Favorite Movie Every Year I've Been Alive

[Dave Gray]

I put this on Facebook, but figured I might as well share here.  Feel free to make your own.
Close calls are in parenthesis and the list is always evolving.

1977 Star Wars
1978 Halloween
1979 Alien
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 ET (The Thing)
1983 Return of the Jedi
1984 The Terminator
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 The Princess Bride
1988 Big
1989 Do the Right Thing
1990 Misery
1991 The Silence of the Lambs (Terminator 2)
1992 Aladdin
1993 Jurassic Park
1994 The Shawshank Redemption
1995 The Usual Suspects (SE7EN)
1996 12 Monkeys (Swingers, The Birdcage)
1997 Good Will Hunting (Gattaca)
1998 There's Something About Mary
1999 Fight Club (The Matrix)
2000 Memento
2001 Amélie (Ocean's Eleven)
2002 Gangs of New York
2003 Big Fish
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2006 The Prestige (The Departed, Casino Royale, Children of Men)
2007 Juno
2008 The Dark Knight (Slumdog Millionaire)
2009 Moon (District 9)
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
2011 Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2012 Les Misérables (Argo)
2013 Her (Gravity)
2014 What We Do in the Shadows (Ex Machina)
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road (The Force Awakens, The Revenant)
2016 Arrival (La La Land)
2017 Blade Runner 2049
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2019 Knives Out
2020 Tenet
2021 Dune
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once

[Spider-Dan]

Where did you find a list of movies by year of release?

[Dave Gray]

Where did you find a list of movies by year of release?

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=1977&title_type=feature&

This is for 1977, then you can just manually change the year to whatever in the URL.  It's sorted by site popularity, so sometimes you have to scroll way down and even then you miss some stuff, but this is a pretty good start.

[Tenshot13]

1982 - Conan the Barbarian
1983 - Scarface (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi)
1984 - Terminator (Red Dawn, The Neverending Story)
1985 - Back to the Future (Rocky IV)
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Top Gun, Labyrinth)
1987 - Predator (Full Metal Jacket, Space Balls, Lethal Weapon)
1988 - Die Hard (Grave of Fireflies, Akira)
1989 - Batman (Roadhouse, Major League)
1990 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles--nostalgic lol (Goodfellas, Home Alone, Dances with Wolves)
1991 - Terminator 2 (TMNT 2, Hot Shots!, Father of the Bride)
1992 - Aladdin (Wayne's World, Mighty Ducks, My Cousin Vinny, Batman Returns, Reservoir Dogs)--a lot of good ones this year
1993 - Jurassic Park (The Sandlot, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Groundhog Day)
1994 - Lion King (Interview with the Vampire, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank)
1995 - Braveheart (Seven, Toy Story)


....to be continued 

[Spider-Dan]

1978 Superman
1979 Life of Brian
1980 The Empire Strikes Back (Superman II)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 TRON (Star Trek 2)
1983 Return of the Jedi (National Lampoon's Vacation)
1984 The Karate Kid (Ghostbusters)
1985 Back to the Future (Rocky IV)
1986 Aliens
1987 Predator (Spaceballs)
1988 Beetlejuice
1989 Major League (Batman)
1990 Goodfellas
1991 Terminator 2
1992 A Few Good Men (Aladdin)
1993 Groundhog Day
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Friday
1996 Star Trek: First Contact
1997 Good Will Hunting
1998 Rounders (Blade, There's Something About Mary)
1999 The Matrix (Any Given Sunday)
2000 Snatch
2001 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Fast and the Furious)
2002 Spider-Man
2003 Matrix Reloaded (X2)
2004 Spider-Man 2 (Dawn of the Dead)
2005 Batman Begins
2006 300
2007 (if I have to pick something) Superbad
2008 Iron Man (The Dark Knight)
2009 Inglourious Basterds
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Iron Man 2)
2011 X-Men: First Class (Margin Call, Fast Five)
2012 The Avengers (Django Unchained)
2013 (if I have to pick something) 12 Years A Slave
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Edge of Tomorrow)
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road (Terminator Genisys)
2016 Captain America: Civil War (Rogue One)
2017 Logan (Thor: Ragnarok)
2018 Into the Spider-Verse (Avengers: Infinity War)
2019 Avengers: Endgame (Shazam!)
2020 (if I have to pick something) Hamilton
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home
2022 (the only movie I've seen) Sonic The Hedgehog 2

There are a few in parentheses that aren't really close, but just happen to be movies I really like that came out the same year as one of my favorite movies of all time; in almost any other year, they would have won.

[Dave Gray]

^ I think I've seen every movie on your list.  Those Monty Python's run together for me and it's not really my type of humor, but I think I've seen Life of Brian. 

Pretty good list.  In my friends' lists, they run a little bit super-hero heavy for me, which are movies that I like, but don't really revisit over and over again.

Like you, there are years where I struggled to find a movie that I really really loved.

[ArtieChokePhin]

1973- The Exorcist
1974- The Godfather II
1975- Jaws
1976- Rocky
1977- Star Wars
1978- Animal House
1979- Warriors
1980- Friday The 13th
1981- Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1982- Fast Times At Ridgemont High
1983- Scarface
1984- The Karate Kid
1985- Back To The Future
1986- Top Gun
1987- Full Metal Jacket
1988- Die Hard (and yes, I think Die Hard is a Christmas movie)
1989- Road House
1990- Dances With Wolves
1991- The Last Boy Scout
1992- A Few Good Men
1993- The Fugitive
1994- Speed
1995- Heat
1996- Independence Day
1997- Con Air
1998- Wild Things
1999- The Sixth Sense
2000- Gladiator
2001- The Fast And The Furious
2002- Catch Me If You Can
2003- Mystic River
2004- The Punisher
2005- Four Brothers
2006- The Departed
2007- No Country For Old Men
2008- Kung Fu Panda
2009- The Hangover
2010- The Town
2011- Moneyball
2012- 21 Jump Street
2013- The Wolf Of Wall Street
2014- John Wick
2015- The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
2016- Deadpool
2017- Wind River
2018- How It Ends
2019- The Irishman
2020- The Rental
2021- Nightmare Alley
2022- Ambulance

[CF DolFan]

Seems to me the older the movie the easier it was for me to choose.

1969 True Grit although I was named after Dustin Hoffman and he had the top movie that year (Midnight Cowboy)
1970 Little Big Man
1971 Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or Play Misty for Me
1972 The Poseidon Adventure
1973 American Graffiti
1974 Blazing Saddles
1975 Jaws
1976 Logan's Run
1977 Star Wars although Smokey and the Bandit is one of my favorite movies all time
1978 The Deer Hunter
1979 The Warriors
1980 The Empire Strikes Back but Brooke Shields in the Blue Lagoon was much more memorable .... hahaha
1981 Porky's
1982 ET but Fast Times at Ridgemont High had scenes that brought me into adulthood (Phoebe Cates)  
1983 Return of the Jedi or The Outsiders
1984 Red Dawn
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Stand By Me
1987  Full Metal Jacket / The Princess Bride / Dirty Dancing (tough year to pick just one)
1988 Beetlejuice
1989 Road House or Back to the Future II
1990 Goodfellas
1991 The Silence of the Lambs (this could be my all time favorite)
1992 The Last of the Mohicans or A League of Their Own
1993 Tombstone or Jurassic Park
1994 The Shawshank Redemption or Legends of the Fall
1995 SE7EN
1996 Scream
1997 Titanic
1998 Armageddon but shout out to Wild Things and Saving Private Ryan
1999 The Green Mile
2000 The Patriot
2001 A Knight's Tale
2002 Gangs of New York
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 The Passion of the Christ
2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2006 Night at the Museum
2007  I Am Legend / Wild Hogs
2008 Taken
2009 The Hangover
2010 Grown Ups
2011  The Cabin in the Woods
2012 This Is 40
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street although I've watched Grown Ups 2 way more
2014 American Sniper
2015 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
2016 Deadpool
2017 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
2018 A Quiet Place / Black Panther
2019 Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
2020 A Quiet Place Part II
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2022 The Adam Project only because it is the only one I have seen from this year's list.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

1966  Fahrenheit 451
1967  The Dirty Dozen
1968  Planet of the Apes
1969  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970  Catch-22
1971 Fiddler on the Roof
1972 The Godfather
1973 Soylent Green
1974 Young Frankenstein
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976 Logan's Run
1977 A Bridge Too Far
1978  National Lampoon's Animal House
1979 The Muppet Movie
1980 Caddyshack
1981 History of the World: Part I
1982 The Wall
1983 WarGames
1984 The Killing Fields
1985 Spies Like Us
1986 Children of a Lesser God
1987 Good Morning, Vietnam
1988  Mississippi Burning
1989  Dead Poets Society
1990 Lord of the Flies
1991 Robin Hood
1992 Of Mice and Men
1993  Schindler's List
1994 The Shawshank Redemption
1995 Apollo 13
1996 A Time to Kill
1997 Good Will Hunting
1998 Saving Private Ryan
1999 Jakob the Liar
2000  Erin Brockovich
2001 A Beautiful Mind
2002 The Pianist
2003  Runaway Jury
2004 The Day After Tomorrow
2005 Coach Carter
2006 An Inconvenient Truth
2007 Charlie Wilson's War
2008 Twilight
2009 Avatar
2010 The Book of Eli
2011 Margin Call
2012 Lincoln
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street
2014  The Imitation Game
2015 The Big Short
2016  Sully
2017 Beauty and the Beast
2018 Green Book
2019 1917
2020  Greyhound
2021 Don't Look Up
2022 TBD

[CF DolFan]

Hoodie ... it's kind of funny you listed Logans Run as a favorite. I have a hrd time even finding people who remember it but it's always been one of my favorites. I'm guessing it freaked me out a little as a kid.

I never saw Farenheit 451 but I did read the book growing up. Ray Bradbury was a great writer.

[Dave Gray]

I feel like I can tell a lot about Hoodie's tastes from his recent selections.

Shout out to the Imitation Game.  I really thought that was a great movie.  I'm pretty hard on biopics, but that was a good one.



I rewatched Lincoln just the other day.  I think that is a great, great lead performance, but it might be a bad movie -- there's something goofy about the way its put together.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Hoodie ... it's kind of funny you listed Logans Run as a favorite. I have a hrd time even finding people who remember it but it's always been one of my favorites. I'm guessing it freaked me out a little as a kid.

I never saw Farenheit 451 but I did read the book growing up. Ray Bradbury was a great writer.

I loved the TV show as a kid and a few years later rented the movie from Blockbuster after the TV show was off the air.  (Same deal with Mash, I didn't see the movie until after seeing all the TV episodes multiple times)  I rented Fahrenheit 451 in high school to avoid reading the book, but did read it years later.  (Same deal with Catch-22)

1999 & 1982 are the two movies that I suspect almost nobody else has even seen.  

My 1984 entry is on that list in part because I met the main character in that movie - (not the actor, the actual person) - Dith Pran.  

[Dave Gray]

Jakob the Liar -- Robin Williams holocaust film?
And Killing Fields is about Pol Pot, right?

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Jakob the Liar -- Robin Williams holocaust film?
And Killing Fields is about Pol Pot, right?

Correct.

[Phishfan]

Will compile my list later. I'm interested in hearing how Hoodie went from refusing to watch Inglorious Basterds to now calling it his favorite movie of the year.