The Golden Age of Hollywood refers to the period from the early 1930s to the late 1940s, when Hollywood was at the height of its golden age and dominated the film industry in terms of both critical acclaim and commercial success.
AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time
The very first edition of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies is a list of the 100 greatest American films of all time.
In 1998, AFI invited more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community – screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics among them – to choose from a list of 400 nominated films compiled by AFI and select the 100 greatest American movies.
Source: http://www.afi.com/100years/movies.aspx
In his Guide for the Film Fanatic (1986), Danny Peary provides short reviews for over 1600 “Must See” films.
104 movies missing. Imported from external source.
"ALL-TIME" 100 Movies is a compilation by Time magazine featuring 100 of the best films released between March 3, 1923 (when the first issue of Time was published) and early 2005 (when the list was compiled). The list was compiled by critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss and generated significant attention, receiving 7.8 million hits in its first week alone.
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Top 10 Trakt Popular of all movies released before 1980 according to Trakt's Popular tab.
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A personal introduction to 1000 movies by the provocative contemporary film critic and historian David Thomson.
Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-You-Seen-Introduction-masterpieces/dp/014102075X
This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.
http://www.alsolikelife.com/FilmDiary/rosenbaum.html
#BEST ACTRESS & CORRESPONDING MOVIE BY YEAR
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AFI Top 100 American movies of the last 100 years
Movies
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Years 1931-2018 come from:
The New York Times: Book of Movies
the essential 1,000 films to see
2019 ed
Years after 2018 come from NYT website.
work in progress
There are discrepancies between the website and the book, particular for years after 2003. Please leave a comment for any errors you find.
From one of the world's most acclaimed directors comes an absorbing and informative look at the evolution of American film and how the medium both shaped Scorsese's own artistic vision and influenced the whole of American culture. Hundreds of film stills, many in color, plus dialogue, quotations, and other sources add to and illustrate each chapter's overriding theme.
List is of all works with cited clips, in order of first appearance.
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Part 2: 41-74
Part 3: 75-99
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This list contains the 100 finest examples of 20th century filmmaking, according to Taschen. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, epic to musical, western to new wave, all genres are represented in this wide-ranging compendium.
Source: https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/film/all/44902/facts.100_all_time_favorite_movies.htm
From Chapter 3 of A Dream is a Genius, 1999. Akira Kurosawa discusses his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limits his choices to one film per director.
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Metacritic labels a movie as "Must-See" when it achieves a Metascore of 81 or higher and has been reviewed by a minimum of 15 professional critics.
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List of Nominees and Winners
HUMPHREY BOGART "The African Queen" - WINNER
MARLON BRANDO "A Streetcar Named Desire"
MONTGOMERY CLIFT "A Place in the Sun"
ARTHUR KENNEDY "Bright Victory"
FREDRIC MARCH "Death of a Salesman"
KARL MALDEN "A Streetcar Named Desire" - WINNER
LEO GENN "Quo Vadis"
KEVIN MCCARTHY "Death of a Salesman"
PETER USTINOV "Quo Vadis"
GIG YOUNG "Come Fill the Cup"
VIVIEN LEIGH "A Streetcar Named Desire" - WINNER
KATHARINE HEPBURN "The African Queen"
ELEANOR PARKER "Detective Story"
SHELLEY WINTERS "A Place in the Sun"
JANE WYMAN "The Blue Veil"
KIM HUNTER "A Streetcar Named Desire" - WINNER
JOAN BLONDELL "The Blue Veil"
MILDRED DUNNOCK "Death of a Salesman"
LEE GRANT "Detective Story"
THELMA RITTER "The Mating Season"
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"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Art Direction: Richard Day; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins - WINNER
"FOURTEEN HOURS" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode
"HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
"LA RONDE" D'Eaubonne
"TOO YOUNG TO KISS" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - WINNER
"DAVID AND BATHSHEBA" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
"ON THE RIVIERA" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Musical Settings: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
"QUO VADIS" Art Direction: William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt
"TALES OF HOFFMANN" Hein Heckroth
"A PLACE IN THE SUN" William C. Mellor - WINNER
"DEATH OF A SALESMAN" Frank Planer
"THE FROGMEN" Norbert Brodine
"STRANGERS ON A TRAIN" Robert Burks
"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Harry Stradling
"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" Alfred Gilks; Ballet Photography by John Alton - WINNER
"DAVID AND BATHSHEBA" Leon Shamroy
"QUO VADIS" Robert Surtees, William V. Skall
"SHOW BOAT" Charles Rosher
"WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE" John F. Seitz, W. Howard Greene
"A PLACE IN THE SUN" Edith Head - WINNER
"KIND LADY" Walter Plunkett, Gile Steele
"THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER" Charles LeMaire, Renie
"THE MUDLARK" Edward Stevenson, Margaret Furse
"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Lucinda Ballard
"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff - WINNER
"DAVID AND BATHSHEBA" Charles LeMaire, Edward Stevenson
"THE GREAT CARUSO" Helen Rose, Gile Steele
"QUO VADIS" Herschel McCoy
"TALES OF HOFFMANN" Hein Heckroth
"A PLACE IN THE SUN" George Stevens - WINNER
"THE AFRICAN QUEEN" John Huston
"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" Vincente Minnelli
"DETECTIVE STORY" William Wyler
"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Elia Kazan
"KON-TIKI" Olle Nordemar, Producer - WINNER
"I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I." Bryan Foy, Producer
"BENJY" Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital - WINNER
"ONE WHO CAME BACK" Owen Crump, Producer. (Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense and the Association of Motion Picture Producers)
"THE SEEING EYE" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
"A PLACE IN THE SUN" William Hornbeck - WINNER
"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" Adrienne Fazan
"DECISION BEFORE DAWN" Dorothy Spencer
"QUO VADIS" Ralph E. Winters
"THE WELL" Chester Schaeffer
"RASHOMON" Special Award - WINNER
Arthur Freed - WINNER
"A PLACE IN THE SUN" Franz Waxman - WINNER
"DAVID AND BATHSHEBA" Alfred Newman
"DEATH OF A SALESMAN" Alex North
"QUO VADIS" Miklos Rozsa
"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Alex North
"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin - WINNER
"ALICE IN WONDERLAND" Oliver Wallace
"THE GREAT CARUSO" Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green
"ON THE RIVIERA" Alfred Newman
"SHOW BOAT" Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger
"In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening" in "Here Comes the Groom" Music by Hoagy Carmichael; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer - WINNER
"A Kiss To Build A Dream On" in "The Strip" Music and Lyrics by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II
"Never" in "Golden Girl" Music by Lionel Newman; Lyrics by Eliot Daniel
"Too Late Now" in "Royal Wedding" Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
"Wonder Why" in "Rich, Young and Pretty" Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" Arthur Freed, Producer - WINNER
"DECISION BEFORE DAWN" Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy, Producers
"A PLACE IN THE SUN" George Stevens, Producer
"QUO VADIS" Sam Zimbalist, Producer
"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Charles K. Feldman, Producer
"THE TWO MOUSEKETEERS" Fred Quimby, Producer - WINNER
"LAMBERT, THE SHEEPISH LION" Walt Disney, Producer
"ROOTY TOOT TOOT" Stephen Bosustow, Producer
"WORLD OF KIDS" Robert Youngson, Producer - WINNER
"RIDIN' THE RAILS" Jack Eaton, Producer
"THE STORY OF TIME" Robert G. Leffingwell, Producer
"NATURE'S HALF ACRE" Walt Disney, Producer - WINNER
"BALZAC" Les Films du Compass
"DANGER UNDER THE SEA" Tom Mead, Producer
"THE GREAT CARUSO" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director - WINNER
"BRIGHT VICTORY" Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
"I WANT YOU" Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Col. Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
"TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY" RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg, Sound Director
"WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE" Paramount - WINNER
"SEVEN DAYS TO NOON" Paul Dehn, James Bernard - WINNER
"BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY" Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
"THE FROGMEN" Oscar Millard
"HERE COMES THE GROOM" Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien
"TERESA" Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
"A PLACE IN THE SUN" Michael Wilson, Harry Brown - WINNER
"THE AFRICAN QUEEN" James Agee, John Huston
"DETECTIVE STORY" Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler
"LA RONDE" Max Ophuls, Jacques Natanson
"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Tennessee Williams
"AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" Alan Jay Lerner - WINNER
"THE BIG CARNIVAL" Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
"DAVID AND BATHSHEBA" Philip Dunne
"GO FOR BROKE!" Robert Pirosh
"THE WELL" Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse
List of the movies referenced in Gilmore Girls. Work in progress because I'm adding them as I watch them. They will be in order of when they are referenced. (Watched 8 others that are referenced later so will be added later so they are in the correct order.) Currently on movies referenced in 3x19.
Full reviews of each movie and how they are referenced can be found here: http://gilmoremovies.tumblr.com
Classic movies and TV
Hollywood Golden Age Classics
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