Hollywood’s 100 Favorite Films
Movie lists. They’re everywhere. We’ve got the IMDB Top 250. American Film Institute’s Top 100. Writers Guild of America’s Top 101 screenplays. Spike Lee’s list of must-see movies. Martin Scorcese’s 85 must-see movies. And Steven Spielberg’s ‘curriculum’ of films [which turned out to be fake].
Now we can add another list courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter.
Is it wrong to already declare this the №1 movie list of all time?
After all, there are other movie lists. Lots and lots of others. So many lists, you couldn’t list them all. But this is the first to ask the entertainment industry itself to pick its choices for the best pictures ever made. In May, THR sent an online ballot all over town — to every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house on either side of the 405. Not everybody was initially thrilled to participate.
“I reject the idea,” Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan told THR. “To me, it’s the equivalent of having a party-size bag of Nacho Doritos, then being told to eat only five.” In the end, though, he sent in his favorites (one of which is 1961’s Yojimbo), as did a total of 2,120 industry members, including Fox chief Jim Gianopulos, Disney’s Alan Horn, director Gary Ross, producer Frank Marshall, Warners’ Sue Kroll, agent Robert Newman, attorney John Burke, filmmaker John Singleton and many more. These are the results: the greatest movies ever made, according to Hollywood.
Here is the list presented visually, 100 movies in a 4 minute video:
Honestly I don’t care what list you like. Just watch movies. If you haven’t seen at least half of the IMDB 250, you’ve got some catching up to do. If you haven’t screened 75 of the Hollywood Reporter top 100 movies, get cracking.
And by the way… I have seen every single one of Hollywood’s favorite films per THR.
If you’re not sure why it’s important to watch movies, read this. Trust me. You want to work in Hollywood? You’ve got to have a deep immersion in cinema. And in part, that means watching a ton of movies.
For more of the Hollywood Reporter article, go here.
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