Wild (2014), dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
- I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016), dir. Oz Perkins
- Side Effects (2013), dir. Steven Soderbergh
List of films not seconded:- System Crasher (2019), dir. Nora Fingscheidt
- Hustlers (2019), dir. Lorene Scafaria
- Stan & Ollie (2018), dir. Jon S. Baird
- Moana (2016), dir. Ron Clements and John Musker
- Barney's Version (2010), dir. Richard J. Lewis
- Maudie (2016), dir. Aisling Walsh
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), dir. Angela Robinson
- You're Next (2011), dir. Adam Wingard
- What Maisie Knew (2012), dir. Scott McGehee and David Siegel
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), dir. Marielle Heller
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013), dir. Isao Takahata
- Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014), dir. Josephine Decker
- Collateral Beauty (2016), dir. David Frankel
- The Devil's Double (2011), dir. Lee Tamahori
- How I Live Now (2013), dir. Kevin Macdonald
- In the Heart of the Sea (2015), dir. Ron Howard
- Hostiles (2017), dir. Scott Cooper
- Bird Box (2018), dir. Susanne Bier
- Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), dir. Colin Trevorrow
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018), dir. Susan Johnson
- 42 (2013), dir. Brian Helgeland
- The Wave (2015), dir. Roar Uthaug
- Sound of My Voice (2011), dir. Zal Batmanglij
- Blinded by the Light (2019), dir. Gurinder Chadha
- Big Hero 6 (2014), dir. Don Hall and Chris Williams
- Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013), dir. Sion Sono
- The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019), dir. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
- A Fantastic Woman (2017), dir. Sebastián Lelio
- The Wipers Times (2013), dir. Andy De Emmony
- When Marnie Was There (2014), dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Bedeviled (2010), dir. Jang Cheol-soo
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), dir. Peter Jackson
- Paddington 2 (2017), dir. Paul King
- The Great Gatsby (2013), dir. Baz Luhrmann
- American Honey (2016), dir. Andrea Arnold
- Swallow (2019), dir. Carlo Mirabella-Davis
- Hanna (2011), dir. Joe Wright
- The Lego Batman Movie (2017), dir. Chris McKay
- The Way, Way Back (2013), dir. Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
- Men in Black 3 (2012), dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
- The Skin I Live In (2011), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Jupiter Ascending (2015), dir. The Wachowskis
- Begin Again (2013), dir. John Carney
- The One I Love (2014), dir. Charlie McDowell
- The Internship (2013), dir. Shawn Levy
- Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), dir. Sean Durkin
- The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), dir. Derek Cianfance
- Ida (2013), dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
- Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015), dir. Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
- Lion (2016), dir. Garth Davis
- The Florida Project (2017), dir. Sean Baker
- Personal Shopper (2016), dir. Olivier Assayas
- The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), dir. Johannes Roberts
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), dir. Zack Snyder
- I Am Mother (2019), dir. Grant Sputore
- The Help (2011), dir. Tate Taylor