25 Best Films of 2021: Individual Ballots

Here you'll find the individual ballots for WeLoveCinema's list of 2021's best films. To compile the list, our regular contributors voted for their ten favourite films of the year (according to UK theatrical release dates alone): the higher up an individual's list a film appeared, the more points it was worth (between 1 and 10), with the total number of points deciding the final order.

Tom Barnard (Editor)

1. 1. In the Heights
2. 2. Bo Burnham: Inside
3. 3. Petite Maman
4. 4. The Power of the Dog
5. 5. The Last Duel
6. 6. West Side Story
7. 7. The Mitchells vs. The Machines
8. 8. Another Round
9. 9. Old
10. 10. Bad Trip

Jack Blackwell (Contributor)

1. 1. The Power of the Dog
2. 2. Dune
3. 3. Nomadland
4. 4. Limbo
5. 5. Zola
6. 6. The Green Knight
7. 7. Spencer
8. 8. West Side Story
9. 9. C'mon C'mon
10. 10. The Mitchells vs. The Machines

Ben Flanagan (Contributor)

1. 1. Annette
2. 2. Old
3. 3. Friends and Strangers
4. 4. Drive My Car
5. 5. The Velvet Underground
6. 6. Labyrinth of Cinema
7. 7. The French Dispatch
8. 8. Azor
9. 9. The Dog That Wouldn't Be Quiet
10. 10. The Power of the Dog

Steph Green (Contributor)

1. 1. The Green Knight
2. 2. The Power of the Dog
3. 3. The Card Counter
4. 4. Promising Young Woman
5. 5. West Side Story
6. 6. Petite Maman
7. 7. The Hand of God
8. 8. Spencer
9. 9. Titane
10. 10. tick, tick… BOOM!

Ella Kemp (Contributor)

1. 1. C’mon C’mon
2. 2. The Power of the Dog
3. 3. Petite Maman
4. 4. Pig
5. 5. Summer of Soul
6. 6. Shiva Baby
7. 7. The World to Come
8. 8. West Side Story
9. 9. Spencer
10. 10. Bo Burnham: Inside

Jordan King (Contributor)

1. 1. Dune
2. 2. Petite Maman
3. 3. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
4. 4. Pig
5. 5. The Green Knight
6. 6. The French Dispatch
7. 7. C'mon C'mon
8. 8. tick, tick… BOOM!
9. 9. Annette
10. 10. Luca

Emily Maskell (Contributor)

1. 1. Petite Maman
2. 2. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
3. 3. Bo Burnham: Inside
4. 4. Sweetheart
5. 5. Limbo
6. 6. Dune
7. 7. Ninjababy
8. 8. Passing
9. 9. CODA
10. 10. Shiva Baby

Lilia Pavin-Franks (Contributor)

1. 1. The Power of the Dog
2. 2. The French Dispatch
3. 3. Spencer
4. 4. Minari
5. 5. Nomadland
6. 6. Titane
7. 7. Zola
8. 8. Shiva Baby
9. 9. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
10. 10. Drive My Car

Rafaela Sales Ross (Contributor)

1. 1. The Card Counter
2. 2. Annette
3. 3. Petite Maman
4. 4. Limbo
5. 5. The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
6. 6. Undine
7. 7. Drive My Car
8. 8. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet
9. 9. Quo Vadis, Aida?
10. 10. Nine Days

Alistair Ryder (Contributor)

1. 1. Drive My Car
2. 2. West Side Story
3. 3. Minari
4. 4. Undine
5. 5. Rose Plays Julie
6. 6. Limbo
7. 7. The Card Counter
8. 8. Titane
9. 9. First Cow
10. 10. The Power of the Dog

Adam Solomons (Contributor)

1. 1. First Cow
2. 2. The Father
3. 3. Spencer
4. 4. Another Round
5. 5. Dune
6. 6. Summer of Soul
7. 7. The Green Knight
8. 8. The French Dispatch
9. 9. Sound of Metal
10. 1o. The Hand of God

Fedor Tot (Content Manager/Contributor)

1. 1. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2. 2. No Place Like Home
3. 3. Annette
4. 4. Quo Vadis Aida?
5. 5. Wild Indian
6. 6. Martin Eden
7. 7. Raging Fire
8. 8. Wrong Turn
9. 9. Sequin in a Blue Room
10. 10. Malmkrog