All in one. Sci-fi lists and nominees

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Part of my series of meta-lists for genre or theme completionists!
Unlike TSxDT, this megalist is NOT ranked by points of placements on other lists and there's no cut-off point.
Some of the titles here will be noise bc of a few lists split with fantasy but they're towards end.

featured lists, ranked first
Paste's the 100 Best Sci-fi Movies of All Time (2020, 2022)
Total Sci-Fi's The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies
DigitalDreamDoor's 200 Greatest Sci-fi Movies [2021]
OFCS Top 100: Top 100 Sci-Fi Films
Total Film's 50 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Ever
Time Out London's The 100 Best Sci-fi Movies [2014, 2020]
Popular Mechanics' The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
Darkweb Online's Top 100 Sci-fi Movies of All Time
iCM Forum's 250 Favorite Sci-fi Movies [2017,2022]
Films Ranked's 200 Greatest Sci-Fi Films of All Time
Metacritic/Business Insider's 100 Best Sci-Fi Films [2018]
SCFZ's favourite sci-fi films
Slant Magazine's The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
The Playlist's The 100 Best Sci-Fi Films of All Time
Empire's The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies
Bloody Disgusting's Top 20 Horror Science-Fiction Films of All Time
Films Ranked's 100 Greatest Dystopias
Metropolis Times' 45.1 Essential Dystopias
Snarkerati's Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
Starburst's The Top 100 Sci-Fi Films of All Time (and Space)
Rolling Stone's Top 50 Science Fiction Films of the 1970s
Screenrant's 11 Most Accurate Science Fiction Movies Of All Time
Popular Mechanics' The 30 Best Time Travel Movies
Rolling Stone's Future Tense: The 20 Best Time-Travel Movies (2020)
Paste's 30 Best Time-Travel Movies of All Time [2015, 2021]
Screenrant's 20 Best Time Travel Movies Of All Times (2016)
Cultured Vultures' 25 Best Post-Apocalyptic Movies
Paste's The 20 Best End of the World Movies
SyFy's Top 25 Movies about Exploring Space
SyFy's Top 30 Alien Invasion Movies
Taste of Cinema's The 20 Best Cyberpunk Movies of All Time
ReelRundown's Top 20 Best Cyberpunk Movies
WatchMojo's Top 10 Amazing Cyberpunk Movies
FizzleTop's 10 Best True Cyberpunk Movies
Marvelous Videos' 12 Extremely Underrated Cyberpunk Movies That Are True Hidden Gems!
MyOtakuWorld's 21 Best Cyberpunk Anime of All Time
Squinoo's 15 Most Pivotal and Best Cyberpunk Anime Of All Time
10 Cyberpunk Anime You've Completely Forgotten About
WatchMojo's Top 10 Cyberpunk Anime Shows
Marvelous Videos' 10 Adult Gritty And Well-Made Cyberpunk Anime That Are Extremely Underrated!
The Steampunk Tribune's The Best Steampunk Movies
Taste of Cinema's The 10 Best Steampunk Movies You Should Watch
Arcane Trinkets' 15 Best Steampunk Movies You Must Watch
Filmonic's The 11 Most Steampunk Movies Ever Made
Steampunk Artifacts' Top 10 Steampunk Movies
Taste of Cinema's The 15 Best Biopunk Movies of All Time
Paste's The 50 Best Dystopian Movies of All Time
Rolling Stone's 150 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
(last film: Tank Girl... and after comes Beasts of the Southern Wild http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125435/ - note to self for future updates)

not ranked or not sure and etc:
Taste of Cinema's 21 Great Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Films You Need To Watch
Taste of Cinema's 20 Eastern European Sci-fi Movies
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Ten Neglected Science Fiction Movies
Gary Gerani's Top 100 Sci-Fi Movies
BFI's 100 Science Fiction Films
Weinberg's Top 100 Science Fiction Films of All Time
101 Sci-fi Movies You Must See Before You Die
Time Out London's 50 Essential Sci-Fi Films
Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies
TCM Must-See Sci-fi: 50 Movies That Are Out of This World
Wired's The Best Sci-fi Movies Everyone Should Watch Once
Watch Mojo: Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies per Decade
Short Cuts' Science Fiction Cinema: From Outer Space to Cyberspace
BaalMan's Top 50 Pandemic Movies
Seiun Awards
Saturn Awards: Best Science Fiction Film (all nominees)
Hugo Awards: Best Dramatic Presentation (Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
Nebula Awards: Best Script or Presentation (Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
CBR's 10 Best Sci-Fi Anime Of All Time
iCheckMovies' Most Favorite Sci-Fi Films (almost not added due to its nature but that would leave out too many classics)
Popular Mechanics' The 50 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows Ever
They Shoot Aliens Don't They (the other meta-list, tho removed Hobbit (!?))
201 Sci-Fi movies, as in "Ritorno al futuro. La fantascienza in 201 films" by Moreno Fabbrica
Den of Geek's 10 Underrated Time Travel Movies
SyFyWire's Best Body Snatchers Movies
IndieWire's The Criticwire Survey: The Best Time Travel Movie (2012)
Gamespot's The 24 Best Time Travel Movies Ever (2019) - suspicious list because of their #1 but that one is on another list anyway
They Draw Anime Don't They (top 100)
They Draw Anime Movies Don't They (top 100) - only sci-fi from these lists, more essentials can be found on extended versions
Ash Tales' 50 Best Post-Apocalyptic Movies
Fantastic Planets Forbidden Zones & Lost Continents (The 100 greatest Sci-Fi films)
The Fill-In Filmography (SF section)

1 movie each added from offsite lists:
PhobosWeb 50 science fiction films you just have to see
Time Out Paris' Guide du film de science-fiction
Wired's Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks of All Time
Screenrant's 15 Best Space Operas That Aren’t Star Wars or Star Trek

nothing new:
Film4's Top 50 Science Fiction Films
Glitterati*Lobotomy's The Best Pre-Apocalyptic Movies of Our Pre-Apocalypse Times
Taste of Cinema's 10 Most Complex Sci-fi Movies of All Time
Fandom's The 10 Best Cyberpunk Anime
CBR's 10 Best Cyberpunk Anime of All Time
TheCinemaholic's 25 Best Space Movies Ever Made

too much noise:
Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality
The Wasteland Survival Guide
IMDb's Classic Film Board's 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Films (checked that there's no new sci-fi movies anyway)
Science Fiction/Fantasy sublist from 501 Must See Movies (checked as well)

too large but will have several major omissions:
iCM Forum's Favorite Sci-fi Movies, all votes
Best Steampunk Movies Of All-Time (Cinema Dailies) - exhaustive list of steampunk movies

too many low-rated movies:
They Travel Time Don't They (top 100)

See some science lists:
Popular Mechanics' The 30 Best Movies and TV Shows About Space
All in one. Lists of scientific movies about accurate science

Here's a top list of robots:
Paste's The 100 Greatest Movie Robots of All Time

These 7 lists are something to switch to when this list is completed.

This most interesting time travel list is developing, so I won't be adding the extra movies for the time being (haha, the time being awaits):
Time Travel Movies ranked by BaTTR score

What tags are good for this?
(Post)apocalypse, dystopia, utopia, time travel, space (opera, exploration), pandemics, aliens, cyberpunk, steampunk (and other punk), parallel universe, robot, android, cyborg, genetic, accurate
I'm not including superhero lists as that one even has its own They Wear Capes Don't They list. Anyway it's more fantasy than sci.

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  1. 91 -6

    Independence Day

    1996, in 8 top lists Check
  2. 168 -40

    Star Trek: First Contact

    1996, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 190 -36

    Space Truckers

    1996 — a.k.a. Star Truckers, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 194 -36

    The Arrival

    1996 — a.k.a. Shockwave, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 236 -36

    Escape from L.A.

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 249 -36

    Mars Attacks!

    1996, in 1 top list Check
  7. 803 -100

    Gamera 2: Region shurai

    1996 — a.k.a. Gamera 2: Assault of the Legion, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 804 -100

    Urutoraman Tiga

    1996 — a.k.a. Ultraman: Tiga, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 860 -98

    The Island of Dr. Moreau

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 861 -98

    Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 921 -92

    Babylon 5: Severed Dreams

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 1041 -90

    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Trials and...

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 1309 -78

    Lexx: The Dark Zone

    1996 — a.k.a. Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 1312 -78

    Cold Lazarus

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 1365 -74

    Space Jam

    1996, in 3 top lists Check
  16. 1553 -63

    Kidô Senkan Nadesico

    1996 — a.k.a. Martian Successor Nadesico, in 0 top lists Check
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