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. 401 -

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  2. 377 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  3. 446 -

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  4. 376 -

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  5. 456 -

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  6. 426 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  7. 452 -

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009, in 17 top lists Check
  8. 266 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  9. 402 -

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  10. 421 -

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  11. 411 -

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  12. 378 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  13. 381 -

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  14. 407 -

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  15. 416 -

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  16. 331 -

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  17. 414 -1

    Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

    2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check
  18. 400 new

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  19. 404 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  20. 447 -

    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
  21. 261 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  22. 291 -

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  23. 306 -

    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  24. 433 -

    V for Vendetta

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
  25. 366 -

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  26. 361 -

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  27. 307 +1

    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
  28. 453 -

    Up

    2009, in 16 top lists Check
  29. 412 -

    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
  30. 423 +1

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    2003, in 18 top lists Check
  31. 436 -

    The Prestige

    2006, in 15 top lists Check
  32. 380 -

    The Lion King

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  33. 379 -

    Léon

    1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check
  34. 399 -1

    The Truman Show

    1998, in 14 top lists Check
  35. 356 -

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  36. 191 -

    12 Angry Men

    1957, in 30 top lists Check
  37. 282 -

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  38. 437 -

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  39. 439 -

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  40. 276 -

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  41. 371 -

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  42. 408 +1

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  43. 247 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  44. 384 -

    Toy Story

    1995, in 25 top lists Check
  45. 397 -

    American History X

    1998, in 12 top lists Check
  46. 283 -

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  47. 441 -

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  48. 406 -

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  49. 382 -

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  50. 318 -

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;