Best Of The Decade


The CM’s SATC presents the “Decade’s Best” — lists of: Best 25 Movies of the decade, Best 20 Albums of the decade, Most Celebrated / Uncelebrated Movies (15) of the decade, and the Decade’s Ten.

cmsatc.com/certified/decade-2010-19


And here are some of the stats:

~ Five women feature (either as director or screenwriter) in the combined list of 40 films that defined the past decade.


RatingDecade’s Best 25Celebrated/Uncelebrated 15
3.510
3.2531
361
2.75107
2.554
2.2502
Rating wise break-up


DirectorDecade’s Best (+) Celebrated/Uncelebrated 15Total Films Made
Mani Ratnam15
Mysskin36
Vetri Maaran34
Gautham Vasudev Menon26
Shankar04
Selvaraghavan04
Karthik Subbaraj35
Bala04
Ram13
Lakshmy Ramakrishnan14
Seenu Ramasamy14
Pa. Ranjith14
H. Vinoth03
Madhumita13
Suseenthiran112
Top Directors’ Tally


YearDecade’s Best 25Celebrated/Uncelebrated 15
201002
201111
201221
201330
201430
201512
201642
201742
201832
201943
Year wise break-up


GenreDecade’s Best 25Celebrated/Uncelebrated 15
Neo-noir3*0
Drama74
Drama, Comedy21
Drama, Thriller32
Meta, Comedy, Drama10
Drama, Romance13
Rom-com12
Romance, Drama21
Drama, Action32
Psychological Thriller10
Drama, Action Thriller10
Drama, Horror Thriller20
Comedy10
Genre wise break-up


ComposerAlbums featured in Best 20
A. R. Rahman3
Harris Jayaraj3
Mohamaad Ghibran2
Sean Roldan2
Darbuka Siva2
B. Ajaneesh Loknath1
Ilaiyaraaja1
Anirudh Ravichander1
Govind Vasantha1
D. Imman1
Santhosh Narayanan1
Pradeep Kumar1
C. Sathya1
Justin Prabhakaran1
Nivas K. Prasanna1
Composers’ Count

Greatest Films Of The Decade

This is that time of a year again. Everybody is in a hurry to bring out different, inventive, and quirky “lists.” And it seems like there is a virtual race as to who comes up with these lists first (P.S: we never participate in the race). So, with 2 more months to go before 2019 gets wrapped up, here we have one of them already from Film Companion, which has been prepared by India’s finest film critic Baradwaj Rangan.

Though, CM’s SATC reckons, a few great films are missing on the list, the ones on it are thoroughly deserving except 3 not-so-great movies — VTV, VIP, and NRD — that could have been replaced by movies like Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum.
In the making of an immensely important list of the entire decade, the self-imposed limit of one film per director — which explains certain obvious exclusions — is a heavy blow to the authenticity and credibility of the list. Also, while BR may prefer the term “memorable” to “best,” the title uses the term “Greatest,” leave alone “best.” It is only fortunate that some of the films on the list are in fact both great and memorable. Here’s that solid list: “25 Greatest Tamil Films Of The Decade

It’s no surprise that the CM’s SATC threw its weight behind and celebrated almost all the films on that list when they were released.

Oh, yes, we hear you. Our version of the list — Best Movies Of The Decade (2010-2019) — will be out in 2020.