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MovieJawn Sound & Vision Poll 2022: Wrap-up and Stats

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Welcome to MovieJawn’s first ever Sound & Vision Poll, where our writers share why they love their 10 favorite movies of all time!

MovieJawn’s first ever Sound & Vision Poll, a project not designed to propose a new canon, but to celebrate the movies we love the most. Each of the lists submitted is unique and representative of one of our writers. Most of the lists were published in full with write-ups, but a few of our staff members only wanted to share their lists without expanding, so those are included below as well as links to the other lists.

Thank you to all of those who participated as well as all of those who took the time to read all of the lists!

Across 29 lists, 239 individual movies were selected, which means only 51 picks were duplicates.

Only two films were chosen 4 times, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) and Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight (2016).

Twelve films were chosen 3 times each, including the 2022 Sight & Sound Poll topper, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975). Director’s poll winner 2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968) was selected twice by our staff.

Additional Lists:

Fiona Underhill

  • Empire of the Sun (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1987)

  • A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

  • Wayne's World (dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1992)

  • The Apartment (dir. Billy Wilder, 1960)

  • Cabaret (dir. Bob Fosse, 1972)

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

  • Orlando (dir. Sally Potter, 1992)

  • Rebecca (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)

  • Nashville (dir. Robert Altman, 1975)

  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1988)

Mathilda Hallstrom

  • Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)

  • Good Time (dir. Josh and Benny Safdie, 2017)

  • Drive My Car (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)

  • Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley, 2018)

  • Dog Day Afternoon (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1975)

  • Boogie Nights (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)

  • The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1991)

  • The Devil Wears Prada (dir. David Frankel, 2006)

  • The Worst Person in the World (dir. Joachim Trier, 2021)

  • 13 Going on 30 (dir. Gary Winick, 2004)

Matthew Crump

  • Black Orpheus (dir. Marcel Camus, 1959)

  • Wanda (dir. Barbara Loden, 1970)

  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1962)

  • Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2016)

  • But I'm A Cheerleader (dir. Jamie Babbitt, 1999)

  • Marie Antoinette (dir. Sofia Coppola, 2006)

  • Parting Glances (dir. Bill Sherwood, 1986)

  • Suspiria (dir. Dario Argento, 1977)

  • Heathers (dir. Michael Lehhmann, 1989)

  • Thelma & Louise (dir. Ridley Scott, 1991)

Liz Locke

  • The Goodbye Girl (dir. Herbert Ross, 1977)

  • Singin' in the Rain (dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 1952)

  • It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra, 1934)

  • The Shawshank Redemption (dir. Frank Darabont, 1994)

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen, 2000)

  • Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley (dir. Anthony Minghella, 1999)

  • The Apartment (dir. Billy Wilder, 1960)

  • Roman Holiday (dir. William Wyler, 1953)

  • L.A. Confidential (dir. Curtis Hanson, 1997)

Daniel Pecoraro

  • Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtis, 1943)

  • Singin' in the Rain (dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 1952)

  • The Wizard of Oz (dir. Victor Fleming, 1939)

  • First Reformed (dir. Paul Schrader, 2017)

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (dir. Peter Jackson, 2002)

  • Columbus (dir. Kogonada, 2017)

  • Black Orpheus (dir. Marcel Camus, 1959)

  • Some Like It Hot (dir. Billy Wilder, 1959)

  • Toy Story 3 (dir. Lee Unkrich, 2010)

  • Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (dir. Bill Duke, 1993)

Olivia Hunter Willke

  • Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941)

  • Eyes Wide Shut (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975)

  • Shanghai Express (dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1932)

  • The Long Goodbye (dir. Robert Altman, 1973)

  • Heat (dir. Michael Mann, 1995)

  • M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931)

  • Sátántangó (dir. Béla Tarr, 1994)

  • Crash (dir. David Cronenberg, 1996)

  • Inherent Vice (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)

Charlie Brigden

  • Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982)

  • Jaws (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1975)

  • Alien (dir. Ridley Scott, 1979)

  • Goodfellas (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1990)

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

  • Airplane! (dir. David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, 1980)

  • King Kong (dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)

  • The Tree of Life (dir. Terrence Malick, 2011)

  • Watership Down (dir. Martin Rosen, John Hubley, 1978)

  • The Phantom of the Paradise (dir. Brian De Palma, 1974)

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