Wiping out the original meat of the OP in hopes that it will reduce confusion.
We are compiling consensus community rankings of various decades of movies history (potentially moving on to an all-time ranking at some point).
Nothing complicated is happening here. There are two phases to ranking a decade:
- The brainstorming phase: just name as many movies as you feel should be considered for ranking when the voting starts. No wrong answers. Participating in this phase is not a requirement for voting. It is, however, a good idea to participate if you particularly want to ensure that specific movies from that decade are considered by the community when we start voting.
- The ranking phase: participants will PM me their top 20 list from the decade we’re working on. In order. All films from this decade are eligible whether they came up during the brainstorming phase or not. 1st place votes count more than 2nd place votes, which count more than 3rd place votes, etc. Don’t worry too much about this part; I’ll do the tabulating.
After these phases are complete: sit back, relax, and enjoy the reveal.
CURRENT PHASE: Now accepting rankings for the 2010s. PM your rankings directly to me. No changes to your submission after you’ve sent. Deadline for submission is 3/8/26 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Master list to draw from:
12 Years a Slave
13 Assassins
13th
1917
42
63 Up
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
A Separation
A Star is Born
About Time
Ad Astra
Alan Partridge
American Hustle
Anomalisa
Argo
Arrival
Ash is Purest White
Avatar
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Infinity
Bad Education
Before Midnight
Birdman
Black Panther
Black Swan
Blackfish
Blackhat
Blade Runner 2049
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blue Ruin
Blue Valentine
Bone Tomahawk
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Bridesmaids
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Burning
Captain America - the Winter Soldier
Captain America the First Avenger
Captain America: Civil War
Captain Phillips
Carol
Certain Women
Certified Copy
Cloud Atlas
Coco
Coherence
Cold War
Crazy Rich Asians
Creed
Dallas Buyers Club
Deadpool
Django Unchained
Dragged Across Concrete
Drive
Drug War
Dunkirk
Easy a
Edge of Tomorrow
Elite Squad: the Enemy Within
Everybody Wants Some
Ex Libris: the New York Public Library
Ex Machina
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Filth
First Reformed
First Cow
Four Lions
Frances Ha
Free Solo
Frozen
Get out
Godzilla (2014)
Gone Girl
Good Time
Gravity
Green Book
Green Room
Guardians of the Galaxy
Halloween (2018)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Her
Hidden Figures
Hell or High Water
Holy Motors
Hostiles
House of Tolerance
I Am Not Your Negro
I Tonya
In Jackson Heights
Incendies
Inception
Incredibles 2
Inherent Vice
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside out
Interstellar
It Follows
It’s Such a Beautiful Day
Jojo Rabbit
Jodorowsky’s Dune
John Wick
Killing Them Softly
Knives out
La La Land
La Flor
Lady Bird
Leviathan (2014)
Lincoln
Little Women
Logan
Looper
M:I - Fallout
Mad Max: Fury Road
Manchester by the Sea
Maps to the Stars
Margin Call
Marriage Story
Melancholia
Mia Madre
Midnight in Paris
Midsommar
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Moana
Moneyball
Moonrise Kingdom
Nebraska
Never Look Away
Nightcrawler
Nocturnal Animals
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Only Lovers Left Alive
Oslo August 31
Paddington
Parasite
Phantom Thread
Phoenix
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Predestination
Prisoners
Right Now Wrong then
Rocketman
Rogue One
Roma
Room
Shutter Island
Sicario
Silence
Skyfall
Son of Saul
Spider-man: into the Spider-verse
Spider-man: into the Spiderverse
Spotlight
Spring Breakers
Star Trek into Darkness
Star Wars Rogue One
Star Wars the Force Awakens
Star Wars the Last Jedi
Star Wars the Rise of Skywalker
Still Alice
Stories We Tell
Submarine
Sully
Swiss Army Man
Take Shelter
Tangled
The Act of Killing
The Artist
The Big Short
The Big Sick
The Dark Knight Rises
The Descendants
The Dog
The Favourite
The Fighter
The Florida Project
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Handmaiden
The Hateful Eight
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
The Hunt
The Imitation Game
The Irishman
Joker
The Lighthouse
The Martian
The Nightingale
The Other Side of the Wind
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Purge
The Shape of Water
The Social Network
The Town
The Wolf of Wall Street
The House That Jack Built
The Lost City of Z
The Master
The Visit
The Wailing
The Wind Rises
Thor: Ragnarok
Three Identical Strangers
Tickled
Toy Story 3
Train to Busan
True Grit
Uncut Gems
Under the Silver Lake
Under the Skin
Unfriended : Dark Web
Universal Soldier : Day of Reckoning
Us
Vice
Victoria
We Need to Talk About Kevin
What We Do in the Shadows
Whiplash
Wind River
Winter Sleep
Wonder Woman
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
World War Z
Wreck-it-ralph
Yesterday
Your Name
Zero Dark Thirty
Zootopia
Completed Rankings:
‎Unstuck Politics Top 21 of the 1990s • Letterboxd
