Wednesday, December 14, 2022

National Film Registry

National Film Registry:

Selections: 1989-2022

The Library of Congress’ National Film Registry was founded in 1988 for the purpose of preserving films for their historical, cultural, and aesthetic contributions. They are selected by the National Film Preservation Board. Each year up to 25 films are added to the registry. All of the “inductees” are listed below in alphabetical order. The first date indicates the year the film was added to the registry. The second date (in parentheses) indicates the year of the film’s release.

2001: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
2017: Ace in the Hole (1951)
1992: Adam’s Rib (1949)
1995: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
1994: The African Queen (1951)
2010: Airplane! (1980)
2002: Alien (1979)
1990: All About Eve (1950)
2002: All My Babies (1953)
1990: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
1995: All That Heaven Allows (1955)
2001: All That Jazz (1979)
2001: All the King’s Men (1949)
2010: All the President’s Men (1976)
2011: Allures (1961)
2019: Amadeus (1984)
2001: America America (1963)
1995: American Graffiti (1973)
1993: An American in Paris (1951)
2012: Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
1992: Annie Hall (1977)
2003: Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
1994: The Apartment (1960)
2000: Apocalypse Now (1979)
2006: Applause (1929)
2008: The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
2003: Atlantic City (1980)
2016: The Atomic Cafe (1982)
2022: Attica (1974)
2012: The Augustas (1930s–1950s)
1996: The Awful Truth (1937)

2005: Baby Face (1933)
2007: Back to the Future (1985)
2002: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
2018: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
1993: Badlands (1973)
2016: Ball of Fire (1941)
2022: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
2011: Bambi (1942)
1995: The Band Wagon (1953)
1992: The Bank Dick (1940)
2010: The Bargain (1914)
1991: The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
2020: The Battle of the Century (1927)
2016: The Beau Brummels (1928)
2002: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
2019: Becky Sharp (1935)
2019: Before Stonewall (1984)
2022: Behind Every Good Man (1967)
2015: Being There (1979)
1997: Ben-Hur (1925)
2004: Ben-Hur (1959)
2014: Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913)
1989: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
2022: Betty Tells Her Story (1972)
1992: Big Business (1929)
2011: The Big Heat (1953)
2014: The Big Lebowski (1998)
1992: The Big Parade (1925)
1997: The Big Sleep (1946)
2006: The Big Trail (1930)
2016: The Birds (1963)
1992: The Birth of a Nation (1915)
2015: Black and Tan (1929)
1993: The Black Pirate (1926)
2002: The Black Stallion (1979)
2016: Blackboard Jungle (1955)
1995: Blacksmith Scene (1893)
1993: Blade Runner (1982)
2006: Blazing Saddles (1974)
2013: Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
1991: The Blood of Jesus (1941)
2004: The Blue Bird (1918)
2020: The Blues Brothers (1980)
2019: Body and Soul (1925)
1992: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
2012: Born Yesterday (1950)
2017: Boulevard Nights (1979)
2019: Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
2002: Boyz N the Hood (1991)
2013: Brandy in the Wilderness (1969)
2020: Bread (1918)
2012: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
2016: The Breakfast Club (1985)
1998: Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
1997: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1990: Bringing Up Baby (1938)
2018: Broadcast News (1987)
2018: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
1996: Broken Blossoms (1919)
2004: A Bronx Morning (1931)
2020: Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
2005: The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
2007: Bullitt (1968)
2022: Bush Mama (1979)
2003: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

2022: Cab Calloway's home movies (1948–1951)
1995: Cabaret (1972)
2020: Cabin in the Sky (1943)
2005: The Cameraman (1928)
1992: Carmen Jones (1954)
2022: Carrie (1976)
1989: Casablanca (1942)
1992: Castro Street (1966)
1993: Cat People (1942)
1995: Chan Is Missing (1982)
2022: Charade (1963)
1993: The Cheat (1915)
2003: The Chechahcos (1924)
2021: Chicana (1979)
1991: Chinatown (1974)
2012: A Christmas Story (1983)
1993: Chulas Fronteras (1976)
2013: Cicero March (1966)
2018: Cinderella (1950)
1989: Citizen Kane (1941)
1998: The City (1939)
1991: City Lights (1931)
1999: Civilization (1916)
2004: The Clash of the Wolves (1925)
2019: Clerks (1994)
2020: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
2007: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
2019: Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)
2001: Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
2005: Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
2011: A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
1995: The Conversation (1974)
2005: Cool Hand Luke (1967)
2021: Cooley High (1975)
1994: The Cool World (1963)
1997: Cops (1922)
2012: The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897)
1994: A Corner in Wheat (1909)
2004: The Court Jester (1956)
2011: Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
1989: The Crowd (1928)
2011: The Cry of the Children (1912)
2010: The Cry of Jazz (1959)
2011: A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
2006: The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916–1917)
2022: Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
1997: Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)

2007: Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
2007: Dances with Wolves (1990)
2020: The Dark Knight (2008)
2013: Daughter of Dawn (1920)
2006: Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
2004: Daughters of the Dust (1991)
1991: David Holzman’s Diary (1967)
1995: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
2007: Days of Heaven (1978)
2018: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
1998: Dead Birds (1964)
2013: Decasia (2002)
2016: The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
1996: The Deer Hunter (1978)
2008: Deliverance (1972)
2002: Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
1996: Destry Rides Again (1939)
1992: Detour (1945)
2020: The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)
2003: The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894 or 1895)
2017: Die Hard (1988)
2012: Dirty Harry (1971)
2008: Disneyland Dream (1956)
2018: Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (1908)
2004: D.O.A. (1950)
1999: The Docks of New York (1928)
1990: Dodsworth (1936)
2009: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
1992: Dog Star Man (1961–1964)
1998: Don’t Look Back (1967)
1999: Do the Right Thing (1989)
1992: Double Indemnity (1944)
2014: Down Argentine Way (1940)
1989: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2000: Dracula (1931)
2015: Drácula (1931)
2014: The Dragon Painter (1919)
2015: Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
2006: Drums of Winter (1988)
1999: Duck Amuck (1953)
2004: Duck and Cover (1951)
1990: Duck Soup (1933)
2017: Dumbo (1941)

2015: Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)
2006: Early Abstractions[I] (1939–1956)
2016: East of Eden (1955)
1998: Easy Rider (1969)
1993: Eaux d'Artifice (1953)
2015: Edison Kinetographic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
2011: El Mariachi (1992)
1995: El Norte (1983)
2010: Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
2013: Ella Cinders (1926)
2019: Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
1999: The Emperor Jones (1933)
2004: Empire (1964)
2019: Employees’ Entrance (1933)
2002: The Endless Summer (1966)
2004: Enter the Dragon (1973)
2004: Eraserhead (1977)
1994: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
2018: Eve’s Bayou (1997)
2021: Evergreen (1965)
2001: The Evidence of the Film (1913)
2009: The Exiles (1961)
2010: The Exorcist (1973)
1994: The Exploits of Elaine (1914)

2008: A Face in the Crowd (1957)
2011: Faces (1968)
2011: Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
2000: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
1990: Fantasia (1940)
2006: Fargo (1996)
2005: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
1995: Fatty’s Tintype Tangle (1915)
2014: Felicia (1965)
2014: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
2017: Field of Dreams (1989)
2003: Film Portrait (1972)
2000: Five Easy Pieces (1970)
1996: Flash Gordon (1936)
2006: Flesh and the Devil (1927)
2021: Flowers and Trees (1932)
2008: Flower Drum Song (1961)
2021: The Flying Ace (1926)
2019: The Fog of War (2003)
2015: A Fool There Was (1915)
2008: Foolish Wives (1922)
1992: Footlight Parade (1933)
2013: Forbidden Planet (1956)
1994: Force of Evil (1948)
1996: The Forgotten Frontier (1931)
2011: Forrest Gump (1994)
1998: 42nd Street (1933)
1995: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
2017: 4 Little Girls (1997)
2003: Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band (1928)
1996: Frank Film (1973)
1991: Frankenstein (1931)
1994: Freaks (1932)
2008: Free Radicals (1979)
2020: Freedom Riders (2010)
2005: The French Connection (1971)
1990: The Freshman (1925)
2002: From Here to Eternity (1953)
2002: From Stump to Ship (1930)
1998: From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
2010: The Front Page (1931)
2017: Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection (1920s–1930s)
2002: Fuji (1974)
2016: Funny Girl (1968)
1995: Fury (1936)

2014: The Gang’s All Here (1943)
2004: Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
2019: Gaslight (1944)
1989: The General (1926)
2017: Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
2008: George Stevens' World War II footage (1943–1946)
2019: George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
1995: Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)
1991: Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
2015: Ghostbusters (1984)
2005: Giant (1956)
1991: Gigi (1958)
2013: Gilda (1946)
2018: The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
2019: Girlfriends (1978)
2007: Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
1990: The Godfather (1972)
1993: The Godfather: Part II (1974)
2004: Going My Way (1944)
2003: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
1992: The Gold Rush (1925)
1989: Gone with the Wind (1939)
2000: Goodfellas (1990)
2017: The Goonies (1985)
1996: The Graduate (1967)
2007: Grand Hotel (1932)
1989: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
1997: Grass (1925)
2020: Grease (1978)
1997: The Great Dictator (1940)
1990: The Great Train Robbery (1903)
1991: Greed (1924)
2010: Grey Gardens (1975)
2020: The Ground (1993–2001)
2006: Groundhog Day (1993)
2011: Growing Up Female (1971)
2017: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
1998: Gun Crazy (1950)
1999: Gunga Din (1939)

2005: H2O (1929)
2015: Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
2022: Hairspray (1988)
2018: Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People (1984)
2008: Hallelujah (1929)
2006: Halloween (1978)
2005: Hands Up! (1926)
1990: Harlan County, USA (1976)
1997: Harold and Maude (1971)
2018: Hearts and Minds (1974)
2017: He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
1996: The Heiress (1949)
1994: Hell's Hinges (1916)
2021: Hellbound Train (1930)
2009: Heroes All (1920)
2011: Hester Street (1975)
1989: High Noon (1952)
1991: High School (1968)
1997: Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage (1937)
1993: His Girl Friday (1940)
1998: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
2013: The Hole (1962)
2005: Hoop Dreams (1994)
2001: Hoosiers (1986)
1994: Hospital (1970)
1995: The Hospital (1971)
2009: Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)
2012: Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980–1982)
2007: The House I Live In (1945)
2001: The House in the Middle (1954)
2005: House of Usher (1960)
2014: House of Wax (1953)
2022: House Party (1990)
1990: How Green Was My Valley (1941)
1997: How the West Was Won (1962)
2018: Hud (1963)
2015: Humoresque (1920)
2003: The Hunters (1957)
2020: The Hurt Locker (2008)
1997: The Hustler (1961)

1991: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
2010: I Am Joaquin (1969)
2019: I Am Somebody (1970)
2011: I, An Actress (1977)
2020: Illusions (1982)
2005: Imitation of Life (1934)
2015: Imitation of Life (1959)
1998: The Immigrant (1917)
2007: In a Lonely Place (1950)
2008: In Cold Blood (1967)
2002: In the Heat of the Night (1967)
1999: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
2006: In the Street (1948)
2009: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
1999: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
2018: The Informer (1935)
2015: The Inner World of Aphasia (1968)
2017: Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)
2014: Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
1989: Intolerance (1916)
1994: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
2008: The Invisible Man (1933)
2011: The Iron Horse (1924)
2022: Iron Man (2008)
2001: It (1927)
1993: It Happened One Night (1934)
2010: It's a Gift (1934)
1990: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
1991: The Italian (1915)
2022: Itam Hakim, Hopiit (1984)

2004: Jailhouse Rock (1957)
2001: Jam Session (1942)
1995: Jammin’ the Blues (1944)
2001: Jaws (1975)
1999: Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
1996: The Jazz Singer (1927)
2005: Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
2009: Jezebel (1938)
2015: John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
2008: Johnny Guitar (1954)
2020: The Joy Luck Club (1993)
2021: Jubilo (1919)
2013: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
2009: The Jungle (1967)
2018: Jurassic Park (1993)

2004: Kannapolis, N.C. (1941)

2011: The Kid (1921)

2020: Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)

2012: The Kidnappers Foil (1930s–1950s)

1990: Killer of Sheep (1978)

2008: The Killers (1946)

1999: King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

1991: King Kong (1933)
2013: King of Jazz (1930)
1999: The Kiss (1896)
1999: Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
1997: Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
2000: Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

2015: L.A. Confidential (1997)
2017: La Bamba (1987)
1994: The Lady Eve (1941)
2018: The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
2004: Lady Helen’s Escapade (1909)
2002: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
1999: Lambchops (1929)
2000: The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
1993: Lassie Come Home (1943)
2006: The Last Command (1928)
1995: The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
1998: The Last Picture Show (1971)
2019: The Last Waltz (1978)
1999: Laura (1944)
1991: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2009: The Lead Shoes (1949)
2012: A League of Their Own (1992)
1989: The Learning Tree (1969)
2018: Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
2010: Let There Be Light (1946)
2000: Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957)
1992: Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
1997: The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928)
1996: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
2016: Life of an American Fireman (1903)
2000: The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
2020: Lilies of the Field (1963)
2016: The Lion King (1994)
2014: Little Big Man (1970)
2000: Little Caesar (1931)
1997: Little Fugitive (1953)
2022: The Little Mermaid (1989)
1998: Little Miss Marker (1934)
2009: Little Nemo (1911)
2017: Lives of Performers (1972)
2000: The Living Desert (1953)
2010: Lonesome (1928)
2021: The Long Goodbye (1973)
2021: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2020: Losing Ground (1982)
2016: Lost Horizon (1937)
2011: The Lost Weekend (1945)
1998: The Lost World (1925)
1994: Louisiana Story (1948)
2000: Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
1990: Love Me Tonight (1932)
2013: The Lunch Date (1990)
2014: Luxo Jr. (1986)

2009: Mabel’s Blunder (1914)
1993: Magical Maestro (1952)
1991: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
2013: The Magnificent Seven (1960)
2010: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
2005: The Making of an American (1920)
2010: Malcolm X (1992)
1989: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
2007: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
2020: The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
1994: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
1995: Manhatta (1921)
2001: Manhattan (1979)
2022: Manzanar (1971)
2022: Mardi Gras Carnival (1898)
1996: M*A*S*H (1970)
2020: Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
2008: The March (1964)
1993: The March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
2001: Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
2015: The Mark of Zorro (1920)
2009: The Mark of Zorro (1940)
2013: Martha Graham dance films (1931–1944)
1994: Marty (1955)
2013: Mary Poppins (1964)
1999: Master Hands (1936)
2003: Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913)
2012: The Matrix (1999)
2010: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
1997: Mean Streets (1973)
2003: Medium Cool (1969)
1994: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
2002: Melody Ranch (1940)
2017: Memento (2000)
2001: Memphis Belle (1944)
2013: Men and Dust (1940)
1990: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
2009: Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983)
2012: The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
2013: Midnight (1939)
1994: Midnight Cowboy (1969)
2007: Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
1996: Mildred Pierce (1945)
2022: Mingus (1968)
2001: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
2005: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
2001: Miss Lulu Bett (1922)
1989: Modern Times (1936)
1998: Modesta (1956)
2005: Mom and Dad (1945)
2018: Monterey Pop (1968)
2014: Moon Breath Beat (1980)
1992: Morocco (1930)
1997: Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
1994: A Movie (1958)
1989: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
2009: Mrs. Miniver (1942)
2000: Multiple SIDosis (1970)
2009: The Muppet Movie (1979)
2021: The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
1997: The Music Box (1932)
2005: The Music Man (1962)
2016: The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
1991: My Darling Clementine (1946)
2018: My Fair Lady (1964)
1999: My Man Godfrey (1936)
2019: My Name Is Oona (1969)
2007: The Naked City (1948)
1997: The Naked Spur (1953)

1989: Nanook of the North (1922)
1992: Nashville (1975)
2001: National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
2003: National Velvet (1944)
2018: The Navigator (1924)
2003: Naughty Marietta (1935)
2002: Navajo Film Themselves (1966)
2011: The Negro Soldier (1944)
2000: Network (1976)
2019: A New Leaf (1971)
2010: Newark Athlete (1891)
2011: Nicholas Brothers’ home movies (1930s–1940s)
1993: A Night at the Opera (1935)
1992: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
1999: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2021: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
1990: Ninotchka (1939)
2008: No Lies (1973)
2011: Norma Rae (1979)
1995: North by Northwest (1959)
2003: (nostalgia) (1971)
2013: Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1951)
1993: Nothing but a Man (1964)
2006: Notorious (1946)
2007: Now, Voyager (1942)
2004: The Nutty Professor (1963)

2004: OffOn (1968)
2007: Oklahoma! (1955)
2015: The Old Mill (1937)
2019: Old Yeller (1957)
2008: On the Bowery (1957)
2018: On the Town (1949)
1989: On the Waterfront (1954)
2009: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
2018: One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
1993: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
2003: One Froggy Evening (1955)
2012: One Survivor Remembers (1995)
2008: One Week (1920)
2017: Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
2015: Our Daily Bread (1934)
2007: Our Day (1938)
2010: Our Lady of the Sphere (1972)
1991: Out of the Past (1947)
1996: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
2020: Outrage (1950)
1998: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

2012: Parable (1964)
2022: Pariah (2011)
2016: Paris Is Burning (1990)
1998: Pass the Gravy (1928)
1992: Paths of Glory (1957)
2003: Patton (1970)
2008: The Pawnbroker (1964)
2002: The Pearl (1947)
2007: Peege (1973)
2008: The Perils of Pauline (1914)
2000: Peter Pan (1924)
1998: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
2019: The Phenix City Story (1955)
1995: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
2018: Pickup on South Street (1953)
2009: Pillow Talk (1959)
2021: Pink Flamingos (1972)
2010: The Pink Panther (1963)
1994: Pinocchio (1940)
1991: A Place in the Sun (1951)
2001: Planet of the Apes (1968)
2019: Platoon (1986)
2014: Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive! (1976)
1999: The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
2016: Point Blank (1967)
1993: Point of Order (1964)
1991: The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
2004: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
2011: Porgy and Bess (1959)
2000: Porky in Wackyland (1938)
2015: Portrait of Jason (1967)
2014: The Power and the Glory (1933)
2005: The Power of the Press (1928)
1998: Powers of Ten (1977)
2009: Precious Images (1986)
2010: Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
2000: President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
1990: Primary (1960)
2016: The Princess Bride (1987)
2003: Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
1991: The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
1996: The Producers (1967)
1992: Psycho (1960)
1998: The Public Enemy (1931)
1996: Pull My Daisy (1959)
2013: Pulp Fiction (1994)
2002: Punch Drunks (1934)
2004: Pups Is Pups (1930)
2019: Purple Rain (1984)
2016: Putney Swope (1969)

2009: Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
2013: The Quiet Man (1952)

1990: Raging Bull (1980)
2005: A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
2019: Real Women Have Curves (2002)
1997: Rear Window (1954)
2018: Rebecca (1940)
1990: Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
2009: The Red Book (1994)
2006: Red Dust (1932)
1990: Red River (1948)
2000: Regeneration (1915)
2006: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971–1972)
1997: Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage (1937)
2021: Requiem-29 (1970)
1997: Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
2009: The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930–1936)
2016: Reverend Solomon Sir Jones films (1924–1928)
2021: Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
1992: Ride the High Country (1962)
2013: The Right Stuff (1983)
2021: Ringling Brothers Parade Film (1902)
2014: Rio Bravo (1959)
1995: Rip Van Winkle (1903)
1990: The River (1938)
1996: Road to Morocco (1942)
2006: Rocky (1976)
2005: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
2013: Roger & Me (1989)
1999: Roman Holiday (1953)
2001: Rose Hobart (1936)
2014: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
2014: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
2016: Rushmore (1998)

2002: Sabrina (1954)
1994: Safety Last! (1923)
1992: Salesman (1969)
2000: Salomé (1923)
1992: Salt of the Earth (1954)
2012: Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1989)
2005: San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 (1906)
2010: Saturday Night Fever (1977)
2014: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
1994: Scarface (1932)
2004: Schindler’s List (1993)
2022: Scorpio Rising (1964)
2009: Scratch and Crow (1995)
1989: The Searchers (1956)
2015: Seconds (1966)
2021: Selena (1997)
2001: Serene Velocity (1970)
2008: Sergeant York (1941)
2004: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
1995: Seventh Heaven (1927)
2008: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
2006: Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
2007: The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
1991: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
1993: Shadows (1959)
2000: Shaft (1971)
1993: Shane (1953)
2015: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
1996: She Done Him Wrong (1933)
2019: She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
1991: Sherlock Jr. (1924)
2000: Sherman's March (1986)
2018: The Shining (1980)
1996: Shock Corridor (1963)
2014: Shoes (1916)
1999: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
1996: Show Boat (1936)
2003: Show People (1928)
2020: Shrek (2001)
2006: Siege (1940)
2011: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
1989: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
2015: Sink or Swim (1990)
2017: The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
1998: Sky High (1922)
2012: Slacker (1990)
2019: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
2018: Smoke Signals (1998)
1994: Snow White (1933)
1989: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2008: So's Your Old Man (1926)
1989: Some Like It Hot (1959)
2018: Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898)
2003: The Son of the Sheik (1926)
2012: Sons of the Desert (1933)
2001: The Sound of Music (1965)
2021: Sounder (1972)
2017: Spartacus (1960)
2012: The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
2006: St. Louis Blues (1929)
1995: Stagecoach (1939)
2011: Stand and Deliver (1988)
2000: A Star Is Born (1954)
1989: Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
2010: Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2021: Star Wars – Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
2009: Stark Love (1927)
2014: State Fair (1933)
2016: Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
1998: Steamboat Willie (1928)
2005: The Sting (1973)
2021: Stop Making Sense (1984)
2001: Stormy Weather (1943)
2009: The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
2015: The Story of Menstruation (1946)
2002: Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
2021: Strangers on a Train (1951)
1999: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
2007: The Strong Man (1926)
2009: A Study in Reds (1932)
2010: Study of a River (1997)
1990: Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
1989: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
1989: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
2022: Super Fly (1972)
2017: Superman (1978)
2020: Suspense (1913)
2016: Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
1993: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
2020: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
2004: Swing Time (1936)
2015: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)

1994: Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
1998: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
2000: The Tall T (1957)
2006: The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
2010: Tarantella (1940)
2003: Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
1994: Taxi Driver (1976)
2001: The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
1999: The Ten Commandments (1956)
2008: The Terminator (1984)
2006: Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
1991: Tevya (1939)
2016: Thelma & Louise (1991)
2017: Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
2002: Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925)
2004: There It Is (1928)
2012: They Call It Pro Football (1967)
1996: The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
2001: The Thin Blue Line (1988)
1997: The Thin Man (1934)
2001: The Thing from Another World (1951)
2006: Think of Me First as a Person (1960–1975)
2014: 13 Lakes (2004)
2002: This Is Cinerama (1952)
2002: This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
2007: Three Little Pigs (1933)
2012: 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
2017: Time and Dreams (1976)
2005: A Time for Burning (1966)
2006: A Time Out of War (1954)
2012: The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
2003: Tin Toy (1988)
2017: Titanic (1997)
2022: Titicut Follies (1967)
1996: To Be or Not to Be (1942)
1995: To Fly! (1976)
1995: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
2017: To Sleep with Anger (1990)
2007: Tol’able David (1921)
2007: Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969–1971)
2022: Tongues Untied (1989)
1998: Tootsie (1982)
2015: Top Gun (1986)
1990: Top Hat (1935)
1996: Topaz (1943–1945)
1993: Touch of Evil (1958)
2005: Toy Story (1995)
2006: Traffic in Souls (1913)
1999: Trance and Dance in Bali (1936–1939)
1990: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
2010: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
2010: A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
1991: Trouble in Paradise (1932)
1997: Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
2007: 12 Angry Men (1957)
1998: Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
2011: Twentieth Century (1934)
2016: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
1991: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2012: Two-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III (1922)
2012: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

2012: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
2009: Under Western Stars (1938)
2004: Unforgiven (1992)
2022: Union Maids (1976)
2014: Unmasked (1917)

2014: V-E +1 (1945)
1996: Verbena Tragica (1939)
1989: Vertigo (1958)
2013: A Virtuous Vamp (1919)

2016: A Walk in the Sun (1945)
2021: WALL-E (2008)
2017: Wanda (1970)
2011: The War of the Worlds (1953)
2008: Water and Power (1989)
2021: The Watermelon Woman (1996)
2020: Wattstax (1973)
2014: The Way of Peace (1947)
2003: The Wedding March (1928)
1997: West Side Story (1961)
1998: Westinghouse Works, 1904 (1904)
2021: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
1992: What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
2022: When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
1993: Where Are My Children? (1916)
2008: White Fawn's Devotion (1910)
2003: White Heat (1949)
2016: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
2013: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
2021: Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)
2002: Why Man Creates (1968)
2000: Why We Fight [XI] (1943–1945)
2002: Wild and Woolly (1917)
2013: Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
1999: The Wild Bunch (1969)
2002: Wild River (1960)
2000: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
2014: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
2015: Winchester ‘73 (1950)
1993: The Wind (1928)
1997: Wings (1927)
2012: The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)
2020: With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)
2017: With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1938)
1992: Within Our Gates (1920)
1989: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2021: The Wobblies (1979)
1999: Woman of the Year (1942)
1990: A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
2007: The Women (1939)
1996: Woodstock (1970)
2022: Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977)
2007: Wuthering Heights (1939)

XYZ

1993: Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
2003: Young Frankenstein (1974)
2003: Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
1994: Zapruder film (1963)
2019: Zoot Suit (1981 )

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Awards Page
National Film Registry (official site)
Wikipedia.org: “National Film Registry” (list of all films)

Originally posted 12/14/2022.

Thursday, December 8, 2022

National Board of Review: Awards for Best Films

National Board of Review:

Award for Best Film, 1932-2022

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in New York City in 1909. Its mission is to endorse films of merit. In 1932, they began giving out annual awards determined by sending ballots out to more than 100 members in a select group of film enthusiasts, academics, and filmmakers in the

2022: Top Gun: Maverick
2021: Licorice Pizza
2020: Da 5 Bloods
2019: The Irishman
2018: Green Book
2017: The Post
2016: Manchester by the Sea
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2014: A Most Violent Year
2013: Her
2012: Zero Dark Thirty
2011: Hugo
2010: The Social Network
2009: Up in the Air
2008: Slumdog Millionaire
2007: No Country for Old Men
2006: Letters from Iwo Jima
2005: Good Night, and Good Luck
2004: Finding Neverland
2003: Mystic River
2002: The Hours
2001: Moulin Rouge!
2000: Quills
1999: American Beauty
1998: Gods and Monsters
1997: L.A. Confidential
1996: Shine
1995: Sense and Sensibility
1994: Forrest Gump / Pulp Fiction
1993: Schindler’s List
1992: Howards End
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Dances with Wolves
1989: Driving Miss Daisy
1988: Mississippi Burning
1987: Empire of the Sun
1986: A Room with a View
1985: The Color Purple
1984: A Passage to India
1983: Terms of Endearment / Betrayal
1982: Gandhi
1981: Chariots of Fire / Reds
1980: Ordinary People
1979: Manhattan
1978: Days of Heaven
1977: The Turning Point
1976: All the President’s Men
1975: Nashville / Barry Lyndon
1974: The Conversation
1973: The Sting
1972: Cabaret
1971: Macbeth
1970: Patton
1969: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
1968: The Shoes of the Fisherman
1967: Far from the Madding Crowd
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1965: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
1964: Becket
1963: Tom Jones
1962: The Longest Day
1961: Question 7
1960: Sons and Lovers
1959: The Nun’s Story
1958: The Old Man and the Sea
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956: Around the World in 80 Days
1955: Marty
1954: On the Waterfront
1953: Julius Caesar
1952: The Quiet Man
1951: A Place in the Sun
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1949: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette)
1948: Paisan (Paisà)
1947: Monsieur Verdoux
1946: Henry V
1945: The True Glory
1944: None But the Lonely Heart
1943: The Ox-Bow Incident
1942: In Which We Serve
1941: Citizen Kane
1940: The Grapes of Wrath
1939: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1938: The Citadel
1937: Night Must Fall
1936: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1935: The Informer
1934: It Happened One Night
1933: Topaze
1932: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Other Year-End Awards
National Board of Review (official site)
Wikipedia.org: National Board of Review Award for Best Film

Originally posted 8/6/2019; last updated 12/8/2022.

Monday, December 5, 2022

Sight & Sound: Top 100 Movies

Sight & Sound:

Top 100 Movies

The British magazine, Sight & Sound, has done a poll of critics and/or directors every decade since 1952. 12 of those lists have been aggregated here to create this top 100.

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
3. Vertigo (1958)
4. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
5. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
6. The Godfather (1972)
7. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) (1928)
9. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

11. The Bicycle Thief, aka “The Bicycle Thieves” (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
12. L’Atalante (aka “Le Chaland Qui Passe”) (1934)
13. The Godfather Part II (1974)
14. The Adventure (L’Avventura) (1960)
15. The Searchers (1956)
16. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
17. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
18. Raging Bull (1980)
19. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
20. Apocalypse Now (1979)

21. Rashômon (1950)
22. Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) (1929)
23. In the Mood for Love (Dut Yeung Nin Wa) (2000)
24. Close-Up (Nema-ye Nazdik) (1960)
25. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)
26. The General (1927)
27. Ugetsu (aka “Ugetsu Mongatari” or “Tales of a Pale Moon After the Rain”) (1953)
28. City Lights (1931)
29. Mulholland Drive (2001)
30. The Mirror (Zerkalo) (1974)

31. Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) (1959)
32. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
33. Taxi Driver (1976)
34. Andrei Rublev (1996)
35. La Strada (1954)
36. Stalker (1979)
37. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
38. The Word (Ordet) (1954)
39. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
40. The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeria) (1966)

41. Modern Times (1936)
42. Le Mépris (1963)
43. The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita) (1960)
44. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
45. Beau Travail (1999)
46. Playtime (1967)
47. Psycho (1960)
48. Some Like It Hot (1959)
49. Shoah (1985)
50. Greed (1924)

51. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
52. Barry Lyndon (1975)
53. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
54. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1962)
55. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
56. Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (1982)
57. Come and See (1985)
58. Goodfellas (1990)
59. Late Spring (1949)
60. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

61. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
62. A Man Escaped (Un Condamné À Mort S’est Échappé Ou Le Vent Souffle Où Il Veut) (1956)
63. Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) (1957)
64. The Jetty (La Jetée) (aka “The Pier”) (1962)
65. Viridiana (1961)
66. Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era Una Volta il West) (1968)
67. The Gold Rush (1925)
68. Satan’s Tango (Sátántangó) (1994)
69. Gertrud (1964)
70. Journey to Italy (1954)

71. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf) (1974)
72. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
73. Blade Runner (1982)
74. Blue Velvet (1986)
75. Pierrot Goes Wild (or "Crazy Pete") (Pierrot le Fou) (1965)
76. Jaws (1975)
77. Kes (1969)
78. Don’t Look Now (1973)
79. Pickpocket (1959)
80. The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain) (1973)

81. The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)
82. Salo, or The 120 days of Sodom (Salò o le centoventi giornate di sodoma) (1975)
83. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1970)
84. Chinatown (1974)
85. Sunless (Sans Soleil) (1983)
86. Money (L’Argent) (1983)
87. Hidden (Caché) (2004)
88. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
89. Louisana Story (1948)
90. Ivan the Terrible (1944)

91. Daybreak (Le Jour Se Lève) (1939)
92. The Earth Trembles (La Terra Trema) (1948)
93. Brief Encounter (1946)
94. Crash (2005)
95. Le Million (1931)
96. Touch of Evil (1958)
97. Do the Right Thing (1989)
98. Amarcord (1972)
99. Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
100. Metropolis (1927)

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists
Sight & Sound 2022 directors’ poll (12/5/2022): top 100
Sight & Sound 2022 critics’ poll (12/1/2022): top 20
Sight & Sound 2012 critics’ poll: top 100
Sight & Sound 2012 directors’ poll: top 100
Sight & Sound 2002 critics’ poll: top 10
Sight & Sound 2002 directors’ poll: top 10
Sight & Sound 1992 critics’ poll: top 10
Sight & Sound 1992 directors’ poll: top 10
Sight & Sound 1982 poll: top 10
Sight & Sound 1972 poll: top 10
Sight & Sound 1962 poll: top 10
Sight & Sound 1952 poll: top 10

Originally posted 7/28/2019; last updated 5/29/2023.

Monday, October 31, 2022

Directors’ Favorite Movies

Directors’ Lists:

Favorite Movies

These are lists of favorite films by some of the film industry’s most-acclaimed directors.

Woody Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Guillermo del Toro
Lena Dunham
Rian Johnson
Stanley Kubrick
Christopher Nolan
Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Orson Welles
Edgar Wright

Woody Allen

Allen submitted this unranked list to the 2012 Sight and Sound poll:

Amarcord (1972)
The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1947)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie) (1972)
8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Rashômon (1950)
The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)

Source: OpenCulture.com (8/2/2013). “Woody Allen Lists the Greatest Films of All Time…”

Francis Ford Coppola

Coppola submitted this unranked list to the 2012 Sight and Sound poll:

The Apartment (1960)
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól I Diament) (1958)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
I Vitelloni (1953)
The King of Comedy (1983)
Raging Bull (1980)
Singin’ in the Rain (1951)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Yojimbo (1961)

Source: Flavorwire.com (7/31/2013). “10 Great Filmmakers’ Top 10 Favorite Movies: Francis Ford Coppola”

Guillermo del Toro

Del Toro submitted this unranked list to the Sight and Sound poll:

Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bette) (1946)
8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
Frankenstein (1931)
Freaks (1932)
Goodfellas (1990)
Greed (1925)
The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados) (1950)
Modern Times (1936)
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (aka “Nosferatu, the Vampire”) (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (1922)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Source: Flavorwire.com (7/31/2013). “10 Great Filmmakers’ Top 10 Favorite Movies: Guillermo del Toro”

Lena Dunham

Dunham selected 14 titles for a 2008 Criterion poll:

Fish Tank (2009)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Broadcast News (1987)
Weekend (2011)
La Pointe Coure (1955)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Le Bonheur (1965)
Vagabond (1985)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf) (1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
The War Room (1993)

Source: Criterion.com (6/25/2013). “Lena Dunham’s Top 10”

Rian Johnson

Johnson put this list together for Criterion:

8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
Brazil (1985)
F for Fake (1973)
Amarcord (1972)
Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (1982)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot’s) (1953)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
The Third Man (1949)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Down by Law (1986)

Source: Criterion.com (11/20/2008). “Rian Johnson’s Top 10”

Stanley Kubrick

In 1963, Kubrick submitted this top 10 list to Cinema magazine:

I Vitelloni (1953)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
City Lights (1931)
Henry V (1944)
La Notte (1961)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Roxie Hart (1942)
Hell’s Angels (1930)

Source: OpenCulture.com (7/30/2013). “Stanley Kubrick’s List of Top 10 Films…”

Christopher Nolan

The Hit (1984)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Bad Timing (1980)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
For All Mankind (1989)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
The Complete Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Greed (1924)

Source: Criterion.com (1/29/2013). “Christopher Nolan’s Top 10”

Paul Schrader

Director, screenwriter, and film critic Paul Schrader submitted this unranked list to the 2012 Sight and Sound poll:

Citizen Kane (1941)
The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1970)
In the Mood for Love (Dut Yeung Nin Wa) (2000)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Orpheus (Orphée) (1950)
Pickpocket (1959)
The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) (1953)
Vertigo (1958)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

Source: The PendragonSociety.com (7/7/2019). “Paul Schrader’s Top Ten Favourite Films”

Martin Scorsese

Scorsese put this unranked list of his 12 favorite movies together for the 2012 Sight and Sound poll:

Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól I Diament) (1958)
Citizen Kane (1941)
8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
Paisan (1946)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The River (1951)
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
The Searchers (1956)
Ugetsu (aka “Ugetsu Mongatari” or “Tales of a Pale Moon After the Rain”) (1953)
Vertigo (1958)

Source: OpenCulture.com (7/31/2013). “Martin Scorsese Reveals His 12 Favorite Movies”

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg created this list of his 20 favorite movies, as published in Far Out magazine:

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Godfather (1972)
Fantasia (1940)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Psycho (1960)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Untouchable (2011)
The Dark Knight
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine) (1973)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Captain Courageous (1937)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Searchers (1956)
Tootsie (1982)
The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
Dumbo (1941)

Source: Far Out Magazine (10/31/2022). “Steven Spielberg named his 20 favourite movies of all time” by Lee Thomas-Mason

Quentin Taratino

These are the 12 films Tarantino selected for the 2012 Sight and Sound poll:

Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Carrie (1976)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
The Great Escape (1963)
His Girl Friday (1939)
Jaws (1975)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Taxi Driver (1976)

Source: Flavorwire.com (7/31/2013). “10 Great Filmmakers’ Top 10 Favorite Movies: Quentin Tarantino”

Orson Welles

Director and actor Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) selected these as his top 10 favorite movies. There is no indication when this list was created.

City Lights (1931)
Greed (1924)
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Shoe Shine (1946)
Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
The Baker’s Wife (La Femme du Boulanger) (1938)
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
Stagecoach (1939)
Our Daily Bread (1934)

Source: The PendragonSociety.com (8/3/2018). “Orson Welles’s Favourite Films”

Edgar Wright

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Carrie (1976)
Dames (1934)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Duck Soup (1933)
Psycho (1960)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

Source: Flavorwire.com (7/31/2013). “10 Great Filmmakers’ Top 10 Favorite Movies: Edgar Wright”

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Movie Lists
Dave’s Movie Database: “Critics’ Lists of Favorites”

Originally posted 7/27/2019; last updated 6/9/2023.

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Online Film & Television Association: Film Hall of Fame – Productions

Online Film & Television Assocation:

Hall of Fame – Productions

Explanation: From 1997 to 2019, more than 200 films (productions) have been inducted into the Online Film & Television Association’s Film Hall of Fame. Note: the first year is when the movie was inducted and the second year (in parentheses) is when the film was initially released. Here’s a list of them alphabetically:

A

2017: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
2012: The African Queen (1951)
2019: Aladdin (1992)
2012: Alien (1979)
2017: Aliens (1986)
1999: All About Eve (1950)
2022: All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) (1999)
2001: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
2022: All That Heaven Allows (1955)
2019: All That Jazz (1979)
2017: All the President’s Men (1976)
2022: Almost Famous (2000)
2000: Amadeus (1984)
2022: American Beauty (1999)
2016: American Graffiti (1973)
2023: An American in Paris (1951)
2019: Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
2023: Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
2004: Annie Hall (1977)
2003: The Apartment (1960)
2000: Apocalypse Now (1979)
2023: Apollo 13 (1995)
2021: The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)
2020: Auntie Mame(1958)
2011: The Awful Truth (1937)

B

1997: Babe (1995)
2014: Back to the Future (1985)
2021: Badlands (1973)
2015: Bambi (1942)
2022: Batman (1989)
2013: Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
1997: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
2007: Beauty of the Day (Belle de Jour) (1967)
2022: The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
1999: Ben-Hur (1959)
2007: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
2020: Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
2008: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1948)
2017: The Big Sleep (1946)
2018: The Birds (1963)
2000: The Birth of a Nation (1915)
2010: Black Narcissus (1947)
2016: Blade Runner (1982)
2023: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
2016: Blazing Saddles (1974)
2022: Blow-Up (1966)
2009: Blue Velvet (1986)
2011: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
2019: Boogie Nights (1997)
2021: Boyz N the Hood (1991)
2013: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
2020: The Breakfast Club (1985)
2022: Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) (1959)
2021: Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
2013: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
2009: Bringing Up Baby (1938)
2017: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
2019: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

C

2011: Cabaret (1972)
2020: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari) (1920)
2023: The Caine Mutiny (1954)
2023: Carrie (1976)
1997: Casablanca (1942)
2018: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
2023: Chicago (2002)
2019: Children of Men (2006)
2010: Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1945)
2021: The China Syndrome (1979)
2001: Chinatown (1974)
2018: Cinderella (1950)
2015: Cinema Paradiso (1988)
1997: Citizen Kane (1941)
2005: City Lights (1931)
2022: Cleo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1962)
1998: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
2010: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
1997: The Color Purple (1985)
2016: The Conversation (1974)
2017: Cool Hand Luke (1967)
2017: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

D

2023: Dances with Wolves (1990)
2019: The Dark Knight (2008)
2019: Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine) (1973)
2010: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
1997: Dead Man Walking (1995)
2015: Dead Poets Society (1989)
2016: The Deer Hunter (1978)
2023: The Departed (2006)
2020: Dial M for Murder (1954)
2019: Die Hard (1988)
2019: Dirty Harry (1971)
2011: Do the Right Thing (1989)
2016: Doctor Zhivago (1965)
2015: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
2007: Double Indemnity (1944)
2020: Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hyde (1931)
2020: Dr. No (1962)
1998: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2018: Dracula (1931)
2023: Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
2011: Duck Soup (1933)
2019: Dumbo (1941)

E

2004: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
2013: East of Eden (1955)
2004: 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
2022: The Elephant Man (1980)
2018: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2023: The Evil Dead (1981)
2009: The Exorcist (1973)
2021: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

F

1998: Fantasia (1940)
2015: Fargo (1996)
2023: Fatal Attraction (1987)
2021: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
2023: Fight Club (1999)
2015: Finding Nemo (2003)
2021: Five Easy Pieces (1970)
2022: Forbidden Planet (1956)
2014: Forrest Gump (1994)
2005: The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
2011: Frankenstein (1931)
2020: Freaks (1932)
2014: The French Connection (1971)
2019: From Here to Eternity (1953)
2019: Full Metal Jacket (1987)

G

2017: Gaslight (1944)
2009: The General (1926)
2016: Ghostbusters (1984)
2016: Giant (1956)
1997: The Godfather (1972)
1997: The Godfather: Part II (1974)
2023: Godzilla (Gojira) (1954)
2020: Goldfinger (1964)
2010: The Gold Rush (1925)
1997: Gone with the Wind (1939)
Goodbye Children (Au Revoir, les Enfants) (1987)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
1997: Goodfellas (1990)
2016: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2004: The Graduate (1967)
2023: Grand Hotel (1932)
2011: Grand Illusion (1937)
2000: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
2022: Grease (1978)
2022: The Great Dictator (1940)
2021: The Great Escape (1963)
2020: Gremlins (1984)
2018: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
2021: Guys and Dolls (1955)

H

2019: Halloween (1978)
2022: The Haunting (1999)
2013: High Noon (1952)
2017: His Girl Friday (1940)
2022: Holiday (1938)
2023: Holiday Inn (1942)
2020: Home Alone (1990)
2022: Hoop Dreams (1994)
2023: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
2007: How Green Was My Valley (1941)
2021: Hud (1963)

I

2023: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
2023: Inception (2010)
2022: The Incredibles (2004)
2023: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
1997: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
2019: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
2016: In the Heat of the Night (1967)
2021: Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
2010: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
2021: The Invisible Man (1933)
2006: It Happened One Night (1934)
2002: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

J

2005: Jaws (1975)
2019: The Jazz Singer (1927)
2018: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
2021: The Jungle Book (1967)
2023: Juno (2007)
2018: Jurassic Park (1993)

K

2023: The Karate Kid (1984)
2019: The Kid (1921)
2020: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
2020: Kind Hearts and Coroent ()
2009: King Kong (1933)

L

2012: L.A. Confidential (1997)
2023: Lady and the Tramp (1955)
2008: The Last Picture Show (1971)
2017: Laura (1944)
1999: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2022: The Lion in Winter (1968)
2015: The Lion King (1994)
2022: Little Caesar (1930)
2021: The Little Mermaid (1989)
2014: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2015: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
2016: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
2012: The Lost Weekend (1945)

M

2009: M – Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder (1931)
2021: The Magnificent Seven (1960)
2019: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
2022: Malcolm X (1992)
2008: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
2001: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
2022: Manhattan (1979)
2012: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
2018: Marty (1955)
2013: Mary Poppins (1964)
2013: M*A*S*H (1972)
2021: The Matrix (1999)
2011: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
2019: Memento (2000)
2000: Metropolis (1927)
2001: Midnight Cowboy (1969)
2022: Midnight Express (1978)
2016: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
2016: Modern Times (1936)
2014: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
2023: Mrs. Miniver (1942)
2009: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
2020: The Muppet Movie (1979)
2022: Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
2023: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
2017: My Fair Lady (1964)
2022: My Man Godfrey (1936)

N

2006: Nashville (1975)
2018: Network (1976)
2016: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
2022: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2019: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
2018: No Country for Old Men (2007)
2005: North by Northwest (1959)
2010: Nosferatu (1922)
2009: Notorious (1946)

O

2023: Oliver! (1968)
2021: The Omen (1976)
2023: Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta il West) (1968)
1998: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
2002: On the Waterfront (1954)
2022: Ordinary People (1980)

P

2018: Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006)
2023: Paper Moon (1973)
2010: The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
2020: Paths of Glory (1957)
2020: Patton (1970)
2021: Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
2019: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
2016: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
2022: The Piano (1993)
2016: Pinocchio (1940)
2021: A Place in the Sun (1951)
2020: Planet of the Apes (1968)
2015: Platoon (1986)
2022: Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) (1997)
2023: The Producers (1967)
1997: Psycho (1960)
2013: Pulp Fiction (1994)

Q

2021: The Quiet Man (1952)

R

1999: Raging Bull (1980)
2023: Rain Man (1988)
2017: Ran (1985)
2006: Rashômon (1950)
2002: Rear Window (1954)
2009: Rebecca (1940)
2019: Rebel Without a Cause (1954)
2012: Red River (1948)
2018: The Red Shoes (1948)
2023: Requiem for a Dream (2000)
2017: Rififi (1955)
2021: Rio Bravo (1959)
2018: Rocky (1976)
2017: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
2019: Roman Holiday (1953)
2020: Rope (1948)
2020: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
2021: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
2006: The Rules of the Game (1939)

S

2023: Safety Last! (1923)
2015: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
1997: Schindler’s List (1993)
2022: Scream (1996)
2005: The Searchers (1956)
2020: Serpico (1973)
2014: Seven (1995)
2002: The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
2018: Shane (1953)
1997: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2022: Sherlock Jr. (1924)
2014: The Shining (1980)
2019: Shoah (1985)
1997: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
1997: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
2021: The Sixth Sense (1999)
2020: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
2011: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2021: The Social Network (2010)
2002: Some Like It Hot (1959)
1997: The Sound of Music (1965)
2016: Spartacus (1960)
2021: Speed (1994)
2022: Spellbound (2002)
2019: Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001)
2011: Stagecoach (1939)
2022: Stand by Me (1986)
2021: A Star Is Born (1937)
2016: A Star Is Born (1954)
1997: Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
1999: Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2019: Star Wars – Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi (1983)
2018: The Sting (1973)
2017: Strangers on a Train (1951)
2004: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
2001: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
2003: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
2018: Superman: The Movie (1978)
2021: Suspiria (1977)
2014: The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita) (1960)
2012: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

T

1998: Taxi Driver (1976)
2019: The Ten Commandments (1956)
2019: The Terminator (1984)
2020: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
2017: Terms of Endearment (1983)
2023: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
2018: Thelma & Louise (1991)
2022: There Will Be Blood (2007)
2023: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
2023: The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
2017: The Thin Man (1934)
2023: The Thin Red Line (1998)
2006: The Third Man (1949)
2010: The 39 Steps (1935)
2023: This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
2016: Titanic (1997)
2003: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
2007: Tokyo Story (1953)
2022: To Live (aka “Doomed” or “Living”) (Ikiru) (1952)
2016: Tootsie (1982)
2012: Top Hat (1935)
2008: Touch of Evil (1958)
2023: The Towering Inferno (1974)
2013: Toy Story (1995)
2017: Toy Story 2 (1999)
2012: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
2023: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
2017: A Trip to the Moon (1902)
2012: The Truman Show (1998)
2008: 12 Angry Men (1957)
2023: 12 Monkeys (1995)
2020: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
1997: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

U-V

2022: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) (1964)
2014: Unforgiven (1992)
2014: The Usual Suspects (1995)
2003: Vertigo (1958)

W

2022: Wall-E (2008)
2022: War and Peace (Voyna I mir) (1956)
2003: West Side Story (1961)
2019: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
2018: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
2013: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
2009: The Wild Bunch (1969)
2017: Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) (1957)
2018: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
2021: Wings (1927)
2010: Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
2022: The Wiz (1978)
1997: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2022: The Wolf Man (1941)
2022: Woman in the Dunes (Suna No Onna) (1964)
2020: The Women (1939)

X-Y-Z

2016: Young Frankenstein (1974)
2020: Y Tu Mama También (2001)
2019: Z (1969)

Resources:

Dave’s Movie Database: Awards Page
Online Film & Television Association: Film Hall of Fame: Productions”

Originally posted 9/14/2019; last updated 3/6/2022.