A further companion piece to Dave Vis' list of Letterboxd's official top 250 films of all-time. To be updated once a month. The list is ranked by the number of fans on Letterboxd. A “fan” is a member with a particular film as one of their four favorites.
The Crew HQ account will continue occasional check-ins of the most fans stats, including by gender identity and the ratio of fans to viewers. See also, the four favorites that the Letterboxd editorial and social teams have collected from actors and filmmakers. Drew keeps track of the 'most popular backdrops', which are the films most commonly placed as the first favorite by Patron members and Crew so the backdrop is displayed at…
A further companion piece to Dave Vis' list of Letterboxd's official top 250 films of all-time. To be updated once a month. The list is ranked by the number of fans on Letterboxd. A “fan” is a member with a particular film as one of their four favorites.
The Crew HQ account will continue occasional check-ins of the most fans stats, including by gender identity and the ratio of fans to viewers. See also, the four favorites that the Letterboxd editorial and social teams have collected from actors and filmmakers. Drew keeps track of the 'most popular backdrops', which are the films most commonly placed as the first favorite by Patron members and Crew so the backdrop is displayed at the top of their profile page.
Unlisted most fans list network:
• Top 100 Films from Patron Members (forty-nine dollar version)
• Top 100 Films from Pro Members (nineteen dollar version)
• Top 100 Films from Free Members (an even freer version)
• Top 100 Films from Members with 1,000+ Watched (cinephile version)
• Top 100 Below Average Films (3.42 rating or lower version)
• Top 100 Films of the 2020s (recency bias version)
• Top 250 Pre-1970 Films (non-recency bias version)
• Top 250 Non-English Language Films (international version)
• Top 250 Horror Films (spooky version)
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STATS:
Top Decade: 2000s (69 films)
Top Decade, 20th Century only: 1990s (45 films)
Top Year: 2019 (12 films, by premiere year)
Top Year, 20th Century only: 1999 (10 films, by premiere year)
Newest Film: Dune: Part Two (2024)
Oldest Film: Casablanca (1942)
Shortest Film: The Nightmare Before Christmas (76 mins)
Longest Film: The Godfather: Part II (202 mins)
Best Picture Winners: 21
Best Picture Nominees: 73
Films by Women Directors: 23
Films by Black Directors: 6
Non-English Language Films: 30
Films in the All-Time Top 250: 83
TOP DIRECTORS TALLY:
• Hayao Miyazaki – 6 films
• Christopher Nolan – 6 films
• David Fincher – 5 films
• Martin Scorsese – 5 films
• Steven Spielberg – 5 films
• Quentin Tarantino – 5 films
• Denis Villeneuve – 5 films
• Wes Anderson – 4 films
• Stanley Kubrick – 4 films
• Paul Thomas Anderson – 3 films
• James Cameron – 3 films
• Damien Chazelle – 3 films
• Joel & Ethan Coen – 3 films
• Francis Ford Coppola – 3 films
• Sofia Coppola – 3 films
• Greta Gerwig – 3 films
• Alfred Hitchcock – 3 films
• Peter Jackson – 3 films
• Wong Kar-wai – 3 films
• Rob Reiner – 3 films
• Ridley Scott – 3 films
• Edgar Wright – 3 films
• Ari Aster – 2 films
• Darren Aronofsky – 2 films
• Tim Burton – 2 films
• John Carpenter – 2 films
• Park Chan-wook – 2 films
• Alfonso Cuarón – 2 films
• Robert Eggers – 2 films
• Miloš Forman – 2 films
• Luca Guadagnino – 2 films
• John Hughes – 2 films
• Bong Joon-ho – 2 films
• George Lucas – 2 films
• David Lynch – 2 films
• Martin McDonagh – 2 films
• Sam Mendes – 2 films
• Jordan Peele – 2 films
• Sam Raimi – 2 films
• Anthony & Joe Russo – 2 films
• Henry Selick – 2 films
• Taika Waititi – 2 films
• Peter Weir – 2 films
• Robert Zemeckis – 2 films
See also, The ‘Official’ List Network on Letterboxd.
