This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Book-Movies/dp/078933657X
HollyWood Movies based on Popularity
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.
Imported with Trakt.tv List Importer.
Top 10 Trakt Popular of all movies released before 1980 according to Trakt's Popular tab.
Tweet @DannyVFilms for any adjustments or corrections.
For movies released after 1980 see Top 10 Domestic Gross by Year:
https://trakt.tv/users/dannyvfilms/lists/top-10-domestic-gross-by-year-1980-present
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
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.
Part 1: 1-40
Part 2: 41-74
Part 3: 75-99
Stage/Literature-to-Film
List of Nominees and Winners
ERNEST BORGNINE "Marty" - WINNER
JAMES CAGNEY "Love Me or Leave Me"
JAMES DEAN "East of Eden"
FRANK SINATRA "The Man with the Golden Arm"
SPENCER TRACY "Bad Day at Black Rock"
JACK LEMMON "Mister Roberts" - WINNER
ARTHUR KENNEDY "Trial"
JOE MANTELL "Marty"
SAL MINEO "Rebel without a Cause"
ARTHUR O'CONNELL "Picnic"
ANNA MAGNANI "The Rose Tattoo" - WINNER
SUSAN HAYWARD "I'll Cry Tomorrow"
KATHARINE HEPBURN "Summertime"
JENNIFER JONES "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"
ELEANOR PARKER "Interrupted Melody"
JO VAN FLEET "East of Eden" - WINNER
BETSY BLAIR "Marty"
PEGGY LEE "Pete Kelly's Blues"
MARISA PAVAN "The Rose Tattoo"
NATALIE WOOD "Rebel without a Cause"
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams - WINNER
"BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace
"I'LL CRY TOMORROW" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh B. Hunt
"THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM" Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera
"MARTY" Art Direction: Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley
"PICNIC" Art Direction: William Flannery, Jo Mielziner; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley - WINNER
"DADDY LONG LEGS" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
"GUYS AND DOLLS" Art Direction: Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs
"TO CATCH A THIEF" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
"THE ROSE TATTOO" James Wong Howe - WINNER
"BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" Russell Harlan
"I'LL CRY TOMORROW" Arthur E. Arling
"MARTY" Joseph LaShelle
"QUEEN BEE" Charles Lang
"TO CATCH A THIEF" Robert Burks - WINNER
"GUYS AND DOLLS" Harry Stradling
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Leon Shamroy
"A MAN CALLED PETER" Harold Lipstein
"OKLAHOMA!" Robert Surtees
"I'LL CRY TOMORROW" Helen Rose - WINNER
"THE PICKWICK PAPERS" Beatrice Dawson
"QUEEN BEE" Jean Louis
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Edith Head
"UGETSU" Tadaoto Kainoscho
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Charles LeMaire -WINNER
"GUYS AND DOLLS" Irene Sharaff
"INTERRUPTED MELODY" Helen Rose
"TO CATCH A THIEF" Edith Head
"THE VIRGIN QUEEN" Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
"MARTY" Delbert Mann - WINNER
"BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK" John Sturges
"EAST OF EDEN" Elia Kazan
"PICNIC" Joshua Logan
"SUMMERTIME" David Lean
"HELEN KELLER IN HER STORY" Nancy Hamilton, Producer - WINNER
"HEARTBREAK RIDGE" Rene Risacher, Producer
"MEN AGAINST THE ARCTIC" Walt Disney, Producer - WINNER
"THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG" Dore Schary, Producer
"THE FACE OF LINCOLN" Wilbur T. Blume, Producer
"PICNIC" Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon - WINNER
"BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" Ferris Webster
"THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI" Alma Macrorie
"OKLAHOMA!" Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Warren Low
"SAMURAI, THE LEGEND OF MUSASHI" Special Award - WINNER
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Alfred Newman - WINNER
"BATTLE CRY" Max Steiner
"THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM" Elmer Bernstein
"PICNIC" George Duning
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Alex North
"OKLAHOMA!" Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch - WINNER
"DADDY LONG LEGS" Alfred Newman
"GUYS AND DOLLS" Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge
"IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER" Andre Previn
"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" Percy Faith, George Stoll
"Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster - WINNER
"I'll Never Stop Loving You" in "Love Me or Leave Me" Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Something's Gotta Give" in "Daddy Long Legs" Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"(Love Is) The Tender Trap" in "The Tender Trap" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Unchained Melody" in "Unchained" Music by Alex North; Lyrics by Hy Zaret
"MARTY" Harold Hecht, Producer - WINNER
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" Buddy Adler, Producer
"MISTER ROBERTS" Leland Hayward, Producer
"PICNIC" Fred Kohlmar, Producer
"THE ROSE TATTOO" Hal B. Wallis, Producer
"SPEEDY GONZALES" Edward Selzer, Producer - WINNER
"GOOD WILL TO MEN" Fred Quimby, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Producers
"THE LEGEND OF ROCK-A-BYE POINT" Walter Lantz, Producer
"NO HUNTING" Walt Disney, Producer
"SURVIVAL CITY" Edmund Reek, Producer - WINNER
"GADGETS GALORE" Robert Youngson, Producer
"3RD AVE. EL" Carson Davidson, Producer
"THREE KISSES" Justin Herman, Producer
"THE FACE OF LINCOLN" Wilbur T. Blume, Producer - WINNER
"THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG" Dore Schary, Producer
"ON THE TWELFTH DAY..." George K. Arthur, Producer
"SWITZERLAND" Walt Disney, Producer
"24-HOUR ALERT" Cedric Francis, Producer
"OKLAHOMA!" Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director - WINNER
"LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING" 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl W. Faulkner, Sound Director
"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
"MISTER ROBERTS" Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, William A. Mueller, Sound Director
"NOT AS A STRANGER" Radio Corporation of America Sound Department, Watson Jones, Sound Director
"THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI" Paramount Studio - WINNER
"THE DAM BUSTERS" Associated British Picture Corporation, Ltd.
"THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR" 20th Century-Fox Studio
"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" Daniel Fuchs - WINNER
"THE PRIVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON" Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
"REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE" Nicholas Ray
"THE SHEEP HAS FIVE LEGS" Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
"STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND" Beirne Lay, Jr.
"MARTY" Paddy Chayefsky - WINNER
"BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK" Millard Kaufman
"BLACKBOARD JUNGLE" Richard Brooks
"EAST OF EDEN" Paul Osborn
"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart
"INTERRUPTED MELODY" William Ludwig, Sonya Levien - WINNER
"THE COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL" Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery
"IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER" Betty Comden, Adolph Green
"MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY" Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet
"THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS" Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
Classic movies and TV
Since their first ceremony in 1944, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has bestowed their Golden Globe Awards to their choices for the best in motion pictures.
Source: https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/
TSPDT's The 1,000 Greatest Films
13th Edition (January 2018)
List curated by Bill Georgaris on They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
Notes: Olympia (#750/751) is a single entry on TSPDT, but as two entries on Trakt.
Source: https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm
List of winners:
1937 — Gale Sondergaard as Faith Paleologus in "Anthony Adverse"
1938 — Alice Brady as Molly O'Leary in "In Old Chicago"
1939 — Fay Bainter as Aunt Belle Massey in "Jezebel"
1940 — Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in "...Gone with the Wind"
1941 — Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath"
1942 — Mary Astor as Sandra Kovak in "The Great Lie"
1943 — Teresa Wright as Carol Beldon in "Mrs. Miniver"
1944 — Katina Paxinou as Pilar in "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
1945 — Ethel Barrymore as Ma Mott in "None but the Lonely Heart"
1946 — Anne Revere as Mrs Araminty in "National Velvet"
1947 — Anne Baxter as Sophie MacDonald in "The Razor's Edge"
1948 — Celeste Holm as Anne Dettrey in "Gentleman's Agreement"
1949 — Claire Trevor as Gaye Dawn in "Key Largo"
1950 — Mercedes McCambridge as Sadie Burke in "All the King's Men"
1951 — Josephine Hull as Veta Louise Dowd Simmons in "Harvey"
1952 — Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1953 — Gloria Grahame as Rosemary Bartlow in "The Bad and the Beautiful"
1954 — Donna Reed as Alma Burke in "From Here to Eternity"
1955 — Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle in "On the Waterfront"
1956 — Jo Van Fleet as Cathy Ames / Kate Trask in "East of Eden"
1957 — Dorothy Malone as Marylee Hadley in "Written on the Wind"
1958 — Miyoshi Ukemi as Katsumi Kelly in "Sayonara"
1959 — Wendy Hiller as Pat Cooper in "Separate Tables"
1960 — Shelley Winters as Petronella Van Daan in "The Diary of Anne Frank"
1961 — Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains in "Elmer Gantry"
1962 — Rita Moreno as Anita in "West Side Story"
1963 — Patty Duke as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker"
1964 — Margaret Rutherford as The Duchess of Brighton in "The V.I.P.s"
1965 — Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense in "Zorba the Greek"
1966 — Shelley Winters as Rose-Ann D'Arcey in "A Patch of Blue"
1967 — Sandy Dennis as Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1968 — Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow in "Bonnie and Clyde"
1969 — Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet in "Rosemary's Baby"
1970 — Goldie Hawn as Toni Simmons in "Cactus Flower"
1971 — Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett in "Airport"
1972 — Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper in "The Last Picture Show"
1973 — Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Baker in "Butterflies Are Free"
1974 — Tatum O'Neal as Addie Loggins in "Paper Moon"
1975 — Ingrid Bergman as Greta Ohlsson in "Murder on the Orient Express"
1976 — Lee Grant as Felicia Karpf in "Shampoo"
1977 — Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher in "Network"
1978 — Vanessa Redgrave as Julia in "Julia"
1979 — Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie in "California Suite"
1980 — Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1981 — Mary Steenburgen as Lynda West-Dummar in "Melvin and Howard"
1982 — Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman in "Reds"
1983 — Jessica Lange as Julie Nichols in "Tootsie"
1984 — Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously"
1985 — Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore in "A Passage to India"
1986 — Anjelica Houston as Maerose Prizzi in "Prizzi's Honor"
1987 — Dianne Wiest as Holly in "Hannah and Her Sisters"
1988 — Olympia Dukakis as Rose Castorini in "Moonstruck"
1989 — Geena Davis as Muriel Pritchett in "The Accidental Tourist"
1990 — Brenda Fricker as Bridget Fagan-Brown in "My Left Foot"
1991 — Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown in "Ghost"
1992 — Mercedes Ruehl as Anne Napolitano in "The Fisher King"
1993 — Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in "My Cousin Vinny"
1994 — Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath in "The Piano"
1995 — Dianne Wiest as Helen Sinclair in "Bullets over Broadway"
1996 — Mira Sorvinino as Leslie Ash / Linda Ash / Judy Cum in "Mighty Aphrodite"
1997 — Juliette Binoche as Hana in "The English Patient"
1998 — Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken in "L.A. Confidential"
1999 — Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love"
2000 — Angelina Jolie as Lisa Rowe in "Girl, Interrupted"
2001 — Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner in "Pollock"
2002 — Jennifer Connely as Alicia (Lardé) Nash in "A Beautiful Mind"
2003 — Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in "Chicago"
2004 — Renée Zellweger as Ruby Thewes in "Cold Mountain"
2005 — Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator"
2006 — Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle in "The Constant Gardener"
2007 — Jennifer Hudson as Effie White in "Dreamgirls"
2008 — Tilda Swinton as Karen Crowder in "Michael Clayton"
2009 — Penélope Cruz as María Elena in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
2010 — Mo'Nique as Mary Lee Johnston in "Precious"
2011 — Melissa Leo as Alice Eklund-Ward in "The Fighter"
2012 — Octavia Spencer as Minerva 'Minny' Jackson in "The Help"
2013 — Anne Hathaway as Fantine in "Les Misérables"
2014 — Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey in "12 Years a Slave"
2015 — Patricia Arquette as Olivia Evans in "Boyhood"
2016 — Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener in "The Danish Girl"
2017 — Viola Davis as Rose Lee Maxson in "Fences"
2018 — Allison Janney as LaVona Fay Golden in "I, Tonya"
2019 — Regina King as Sharon Rivers in "If Beale Street Could Talk"
2020 — **Laura Dern as Nora Fanshaw in "Marriage Story"
2021 — Youn Yuh-jung as Soon-ja in "Minari"
2022 — **Ariana DeBose as Anita in "West Side Story"
2023 — Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdre im "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
The so-called golden age of Hollywood begins with advancements in film technology and also marks the creation of the Hay's Code. This was also the period when new genres of film emerged and further diverged into many sub genres. By the 1950s, heavy emphasis on spectacles and big-budget productions was also prominent. The period came to an end as the "New Wave" started.
[This is a series of lists listing films deemed important based on their technical, artistic, historical or cultural significance. This shall also serve as a good resource for film studies however it is extensively based on my own personal preferences.
Resources:
[1]r/truefilm, IMDb, AFI's top 100, Sight & Sound Critic's Directors' Top 100, and various others.
[2] Looking at Movies: https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Movies-Fifth-Richard-Barsam/dp/0393600653 and The Movie Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Movie-Book-Ideas-Simply-Explained-ebook/dp/B017AR0MUS
[3] Download Links:Qxr, Sartre, Garshasp for more iconic ones. Yify and others for the rest. (Piracy Is Illegal ffs & I shall not be responsible)
Excerpt From https://www.imdb.com/user/ur73738276/watchlist?sort=release_date%2Casc&view=detail listing films from 1932's **Scarface to 1960's The Naked Island
PS: Trakt has incorrect dates for a great many titles. so use IMDb or wikipedia! This list uses IMDb and 'Rank' is the correct order. ]
Films already watched have been exempted. Imported 192/193
Best Movies of the Decade
All credits go to IMDb user: jakilcz
The New York Times's Book of Movies
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