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When I visited the Fandango Groovers Movie Blog and noticed that a fantastic blog-a-thon was taking place, I decided that the meme would be something I want to participate in. Little did I know what I was getting myself involved with!

Phew! This was a lot harder than I thought it would be … to have to put together a list of your favorite films from each year sounds like a no-brainer, but the deeper I dug, the more I felt like I was doing the films I did not select a disservice. In the end I decided to go with the films that had the most visceral of responses for me. Where applicable (i.e. head versus heart), I added a “runner-up” selection.

Year	Movie	Runner-Up
1976	Smurfs and the Magic Flute	Freaky Friday
1977	Star Wars	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978	Superman: the Movie	Grease
1979	Alien	The Warriors
1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Bon Voyage Charlie Brown
1981	Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
1982	E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
1983	Return of the Jedi
1984	Beverly Hills Cop
1985	A Room With a View	Back to the Future
1986	Aliens
1987	The Princess Bride	Lethal Weapon
1988	Cinema Paradiso
1989	When Harry Met Sally
1990	Europa! Europa!	Home Alone
1991	Man in the Moon
1992	Belle Epoque
1993	Much Ado About Nothing
1994	The Shawshank Redemption	Muriel’s Wedding
1995	The Usual Suspects	While You Were Sleeping *
1996	The Truth About Cats and Dogs	The Long Kiss Goodnight
1997	L.A. Confidential
1998	You’ve Got Mail
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley
2000	High Fidelity	Love + Basketball
2001	Bridget Jones’s Diary
2002	Far From Heaven	Bend it Like Beckham
2003	Love Actually	School of Rock
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	The Bourne Supremacy
2005	A History of Violence
2006	Children of Men	Casino Royale
2007	The Bourne Ultimatum	Hot Fuzz
2008	The Dark Knight
2009	Taken
2010	Inception	The Social Network

* 5.10.2011 – a bit of revisionist history … actually my runner up should be Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility (1995)