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- Now using bayesian averages in the calculations which produces far more accurate results.
- Horror, western, animation and noir all have their separate sources used as basis for the list, making the rankings more consistent.
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I like to thank everyone that engaged and commented in my previous version of this list. The feedback I had was phenomenal and certainly unexpected. When I started this project it was meant to be just a reliable personal source of recommendations of films to watch from time to time. I never expected any interest outside of myself and my family, so thank you all again.

Just like my previous work, I feel that I have to make a disclaimer explaining that this list is not objective in any sense. In fact I don't even believe it is possible to quantify art in an objective way. Nonetheless, I also hold the position that some works of art are better than others and we can learn why that is the case. What this list is is an attempt to generate a consensus between a wide range of opinions, eliminating as much bias as possible, while maintaining the integrity of the acclaim from academic criticism and also the general public.

This project came to be after my consistent failure in finding reliable and unbiased movie lists, that adressed movies outside english-speaking countries with fairness, and had a combination of opinions from new and old generations. Creating this list was a problem far more difficult than I first anticipated. Not only I had to find high quality lists to have a sample size in which I could work, but also I had to create my own mathematical system to aggregate the results as objectively as possible.

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" (TSPDT) would prove to be the best list by far, having already aggregated 12,276 individual lists into one single big list, ranking the top 1000 movies. Since no other data that I used got nowhere even close to this sample size, TSPDT became my base reference. Also, the quality of the list is undeniable, being the most reliable source of academic critical consensus on movies available in the internet.

That being said, the list is not perfect, having a huge "english bias" and severely underrating modern movies as well as the general public criticism. I had to find my own sources of reliable and high quality lists (a task easier said than done due to the vast amount of unreliable material) to solve this problem. Once I had my complete selection, I used my mathematical system to aggregate the results in an attempt to minimize any subjective analysis. Of course, as stated before, eliminating it is impossible, but I'm confident that this system has minimal interference from my part.

I planned on updating my original list once my methods became better and more refined, but this new methodology produced such a different result that I had to create a new list. The major difference between this and the old list is a much better mathematical formula, that more accurately rewards films that have wide inconsistencies in their rankings across the multiple sources (for instance, The Shawshank Redemption was severely underrated in the old list because of those inconsistencies). Also, I used individual directors and genres lists to more accurately rank the films, a method that provided much better results.

I will repeat what I said before. There's no way to claim that a particular list has THE best 1001 movies ever made in history, not to mention ranking them. But I can say that I'm happy with the results. I think this is the best list I've seen that is relatively accurate and fair, would speak to a significant number of people, covers movies from all generations and different countries, combines critics and the general public's tastes, has a broad number of genres, and is with as little bias as possible.

The mathematical system that I used I wish to remain a secret to preserve the authenticity of the list.

List Stats:

Movies by decade:
1900's: 1
1910's: 4
1920's: 33
1930's: 57
1940's: 76
1950's: 134
1960's: 172
1970's: 149
1980's: 113
1990's: 125
2000's: 93
2010's: 43
2020's: 1
Top Year: 1962 (22 films)

Movies from director:
14 - John Ford
13 - Alfred Hitchcock
12 - Jean-Luc Godard; Luis Buñuel
11 - Akira Kurosawa; Stanley Kubrick
10 - Federico Fellini; Howard Hawks; Ingmar Bergman; Martin Scorsese
9 - Charles Chaplin; David Lynch; Jean Renoir; Robert Bresson; Steven Spielberg
8- Michelangelo Antonioni; Roberto Rossellini; Yasujiro Ozu
7 - Andrei Tarkovsky; Billy Wilder; François Truffaut; Fritz Lang; Joel & Ethan Coen; John Cassavetes; John Huston; Luchino Visconti; Orson Welles