While I haven't actively been reviewing movies anymore for a few years now, one thing I still like to do all the same is, at the end of each year, I still enjoy ranking my favorites from the past year. And seeing as how I've been consistently ranking my favorite films every year since 2009, I thought it might be fun to look back and see what I chose at the time to be my #1 favorite movie from each year (as well as the decades as a whole). So, without further ado, here are my #1 Movies of the Year from every single year that I've been consistently ranking movies:
2009
Avatar
(James Cameron)
2000 - 2009
Best of the Decade
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
(George Lucas)
2010
Inception
(Christopher Nolan)
2011
Sucker Punch
(Zack Snyder)
2012
Dredd
(Pete Travis)
2013
Iron Man 3
(Shane Black)
2014
Interstellar
(Christopher Nolan)
2015
Inside Out
(Pete Docter)
2016
La La Land
(Damien Chazelle)
2017
Logan
(James Mangold)
2018
Bohemian Rhapsody
(Bryan Singer)
2019
Frozen II
(Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee)
2010 - 2019
Best of the Decade
Frozen
(Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee)
2020
The Hunt
(Craig Zobel)
2021
Raya and the Last Dragon
(Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada)
2022
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
(Jeff Fowler)
And there it is. And while I do still stand by most of these, there are a few which I would totally swap out for another movie at this point. However, while I was considering sharing those picks that I'd change, I instead decided that I'd just like to let these initial picks stand on their own. After all, the Academy doesn't get to go back and say what movies they would have picked for Best Picture if they changed their minds years later, so who am I to go back and retroactively change what's essentially my own picks for Best Picture each year at the time.
But anyways, those are my original picks for #1 Movie of the Year each year. What movies were your favorites from each year at the time?
