This is a list of my 100 favorite western films of all time. This is an ever changing list, but this is the list as of January 2026.
This list was first made in January of 2025. For this revision of the list, a total of 10 films dropped out from the original. The highest ranking film to drop was Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga from 5. Of the films that joined in, the highest ranking one is Sinners (16). 8 of the films to join were first time watches from January 2025.
The newest film on this list is Eddington (63). The oldest film on this list is Salomy Jane (68).
13 films have kept its placement with the…
This is a list of my 100 favorite western films of all time. This is an ever changing list, but this is the list as of January 2026.
This list was first made in January of 2025. For this revision of the list, a total of 10 films dropped out from the original. The highest ranking film to drop was Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga from 5. Of the films that joined in, the highest ranking one is Sinners (16). 8 of the films to join were first time watches from January 2025.
The newest film on this list is Eddington (63). The oldest film on this list is Salomy Jane (68).
13 films have kept its placement with the highest being Shane (1) and the lowest being The Wind (96). The film that moved down the most spots was Dances with Wolves (77) which moved down 23 spots. The film that moved up the most spots was True Grit (48) which moved up 17 spots.
Every decade starting from the 1910's is represented on this list:
1910's: 2
1920's: 5
1930's: 4
1940's: 5
1950's: 16
1960's: 17
1970's: 10
1980's: 5
1990's: 10
2000's: 7
2010's: 8
2020's: 11
Along with this, 1950 is the most represented year with 4 films.
19 countries are represented on this list:
United States: 86
Italy: 8
Spain: 6
France: 3
Mexico: 2
Sweden: 2
Germany: 2
United Kingdom: 2
Japan: 2
Australia: 1
Argentina: 1
Peru: 1
Netherlands: 1
Czechoslovakia: 1
Soviet Union: 1
Brazil: 1
Poland: 1
Canada: 1
80 directors are represented on this list. The following are directors with multiple films on the list:
Sergio Leon: 4 (The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars)
John Ford: 4 (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers, Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine)
Clint Eastwood: 3 (Unforgiven, Cry Macho, The Outlaw Josey Wales)
Robert Rodriguez: 3 (El Mariachi, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Desperado)
Delmer Daves: 3 (3:10 to Yuma, Broken Arrow, The Hanging Tree)
George Stevens: 2 (Shane, Giant)
Howard Hawks: 2 (Red River, Rio Bravo)
Sergio Corbucci: 2 (The Great Silence, Django)
Anthony Mann: 2 (The Furies, Winchester '73)
Joel Coen: 2 (No Country for Old Men, True Grit)
Ethan Coen: 2 (No Country for Old Men, True Grit)
Akira Kurosawa: 2 (Yojimbo, Dersu Uzala)
Charlie Chaplin: 2 (The Gold Rush, The Pilgrim)
Ang Lee: 2 (Brokeback Mountain, Ride with the Devil)
John Sturges: 2 (The Magnificent Seven, Bad Day at Black Rock)
Kevin Costner: 2 (Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, Dances with Wolves)
John Huston: 2 (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Misfits)
These films earned a total of 179 Oscar nominations and won 43 of them. These nominations include 15 for Best Picture, 2 of which won: Unforgiven (10) and Dances with Wolves (77)
The average length of the list is 115.69 minutes with the longest film being Killers of the Flower Moon (21) at 206 minutes and the shortest being The Pilgrim (79) at 46 minutes.
The average letterbox score of the list is 3.73 with the highest rated film being The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (11) with a 4.5 and the lowest rated film being In the Lost Lands (88) with a 2.0. I personally gave the top 2 of these films 5 stars and the rest 4.5.
