Dave’s Movie Database: Top 100 Films Based on Awards Points

Dave’s Movie Database: Top 100 Films Based on Awards Points

This list was created by awarding points to movies for taking home annual best-of-movie awards from a variety of organizations such as the Academy (Oscars), the Golden Globes, the National Board of Review, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Online Film Critics Society, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or. Also included are awards from the Directors’ Guild of America, the Producers’ Guild of America, and the Screen Actors’ Guild. A variety of city-based critics association awards are factored in as well: Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, and San Francisco. See a full list of year-end movie awards by clicking on the Awards link. With an abundance of these awards coming about since the ‘90s, this list is heavily slanted toward modern films. Still, it is worth seeing what films have been celebrated most in the last three decades. 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 2. Schindler’s List (1993) 3. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 4. American Beauty (1999) 5. Brokeback Mountain (2005) 6. No Country for Old Men (2007) 7. The Hurt Locker (2009) 8. Nomadland (2020) 9. The Social Network (2010) 10. L.A. Confidential (1997) 11. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 12. Fargo (1996) 13. The Godfather (1972) 14. Titanic (1997) 15. Unforgiven (1992) 16. Amadeus (1984) 17. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 18. 12 Years a Slave (2013) 19. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 20. Ben-Hur (1959) 21. Goodfellas (1990) 22. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 23. On the Waterfront (1954) 24. Dances with Wolves (1990) 25. Chicago (2002) 26. Moonlight (2016) 27. Pulp Fiction (1994) 28. Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019) 29. Argo (2012) 30. West Side Story (1961) 31. La La Land (2016) 32. The Artist (2011) 33. All About Eve (1950) 34. My Fair Lady (1964) 35. Forrest Gump (1994) 36. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 37. Gladiator (2000) 38. Terms of Endearment (1983) 39. The Sound of Music (1965) 40. The Apartment (1960) 41. From Here to Eternity (1953) 42. Boyhood (2014) 43. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) 44. The Deer Hunter (1978) 45. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) 46. The Godfather Part II (1974) 47. Patton (1970) 48. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 49. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 50. Annie Hall (1977) 51. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 52. Spotlight (2015) 53. A Man for All Seasons (1966) 54. Sideways (2004) 55. Tom Jones (1963) 56. Rocky (1976) 57. The French Connection (1971) 58. Apocalypse Now (1979) 59. Platoon (1986) 60. Marty (1955) 61. The Sting (1973) 62. The Lost Weekend (1945) 63. The Graduate (1967) 64. It Happened One Night (1934) 65. Ordinary People (1980) 66. Gone with the Wind (1939) 67. Nashville (1975) 68. Cabaret (1972) 69. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 70. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 71. Apollo 13 (1995) 72. Gravity (2013) 73. Gandhi (1982) 74. Driving Miss Daisy (1989) 75. Citizen Kane (1941) 76. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 77. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 78. In the Heat of the Night (1967) 79. A Beautiful Mind (2001) 80. Casablanca (1942) 81. Million Dollar Baby (2004) 82. Going My Way (1944) 83. A Place in the Sun (1951) 84. Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) 85. Sunset Boulevard (1950) 86. Midnight Cowboy (1969) 87. The King’s Speech (2010) 88. All the King’s Men (1949) 89. M*A*S*H (1970) 90. The English Patient (1996) 91. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 92. The Departed (2006) 93. Roma (2018) 94. The Power of the Dog (2021) 95. Chinatown (1974) 96. The Exorcist (1973) 97. All the President’s Men (1976) 98. An American in Paris (1951) 99. Shakespeare in Love (1998) 100. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Awards Page Originally posted 8/6/2019; last updated 5/23/2023.