Now, the directors are chiming in on their best films of 2017. Indiewire asked more than 43 well-known directors' to reveal their best of the year:
Guillermo del Toro’s Top 10 Films Of 2017
10. “Brawl in Cell Block 99”
9. “Ingrid Goes West”
8. “Tigers Are Not Afraid”
7. “Good Time”
6. “The Meyerowitz Stories”
5. “Get Out”
4. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
3. “Dunkirk”
2. “Lady Bird”
1. “A Ghost Story”
Denis Villeneuve’s Top 8 Films Of 2017
“Dunkirk”
“Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves”
“The Square”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
“mother!”
“Downsizing”
“The Beguiled”
Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studio Short films
Xavier Dolan’s Top 8 Films Of 2018 (Unranked)
“Call Me by Your Name”
“Lady Bird”
“The Shape of Water”
“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
“Wind River”
“The Post”
“It”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Pedro Almodovar's Top 8 Films Of 2017
“Phantom Thread”
“BPM (Beats Per Minute)”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
“You Were Never Really Here”
“Zama”
“A Ghost Story”
“Colossal”
“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
Luca Guadagnino's Top 20 in alphabetical order:
“A Fantastic Woman,” by Sebastian Leilo
“After the Storm,” by Hirokazu Kore-eda
“Alien Covenant,” by Ridley Scott
“Austerlitz,” by Sergei Loznitsa
“The Big Sick,” by Michael Showalter
“Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me,” by Joao Botelho
“Dunkirk,” by Christopher Nolan
“Eight Hours Are Not a Day” (restored re-release), by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
“Faces Places,” by Agnes Varda
“I Am Not Your Negro,” by Raoul Peck
“Logan,” by James Mangold
“Logan Lucky,” by Steven Soderbergh
“The Lost City of Z,” by James Gray
“Mrs. Fang,” by Wang Bing
“On the Beach at Night Alone,” by Hong Sang-soo
“Paddington 2,” by Paul King
“Split,” by M. Night Shyamalan
“Twin Peaks: The Return,” by David Lynch
“The Venerable W,” by Barbet Schroeder
“War For the Planets of the Apes,” by Matt Reeves Paul Schrader's top 10 of 2017 1. “Detroit”
2. “A Fantastic Woman”
3. “The Florida Project”
4. “Jane”
5. “A Quiet Passion”
6. “Lady Bird”
7. “I, Tonya”
8. “The Post”
9. “Wormwood”
10. “The Big Sick”