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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Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check -
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La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check -
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The Sound of Music
1965, in 25 top lists Check -
240 new
Andrey Rublyov
1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check -
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969, in 21 top lists Check -
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Patton
1970, in 13 top lists Check -
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Mihai Viteazul
1971 — a.k.a. Michael the Brave, in 1 top list Check -
288 +1
Al-risâlah
1976 — a.k.a. The Message, in 2 top lists Check -
310 new
The Elephant Man
1980, in 16 top lists Check -
320 -1
Gandhi
1982, in 15 top lists Check -
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Amadeus
1984, in 24 top lists Check -
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Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
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Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
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Braveheart
1995, in 19 top lists Check -
415 -1
A Beautiful Mind
2001, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Pianist
2002, in 21 top lists Check -
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Catch Me If You Can
2002, in 9 top lists Check -
428 +1
Der Untergang
2004 — a.k.a. Downfall, in 14 top lists Check -
429 new
Black Friday
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
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American Masters: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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Senna
2010, in 4 top lists Check -
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Intouchables
2011 — a.k.a. The Intouchables, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Wolf of Wall Street
2013, in 13 top lists Check -
473 -1
12 Years a Slave
2013, in 22 top lists Check -
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Rush
2013, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Salt of the Earth
2014, in 4 top lists Check
Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;