Our annual poll here at Awards Daily.
Phase 1 involves assembling a master list based on input from all you savvy readers. We already have 133 titles — building out from the first 90 suggested by Ferdinand and Christophe. (and a dozen or so from me)
When you guys suggest additions, it would make things easier for me if you name the director in parentheses. Thanks!
Don’t be shy about recommending movies featuring white guys with white problems directed by white Americans — anything is possible!
After a couple of days, when we run out of suggestions, I’ll turn our list into a poll for Phase 2.
Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang)
Abigail (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett)
The Actor (Duke Johnson)
Aggro Dr1ft (Harmony Korine)
Ahlam Alasr (aka Fever Dream) (Faris Godus)
Alien: Romulus (Fede Álvarez)
The Amateur (James Hawes)
Anora (Sean Baker)
Apartment 7A (Natalie Erika James)
The Arc of Oblivion (Ian Cheney)
Back to Black, Sam Taylor-Johnson
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chica)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols)
Bird (Andrea Arnold)
Black Tea (Abderrahamane Sissako)
Blink Twice (Zoë Kravitz)
Blitz (Steve McQueen)
Bob Marley: One Love (Reinaldo Marcus Green)
Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
Civil War (Alex Garland)
Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold) ?
Conclave (Edward Berger)
The Critic (Anand Tucker)
The Crow (Rupert Sanders)
Cuckoo (Tilman Singer)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
Deadpool & Wolverine (Shawn Levy)
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
The Dreamt Adventurer (Valeska Grisebach)
Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen)
Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
Added: Dune 2 (Denis Villeneuve)
Eden (Ron Howard)
Emmanuelle (Audrey Diwan)
Emília Pérez (Jacqués Audiard)
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
The Fall Guy (David Leitch)
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Firebrand (Karim Aïnouz)
Flint Strong (Rachel Morrison)
The Fountains of Paradise (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
Freaky Tales (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)
Gasoline Rainbow (Turner Ross, Bill Ross IV)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Gil Kenan)
Girls State (Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine)
Gladiator 2, Ridley Scott
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Here (Robert Zemeckis)
High in the Clouds (Toby Genkel)
His Three Daughters (Azazel Jacobs)
Hit Man (Richard Linklater)
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner)
How to Make Gravy (Nick Waterman)
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schonebrun)
IF (John Krasinski)
Immaculate (Michael Mohan)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An)
It’s Not Me (Leos Carax)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)
Juror No. 2 (Clint Eastwood)
Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Wes Ball)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)
Kraven the Hunter (J.C. Chandor)
L’Empire (Bruno Dumont)
Late Night With the Devil (Cameron & Colin Cairnes)
La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Lisa Frankenstein (Zelda Williams)
Longlegs (Osgood Perkins)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Kenji Kamiyama)
Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
Madame Web (S.J. Clarkson)
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol (Sylvain Chomet)
Maria (Pablo Larraín)
Materialists (Celine Song)
Maxxxine (Ti West)
Me (Don Hertzfeldt)
Mean Girls (Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot)
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho)
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warefare (Guy Ritchie)
Moana 2 (David G. Derrick)
Monkey Man (Dev Patel)
The Most Precious of Cargoes (Michel Hazanavicius)
Mother Mary (David Lowery)
Mothers’ Instinct (Benoît Delhomme)
Mufasa (Barry Jenkins)
The Nickel Boys (RaMell Moss)
Nightbitch (Marielle Heller)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)
Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
The Order (Justin Kurzel)
Ordinary Angels (Jon Gunn)
The Piano Lesson (Malcolm Washington)
Polaris (Lynne Ramsay)
Presence (Steven Soderbergh)
Project Artemis (Greg Berlanti)
Queer (Luca Guadagnino)
A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Simoski)
Red Island (Robin Campillo)
Relay (David Mackenzie)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
The Return (Uberto Pasolini)
The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar)
Rumours (Guy Maddin)
Sasquatch Sunset (David Zellner, Nathan Zellner)
Saw XI (Kevin Greutert)
7 Keys (Joy Wilkinson)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
Speak No Evil (James Watkins)
Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas)
Terrifier 3 (Damien Leone)
Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)
A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo)
Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung)
Venom: The Last Dance (Kelly Marcel)
The Way of the Wind (Terrence Malick)
We Live in Time (John Crowley)
We Shall Be All (Jia Zhang-ke)
White Bird (Marc Foster)
Wicked Little Letters (Thea Sharrock)
Wicked (Jon M. Chu)
Wildwood (Travis Knight)
Wizards! (David Michod)
The Wolfman (Leigh Whannell)
Y2K (Kyle Mooney)
You Burn Me (Matias Piñeiro, Lois Patiño)
