Top 1,000 Films of All Time (Calculated)
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There are many statistically-minded lists available. Generally, they are either based on averages or cumulative presence in lists. This list attempts to bring the two together, with a composite score that uses Letterboxd, IMDb, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes scores as well as a quantification of the movies' presence on several lists (enumerated below). I would describe the results as a consensus opinion of the films someone "should" see. [You can also see the list of 5,000 films here.]
I started with a list of about 30k titles gleaned from many Letterboxd lists, IMDb data, and other sources and crunched the numbers. I limited composite scores to those above 500 IMDb votes. Votes were normalized against the maximum votes on that website to account for the differing traffic, so the Highest Voted movie would be a 1.00 and the lowest 0.01. I weighted the differing website rating according to my own sense of importance with Letterboxd about 10x Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic about half of IMDb. I also included weighting by year to account for the significant recency bias in online vote tallies. That weight was Votes x (1+((2000-Year)/100).
The way that I quantified movies on lists like Sight & Sound was to give those films a sort of fictional rating as if it were from IMDb. So, for instance, Vertigo, at #1 on Sight & Sound's Top 250 got 100, Citizen Kane got 99.96. Lists where there was no ranking all received 100. Sight and Sound, Palme D'or, and Oscar Winners received the greatest weight, which was about 10x a Oscar nomination outside Best Picture and about twice the Golden Bear or AFI Top 100.
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
33 -22
The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 37 top lists Check -
92 +46
How Green Was My Valley
1941, in 11 top lists Check -
168 +159
The Sound of Music
1965, in 25 top lists Check -
178 -54
The Kid
1921, in 17 top lists Check -
184 +50
My Fair Lady
1964, in 18 top lists Check -
188 -82
Fantasia
1940, in 20 top lists Check -
205 -16
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982, in 31 top lists Check -
219 -40
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check -
238 -86
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937, in 25 top lists Check -
295 -149
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944, in 15 top lists Check -
296 +184
Kes
1969, in 11 top lists Check -
369 -66
Mary Poppins
1964, in 15 top lists Check -
403 -248
Pinocchio
1940, in 16 top lists Check -
436 -101
Tonari no Totoro
1988 — a.k.a. My Neighbor Totoro, in 23 top lists Check -
452 +191
Captains Courageous
1937, in 6 top lists Check -
462 -137
Miracle on 34th Street
1947, in 7 top lists Check -
493 -29
Our Hospitality
1923, in 13 top lists Check -
542 -275
Dumbo
1941, in 9 top lists Check -
548 -129
Beauty and the Beast
1991, in 20 top lists Check -
569 +9
Khane-ye doust kodjast?
1987 — a.k.a. Where Is the Friend's House?, in 15 top lists Check -
581 -177
Seven Chances
1925, in 12 top lists Check -
608 new
Oliver!
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
618 new
Fiddler on the Roof
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
649 -246
Bambi
1942, in 13 top lists Check -
733 new
The Cameraman
1928, in 13 top lists Check -
736 -225
The Thief of Bagdad
1940, in 13 top lists Check -
809 -158
Little Women
1933, in 5 top lists Check -
840 new
Flåklypa Grand Prix
1975 — a.k.a. The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, in 6 top lists Check -
855 -461
The Thief of Bagdad
1924, in 14 top lists Check -
870 -264
WALL·E
2008, in 26 top lists Check -
914 -168
Little Fugitive
1953, in 4 top lists Check -
990 new
Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod...
1964 — a.k.a. Welcome, or No Trespassing, in 2 top lists Check -
994 new
The Champ
1931, in 3 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 27, 2024 by gokhan; source