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1925 Best Films and Alternate Oscars

I spent much of 2025 (and finishing up in 2026) viewing (over 200 of them) and reviewing films (125 or so) from a century ago. It was a great year for cinema. Here's a list of the best films from 1925, rather arbitrarily ranked. Also for fun, I'll post below my attempt at an alternate Oscars for the year (a.k.a. my favorites organized in still more categories). And, less fun, I ponder in the notes what year to consider the titles. As always, all is subject to amenability and caprice.

Best Lead Actor in a Comedy:
Charlie Chaplin, for The Gold Rush

Runners-Up:
Lon Chaney, for The Monster
Raymond Griffith, for Paths to Paradise, and The Night Club
Buster Keaton,…

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  • Battleship Potemkin

    1

  • The Gold Rush

    2

  • Variety

    3

  • Body and Soul

    4

  • The Big Parade

    5

  • Lady Windermere's Fan

    6

  • Strike

    7

  • The Freshman

    8

  • Seven Chances

    9

  • Joyless Street

    10

  • Master of the House

    11

  • Chess Fever

    12

  • The Unholy Three

    13

  • The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge

    14

  • The Crazy Ray

    15

  • The Late Mathias Pascal

    16

  • Who Is Guilty?

    17

  • The Merry Widow

    18

  • The Waltz Dream

    19

  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

    20

  • Lights of Old Broadway

    21

  • Stage Struck

    22

  • Paths to Paradise

    23

  • Don Q Son of Zorro

    24

  • The Monster

    25

  • The Phantom of the Opera

    26

  • Heart of an Actress

    27

  • The Death Ray

    28