FSR: Top 5 Films by Year

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Fergenaprido's Significance Rating - Top 5 Films by Year

This started out as a personal goal to see the top five films of each year, using imdb data. After they removed the weighted rankings beyond the Top 250, I created my own formula to try to balance each rating and its number of votes, in order to make films more comparable. I settled upon the formula of SR=(EXP(rating)*(LN(votes))/100). Why that particular formula? I tinkered around with different variations, but I prefer using ln instead of log, and this formula ended up with a fairly approximate order similar to imdb's weighted formula.

Here are the top five films from each year since 1919. For 1919-1934, the minimum number of votes is 1,000; for 1935-2022, the minimum is 5,000. I excluded years before 1919 because there weren't enough films with at least 1,000 votes, so the SR wasn't reliable enough to rank them. I do exclude films that have had voter manipulation, but I don't exclude those rated highly because of enthusiasm from their home country (i.e. "mafias").

Not meant to be definitive, just a fun side project for me, and I decided to move it from my spreadsheet to icm. Feature-length films only (including documentaries).

I collect the imdb data on May 1st each year, and update this list shortly thereafter.

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  1. 378 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  2. 261 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  3. 452 -

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009, in 17 top lists Check
  4. 426 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  5. 433 -

    V for Vendetta

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
  6. 446 -

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  7. 406 -

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  8. 408 +1

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  9. 441 -

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  10. 383 -

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  11. 377 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  12. 404 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  13. 401 -

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  14. 443 -

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  15. 439 -

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  16. 430 -

    Million Dollar Baby

    2004, in 12 top lists Check
  17. 449 -

    Gran Torino

    2008, in 8 top lists Check
  18. 465 -

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    2011, in 9 top lists Check
  19. 266 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  20. 322 -

    Scarface

    1983, in 19 top lists Check
  21. 437 -

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  22. 101 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  23. 396 -

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  24. 111 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  25. 284 -

    Jaws

    1975, in 28 top lists Check
  26. 436 -

    The Prestige

    2006, in 15 top lists Check
  27. 415 -1

    A Beautiful Mind

    2001, in 12 top lists Check
  28. 376 -

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  29. 391 -

    La vita è bella

    1997 — a.k.a. Life Is Beautiful, in 22 top lists Check
  30. 388 -

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  31. 405 -

    The Sixth Sense

    1999, in 20 top lists Check
  32. 476 -

    Interstellar

    2014, in 13 top lists Check
  33. 389 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  34. 302 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  35. 381 -

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  36. 403 -

    The Green Mile

    1999, in 15 top lists Check
  37. 366 -

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  38. 233 -

    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
  39. 290 -

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  40. 422 +1

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
  41. 382 -

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  42. 399 -1

    The Truman Show

    1998, in 14 top lists Check
  43. 380 -

    The Lion King

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  44. 359 -

    Edward Scissorhands

    1990, in 10 top lists Check
  45. 392 +1

    Good Will Hunting

    1997, in 12 top lists Check
  46. 357 -

    Dances with Wolves

    1990, in 18 top lists Check
  47. 354 -1

    Dead Poets Society

    1989, in 12 top lists Check
  48. 136 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  49. 116 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  50. 223 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
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Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;