I have to think about this more, but here's my tentative, incomplete list:


1997: Titanic
1998: Dark City
1999: tie- Ghost World and The Matrix
2000: The Emperor's New Groove
2001: tbd
2002: tie- Spirited Away and Minority Report
2003: tbd
2004: tie- Spider-Man 2 and The Incredibles
2005: Batman Begins
2006: Children of Men
2007: Ratatouille

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1999: American Beauty
2000: High Fidelity
2001: The Score
2002: 25th Hour
2003: Kill Bill Vol. 1
2004: Kill Bill Vol. 2
2005: Munich
2006: Little Miss Sunshine
2007: Zodiac

1997 was the first year where I truly began going to the movies and enjoying it, so I decided to start there.

Does 2003 look avg. to anyone else? I just looked back at the films of that year; can't find many I liked...

Man, I was hoping it would be favorite film for each year since like, 1930. :o That'd be interesting.

UPDATED:

1921 The Kid
1922 Nosferatu*
1923
1924 Strike
1925 The Gold Rush
1926 The Adventures of Prince Achmed
1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1928
1929 Man With the Movie Camera
1930
1931 City Lights
1932
1933 Zero For Conduct
1934 L'Atalante
1935
1936
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938
1939 The Wizard of Oz
1940 His Girl Friday*
1941 Citizen Kane/The Maltese Falcon
1942 Casablanca
1943
1944 At Land*
1945 A Diary for Timothy*
1946 La Belle et la Bête
1947 La Terra Trema*
1948 The Bicycle Thief
1949 The Third Man*
1950 Sunset Blvd./The Flowers of St. Francis
1951 A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 Singin' in the Rain/Forbidden Games
1953 Roman Holiday
1954 Rear Window/Seven Samurai
1955 Rebel Without a Cause
1956 A Man Escaped
1957 The Seventh Seal
1958 Vertigo/Mon Oncle
1959 The 400 Blows
1960 Psycho/Breathless/L'Avventura/When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (best year ever)
1961 A Woman is a Woman
1962 La Jetee
1963 The Great Escape
1964 Soy Cuba/Dr. Strangelove
1965 Alphaville
1966 Persona
1967 Weekend
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 My Night at Maud's
1970 The Conformist
1971 Straw Dogs
1972 Solyaris
1973 Day for Night
1974 F for Fake
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Days of Heaven
1979 Manhattan
1980 The Shining
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Koyaanisqatsi
1983 Sans Soleil
1984 Stranger than Paradise
1985 Ran
1986 Blue Velvet
1987 Wings of Desire
1988 Grave of the Fireflies
1989 The Seventh Continent*
1990 Metropolitan
1991 Slacker/The Double Life of Veronique
1992 The Last Bolshevik
1993 Three Colors: Blue
1994 Three Colors: Red
1995 The White Balloon
1996 Fargo
1997 Funny Games
1998 Hana-Bi
1999 American Beauty
2000 Dancer in the Dark/George Washington
2001 In the Mood for Love
2002 Punch-Drunk Love
2003 City of God
2004 Before Sunset
2005 3-Iron
2006 Inland Empire
2007 I'm Not There

Asterisks mean that I'm not really happy with that choice. I might really like it, but either its the only film I've seen from that year, or I haven't seen much and I know there are better films. Keep in mind, that pre-1970 or so for a lot of these years I probably have only seen a handful of films at best. Blank years I don't think I have seen ANY films from (!) : ( :O :O :O

That's the idea. Update:

1927 Metropolis
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940 Rebecca
1941 Citizen Kane
1942 Casablanca
1943
1944
1945
1946 Notorious
1947
1948
1949 The Third Man
1950 tie- Sunset Blvd. and All About Eve
1951 A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 Singin' in the Rain
1953
1954 Rear Window
1955
1956
1957 tie- 12 Angry Men and Wild Strawberries
1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
1961
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969
1970
1971
1972 The Godfather
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979 Alien
1980
1981
1982 Blade Runner
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991 Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997 Titanic
1998 Dark City
1999 tie- Ghost World and The Matrix
2000 The Emperor's New Groove
2001
2002 tie- Spirited Away and Minority Report
2003
2004 tie- Spider-Man 2 and The Incredibles
2005 Batman Begins
2006 Children of Men
2007 Ratatouille

2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: Spirited Away
2003: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2004: Tie between Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Finding Neverland
2005: Batman Begins
2006: Pan's Labyrinth
2007: Juno

2007: Hot Fuzz
2006: United 93
2005: Munich
2004: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2003: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2001: Moulin Rouge!
2000: Dancer in the Dark

1999: Magnolia
1998: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1997: The sweet Hereafter
1996: The Rock
1995: Se7en
1994: Natural Born Killers
1993: The Piano
1992: Porco Rosso
1991: Delicatessen
1990: The Hunt For Red October

1989: The Abyss
1988: Akira
1987: Empire of the Sun
1986: Stand By Me
1985: Brazil
1984: Ghostbusters
1983: A Christmas Story
1982: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980: Empire Strikes Back

1979: Apocalypse Now
1978: Superman
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1976: Network
1975: Jaws
1974: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1973: Charlotte's Web
1972: Solaris
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1970: Patton

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1968: Once Upon A Time in the West
1967: Cool Hand Luke
1966: The Naked Prey
1965: Alphaville
1964: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963: Charade
1962: The Manchurian Candidate
1961: West Side Story
1960: Psycho

2007 - RatatouiLLe/28 Weeks Later
2006 - Cars/The Departed/ChiLdren of Men
2005 - War of the WorLds
2004 - The Day After Tomorrow
2003 - Finding Nemo
2002 - Minority Report
2001 - Monster's Inc.
2000 - FinaL Destination

1999 - ELection
1998 - GodziLLa
1997 - The Fifth ELement
1996 - Jack
1995 - Before Sunrise/Toy Story
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
1993 - Jurassic Park
1991 - Beauty and the Beast
1990 - GoodfeLLas

1989 - Back to the Future: Part II
1984 - Once Upon A Time in America
1982 - BLade Runner

1979 - ALien
1976 - Taxi Driver
1975 - Dog Day Afternoon
1972 - The Godfather
1971 - A CLockwork Orange

1967 - Bonnie and CLyde
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1965 - Sound of Music

1952 - Singin' in the Rain

For the pre-1990's - I haven't seen a Lot of fiLms so they're just the ones that I reaLLy Liked

I havnt really finalised them so need to list a few in some years:

1989: Do the Right Thing, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, My Left Foot
1990: Goodfellas, Misery, Home Alone
1991: Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Beauty and the Beast, JFK, 35 Up
1992: Lethal Weapon 3
1993: The Fugitive, Shindler's List, Jurassic Park, In the Name of the Father, Dave, True Romance, The Pelican Brief, In the Line of Fire
1994: Shawshank Redemption, Hoop Dreams, Pulp Fiction, The Lion King, Leon, Ed Wood, Forrest Gump, Speed, Reality Bites
1995: Seven, Casino, Before Sunrise, Mall Rats, The Usual Suspects
1996: Fargo, Scream, Flirting with Disaster, A Time to Kill, The Rock
1997: LA Confidential, Gattaca, Face/Off, Starship Troopers
1998: Saving Private Ryan, American History X, Rushmore
1999: GO, Office Space, American Pie, American Beauty, The Matrix, Being John Malkovich
2000: High Fidelity, Unbreakable, The Emperor's New Groove, The Virgin Suicides, Boiler Room
2001: The Fellowship of the Ring, Ghostworld, Donnie Darko, Memento, Mullholland Drive, A.I
2002: About Schmidt, About a Boy, 8 Mile, Two Towers (EE), Y Tu Mama Tambien, 25th Hour
2003: City of God, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Lilja-4-ever, Mystic River, Return of the King, American Wedding
2004: Before Sunset, Sideways, The Aviator, Spiderman 2
2005: Match Point, Munich, Memoirs of a Geisha, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,
2006: The Prestige, Casino Royale, The Departed, Curse of the Golden Flower, Children of Men
2007: Ratatouillie, Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, Into the Wild, Stardust, Lives of Others

Thats all i can remember - probably heaps I missed.

Box - Ghostworld was an 01 film I thought.

Sunset. : ) :O

Oops! Fixed.

Hey this looks like fun.

Note: this is a list of my favorite film of each year, not what I consider the best film of the year (if you can see the difference!)

I left some years blank when either I hadn't seen enough films or none of the films I did see were worthy of inclusion.

Edited version!:

1921 The Kid
1922 Nosferatu
1923
1924 Sherlock, Jr.
1925 The Gold Rush
1926
1927 Metropolis
1928 Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1929
1930
1931 City Lights
1932 Scarface
1933 Duck Soup
1934 It Happened One Night
1935 Captain Blood
1936 Modern Times
1937 The Awful Truth
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 The Wizard of Oz
1940 His Girl Friday
1941 Citizen Kane
1942 To Be or Not to Be
1943 Casablanca
1944 Arsenic and Old Lace
1945
1946 It's a Wonderful Life
1947 Monsieur Verdoux
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 12 O'Clock High
1950 Harvey
1951 An American in Paris
1952 Singin' in the Rain
1953 Roman Holiday
1954 Rear Window
1955 The Court Jester
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1957 12 Angey Men
1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Inherit the Wind
1961 Judgment at Nuremberg
1962 To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 Dr. No
1964 Dr. Strangelove
1965 Help!
1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1967 The Graduate
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970 M*A*S*H
1971 A Clockwork Orange
1972 The Godfather
1973 The Sting
1974 Young Frankenstein
1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1976 All the President's Men
1977 A New Hope
1978
1979 Apocalypse Now
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Tootsie
1983 The Return of the Jedi
1984 Amadeus
1985 Brazil
1986
1987 The Princess Bride
1988 A Fish Called Wanda
1989 Do the Right Thing
1990 Goodfellas
1991 The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Unforgiven
1993 Groundhog Day
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Toy Story
1996 Fargo
1997 Air Force One
1998 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1999 Toy Story 2
2000 O Brother Where Art Thou
2001 Moulin Rogue
2002 The Two Towers
2003 Return of the King
2004 The Incredibles
2005 Wallace and Gromit
2006 Casino Royale
2007 Ratatouille

1962: Lolita
...
1967: The Graduate
...
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1973: Robin Hood
1974: Young Frankenstein
1975: Dog Day Afternoon
1976: Taxi Driver
1977: Star Wars
...
1979: Taro the Dragon Boy
1980: Empire Strikes Back
...
1982: The Dark Crystal
1983: A Christmas Story
1984: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
...
1986: Castle in the Sky
1987: The Princess Bride
1988: My Neighbor Totoro
1989: Kiki's Delivery Service
1990: Edward Scissorhands
1991: Beauty and the Beast
1992: Porco Rosso
1993: El Mariachi
1994: Clerks
1995: Mallrats
1996: The Birdcage
1997: Chasing Amy
1998: Rounders
1999: The Matrix
2000: Gladiator
2001: Fellowship of the Ring
2002: Spirited Away
2003: Return of the King
2004: Garden State
2005: Howl's Moving Castle
2006: The Departed
2007: Paprika

2007: Stardust / Paris Je T'aime / Transformers
2006: The Holiday / Dixie Chicks / Devil Wears Prada
2005: Crash / Brokeback Mountain / The Family Stone
2004: Before Sunset / Hero / Harry Potter 3
2003: Finding Nemo/ Return of the King / Full Throttle
2002: Femme Fatale / Panic Room / Two Towers
2001: Amelie / Moulin Rouge! / Vanilla Sky
2000: Chocolat / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / What Lies Beneath
1999: The Matrix
1998: The Prince of Egypt
1997: As Good as It Gets
1996: Twister
1995: Babe
1994: The Lion King
1993: Jurassic Park
1992: Home Alone 2
1991: Beauty and the Beast
1990: Pretty Woman or Die Hard 2

1999: American Beauty
2000: Requiem for a Dream
2001: Moulin Rouge!
2002: The Hours
2003: Lost in Translation
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: Babel
2007: Juno

1982 - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
1983 - Scarface
1984 - Ghostbusters
1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 - Spaceballs
1988 - Die Hard
1989 - Back to the Future Part II
1990 - Back to the Future Part III
1991 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992 - Aladdin
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - Forrest Gump
1995 - Apollo 13
1996 - Twister
1997 - Men in Black
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - The Mummy
2000 - Gladiator
2001 - Ocean's Eleven
2002 - Spider-Man
2003 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 - Spider-Man 2
2005 - King Kong
2006 - Children of Men
2007 - Transformers

1924 Sherlock, Jr./Greed
1925 The Gold Rush
1926 Flesh and the Devil
1927 The General/Sunrise
1928 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg/The Docks of New York/Show People
1929 Pandora's Box
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 City Lights
1932 Trouble in Paradise
1933 Duck Soup
1934 It Happened One Night
1935 Swing Time
1936 My Man Godfrey
1937 The Awful Truth
1938 The Lady Vanishes
1939 Ninotchka
1940 The Shop Around the Corner
1941 Citizen Kane
1942 The Palm Beach Story
1943 Casablanca
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis
1945 I Know Where I'm Going!
1946 A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven)
1947 Out of the Past
1948 Black Narcissus
1949 The Third Man
1950 Sunset Boulevard
1951 The African Queen
1952 Singin' in the Rain
1953 The Band Wagon
1954 On The Waterfront
1955 The Night of the Hunter
1956 I'll Get Back to Ya
1957 Paths of Glory
1958 Vertigo
1959 Some Like it Hot/The 400 Blows
1960 The Apartment
1961 Viridiana
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1963 Charade
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
1966 Blow Up
1967 The Graduate
1968 The Lion in Winter
1969 Take the Money and Run
1970 M*A*S*H
1971 Fiddler on the Roof
1972 The Godfather
1973 The Sting/Day For Night
1974 Young Frankenstein
1975 The Man Who Would Be King
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Days of Heaven
1979 Manhattan
1980 The Elephant Man/The Stunt Man
1981 Reds
1982 My Favorite Year
1983 Zelig
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 Radio Days
1988 A Fish Called Wanda
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1990 Metropolitan
1991 The Fisher King
1992 Unforgiven
1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Sense & Sensibility
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1997 L.A. Confidential
1998 The Big Lebowski/Rushmore
1999 The Insider
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001 Gosford Park
2002 Far From Heaven
2003 Lost in Translation
2004 Sideways/Lost in Translation
2005 Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2006 Children of Men
2007 No Country For Old Men

1997: Boogie Nights
1998: tie - Saving Private Ryan/Truman Show
1999: tie- Magnolia, American Beauty, Fight Club and The Matrix
2000: Cast Away
2001: Fellowship of the Ring
2002: tie- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Signs
2003: Return of the King then Finding Nemo
2004: Garden State
2005: tie - Batman Begins, King Kong, Sin City
2006: The Departed
2007: There Will Be Blood

2007: Juno | Once | The Bourne Ultimatum
2006: Running Scared | The Departed | Little Miss Sunshine
2005: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Walk the Line | Serenity
2004: In Good Company | The Incredibles | Collateral
2003: Whale Rider | Finding Nemo | Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl
2002: Chicago | Equillibrium | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Memento | Donnie Darko
2000: Billy Elliot | Snatch | The Emperor's New Groove
1999: The Matrix | The Sixth Sense | October Sky
1998: The Big Lebowski | Shakespeare in Love | Pleasantville
1997: Titanic | As Good as it Gets | L.A. Confidential
1996: Jerry Maguire | Scream | From Dusk Till Dawn
1995: The Usual Suspects | Babe | Toy Story
1994: Pulp Fiction | The Lion King| The Professional
1993: Jurassic Park | Groundhog Day | Tombstone
1992: A League of there Own | My Cousin Vinny | Unforgiven
1991: Terminator II: Judgment Day | Beauty and the Beast | Hook
1990: Good Fellas | Home Alone | Dick Tracy

----- = Years I need to see more in before declaring. I'm not going past 1940 because I've only seen a handful of movies in most of the years after that.

1940 - -----
1941 - Citizen Kane
1942 - Casablanca
1943 - -----
1944 - -----
1945 - -----
1946 - -----
1947 - -----
1948 - -----
1949 - -----
1950 - Sunset Boulevard
1951 - -----
1952 - -----
1953 - -----
1954 - Rear Window
1955 - The Night of the Hunter
1956 - The Searchers
1957 - -----
1958 - Vertigo
1959 - Pickpocket
1960 - Psycho
1961 - -----
1962 - La Jetee
1963 - 8 1/2
1964 - Kwaidan
1965 - -----
1966 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1967 - -----
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 - Andrei Rublev
1970 - El Topo
1971 - Walkabout
1972 - The Godfather
1973 - Badlands
1974 - Black Christmas
1975 - Barry Lyndon
1976 - Carrie
1977 - Suspiria
1978 - Days of Heaven
1979 - Manhattan
1980 - Dressed to Kill
1981 - Body Heat
1982 - Fanny and Alexander
1983 - Sans Soleil
1984 - Blood Simple
1985 - Brazil
1986 - Blue Velvet
1987 - RoboCop
1988 - Dead Ringers
1989 - The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
1990 - Wild at Heart
1991 - The Double Life of Veronique
1992 - Naked Lunch
1993 - Three Colors: Blue
1994 - Crumb
1995 - La Haine
1996 - The Rock
1997 - Lost Highway
1998 - The Thin Red Line
1999 - Eyes Wide Shut
2000 - George Washington
2001 - Mulholland Drive
2002 - Far From Heaven
2003 - All the Real Girls
2004 - Bad Education
2005 - The New World
2006 - The Black Dahlia
2007 - No Country for Old Men

2007: Sunshine
2006: Children of Men
2005: Batman Begins/Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
2004: Shaun of the Dead/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003: 28 Days Later
2002: Minority Report/Signs
2001: Donnie Darko/The Fellowship of the Ring
2000: Unbreakable/American Psycho
1999: Fight Club
1998: Dark City
1997: L.A. Confidential
1996: Fargo
1995: Twelve Monkeys
1994: Ed Wood
1993: Schindler's List
1992: Reservoir Dogs
1991: Terminator 2/The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Jacob's Ladder/Edward Scissorhands
1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/The Abyss
1988: Dead Ringers
1987: The Untouchables
1986: The Fly
1985: Brazil
1984: The Terminator
1983: Videodrome
1982: Blade Runner/The Thing
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark/An American Werewolf in London
1980: The Shining
1979: Alien/Apocalypse Now
1978: Superman
1977: Star Wars/Close Encounters/Suspiria/Eraserhead
1976: All the President's Men
1975: Jaws
1974: Chinatown
1973: The Exorcist
1972: The Godfather
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1970:
1969:
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967: Week End
1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1965: Pierrot le fou
1964: Dr. Strangelove
1963: Contempt
1962: La Jetée
1961: Last Year at Marienbad
1960: Psycho/Breathless
1959: The 400 Blows
1958: Vertigo
1957: 12 Angry Men
1956: Written on the Wind
1955: Rififi
1954: Rear Window
1953:
1952: Singin' in the Rain
1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still
1950: Sunset Blvd.
1949:
1948: Rope
1947:
1946:
1945:
1944: Double Indemnity
1943:
1942: Casablanca
1941: The Maltese Falcon
1940:
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1938:
1937: Grand Illusion
1936:
1935:
1934:
1933: The Invisible Man
1932:
1931: M
1930:
1929: Un chien andalou
1928:
1927: Metropolis
1925: The Gold Rush
1924: Sherlock Jr.
1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari