NEW POLL 2026:
letterboxd.com/helenwelonmelon/list/poll-2026-top-500-favourite-film-lists/
Dear film friends!
The time has come. This year's results are about to be published. Due to the automated evaluation by thx4711, the result could be determined much faster this year.
Many thanks to all participants and especially to thx4711.
127 lists were submitted. In addition, 62 lists from participants who submitted a top 500 last year were evaluated. That makes a total of 189 lists with 94,500 individual votes. 15,905 different titles were named. Of these, 7792 received only one vote.
The votes were distributed as follows.
The notes of each film contain some interesting data about the last poll (list view).
If the number of votes is the same, the higher ranking in the…
NEW POLL 2026:
letterboxd.com/helenwelonmelon/list/poll-2026-top-500-favourite-film-lists/
Dear film friends!
The time has come. This year's results are about to be published. Due to the automated evaluation by thx4711, the result could be determined much faster this year.
Many thanks to all participants and especially to thx4711.
127 lists were submitted. In addition, 62 lists from participants who submitted a top 500 last year were evaluated. That makes a total of 189 lists with 94,500 individual votes. 15,905 different titles were named. Of these, 7792 received only one vote.
The votes were distributed as follows.
The notes of each film contain some interesting data about the last poll (list view).
If the number of votes is the same, the higher ranking in the last poll applies.
1 / 145 votes
2 / 144 votes
3 / 140 votes
4 / 137 votes
5 / 135 votes
6 / 134 votes
7 / 133 votes
8-9 / 130 votes
10 / 127 votes
11 / 124 votes
12-13 / 123 votes
14 / 122 votes
15-16 / 121 votes
17-18 / 120 votes
19 / 119 votes
20 / 117 votes
21-22 / 116 votes
23 / 115 votes
24-25 / 114 votes
26 / 113 votes
27 / 112 votes
28-29 / 110 votes
30-31 / 109 votes
32 / 108 votes
33-35 / 106 votes
36 / 104 votes
37-38 / 103 votes
39 / 102 votes
40-41 / 101 votes
42 / 100 votes
43-46 / 99 votes
47 / 98 votes
48-49 / 97 votes
50-51 / 96 votes
52-57 / 95 votes
58-59 / 94 votes
60-61 / 93 votes
62-63 / 92 votes
64-68 / 91 votes
69-70 / 90 votes
71-72 / 89 votes
73-75 / 88 votes
76-78 / 87 votes
79-82 / 86 votes
83-90 / 85 votes
91-96 / 84 votes
97-101 / 83 votes
102-105 / 82 votes
106-111 / 81 votes
112-113 / 80 votes
114-117 / 79 votes
118-120 / 78 votes
121-122 / 77 votes
123-124 / 76 votes
125-130 / 75 votes
131-137 / 74 votes
138-143 / 73 votes
144-147 / 72 votes
148-156 / 71 votes
157-162 / 70 votes
163-169 / 69 votes
170-177 / 68 votes
178-187 / 67 votes
188-196 / 66 votes
197-205 / 65 votes
206-217 / 64 votes
218-229 / 63 votes
230-232 / 62 votes
233-242 / 61 votes
243-251 / 60 votes
252-261 / 59 votes
262-265 / 58 votes
266-281 / 57 votes
282-287 / 56 votes
288-293 / 55 votes
294-300 / 54 votes
301-308 / 53 votes
309-316 / 52 votes
317-332 / 51 votes
333-344 / 50 votes
345-352 / 49 votes
353-362 / 48 votes
363-378 / 47 votes
379-394 / 46 votes
395-404 / 45 votes
405-415 / 44 votes
416-432 / 43 votes
433-449 / 42 votes
450-475 / 41 votes
476-497 / 40 votes
498-519 / 39 votes
520-537 / 38 votes
538-559 / 37 votes
560-576 / 36 votes
577-597 / 35 votes
598-617 / 34 votes
618-641 / 33 votes
642-666 / 32 votes
667-689 / 31 votes
690-723 / 30 votes
724-756 / 29 votes
757-787 / 28 votes
788-816 / 27 votes
817-849 / 26 votes
850-893 / 25 votes
894-930 / 24 votes
931-976 / 23 votes
977-1028 / 22 votes - CUT 1000 boxd.it/DFBc8
1029-1080 / 21 votes
1081-1136 / 20 votes
1137-1191 / 19 votes
1192-1271 / 18 votes
1272-1352 / 17 votes
1353-1441 / 16 votes
1442-1536 / 15 votes
1537-1644 / 14 votes
1645-1743 / 13 votes
1744-1872 / 12 votes
1873-2039 / 11 votes - CUT 2000 boxd.it/DFBOm / CUT 2000 SeenVoted boxd.it/EwNYk
2040-2202 / 10 votes
2203-2423 / 9 votes
2424-2666 / 8 votes
2667-2973 / 7 votes
2974-3389 / 6 votes
3390-3909 / 5 votes
3910-4670 / 4 votes
4671-5899 / 3 votes
5900-8113 / 2 votes - CUT up to 2 votes boxd.it/DKyGY
8114-15905 / 1 vote
DIRECTOR'S IN THE TOP 1000
18 films: Alfred Hitchcock
15 Martin Scorsese
14 Ingmar Bergman
13 Akira Kurosawa / Steven Spielberg
11 Stanley Kubrick
10 Howard Hawks / Billy Wilder / Joel Coen
9 Yasujiro Ozu / David Lynch / Quentin Tarantino
8 Luis Bunuel / Christopher Nolan
7 Charles Chaplin / Fritz Lang / John Ford / Orson Welles / Andrej Tarkovsky / Robert Altman / Woody Allen / Hayao Miyazaki
6 Buster Keaton / John Huston / Michael Powell / Federico Fellini / Masaki Kobayashi / Jean-Luc Godard / Michelangelo Antonioni / Sergio Leone / Brian DePalma / Michael Mann / Rob Reiner / David Fincher / Paul Thomas Anderson / Denis Villeneuve
5 Carl Theodor Dreyer / Ernst Lubitsch / Frank Capra / George Cukor / Emeric Pressburger / David Lean / William Wyler / Satyajit Ray / Robert Wise / Robert Bresson / Sidney Lumet / Roman Polanski / Francis Ford Coppola / Terrence Malick / Clint Eastwood / John Carpenter / Ridley Scott / David Cronenberg / Richard Linklater / Wong Kar-Wai / Michael Haneke / Wes Anderson / Alfonso Cuarón
4 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau / George Stevens / Jean Renoir / Michael Curtiz / Kenji Mizoguchi / Preston Sturges / Jacques Tourneur / Vincente Minnelli / Roberto Rossellini / Elia Kazan / Nicholas Ray / Francois Truffaut / Werner Herzog / Terry Gilliam / Peter Weir / Jim Jarmusch / James Cameron / Abbas Kiarostami / Paul Verhoeven / Pedro Almodóvar / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Lars von Trier / Darren Aronofsky
3 William A. Wellman / Josef von Sternberg / James Whale / Leo McCarey / Raoul Walsh / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Jacques Tati / John Sturges / Robert Aldrich / Douglas Sirk / Alain Resnais / Louis Malle / John Frankenheimer / Jean-Pierre Melville / Mel Brooks / Peter Bogdanovich / William Friedkin / Wim Wenders / Sam Raimi / John Hughes / Robert Zemeckis / Tim Burton / Spike Lee / Béla Tarr / Alexander Payne / Brad Bird / Spike Jonze / Sam Mendes / Alejandro G. Inárritu / Pete Docter / Peter Jackson / Park Chan-wook / Edgar Wright / Ethan Coen / Martin McDonagh
Dear film lovers,
here is finally the call for our third film survey. Like last time, we're looking for lists of your 500 favorite films. Please create your current top 500 and link it in the comments below.
RESULT OF THE LAST POLL:
letterboxd.com/helenwelonmelon/list/poll-2023-top-500-favourite-film-lists/
THE DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 31st, 2024.
Each named film gets one point. That's why NO RANKING IS NECESSARY.
Please think carefully about which titles you choose and make sure that you don't forget a favorite film, as subsequent changes will no longer be taken into account.
Of course, LB users who did not take part in the last two years can and should also submit a top 500 list. The more people take part, the more differentiated the end result. However, since this survey is primarily aimed at people who have seen a large number of films, the first-time participants should have seen at least 3000 films.
This is to prevent that only the most popular films have a chance of a good placement. The main problem with all film surveys is that films have varying degrees of popularity and therefore popular films always have an advantage.
Logically, films that 80-100% of all participants have seen have a much better chance of being placed in the overall list than films that only 10-20% have seen. Especially since these 10-20% are usually the people who have seen a great many films, which further reduces the chance of being named. Because for someone who has seen 1000 films, the chance of a film ending up in the top 500 is 1 in 2, 3000 is 1 in 6, 5000 is 1 in 10, 10,000 is 1 in 20, etc.
However, since, in contrast to most other polls, many relatively unknown films are also included in the overall list at the end, this means that such films also receive more attention and may achieve a higher ranking next year. Inevitably, over the years, some popular films will fall in the overall ranking and some unpopular films will rise.