List of years in film
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This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with its significant events.
- 19th century in film
- 20th century in film:
- 21st century in film:
19th century in film
- 1888 – The lost and earliest surviving film, the Roundhay Garden Scene, by French inventor Louis Le Prince, is shot in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, through a groundbreaking 20 frames per second.
- 1893 – Thomas Edison creates "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria; The first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison, is Blacksmiths.
- 1895 – In France, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris; Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, is founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.
- 1896 – Pathé-Frères is founded. The Lumière brothers release six more short films, one of which is L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat.
- 1897 – Vitagraph is founded in New York City.
- 1899 – Georges Méliès releases The Dreyfus Affair and Cendrillon (first screen adaptation of the traditional fairy tale Cinderella); earliest known use of a colour motion picture film footage by Edward Raymond Turner[1].
1900s
- 1900 – Sherlock Holmes Baffled, Joan of Arc, The Enchanted Drawing
- 1901 – Star Theatre, Stop Thief!, Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost
- 1902 – A Trip to the Moon
- 1903 – The Great Train Robbery
- 1904 – The Impossible Voyage; Titanus is founded
- 1905 – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom
- 1906 – The Story of the Kelly Gang, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces; Nordisk Film is founded
- 1907 – Ben-Hur, L'Enfant prodigue
- 1908 – Fantasmagorie, A Visit to the Seaside, The Taming of the Shrew, The Thieving Hand, The Assassination of the Duke of Guise; first use of Kinemacolor; Pathé News invents the newsreel.
- 1909 – The Country Doctor, A Corner in Wheat, Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy, Les Misérables; 35 mm film becomes a filmmaking standard across the world.
1910s
- 1910 – In Old California, In the Border States, White Fawn's Devotion
- 1911 – L'Inferno, Baron Munchausen's Dream, Defence of Sevastopol, The Lonedale Operator
- 1912 – Independenţa României, The Musketeers of Pig Alley; Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, Hollywood's two oldest major film studios, are founded; the British Board of Film Classification is established.
- 1913 – The Bangville Police, Fantômas, Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life, Raja Harishchandra; invention of the film trailer
- 1914 – The Perils of Pauline, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Judith of Bethulia
- 1915 – The Birth of a Nation, The Tramp, Les Vampires, A Fool There Was
- 1916 – Intolerance, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Gertie the Dinosaur, The Queen of Spades; invention of Technicolor
- 1917 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, A Man There Was
- 1918 – Stella Maris, Mickey, Shifting Sands
- 1919 – Blind Husbands, Broken Blossoms, True Heart Susie, Dalagang Bukid, Male and Female; United Artists is founded.
1920s
- 1920 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Way Down East, The Flapper, The Mark of Zorro, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Golem: How He Came into the World, Within Our Gates
- 1921 – Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Kid, The Phantom Carriage, Fool's Paradise, The Sheik, The Mechanical Man
- 1922 – Nosferatu, Foolish Wives, The Little Rascals, Blood and Sand, Nanook of the North, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler; Motion Picture Association of America is established.
- 1923 – Safety Last!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Ten Commandments; Warner Bros. Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures are founded; 16 mm film introduced.
- 1924 – Sherlock Jr., Greed, The Last Laugh, He Who Gets Slapped; Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Columbia Pictures are founded
- 1925 – The Gold Rush, The Battleship Potemkin, The Big Parade, The Phantom of the Opera, Ben-Hur
- 1926 – The General, Don Juan
- 1927 – The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Wings, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Napoléon, The King of Kings
- 1928 – The Passion of Joan of Arc, Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon), Lights of New York, The Circus, The Crowd; RKO Pictures is founded
- 1929 – Blackmail, Pandora's Box, Man with a Movie Camera, The Broadway Melody, Disraeli, The Virginian; 1st Academy Awards
1930s
- 1930 – Looney Tunes, All Quiet on the Western Front, Journey's End, The Blue Angel, Hell's Angels, The Big House
- 1931 – Frankenstein, Dracula, The Champ, The Public Enemy, Little Caesar, Cimarron, M, City Lights, The Front Page
- 1932 – Shanghai Express, Tarzan the Ape Man, The Mummy, Freaks, The Sign of the Cross, Grand Hotel; 8 mm film introduced.
- 1933 – King Kong, The Invisible Man, 42nd Street, Duck Soup, The Three Stooges, Sons of the Desert, She Done Him Wrong
- 1934 – It Happened One Night, The Thin Man, Cleopatra, The Goddess, Manhattan Melodrama, The Black Cat
- 1935 – A Night at the Opera, Top Hat, Bride of Frankenstein, The 39 Steps, Mutiny on the Bounty; 20th Century Fox and The Rank Organisation are founded
- 1936 – Modern Times, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Flash Gordon, My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld, Come and Get It
- 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Life of Emile Zola, La Grande Illusion, Pépé le Moko, The Prisoner of Zenda, Lost Horizon
- 1938 – Bringing Up Baby, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander Nevsky, Jezebel, Boys Town, Angels with Dirty Faces
- 1939 – Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Sherlock Holmes film series, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach
1940s
- 1940 – His Girl Friday, The Great Dictator, Tom and Jerry, Rebecca, Pinocchio, Fantasia, The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, Road to... series
- 1941 – Citizen Kane, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, Dumbo, How Green Was My Valley, The Maltese Falcon, Woody Woodpecker, The Wolf Man
- 1942 – Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Magnificent Ambersons, To Be or Not to Be, Bambi, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Cat People
- 1943 – The Song of Bernadette, Heaven Can Wait, Phantom of the Opera, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Lassie Come Home, Shadow of a Doubt, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Ox-Bow Incident
- 1944 – Going My Way, Double Indemnity, Meet Me in St. Louis, Ivan the Terrible, Laura, To Have and Have Not, Murder, My Sweet, Gaslight; 1st Golden Globe Awards
- 1945 – Brief Encounter, Leave Her to Heaven, The Lost Weekend, The Naughty Nineties, Anchors Aweigh, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rome, Open City, Spellbound
- 1946 – It's a Wonderful Life, Notorious, My Darling Clementine, Great Expectations, The Best Years of Our Lives, Song of the South, The Big Sleep, Blue Skies; First Cannes Film Festival
- 1947 – Miracle on 34th Street, The Lady from Shanghai, Monsieur Verdoux, Out of the Past, Odd Man Out
- 1948 – Bicycle Thieves, The Red Shoes, Red River, Hamlet, Easter Parade, The Paleface, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; 1st British Academy Film Awards
- 1949 – The Third Man, All the King's Men, White Heat, Whisky Galore!, Stray Dog, The Heiress, On the Town
1950s
- 1950 – Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Cinderella, Harvey, Father of the Bride, Orphée, Annie Get Your Gun, In a Lonely Place, King Solomon's Mines, Born Yesterday
- 1951 – A Streetcar Named Desire, An American in Paris, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Alice in Wonderland, Quo Vadis, The African Queen, The Thing From Another World, Ace in the Hole, Strangers on a Train, A Place in the Sun, Decision Before Dawn
- 1952 – Singin' in the Rain, High Noon, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Quiet Man, Limelight, This Is Cinerama, The Greatest Show on Earth; first 3-D films
- 1953 – Peter Pan, Tokyo Story, From Here to Eternity, Shane, Ugetsu, The Robe, Trouble in Store, Calamity Jane, The Earrings of Madame de..., Salome, Roman Holiday, The Band Wagon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; first use of CinemaScope; British cinema advertisement company Pearl & Dean is founded.
- 1954 – Godzilla, Rear Window, The Seven Samurai, Dial M for Murder, White Christmas, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sansho the Bailiff, A Star Is Born, On the Waterfront, Three Coins in the Fountain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- 1955 – Rebel Without a Cause, To Catch a Thief, The Seven Year Itch, Marty, Ordet, Pather Panchali, Lady and the Tramp, Oklahoma!, The Court Jester, Mister Roberts
- 1956 – The Ten Commandments, High Society, Carousel, The King and I, Giant, The Searchers, Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Around the World in 80 Days
- 1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai, 12 Angry Men, Sweet Smell of Success, Old Yeller, The Seventh Seal, Let's All Go to the Lobby, Mother India, Wild Strawberries, Paths of Glory, Throne of Blood, The Curse of Frankenstein
- 1958 – Vertigo, Gigi, South Pacific, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Carry On series, Ashes and Diamonds, Jalsaghar, The Fly, The Blob, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
- 1959 – Ben-Hur, Some Like It Hot, Shake Hands with the Devil, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder, Sleeping Beauty, Rio Bravo, Pickpocket, Pillow Talk
1960s
- 1960 – Psycho, Spartacus, Breathless, The Apartment, Exodus, The Magnificent Seven, La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura, The Time Machine
- 1961 – West Side Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Divorce, Italian Style, Judgement at Nuremberg, Yojimbo, One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- 1962 – Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, James Bond film series, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Ivan's Childhood, The Manchurian Candidate, Lolita, Sundays and Cybele
- 1963 – The Birds, The Great Escape, Hud, The Pink Panther, Cleopatra, 8½, Not on Your Life, Lilies in the Field, The Haunting, How the West Was Won, The Nutty Professor, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- 1964 – Mary Poppins, A Hard Day's Night, Dr. Strangelove, A Fistful of Dollars, My Fair Lady, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- 1965 – The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, For a Few Dollars More, The Great Race, Cat Ballou, Repulsion
- 1966 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Persona, Fantastic Voyage, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Man for All Seasons, The Wild Angels, Winnie the Pooh, Alfie, Born Free
- 1967 – Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle Book, Dont Look Back, The Dirty Dozen, The Producers, Doctor Dolittle, Thoroughly Modern Millie
- 1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rosemary's Baby, Planet of the Apes, Once Upon a Time in the West, Night of the Living Dead, Yellow Submarine, Oliver!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Love Bug, Bullitt, Funny Girl, Yours, Mine and Ours
- 1969 – Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Easy Rider, Z, The Italian Job
1970s
- 1970 – Love Story, Performance, Patton, M*A*S*H, Woodstock, The Aristocats, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Five Easy Pieces, Airport, Let It Be; first IMAX films
- 1971 – The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dirty Harry, Get Carter, The Last Picture Show, Fiddler on the Roof, Straw Dogs, Duel, Shaft, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- 1972 – The Godfather, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Poseidon Adventure, Cries and Whispers, Deep Throat, Fritz the Cat, What's Up, Doc?, Last Tango in Paris
- 1973 – The Exorcist, Enter the Dragon, Amarcord, The Sting, Paper Moon, Mean Streets, American Graffiti, The Wicker Man
- 1974 – A Woman Under the Influence, The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Conversation, Black Christmas, The Towering Inferno
- 1975 – Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, Monty Python and the Holy Grail; videocassette recorders appear on mass markets.
- 1976 – Taxi Driver, Rocky, Network, Carrie, All the President's Men, In the Realm of the Senses, 1900, The Omen, Logan's Run, Bugsy Malone, The Outlaw Josey Wales
- 1977 – Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Annie Hall, Saturday Night Fever, A Bridge Too Far, Providence, Pete's Dragon, Suspiria, Eraserhead
- 1978 – Halloween, The Deer Hunter, Dawn of the Dead, Grease, Superman, Midnight Express, Days of Heaven, Up in Smoke, National Lampoon's Animal House
- 1979 – Apocalypse Now, Mad Max, Alien, Kramer vs. Kramer, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Muppet Movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Stalker, Manhattan
1980s
- 1980 – The Shining, Raging Bull, Airplane!, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Ordinary People, Friday the 13th, Fame, Kagemusha, The Elephant Man, 9 to 5, Private Benjamin
- 1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark, Chariots of Fire, Reds, The Evil Dead, On Golden Pond, Pennies from Heaven, Das Boot, Blow Out, Arthur, Scanners, Time Bandits, Clash of the Titans, An American Werewolf in London, Escape from New York
- 1982 – Poltergeist, Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tron, Sophie's Choice, Tootsie, Fanny and Alexander, Fitzcarraldo, Gandhi, The Dark Crystal, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, First Blood, Annie, 48 Hrs., Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Thing, An Officer and a Gentleman
- 1983 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, Terms of Endearment, Risky Business, Sans Soleil, L'Argent, The King of Comedy, The Right Stuff, Strange Brew, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, National Lampoon's Vacation, Scarface, Nostalghia, Flashdance, Trading Places, Sleepaway Camp, A Christmas Story; THX sound system is developed.
- 1984 – This is Spinal Tap, Ghostbusters, Amadeus, The Terminator, Gremlins, The Karate Kid, Once Upon a Time in America, Paris, Texas, Footloose, Beverly Hills Cop, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Sixteen Candles, The NeverEnding Story
- 1985 – Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, Out of Africa, The Color Purple, Brazil, Shoah, Ran, Come and See, The Goonies, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Cocoon, A Room with a View
- 1986 – Blue Velvet, Aliens, The Sacrifice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Platoon, Hannah and Her Sisters, Stand By Me, Top Gun, Luxo Jr., Crocodile Dundee, Three Amigos, Labyrinth, Short Circuit, The Fly, Little Shop of Horrors
- 1987 – Dirty Dancing, Fatal Attraction, The Princess Bride, Wings of Desire, The Dead, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, The Last Emperor, RoboCop, Wall Street, The Lost Boys, Hellraiser, Predator, Moonstruck, Hope and Glory, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Lethal Weapon, Mannnequin, Innerspace, Spaceballs, Good Morning, Vietnam
- 1988 – Rain Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, My Neighbor Totoro, Akira, Die Hard, Beetlejuice, Cinema Paradiso, Child's Play, The Accused, Big, The Last Temptation of Christ, Dead Ringers, Willow, Heathers, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
- 1989 – Do the Right Thing, Driving Miss Daisy, The Little Mermaid (starting off the Disney Renaissance), Batman, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, A Fish Called Wanda, The Abyss, When Harry Met Sally..., Say Anything..., Crimes and Misdemeanors, My Left Foot, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, Born on the Fourth of July, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; first publication of Empire
1990s
- 1990 – Home Alone, Ghost, Goodfellas, Dances with Wolves, Edward Scissorhands, Wild at Heart, Total Recall, Troll 2, Misery, Pretty Woman, Journey of Hope, The Hunt for Red October
- 1991 – The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Beauty and the Beast, JFK, Thelma & Louise, A Brighter Summer Day, The Addams Family, My Girl, Point Break, Boyz n the Hood
- 1992 – Unforgiven, Reservoir Dogs, Basic Instinct, Aladdin, A Few Good Men, The Player, The Crying Game, Wayne's World, Indochine, Candyman, The Bodyguard, A League of Their Own
- 1993 – Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, The Piano, Groundhog Day, In the Name of the Father, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Philadelphia, Three Colours trilogy, Free Willy, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hocus Pocus, Cliffhanger, Sleepless in Seattle, True Romance, Dazed and Confused
- 1994 – Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, The Shawshank Redemption, Legends of the Fall, Clerks, Interview with the Vampire, Speed, True Lies, Maverick, Léon: The Professional, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Four Weddings and a Funeral
- 1995 – Braveheart, Toy Story, Se7en, Apollo 13, Babe, The Usual Suspects, Heat, 12 Monkeys, Clueless, Jumanji, Leaving Las Vegas, Casino, Before trilogy, Sense and Sensibility; first DVDs released.
- 1996 – Fargo, Trainspoting, Independence Day, Jerry Maguire, Mission: Impossible, Scream, Space Jam, That Thing You Do!, Flirting with Disaster, The English Patient, Shall We Dance?, Fly Away Home
- 1997 – Titanic, Men in Black, Good Will Hunting, Boogie Nights, Jackie Brown, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, L.A. Confidential, Taste of Cherry, Hana-bi, The Full Monty, Princess Mononoke, Anastasia, Life is Beautiful, The Fifth Element, I Know What You Did Last Summer
- 1998 – Saving Private Ryan, American History X, Shakespeare in Love, Ring, The Big Lebowski, Buffalo '66, Little Voice, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Thin Red Line, Blade, Bulworth, The Mask of Zorro, The Truman Show, The Wedding Singer, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary
- 1999 – The Matrix, American Beauty, The Iron Giant, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, Magnolia, Notting Hill, The Blair Witch Project, Eyes Wide Shut, All About My Mother, American Pie, The Green Mile, Office Space, Galaxy Quest, Being John Malkovich
2000s
- 2000 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, In the Mood for Love, Gladiator, Billy Elliot, Cast Away, Platform, Memento, Chicken Run, Erin Brockovich, Almost Famous, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, High Fidelity, Meet the Parents, X-Men, Final Destination, Unbreakable trilogy, American Psycho, Before Night Falls, The Patriot, Requiem for a Dream; first digital cinema in Europe by Phillippe Binant.
- 2001 – Harry Potter film series, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Shrek, Spirited Away, A Beautiful Mind, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Fast and the Furious, Moulin Rouge!, Mulholland Drive, Donnie Darko, Zoolander, Training Day, Black Hawk Down, Monsters, Inc., Monster's Ball, Ocean's Eleven, Amélie, Bridget Jones's Diary
- 2002 – City of God, Talk to Her, Chicago, Spider-Man, 8 Mile, Minority Report, The Pianist, Russian Ark, The Hours, The Quiet American, Lilo & Stitch, Gangs of New York, Bowling for Columbine, About a Boy, Frieda, 28 Days Later, Punch-Drunk Love, The Ring, Better Luck Tomorrow, Catch Me If You Can, The Bourne Identity, Adaptation, Bend It Like Beckham, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- 2003 – Oldboy, Kill Bill, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Finding Nemo, Love Actually, Elf, The Room, Lost in Translation, Elephant, Monster, Big Fish, Cold Mountain, School of Rock, Once Upon a Time in Mexico
- 2004 – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Million Dollar Baby, The Incredibles, Sideways, Hotel Rwanda, Downfall, Friday Night Lights, The Aviator, Spider-Man 2, Ray, Hellboy, Saw, Shaun of the Dead, The Polar Express, Team America: World Police, Mean Girls, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Napoleon Dynamite, Finding Neverland, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Anti-piracy campaign "Piracy. It's a crime", which features the first line You Wouldn't Steal a Car, first advertised.
- 2005 – Caché, The New World, Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, A History of Violence, Pride & Prejudice, Walk the Line, March of the Penguins, Munich, Serenity, Sin City, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 9, Crash, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Capote
- 2006 – 300, Pan's Labyrinth, Happy Feet, Children of Men, The Departed, Children of Men, Dreamgirls, The Lives of Others, The Prestige, The Queen, Borat, Little Miss Sunshine, The Pursuit of Happyness, An Incovenient Truth, The Last King of Scotland, Snakes on a Plane, Babel, United 93; First Blu-rays released
- 2007 – There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Ratatouille, I Am Legend, Into the Wild, Juno, Atonement, The Simpsons Movie, Superbad, Hot Fuzz, Enchanted, Grindhouse, Persepolis, Once, Transformers, La Vie En Rose, Knocked Up, Son of Rambow, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- 2008 – The Marvel Cinematic Universe, WALL-E, Slumdog Millionaire, Mamma Mia!, Gran Torino, Ponyo, The Wrestler, Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Frost/Nixon, Cloverfield, Ip Man, Tropic Thunder, Taken, Twilight, Marley & Me, In Bruges, Man on Wire, Revoultionary Road, The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- 2009 – Avatar, Up, Inglourious Basterds, Coraline, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Hangover, District 9, The Princess and the Frog, Mary and Max, Star Trek, In the Loop, Zombieland, Crazy Heart, Precious, The Hurt Locker
2010s
- 2010 – The King's Speech, Inception, Black Swan, How to Train Your Dragon, Tangled, The Social Network, Winter's Bone, 127 Hours, The Fighter, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Kick-Ass, The Kids Are All Right, Blue Valentine
- 2011 – The Artist, Bridesmaids, Drive, Hugo, The Intouchables, A Separation, The Tree of Life, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Midnight in Paris, War Horse, Moneyball, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Help, The Cabin in the Woods, Super 8, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- 2012 – Life of Pi, Argo, Lincoln, Les Misérables, Django Unchained, Ted, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games, Pitch Perfect, 21 Jump Street (film), Magic Mike, Looper, The Master, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zero Dark Thirty
- 2013 – Frozen, The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Gravity, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, The Great Beauty, Rush, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, Inside Llewyn Davis, Her, Prisoners, The Conjuring, Nebraska, Pacific Rim, Philomena, The World's End, Blue Jasmine, Blue is the Warmest Colour
- 2014 – Interstellar, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lego Movie, Paddington, Birdman, Whiplash, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Babadook, American Sniper, Selma, Edge of Tomorrow, Big Hero 6, Ex Machina, Gone Girl, Frank, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler, John Wick, Wild, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything
- 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, Inside Out, The Hateful Eight, Spotlight, The Martian, Bridge of Spies, The Big Short, Room, Carol, Creed, Furious 7, Amy, Straight Outta Compton
- 2016 – La La Land, Deadpool, Zootopia, Moana, Your Name, Sing Street, Arrival, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Hacksaw Ridge, Fences, Lion, The Jungle Book, The Handmaiden, Don't Breathe, I, Daniel Blake, Silence, Hell or High Water
- 2017 – The Shape of Water, Wonder Woman, Get Out, It, Coco, Dunkirk, Logan, The Disaster Artist, Paddington 2, Baby Driver, I, Tonya, Blade Runner 2049, The Silent Child, Call Me by Your Name, Phantom Thread, Lady Bird, In a Heartbeat, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Darkest Hour, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, The Greatest Showman; The Harvey Weinstein scandal begins.
- 2018 – Bohemian Rhapsody, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Star Is Born, The Favourite, Roma (which is released on Netflix), Ready Player One, Eighth Grade, Bumblebee, Mary Poppins Returns, A Quiet Place, Hereditary, Crazy Rich Asians, BlacKkKlansman, First Man, Green Book, Free Solo, Shoplifters
- 2019 – Joker, 1917, Parasite, Rocketman, Little Women, The Irishman, The Farewell, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Bombshell, Us, Ready or Not, The Lighthouse, Marriage Story, Knives Out, Dolemite Is My Name, Jojo Rabbit, Booksmart, Richard Jewell, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2020s
- 2020 – Dune, Birds of Prey, The Willoughbys, Onward, Soul, Mank, The French Dispatch, Tenet, The Invisible Man, Jungle Cruise, The One and Only Ivan; due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of films shut down production, or are either removed from their originally scheduled releases and moved to new release dates or digital releases.
- 2021 – Godzilla vs. Kong, Avatar 2, Last Night in Soho, Cruella, Mortal Kombat, The Many Saints of Newark, Wicked
See also
References
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- The Silent Cinema Reader edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer
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- The Magic of Méliès, documentary by Jacques Mény, special collector's edition DVD, Spain