The Palme d’Or, the Golden Bear, the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year... the crème de la crème. This list is an addendum to our traditional Awards Season roundup, which tracks winners of all categories from film festival juries, critics, and guilds. Here we include only the top ‘Best Film’ prize from eligible awards bodies, with rare exceptions (e.g. Golden Globes). See the results for the 2021–2022 awards season.

The list is sorted by the films’ average Letterboxd rating, and the notes specify the prize. This generally excludes Audience Awards unless those accolades are considered the main prize (e.g. TIFF).

Leaderboard:
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) — 44.
• The Banshees of Inisherin (dir. Martin McDonagh) — 11.
• TÁR (dir. Todd Field) — 7.
• Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells) — 6.
• Top Gun: Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski) — 6.
• The Woman King (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood) — 4.
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (dir. Laura Poitras) — 2.
• The Fabelmans (dir. Steven Spielberg) — 2.
• All Quiet on the Western Front (dir. Edward Berger) — 2.
• Women Talking (dir. Sarah Polley) — 2.
• Triangle of Sadness (dir. Ruben Östlund) — 2.
• Close (dir. Lukas Dhont) — 2.
• The Quiet Girl (dir. Colm Bairéad) — 2.
• The Kings of the World (dir. Laura Mora) — 2.
• All That Breathes (dir. Shaunak Sen) — 2.
• Saint Omer (dir. Alice Diop) — 2.
• She Said (dir. Maria Schrader) — 2.
• Elvis (dir. Baz Luhrmann) — 2.