Best Year in Cinema of Every Decade.

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I’ll be posting my favorite year in Cinema of every decade, along with the films of that year that make it my favorite! Feel free to post your thoughts and own lists!

2010’s(2015):

Academy: Spotlight
Highest Grossing: Star Wars The Force Awakens
Top Films:

• Mad Max: Fury Road

• The Revenant
• The Hateful Eight

• Bridge of Spies

• Room

• The Martian

• Sicario
• The Big Short
• Brooklyn

• Inside Out
• Jurassic World
• Furious 7

• Avengers: Age of Ultron

• Spectre



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I’ll be posting my favorite year in Cinema of every decade, along with the films of that year that make it my favorite! Feel free to post your thoughts and own lists!

2010’s(2015):

Academy: Spotlight
Highest Grossing: Star Wars The Force Awakens
Top Films:

• Mad Max: Fury Road

• The Revenant
• The Hateful Eight

• Bridge of Spies

• Room

• The Martian

• Sicario
• The Big Short
• Brooklyn

• Inside Out
• Jurassic World
• Furious 7

• Avengers: Age of Ultron

• Spectre

I don't watch a lot of recent movies, so I haven't seen much from the 2010s, but my two favorites from your list of 2015 movies are Inside Out and Bridge of Spies.
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I feel 74 wins in the 70s, considering you have:

Chinatown
GF II
The Conversation
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Blazing Saddles
The Towering Inferno
The Parallax View
Murder On The Orient Express
The Gambler

76 was also an incredibly strong year with films like Network, Taxi Driver, The Outlaw Josey Whales, The Omen, All The President's Men, Rocky, ect.



For the 2000s, I say without question 2007. You have There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in the same year, which IMO were the two best films of that decade.

In that year, you also have gems like:

The Assassination of Jesse James
Zodiac
Eastern Promises
Michael Clayton
Gone Baby Gone
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
The Orphanage
Sunshine
Juno

An extremely robust year.



90s - I comfortably go with 95. You have gems like:

Se7en
Heat
The Usual Suspects
12 Monkeys
Leaving Las Vegas
Dead Man Walking
Casino
Braveheart
Devil in a Blue Dress
Crimson Tide
Toy Story
Friday
Higher Learning
To Die For

Superb year for film.



For the 2000s, I say without question 2007. You have There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in the same year, which IMO were the two best films of that decade.

In that year, you also have gems like:

The Assassination of Jesse James
Eastern Promises
Michael Clayton
Gone Baby Gone
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
The Orphanage
Sunshine
Juno

An extremely robust year.
Don't forget about Zodiac, yo: https://letterboxd.com/stusmallz/film/zodiac/



Here’s looking at you, kid.
2000’s (2007):
Academy: No Country for Old Men
Highest Grossing: Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
Top Films:
• There Will Be Blood
• Gone Baby Gone
• Into the Wild
• American Gangster
• Atonement
• Eastern Promises
• Superbad
• Zodiac
• Bad Fuzz
• Juno
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Spider-Man 3
• Transformers
• Ratatouille
• I Am Legend
• 300



Here’s looking at you, kid.
90s - I comfortably go with 95. You have gems like:

Se7en
Heat
The Usual Suspects
12 Monkeys
Leaving Las Vegas
Dead Man Walking
Casino
Braveheart
Devil in a Blue Dress
Crimson Tide
Toy Story
Friday
Higher Learning
To Die For

Superb year for film.
90s was the hardest year for me to decide on, point in case the list you made is epic but was not the year I went with :/



1970's - 1974 - I like these

Blazing Saddles
Thieves Like Us
Alice in the Cities
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The Conversation
Lancelot of the Lake
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Lady Snowblood
Chinatown
Death Wish
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Scenes from A Marriage
A Woman Under the Influence
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Taking of Pelham 123
Black Christmas
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Man with the Golden Gun
Young Frankenstein
The Godfather II



1999 was a damn fine year.


American Beauty
Go!
The Sixth Sense
The Virgin Suicides
Magnolia
The Insider
Girl, Interrupted
Fight club
The Green Mile
Eyes Wide Shut
Man on the Moon
Cider House Rules
Being John Malkovich
She's All That
Office Space
Bringing Out the Dead
Three Kings
Election



1959
-The Mummy
-The Tingler
-House on Haunted Hill
-The Bat

- Anatomy of a Murder
- Black Orpheus
-The Human Condition I & II
- North by Northwest
- Shadows
- A Nun's Story
-Some Like it Hot
- Sleeping Beauty
-Good Morning
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
-The 400 Blows
- Room at the Top
- Rio Bravo
- The World of Apu
- The Diary of Ann Frank
- Compulsion



1959
-The Mummy
-The Tingler
-House on Haunted Hill
-The Bat

- Anatomy of a Murder
- Black Orpheus
-The Human Condition I & II
- North by Northwest
- Shadows
- A Nun's Story
-Some Like it Hot
- Sleeping Beauty
-Good Morning
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
-The 400 Blows
- Room at the Top
- Rio Bravo
- The World of Apu
- The Diary of Ann Frank
- Compulsion
U always remind me of my hometown, Siddon in south of lebanon lol



Tough decade. The following directors were active in the 40's: Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Howard Hawkes, and Alfred Hitchcock.


1940's


1940 I looked at a top 50 films of the 40's list and 1946 had the most movies listed (8), however quality wise I think 1940 has the best


Fantasia
The Bank Dick (W. C. Fields)
Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock)
Gaslight
Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
His Girl Friday (Hawkes)
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca (Hitchcock)
The Shop around the Corner (Lubitsche)