every now and then Hollywood manages a
sudden streak of excellence
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
years in film history moments will be
lost in time like tears right for this
list we’re focusing on those years when
it was a great time to be a movie goer
when Hollywood released not just one but
a string of excellent critically
acclaimed and beloved movies that remain
influential well past their years of
release
number 10 1976
though Sylvester Stallone’s star turn as
the Italian stallion Rocky Balboa took
home the Best Picture Oscar it did so in
one of the most competitive years in the
categories history I just want to go out
and you know like really really want to
do something boundary-pushing films like
Martin Scorsese’s taxi driver and Sidney
Lumet’s Network helped round out the
year which was the pinnacle of a decade
when Hollywood studio system was brought
to its knees and back again by bigger
and bolder filmmaking you’ve got to get
mad you’ve got to say I’m a human being
god damn it my life has value number 9
1967 will you come in please what I’d
like you to come in till I get the line
sir what for
because I don’t feel safe till I get the
link laying the groundwork for the
coming decade of change was 1967 mrs.
Robinson you’re trying to seduce me
aren’t you a year in which films like
Mike Nichols the Graduate Arthur Penn’s
Bonnie and Clyde and Stanley Kramer’s
guess who’s coming to dinner would
explore sexuality violence and race in
ways only hinted at by their
predecessors yeah I know this is sort of
a shock because it’s also sudden
unexpected and it never occurred to me
that I might fall in love with a Negro
but I did and nothing in the world is
gonna change that but perhaps none
examined racial tensions as much as that
year’s Best Picture Norman Jewison ‘he’s
in the heat of the night what you doing
wearing white man’s clothes well you
come from
number eight 1985 I wouldn’t run if you
do she’ll think you’re something good to
eat
while it was Sydney Pollack’s out of
Africa that took home the Best Picture
Oscar that year 1985 was perhaps the
coolest year in history to be a teenager
at least according to the movies now I
need your help to get back to the year
1985 for example we went back to the 50s
with Marty McFly in Robert Zemeckis is
Back to the Future discovered pirate’s
treasure in suburbia and Richard
Donner’s The Goonies you guys just what
if this can lead to rich stuff maybe the
good luck and navigated a social
landscape which was terrifying in its
own right and John Hughes The Breakfast
Club yeah as far as being concerned
about what’s gonna happen when you and I
walk down the hallways of school you can
forget it
cuz it’s never gonna happen just bury
your head in the sand and wait be a prom
I hate you
number 7 1941 but remember that with
strength goes responsibility to others
and yourselves with John Ford’s how
green was my Valley winning Best Picture
and Howard Hawks sergeant York coming in
as the year’s highest grosser 1941 was a
banner year what is it
the stuff that dreams are made of
it not only produced arguably the
greatest film noir ever in John Huston’s
The Maltese Falcon but also what many
have labelled the greatest film ever
period force and Welles Citizen Kane
there’s only one person in the world to
decide what I’m gonna do and that’s me
you decided what you were going to do
Charles
some time ago while these two will
forever be part of movie history it was
also a notable year during Disney’s
Golden Age thanks to the dark but highly
successful Dumbo you know chasing away
chasing away I’m afraid need you’re a
big shot number 6 1962 what is your name
my name is for my friends war racial
inequity sexual assault and well More
war
62 was a serious year led by Peter
O’Toole’s depiction of TE Lawrence the
best picture winning Lawrence of Arabia
was a sprawling epic on a scale of few
films before or since they’ve only one
suspicion we let them drive the Turks
out and then movie in ourselves I’ve
told him that that’s false but we’ve no
ambitions in Arabia the adaptation of
one of the greatest American novels ever
to kill a mockingbird and one of the
most realistic depictions of d-day in
the longest day make 1962 an important
year for film in our courts oh ah
created equal
while the debut James Bond film dr. no
launched Sean Connery to fame I admire
your luck Mr Bond James Bond
number 5 1982 he was a man who made
humility and simple truth more powerful
than empires though it was Richard
Attenborough’s Gandhi that nabbed Best
Picture 1982 was arguably the greatest
year in science fiction film history
yeah he came back but he’s not a goblin
is a spaceman extraterrestrial et laid
runner the thing Tron and Star Trek –
the Wrath of Khan take the genre to
astonishing new heights to boldly go
where no man has done
before while et was the clear critical
and box-office champion the impact of
each of these films resonates decades
later oh yeah oh yeah and Dustin Hoffman
donned a dress for some crowd-pleasing
cross-dressing shenanigans in Sydney
Pollack’s Tootsie it works but what
don’t play hard to get number four 1999
it’s the weirdest thing I feel like I’ve
been in a coma for about 20 years and
I’m just now waking up not every film
year can boast an iconic drama action
and cult classic welcome to Fight Club
while the stunning American Beauty was
the clear choice for Best Picture you’re
doing the matrix and Fight Club at first
glance simple action movies challenged
audiences to question the existential
societal and even physical world around
them what is this place more important
than what is when when you believe it’s
the year 1999 when in fact it’s closer
to 2199 this is equally true of M night
Shyamalan haunting twisty and quotable
film The Sixth Sense
but 1999’s highest-grossing film the
first Star Wars installment in over 15
years the Phantom Menace number 3 1977
let’s face it without 1977 there would
be no 1982 hello there
film was anyway 77 featured a classic of
the old school of science fiction with
Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of
the Third Kind as well as the one that
redefined the genre George Lucas’s Star
Wars circle is not when I left you I was
but to learn now I am the master only
about to be will nod and while John
Travolta danced his way into Hollywood
history in Saturday Night Fever
Woody Allen was winning Best Picture by
working outside the studio system to
bring us his New York rom-com Annie Hall
you know you know you’re always trying
to get things to come out perfect in art
because it’s real difficult in life
number two 1939 you can’t never remember
nothing that happens but you remember
every word I say don’t thank you Gosei
probably the most decorated year in
cinematic history and that which is most
indicative of Hollywood’s golden era
1939 produced two of the most sprawling
and glamorous achievements in cinema
history total happy feeling we’re not in
Kansas anymore in The Wizard of Oz and
David L Selznick’s Best Picture winning
Gone with the Wind you go well I go what
I do frankly my dear I don’t give a damn
not only that the year also cemented the
relationship between John Wayne and John
Ford and taught generations what a
filibuster is you all think I’m late
well I’m not late and I’m gonna stay
right here and fight for this lost cause
even if this thing gets filled with lies
like these before we unveil our
number-one pick here are a few honorable
mentions I’ll be all around in the dark
I’ll be everywhere wherever you can look
more than machinery we need humanity
more than cleverness we need kindness
and gentleness
do you believe his story I don’t know
whether I believe it or not maybe I
don’t
shaaka me vote not guilty officer sir
british officer here to blow up the
vegetation
Oh
I’m Spartacus I’m Spartacus I’m
Spartacus
hang on a minute let’s I’ve got a great
idea it’s not dinnertime by now
dinner time will come and go without
notice on this trip get on your horse
what’s the most you ever lost on a coin
toss sir the most you ever lost a coin
toss it’s triggy lie you boy
number one hope is a good thing maybe
the best of things and no good thing
ever does 1994 then it felt like
something just jumped up and bit while
1939 may have redefined the epic
Hollywood film no year has had a bigger
impact on the films of today than 1994
while Robert Zemeckis is Forrest Gump
dominated the Oscars Jim Carrey was
forging his career Disney was succeeding
with The Lion King and little-known
filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s
non-sequential violent masterpiece was
also making a lasting impact I mean do
you think that God came down from heaven
and stopped oh man I shot Marvin in the
face to do that I didn’t mean to do it
as an accident and who can forget the
incredible Morgan Freeman narrated
jailbreak masterpiece the Shawshank
Redemption as it comes down to a simple
choice really
get busy livin your goodness he died as
well as Kevin Smith’s clerks which
signaled a new era of influence for
independent filmmakers how about
covering the point man you suck we’re
gonna make assessment be honest that’s
all I want pal hey Dante you went around
don’t best of this guy sucks do you
agree with our list
what year got you visiting the cinema on
a weekly basis can I have a chuckles
they’re the only jujubes up are they
last longer just see us what we got make
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com for
more entertaining top 10s published
daily
thanks for the free show more and well
sudden streak of excellence
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
years in film history moments will be
lost in time like tears right for this
list we’re focusing on those years when
it was a great time to be a movie goer
when Hollywood released not just one but
a string of excellent critically
acclaimed and beloved movies that remain
influential well past their years of
release
number 10 1976
though Sylvester Stallone’s star turn as
the Italian stallion Rocky Balboa took
home the Best Picture Oscar it did so in
one of the most competitive years in the
categories history I just want to go out
and you know like really really want to
do something boundary-pushing films like
Martin Scorsese’s taxi driver and Sidney
Lumet’s Network helped round out the
year which was the pinnacle of a decade
when Hollywood studio system was brought
to its knees and back again by bigger
and bolder filmmaking you’ve got to get
mad you’ve got to say I’m a human being
god damn it my life has value number 9
1967 will you come in please what I’d
like you to come in till I get the line
sir what for
because I don’t feel safe till I get the
link laying the groundwork for the
coming decade of change was 1967 mrs.
Robinson you’re trying to seduce me
aren’t you a year in which films like
Mike Nichols the Graduate Arthur Penn’s
Bonnie and Clyde and Stanley Kramer’s
guess who’s coming to dinner would
explore sexuality violence and race in
ways only hinted at by their
predecessors yeah I know this is sort of
a shock because it’s also sudden
unexpected and it never occurred to me
that I might fall in love with a Negro
but I did and nothing in the world is
gonna change that but perhaps none
examined racial tensions as much as that
year’s Best Picture Norman Jewison ‘he’s
in the heat of the night what you doing
wearing white man’s clothes well you
come from
number eight 1985 I wouldn’t run if you
do she’ll think you’re something good to
eat
while it was Sydney Pollack’s out of
Africa that took home the Best Picture
Oscar that year 1985 was perhaps the
coolest year in history to be a teenager
at least according to the movies now I
need your help to get back to the year
1985 for example we went back to the 50s
with Marty McFly in Robert Zemeckis is
Back to the Future discovered pirate’s
treasure in suburbia and Richard
Donner’s The Goonies you guys just what
if this can lead to rich stuff maybe the
good luck and navigated a social
landscape which was terrifying in its
own right and John Hughes The Breakfast
Club yeah as far as being concerned
about what’s gonna happen when you and I
walk down the hallways of school you can
forget it
cuz it’s never gonna happen just bury
your head in the sand and wait be a prom
I hate you
number 7 1941 but remember that with
strength goes responsibility to others
and yourselves with John Ford’s how
green was my Valley winning Best Picture
and Howard Hawks sergeant York coming in
as the year’s highest grosser 1941 was a
banner year what is it
the stuff that dreams are made of
it not only produced arguably the
greatest film noir ever in John Huston’s
The Maltese Falcon but also what many
have labelled the greatest film ever
period force and Welles Citizen Kane
there’s only one person in the world to
decide what I’m gonna do and that’s me
you decided what you were going to do
Charles
some time ago while these two will
forever be part of movie history it was
also a notable year during Disney’s
Golden Age thanks to the dark but highly
successful Dumbo you know chasing away
chasing away I’m afraid need you’re a
big shot number 6 1962 what is your name
my name is for my friends war racial
inequity sexual assault and well More
war
62 was a serious year led by Peter
O’Toole’s depiction of TE Lawrence the
best picture winning Lawrence of Arabia
was a sprawling epic on a scale of few
films before or since they’ve only one
suspicion we let them drive the Turks
out and then movie in ourselves I’ve
told him that that’s false but we’ve no
ambitions in Arabia the adaptation of
one of the greatest American novels ever
to kill a mockingbird and one of the
most realistic depictions of d-day in
the longest day make 1962 an important
year for film in our courts oh ah
created equal
while the debut James Bond film dr. no
launched Sean Connery to fame I admire
your luck Mr Bond James Bond
number 5 1982 he was a man who made
humility and simple truth more powerful
than empires though it was Richard
Attenborough’s Gandhi that nabbed Best
Picture 1982 was arguably the greatest
year in science fiction film history
yeah he came back but he’s not a goblin
is a spaceman extraterrestrial et laid
runner the thing Tron and Star Trek –
the Wrath of Khan take the genre to
astonishing new heights to boldly go
where no man has done
before while et was the clear critical
and box-office champion the impact of
each of these films resonates decades
later oh yeah oh yeah and Dustin Hoffman
donned a dress for some crowd-pleasing
cross-dressing shenanigans in Sydney
Pollack’s Tootsie it works but what
don’t play hard to get number four 1999
it’s the weirdest thing I feel like I’ve
been in a coma for about 20 years and
I’m just now waking up not every film
year can boast an iconic drama action
and cult classic welcome to Fight Club
while the stunning American Beauty was
the clear choice for Best Picture you’re
doing the matrix and Fight Club at first
glance simple action movies challenged
audiences to question the existential
societal and even physical world around
them what is this place more important
than what is when when you believe it’s
the year 1999 when in fact it’s closer
to 2199 this is equally true of M night
Shyamalan haunting twisty and quotable
film The Sixth Sense
but 1999’s highest-grossing film the
first Star Wars installment in over 15
years the Phantom Menace number 3 1977
let’s face it without 1977 there would
be no 1982 hello there
film was anyway 77 featured a classic of
the old school of science fiction with
Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of
the Third Kind as well as the one that
redefined the genre George Lucas’s Star
Wars circle is not when I left you I was
but to learn now I am the master only
about to be will nod and while John
Travolta danced his way into Hollywood
history in Saturday Night Fever
Woody Allen was winning Best Picture by
working outside the studio system to
bring us his New York rom-com Annie Hall
you know you know you’re always trying
to get things to come out perfect in art
because it’s real difficult in life
number two 1939 you can’t never remember
nothing that happens but you remember
every word I say don’t thank you Gosei
probably the most decorated year in
cinematic history and that which is most
indicative of Hollywood’s golden era
1939 produced two of the most sprawling
and glamorous achievements in cinema
history total happy feeling we’re not in
Kansas anymore in The Wizard of Oz and
David L Selznick’s Best Picture winning
Gone with the Wind you go well I go what
I do frankly my dear I don’t give a damn
not only that the year also cemented the
relationship between John Wayne and John
Ford and taught generations what a
filibuster is you all think I’m late
well I’m not late and I’m gonna stay
right here and fight for this lost cause
even if this thing gets filled with lies
like these before we unveil our
number-one pick here are a few honorable
mentions I’ll be all around in the dark
I’ll be everywhere wherever you can look
more than machinery we need humanity
more than cleverness we need kindness
and gentleness
do you believe his story I don’t know
whether I believe it or not maybe I
don’t
shaaka me vote not guilty officer sir
british officer here to blow up the
vegetation
Oh
I’m Spartacus I’m Spartacus I’m
Spartacus
hang on a minute let’s I’ve got a great
idea it’s not dinnertime by now
dinner time will come and go without
notice on this trip get on your horse
what’s the most you ever lost on a coin
toss sir the most you ever lost a coin
toss it’s triggy lie you boy
number one hope is a good thing maybe
the best of things and no good thing
ever does 1994 then it felt like
something just jumped up and bit while
1939 may have redefined the epic
Hollywood film no year has had a bigger
impact on the films of today than 1994
while Robert Zemeckis is Forrest Gump
dominated the Oscars Jim Carrey was
forging his career Disney was succeeding
with The Lion King and little-known
filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s
non-sequential violent masterpiece was
also making a lasting impact I mean do
you think that God came down from heaven
and stopped oh man I shot Marvin in the
face to do that I didn’t mean to do it
as an accident and who can forget the
incredible Morgan Freeman narrated
jailbreak masterpiece the Shawshank
Redemption as it comes down to a simple
choice really
get busy livin your goodness he died as
well as Kevin Smith’s clerks which
signaled a new era of influence for
independent filmmakers how about
covering the point man you suck we’re
gonna make assessment be honest that’s
all I want pal hey Dante you went around
don’t best of this guy sucks do you
agree with our list
what year got you visiting the cinema on
a weekly basis can I have a chuckles
they’re the only jujubes up are they
last longer just see us what we got make
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com for
more entertaining top 10s published
daily
thanks for the free show more and well
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