Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association: Top 10 Films Explained

The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association: 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

  1. Dances with Wolves
  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
  1. JFK
  2. The Silence of the Lambs
  3. Beauty and the Beast
  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
  1. Unforgiven
  2. The Player
  3. Malcolm X
  4. Howards End
  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
  1. Schindler's List
  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
  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. Forrest Gump
  3. The Shawshank Redemption
  4. The Lion King
  5. Quiz Show
  6. Hoop Dreams
  7. Heavenly Creatures
  8. Little Women
  9. Four Weddings and a Funeral
  1. Leaving Las Vegas
  2. Apollo 13
  3. Babe
  4. Braveheart
  5. Toy Story
  6. A Little Princess
  7. The Usual Suspects
  8. Se7en
  9. Sense and Sensibility
  10. Heat
  1. Fargo
  2. Secrets & Lies
  3. Hamlet
  4. The English Patient
  5. Jerry Maguire
  6. Shine
  7. Trainspotting
  8. Courage Under Fire
  9. Lone Star
  10. Breaking the Waves
  1. L.A. Confidential
  2. Titanic
  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
  1. Saving Private Ryan
  2. The Thin Red Line
  3. The Truman Show
  4. Life Is Beautiful
  5. Shakespeare in Love
  6. Gods and Monsters
  7. The Big Lebowski
  8. Elizabeth
  9. A Simple Plan
  10. Out of Sight
  1. American Beauty
  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

  1. Traffic
  2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  3. Gladiator
  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
  1. A Beautiful Mind
  2. Moulin Rouge!
  3. Memento
  4. In the Bedroom
  5. Shrek
  6. The Man Who Wasn't There
  7. Mulholland Dr.
  8. Life as a House
  9. Amélie
  1. Chicago
  2. Far from Heaven
  3. The Pianist
  4. About Schmidt
  5. Gangs of New York
  6. Adaptation.
  7. Road to Perdition
  8. Catch Me If You Can
  9. The Hours
  1. Cold Mountain
  2. Mystic River
  3. Lost in Translation
  4. Finding Nemo
  5. American Splendor
  6. In America
  7. Big Fish
  8. The Last Samurai
  1. Million Dollar Baby
  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
  1. Brokeback Mountain
  2. Capote
  3. Good Night, and Good Luck.
  4. Crash
  5. Cinderella Man
  6. Syriana
  7. Pride & Prejudice
  8. A History of Violence
  9. King Kong
  10. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  1. United 93
  2. The Departed
  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
  1. No Country for Old Men
  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
  1. Slumdog Millionaire
  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
  1. Up in the Air
  2. The Hurt Locker
  3. Precious
  4. Up
  5. An Education
  6. A Serious Man
  7. Inglourious Basterds
  8. District 9
  9. Avatar
  10. Fantastic Mr. Fox

2010s

  1. The Social Network
  2. The King's Speech
  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
  1. The Descendants
  2. The Artist
  3. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  4. Midnight in Paris
  5. The Tree of Life
  6. Hugo
  7. 50/50
  8. Drive
  9. Shame
  10. Moneyball
  1. Lincoln
  2. Argo
  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
  1. 12 Years a Slave
  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
  1. Birdman
  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
  1. Spotlight
  2. The Revenant
  3. Carol
  4. Sicario
  5. The Big Short
  6. The Martian
  7. Room
  8. The Danish Girl
  9. Brooklyn
  1. Moonlight
  2. Manchester by the Sea
  3. La La Land
  4. Hell or High Water
  5. Arrival
  6. Jackie
  7. Loving
  8. 20th Century Women
  9. Hacksaw Ridge
  10. Silence
  1. The Shape of Water
  2. The Post
  3. Lady Bird
  4. Call Me by Your Name
  5. Get Out
  6. Dunkirk
  7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  8. I, Tonya
  9. The Florida Project
  10. Darkest Hour
  1. A Star Is Born
  2. Roma
  3. The Favourite
  4. Vice
  5. BlacKkKlansman
  6. Black Panther
  7. Green Book
  8. If Beale Street Could Talk
  9. Eighth Grade
  10. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  1. 1917
  2. Marriage Story
  3. Parasite
  4. The Irishman
  5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  6. Jojo Rabbit
  7. Little Women
  8. The Farewell
  9. The Two Popes
  10. Knives Out

2020s

  1. Nomadland
  2. Promising Young Woman
  3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
  4. Minari
  5. One Night in Miami...
  6. Mank
  7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  8. Sound of Metal
  9. Da 5 Bloods
  10. First Cow
  1. The Power of the Dog
  2. Belfast
  3. King Richard
  4. West Side Story
  5. Licorice Pizza
  6. Dune
  7. Nightmare Alley
  8. The French Dispatch
  9. The Lost Daughter
  10. CODA
  1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  2. The Banshees of Inisherin
  3. The Fabelmans
  4. Tár
  5. Women Talking
  6. The Whale
  7. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
  8. Babylon
  9. The Woman King
  1. The Holdovers
  2. Oppenheimer
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
  4. Poor Things
  5. American Fiction
  6. Past Lives
  7. Maestro
  8. Anatomy of a Fall
  9. Barbie
  10. May December

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dallas Film Critics pick 'Million Dollar Baby' . January 4, 2005 . . December 31, 2021.
  2. Web site: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics 2005 Awards . Jorgenson . Todd . December 20, 2005 . . December 31, 2021.
  3. Web site: A bellwether of the Oscars . Horn . John . December 29, 2006 . . December 31, 2021.
  4. Web site: Dallas Critics pick Coens' 'Country' . Maxwell . Erin . December 17, 2007 . . December 31, 2021.
  5. Web site: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Award Sean Penn . Tyler . Josh . December 16, 2008 . CinemaBlend . December 31, 2021.
  6. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "Up in the Air" as Best Film of 2009 . December 16, 2009 . . December 31, 2021.
  7. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "The Social Network" as Best Film of 2010 . December 17, 2010 . . December 31, 2021.
  8. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "The Descendants" as Best Film of 2011 . December 16, 2011 . . December 31, 2021.
  9. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "Lincoln" as Best Film of 2012 . December 18, 2012 . . December 31, 2021.
  10. Web site: 2013 . December 16, 2013 . . December 31, 2021.
  11. Web site: DFWFCA names "Birdman" as top film of 2014 . Whale . Chase . December 15, 2014 . . December 31, 2021.
  12. Web site: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Name "Spotlight" Best Picture of 2015 . Whale . Chase . December 14, 2015 . . December 31, 2021.
  13. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name 'Moonlight' Best Film of 2016 . Jorgenson . Todd . December 13, 2016 . . December 31, 2021.
  14. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name 'The Shape of Water' Best Picture of 2017 . Jorgenson . Todd . December 13, 2017 . . December 31, 2021.
  15. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "A Star Is Born" Best Picture of 2018 . Jorgenson . Todd . December 17, 2018 . . December 31, 2021.
  16. Web site: DFW Film Critics Pick "1917" as Best Film of 2019 . Jorgenson . Todd . December 16, 2019 . . December 31, 2021.
  17. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "Nomadland" Best Picture of 2020 . Jorgenson . Todd . February 10, 2021 . . December 31, 2021.
    - Web site: DFWFCA Taps Nomadland as 2020's Best Film . Lin . Kristian . February 10, 2021 . . December 31, 2021.
    - Web site: 'Nomadland' takes top honors from Dallas–Fort Worth film critics . Bentley . Alex . February 10, 2021 . CultureMap Dallas . December 31, 2021.
  18. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "Power of the Dog" Best Film of 2021 . Jorgenson . Todd . December 20, 2021 . . December 31, 2021.
    - Web site: DFW Film Critics Call on The Power of the Dog . Kristian . Lin . December 20, 2021 . . December 31, 2021.
    - Web site: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics name 'The Power of the Dog' best movie of 2021 . Bentley . Alex . December 20, 2021 . CultureMap Dallas . December 31, 2021.
  19. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Best Film of 2022 . Jorgenson . Todd . December 19, 2022 . . December 20, 2022.
    - Web site: DFW Film Critics Choose Everything . Lin . Kristian . December 19, 2022 . . December 20, 2022.
    - Web site: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics name 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' best movie of 2022 . Bentley . Alex . December 19, 2022 . CultureMap Dallas . December 20, 2022.
  20. Web site: DFW Film Critics Name "The Holdovers" Best Picture of 2023 . Jorgenson . Todd . December 18, 2023 . . January 5, 2024.
    - Web site: DFW Film Critics Hold Out for "The Holdovers" . Lin . Kristian . December 18, 2023 . . January 5, 2024.
    - Web site: Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics reveal their favorite films of 2023 . Bentley . Alex . December 18, 2023 . CultureMap Dallas . January 5, 2024.