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The Greatest Films of 2024:

In addition to highlighting the best films of 2024, Filmsite has also compiled a year-by-year recommendation of the greatest films (by decade and individual year) going back almost 100 years.

The various categories include:

Greatest Films (for each year)
Film History Milestones (for each year)
Movie Title Screens (for each year and thematically)
Film Franchises: Movie Title Screens

There is an enormous amount of information in each of these major sections of Filmsite. Included are film summaries, film history, box-office information, listings of the greatest film franchises of all time, movie title screens, genre specifications, and Oscars (Academy Awards) nominees and winners. Some title screens are incomplete until a later date.

The Oscar nominations for 2024 films were announced recently - see Academy Awards (for 2020s decade, and other decades), and the Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for March 2, 2025.

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100 Greatest Films

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All-Time Greatest Film Franchises - Box Office

Sex in Film: Comprehensive History

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Filmsite's Film Reviews

Greatest Film Quotes of All-Time

Film Genres

1000's of Movie Title Screens

Top 100 All-Time Box Office Blockbusters

All-Time Box-Office Top 100 Films

Film History: Overview

Greatest Film Milestones

Greatest Film Scenes

Movie Trivia Quizzes

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About Filmsite.org

Filmsite.org (aka Filmsite) is an award-winning website for classic film buffs, students, moviegoers and anyone else interested in the great movies of the last century. Detailed plot synopses, review commentary and film reference material are just some of the features available on the site. The site also contains film analysis, original content, information on the top films and most memorable movie scenes, "Best of..." articles, and the most popular film quotes in all genres of film. Its many resources include a comprehensive overview of film history, a complete survey of the Academy Awards (Oscars), milestones and turning points in the industry, and background and descriptions for hundreds of classic Hollywood/American and other English-language movies from the last one hundred years. In the mid-1990s when it was first launched, filmsite.org was one of the first websites to initiate the trend to select 100 Greatest Films in the history of cinema.

About Film Historian: Tim Dirks

Tim Dirks created the popular filmsite.org website, aka Filmsite or Greatest Films, in mid-1996, and the site celebrates its landmark 29th anniversary in 2025. He has been writing about and reviewing films on the site ever since its start. Tim originated Filmsite and has remained its sole contributor, manager, and editor - he adds significant content to the site spanning all the years of cinematic history, often writes blogs and other film-related articles, and has engaged in a number of on-camera interviews about film. Wikipedia has called the site "an introduction to cinematic literacy," and CultureSonar referred to the site as "A One-Man IMDb." The site has averaged over time about 10 million page views per year (see visitor and traffic statistics).

Roger Ebert: Endorsement

Film critic and columnist Roger Ebert, author of The Great Movies (2002), The Great Movies II (2005), and The Great Movies III (2010) made many detailed references to filmsite.org in his Chicago Sun-Times "Answer Man" column and in his many writings about the Great Movies over the years. He has written that the site is "an invaluable repository of movie descriptions and dialogue" and that it is an "awesome website [that] contains detailed descriptions of 300 great American films, along with many other riches."