Favorite Film from Every Year Starting from Birth

[Skull]

1970 – Equinox
1971 – Werewolves on Wheels
1972 – Horror Express & The Godfather
1973 – Torso & Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll & Horror Rises from the Tomb & Live and Let Die
(Gee I love 1973)
1974 – Let Sleeping Corpse Lie
1975 – Black Magic
1976 – Blue Sunshine
1977 – Star Wars (1977 version only)
1978 – Dawn of the Dead & Good Guys Wear Black
1979 – Beyond the Darkness
1980 – Empire Strikes Back
1981 – The Evil Dead
1982 –  Pieces & Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1983 – The Deadly Spawn (as Return of the Aliens Deadly Spawn)
1984 – Blood Simple
1985 – Re-Animator
1986 – From Beyond
1987 – Evil Dead II
1988 – Faceless
1989 – I, Madman
1990 – RoboCop 2
1991 – JFK
1992 – Death Becomes Her
1993 – Demolition Man
1994 – Natural Born Killers
1995 – ???
1996 – From Dusk Till Dawn
1997 – Event Horizon
1998 – The Storm Riders
1999 – A Man Called Hero
2000 – Versus
2001 – Shrek
2002 – Vampires: Los Muertos
2003 – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 – Shaun of the Dead
2005 – King Kong
2006 – Black Sheep
2007 – Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman
2008 – The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
2009 – Lesbian Vampire Killers
2010 – ???
2011 – ???

[Pilgermann]

Luckily I use a website for keeping track of and rating every film I've seen.  I'm going to probably cheat and pick multiple films for some years, and I'm biased towards a few directors.

1982 - The Thing, John Carpenter
1983 - A Christmas Story, Bob Clark
1984 - The Karate Kid, John G. Avildson/Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme
1985 - Impossible to choose just one! Brazil, Terry Gilliam/Ran, Akira Kurosawa/Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis/Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Tim Burton
1986 - Comrades, Bill Douglas
1987 - Cobra Verde, Werner Herzog
1988 - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam
1989 - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Stephen Herek
1990 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Joe Dante
1991 - The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam
1992 - Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood
1993 - Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont
1995 - Toy Story, John Lasseter
1996 - MST3K: The Movie, Jim Mallon
1997 - Gattaca, Andrew Niccol
1998 - Babe: Pig in the City, George Miller
1999 - The Iron Giant, Brad Bird
2000 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Joel & Ethan Coen
2001 - Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson/A. I. Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg
2002 - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Peter Jackson
2003 - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Peter Jackson
2004 - The Aviator, Martin Scorsese
2005 - Grizzly Man, Werner Hergoz/Tideland, Terry Gilliam
2006 - Stranger Than Fiction, Marc Forster (I like a number of films that year, but don't really love any)
2007 - No Country for Old Men, Joel & Ethan Coen
2008 - Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog
2009 - Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
2010 - Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, Edgard Wright/Inception, Christopher Nolan
2011 - So far...The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick

[JayJayM12]

1977 - Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978 - Dawn of the Dead (George Romero)
1979 - Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
1980 - The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
1981 - The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
1982 - Creepshow (George Romero)
1983 - A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
1984 - Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1985 - Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis) or Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
1986 - The Fly (David Cronenberg) or Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
1987 - Raising Arizona (Coen Brothers) or Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
1988 - Die Hard (John McTiernan)
1989 - Heathers (Michael Lehrmann) or The 'Burbs (Joe Dante) or UHF (Jay Levey)
1990 - Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso)
1991 - Barton Fink (Coen Brothers)
1992 - Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
1993 - Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
1994 - Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
1995 - Se7en (David Fincher)
1996 - Fargo (Coen Brothers) or The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller) or Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
1997 - The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
1998 - Rushmore (Wes Anderson) or The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
1999 - Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2000 - Quills (Philip Kaufman)
2001 - The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) or Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)
2002 - Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli)
2003 - A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) or Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
2005 - The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie) or A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2006 - Slither (James Gunn) or Borat (Larry Charles)
2007 - No Country For Old Men (Coen Brothers)
2008 - The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
2009 - Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2010 - Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) or Winnebago Man (Ben Steinbauer) or Scott Pilgrim vs the World (Edgar Wright) or Four Lions (Chris Morris)
2011 - Drive (Nicholas Winding-Refn) or Super (James Gunn)

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

1971   Harold and Maude
1972   The Godfather
1973   Walking Tall
1974   Black Belt Jones
1975   Monty Python and Holy Grail
1976   Marathon Man
1977   Star Wars (King Kong gets honorable mention)
1978   Adult- The Boys From Brazil Kid- Watership Down
1979   Adult- the Warriors Kid- Black Hole
1980   Adult- Blues Bros. Kid- Flash Gordon
1981   Raiders of Lost Ark  (honorable Mention- Caveman)
1982   Wrath of Khan
1983   Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
1984   Adult- Spinal Tap Kid- Last Starfighter
1985   Pee Wee's Big Adventure
1986   Aliens?
1987   Hellraiser
1988   Bull Durham MAYBE Hellraiser 2
1989   Field of Dreams
1990   Cinema Paradiso OR Miller's Crossing
1991   La Femme Nikita OR Slacker
1992   Sneakers
1993   Army of Darkness
1994   ????
1995   Jefferson in Paris Or Richard III
1996   MST 3K
1997   Fifth Element
1998   Big Lebowski
1999   The Iron Goant
2000   Pitch Black
2001   Memento
2002   ????
2003   Bubba Ho Tep
2004   Hildago
2005   None, but I really Like Wallace and Gromit vs the Were Rabbit
2006   ???
2007   
2008   
2009   
2010   
2011   


This was a real wake up.   I also discovered that in 2003, I stopped watching movies wholesale, and only watched older movies I wanted to see.  Looking at the lists, there are very few newer movies I have seen or even heard of.
-Ed

[claws]

The Last House on the Left (1972)    
The Exorcist (1973)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Carrie (1976)    
Eraserhead (1977)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Shining (1980)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Angst (1983)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Re-Animator (1985)
The Fly (1986)
Evil Dead II (1987)
They Live (1988)
Santa sangre (1989)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Dead-Alive (1992)
Cronos (1993)    
Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)    
Cube (1997)
Ringu (1998)    
Sleepy Hollow (1999)    
Ginger Snaps (2000)
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
28 Days Later... (2002)
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
The Descent (2005)    
The Host (2006)
[Rec] (2007)    
Cloverfield (2008)
Zombieland (2009)    
The Crazies (2010)
? (2011)

[Criswell]

Thank goodness i'm young 

1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - Gamera - Guardian of the Universe
1996 - Umm I can't really think of one
1997 - Star Wars was re released this year so i'm going to make that count.
1998 - Kinda a bad year...
1999 - Gamera 3
2000 - I'm not very good at this after all
2001 - Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - The Two Towers
2003 - Return of the King
2004 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005 - King Kong
2006 - Nothing Memorable
2007 - hmmmm
2008 - The Dark Knight
2009 - What an awful year for movies. I guess ill have to go with my 2nd favorite Harry Potter Film Half Blood Prince
2010 - Toy Story 3, or Monsters i'm not sure
2011 - Hobo with a Shotgun! or The latest Harry Potter. This year has kinda been bad.

[InformationGeek]

2011 -  This year has kinda been bad.

In that case, let me recommend Rango.  Just recently came out and it is a solid enjoyable film.

[Jack Slater]

This is always fun to do. I'm going to change it up favorite sci-fi since I was born.

1980 - The Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Escape From New York
1982 - John Carpenters The Thing TIE Blade Runner
1983 - Videodrome
1984 - Dune
1985 - Back to the Future......just over Brazil
1986 - Aliens
1987 - Robocop......just over Predator
1988 - Akira
1989 - The Abyss......just over Back to the Future Part II
1990 - Total Recall
1991 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992 - Alien 3
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - Stargate......this was a bad year
1995 - 12 Monkeys
1996 - The Arrival
1997 - Contact.....Tough choice with Cube, Event Horizon, Gattaca, The Fifth Element and Starship Troppers
1998 - Dark City
1999 - The Matrix
2000 - Mission to Mars
2001 - AI
2002 - Solaris
2003 - X2
2004 - Primier
2005 - War of the Worlds
2006 - Children of Men
2007 - I Am Legend
2008 - WALL-E
2009 - Star Trek
2010 - Inception

[Jim H]

Cool idea.  Only easy way to do this is to look at my IMDB ratings..  So I might be missing some (as occasionally I miss voting for a movie I see), and a lot of these are really tough choices, but here we go.

1983 - A Christmas Story
1984 - The Terminator
1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Aliens
1987 - A Princess Bride
1988 - Die Hard
1989 - The Killer
1990 - Bullet In The Head
1991 - Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1992 - Unforgiven
1993 - Groundhog Day
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
1995 - The Blade (The Tsui Hark one)
1996 - Sling Blade
1997 - Drive
1998 - Beast Cops
1999 - The Matrix
2000 - Unbreakable
2001 - In The Bedroom
2002 - Twilight Samurai
2003 - Oldboy
2004 - The Incredibles
2005 - King Kong
2006 - Pan's Labyrinth
2007 - Juno
2008 - The Dark Knight
2009 - Avatar
2010 - Toy Story 3
2011 - thus far, it is Super 8

[Jack Slater]

1995 - The Blade (The Tsui Hark one)

Nice choice. I rarely possible never see this movie get a whisper of a mention.

[Jim H]

1995 - The Blade (The Tsui Hark one)

Nice choice. I rarely possible never see this movie get a whisper of a mention.

Yeah, I think it's Tsui Hark's best film.  Apparently it bombed and the HK critics and audiences don't like it (possibly too dark for many of them).  It's great though.  I just wish it was easier to find a good quality version with English subtitles.  The film it's a remake of, One-Armed Swordsman, is another of my favorites.

[Jack Slater]

I just wish it was easier to find a good quality version with English subtitles.  The film it's a remake of, One-Armed Swordsman, is another of my favorites.

One Armed Swordsman yep another great film. Funny you should bring up "quality version" I know what you mean. I own it on a crappy two-disc VCD with some very bad pixelation and passable subs.