On the Town 1949

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

Includes all the films of the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Book, including films culled to make way for newer releases, up to the 2021 edition.

HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

This list is compiled from a collection of movie reviews in the 501 Must See Movies book. The movies have been split up into 10 genres, each with 50 movies (except for the last, which has 51): Action/Adventure & Epic, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller, War and Western.

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/659583.501_Must_See_Movies

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.

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Top 10 Trakt Popular of all movies released before 1980 according to Trakt's Popular tab.
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For movies released after 1980 see Top 10 Domestic Gross by Year:
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The best movies of the 1940's decade.

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From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting – often in spectacular fashion – the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating.

100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive.

Source: http://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/bfi-screen-guides/100-film-musical-book.html#.Wg3fhGhSzIU

Musicals or music heavy film favorites.

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

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 Nominees and Winners

• ACTOR

BRODERICK CRAWFORD "All the King's Men" - WINNER
KIRK DOUGLAS "Champion"
GREGORY PECK "Twelve O'Clock High"
RICHARD TODD "The Hasty Heart"
JOHN WAYNE "Sands of Iwo Jima"

• ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

DEAN JAGGER "Twelve O'Clock High" - WINNER
JOHN IRELAND "All the King's Men"
ARTHUR KENNEDY "Champion"
RALPH RICHARDSON "The Heiress"
JAMES WHITMORE "Battleground"

• ACTRESS

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND "The Heiress"
JEANNE CRAIN "Pinky"
SUSAN HAYWARD "My Foolish Heart"
DEBORAH KERR "Edward, My Son"
LORETTA YOUNG "Come to the Stable"

• ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE "All the King's Men"
ETHEL BARRYMORE "Pinky"
CELESTE HOLM "Come to the Stable"
ELSA LANCHESTER "Come to the Stable"
ETHEL WATERS "Pinky"

• ART DIRECTION (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"THE HEIRESS" Art Direction: Harry Horner, John Meehan; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri - WINNER
"COME TO THE STABLE" Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
"MADAME BOVARY" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle

• ART DIRECTION (COLOR)

"LITTLE WOMEN" Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore - WINNER
"THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN" Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: Lyle Reifsnider
"SARABAND" Art Direction: Jim Morahan, William Kellner, Michael Relph

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"BATTLEGROUND" Paul C. Vogel - WINNER
"CHAMPION" Frank Planer
"COME TO THE STABLE" Joseph LaShelle
"THE HEIRESS" Leo Tover
"PRINCE OF FOXES" Leon Shamroy

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR)

"SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON" Winton Hoch - WINNER
"THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY" Harry Stradling
"JOLSON SINGS AGAIN" William Snyder
"LITTLE WOMEN" Robert Planck, Charles Schoenbaum
"SAND" Charles G. Clarke

• COSTUME DESIGN (BLACK-AND-WHITE)

"THE HEIRESS" Edith Head, Gile Steele - WINNER
"PRINCE OF FOXES" Vittorio Nino Novarese

• COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR)

"THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN" Leah Rhodes, Travilla, Marjorie Best - WINNER
"MOTHER IS A FRESHMAN" Kay Nelson

• DIRECTING

"A LETTER TO THREE WIVES" Joseph L. Mankiewicz - WINNER
"ALL THE KING'S MEN" Robert Rossen
"BATTLEGROUND" William A. Wellman
"THE FALLEN IDOL" Carol Reed
"THE HEIRESS" William Wyler

• DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

"DAYBREAK IN UDI" Crown Film Unit - WINNER
"KENJI COMES HOME" Paul F. Heard, Producer

• DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

"A CHANCE TO LIVE" Richard de Rochemont, Producer - WINNER
"SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLE" Edward Selzer, Producer - WINNER
"1848" French Cinema General Cooperative
"THE RISING TIDE" St. Francis-Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

• FILM EDITING

"CHAMPION" Harry Gerstad - WINNER
"ALL THE KING'S MEN" Robert Parrish, Al Clark
"BATTLEGROUND" John Dunning
"SANDS OF IWO JIMA" Richard L. Van Enger
"THE WINDOW" Frederic Knudtson

• MUSIC (MUSIC SCORE OF A DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)

"THE HEIRESS" Aaron Copland - WINNER
"BEYOND THE FOREST" Max Steiner
"CHAMPION" Dimitri Tiomkin

• MUSIC (SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE)

"ON THE TOWN" Roger Edens, Lennie Hayton - WINNER
"JOLSON SINGS AGAIN" Morris Stoloff, George Duning
"LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING" Ray Heindorf

• MUSIC (SONG)

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" in "Neptune's Daughter" Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser - WINNER
"It's A Great Feeling" in "It's a Great Feeling" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Lavender Blue" in "So Dear to My Heart" Music by Eliot Daniel; Lyrics by Larry Morey
"My Foolish Heart" in "My Foolish Heart" Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Ned Washington
"Through A Long And Sleepless Night" in "Come to the Stable" Music by Alfred Newman; Lyrics by Mack Gordon

• BEST MOTION PICTURE

"ALL THE KING'S MEN" Robert Rossen Productions - WINNER
"BATTLEGROUND" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
"THE HEIRESS" Paramount
"A LETTER TO THREE WIVES" 20th Century-Fox
"TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH" 20th Century-Fox

• SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON)

"FOR SCENT-IMENTAL REASONS" Edward Selzer, Producer - WINNER
"HATCH UP YOUR TROUBLES" Fred Quimby, Producer
"THE MAGIC FLUKE" Stephen Bosustow, Producer
"TOY TINKERS" Walt Disney, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (ONE-REEL)

"AQUATIC HOUSE-PARTY" Jack Eaton, Producer - WINNER
"ROLLER DERBY GIRL" Justin Herman, Producer
"SO YOU THINK YOU'RE NOT GUILTY" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
"SPILLS AND CHILLS" Walton C. Ament, Producer
"WATER TRIX" Pete Smith, Producer

• SHORT SUBJECT (TWO-REEL)

"VAN GOGH" Gaston Diehl and Robert Haessens, Producers - WINNER
"THE BOY AND THE EAGLE" William Lasky, Producer
"CHASE OF DEATH" Irving Allen, Producer
"THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
"SNOW CARNIVAL" Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

• SOUND RECORDING

"TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH" 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director - WINNER
"ONCE MORE, MY DARLING" Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
"SANDS OF IWO JIMA" Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Sound Director

• SPECIAL EFFECTS

"MIGHTY JOE YOUNG" ARKO Productions - WINNER
"TULSA" Walter Wanger Pictures

• SPECIAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

"THE BICYCLE THIEF" Special Award - WINNER

• WRITING (MOTION PICTURE STORY)

"THE STRATTON STORY" Douglas Morrow - WINNER
"COME TO THE STABLE" Clare Boothe Luce
"IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING" Shirley W. Smith, Valentine Davies
"SANDS OF IWO JIMA" Harry Brown
"WHITE HEAT" Virginia Kellogg

• WRITING (SCREENPLAY)

"A LETTER TO THREE WIVES" Joseph L. Mankiewicz - WINNER
"ALL THE KING'S MEN" Robert Rossen
"THE BICYCLE THIEF" Cesare Zavattini
"CHAMPION" Carl Foreman
"THE FALLEN IDOL" Graham Greene

• WRITING (STORY AND SCREENPLAY)

"BATTLEGROUND" Robert Pirosh - WINNER
"JOLSON SINGS AGAIN" Sidney Buchman
"PAISAN" Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
"PASSPORT TO PIMLICO" T. E. B. Clarke
"THE QUIET ONE" Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers

AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals of All Time

From latest edition. 2017th edition will be published in October 2017.

Straight from the book of the same title, an essential list for film buffs and more casual movie lovers alike. Titles are ranked here based on when they appear in the book, which is divided by the genres Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller, War and Western, then further organized by year released.