The Dissolvers Best of 2015 Poll

As a member of the Facebook group for former Dissolve (RIP) commenters, I had the task of compiling all of your top ten lists for 2015 in film.  And my, what a fascinating list it was, so I figured I'd share it here.  We had 96 ballots covering 135 films that were released in or came out in the US in 2015  (I tried to lay down rules, but at some point you have to be fair, like how Paddington was a 2014 release for the UK but a 2015 for the US.)  With that said, the final results.


The Top 10

1. Mad Max: Fury Road - 694 votes (37 first place) 
2. Inside Out - 419 (7)
3. Carol - 298 (9)
4. Ex Machina - 225 (7)
5. Sicario - 210 (2)
6. Spotlight - 184 (4 )
7. Look Of Silence, The - 148 (1)
8. Duke Of Burgundy, The - 140 (2)
9. Phoenix - 121 (0)
10. Tangerine - 116 (0)

Carol was way behind for a long time but had a huge late surge (extending the voting through January helped).  Mad Max was never in any doubt of winning this, as you can tell.   I wonder how much Duke Of Burgundy, Tangerine and Phoenix coming relatively quickly to Netflix helped their votes.

The Top 10 By First-Place Votes

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (37)
2. Carol (9)
3. Inside Out (7)
4. Ex Machina (7)
5. Spotlight (4)
6. Sicario (2)
7. Duke Of Burgundy, The (2)
8. Clouds of Sils Maria (2)
9. Mommy (2)
10. Magic Mike XXL (2)

Well that's a wee bit different, isn't it?

Movies That Only Received A First-Place Vote

1. Jauja

Movies That Only Received A Tenth-Place Vote

1. Unfriended
2. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
3. Far From The Madding Crowd
4. Dude Bro Party Massacre III
5. Incompresa
6. She's Funny That Way
7. Peanuts Movie, The
8. Electric Slide
9. Faults

Movies With One First-Place Vote

1. Look Of Silence, The
2. World Of Tomorrow
3. Creed
4. Brooklyn
5. Force Awakens, The
6. Anomalisa
7. Room
8. End Of The Tour, The
9. Big Short, The
10. Forbidden Room, The
11. Amy
12. Queen of Earth
13. Shaun The Sheep Movie
14. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
15. 71
16. Breathe (Respire)
17. Spring
18. Assassin, The
19. Jauja

Domnhall Gleeson is, apparently, the MVP of 2015 as every movie he was in made the list somewhere and three of them received first-place votes.

If you'd like to look at the full poll, with all the movies that were right in the middle, go here for a downloadable .csv file:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mDgS2xTCACTF_yWMM0q1XQt1L0Y0J0GqMmanAjSOo3s/pub?output=csv