Best of the Movies

Best of the Movies

I found it surprisingly difficult to find on the web complete lists of the Academy Awards and other honors by year, etc. As a result, I compiled the following lists for myself, but I make them available here for whomever can use them.

This page links to the "best of" lists described below; just click the section headings. However, if you want them all collected as a single zipped text file, click here to download (~170kB).

The most acclaimed movies

This is a good place to start. It's a list I compiled that ranks movies by how often they are mentioned in the various categories detailed below.

General lists

National Film Review's Top 70 of the Last Century
U.S. National Film Registry, by year
Sight & Sound International Critics Poll
New York Film Critics Award list of Best Picture, by year
Los Angeles Film Critics Award list of Best Picture, by year
Academy Award Winners for Best Picture, by year
Golden Globe Awards list of Best Picture, by year
Cinepad list of 100+ "Best Movies of All-Time"

Academy Awards

Complete list of winners and nominations for the following categories.

Best Picture
Director
Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Adapted Screenplay
Original Screenplay
Foreign Film

Golden Globes

Complete list of winners and nominations for the following categories.

Drama
Director
Actor in a Drama
Actress in a Drama
Comedy or Musical
Actor in a Comedy or Musical
Actress in a Comedy or Musical
Screenplay - Motion Picture
Actress, Supporting
Actor, Supporting
Foreign Film

American Film Institute Lists

Top 100 lists

AFI's 100 All-Time Greatest list
AFI's 100 Laughs: top comedy list
AFI's 100 Thrills: top heart-pounding movies
AFIs 100 Passions: top love stories
AFI's Top 50 Heroes and Villians

And the nominations...

AFI's list of the 400 Movies nominated for the top 100 Greatest American Movies
AFI's list of the 500 movies nominated for the top 100 Funniest American Movies
AFI's list of the 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American Movies
AFI's list of the 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Greatest Love Stories

IMDb Top Lists

These lists were compiled in early 2002. Since the IMDb is perpetually updated, if you want a current list, go to the .

IMDB top 250
Top 50 Action movies
Top 50 Adventure movies
Top 50 Animation movies
Top 50 Family movies
Top 50 Comedy movies
Top 50 Crime movies
Top 50 Documentary movies
Top 50 Drama movies
Top 50 Mystery movies

Top 50 Romance movies
Top 50 Sci-Fi movies
Top 50 Thriller movies
Top 50 War movies
Top 50 Fantasy movies
Top 50 Film-Noir movies
Top 50 Horror movies
Top 50 Independent movies
Top 50 Musical movies
Top 50 Western movies

Top 50 1990s movies
Top 50 1980s movies
Top 50 1970s movies
Top 50 1960s movies
Top 50 1950s movies
Top 50 1940s movies
Top 50 1930s movies
The infamous Bottom 100

The Critics

Top ten by year for:

Gene Siskel
Roger Ebert

E! Top 10 lists

Oh, just for fun...
Top 10 Wost Sequels Top 10 Drug Flicks Top 10 Movies About Movies Top 10 Movies That Rock Top 10 Football Flicks Top 10 Blaxploitation Flicks Top 10 Shakespeare Movies Top 10 High School Flicks	Top 10 Baseball Movies Top 10 Westerns Top 10 Movies from Books Top 10 War movies Top 10 Pictures Never Nominated for Best Picture Top 10 Sports Movies Top 10 Teen Angst Flicks Top 10 Horror Films

By genre...

Classic '50s Sci-Fi movies
Top Horror movies

Links

The best movie-related links I have found.

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