Raymond Wang, Raymond Arthur Wang, Ray Arthur Wang, Ebert & Roeper, Ebert and Roeper Top 10 Lists, Ebert and Roeper's Top 10 Lists, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper

This is the archived version of this page. You are being redirected to the new version of this page at: http://rayarthurwang.com/siskel_ebert.php

Siskel & Ebert's Top 10 Lists

Gene Siskel sadly passed away on February 20, 1999. Home.
An "*" indicates a film on Siskel & Ebert's Top Ten Films of the 80's or Ebert's Top Ten Films of the 90's.
The third column shows my Top 10 as well as the movie I would have given the Best Picture Oscar (documentaries ineligible).

After each year's Top 10 list, I include the complete list of the year's movies that I gave a postive rating.
Rating System: Four Stars Maximum (**** excellent, *** good, ** fair, * poor).
All negative ratings (**1/2 and lower) have been suppressed

Check out the 2007 RAW OSCAR PREDICTIONS!!!

 

Roger Ebert

Richard Roeper

RAW

 

 2007

 

 

1

 Juno Michael Clayton Nanking

2

 No Country for Old Men (Real Oscar) No Country for Old Men (Real Oscar) There Will Be Blood (RAW Oscar)

3

 Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead The Lookout The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Le scaphandre et le papillon

4

 Atonement Juno Sicko
5
 The Kite Runner American Gangster 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days / 4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile

6

 Away From Her Gone Baby Gone No Country for Old Men (Real Oscar)

7

 Across the Universe Zodiac Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

8

 La Vie en Rose Superbad Once

9

 The Great Debaters Once Away From Her

 10

 Into the Wild Paris, Je T'aime Killer of Sheep

RAW Ratings for All 2007 Movies I've Seen (Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
Nanking (****), There Will Be Blood (****), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Le scaphandre et le papillon (****), Sicko (****); Blade Runner - The Final Cut (****); 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days / 4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile (****); No Country for Old Men (****); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (****); Once (****); Away From Her (****); Killer of Sheep (****); The Savages (****); Breach (****); Eastern Promises (****); Hairspray (****); The Orphanage / Orfanato, El (****); Gone Baby Gone (****); The Bourne Ultimatum (****); Ratatouille (****); 300 (****); Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror (****); Into the Wild (***1/2); Lust, Caution / Se, jie (***1/2); The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (***1/2); I'm Not There (***1/2); Hot Fuzz (***1/2); The Counterfeiters / Fälscher, Die (***1/2); Juno (***1/2); On a Tuesday (***1/2); Atonement (***1/2); Enchanted (***1/2); Sunshine (***1/2); Persepolis (***1/2); The Lookout (***1/2); Michael Clayton (***1/2); La Vie En Rose (***1/2); American Gangster (***1/2); 3:10 to Yuma (***1/2); Beowulf (***1/2); The Simpsons Movie (***1/2); Charlie Wilson's War (***1/2); Grindhouse (***1/2); Zodiac (***1/2); A Mighty Heart (***1/2); Knocked Up (***1/2); Yonderville (***1/2); Portrait of an American Family (***1/2); The Cellar (***1/2); Blades of Glory (***1/2); Lifted (***1/2); Lars and the Real Girl (***); Stardust (***); Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (***); I Am Legend (***); Spider-Man 3 (***); The Namesake (***); Superbad (***); Murder on Turnpike Road (***); Tick Tock Lullaby (***); Granite Orchard (***); When I Find Bin Laden (***); Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof (***)

Check out the 2006 RAW OSCAR PREDICTIONS!!!

 

Roger Ebert

Richard Roeper

RAW

 

 2006

 

 

1

 Pan's Labyrinth The Departed (Real Oscar) Letters From Iwo Jima (RAW Oscar)

2

 Bubble The Queen United 93

3

 Children of Men Flags of Our Fathers/Letters From Iwo Jima An Inconvenient Truth

4

 The Departed (Real Oscar) United 93 Water
5
 The Lives of Others The Lives of Others Neo Ned

6

 United 93 Babel Babel

7

 Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima Notes on a Scandal Little Children

8

 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer The Good Shepherd The Last King of Scotland

9

 Babel Little Miss Sunshine The Danish Poet

 10

 Man Push Cart Blood Diamond Inland Empire

RAW Ratings for All 2006 Movies I've Seen (Theatrically Released Movies in Bold)
Letters From Iwo Jima (****), United 93 (****), An Inconvenient Truth (****), Water (****), Neo Ned (****), Babel (****), Little Children (****), The Last King of Scotland (****), The Danish Poet (****), Inland Empire (****), The Lives of Others / Leben der Anderen, Das (****) , Venus (****), Inside Man (****), Apocalypto (****), The Departed (****), Volver (****), Maestro (****), The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang (****), Notes on a Scandal (****), The Wraith of Cobble Hill (****), Press or Say '2' (****), Wordplay (****), Princesas (****), The Devil Wears Prada (****), The Saviour (****), One Rat Short (****), The Wright Stuff Episode 1: Fight or Flight (****), Tre (***1/2), West Bank Story (***1/2), The Prestige (***1/2), The Pursuit of Happyness (***1/2), The Illusionist (***1/2), Idiocracy (***1/2), Guide Dog (***1/2), The Passenger (***1/2), Pan's Labyrinth (***1/2), The Fountain (***1/2), Children of Men (***1/2), Dreamgirls (***1/2), Clerks II (***1/2), School For Scoundrels (***1/2), Stranger Than Fiction (***1/2), Happy Feet (***1/2), A Scanner Darkly (***1/2), Art School Confidential (***1/2), World Trade Center (***1/2), A Prairie Home Companion (***1/2), Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (***1/2), The Da Vinci Code (***1/2), Kiss Me Not on the Eyes (***1/2), Death of a President (***1/2), One Man Band (***1/2), Superman Returns (***1/2), The Queen (***1/2), Cars (***1/2), A Terrorist Ate My Brain (***1/2), Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (***1/2), Casino Royale (***1/2), Facility For the Common Man (***1/2), Half Nelson (***1/2), Thank You For Smoking (***1/2), Beautiful (***1/2), One Too Many (***1/2), Nostalgia (***1/2), Hostel (***1/2), Wally (***1/2), Adam's Eve (***1/2), The Scot and the Aussie (***1/2), Daylight Hole (***1/2), And Then There Were Nun (***1/2), Robots are Blue (***1/2), Marie Antoinette (***), Alpha Dog (***), American Dreamz (***), The Secret (***), Helmer & Son (***), Akeelah and the Bee (***), Binta and the Great Idea (***), Dongerize! (***), Hard Candy (***), Mission: Impossible III (***), The Treehouse (***), Charlotte's Web (***), A Gentleman's Duel (***), The Mailroom (***), A Riverside Evening (***), Flags of Our Fathers (***), V For Vendetta (***), Full Metal Slacks (***), Terminal (***), Camp Death (***), Kay Sha Su Bu (***), The One (***), Manstray (***), Numb (***), Stuck in the Moment (***)

Check out the 2005 RAW OSCAR PREDICTIONS!!!

 

Roger Ebert

Richard Roeper

RAW

 

 2005

 

 

1

 Crash (Real Oscar) Syriana Hidden / Caché

2

 Syriana The New World The Squid and the Whale

3

 Munich Crash (Real Oscar) A History of Violence (RAW Oscar)

4

 Junebug Munich Me and You and Everyone We Know
5
 Brokeback Mountain Nine Lives Munich

6

 Me and You and Everyone We Know Capote King Kong

7

 Nine Lives Brokeback Mountain Broken Flowers

8

 King Kong A History of Violence Brokeback Mountain

9

 Yes Walk the Line Match Point

 10

 Millions The 40 Year Old Virgin Pride and Prejudice

RAW Ratings for All 2005 Movies I've Seen
Hidden / Caché (****), The Squid and the Whale (****), A History of Violence (****); Me and You and Everyone We Know (****); Munich (****); King Kong (****); Broken Flowers (****); Brokeback Mountain (****); Match Point (****); Pride and Prejudice (****); Why We Fight (****); The Constant Gardener (****); Good Night, and Good Luck. (****); Millions (****); Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (****); My Jealous Barber / Min Misunnelige Frisor (****); March of the Penguins (****); Grizzly Man (****); Paradise Now (****); Sin City (***1/2); Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (***1/2); Reign of the Fallen (***1/2); Tsotsi (***1/2); Mrs Henderson Presents (***1/2); North Country (***1/2); Transamerica (***1/2); 2046 (***1/2); Hustle and Flow (***1/2); Oldboy (***1/2); Syriana (***1/2); Layer Cake (***1/2); Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (***1/2); Walk the Line (***1/2); Capote (***1/2); Bubble (***1/2); Duma (***1/2); Junebug (***1/2); Wedding Crashers (***1/2); The Aristocrats (***1/2); Crash (***1/2); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (***1/2); The 40-Year-Old Virgin (***1/2); Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (***1/2); War of the Worlds (***1/2); Cinderella Man (***1/2); Batman Begins (***1/2); Proof (***1/2); The Interpreter (***); Lord of War (***); Mr. and Mrs. Smith (***); Kung Fu Hustle (***); Unleashed (***); Intermission (***); Raging Cyclist (***); Red Eye (***); Rent (***)

 

Roger Ebert

Richard Roeper

RAW

 

 2004

 

 

1

 Million Dollar Baby (Real Oscar) Hotel Rwanda Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2

 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Before Sunset

3

 Vera Drake The Aviator The Incredibles

4

 Spider-Man 2 Sideways Downfall / Untergang, Der
5
 Moolade House of Flying Daggers The Aviator (RAW Oscar)

6

 The Aviator Million Dollar Baby Kinsey

7

 Baadasssss! The Terminal Super Size Me

8

 Sideways Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Sideways

9

 Hotel Rwanda Spanglish Collateral

 10

 Undertow Collateral I Heart Huckabees

RAW Ratings for All 2004 Movies I've Seen
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (****), Hero (****) (see top 10 of 2002), Before Sunset (****), The Incredibles (****), Downfall / Untergang, Der (****), The Aviator (****), Kinsey (****), Super Size Me (****), Sideways (****), Collateral (****), I Heart Huckabees (****), Bad Education / La mala educación (****), Maria Full of Grace (****), Hotel Rwanda (****), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (****), Melinda and Melinda (****), A Very Long Engagement / Un long dimanche de fiançailles (****), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (****), The Bourne Supremacy (****), The Chorus / Choristes, Les (***1/2), Fahrenheit 9/11 (***1/2), Garden State (***1/2), Million Dollar Baby (***1/2), The Motorcycle Diaries / Diarios de motocicleta (***1/2), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (***1/2), Mean Girls (***1/2), Saving Face (***1/2), Ray (***1/2), Finding Neverland (***1/2), Closer (***1/2), House of Flying Daggers / Shi mian mai fu (***1/2), Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (***1/2), Shaun of the Dead (***1/2), Touching the Void (***1/2), Spider-Man 2 (***1/2), The Passion of The Christ (***1/2), Napoleon Dynamite (***1/2), Tarnation (***1/2), Team America: World Police (***), The Ladykillers (***), The Notebook (***), The Phantom of the Opera (***), The Grudge (***), Saw (***), Alexander (***), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (***), Meet the Fockers (***), Dawn of the Dead (***), The Polar Express (***), Ocean's Twelve (***), What the Bleep Do We Know? (***)

 

Roger Ebert

Richard Roeper

RAW

 

 2003

 

 

1

 Monster In America In America (RAW Oscar)

2

 Lost in Translation Mystic River The Fog of War

3

 American Splendor Lost in Translation Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring / Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom

4

 Finding Nemo 21 Grams The Corporation
5
 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Elephant Monster

6

 Mystic River The Barbarian Invasions 21 Grams

7

 Owning Mahowny The Station Agent Lost in Translation

8

 The Son Whale Rider Elephant

9

 Whale Rider Monster Kill Bill: Vol. 1

 10

 In America Seabiscuit Finding Nemo

RAW Ratings for All 2003 Movies I've Seen
In America (****); The Fog of War (****); Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring / Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (****); The Corporation (****); Monster (****); 21 Grams (****); Lost in Translation (****); Elephant (****); Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (****); Finding Nemo (****); Big Fish (****); Capturing the Friedmans (****); 28 Days Later (****); Shattered Glass (****); Osama (****), American Splendor (****); Whale Rider (****); Russian Ark (****); Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - The Making of 'The Dark Side of the Moon' (****); Love Actually (***1/2); Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson (***1/2); Mystic River (***1/2); Girl With a Pearl Earring (***1/2); House of Sand and Fog (***1/2); Thirteen (***1/2); Bend it Like Beckham (***1/2); Matchstick Men (***1/2); Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (***1/2); The Station Agent (***1/2); Charlotte Sometimes (***1/2); Good Bye, Lenin! (***1/2); Flashcards (***1/2); Cold Mountain (***1/2); School of Rock (***1/2); Identity (***1/2); The Italian Job (***1/2); Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (***1/2); Bubba Ho-Tep (***1/2); X2: X-Men United (***1/2); Bad Santa (***); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (***) (Real Oscar); Swimming Pool (***); Robot Stories (***); The Last Samurai (***); Intolerable Cruelty (***); Better Luck Tomorrow (***); Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (***); American Wedding (***); Dark Blue (***); Confidence (***); Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (***)

 

 2002

 

 

1

 Minority Report Gangs of New York Bowling For Columbine

2

 City of God 25th Hour Hero (RAW Oscar)

3

 Adaptation Minority Report Adaptation

4

 Far From Heaven Y Tu Mama Tambien Irreversible
5
 13 Conversations About One Thing Adaptation About Schmidt

6

 Y Tu Mama Tambien Signs The Hours

7

 Invincible Rabbit-Proof Fence Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times

8

 Spirited Away About Schmidt Y Tu Mama Tambien

9

 All or Nothing One Hour Photo Talk to Her

 10

 The Quiet American About a Boy Chicago (Real Oscar)

Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Spellbound, Shackleton, Far From Heaven, Punch-Drunk Love, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Solaris, Insomnia, Moonlight Mile, City of God, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, About a Boy.

 

 2001

 

 

1

 Monster's Ball Memento Waking Life (RAW Oscar)

2

 Black Hawk Down Vanilla Sky The Believer

3

 In the Bedroom Mulholland Drive Mulholland Drive

4

 Ghost World A Beautiful Mind Black Hawk Down
5
 Mulholland Drive In the Bedroom A Beautiful Mind (Real Oscar)

6

 Waking Life Amores Perros (should be 2000) Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

7

 Innocence Dinner Rush Ghost World

8

 Wit Happy Accidents The Piano Teacher / La Pianiste

9

 A Beautiful Mind The Deep End No Man's Land / Nikogarsnja zemlja

 10

 Gosford Park Shallow Hal Battle Royale / Batoru rowaiaru

Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Donnie Darko, Gosford Park, Frailty, The Man Who Wasn't There, Memento, Shallow Hal, Bridget Jones' Diary, In the Bedroom.

 

 2000

 

 

1

 Almost Famous Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Requiem for a Dream (RAW Oscar)

2

 Wonder Boys Traffic In the Mood for Love / Fa yeung nin wa

3

 You Can Count on Me The Claim Traffic

4

 Traffic The Contender Not One Less
5
 George Washington Wonder Boys Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

6

 The Cell Finding Forrester The Cell

7

 High Fidelity You Can Count on Me Soldiers in the Army of God

8

 Pollock Sunshine Cast Away

9

 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Cast Away Dancer in the Dark

 10

 Requiem for a Dream Almost Famous Amores Perros

Real Oscar: Gladiator. Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: High Fidelity, Wonder Boys, Quills, Best in Show, Meet the Parents, Almost Famous, Pollock, You Can Count on Me, Fleeing by Night / Ye ben, The Contender.

 

 

 

 

 

Roger Ebert

Martin Scorsese

RAW

 

 1990s

 

 

1

 Hoop Dreams

Horse Thief (first release: 1986)

Pulp Fiction

2

 Pulp Fiction The Thin Red Line Schindler's List

3

 Goodfellas A Borrowed Life Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge / Three Colors: Blue, White, and Red

4

 Fargo Eyes Wide Shut Eyes Wide Shut

5

 Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge / Three Colors: Blue, White, and Red Bad Lieutenant Being John Malkovich

6

 Schindler's List Breaking the Waves

The Matrix

7

 Breaking the Waves Bottle Rocket Boyz N Da Hood

8

 Leaving Las Vegas Crash JFK

9

 Malcolm X Fargo Natural Born Killers

 10

 JFK Malcolm X | Heat Goodfellas

 

 

 

 

 

Roger Ebert

Janet Maslin

RAW

 

 1999

 

 

1

Being John Malkovich

Topsy-Turvy

Eyes Wide Shut (RAW Oscar)

2

Magnolia

Boys Don't Cry

Being John Malkovich

3

Three Kings

All About My Mother

The Matrix

4

Boys Don't Cry

The Straight Story

Dogma

5

Bringing Out the Dead

The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Straight Story

6

Princess Mononoke

Being John Malkovich

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

7

The War Zone

The Insider

Ôdishon / Audition

8

American Beauty (Real Oscar)

American Movie

Fight Club

9

Topsy-Turvy

Eyes Wide Shut

American Movie

 10

The Insider

The Dreamlife of Angels

The Dreamlife of Angels


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: The Sixth Sense, Princess Mononoke, Man on the Moon, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Sweet and Lowdown, The Insider, Magnolia, Election, Bringing out the Dead..

 

 

 

 

 

Gene Siskel

Roger Ebert

RAW

 

 1998

 

 

 1

Babe -- Pig In The City

Dark City

The Truman Show (RAW Oscar)

 2

The Thin Red Line

Pleasantville

I Stand Alone / Seul contre tous

3

Pleasantville

Saving Private Ryan

Children of Heaven

4

Saving Private Ryan

A Simple Plan

Happiness

5

Shakespeare In Love

Happiness

Saving Private Ryan

6

The Truman Show

Elizabeth

 He Got Game

7

Antz

Babe -- Pig In The City

Pi

8

Simon Birch

Shakespeare In Love

Elizabeth

9

There's Something About Mary

Life Is Beautiful

Regret to Inform

10

Waking Ned Devine

Primary Colors

 Antz

Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Dark City, A Simple Plan, Hilary and Jackie, Gods and Monsters, Shakespeare In Love (Real Oscar), The Thin Red Line, There's Something About Mary, American History X, Rushmore.

 

 1997

 

 

1 

The Ice Storm

Eve's Bayou

The Ice Storm (RAW Oscar)

2 

L.A. Confidential

The Sweet Hereafter

In the Company of Men

3 

Wag the Dog

Boogie Nights

Titanic (Real Oscar)

4 

In the Company of Men

Maborosi

Good Will Hunting

5 

The End of Violence

Jackie Brown

U-Turn

6 

The Full Monty

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

 Mother and Son

7 

The Sweet Hereafter

L.A. Confidential

Boogie Nights

8 

Good Will Hunting

In the Company of Men

In Whose Honor?

9

Mrs. Brown

Titanic

The Sweet Hereafter

10 

As Good As It Gets

Wag the Dog

L.A. Confidential


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Lost Highway, Affliction, Jackie Brown, Deconstructing Harry, Contact, Chasing Amy, Gattaca, Dream With the Fishes.

 

1996

 

 

1

Fargo

Fargo*4

Shine (RAW Oscar)

2

Secrets and Lies

Breaking the Waves*7

Sling Blade

3

Breaking the Waves

Secrets and Lies

Bound

4

The English Patient (Real Oscar)

Lone Star

Looking For Richard

5

Lone Star

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Welcome to the Dollhouse

6

Looking For Richard

Bound

Trainspotting

7

Paradise Lost

Hamlet

Breaking the Waves

8

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Everyone Says I Love You

Everyone Says I Love You

9

Kingpin

Heidi Fleiss

The People vs. Larry Flynt

10

Bound

Big Night

Fargo


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Swingers, Secrets and Lies, The English Patient.

 

1995

 

 

1

Crumb

Leaving Las Vegas*8

Leaving Las Vegas (RAW Oscar)

2

Toy Story

Crumb

Before Sunrise

3

Nixon

Dead Man Walking

Cité des enfants perdus, La / The City of Lost Children

4

Babe

Nixon

Casino

5

Dead Man Walking

Casino

The Usual Suspects

6

Leaving Las Vegas

Apollo 13

Dead Man Walking

7

The American President

Exotica

Crumb

8

Exotica

My Family

Braveheart (Real Oscar)

9

Apollo 13

Carrington

Nixon

10

Les Miserables

A Walk in the Clouds

Exotica


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Mighty Aphrodite; Heat; Kids; Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics; Babe; Toy Story; The Postman / Il Postino; The Basketball Diaries.

 

1994

 

 

1

Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams*1

Pulp Fiction (RAW Oscar)

2

Pulp Fiction

Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge / Three Colors: Blue, White, and Red*5

Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge / Three Colors: Blue, White, and Red

3

Ed Wood

Pulp Fiction*2

Natural Born Killers

4

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould

Forrest Gump

Clerks

5

Quiz Show

The Last Seduction

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould

6

Forrest Gump

Fresh

Hoop Dreams

7

Vanya on 42nd Street

The Blue Kite

Forrest Gump (Real Oscar)

8

The Shawshank Redemption

Natural Born Killers

The Shawshank Redemption

9

Red Rock West

The New Age

 Heavenly Creatures

10

Little Women

Quiz Show

Quiz Show


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Vanya on 42nd Street, Ed Wood, Reality Bites, Chungking Express, Hudsucker Proxy, The Lion King.

 

1993

 

 

1

Schindler's List

Schindler's List*6

Schindler's List (RAW Oscar, Real Oscar)

2

Short Cuts

The Age of Innocence

Short Cuts

3

The Piano

The Piano

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

4

Farewell My Concubine

The Fugitive

The Fugitive

5

Menace II Society

The Joy Luck Club

Farewell My Concubine

6

The Fugitive

Kalifornia

The Piano

7

The Age of Innocence

Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate

8

The Joy Luck Club

Menace II Society

In the Line of Fire

9

King of the Hill

What's Love Got to Do With It

This Boy's Life

10

Map of the Human Heart

Ruby in Paradise

Menace II Society


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: The Age of Innocence.

 

1992

 

 

1

One False Move

Malcolm X*9

Pushing Hands

2

The Player

One False Move

Malcolm X (RAW Oscar)

3

Howards End

Howards End

The Player

4

The Crying Game

Flirting

Reservoir Dogs

5

Malcolm X

The Crying Game

Raise the Red Lantern / Da hong deng long gao gao gua

6

The Hairdresser's Husband

Damage

The Story of Qiu Ju / Qiu Ju da guan si

7

Damage

The Hairdresser's Husband

The Panama Deception

8

Wayne's World

The Player

 Bad Lieutenant

9

Mississippi Masala

Unforgiven

 The Crying Game

10

Under Seige

Bad Lieutenant

One False Move


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Unforgiven (Real Oscar), White Men Can't Jump, A Few Good Men, Hard-Boiled / Lashou shentan, Mississippi Masala, Wayne's World.

 

1991

 

 

1

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

JFK*10

Boyz N Da Hood (RAW Oscar)

2

An Angel at My Table

Boyz N the Hood

JFK

3

Boyz N the Hood

Beauty and the Beast

The Silence of the Lambs (Real Oscar)

4

La Belle Noiseuse

Grand Canyon

Days of Being Wild / A Fei jing juen

5

Beauty and the Beast

My Father's Glory/My Mother's Castle

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

6

Grand Canyon

A Woman's Tale

Ju Dou

7

JFK

Life Is Sweet

My Own Private Idaho

8

Ju Dou

The Man in the Moon

 Barton Fink

9

Daddy Nostalgia

Thelma & Louise

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

10

Once Around

The Rapture

Thelma & Louise


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Bugsy, The Man in the Moon, A Little Stiff, Grand Canyon, Beauty and the Beast.

 

1990

 

 

1

Goodfellas

Goodfellas*3

The Godfather Part III

2

After Dark, My Sweet

Monsieur Hire

Goodfellas (RAW Oscar)

3

Avalon

Dances With Wolves

Dances With Wolves (Real Oscar)

4

The Plot Against Harry

The Grifters

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams / Yume

5

Too Beautiful for You

Reversal of Fortune

 The Vanishing / Spoorloos

6

Die Hard 2

Santa Sangre

Avalon

7

Dances With Wolves

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Die Hard 2

8

Reversal of Fortune

Awakenings

Awakenings

9

The Freshman

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Freshman

10

The Godfather Part III

Mountains of the Moon

Reversal of Fortune

 

1989

 

 

1

Do the Right Thing *

Do the Right Thing *

Roger & Me

2

Roger & Me

Drugstore Cowboy

Cinema Paradiso

3

Drugstore Cowboy

My Left Foot

Glory

4

Enemies: A Love Story

Born on the Fourth of July

 Born on the Fourth of July

5

Born on the Fourth of July

Roger & Me

 My Left Foot

6

The Little Mermaid

The Mighty Quinn

 Do the Right Thing (RAW Oscar)

7

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Field of Dreams

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

8

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Crimes and Misdemeanors

The War of the Roses

9

Say Anything

Driving Miss Daisy (Real Oscar)

Heathers

10

The War of the Roses

Say Anything

Driving Miss Daisy (Real Oscar)


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally..., The Little Mermaid.

 

1988

 

 

1

The Last Temptation of Christ

Mississippi Burning *

Mississippi Burning (RAW Oscar)

2

Who Framed Roger Rabbit *

The Accidental Tourist

Rain Man (Real Oscar)

3

Bull Durham

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Last Temptation of Christ

4

Little Dorritt

Shy People

A Fish Called Wanda

5

The Accidental Tourist

Salaam Bombay!

The Thin Blue Line

6

Midnight Run

A Fish Called Wanda

Big

7

The Thin Blue Line

Wings of Desire

Die Hard

8

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Bull Durham

9

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam

 Who Framed Roger Rabbit

10

Working Girl

Running on Empty

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

 

1987

 

 

1

The Last Emperor

House of Games *

Full Metal Jacket (RAW Oscar)

2

Full Metal Jacket

The Big Easy

The Last Emperor (Real Oscar)

3

House of Games *

Barfly

Radio Days

4

Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring

The Last Emperor

Moonstruck

5

Broadcast News

Moonstruck

Roxanne

6

Radio Days

Prick Up Your Ears

Lethal Weapon

7

River's Edge

Radio Days

Broadcast News

8

Prick Up Your Ears

Broadcast News

Fatal Attraction

9

Roxanne

Lethal Weapon

10

The Big Easy

Housekeeping

 

1986

 

1

Hannah and Her Sisters

Platoon *

Platoon (RAW Oscar, Real Oscar)

2

Vagabond

Round Midnight

Hannah and Her Sisters

3

A Room With a View

Hannah and Her Sisters

Sid & Nancy

4

Mona Lisa

Sid & Nancy *

Blue Velvet

5

Peggy Sue Got Married

Lucas

Horse Thief / Dao ma zei

6

Blue Velvet

Vagabond

Sherman's March

7

Platoon *

Trouble in Mind

Peggy Sue Got Married

8

Children of a Lesser God

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Aliens

9

Round Midnight

Peggy Sue Got Married

A Room With a View

10

The Fly

Hard Choices

Lucas

 

1985

 

1

Shoah *

The Color Purple

Back to the Future

2

Ran *

After Hours

Ran (RAW Oscar)

3

The Color Purple

The Falcon and the Snowman

The Purple Rose of Cairo

4

Streetwise

Prizzi's Honor

Witness

5

Prizzi's Honor

Ran

Blood Simple

6

The Official Story

Witness

The Color Purple

7

Mishima

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

After Hours

8

The Falcon and the Snowman

Lost in America

 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

9

Back to the Future

Streetwise

10

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Blood Simple

Re-Animator

 

1984

 

1

Once Upon a Time in America *

Amadeus

Amadeus (RAW Oscar, Real Oscar)

2

Amadeus

Paris, Texas

The Terminator

3

The Cotton Club

Love Streams

Paris, Texas

4

Entre Nous

This Is Spinal Tap

A Passage to India

5

Purple Rain

The Cotton Club

Once Upon a Time in America

6

The Killing Fields

Secret Honor

Broadway Danny Rose

7

Secret Honor

The Killing Fields

Love Streams

8

A Passage to India

Stranger Than Paradise

This is Spinal Tap

9

Micki & Maude

Choose Me

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

10

The Natural

Purple Rain

The Killing Fields


Runner-ups for my Top 10 include: Romancing the Stone.

 

1983

 

 

1

The Right Stuff *

The Right Stuff *

The King of Comedy

2

Terms of Endearment

Terms of Endearment

Fanny and Alexander (RAW Oscar)

3

Betrayal

The Year of Living Dangerously

Zelig

4

Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

Return of the Jedi

5

Star 80

Gandhi (should be 1982)

The Right Stuff

6

The Year of Living Dangerously

El Norte

Terms of Endearment (Real Oscar)

7

Silkwood

Testament

Tender Mercies

8

Pauline at the Beach

Silkwood

Scarface

9

Risky Business

Say Amen, Somebody

10

The Big Chill

Risky Business

The Big Chill

 

1982

 

1

Moonlighting *

Sophie's Choice

Blade Runner

2

Tootsie

Diva

Pink Floyd: The Wall

3

E.T. *

E.T. *

Tootsie (RAW Oscar)

4

Diva

Fitzcarraldo/The Burden of Dreams

E.T.

5

Mephisto

Personal Best

 Gandhi (Real Oscar)

6

Lola

Das Boot

Das Boot

7

Personal Best

Mephisto

Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

8

Das Boot

Moonlighting

 The Thing

9

Three Brothers

The Verdict

An Officer and a Gentleman

10

An Officer and a Gentleman

Wasn't That a Time

Rambo: First Blood

 

1981

 

 

1

Ragtime

My Dinner With Andre *

My Dinner With Andre

2

My Dinner With Andre

Chariots of Fire

Raiders of the Lost Ark (RAW Oscar)

3

Raiders of the Lost Ark *

Gates of Heaven

Reds

4

Mon Oncle d'Amerique

Raiders of the Lost Ark *

Scanners

5

Gates of Heaven

Heartland

Atlantic City

6

Bye Bye Brazil

Atlantic City

 History of the World, Part I

7

Prince of the City

Thief

Chariots of Fire (Real Oscar)

8

Melvin and Howard

Body Heat

True Confessions

9

Body Heat

Tess

The French Lieutenant's Woman

10

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Reds

Body Heat

 

1980

 

 

1

Raging Bull *

The Black Stallion

Raging Bull (RAW Oscar)

2

Ordinary People

Raging Bull *

The Elephant Man

3

Coal Miner's Daughter

Kagemusha *

The Shining

4

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Being There

Kagemusha

5

Kagemusha *

Ordinary People

Being There

6

Being There

The Great Santini

Ordinary People (Real Oscar)

7

The Black Stallion

The Empire Strikes Back

 The Empire Strikes Back

8

The Blues Brothers

Coal Miner's Daughter

 Airplane!

9

The Great Santini

American Gigolo

The Black Stallion

10

The Stunt Man

Best Boy

The Stunt Man

 

1979

 

 

1

Hair

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now (RAW Oscar)

2

Kramer vs. Kramer

Breaking Away

Manhattan

3

The Deer Hunter (should be 1978)

The Deer Hunter (should be 1978)

Monty Python's Life of Brian

4

Breaking Away

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Alien

5

Manhattan

Hair

Mad Max

6

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Saint Jack

7

Nosferatu, the Vampyre

Kramer vs. Kramer

8

The Onion Field

The China Syndrome

Kramer vs. Kramer (Real Oscar)

9

Time After Time

Nosferatu, the Vampyre

Norma Rae

10

The China Syndrome

10

Moonraker

 

1978

 

1

Straight Time

An Unmarried Woman

Days of Heaven (RAW Oscar)

2

Pretty Baby

Days of Heaven

Straight Time

3

Days of Heaven

Heart of Glass

The Deer Hunter (Real Oscar)

4

Blue Collar

Stroszek

Heaven Can Wait

5

Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata

Halloween

6

The Buddy Holly Story

Interiors

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

7

Coming Home

Halloween

 Superman

8

Halloween

National Lampoon's Animal House

9

Magic

Kings of the Road

National Lampoon's Animal House

10

Stoszek

Superman

Dawn of the Dead

 

1977

 

 

1

Annie Hall

3 Women

Eraserhead

2

The Late Show

Providence

Star Wars (RAW Oscar)

3

In the Realm of the Senses

The Late Show

Aguirre, The Wrath of God / Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

4

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

A Woman's Decision

Annie Hall (Real Oscar)

5

Saturday Night Fever

Jail Bait

Suspiria

6

Harlan County, U.S.A.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Cet obscur objet du désir / That Obscure Object of Desire

7

Star Wars

Aguirre, Wrath of God / Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

8

Oh, God!

Annie Hall

Saturday Night Fever

9

Pumping Iron

Sorcerer

Oh, God!

10

Rolling Thunder

Star Wars

Homme qui aimait les femmes, L' / The Man Who Loved Women

 

1976

 

 

1

All the President's Men

Small Change

Taxi Driver (RAW Oscar)

2

Network

Taxi Driver

Sybil

3

Brothel No. 8

The Magic Flute

Small Change

4

Small Change

The Clockmaker

Network

5

Stay Hungry

Network

 Rocky (Real Oscar)

6

Cousin, Cousine

Swept Away...by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August

 Marathon Man

7

Taxi Driver

Rocky

 All the President's Men

8

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

All the President's Men

Carrie

9

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Silent Movie

Family Plot

10

The Man Who Would Be King

The Shootist

 

1975

 

1

Nashville

Nashville

Barry Lyndon (RAW Oscar)

2

The Passenger

Night Moves

Dog Day Afternoon

3

Love and Death

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Real Oscar)

4

Dog Day Afternoon

Farewell, My Lovely

Stepford Wives

5

Barry Lyndon

The Phantom of Liberty

 Nashville

6

And Now My Love

A Brief Vacation

Jaws

7

Dodes'ka-den

And Now My Love

 Profondo rosso / Deep Red

8

The Homecoming

A Woman Under the Influence

Zerkalo / The Mirror

9

Antonia: Portrait of a Women

In Celebration

10

Hustle

Dog Day Afternoon

Bug

 

1974

 

 

1

Day for Night

Scenes from a Marriage

The Godfather Part II (RAW Oscar, Real Oscar)

2

The Last Detail

Chinatown

Chinatown

3

Amarcord

The Mother and the Whore (should be 1973)

Mean Streets

4

The Conversation

Amarcord

Lenny

5

Mean Streets

The Last Detail

The Conversation

6

Scenes from a Marriage

The Mirages

 Young Frankenstein

7

Lacombe, Lucien

Day for Night

 Blazing Saddles

8

Harry and Tonto

Mean Streets

Day for Night

9

The Mother and the Whore (should be 1973)

My Uncle Antoine

Amarcord

10

Wedding in Blood

The Conversation

 Deranged

 

1973

 

 

1

The Emigrants/The New Land

Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers (RAW Oscar)

2

Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris

The Mother and The Whore / La Maman et la putain

3

The Exorcist

The Emigrants/The New Land

The Exorcist

4

Cries and Whispers

Blume in Love

American Graffiti

5

The Day of the Jackal

The Iceman Cometh

Sleeper

6

The Last of Sheila

The Exorcist

Last Tango in Paris

7

The Day of the Dolphin

The Day of the Jackal

Don't Look Now

8

American Graffiti

American Graffiti

The Sting

9

Sisters

Fellini's Roma

A Doll's House

10

The Long Goodbye

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

 

1972

 

1

The Godfather

The Godfather

The Godfather (RAW Oscar, Real Oscar)

2

The Sorrow and the Pity

Chloe in the Afternoon

Solaris / Solyaris

3

Le Boucher

Le Boucher

Chloe in the Afternoon

4

Cabaret

Murmur of the Heart

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

5

Two English Girls

The Green Wall

Play it Again, Sam

6

A Clockwork Orange (should be 1971)

The Sorrow and the Pity

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask

7

Chloe in the Afternoon

The Garden of Finzi-Continis

Deliverance

8

Frenzy

Minnie and Moskowitz

Pink Flamingos

9

Sounder

Sounder

Cabaret

10

Ulzana's Raid

The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid

Frenzy

 

1971

 

 

1

Claire's Knee

The Last Picture Show

A Clockwork Orange (RAW Oscar)

2

A New Leaf

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Harold and Maude

3

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Claire's Knee

Bananas

4

Little Big Man

The French Connection

The French Connection (Real Oscar)

5

The Last Picture Show

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

6

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Taking Off

The Last Picture Show

7

Bed and Board

Carnal Knowledge

 THX 1138

8

Dirty Harry

Tristana

 Dirty Harry

9

Husbands

Goin' Down the Road

10

Taking Off

Bed and Board

 

1970

 

1

My Night at Maud's

Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces (RAW Oscar)

2

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H

Patton (Real Oscar)

3

Women in Love

The Revolutionary

M*A*S*H

4

Five Easy Pieces

Patton

Fellini Satyricon

5

The Passion of Anna

Woodstock

6

Adalen 31

My Night at Maud's

7

Salesman

Adalen 31

8

Woodstock

The Passion of Anna

9

Triolgy

The Wild Child

10

The Wild Child

Fellini Satyricon

Ryan's Daughter

 

1969

 

 

1

Z

Z

Midnight Cowboy (RAW Oscar, Real Oscar)

2

Midnight Cowboy

Medium Cool

The Wild Bunch

3

Alice's Restaurant

Weekend

Easy Rider

4

Simon of the Desert

if....

Once Upon a Time in the West

5

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Last Summer

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

6

Oh! What a Lovely War

The Wild Bunch

Take the Money and Run

7

The Wild Bunch

Easy Rider

if...

8

if....

True Grit

Z

9

Pretty Poison

Downhill Racer

War and Peace

10

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

War and Peace

 

1968

 

1

N/A

The Battle of Algiers

2001: A Space Odyssey (RAW Oscar)

2

2001: A Space Odyssey

Romeo and Juliet

3

Falstaff

The Producers

4

Faces

5

The Two of Us

6

The Producers

7

Oliver! (Real Oscar)

8

The Fifth Horseman Is Fear

9

Rachel, Rachel

10

Romeo and Juliet

 

1967

 

1

N/A

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde (RAW Oscar)

2

Ulysses

The Graduate

3

Blowup

In Cold Blood

4

The Graduate

5

A Man for All Seasons

6

The War Game

7

Reflections in a Golden Eye

8

Cool Hand Luke

9

Elvira Madigan

10

In the Heat of the Night (Real Oscar)

Cool Hand Luke