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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The Mark of Zorro
1920, in 3 top lists Check -
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Robin Hood
1922, in 3 top lists Check -
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
1924, in 13 top lists Check -
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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache
1924 — a.k.a. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Gold Rush
1925, in 29 top lists Check -
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Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ
1925 — a.k.a. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 6 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 34 top lists Check -
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Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
1926 — a.k.a. The Adventures of Prince Achmed, in 13 top lists Check -
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King Kong
1933, in 26 top lists Check -
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Captain Blood
1935, in 3 top lists Check -
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Captains Courageous
1937, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 38 top lists Check -
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Stagecoach
1939, in 21 top lists Check -
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Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
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To Have and Have Not
1944, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948, in 25 top lists Check -
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Le salaire de la peur
1953 — a.k.a. The Wages of Fear, in 29 top lists Check -
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Shichinin no samurai
1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check -
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The Searchers
1956, in 26 top lists Check -
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The Ten Commandments
1956, in 12 top lists Check -
195 -1
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957, in 32 top lists Check -
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Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
1958 — a.k.a. The Hidden Fortress, in 9 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check -
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The Great Escape
1963, in 14 top lists Check -
230 -2
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964, in 0 top lists Check -
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Planet of the Apes
1968, in 16 top lists Check -
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Brilliantovaya ruka
1969 — a.k.a. The Diamond Arm, in 6 top lists Check -
270 -
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in 18 top lists Check -
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Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu
1973 — a.k.a. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession, in 5 top lists Check -
278 +1
Köyden Indim Sehire
1974 — a.k.a. From the Village to the City, in 0 top lists Check -
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 29 top lists Check -
288 +1
Al-risâlah
1976 — a.k.a. The Message, in 2 top lists Check -
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Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
294 +1
Hababam Sinifi Tatilde
1977 — a.k.a. The Chaos Class Is on Vacation, in 0 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1980, in 25 top lists Check -
308 -1
Ko to tamo peva
1980 — a.k.a. Who's Singin' Over There?, in 1 top list Check -
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check -
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Das Boot
1981 — a.k.a. The Boat, in 15 top lists Check -
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Vuk
1981 — a.k.a. The Little Fox, in 0 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
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Back to the Future
1985, in 25 top lists Check -
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Aliens
1986, in 24 top lists Check -
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Stand by Me
1986, in 11 top lists Check -
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Macskafogó
1986 — a.k.a. Cat City, in 0 top lists Check -
345 -1
The Princess Bride
1987, in 19 top lists Check -
353 -1
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989, in 16 top lists Check
Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;