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Best Picture for Each Year, According to Letterboxd Ratings

To show just another way to quantify the unquantifiable title of "Best Picture", I compiled the highest rated film of each year, according to the average Letterboxd ratings. Currently only goes back to 1920 because data prior to that starts to get pretty hazy.
This is obviously a messy thing to assess, so I had to have some criteria:
1. The film must be a film
2. Similarly to the Academy Award Best Picture, documentaries were also excluded.
3. It must be feature length. My (admittedly entirely arbitrary) cutoff dictates it must be 60 minutes or longer.
4. To avoid any other weird outliers that may not be truly representative, each movie must have at least 1,000 views.
None of this is necessarily my own personal opinion, nor should it be taken as such. I'm trying to put boundaries around something very messy, so I may change the criteria if it feels appropriate to do so.
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avg. score: 36 of 101 (36%)
required scores: 1, 16, 28, 41, 54 
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
2
The Kid (1921)
The Kid (1921)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
3
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
4
Safety Last! (1923)
Safety Last! (1923)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
5
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
6
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
7
The General (1926)
The General (1926)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
8
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
9
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
10
Lucky Star (1929)
Lucky Star (1929)
11
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
12
City Lights (1931)
City Lights (1931)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
13
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
14
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
15
It Happened One Night (1934)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
16
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
17
Modern Times (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
18
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
19
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
20
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
21
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
22
Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
23
Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
24
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
25
Double Indemnity (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
26
Children of Paradise (1945)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
27
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
28
Out of the Past (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
29
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
30
Late Spring (1949)
Late Spring (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
31
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
32
Early Summer (1951)
Early Summer (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
33
Ikiru (1952)
Ikiru (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
34
Tokyo Story (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
35
Seven Samurai (1954)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
36
Ordet (1955)
Ordet (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
37
A Man Escaped (1956)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
38
12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
39
Vertigo (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
40
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   71%
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