Most Popular Movie of Each Year on Letterboxd

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Year	Director	Genre	Answer
2025	Bong Joon-Ho	Science-Fiction	Mickey 17
2024	Coralie Fargeat	Horror	The Substance
2023	Greta Gerwig	Comedy	Barbie
2022	Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert	Science-Fiction	Everything Everywhere All at Once
2021	Denis Villeneuve	Science-Fiction	Dune
2020	Pete Docter	Fantasy	Soul
2019	Bong Joon-Ho	Thriller	Parasite
2018	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman	Action	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2017	Jordan Peele	Horror	Get Out
2016	Damien Chazelle	Romance	La La Land
2015	Pete Docter	Drama	Inside Out
2014	Christopher Nolan	Science-Fiction	Interstellar
2013	Martin Scorsese	Comedy	The Wolf of Wall Street
2012	Quentin Tarantino	Western	Django Unchained
2011	Nicolas Winding Refn	Thriller	Drive
2010	Christopher Nolan	Action	Inception
2009	Quentin Tarantino	Thriller	Inglourious Basterds
2008	Christopher Nolan	Action	The Dark Knight
2007	Brad Bird	Comedy	Ratatouille
2006	Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton	Drama	Little Miss Sunshine
2005	Joe Wright	Romance	Pride & Prejudice
2004	Michel Gondry	Romance	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003	Quentin Tarantino	Action	Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2002	Steven Spielberg	Drama	Catch Me If You Can
2001	Hayao Miyazaki	Fantasy	Spirited Away
2000	Mary Harron	Thriller	American Psycho
1999	David Fincher	Thriller	Fight Club
1998	Peter Weir	Drama	The Truman Show
1997	Gus Van Sant	Drama	Good Will Hunting
1996	Wes Craven	Horror	Scream
1995	David Fincher	Thriller	Se7en
1994	Quentin Tarantino	Crime	Pulp Fiction
1993	Steven Spielberg	Adventure	Jurassic Park
1992	Quentin Tarantino	Crime	Reservoir Dogs
1991	Jonathan Demme	Horror	The Silence of the Lambs
1990	Martin Scorsese	Crime	Goodfellas
1989	Peter Weir	Drama	Dead Poets Society
1988	Hayao Miyazaki	Fantasy	My Neighbour Totoro
1987	Stanley Kubrick	War	Full Metal Jacket
1986	John Hughes	Comedy	Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1985	Robert Zemeckis	Science-Fiction	Back to the Future
1984	Wim Wenders	Drama	Paris, Texas
1983	Brian De Palma	Crime	Scarface
1982	Ridley Scott	Science-Fiction	Blade Runner
1981	Steven Spielberg	Adventure	Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980	Stanley Kubrick	Horror	The Shining
1979	Ridley Scott	Science-Fiction	Alien
1978	John Carpenter	Horror	Halloween
1977	George Lucas	Science-Fiction	Star Wars
1976	Martin Scorsese	Crime	Taxi Driver
1975	Steven Spielberg	Horror	Jaws

Year	Director	Genre	Answer
1974	Francis Ford Coppola	Crime	The Godfather Part II
1973	William Friedkin	Horror	The Exorcist
1972	Francis Ford Coppola	Crime	The Godfather
1971	Stanley Kubrick	Thriller	A Clockwork Orange
1970	Wolfgang Reitherman	Adventure	The Aristocats
1969	John Schlesinger	Drama	Midnight Cowboy
1968	Stanley Kubrick	Science-Fiction	2001: A Space Odyssey
1967	Mike Nichols	Drama	The Graduate
1966	Sergio Leone	Western	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1965	Robert Wise	Drama	The Sound of Music
1964	Stanley Kubrick	Comedy	Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963	Alfred Hitchcock	Thriller	The Birds
1962	David Lean	History	Lawrence of Arabia
1961	Blake Edwards	Romance	Breakfast at Tiffany's
1960	Alfred Hitchcock	Horror	Psycho
1959	Billy Wilder	Comedy	Some Like It Hot
1958	Alfred Hitchcock	Thriller	Vertigo
1957	Sidney Lumet	Drama	12 Angry Men
1956	Stanley Kubrick	Thriller	The Killing
1955	Charles Laughton	Thriller	The Night of the Hunter
1954	Alfred Hitchcock	Mystery	Rear Window
1953	William Wyler	Romance	Roman Holiday
1952	Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly	Comedy	Singin' in the Rain
1951	Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske	Fantasy	Alice in Wonderland
1950	Billy Wilder	Drama	Sunset Boulevard
1949	Carol Reed	Mystery	The Third Man
1948	Alfred Hitchcock	Crime	Rope
1947	Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell	Drama	Black Narcissus
1946	Frank Capra	Drama	It's a Wonderful Life
1945	David Lean	Romance	Brief Encounter
1944	Billy Wilder	Crime	Double Indemnity
1943	Alfred Hitchcock	Mystery	Shadow of a Doubt
1942	Michael Curtiz	Romance	Casablanca
1941	Orson Welles	Drama	Citizen Kane
1940	Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Wilfred Jackson	Fantasy	Pinocchio
1939	Victor Fleming	Fantasy	The Wizard of Oz
1938	Howard Hawks	Comedy	Bringing Up Baby
1937	David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Wilfred Jackson	Fantasy	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1936	Charlie Chaplin	Comedy	Modern Times
1935	James Whale	Horror	Bride of Frankenstein
1934	Frank Capra	Romance	It Happened One Night
1933	Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper	Fantasy	King Kong
1932	Tod Browning	Drama	Freaks
1931	Fritz Lang	Thriller	M
1930	Lewis Milestone	War	All Quiet on the Western Front
1929	G.W. Pabst	Drama	Pandora's Box
1928	Carl Theodor Dreyer	History	The Passion of Joan of Arc
1927	Fritz Lang	Science-Fiction	Metropolis
1926	Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton	Comedy	The General
1925	Sergei Eisenstein	War	Battleship Potemkin