There were 53 voters and 350 different films voted for in this poll. The table below shows all films that received at least 30 points.
| Rank | Title | AKA | Director | Points Received | Number of Ballots | Number of IMDB Votes | Link |
| 1 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | 337.5 | 26 | 1,029,614 |  | |
| 2 | Carol | Todd Haynes | 317.0 | 26 | 135,174 | | |
| 3 | El abrazo de la serpiente | Embrace of the Serpent | Ciro Guerra | 274.0 | 22 | 23,627 | |
| 4 | The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino | 244.0 | 22 | 623,193 | | |
| 5 | The Revenant | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 239.0 | 24 | 827,470 | | |
| 6 | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | 233.0 | 21 | 269,677 | | |
| 7 | Inside Out | Pete Docter | 186.0 | 14 | 735,870 | | |
| 8 | Cike Nie Yin Niang | The Assassin | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | 173.0 | 13 | 17,387 | |
| 9 | Sicario | Denis Villeneuve | 171.0 | 14 | 445,988 | | |
| 10 | Victoria | Sebastian Schipper | 170.0 | 14 | 60,663 | | |
| 11 | Lu bian ye can | Kaili Blues | Bi Gan | 163.0 | 14 | 4,088 | |
| 12 | Room | Lenny Abrahamson | 146.0 | 13 | 431,582 | | |
| 13 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | J.J. Abrams | 144.5 | 14 | 947,090 | | |
| 14 | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale | The Witch | Robert Eggers | 144.0 | 13 | 276,642 | |
| 15 | The Martian | Ridley Scott | 140.5 | 15 | 878,905 | | |
| 16 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy | 136.5 | 14 | 482,007 | | |
| 17 | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | 125.0 | 11 | 39,745 | | |
| 18 | Anomalisa | Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman | 123.0 | 10 | 73,536 | | |
| 18 | Umimachi Diary | Our Little Sister | Kore-eda Hirokazu | 123.0 | 10 | 15,866 | |
| 20 | The Forbidden Room | Guy Maddin | 118.0 | 8 | 3,327 | | |
| 21 | The Big Short | Adam McKay | 115.0 | 15 | 446,613 | | |
| 22 | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | 103.0 | 10 | 134,613 | | |
| 23 | Bone Tomahawk | S. Craig Zahler | 102.5 | 8 | 107,518 | | |
| 24 | Saul fia | Son of Saul | László Nemes | 100.5 | 10 | 50,157 | |
| 25 | World of Tomorrow | Don Hertzfeldt | 100.0 | 9 | 9,923 | | |
| 26 | Beasts of No Nation | Cary Joji Fukunaga | 97.0 | 8 | 83,968 | | |
| 27 | Happî awâ | Happy Hour | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | 95.5 | 9 | 2,652 | |
| 28 | Tangerine | Sean Baker | 92.0 | 8 | 34,000 | | |
| 29 | Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da | Right Now, Wrong Then | Hong Sang-soo | 89.0 | 9 | 4,640 | |
| 30 | Brooklyn | John Crowley | 87.5 | 10 | 145,681 | | |
| 31 | Rak ti Khon Kaen | Cemetery of Splendor | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 83.0 | 6 | 5,120 | |
| 32 | Bei xi mo shou | Behemoth | Liang Zhao | 82.0 | 9 | 1,145 | |
| 33 | Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg | 81.0 | 8 | 318,308 | | |
| 34 | 45 Years | Andrew Haigh | 75.0 | 8 | 34,011 | | |
| 35 | Crimson Peak | Guillermo del Toro | 71.0 | 5 | 152,766 | | |
| 36 | Le tout nouveau testament | The Brand New Testament | Jaco Van Dormael | 70.0 | 7 | 33,733 | |
| 37 | En man som heter Ove | A Man Called Ove | Hannes Holm | 66.5 | 5 | 63,269 | |
| 38 | Youth | Paolo Sorrentino | 65.0 | 8 | 80,806 | | |
| 38 | Knight of Cups | Terrence Malick | 65.0 | 7 | 28,219 | | |
| 38 | Riaru onigokko | Tag | Sion Sono | 65.0 | 6 | 7,486 | |
| 41 | Bulanti | Nausea | Zeki Demirkubuz | 59.0 | 5 | 2,551 | |
| 42 | Der Nachtmahr | The Nightmare | Akiz | 58.0 | 5 | 3,012 | |
| 43 | No Home Movie | Chantal Akerman | 57.5 | 4 | 1,004 | | |
| 44 | Shan he gu ren | Mountains May Depart | Zhangke Jia | 55.5 | 5 | 6,087 | |
| 45 | Last Cab to Darwin | Jeremy Sims | 53.0 | 4 | 4,033 | | |
| 46 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton, Richard Starzak | 52.0 | 6 | 41,969 | | |
| 47 | Aferim! | Radu Jude | 51.0 | 5 | 7,521 | | |
| 47 | Suburra | Stefano Sollima | 51.0 | 5 | 20,972 | | |
| 47 | El botón de nácar | The Pearl Button | Patricio Guzmán | 51.0 | 4 | 2,737 | |
| 47 | Trumbo | Jay Roach | 51.0 | 4 | 83,078 | | |
| 51 | Blackhat | Michael Mann | 49.0 | 4 | 61,995 | | |
| 51 | A Bigger Splash | Luca Guadagnino | 49.0 | 3 | 31,482 | | |
| 53 | Taxi | Jafar Panahi | 47.0 | 4 | 15,927 | | |
| 54 | Tanna | Martin Butler, Bentley Dean | 45.0 | 5 | 4,581 | | |
| 54 | Krisha | Trey Edward Shults | 45.0 | 4 | 9,660 | | |
| 56 | Amy | Asif Kapadia | 44.0 | 4 | 53,386 | | |
| 57 | Sarmasik | Ivy | Tolga Karaçelik | 43.0 | 5 | 12,643 | |
| 58 | Hrútar | Rams | Grímur Hákonarson | 43.0 | 4 | 14,788 | |
| 59 | Hiso hiso boshi | The Whispering Star | Sion Sono | 42.0 | 4 | 1,206 | |
| 59 | El Club | The Club | Pablo Larraín | 42.0 | 3 | 11,478 | |
| 61 | Évolution | Evolution | Lucile Hadzihalilovic | 41.0 | 5 | 7,335 | |
| 61 | An | Sweet Bean | Naomi Kawase | 41.0 | 4 | 12,104 | |
| 61 | Irrational Man | Woody Allen | 41.0 | 3 | 65,009 | | |
| 64 | Straight Outta Compton | F. Gary Gray | 40.0 | 4 | 209,013 | | |
| 64 | Malgré la nuit | Despite the Night | Philippe Grandrieux | 40.0 | 3 | 526 | |
| 66 | Green Room | Jeremy Saulnier | 38.0 | 3 | 131,249 | | |
| 67 | Listen to Me Marlon | Stevan Riley | 37.0 | 5 | 7,746 | | |
| 67 | Cosmos | Andrzej Zulawski | 37.0 | 2 | 2,083 | | |
| 69 | Chappie | Neill Blomkamp | 36.0 | 3 | 259,477 | | |
| 69 | Gokudô daisensô | Yakuza Apocalypse | Takashi Miike | 36.0 | 2 | 4,374 | |
| 71 | Under sandet | Land of Mine | Martin Zandvliet | 35.0 | 5 | 43,229 | |
| 71 | Chevalier | Athina Rachel Tsangari | 35.0 | 3 | 4,831 | | |
| 71 | Mistress America | Noah Baumbach | 35.0 | 2 | 27,779 | | |
| 71 | Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse | My Golden Days | Arnaud Desplechin | 35.0 | 2 | 3,701 | |
| 75 | Avril et le monde truqué | April and the Extraordinary World | Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci | 34.0 | 4 | 8,096 | |
| 75 | Love | Gaspar Noé | 34.0 | 4 | 62,422 | | |
| 75 | Slow West | John Maclean | 34.0 | 4 | 46,619 | | |
| 78 | Fúsi | Virgin Mountain | Dagur Kári | 33.5 | 3 | 9,346 | |
| 79 | Spectre | Sam Mendes | 33.0 | 3 | 450,758 | | |
| 80 | Bølgen | The Wave | Roar Uthaug | 32.0 | 2 | 40,369 | |
| 80 | Closet Monster | Stephen Dunn | 32.0 | 2 | 8,921 | | |
| 80 | Magic Mike XXL | Gregory Jacobs | 32.0 | 2 | 59,506 | | |
| 80 | Show Me a Hero | Paul Haggis | 32.0 | 2 | 11,561 | | |
| 84 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Joss Whedon | 31.0 | 3 | 885,179 | | |
| 85 | Visaaranai | Vetrimaaran | 30.0 | 3 | 11,334 | | |
| 85 | Soredake | That's It | Gakuryû Ishii | 30.0 | 2 | 130 | |
Films that received 1st-place votes
(ranked in order of number of first-place votes received, then by total points received)
5 - Mad Max: Fury Road – blocho, filmbantha, jeff_v, LeSchpountz, PUNQ
3 - The Hateful Eight – AB537, George Eastman, Lakgigar
3 - Cike Nie Yin Niang – Ivan0716, Lonewolf2003, prodigalgodson
2 - El abrazo de la serpiente – klaus78, Mysterious Dude
2 - The Revenant – joachimt, Smoover
2 - Inside Out – gromit82, Torgo
2 - World of Tomorrow – Carmel1379, gunnar
2 - No Home Movie – St. Gloede, viktor-vaudevillain
1 - Carol – Silga
1 - The Lobster – Melvelet
1 - Sicario – sol
1 - Umimachi Diary – Traveller
1 - The Forbidden Room – TraverseTown
1 - The Big Short – Gordon_Gekko
1 - Happî awâ – whizwilly
1 - Brooklyn – Caracortada
1 - Rak ti Khon Kaen – murnaunosferatu
1 - Bridge of Spies – Rufus-T
1 - Bulanti - pitchorneirda
1 - Der Nachtmahr – peeptoad
1 - Last Cab to Darwin – zzzorf
1 - A Bigger Splash – timshelboy
1 - Straight Outta Compton – PopperTheKungFu-Dragon
1 - Cosmos – beavis
1 - Gokudô daisensô – Onderhond
1 - Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse – hurluberlu
1 - 88:88 (Isiah Medina) – Cinepolis (2 ballots, 27 points)
1 - Mia madre (Nanni Moretti) – Anyway (2 ballots, 25.5 points)
1 - And Then There Were None (Craig Viveiros) – Fergenaprido (3 ballots, 25 points)
1 - Cinderella (Kenneth Branagh) – 1SO (3 ballots, 25 points)
1 - Ausma / Dawn (Laila Pakalnina) – lineuphere (1 ballot, 20 points)
1 - Ella Maillart: Double Journey – RogerTheMovieManiac88 (1 ballot, 20 points)
1 - The Fear of 13 (David Sington) – Leopardi (1 ballot, 20 points)
1 - Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) – Y U M E (1 ballot, 20 points)
1 - Tetarti 04:45 / Wednesday 04:45 (Alexis Alexiou) – Mifune (1 ballot, 15 points)
1 - A Walk in the Woods (Ken Kwapis) – Minkin (1 ballot, 14 points)
1 - Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr) – matthewscott8 (1 ballot, 11 points)
The following voters submitted unranked ballots:
Angel Glez
cayado-coro
insomnius
From the predecessor poll
On the IMDb Classic Film board, a year-in-review poll for 2015 was held in early 2016. Note that the eligibility rules for that poll were different, so some of the films under consideration were originally released in 2014.
1. Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen) (this time: 7)
2. Room (Lenny Abrahamson) (12)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) (1)
4. Carol (Todd Haynes) (2)
5. The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) (5)
6. Ex Machina (Alex Garland) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
7. The Martian (Ridley Scott) (15)
8. Brooklyn (John Crowley) (30)
9. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) (9)
10. Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy) (16)
11. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh) (34)
12. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams) (13)
13. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) (4)
14. Phoenix (Christian Petzold) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
15. The Assassin / Nie yin niang (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) (8)
16. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) (33)
17. Amy (Asif Kapadia) (56)
18. Creed (Ryan Coogler) (4 ballots, 26 points)
19. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) (22)
20. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
21. Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray) (64)
22. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
23. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie) (4 ballots, 22 points)
24. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper) (10)
24. World of Tomorrow (Don Herzfeldt) (25)
26. Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) (38)
27. Son of Saul / Saul fia (László Nemes) (24)
28. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman) (18)
29. The Big Short (Adam McKay) (21)
30. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
31. Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga) (26)
32. Spectre (Sam Mendes) (79)
33. The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt) (no ballots)
34. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) (4 ballots, 29 points)
35. Slow West (John Maclean) (75)
36. Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
37. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) (6)
38. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) (71)
39. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
39. Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow) (4 ballots, 13 points)
41. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller) (1 ballot, 4 points)
41. Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton & Richard Starzak) (46)
43. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
44. Far from the Madding Crowd (Tomas Vinterberg) (1 ballot, 13 points)
45. Tangerine (Sean Baker) (28)
45. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) (17)
45. Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro) (35)
45. The Salt of the Earth (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
49. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin) (20)
49. Trumbo (Jay Roach) (47)
51. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
51. When Marnie Was There / Omoide no Mânî (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
53. The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper) (1 ballot, 8 points)
54. Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
55. Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler) (23)
56. Irrational Man (Woody Allen) (61)
57. The Gift (Joel Edgerton) (4 ballots, 29 points)
57. Blackhat (Michael Mann) (51)
59. Embrace of the Serpent / El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra) (3)
59. My Golden Days / Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (Arnaud Desplechin) (71)
61. Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
62. Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
63. Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen) (no ballots)
64. Cemetery of Splendor / Rak ti Khon Kaen (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) (31)
64. The Voices (Marjane Satrapi) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
66. A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
67. Wild Tales / Relatos salvajes (Damián Szifrón) (ineligible now; listed as a 2014 film)
68. Joy (David O. Russell) (2 ballots, 24 points)
And the awards go to …
Oscars
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. The Revenant
12. Room
15. The Martian
16. Spotlight (winner)
21. The Big Short
30. Brooklyn
33. Bridge of Spies
Berlin
53. Taxi
Cannes
97. Dheepan (Jacques Audiard) (3 ballots, 26.5 points)
Venice
xx. Desde Allá (Lorenzo Vigas) (no ballots)
Sundance
22. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Shorts
The following film under 45 minutes long made the main list:
25. World of Tomorrow
Your mileage may vary
The following titles are well-known (over 250,000 votes) and reasonably well-liked (average rating of 7.0 or higher) by IMDb users, but they didn't make a big impression here:
Ant-Man (over 690,000 votes, 4 ballots, 15 points)
Fast & Furious 7 (over 400,000 votes, 1 ballot, 8 points)
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (over 380,000 votes, 4 ballots, 22 points)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (over 310,000 votes, no ballots)
Creed (over 290,000 votes, 4 ballots, 26 points)
The Intern (over 260,000 votes, 3 ballots, 21 points)
Spy (over 250,000 votes, 2 ballots, 9 points)
The next poll will be the year in review for 2022, followed by 1954.
