Sunday, September 4, 2016

30 Years of Movies - My Favorites From Each Year

Today marks my 30th birthday. And so, I decided to take a look back at the past 30 years, and choose my favorite movie released from each year. Note, these aren't all necessarily what I think was technically the best movie released in each given year, it's solely what I consider my favorite. So then, without any further ado, let's jump back 30 years to...

1986
An American Tail
(Don Bluth)

1987
Full Metal Jacket
(Stanley Kubrick)

1988
Die Hard
(John McTiernan)

1989
Batman
(Tim Burton)

1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
(Steve Barron)

1991
Hook
(Steven Spielberg)

1992
Reservoir Dogs
(Quentin Tarantino)

1993
Jurassic Park
(Steven Spielberg)

1994
The Lion King
(Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff)

1995
Toy Story
(John Lasseter)

1996
Independence Day
(Roland Emmerich)

1997
Good Will Hunting
(Gus Van Sant)

1998
The Big Hit
(Che-Kirk Wong)

1999
The Matrix
(The Wachowski Brothers)

2000
American Psycho
(Mary Harron)

2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(Peter Jackson)

2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
(George Lucas)

2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(Peter Jackson)

2004
The Chronicles of Riddick
(David Twohy)

2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
(George Lucas)

2006
V for Vendetta
(James McTeigue)

2007
Spider-Man 3
(Sam Raimi)

2008
The Dark Knight
(Christopher Nolan)

2009
(500) Days of Summer
(Marc Webb)

2010
Inception
(Christopher Nolan)

2011
Sucker Punch
(Zack Snyder)

2012
Dredd
(Pete Travis)

2013
Frozen
(Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee)

2014
Interstellar
(Christopher Nolan)

2015
Inside Out
(Pete Docter)

2016
Zootopia
(Byron Howard, Rich Moore)