Time to get real…
The results are in! Thanks to everyone who participated. Not as huge a sample size as in our video game poll so the data looks a little different, but we’ve still got a big beautiful list for you here.
As in that previous poll, let’s begin with some HARD NUMBERS:
35 forum users submitted a total of 350 votes
302 films were chosen, 261 of which received only one vote. 86% of the films chosen received only one vote (in the game poll this number was 65%)
8 films received 3 votes each and compose the list of Insert Credit Essentials
33 films received 2 votes each and compose the Honor Roll
The remaining 261 are the… Sub-Honor Roll
1989 is the average year of release. The oldest film submitted was released in 1926 (the first feature film was shown in 1906, 20 years earlier). The newest film submitted was released in 2019 (the year they stopped making films).
1 hour 56 minutes is the average running time. The longest film submitted runs 9 hours 39 minutes, and the shortest runs 14 minutes.
Akira Kurosawa had the greatest number of films on the list at 4, which in total received 6 votes. Hayao Miyazaki's 3 films received the greatest number of votes among them at 7. Andrei Tarkovsky received 6 votes for 2 films.
The United States produced or coproduced the greatest number of films at 138.
Japan produced or coproduced 54 films, and France produced or coproduced 53.
The Phillipines and the Czech Republic each produced 1 film on the list.
The Most “Insert Credit” Forum Users were
*defined as those whose choices were the least aligned with the Sight & Sound polled directors and critics and the IMDb Top 250
**(##) = total number of points (you don’t want these points)
@穴, @fetus8, @xhekros (tie, 0)
@Alyx, @connrrr, @Moon, @tombo (tie, 1.5)
@pedrochambs (2)
@beets, @kory, @theo (tie, 2.25)
@BluntForceMama (3.5)
@◉◉maru (9)
@YerryMina (12)
@dylanfills (13.5)
Congratulations, all.
(the three “lowest” scores were 1435, 711, and 331, to give an idea of the bad math at work here)
For the list: if any film shows more than one run time, it is because at least one user submitted each of those cuts of the film for their list.