The Best and My Favourite Films of Each Year
(Updated – 2023)
1903: The Great Train Robbery – The first film with a narrative.
1904: Le Voyage a Travers I’Impossible
1905: The Palace of the Arabian Nights
1906: Best – Thrilling Detective Story
My Favourite – The House of Ghosts
1907: Best – Life and Passion of Christ
My Favourite – The Red Spectre
1908: A Fantasy – First animated film
1909: The Devilish Tenant
1910: Best – Frankenstein
My Favourite – The Wonderful World of Oz – Oddly VERY creepy…
1911: Best – Dante’s Inferno
My Favourite – Little Red Riding Hood
1912: Best – The Pony Express Girl
My Favourite – Saved From the Titanic
1913: Fantomas (Series of Shorts)
1914: Best – Cabiria
My Favourite – Gertie the Dinosaur
1915: Best – Les Vampires
My Favourite – A Fool There Was – One of my top 20 films. I’m a huge Theda Bara fan!!!
NOTE – A Birth of a Nation came out. Watch for historical value, but otherwise F that movie.
1916: Best – Intolerance
My Favourite – The Rink (Chaplin)
1917: The Immigrant
1918: Shoulder Arms
1919: Best – Broken Blossoms
My Favourite – The Dark Star (Marion Davies)
1920: Best – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
My Favourite – Der Golem
1921: The Kid
1922: Nosferatu
1923: Best – Safety Last
My Favourite – Alice’s Wonderland (Great BTS at Disney)
1924: Best – Sherlock Jr.
My Favourite – He Who Gets Slapped (Lon Chaney Sr.)
1925: Best - The Gold Rush
My Favourite – Battleship Potemkin
1926: Best – The General
My Favourite – A Page of Madness (Early Japanese Horror)
1927: Metropolis – Hands down, one of the best films ever made. A must watch…
1928: Best – The Passion of Joan of Arc
My Favourite – The Man Who Laughs (Weirdness)
1929: Pandora’s Box
1930: Best – All Quiet of the Western Front
My Favourite – Animal Crackers
1931: Best – M (Peter Lorre)
My Favourite – (tie) Dracula and City Lights
1932: Freaks (Tod Browning)
1933: Best – Duck Soup
My Favourite – Dinner at Eight and 42nd Street
1934: Best – It Happened One Night
My Favourite – The Thin Man (MY FAVOURITE MOVIE!!!)
1935: The Bride of Frankenstein
1936: Best – Modern Times
My Favourite – (tie) My Man Godfrey and After the Thin Man
1937: Best – Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
My Favourite – Shall We Dance
1938: Best - You Can’t Take It With You
My Favourite – Bringing Up Baby
1939: Best - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
My Favourite – The Women (Top Ten)
1940: Best - Fantasia
My Favourite – The Philadelphia Story (Second Favourite Movie)
1941: Best - The Maltese Falcon
My Favourite – Shadow of the Thin Man
*NOTE – Citizen Kane came out this year. One of the best films, yes, however watch the German silent classics first. He borrowed their techniques.
1942: Casablanca
1943: Arsenic and Old Lace
1944: Best - Double Indemnity
My Favourite – Gaslight
1945: Best – Rome, Open City
My Favourite – The Picture of Dorian Gray
1946: Best - The Big Sleep
My Favourite - Notorious
1947: Monsieur Verdoux
1948: Best – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
My Favourite – Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1949: Best – The Third Man
My Favourite – Adam’s Rib
1950: Best - Rashomon
My Favourite – Born Yesterday
1951: Best – Strangers on a Train
My Favourite – The Lavender Hill Mob
1952: Best – Singin’ in the Rain
My Favourite – Monkey Business
1953: Best – Roman Holiday
My Favourite – Gentleman Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire
1954: Best – Seven Samurai
My Favourite – Godzilla (The original, without Raymond Burr)
1955: Best - Rebel Without a Cause
My Favourite – The Court Jester (Top Ten)
1956: Best – Forbidden Planet
My Favourite – The Bad Seed
1957: Throne of Blood (Kurosawa’s Macbeth)
1958: Best – Vertigo (Even though I personally hate it)
My Favourite – Auntie Mame (Top Ten)
1959: Best – North by Northwest
My Favourite – Some Like It Hot
1960: Best – Psycho
My Favourite – Eyes Without a Face
1961: Best – Judgement at Nuremberg
My Favourite – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
1962: Best – To Kill a Mockingbird
My Favourite – The Manchurian Candidate
1963: Best – The Birds or The Great Escape
My Favourite – Charade (Top Ten)
1964: Best – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
My Favourite – Mary Poppins
1965: Best – For a Few Dollars More
My Favourite – Bunny Lake is Missing
1966: Best – Fahrenheit 451
My Favourite – How to Steal a Million
1967: Best – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
My Favourite – Wait Until Dark
1968: Best – Night of the Living Dead
My Favourite – Rosemary’s Baby
1969: Best – Midnight Cowboy
My Favourite – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
1970: Best – MASH
My Favourite – Start the Revolution Without Me
1971: Best – A Clockwork Orange
My Favourite - Klute
1972: Cabaret
1973: Best – The Exorcist
My Favourite – Don’t Look Now
1974: Best – Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein
My Favourite – Black Christmas
1975: Best – Jaws
My Favourite – Deep Red
1976: Best – All the President’s Men
My Favourite – Murder By Death
1977: Best – Star Wars
My Favourite - Martin
1978: Best – Dawn of the Dead
My Favourite – Halloween (Top Ten)
1979: Best – Alien
My Favourite – Time After Time
1980: Best – Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
My Favourite – Xanadu
1981: Best – Raiders of the Lost Ark
My Favourite – The Evil Dead
1982: Best – Victor, Victoria
My Favourite – Poltergeist
1983: Best – Local Hero
My Favourite – Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (Third Favourite Film)
1984: Best – This Is Spinal Tap
My Favourite – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
1985: Best – The Color Purple
My Favourite – Fletch
1986: Best – Little Shop of Horrors
My Favourite – Howard the Duck
1987: Best – The Princess Bride
My Favourite – Withnail & I
1988: Best – Grave of the Fireflies
My Favourite – Hairspray
1989: Best – Do the Right Thing
My Favourite – Batman
1990: Best – Misery
My Favourite – Dick Tracy
1991: Best – Beauty and the Beast
My Favourite – The Addams Family
1992: Best – A League of Their Own
My Favourite – Batman Returns
1993: Jurassic Park
1994: Best – Schindler’s List
My Favourite – Four Wedding and a Funeral
1995: Best – Se7en
My Favourite – The American President
1996: Best – 12 Monkeys
My Favourite – Mars Attacks!
1997: Best – Titanic
My Favourite – The Fifth Element
1998: Best – The Truman Show
My Favourite – Practical Magic
1999: Best – The Sixth Sense
My Favourite – The Blair Witch Project
2000: Unbreakable
2001: Best – Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
My Favourite – Moulin Rouge
2002: Best – Catch Me If You Can
My Favourite – My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003: Best – Kill Bill: Vol. 1 My Favourite – The Italian Job
2004: Best – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
My Favourite – Shaun of the Dead (Top Ten)
2005: Best – Walk the Line
My Favourite – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
2006: Best – Little Miss Sunshine
My Favourite – Inside Man
2007: Best – Pan’s Labyrinth
My Favourite – Zodiac
2008: Best – The Dark Knight
My Favourite – Twilight (Don’t judge me;-)
2009: Best – District 9
My Favourite – Coraline
2010: Best – Black Swan
My Favourite – Tangled
2011: Best – Bridesmaids
My Favourite – Captain America: The First Avenger
2012: Best – The Artist
My Favourite – Skyfall
2013: Best – American Hustle
My Favourite – The Conjuring
2014: Best – Gone Girl
My Favourite – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2015: Best – Selma
My Favourite – Kingsman: The Secret Service
2016: Best – Kubo and the Two Strings
My Favourite – Captain America: Civil War
2017: Get Out
2018: Black Panther
2019: Best – Midsommar
My Favourite – Us
2020: Knives Out
2021: Best – DUNE
My Favourite – Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once
2023: Barbie
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