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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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932, in 14 top lists Check -
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Fury
1936, in 12 top lists Check -
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Angels with Dirty Faces
1938, in 9 top lists Check -
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Rebecca
1940, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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Gaslight
1944, in 12 top lists Check -
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Mildred Pierce
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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Ace in the Hole
1951, in 21 top lists Check -
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Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
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Dial M for Murder
1954, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Killing
1956, in 15 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 31 top lists Check
Last updated on May 4, 2023 by Fergenaprido;