Best Movies of Each Year: 1990-2011

Budget: $25 Million
Box Office: $46,838,394
Released: 9/19/90

Other Nominees:
-Hunt for Red October
-Dances with Wolves
-Presumed Innocent

Budget: $16 Million
Box Office: $44,856,060
Released: 2/18/91

Other Nominees:
-Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf
-Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
-JFK

Budget: $14.4 Million
Box Office: $159,157,447
Released: 8/7/92

Other Nominees:
-Reservoir Dogs
-The Last of the Mohicans
-Glengarry Glen Ross

Budget: $22 Million
Box Office: $321,000,000
Released: 12/1/93

Other Nominees:
-Three Colors: Blue
-True Romance
-Searching for Bobby Fischer

Budget: $8.5 Million
Box Office: $212,900,000
Released: 10/14/94

Other Nominees:
-Chungking Express
-Quiz Show
-Three Colors: Red

Budget: $30 Million
Box Office: $327,311,859
Released: 9/22/95

Other Nominees:
-Heat
-12 Monkeys
-Kicking and Screaming

Budget: $3.5 Million
Box Office: $72,000,000
Released: 2/23/96

Other Nominees:
-The English Patient
-Swingers
-Big Night

Budget: $200 Million
Box Office: $1,843,201,268
Released: 12/19/97

Other Nominees:
-Boogie Nights
-Chasing Amy
-Jackie Brown

Budget: $27 Million
Box Office: $27,200,316
Released: 2/27/98

Other Nominees:
-Pleasantville
-The Thin Red Line
-The Big Lebowski

Budget: $15 Million
Box Office: $356,296,601
Released: 9/17/99

Other Nominees:
-The Matrix
-The Sixth Sense
-The Blair Witch Project

Budget: $60 Million
Box Office: $47,383,689 (Only movie in this list failing to even reach its budget and still considered good)
Released: 9/15/00

Other Nominees:
-O brother where art thou?
-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
-In the Mood for Love

Budget: $93 Million
Box Office: $870,761,744
Released: 12/19/01

Other Nominees:
-Moulin Rouge!
-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
-Amelie

Budget: $52 Million
Box Office: $352,114,312
Released: 12/25/02

Other Nominees:
-City of God
-The Two Towers
-Hero

Budget: $150 Million
Box Office: $212,011,111
Released: 11/14/03

Other Nominees:
-Kill Bill Vol. 1
-X-Men 2
-Pirates of the Caribbean

Budget: $130 Million
Box Office: $796,688,549
Released: 5/4/04

Other Nominees:
-The Incredibles
-The Aviator
-2046

Budget: $113 Million
Box Office: $848,754,768
Released: 5/19/05

Other Nominees:
-Munich
-Brokeback Mountain
-The 40 Year Old Virgin

Budget: $15 Million
Box Office: $76,286,096
Released: 4/28/06

Other Nominees:
-The Queen
-The Departed
-Pan's Labyrinth

Budget: $25 Million
Box Office: $76,181,545
Released: 12/26/07

Other Nominees:
-Ratatouille
-No Country for Old Men
-The Lives of Others

Budget: $185 Million
Box Office: $1,001,921,825
Released: 7/18/08

Other Nominees:
-The Wrestler
-Slumdog Millionaire
-Man On Wire

Budget: $15 Million
Box Office: $49,230,772
Released: 5/26/09

Other Nominees:
-Avatar (I know people will disagree that Avatar was better, but a majority of people don't think so, including myself)
-Up in the Air
-Up

Note: It appears here that this movie is from 2008, but it was released on December 29, 2011 on New York but it was released on January on the U.S. therefore it is technically 2009)

Budget: $200 Million
Box Office: $1,063,171,911
Released: 5/18/10

Other Nominees:
-The Social Network
-Inception
-Winter's Bone