Best Movie of Every Year
Submitted by ash_campbell on Fri, 10/22/2004 - 03:43
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- 1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- 1921 - None yet
- 1922 - Nosferatu, eine Symphonie de Grauens
- 1923 - None yet
- 1924 - Thief of Bagdad
- 1925 - The Gold Rush
- 1926 - The Black Pirate
- The only 1926 film I've seen.
- 1927 - The General
- 1928 - The Passion of Jeanne D’arc
- 1929 - The Man with a Movie Camera
- 1930 - Little Caeser
- 1931 - City Lights
- 1932 - Trouble in Paradise
- Special Mention: Freaks
- 1933 - Zero for Conduct
- 1934 - It Happened One Night
- Special Mention: The Thin Man
- 1935 - Top Hat
- 1936 - Modern Times
- 1937 - Grand Illusion
- 1938 - Port of Shadows
- This replaces The Lady Vanishes, which still gets a special mention.
- 1939 - The Wizard of Oz
- Special Mention: The Rules of the Game
- 1940 - The Philadelphia Story
- 1941 - The Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane
- 1942 - Casablanca
- 1943 - Shadow of a Doubt
- 1944 - Double Indemnity
- Special Mention: To Have and Have Not
- 1945 - The Lost Weekend
- Special Mention: Spellbound
- 1946 - Beauty and the Beast
- Special Mention: The Big Sleep
- 1947 - Out of the Past
- 1948 - The Big Clock
- 1949 - The Third Man
- Special Mention: Kind Hearts and Coronets
- 1950 - All About Eve
- Special Mention: Harvey
- 1951 - The African Queen
- 1952 - Ikiru
- Special Mentions: The Quiet Man and Singin’ in the Rain
- 1953 - From Here to Eternity
- Special mention: The Big Heat
- 1954 - The Caine Mutiny
- Special Mention: Dial M for Murder
- 1955 - Rififi
- 1956 - The Killing
- 1957 - Throne of Blood
- Special Mention: The Sweet Smell of Success
- 1958 - Vertigo
- Special Mention: Touch of Evil
- 1959 - North by Northwest
- Special Mention: The 400 Blows
- 1960 - La Dolce Vita
- Special Mention: The Apartment
- 1961 - The Hustler
- Special Mention: Yojimbo
- 1962 - The Manchurian Candidate
- Special Mention: Lawerence of Arabia
- 1963 - The Great Escape
- 1964 - Goldfinger
- Special Mention: Dr. Strangelove
- 1965 - The Sound of Music
- Special Mention: Red Beard
- 1966 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- 1967 - Cool Hand Luke
- 1968 - 2001: A Space Oddyssey
- Special Mention: The Producers
- 1969 - The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Once Upon a Time in the West
- The year of the Western.
- 1970 - Patton
- Special Mention: MASH
- 1971 - A Clockwork Orange
- 1972 - The Godfather
- 1973 - The Sting
- Special Mention: The Exorcist
- 1974 - Young Frankenstein
- Special Mentions: The Godfather, Part II and Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- 1975 - Jaws
- 1976 - All the President’ Men
- Special Mention: Taxi Driver
- 1977 - Annie Hall
- Special Mention: Star Wars
- 1978 - Dawn of the Dead
- 1979 - Apocalypse Now
- Special Mention: Alien
- 1980 - The Empire Strikes Back
- Special Mention: Raging Bull
- 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
- 1982 - Blade Runner
- Special Mention: Gandhi
- 1983 - Scarface
- Special Mention: Terms of Endearment
- 1984 - Blood Simple
- Special Mention: Amadeus
- 1985 - Ran
- 1986 - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Special Mention: Platoon
- 1987 - The Princess Bride
- 1988 - A Fish Called Wanda
- Special Mention: The Last Temptation of Christ
- 1989 - The Killer
- 1990 - Miller’s Crossing
- Special Mention: La Femme Nikita
- 1991 - Silence of the Lambs
- 1992 - Glengarry Glen Ross
- Special Mention: A Grand Day Out
- 1993 - Schindler’s List
- Special Mention: Sonatine
- 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
- Special Mention: Pulp Fiction
- 1995 - The Usual Suspects
- Special Mentions: Toy Story and The American President
- 1996 - Fargo
- Special Mention: Trainspotting
- 1997 - The Sweet Hereafter
- Special Mention: LA Confidential
- 1998 - Dark City
- Special Mention: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
- 1999 - Being John Malkovich
- Special Mention: Fight Club
- 2000 - Wonder Boys
- Special Mention: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- 2001 - Amelie
- Special Mentions: Spirited Away and Monster’s Inc.
- 2002 - Punch Drunk Love
- Special Mention: Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers
- 2003 - Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King
- Special Mention: The Triplets of Belleville
- 2004 - Farenheit 9/11
- Special Mention: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Since everyone else is doing it, I might as well jump on the bandwagon. I tried to keep the number of ties and special mentions to a minimum, and things will change when I see more films. Links go to my reviews.
Removed:
Red River (1948)