Editing Roger Ebert (section)

===Best films of the year===
Ebert made annual "ten best lists" from 1967 to 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041215/COMMENTARY/41215001/1023 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |title=Ebert's 10 Best Lists: 1967–present |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908200137/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20041215%2FCOMMENTARY%2F41215001%2F1023 |archive-date=September 8, 2006}}</ref> His choices for best film of the year were:
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* 1967: ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]''
* 1968: ''[[The Battle of Algiers]]''
* 1969: ''[[Z (1969 film)|Z]]''
* 1970: ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]''
* 1971: ''[[The Last Picture Show]]''
* 1972: ''[[The Godfather]]''
* 1973: ''[[Cries and Whispers]]''
* 1974: ''[[Scenes from a Marriage]]''
* 1975: ''[[Nashville (film)|Nashville]]''
* 1976: ''[[Small Change (film)|Small Change]]''
* 1977: ''[[3 Women]]''
* 1978: ''[[An Unmarried Woman]]''
* 1979: ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''
* 1980: ''[[The Black Stallion (film)|The Black Stallion]]''
* 1981: ''[[My Dinner with Andre]]''
* 1982: ''[[Sophie's Choice (film)|Sophie's Choice]]''
* 1983: ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]''
* 1984: ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]''
* 1985: ''[[The Color Purple (1985 film)|The Color Purple]]''
* 1986: ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]''
* 1987: ''[[House of Games]]''
* 1988: ''[[Mississippi Burning]]''
* 1989: ''[[Do the Right Thing]]''
* 1990: ''[[Goodfellas]]''
* 1991: ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]''
* 1992: ''[[Malcolm X (1992 film)|Malcolm X]]''
* 1993: ''[[Schindler's List]]''
* 1994: ''[[Hoop Dreams]]''
* 1995: ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]''
* 1996: ''[[Fargo (1996 film)|Fargo]]''
* 1997: ''[[Eve's Bayou]]''
* 1998: ''[[Dark City (1998 film)|Dark City]]''
* 1999: ''[[Being John Malkovich]]''
* 2000: ''[[Almost Famous]]''
* 2001: ''[[Monster's Ball]]''
* 2002: ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]''
* 2003: ''[[Monster (2003 film)|Monster]]''
* 2004: ''[[Million Dollar Baby]]''
* 2005: ''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]''
* 2006: ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]''
* 2007: ''[[Juno (film)|Juno]]''
* 2008: ''[[Synecdoche, New York]]''
* 2009: ''[[The Hurt Locker]]''
* 2010: ''[[The Social Network]]''
* 2011: ''[[A Separation]]''
* 2012: ''[[Argo (2012 film)|Argo]]''
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Ebert revisited and sometimes revised his opinions. After ranking ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' third on his 1982 list, it was the only movie from that year to appear on his later "Best Films of the 1980s" list (where it also ranked third).<ref name = ListArchive>{{cite web |url=http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/ebert.html#best80s |title=Roger Ebert's Top Ten Lists, 1967-2006 |website=Eric C. Johnson's archive |publisher=[[California Institute of Technology]] |access-date=January 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231063216/http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/ebert.html#best80s |archive-date=December 31, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He made similar reevaluations of ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' (1981) and ''[[Ran (film)|Ran]]'' (1985).<ref name = ListArchive/> The ''[[Three Colours trilogy]]'' (''[[Three Colors: Blue|Blue]]'' (1993), ''[[Three Colors: White|White]]'' (1994), and ''[[Three Colors: Red|Red]]'' (also 1994), and ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' (1994) originally ranked second and third on Ebert's 1994 list; both were included on his "Best Films of the 1990s" list, but their order had reversed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.innermind.com/misc/s_e_top.htm |title=Siskel and Ebert Top Ten Lists (1969–1998) |website=innermind.com |access-date=November 11, 2011 |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108124328/http://www.innermind.com/misc/s_e_top.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2006, Ebert noted his own "tendency to place what I now consider the year's best film in second place, perhaps because I was trying to make some kind of point with my top pick,"<ref>{{cite book |last=Ebert |first=Roger |title=Awake in the Dark |url=https://archive.org/details/awakedarkbestrog00eber |url-access=limited |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=2006 |page=[https://archive.org/details/awakedarkbestrog00eber/page/n139 103]}}</ref> adding, "In 1968, I should have ranked ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey|2001]]'' above ''The Battle of Algiers''. In 1971, ''[[McCabe & Mrs. Miller]]'' was better than ''The Last Picture Show''. In 1974, ''[[Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown]]'' was probably better, in a different way, than ''Scenes from a Marriage''. In 1976, how could I rank ''Small Change'' above ''[[Taxi Driver]]''? In 1978, I would put ''[[Days of Heaven]]'' above ''An Unmarried Woman''. And in 1980, of course, ''[[Raging Bull]]'' was a better film than ''The Black Stallion''&nbsp;... although I later chose ''Raging Bull'' as the best film of the entire decade of the 1980s, it was only the second-best film of 1980&nbsp;... am I the same person I was in 1968, 1971, or 1980? I hope not."

Ebert's ten best lists resumed in 2014, the first full year after his death, as a [[Borda count]] system by his writers.

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* 2014: ''[[Under the Skin (2013 film)|Under the Skin]]''
* 2015: ''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]]''
* 2016: ''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]''
* 2017: ''[[Lady Bird (film)|Lady Bird]]''
* 2018: ''[[Roma (2018 film)|Roma]]''
* 2019: ''[[The Irishman]]''
* 2020: ''[[Lovers Rock (2020 film)|Lovers Rock]]''
* 2021: ''[[The Power of the Dog (film)|The Power of the Dog]]''
* 2022: ''[[The Banshees of Inisherin]]''
* 2023: ''[[Killers of the Flower Moon (film)|Killers of the Flower Moon]]''
* 2024: ''[[The Brutalist]]''
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