And here we go!
This is the nominations thread for the tenth and final portion of The Great Movie Tournament where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1920s (from 1920 to 1929). For our purposes, an eligible film must be a feature narrative film (no short films or documentaries) and its first release date must be between January 1, 1920 and December 31, 1929 according to IMDb (sometimes films will premiere at festivals one year but have a wide release the following year; we'll use the IMDb and Wikipedia convention of the year of initial exhibition).
Participation is very much encouraged and extremely welcomed, but please do follow these guidelines for this nomination process (subject to adjustment):
- You can nominate one film per post, and you can nominate another film after one other member has made their nomination.
- You can second one film per post, and you can second another film after one other member has made their second.
- If possible, please include a trailer and/or a scene from the film using Spoiler tags (this version and delete the s in https for YouTube links when embedding a video, making sure to use the full URL from the address bar, not the sharing link).
- Nominations can also be optionally accompanied by year of release and director.
Once 80 nominated films have been seconded, the tournament will begin, following the structure shown below (an overall event overview thread is posted with links to all the polls so members can easily navigate during the tournament). Each poll will be open for 7 days and any tiebreaker polls will be open for 4 days.
- Round 1: 16 groups of 5 titles - top 3 move on
- Round 2: 16 groups of 3 - top 2 move on
- Round 3: 16 groups of 2 - top 1 move on
- Octofinals: 8 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Quarterfinals: 4 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Final: 1 group of 2 titles - top 1 is the winner
This post will be updated with the list of nominated and seconded titles as they come in.
Enjoy and have fun!
List of seconded films:
- Safety Last! (1923), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Metropolis (1927), dir. Fritz Lang
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925), dir. Rupert Julian
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), dir. Robert Wiene
- Sunrise (1927), dir. F. W. Murnau
- Wings (1927), dir. William A. Wellman
- The Kid (1921), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- The Lodger (1927), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- The Gold Rush (1925), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- The Man Who Laughs (1928), dir. Paul Leni
- Nosferatu (1922), dir. F. W. Murnau
- Battleship Potemkin (1925), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), dir. Fritz Lang
- The Last Laugh (1924), dir. F. W. Murnau
- Greed (1924), dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Cat and the Canary (1927), dir. Paul Leni
- Die Nibelungen (1924), dir. Fritz Lang
- Pandora's Box (1929), dir. G.W. Pabst
- The General (1926), dir. Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924), dir. Raoul Walsh
- Häxan (1922), dir. Benjamin Christensen
- Blackmail (1929), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), dir. Wallace Worsley
- Sherlock, Jr. (1924), dir. Buster Keaton
- The Golem (1920), dir. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese
- The Phantom Carriage (1921), dir. Victor Sjöström
- The Wind (1928), dir. Victor Sjöström
- Faust (1926), dir. F. W. Murnau
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), dir. G.W. Pabst
- Nanook of the North (1922), dir. Robert Flaherty
- West of Zanzibar (1928), dir. Tod Browning
- Napoleon (1927), dir. Abel Gance
- The Crowd (1928), dir. King Vidor
- The Circus (1928), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), dir. Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner
- He Who Gets Slapped (1924), dir. Victor Sjöström
- The Cocoanuts (1929), dir. Robert Florey and Joseph Santley
- The Unknown (1927), dir. Tod Browning
- The Lost World (1925), dir. Harry O. Hoyt
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), dir. Jean Epstein
- The Freshman (1925), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Robin Hood (1922), dir. Allan Dwan
- Our Hospitality (1923), dir. Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), dir. Fred Niblo
- The Iron Horse (1924), dir. John Ford
- Speedy (1928), dir. Ted Wilde
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), dir. John S. Robertson
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), dir. Rex Ingram
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), dir. Herbert Brenon
- The Pilgrim (1923), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929), dir. Dziga Vertov
- The Scarlet Letter (1926), dir. Victor Sjöström
- Seven Chances (1925), dir. Buster Keaton
- Spies (1928), dir. Fritz Lang
- Woman in the Moon (1929), dir. Fritz Lang
- The Mark of Zorro (1920), dir. Fred Niblo
- Michael (1924), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Body and Soul (1925), dir. Oscar Micheaux
- The Hands of Orlac (1924), dir. Robert Wiene
- The Penalty (1920), dir. Wallace Worsley
- The Ten Commandments (1923), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
- The Unholy Three (1925), dir. Tod Browning
- Girl Shy (1924), dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- The Cameraman (1928), dir. Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick
- Battling Butler (1926), dir. Buster Keaton
- The King of Kings (1927), dir. Cecil B. DeMille
- Way Down East (1920), dir. D.W. Griffith
- The Last Command (1928), dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Hallelujah (1929), dir. King Vidor
- 3 Bad Men (1926), dir. John Ford
- Strike (1925), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- The Big Parade (1925), dir. King Vidor
- Flesh and the Devil (1926), dir. Clarence Brown
- The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), dir. Germaine Dulac
- Our Dancing Daughters (1928), dir. Harry Beaumont
- The Toll of the Sea (1922), dir. Chester M. Franklin
- A Woman of Paris (1923), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Salomé (1922), dir. Alla Nazimova and Charles Bryant
List of films not yet seconded:
- La Roue (1923), dir. Abel Gance
- Where the North Begins (1923), dir. Chester M. Franklin
- Arsenal (1929), dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko
- Scaramouche (1923), dir. Rex Ingram
- So This Is Paris (1926), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Leaves from Satan's Book (1920), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- My Best Girl (1927), dir. Sam Taylor
- It (1927), dir. Clarence G. Badger
- The Parson's Widow (1920), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Lonesome (1928), dir. Pál Fejős
- Waxworks (1924), dir. Paul Leni and Leo Birinski
- Piccadilly (1929), dir. E.A. Dupont
- The Jazz Singer (1927), dir. Alan Crosland
- The Sheik (1921), dir. George Melford
- Seven Footprints to Satan (1929), dir. Benjamin Christensen
- The Last of the Mohicans (1920), dir. Maurice Tourneur
- Street Angel (1928), dir. Frank Borzage
- The Black Pirate (1926), dir. Albert Parker
- The Red Kimono (1925), dir. Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport
- Rio Rita (1929), dir. Luther Reed
- Orphans of the Storm (1921), dir. D.W. Griffith
- Alraune (1928), dir. Henrik Galeen
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), dir. Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford
- Souls for Sale (1923), dir. Rupert Hughes
- A Page of Madness (1926), dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa