Top Graded Movies By Year

Below is the list of the top graded movies by year and the grade I gave the movie. I feel this is an interesting way to look at the top 251 movies of all time because movies differ so much nowadays compared to 100 years ago. When a tie breaker was needed I used whatever movie appeared higher on my overall grade list. Not every year since 1916 is represented, especially years in the early 1910's and 1920's and anything after 2012, but most years are present.

Year	Movie Title	My Grade
1916	Intolerance	1 out of 5
1925	The Gold Rush	3.5 out of 5
1927	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	3 out of 5
1928	The Passion of Joan of Arc	1 out of 5
1931	M	3.5 out of 5
1933	King Kong	2.5 out of 5
1934	It Happened One Night	3 out of 5
1935	A Night at the Opera	1 out of 5
1936	Modern Times	3 out of 5
1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	2 out of 5
1938	Bringing Up Baby	3 out of 5
1939	The Wizard of Oz	4 out of 5
1940	His Girl Friday	3 out of 5
1941	Sullivan's Travels	3.5 out of 5
1942	Casablanca	3 out of 5
1943	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	3 out of 5
1944	Double Indemnity	3 out of 5
1946	It's a Wonderful Life	3.5 out of 5
1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	3 out of 5
1949	Kind Hearts and Coronets	3.5 out of 5
1950	All About Eve	3.5 out of 5
1951	Strangers on a Train	2.5 out of 5
1952	Singin' in the Rain	3.5 out of 5
1953	Shane	1.5 out of 5
1954	Seven Samurai	4 out of 5
1955	The Night of the Hunter	2 out of 5
1956	The Searchers	2 out of 5
1957	12 Angry Men	4 out of 5
1958	Touch of Evil	1.5 out of 5
1959	Some Like It Hot	3.5 out of 5
1960	Psycho	4 out of 5
1961	West Side Story	2 out of 5
1962	To Kill a Mockingbird	3.5 out of 5
1963	The Great Escape	3.5 out of 5
1964	A Fistful of Dollars	3.5 out of 5
1965	The Sound of Music	2 out of 5
1966	Persona	4 out of 5
1967	In the Heat of the Night	3.5 out of 5
1968	Rosemary's Baby	3 out of 5
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	4 out of 5
1970	MASH	2.5 out of 5
1971	The Last Picture Show	2.5 out of 5
1972	Cabaret	4 out of 5
1973	The Sting	4 out of 5
1974	The Godfather Part II	3 out of 5
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	3.5 out of 5
1976	Rocky	3 out of 5
1977	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope	5 out of 5
1978	The Deer Hunter	2.5 out of 5
1979	Alien	3 out of 5
1980	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	5 out of 5
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	3.5 out of 5
1982	Sophie's Choice	4 out of 5
1983	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi	3.5 out of 5
1984	Amadeus	4 out of 5
1985	Back to the Future	4 out of 5
1986	Platoon	3.5 out of 5
1987	Full Metal Jacket	4 out of 5
1988	Cinema Paradiso	4 out of 5
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	5 out of 5
1990	Goodfellas	4 out of 5
1991	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	4.5 out of 5
1992	Reservoir Dogs	4 out of 5
1993	Jurassic Park	5 out of 5
1994	Forrest Gump	5 out of 5
1995	Braveheart	5 out of 5
1996	Fargo	3 out of 5
1997	Titanic	5 out of 5
1998	American History X	4.5 out of 5
1999	The Green Mile	4.5 out of 5
2000	Gladiator	5 out of 5
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	5 out of 5
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	4.5 out of 5
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	5 out of 5
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	4.5 out of 5
2005	Batman Begins	4 out of 5
2006	The Prestige	4 out of 5
2007	The Bourne Ultimatum	3.5 out of 5
2008	The Dark Knight	5 out of 5
2009	Avatar	4 out of 5
2010	Inception	4.5 out of 5
2011	The Intouchables	4.5 out of 5
2012	Argo	4.5 out of 5