The Rankings of the Films of 2015, A Year Later

A year ago at the end of 2015 – as we do every year – we tallied the current standings of the global rankings of the films of the year.

At that time, the rankings included the following twenty films, in the following order:

#1 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
#2 – Mad Max: Fury Road
#3 – Inside Out
#4 – The Martian
#5 – Ex Machina
#6 – Avengers: Age of Ultron
#7 – Kingsman: The Secret Service
#8 – Ant-Man
#9 – Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
#10 – Sicario
#11 – Creed
#12 – Jurassic World
#13 – Spectre
#14 – Straight Outta Compton
#15 – Spotlight
#16 – The Hateful Eight
#17 – Furious 7
#18 – Steve Jobs
#19 – Bridge of Spies
#20 – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Let’s find out exactly how much has changed over the course of 2016 by Flickcharters continuing to rank the films of 2015…

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• At #20, we’ve got Bridge of Spies, which fell only one slot down from its original spot at #19.
• At #19, we have the first new entry to the list – Brooklyn.
  
• At #18, Steve Jobs holds steady.
• At #17, is Straight Outta Compton – falling down 3 places from #14.
• At #16, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation with a huge drop down 7 places from its previous #9 slot!
• At #15, we have Ant-Man, which also seems to have lost some of its luster – dropping 7 from its initial #8 position.
• At #14, another new entry – The Big Short.
• At #13, Avengers: Age of Ultron, which dropped 7 places from its previously quite lofty #6 place.
• At #12, Kingsman: The Secret Service only dropping 5 slots from its former #7 location.
• At #11, Sicario which only dropped 1 place from #10.
• At #10, with Creed we have the first positive shift – up 1 place from #11.
• At #9, The Hateful Eight gets a huge boost – up 7 places from its prior #16 point. (With a Christmas Day release, and it being a Tarantino film, there’s no surprise here why it raised over time.)
• At #8, we have Spotlight making similar gains – up 7 notches from #15. (Winning the Oscar for Best Picture certainly helped this one!)
• At #7, The Revenant appears new to the top 20.
• At #6, another new item gaining notoriety after awards season – Room.
• At #5, Pixar’s Inside Out, falling 2 marks shy of its preceding #3 pedestal.
• At #4, Ex Machina gaining 1 from its previous #5 position.
• At #3, The Martian up by 1 taking Inside Out‘s last placement.
• At #2, Mad Max: Fury Road, just narrowly bested by…
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens continuing to hold its comfortable lead at #1.

With four new films in the top 20 (Brooklyn, The Big Short, The Revenant, and Room), that means we also lost some:

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, now sitting at #22
• Jurassic World, now down at #27
• Spectre, right behind at #28
• and Furious 7, at #30

Other films now just outside the top 20 sitting between some of those pushed-out films include:

• At #21, The Witch (or as some call it, The VVitch)
• At #23, The Green Room
• At #24, The Lobster
• At #25, Anamolisa
• At #25, Carol
• and Dope at #29

So, you can see that a lot can change in the span of a year’s worth of rankings (that’s almost 19 million, to be specific).

How do you like the new order? Happy to see the movements, or was it closer to perfection before?

As always, your rankings make all the difference – so keep ranking all the movies of 2015, 2016, 2017, and the rest of the films from your lifetime to make the change you want to see!