List of years in film

This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with its significant events.

• 19th century in film
• 20th century in film:
  • 1900s – 1910s – 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s
• 21st century in film:
  • 2000s – 2010s – 2020s

19th century in film

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Before Muybridge's 1878 work, photo sequences were not recorded in real-time because light-sensitive emulsions needed a long exposure time. The sequences were basically made as time-lapse recordings. It is possible that people at the time actually viewed such photographs come to life with a phénakisticope or zoetrope (this certainly happened with Muybridge's work).

• 1826 – View from the Window at Le Gras, Nicéphore Niépce takes the oldest known extant photograph.
• 1833 – Since 1833 onwards, 'animated films' or rather animated effects began to be made with the use of phénakisticopes, zoetropes, and praxinoscopes.
• 1865 – Revolving, self-portrait by French photographer Nadar. Around 1865 he produced this series of self-portraits consisting of 12 frames showing different angles of him sitting still in a chair. Except for a smile in 1 frame, not even a fold in his jacket or a single hair seems to change between the different angles. The portrait could be regarded as a predecessor to the chronophotography which Marey and Muybridge started to experiment with more than 10 years later. As the sequence revolves around space rather than time it is even more related to the bullet-time effect popularized by The Matrix about 135 years later. There is no clue if more than one camera was used in the shoot, but it is certainly well-executed.

1870s

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• 1874 – Passage de Vénus, first precedent of a film; On December 9, 1874, French astronomer Pierre Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver' photograph the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. They were purportedly taken in Japan. It is the oldest film on IMDb.
• 1878 –
  • The Horse in Motion; British photographer Eadweard Muybridge took a series of "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. He shot the photographs in June 1878. An additional card reprinted the single image of the horse "Occident" trotting at high speed, which had previously been published by Muybridge in 1877. The most famous of these electro-photographs is "Sallie Gardner" taken on June 19, 1878. Railroad tycoon Leland Stanford hired Muybridge to settle the questions of whether a galloping horse ever has all four of its feet off the ground. Muybridge's photos showed the horse with all four feet off the ground. He went on a lecture tour showing his photographs on a moving-image device he called the zoopraxiscope.
  • Le singe musicien, first animated movie using the praxinoscope

1880s

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• 1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invented a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. L'homme Machine, was directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey; it is the oldest black and white animated known film.
• 1886 – Louis Le Prince was granted an American dual-patent for a 16-lens device which combines a motion picture camera with a projector.
• 1887 – Man Walking Around a Corner, directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince; It is the oldest known film. Although according to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary The First Film it is not film, but a series of photographs, 16 in all, each taken from one of the lens from Le Prince's camera. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated August 18, 1887 to his wife. Le Prince later developed the one lens camera and on October 14, 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image, Roundhay Garden Scene.
• 1888 – Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving film by French inventor Louis Le Prince, is shot in Leeds, West Yorkshire in England with a groundbreaking 20 frames per second. Other short films made at the same time were Accordion Player and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.
• 1889 – Eastman Kodak is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid.

1890s

• 1891 – Dickson Greeting; Men Boxing; Newark Athlete
• 1892 – Le Clown et ses chiens; Pauvre Pierrot; Un bon bock, first projected animated films released by Émile Reynaud
• 1893 – Blacksmiths, the first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison; Thomas Edison created "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria.
• 1894 –
  • Carmencita was made. According to film historian Charles Musser the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera was in the film. She may have been the first woman to appear in a motion picture in the United States. It was directed and produced by William K.L. Dickson, who was the Scottish inventor credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Edison.
  • The Dickson Experimental Sound Film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895 is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Edison.
• 1895 – In Paris on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film. Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, was founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.
• 1896 – L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, one of the six more short films released by the Lumière brothers; Pathé-Frères is founded; Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) is a French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès which depicts a pantomimed sketch in the style of a theatrical comic fantasy.
• 1897 – Vitagraph is founded in New York City
• 1898 –The Astronomer's Dream; The Cavalier's Dream; Photographing a Ghost; Santa Claus
• 1898 – Shinin No Sosei and Bake Jizo were made by Ejiro Hatta, some of the first films in Japan which were ghost stories. Salvador Toscano created the film, "Don Juan Tenorio", which is considered one of the first films in Mexico and perhaps the first fictional film in Mexico, as South America as a continent focuses on making documentaries in its early film history.
• 1898 – Hiralal Sen was inspired and filmed the "Flower of Persia" play.
• 1899 – The Dreyfus Affair and Cendrillon (first screen adaptation of the traditional fairy tale Cinderella) was released by Georges Méliès; earliest known use of a color motion picture film footage by Edward Raymond Turner

1900s

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• 1900 – Earliest known colour motion picture film footage by Edward Raymond Turner, Sherlock Holmes Baffled, The Enchanted Drawing
• 1901 – Star Theatre, Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost
• 1902 – A Trip to the Moon
• 1903 – The Great Train Robbery, Life of an American Fireman
• 1904 – The Impossible Voyage; Titanus is founded
• 1905 – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom
• 1906 – The Story of the Kelly Gang, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend; Nordisk Film is founded
• 1907 – Ben Hur, L'Enfant prodigue
• 1908 – Fantasmagorie, The Taming of the Shrew, The Thieving Hand, The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, A Visit to the Seaside; first use of Kinemacolor; Pathé News invents the newsreel
• 1909 – The Country Doctor, A Corner in Wheat, Les Misérables, Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy; 35 mm film becomes an international standard.

1910s

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• 1910 – In Old California, In the Border States
• 1911 – L'Inferno, Defence of Sevastopol
• 1912 – Independenţa României, The Musketeers of Pig Alley; Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, Hollywood's first studios, are founded
• 1913 – The Bangville Police, Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life, Fantômas, Raja Harishchandra
• 1914 – The Perils of Pauline, Judith of Bethulia, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Cabiria
• 1915 – The Birth of a Nation, Les Vampires, The Tramp, A Fool There Was
• 1916 – Intolerance, The Queen of Spades, Gertie the Dinosaur, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, One A.M.; invention of Technicolor
• 1917 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, A Man There Was, The Little Princess
• 1918 – Stella Maris, Mickey, Shifting Sands, A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms
• 1919 – Blind Husbands, Broken Blossoms, True Heart Susie, Male and Female, Dalagang Bukid, A Day's Pleasure; United Artists is founded.

1920s

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• 1920 – Way Down East, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Golem: How He Came into the World, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Flapper, The Last of the Mohicans, The Mark of Zorro, Pollyanna
• 1921 – The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Phantom Carriage, The Kid, Destiny, The Sheik
• 1922 – Nosferatu, Nanook of the North, Blood and Sand, Foolish Wives, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, The Little Rascals
• 1923 – Safety Last!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Ten Commandments; Warner Bros. Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures are founded; 16 mm film introduced
• 1924 – Greed, Sherlock Jr., He Who Gets Slapped, The Last Laugh; Columbia Pictures and Metro Goldwyn Mayer are founded
• 1925 – The Battleship Potemkin, The Big Parade, The Gold Rush, The Phantom of the Opera, Ben-Hur
• 1926 – The General, Don Juan, Son of the Sheik, The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• 1927 – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Napoléon, The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, The King of Kings, Wings
• 1928 – The Passion of Joan of Arc, Lights of New York, The Circus, Steamboat Willie (first Mickey Mouse cartoon), The Crowd; RKO Pictures is founded
• 1929 – Blackmail, The Virginian, Pandora's Box, The Broadway Melody, Disraeli; 1st Academy Awards

1930s

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• 1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front, Journey's End, Hell's Angels, The Blue Angel, Abraham Lincoln, Looney Tunes
• 1931 – Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, City Lights, M, The Public Enemy, Little Caesar
• 1932 – The Mummy, The Sign of the Cross, Shanghai Express, Scarface, Freaks, Grand Hotel; 8 mm film released
• 1933 – King Kong, The Invisible Man, Duck Soup, 42nd Street, Sons of the Desert, Queen Christina, She Done Him Wrong
• 1934 – It Happened One Night, Cleopatra, The Thin Man, Judge Priest, The Black Cat, The Three Stooges, Manhattan Melodrama, The Goddess
• 1935 – Bride of Frankenstein, A Night at the Opera, Captain Blood, The 39 Steps, The Littlest Rebel, Mutiny on the Bounty; 20th Century Fox and The Rank Organisation are founded
• 1936 – Modern Times, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld, Flash Gordon, Secret Agent, Come and Get It
• 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, La Grand Illusion, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Life of Emile Zola, Way Out West, Lost Horizon, Pépé le Moko
• 1938 – Bringing Up Baby, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander Nevsky, Angels with Dirty Faces, Jezebel, Boys Town
• 1939 – Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stagecoach, Gunga Din

1940s

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• 1940 – His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, The Great Dictator, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Rebecca, Tom and Jerry, Kitty Foyle, The Long Voyage Home, The Mark of Zorro, The Shop Around the Corner, Road to... film series begins
• 1941 – Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, The Lady Eve, How Green Was My Valley, Sergeant York, Dumbo, The Wolf Man, Superman (original animated theatrical series)
• 1942 – Casablanca, The Magnificent Ambersons, To Be or Not to Be, Cat People, Bambi, Mrs. Miniver, Yankee Doodle Dandy
• 1943 – Heaven Can Wait, Phantom of the Opera, The Song of Bernadette, Shadow of a Doubt, The Ox-Bow Incident
• 1944 – Double Indemnity, Ivan the Terrible, Part One, Meet Me in St. Louis, To Have and Have Not, Laura, Murder, My Sweet, Gaslight
• 1945 – Leave Her to Heaven, The Lost Weekend, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rome, Open City, Brief Encounter, Anchors Aweigh, Spellbound
• 1946 – It's a Wonderful Life, Notorious, My Darling Clementine, Song of the South, Great Expectations, The Big Sleep, The Best Years of Our Lives; First Cannes Film Festival
• 1947 – Miracle on 34th Street, The Lady from Shanghai, Odd Man Out, Monsieur Verdoux, Out of the Past
• 1948 – Bicycle Thieves, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Red River, The Red Shoes, The Paleface; 1st British Academy Film Awards
• 1949 – The Third Man, All the King's Men, White Heat, The Heiress, Whisky Galore!, On the Town

1950s

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• 1950 – Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Los Olvidados, Annie Get Your Gun, In a Lonely Place, Harvey, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, Rashomon, Orphée
• 1951 – A Streetcar Named Desire, Alice in Wonderland, The African Queen, Strangers on a Train, An American in Paris, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Ace in the Hole, Scrooge, The Red Badge of Courage
• 1952 – Singin' in the Rain, The Bad and the Beautiful, High Noon, This Is Cinerama, Ikiru, The Quiet Man, Moulin Rouge, Limelight; first 3D films
• 1953 – Peter Pan, From Here to Eternity, Tokyo Story, Ugetsu, The Earrings of Madame de..., Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, Trouble in Store, Shane, The Robe, Salome; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, first use of CinemaScope; British cinema advertising group Pearl & Dean is founded.
• 1954 – The Seven Samurai, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, La Strada, White Christmas, Sansho the Bailiff, On the Waterfront, Godzilla, A Star Is Born, Animal Farm, Voyage in Italy
• 1955 – Rebel Without a Cause, To Catch a Thief, The Night of the Hunter, Ordet, Pather Panchali, Mister Roberts, Lady and the Tramp, Marty, The Court Jester, Oklahoma!
• 1956 – The Ten Commandments, Carousel, The King and I, Giant, High Society, The Searchers, Written on the Wind, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Forbidden Planet, Around the World in 80 Days
• 1957 – 12 Angry Men, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sweet Smell of Success, Paths of Glory, Throne of Blood, Old Yeller
• 1958 – Vertigo, Gigi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, South Pacific, Touch of Evil, Ashes and Diamonds, Jalsaghar, Mon Oncle, The Cranes Are Flying, The Blob, The Defiant Ones, Carry On film series (1958–1978) begins
• 1959 – Some Like It Hot, Ben-Hur, Shake Hands with the Devil, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder, Sleeping Beauty, Rio Bravo, Pickpocket, Pillow Talk, The Mouse That Roared

1960s

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• 1960 – Psycho, Breathless, Exodus, Spartacus, The Apartment, The Alamo, La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura, Ocean's 11, The Magnificent Seven, The Time Machine, Pollyanna, Eyes Without a Face, Swiss Family Robinson
• 1961 – West Side Story, Judgment at Nuremberg, Divorce, Italian Style, Yojimbo, Breakfast at Tiffany's, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Havoc in Heaven, The Guns of Navarone, A Majority of One, Pocketful of Miracles
• 1962 – Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, James Bond film series (1962–present) begins, The Manchurian Candidate, Ivan's Childhood, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Lolita, Sundays and Cybele
• 1963 – The Birds, Hud, Not on Your Life, The Haunting, The Great Escape, Lilies of the Field, 8½, Cleopatra, How the West Was Won, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Pink Panther, The Nutty Professor, Jason and the Argonauts
• 1964 – Mary Poppins, A Hard Day's Night, A Fistful of Dollars, My Fair Lady, Dr. Strangelove, Woman in the Dunes, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Up series begins
• 1965 – The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, For a Few Dollars More, The Great Race, Cat Ballou, Repulsion
• 1966 – Persona, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Sand Pebbles, A Man for All Seasons, The Battle of Algiers, Fantastic Voyage, Born Free, Alfie, The Wild Angels
• 1967 – Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night, Dont Look Back, The Jungle Book, The Dirty Dozen, The Producers, Doctor Dolittle, Thoroughly Modern Millie
• 1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey, Once Upon a Time in the West, Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Planet of the Apes, Oliver!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Love Bug, Yellow Submarine, Bullitt, Yours, Mine and Ours, Funny Girl
• 1969 – Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, Easy Rider, Z, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, Sweet Charity, Hello, Dolly!, The Italian Job

1970s

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• 1970 – Love Story, Performance, The Aristocats, Five Easy Pieces, Patton, M*A*S*H, The Conformist, Woodstock, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Airport, Let It Be, Two Mules for Sister Sara"; first IMAX films
• 1971 – The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Dirty Harry, The Last Picture Show, Fiddler on the Roof, Billy Jack, Shaft, Duel, Get Carter, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• 1972 – The Godfather, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Solaris, Cries and Whispers, Deep Throat, Last Tango in Paris, What's Up, Doc?, Cabaret, The Poseidon Adventure
• 1973 – The Exorcist, Don't Look Now, Badlands, Amarcord, The Sting, Enter the Dragon, Mean Streets, American Graffiti, Paper Moon, The Wicker Man, Papillon
• 1974 – A Woman Under the Influence, The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, The Conversation, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Towering Inferno, That's Entertainment!
• 1975 – Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Monty Python and the Holy Grail; videocassette recorders appear on mass market
• 1976 – Taxi Driver, Rocky, Network, Carrie, All the President's Men, In the Realm of the Senses, 1900, A Star is Born, Logan's Run, The Omen, Bugsy Malone, The Outlaw Josey Wales
• 1977 – Star Wars, Annie Hall, A Bridge Too Far, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever, Providence, Pete's Dragon, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Hills Have Eyes, Suspiria, Eraserhead
• 1978 – Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, Grease, Midnight Express, Days of Heaven, The Deer Hunter, Superman, Up In Smoke, National Lampoon's Animal House, Watership Down
• 1979 – Apocalypse Now, Mad Max, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Alien, Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan, Stalker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Muppet Movie

1980s

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• 1980 – The Shining, Raging Bull, Ordinary People, Kagemusha, Airplane!, Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, Flash Gordon, Friday the 13th, Fame, 9 to 5, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Star Wars Episode V--The Empire Strikes Back, Gloria, Private Benjamin
• 1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark, On Golden Pond, Chariots of Fire, Pennies from Heaven, Das Boot, Reds, Blow Out, The Evil Dead, Arthur, Cannonball Run, Scanners, Time Bandits, Clash of the Titans, An American Werewolf in London
• 1982 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, Sophie's Choice, Poltergeist, Fitzcarraldo, Fanny and Alexander, Tootsie, Gandhi, Tron, 48 Hrs., Annie, First Blood, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Thing, The Dark Crystal, An Officer and a Gentleman
• 1983 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, Sans Soleil, L'Argent, Terms of Endearment, The King of Comedy, The Right Stuff, Risky Business, Nostalghia, Flashdance, Trading Places, A Christmas Story, Sudden Impact, Sleepaway Camp, Scarface, National Lampoon's Vacation; THX sound system is developed
• 1984 – This Is Spinal Tap, Amadeus, The Karate Kid, The Terminator, Once Upon a Time in America, Ghostbusters, Paris, Texas, Gremlins, Footloose, Police Academy, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Red Dawn, Beverly Hills Cop, The NeverEnding Story
• 1985 – Back to the Future, Come and See, Ran, Brazil, Shoah, Out of Africa, The Breakfast Club, The Color Purple, Cocoon, The Goonies, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, A Room with a View
• 1986 – Blue Velvet, Aliens, The Sacrifice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Stand by Me, Hannah and Her Sisters, Platoon, Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, An American Tail, Three Amigos, Labyrinth, The Fly, Short Circuit, Little Shop of Horrors
• 1987 – Fatal Attraction, Wings of Desire, The Dead, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, The Last Emperor, Wall Street, Moonstruck, Hope and Glory, Raising Arizona, Sid & Nancy, Mannequin, Spaceballs, Predator, Good Morning, Vietnam, RoboCop, Innerspace, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Lost Boys
• 1988 – Rain Man, The Last Temptation of Christ, My Neighbor Totoro, Midnight Run, Dead Ringers, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Beetlejuice, Akira, The Accused, Child's Play, Heathers, Big, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• 1989 – Do the Right Thing, Driving Miss Daisy, The Little Mermaid (starting off the Disney Renaissance), Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Abyss, Close-Up, Batman, A Fish Called Wanda, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, When Harry Met Sally...; first publication of Empire

1990s

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• 1990 – Home Alone, Goodfellas, Ghost, Wild at Heart, Edward Scissorhands, Miller's Crossing, Dances with Wolves, House Party, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, Pretty Woman, Troll 2, Misery, The Hunt for Red October, Journey of Hope, Cry-Baby, Joe Versus the Volcano, Mermaids, Postcards from the Edge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tremors
• 1991 – The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Beauty and the Beast, JFK, A Brighter Summer Day, Thelma & Louise, The Addams Family, My Girl, Hot Shots!, Boyz n the Hood, Point Break
• 1992 – Unforgiven, Aladdin, Reservoir Dogs, The Player, Basic Instinct, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Indochine, The Bodyguard, Army of Darkness, League of Their Own, Sister Act, Pure Country, Wayne's World
• 1993 – Schindler's List, The Piano, In the Name of the Father, Groundhog Day, Jurassic Park, Philadelphia, Three Colors: Blue, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hocus Pocus, Cliffhanger, The Firm, Sleepless in Seattle, Dazed and Confused, True Romance, Free Willy
• 1994 – Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King, Legends of the Fall, Three Colors: Red, Clerks, Interview with the Vampire, True Lies, Speed, Maverick, The Mask, Léon: The Professional, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber, Four Weddings and a Funeral
• 1995 – Braveheart, Se7en, Toy Story, Heat, A Moment of Innocence, 12 Monkeys, The Usual Suspects, Apollo 13, Babe, Jumanji, Leaving Las Vegas, Sense and Sensibility, Rumble in the Bronx, Bad Boys, Clueless, Before Sunrise; first DVDs released
• 1996 – Fargo, Breaking the Waves, Trainspotting, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Independence Day, Jerry Maguire, The English Patient, Flirting with Disaster, That Thing You Do!, Happy Gilmore, Scream, Space Jam, Fly Away Home, Mars Attacks!, Dragonheart, Mission: Impossible
• 1997 – Titanic, Men in Black, Boogie Nights, Taste of Cherry, Hana-bi, L.A. Confidential, Good Will Hunting, Life is Beautiful, Jackie Brown, The Fifth Element, Chasing Amy, Princess Mononoke, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Kundun, The Full Monty, Anastasia, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• 1998 – Saving Private Ryan, American History X, The Thin Red Line, Shakespeare in Love, The Big Lebowski, Rush Hour, The Truman Show, Mulan, Buffalo 66, Rushmore, The Mask of Zorro, Bulworth, Blade, You've Got Mail, The Wedding Singer, Gods and Monsters, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, There's Something About Mary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• 1999 – American Beauty, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, Magnolia, The Blair Witch Project, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Eyes Wide Shut, The Iron Giant, All About My Mother, Stuart Little, Toy Story 2, Girl, Interrupted, Cruel Intentions, American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Notting Hill, The Mummy, Office Space, Galaxy Quest, The Green Mile, Being John Malkovich

2000s

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• 2000 – In the Mood for Love, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Platform, Memento, Erin Brockovich, Cast Away, Gladiator, Remember the Titans, Chicken Run, Billy Elliot, Bring It On, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, American Psycho, Meet the Parents, Dinosaur, Traffic, X-Men, High Fidelity, Unbreakable trilogy, Final Destination, Before Night Falls, Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream, Best in Show, Quills, Love and Basketball, The Virgin Suicides, Chocolat, Miss Congeniality, Scary Movie, The Patriot; first digital cinema projection in Europe by Philippe Binant
• 2001 – Mulholland Drive, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) begins, A Beautiful Mind, Spirited Away, Shrek, Donnie Darko, Harry Potter film series (2001–11) begins, The Fast and the Furious, Moulin Rouge!, Monster's Ball, Monsters, Inc., Legally Blonde, Zoolander, Training Day, Black Hawk Down, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Spy Kids, Super Troopers, Amélie, Bridget Jones's Diary, Ocean's Eleven
• 2002 – City of God, Talk to Her, Minority Report, Spider-Man, The Pianist, Chicago, Russian Ark, The Hours, The Quiet American, Lilo & Stitch, Gangs of New York, Bowling for Columbine, About a Boy, Frieda, Panic Room, 28 Days Later, Punch-Drunk Love, The Ring, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Better Luck Tomorrow, Catch Me If You Can, The Bourne Identity, Adaptation, Bend It Like Beckham, 8 Mile
• 2003 – Oldboy, Kill Bill, Elephant, Monster, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Finding Nemo, Love Actually, Lost in Translation, Johnny English, Big Fish, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Last Samurai, The Room, Cold Mountain, Elf, School of Rock
• 2004 – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Passion of the Christ, Million Dollar Baby, The Incredibles, Sideways, Hotel Rwanda, Downfall, Friday Night Lights, The Aviator, Spider-Man 2, Closer, Saw, Ray, Mean Girls, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, The Notebook, Finding Neverland, Team America: World Police, Shaun of the Dead, Hellboy, The Polar Express, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• 2005 – Caché, The New World, Brokeback Mountain, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, A History of Violence, Pride & Prejudice, Walk the Line, Batman Begins, March of the Penguins, Munich, Serenity, Sin City, Good Night, and Good Luck, Crash, The 40 Year Old Virgin, King Kong (2005), Capote
• 2006 – Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed, Dreamgirls, The Lives of Others, The Prestige, The Queen, Happy Feet, Borat, Little Miss Sunshine, Night at the Museum, The Pursuit of Happyness, Inside Man, The History Boys, An Incovenient Truth, The Holiday, The Last King of Scotland, Snakes on a Plane, Babel, United 93; First Blu-rays released
• 2007 – 300, I Am Legend, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, The Simpsons Movie, Michael Clayton, Superbad, Hot Fuzz, Enchanted, Alvin and the Chipmunks, American Gangster, Grindhouse, Once, Transformers, La Vie En Rose, Zodiac, Knocked Up, The Darjeeling Limited, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• 2008 – The Dark Knight, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Mamma Mia!, WALL-E, Gran Torino, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Frost/Nixon, Cloverfield, Son of Rambow, Changeling, Taken, Twilight, Marley & Me, Step Brothers, In Bruges, Bronson, Man on Wire, The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• 2009 – Inglourious Basterds, Avatar, Up, The Secret in Their Eyes, Mary and Max, District 9, The Princess and the Frog, Star Trek, The Hangover, Up in the Air, Coraline, In the Loop, Zombieland, Sherlock Holmes, Crazy Heart, Precious, The Hurt Locker, Michael Jackson's This Is It

2010s

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• 2010 – Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech, Tangled, The Social Network, Winter's Bone, How to Train Your Dragon, 127 Hours, Alice in Wonderland, Toy Story 3, The Town, True Grit (2010), Despicable Me, The Fighter, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Kick-Ass, The Kids Are All Right
• 2011 – The Artist, Drive, The Intouchables, Hugo, A Separation, The Tree of Life, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Midnight in Paris, Bridesmaids, The Descendants, War Horse, Moneyball, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Muppets, The Help, The Cabin in the Woods, Super 8, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Adventures of Tintin
• 2012 – Life of Pi, The Hobbit trilogy begins, Argo, Lincoln, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Prometheus, Ted, Silver Linings Playbook, Pitch Perfect, 21 Jump Street (film), Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, Wreck-It Ralph, Looper, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Master, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Brave, Zero Dark Thirty, Amour, The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises
• 2013 – The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Gravity, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Rush, Frozen, American Hustle, Filth, Dallas Buyers Club, Captain Phillips, Her, Under the Skin, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Prisoners, The Conjuring, Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska, Pacific Rim, World War Z, Philomena, This is the End, The World's End, Blue Jasmine
• 2014 – Interstellar, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lego Movie, Birdman, Whiplash, Paddington, American Sniper, Into the Woods, Big Hero 6, Selma, Godzilla, Gone Girl, Frank, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler, John Wick, Wild, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything
• 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, The Hateful Eight, Inside Out, Spotlight, The Martian, Ex Machina, Bridge of Spies, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Big Short, Room, The Peanuts Movie, Cinderella, Carol, Creed, Furious 7, Amy, The DUFF, Sicario, Straight Outta Compton
• 2016 – Finding Dory, Zootopia, La La Land, Deadpool, Moana, Sing Street, Arrival, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Hacksaw Ridge, Fences, Your Name, Lion, The Jungle Book, The Handmaiden, Don't Breathe, I, Daniel Blake, Silence, Hidden Figures, Hell or High Water
• 2017 – The Shape of Water, Wonder Woman, Get Out, Coco, Dunkirk, Logan, It, The Disaster Artist, Paddington 2, Baby Driver, The Post, I, Tonya, Blade Runner 2049, The Silent Child, The Big Sick, Wonder, Call Me by Your Name, A Silent Voice, Phantom Thread, Lady Bird, Ayla: The Daughter of War, The Florida Project, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Darkest Hour, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, The Greatest Showman; The Harvey Weinstein scandal begins
• 2018 – Bohemian Rhapsody, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Star Is Born, The Favourite, Capernaum, Roma, Ready Player One, Eighth Grade, Bumblebee, Mary Poppins Returns, A Simple Favor, A Quiet Place, Suspiria (2018), Hereditary, Crazy Rich Asians, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Stan & Ollie, BlacKkKlansman, Annihilation, First Man, Green Book, Free Solo, Shoplifters
• 2019 – Joker, Toy Story 4, 1917, Parasite, Rocketman, Little Women, The Irishman, Marriage Story, Uncut Gems, Knives Out Spider-Man: Far From Home

2020s

See also: 2020s in film

• 2020 — Nomadland, Sonic the Hedgehog, Minari, The Eight Hundred, Hamilton, Mank, The Invisible Man, Another Round, Promising Young Woman, Wolfwalkers, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Half of It; Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of films shut down production, or are either removed from their originally scheduled releases and moved to new release dates or digital releases.
• 2021 — Spider-Man: No Way Home, Dune, The Power of the Dog, Encanto, Judas and the Black Messiah, Belfast, Licorice Pizza, Don't Look Up, Flee, CODA, The White Tiger, Tick, Tick... Boom!, The Lost Daughter; American movie theatre chain AMC Theatres launches its movie theatre commercial starring actress Nicole Kidman
• 2022 – Everything Everywhere All at Once, Top Gun: Maverick, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, RRR, Elvis, Aftersun, X, Tár, The Banshees of Inisherin, All Quiet on the Western Front, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Triangle of Sadness
• 2023 – Barbenheimer (consisting of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer), Wonka, Poor Things, The Zone of Interest, M3GAN, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Maestro, The Boy and the Heron, May December, Robot Dreams, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.; In Hollywood, the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA separately began a series of strikes by the actors and writers for six months, affecting the film and television industries
• 2024 – Inside Out 2, Wicked, The Substance, Conclave, Civil War, Dune: Part Two, The Wild Robot, Flow, Sing Sing, Better Man, Challengers, A Real Pain, Anora, The Brutalist
• 2025 – A Minecraft Movie, Wolf Man, Dog Man, Captain America: Brave New World, Snow White, The Alto Knights, How to Train Your Dragon, Elio, Lilo & Stitch, Jurassic World Rebirth, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Back in Action, Now You See Me 3, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, It Was Just an Accident, Superman, Resurrection, Predator: Badlands, The Gorge, The Monkey, Heart Eyes, Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare, Popeye's Revenge, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Dark Nuns, Zootopia 2, One Battle After Another
• 2026 – Mutiny, Scream 7, Toy Story 5, Ice Age 6, Shrek 5, The Mandalorian and Grogu, The Bride!, Project Hail Mary, Wuthering Heights, Send Help, Masters of the Universe, Supergirl, Flowervale Street, Goat, Mercy, SOULM8TE, Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Odyssey, Aang: The Last Airbender, Avengers: Doomsday, Moana

See also

• List of cinematic firsts

References

Sources

• The Silent Cinema Reader edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer
• Movies of the 30s, edited by Jürgen Müller, Taschen
• The Magic of Méliès, documentary by Jacques Mény, special collector's edition DVD, Spain