This year’s top vote getters:
1. Casablanca 19 mentions
2. Mulholland Drive 17 mentions
3. Mad Max: Fury Road 16 mentions
4. The Thing 13 mentions
5. The Empire Strikes Back 12 mentions
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once 12 mentions
5. It’s a Wonderful Life 12 mentions
5. The Princess Bride 12 mentions
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark 12 mentions
10. Seven Samurai 11 mentions
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10 mentions
12. Citizen Kane 9 mentions
12. Goodfellas 9 mentions
12. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 9 mentions
15. Alien 8 mentions
15. The Big Lebowski 8 mentions
15. Rear Window 8 mentions
15. Sinners 8 mentions
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 7.33 mentions
20. Blade Runner 7 mentions
20. Children of Men 7 mentions
20. Jurassic Park 7 mentions
20. Singin’ in the Rain 7 mentions
20. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 7 mentions
25. 2001: A Space Odyssey 6 mentions
25. The Apartment 6 mentions
25. Chinatown 6 mentions
25. Do the Right Thing 6 mentions
25. I Saw the TV Glow 6 mentions
25. Knives Out 6 mentions
25. Ran 6 mentions
25. Spirited Away 6 mentions
25. Star Wars 6 mentions
25. The Third Man 6 mentions
25. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 6 mentions
36. Back to the Future 5 mentions
36. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 5 mentions
36. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 5 mentions
36. Hot Fuzz 5 mentions
36. Jaws 5 mentions
36. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 5 mentions
36. Princess Mononoke 5 mentions
36. The Royal Tenenbaums 5 mentions
36. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 5 mentions
36. Stalker 5 mentions
36. Terminator 2: Judgment Day 5 mentions
36. The Truman Show 5 mentions
36. Vertigo 5 mentions
Movies that received a vote for the first time this year: The Act of Killing, All of Us Strangers, The Ascent, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Babygirl, The Black Hole, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Breakin’, The Broken Hearts Club, Calamity Jane, California Split, Chicken for Linda!, La Chimera, Cleopatra (1963), Control, Crippled Avengers, D.A.R.Y.L., The Day the Earth Stood Still, Diner, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary, Dragons Forever, Edward II, Flow, For All Mankind, Ghost in the Shell (2017), The Great Dictator, Hester Street, Highlander, Home Alone, House II: The Second Story, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, The Indian Runner, It (1990), Jerry Maguire, Ju-On: The Grudge, Key Largo (multiple first time votes), Legend of the Mountain, Linda Linda Linda, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Merrily We Go to Hell, Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol, Moneyball, Monster (2003), Monster (2023) (multiple first time votes), My Dinner with Andre, Nickel Boys, Night on Earth, Nosferatu (2024) (multiple first time votes), One Battle After Another (multiple first time votes), Orlando, Perfect Days, Peter Pan (1960), Petulia, Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Polite Society, Punishment Park, Pusher II, Querelle, Red Beard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Sinners (multiple first time votes), Skyfall, Sócrates, Southland Tales, Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy, The Summit of the Gods, Superman (2025), The Trip, We the Animals, Weapons (multiple first time votes), Wild Tigers I Have Known
This year’s spreadsheet covering every vote: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yinR-dByY35CEKYPqWS1kuqG2E2dkQaFr98HDExv_TU/edit?usp=sharing
Every movie to have ever received a vote in the Avocado Sight & Sound: https://letterboxd.com/immortan_scott/list/every-movie-that-received-an-avocado-sight/
Thank you to everyone that voted this year.
Director Profiles return next Tuesday, with Sofia Coppola being profiled.