Year-by-Year Polls: 1987
Posted: August 4th, 2019, 10:32 pm
Welcome to the Year-by-Year Poll!
This poll is for the year 1987
These polls are fairly simple. We work our way through film history selecting a different year each time, and you list your top films from the given year. Depending on the number of voters, the poll usually produces a list of around 50-90 films and is a great way of finding recommendations. Lots of people will also list other films outside their top 20 as honorable mentions or runners-up.
The Rules
- You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.
- Feature films, documentaries, short films, TV movies, and TV mini-series are all eligible, but not continuing TV series or individual TV episodes.
- We use IMDb dates for consistency, so a title should be listed on IMDb as 1987.
- Your ballot can be either ranked or unranked, but I will assume it's ranked unless otherwise stated. For ranked ballots it makes it easier if you use a numbered list.
- IMPORTANT: Along with a list of the titles from 1987, please include the corresponding list of bare IMDb urls for the same films. Your ballot will be deemed disqualified if the IMDb urls are not included.
The Scoring
For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive a number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each succeeding title receiving one fewer point. So the top title on a list of 20 films will receive 20 points, the next 19 points and so on. If the list has only 10 films, the top title will receive 10 points, the next one 9, and so on. If there are 5 films on the list, the top film will receive 5 points, the next one 4, well you get the idea.
For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted to the ballot if it had been ranked. If there are 20 films on the ballot, this means each one would receive 10.5 points.
Some resources
1987 films with the sorted by most votes on IMDb
1987 films you've rated on IMDb
Wikipedia's 1987 in film article
1987 films you've checked on ICM
1987 films you *haven't* checked on ICM
Previous poll results as ICM lists
1940 results
1981 results
2005 results
1927 results
1968 results
1939 results
1976 results
1997 results
1958 results
2017 results
1948 results
1983 results
1969 results
1925 results
1991 results
1957 results
2006 results
2018 results
1932 results
1972 results
1942 results
The Deadline
This poll will run for about 3 weeks and will close on Sunday August 25 midnight Eastern Daylight Saving Time or whenever I sign on the Monday. You may revise or add a ballot anytime until the poll is indicated closed in the subject header.
The next poll will be 1964 followed by 1994.
Thank you and happy listing!
This poll is for the year 1987
These polls are fairly simple. We work our way through film history selecting a different year each time, and you list your top films from the given year. Depending on the number of voters, the poll usually produces a list of around 50-90 films and is a great way of finding recommendations. Lots of people will also list other films outside their top 20 as honorable mentions or runners-up.
The Rules
- You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.
- Feature films, documentaries, short films, TV movies, and TV mini-series are all eligible, but not continuing TV series or individual TV episodes.
- We use IMDb dates for consistency, so a title should be listed on IMDb as 1987.
- Your ballot can be either ranked or unranked, but I will assume it's ranked unless otherwise stated. For ranked ballots it makes it easier if you use a numbered list.
- IMPORTANT: Along with a list of the titles from 1987, please include the corresponding list of bare IMDb urls for the same films. Your ballot will be deemed disqualified if the IMDb urls are not included.
The Scoring
For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive a number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each succeeding title receiving one fewer point. So the top title on a list of 20 films will receive 20 points, the next 19 points and so on. If the list has only 10 films, the top title will receive 10 points, the next one 9, and so on. If there are 5 films on the list, the top film will receive 5 points, the next one 4, well you get the idea.
For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted to the ballot if it had been ranked. If there are 20 films on the ballot, this means each one would receive 10.5 points.
Some resources
1987 films with the sorted by most votes on IMDb
1987 films you've rated on IMDb
Wikipedia's 1987 in film article
1987 films you've checked on ICM
1987 films you *haven't* checked on ICM
Previous poll results as ICM lists
1940 results
1981 results
2005 results
1927 results
1968 results
1939 results
1976 results
1997 results
1958 results
2017 results
1948 results
1983 results
1969 results
1925 results
1991 results
1957 results
2006 results
2018 results
1932 results
1972 results
1942 results
The Deadline
This poll will run for about 3 weeks and will close on Sunday August 25 midnight Eastern Daylight Saving Time or whenever I sign on the Monday. You may revise or add a ballot anytime until the poll is indicated closed in the subject header.
The next poll will be 1964 followed by 1994.
Thank you and happy listing!
A few months ago the univerity of our town shows the movie in cinema. Just awsome... I waited so many years to watch it on the big screen. 