The Best of 2014 Movies, Books, Music and More: A List of Year-End Lists
What were the best movies of 2014? What 2014 TV shows should you catch up on? What were 2014's biggest songs? And why trust just one outlet for answers when you can try all of them?
Every December for years, Fimoculous' Rex Sorgatz used to keep a rolling list of year-end lists. He's not doing it anymore. But we will! Below, a semi-comprehensive list of year-end lists, updated at least daily. Send suggestions and additions to aleksander@gawker.com
Individual critics' lists are posted first, followed by institutional best-of lists.
Movies
- Associated Press (Jake Coyle & Jocelyn Noveck): "The AP's top 10 movies of the year"
- The Atlantic (Christopher Orr): "The Best Movies of 2014"
- BBC (Owen Gleiberman): "The 10 best films of 2014"
- BuzzFeed (Alison Willmore): "The 14 Greatest Movies Of 2014"
- Chicago Sun-Times (Richard Roeper): "The 10 Movies That Moved Me"
- Entertainment Weekly (Chris Nashawaty): "10 Best/5 Worst Movies of 2014"
- Esquire (Edgar Wright): "Top 10 Movies of 2014"
- Film School Rejects (Rob Hunter): "The 14 Best Movies of 2014"
- Flavorwire (Jason Bailey): "The Best Films of 2014"
- Grantland (Wesley Morris): "The Top 10 Movies of 2014"
- The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw): "Top 10s of 2014"
- The Hollywood Reporter (Todd McCarthy): "10 Best Films of 2014"
- HuffPo (Matthew Jacobs & Christopher Rosen): "The 22 Best Movies of 2014"
- Indiewire (Eric Kohn): "The Best Films of 2014"
- The New Yorker (Richard Brody): "The Best Movies of 2014"
- The New Yorker (David Denby): "The Ten Best Movies of 2014"
- New York magazine (David Edelstein): "The 11 Best Movies of 2014"
- New York Observer (Rex Reed): "The Best Films of 2014"
- The New York Times (Manohla Dargis): "Best Movies of 2014"
- The New York Times (A.O. Scott): "Top 10 Movies 2014"
- Rolling Stone (Peter Travers): "10 Best Movies of 2014"
- TIME (Richard Corliss): "Top 10 Best Movies"
- Uproxx (Vince Mancini): "The 10 Best Movies of 2014"
- Vanity Fair (Richard Lawson): "Best Movies of 2014"
- Variety (Justin Chang): "Top 10 Films of 2014"
- Village Voice (Stephanie Zacharek): "Top 10 Movies of 2014"
- The Washington Post (Ann Hornaday): " The Best Movies of 2014"
- American Film Institute: "Movies of the Year"
- A.V. Club: " The best of film 2014: The ballots"
- The Dissolve: "The Best Films Of 2014: The Ballots"
- People: "The 10 Movies We Hope You Saw in 2014"
- The Playlist: "The 20 Best Films of 2014"
- RogerEbert.com: " The Ten Best Films of 2014"
Television
- Boston Globe (Matthew Gilbert): "Picks for TV's best shows in 2014"
- The Daily Beast (Kevin Fallon): "14 Best TV Shows of 2014"
- EW (Jeff Jensen & Melissa Maerz): "10 Best TV Shows of 2014 (Plus 2 Bonus Picks)"
- Esquire (Aisha Tyler): "Top 10 TV Shows of 2014"
- Film School Rejects (Kate Erbland): "The 14 Best Television Series of 2014"
- Grantland (Andy Greenwald): "The 10 Best TV Shows of 2014"
- The Hollywood Reporter (Tim Goodman): "The Best Television of 2014
- The Huffington Post (Maureen Ryan): "The Top 10 TV Shows Of 2014"
- New York magazine (Matt Zoller Seitz): "The 10 Best TV Shows of 2014"
- The New York Times (Mike Hale): "Best TV Shows of 2014"
- The New York Times (Alessandra Stanley): "Notable TV Stalwarts of 2014"
- The New Yorker (Emily Nussbaum): "Great TV 2014, Not a List, Not in Order"
- NPR (David Bianculli): "2014 Was A 'Good Year For Programming'"
- NPR (Eric Deggans): "Best TV Of 2014"
- Slate (Willa Paskin): "The 10 Best TV Shows of 2014"
- TIME (James Poniewozik): "Top 10 TV Shows"
- TV Guide (Matt Roush): "10 Best TV Shows of the Year"
- Village Voice (Inkoo Kang): "The Ten Best TV Shows of 2014"
- Vox (Todd VanDerWerff): "The 30 best TV shows of 2014"
- The Washington Post (Hank Stuever)"The Best TV of 2014"
- Yahoo! TV (Ken Tucker): "10 Best TV Shows of 2014"
- American Film Institute: " TV Programs of the Year"
- Complex: "Best TV Shows of 2014"
- People: "The 10 TV Shows We Couldn't Turn Off This Year
- Slant: "The 25 Best TV Shows of 2014"
Music
- Associated Press (Mesfin Fekadu): "AP's 2014's best albums list"
- Cosmopolitan (Eliza Thompson): "The 20 Best Albums of 2014"
- Esquire (Andy Langer): "The 10 Best Albums of 2014"
- Grantland (Steven Hyden): "The Best (a.k.a. My Favorite) Music of 2014"
- New York magazine (Lindsay Zoladz): "The 32 Best Pop Albums of 2014"
- The New York Times (Jon Pareles): "Favorite Albums and Songs of 2014"
- The New York Times (Ben Ratliff): "Top 10 Albums and Songs of 2014"
- Newsweek (Zach Schonfeld & Paula Mejia): "The Top 10 Albums of 2014"
- NPR (Bob Boilen): "Top 10 Albums of 2014"
- NPR (Ann Powers): "Top 15 Albums of 2014"
- Rolling Stone (Rob Sheffield): "Top 20 Albums of 2014"
- Slate (Carl Wilson): "My Top 14 Albums of 2014"
- Vox (Kelsey McKinney): "The 15 Best Songs of 2014"
- American Songwriter: "Top 50 Albums of 2014"
- A.V. Club: "The 20 Best Albums of 2014,"
- Billboard: "The 10 Best Albums of 2014"
- Complex: "The 50 Best Albums of 2014"
- Entertainment Weekly: "10 Best Albums of 2014"
- The Guardian: "Best Abums of 2014"
- NPR: "Songs We Loved 2014"
- Noisey: " Top 25 Albums of 2014"
- Paste: "The 50 Best Albums of 2014"
- Pitchfork: "The 50 Best Albums of 2014"
- Rolling Stone: "50 Best Albums of 2014"
- Spin: "The 50 Best Albums of 2014,"
- Stereogum: "The 50 Best Albums of 2014"
- TIME: "Top 10 Best Albums"
- VIBE: "46 Albums From 2014 That Are Actually Worth Your Money"
Books
- New York magazine(Kathryn Schulz):"The 10 Best Books of 2014"
- Slate (David Haglund, Dan Kois, & Katy Waldman): "The Top 10 Books of the Year"
- TIME (Daniel D'Addario): "Top 10 Nonfiction Books"
- TIME (Lev Grossman): "Top 10 Fiction Books"
- TIME (Ashley Ross): "Top 10 YA Books"
- Amazon: "The Best Books 2014"
- A.V. Club: "Our Favorite Books of the Year"
- Kirkus Reviews: "Best Books of 2014"
- The New York Times: "The 10 Best Books of 2014"
- The New York Times: "100 Notable Books of 2014"
- The New Yorker: "The Best Books of 2014"
- Newsweek: "Our Favorite Books of 2014"
- NPR: "Our Guide To 2014's Great Reads"
Miscellaneous
- Art of the Title: "Top 10 Title Sequences of 2014"
- A.V. Club: "The Best Films Characters of 2014"
- A.V. Club: "The Best Movie Trailers of 2014"
- A.V. Club: "The 20 Worst Films of 2014"
- The Fader: "Listmania! 2014"
- Grantland (Andy Greenwald): "The 10 Most Underappreciated Actors on TV This Year"
- Grantland (Mark Lisanti): "The 2014 Year-End TV Power Rankings"
- Grantland: "Our Favorite TV Episodes of 2014"
- Longform: "Best of 2014"
- Medium (@dogboner): "The Best Tweets of 2014"
- The National Post: "Top 2,014 things of 2014"
- Pitchfork: "The 20 Best Music Videos of 2014"
- Pitchfork: "100 Best Tracks of 2014"
- Rolling Stone: "The Year in Weed"
- Slate: "The Year of Outrage"
- Splitsider (Elise Czajkowski): "The 9 Best Standup Specials and Albums of 2014"
- TIME: "Top 10 Everything of 2014"
- Vulture (Jesse David Fox): "40 Best Entertainment Photographs of 2014"
- Vulture (Jesse David Fox): "The 20 Best Sketches of 2014"
- Vulture: "Bests, Worsts, and Other Superlatives From 2014 in Entertainment"
[Art by Sam Woolley, some images via AP]