Web pages with lists of "best" classic films, actors, actresses, moments, etc., as well as awards sites.
The AFI 100 Films
A personal analysis of the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Films, with links to other resources.
Favorite Classic Comedies
An updated listing of my favorite comedy films (sound only) of the last 65 years, with 20 new entries.
Favorite Movie Lists
I re-ran my 200 Favorite Movies feature and challenged you to come up with your own lists. Here are a bunch of them.
The Internet Movie Dbase Top 250 Movies List
Would you be surprised to hear that half the Top 250 Movies list from IMDb is composed of movies made in the last seven years? Here's what it would look like if only classic movies fans had voted.
All Time Sports Movie Listings
The Sandlot Shrink offers their annotated listings of movies revolving around a variety of sports, including baseball, football, boxing, hockey, auto racing, even billiards and bowling.
Favorite Movie Lists from tedstrong.com
Ted's site tedstrong.com is an eclectic mix of mostly movie stuff, a lot of it devoted to classic stars and films. On this page you'll find several different lists of his favorites, plus an offer to send him your own list, which he will publish here.
Film 101: A Five-Decade Survey
An article by Chris Garcia featured on Austin360 offers capsule reviews of the "essential" films of the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s -- our cup of tea precisely!
Greatest Films Lists best of the net
Tim Dirks, whose Greatest Films site has lists of almost everything else, has now put together a list of other sites' greatest films lists! Just to be fair.
Greatest Movies
Compares the top 100 lists of the American and British Film Institutes with the choices of critics Roger Ebert and Barry Norman. Unverse is not sure what the greatest movie ever made is, but there's a good chance it's on one of these lists.
The Movie Times
While focused primarily on current box office statistics, this site also contains a couple of lists of immediate interest to classic fans, including the top 20 actors and actresses, and the top 100 movies of all time, by box office.
National Film Registry
Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, each year the Librarian of Congress names 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant motion pictures to the Registry. Check out the list for the latest year.
RateItAll Classic Movies
The Classic Movies section of a site that lets you vote on just about everything. You can even change parameters to see what only men or only women thought, or people in various age groups. Lots of fun.
The Sammy Awards
Each year since 1989, Roger Hall, a respected film music historian and music preservationist chooses the winners of these film music awards, named after multiple-Oscar-winning movie lyricist Sammy Cahn (1913-1993). They were first announced on Ron Della Chiesa’s show on WGBH radio in Boston, later in newspapers, magazines and Web sites. Hall is the author of the reference book, A Guide to Film Music, and the editor and publisher of the Web e-zine Film Music Review.
Top Ten Lists
Emmett of The Unblinking Eye has been putting together top ten movie lists in various categories, from the usual (baseball movies, Disney movies) to the unusual (contractor movies, graduation movies). May not have been updated lately, and the "Help Me" link isn't working, but it's still fun to read.
Top 100 Movie Lists
Aaron Caldwell's site includes his and his brother Mark's lists of favorite films, as well as links to almost three dozen other favorite film lists, from AFI and BBC to TV Guide and the Video Detective. You can submit your own list, as well.
The Top 500 Sound Films
From Carter B. Horsley, of The City Review, here's an actual list of 500 movies, most of them classics, some of them with links to reviews, including most of the top 20.
A Tribute To The 100 Greatest Film Moments
Another extensive and fascinating section of Tim Dirks Best of the Net "Greatest Films" site has just been added, inspired by the recent Oscar film depicting great moments from classic films. Bring a lunch.
The 100 Greatest Movie Sequences of All Time
Jason O'Brien's take on the greatest scenes from films both current and classic. Includes a lot of recent films, but there are just enough classics to make your visit worthwhile. Each sequence has a brief description and, in most cases, one or two images.
Virgin.Net Movies Top Tens
The section of the Virgin.Net site devoted to various top ten lists related to movies, such as Top ten movie quotes and Top ten box office flops. Lots of fun.
