In 2015, I created a list titled, “Top10ner’s 1001 'Greatest' Movies of All Time” and many of you seemed to enjoy it and still use it today so I thought it was about time that I updated it..
The original 2015 thread can be found here as well as the initial update for those curious about the algorithm.
Basically I started off by gathering ratings from IMDB (UseCritic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average) & (Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). Each site’s average rating was then weighted so that no site’s ratings were favoured above the rest. The next step was to make sure that each film was treated equally. Rather than eliminating films that had little votes, I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it.
I then finally put the list through a final adjustment, where I applied aspects such as critical reception (# of official lists movie is in), audience reception and overall likability/popularity. These figures were determined using sources such as iCheckmovies, Letterboxd and TSPDT?.
I've created the following lists for both Letterboxd and iCheckMovies, as well as a Google spreadsheet where you can check out the full list and search for particular films easier.
Letterboxd - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time
IMDb - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time
iCheckMovies - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time
Google Spreadsheet - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time
ANYWAY, here is the 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time. Enjoy! (NOTE: Could only include the first 750 movies due character limit)

RANK	TITLE	YEAR	DIRECTOR
1	The Godfather	1972	Francis Ford Coppola
2	The Godfather: Part II	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
3	Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa
4	Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino
5	12 Angry Men	1957	Sidney Lumet
6	Spirited Away	2001	Hayao Miyazaki
7	Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg
8	Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz
9	Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock
10	Goodfellas	1990	Martin Scorsese
11	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean
12	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone
13	Singin' in the Rain	1952	Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
14	City Lights	1931	Charlie Chaplin
15	Sunset Boulevard	1950	Billy Wilder
16	Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola
17	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont
18	Rear Window	1954	Alfred Hitchcock
19	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	1980	Irvin Kershner
20	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick
21	Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles
22	M	1931	Fritz Lang
23	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	Miloš Forman
24	Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock
25	The Dark Knight	2008	Christopher Nolan
26	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme
27	Modern Times	1936	Charles Chaplin
28	Star Wars - A New Hope	1977	George Lucas
29	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	Stanley Kubrick
30	Come and See	1985	Elem Klimov
31	Bicycle Thieves	1948	Vittorio De Sica
32	Tokyo Story	1953	Yasujirō Ozu
33	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Frank Capra
34	Rashomon	1950	Akira Kurosawa
35	Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	Sergio Leone
36	Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese
37	Ikiru	1952	Akira Kurosawa
38	Metropolis	1927	Fritz Lang
39	The Passion of Joan of Arc	1928	Carl Theodor Dreyer
40	Alien	1979	Ridley Scott
41	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed
42	All About Eve	1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
43	Fanny and Alexander	1982	Ingmar Bergman
44	Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski
45	City of God	2002	Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund
46	Double Indemnity	1944	Billy Wilder
47	Paths of Glory	1957	Stanley Kubrick
48	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	Steven Spielberg
49	Andrei Rublev	1966	Andrei Tarkovsky
50	The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder
51	Harakiri	1962	Masaki Kobayashi
52	Parasite	2019	Bong Joon-ho
53	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson
54	The 400 Blows	1959	François Truffaut
55	Stalker	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky
56	Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder
57	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	1927	F.W. Murnau
58	Pan's Labyrinth	2006	Guillermo del Toro
59	Ran	1985	Akira Kurosawa
60	Sherlock, Jr.	1924	Buster Keaton
61	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson
62	The Night of the Hunter	1955	Charles Laughton
63	A Separation	2011	Asghar Farhadi
64	Grave of the Fireflies	1988	Isao Takahata
65	North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock
66	Persona	1966	Ingmar Bergman
67	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Michel Gondry
68	Back to the Future	1985	Robert Zemeckis
69	The Battle of Algiers	1966	Gillo Pontecorvo
70	Toy Story	1995	John Lasseter
71	Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese
72	8½ (Eight and a Half)	1963	Federico Fellini
73	Saving Private Ryan	1998	Steven Spielberg
74	On the Waterfront	1954	Elia Kazan
75	The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick
76	Three Colors: Red	1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski
77	The Great Dictator	1940	Charles Chaplin
78	The Wizard of Oz	1939	Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn…
79	The Wages of Fear	1953	Henri-Georges Clouzot
80	In the Mood for Love	2000	Wong Kar-wai
81	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	2018	Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey…
82	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	John Huston
83	The Seventh Seal	1957	Ingmar Bergman
84	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	Peter Jackson
85	The Red Shoes	1948	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
86	The General	1926	Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
87	The Gold Rush	1925	Charles Chaplin
88	Touch of Evil	1958	Orson Welles
89	WALL-E	2008	Andrew Stanton
90	Aliens	1986	James Cameron
91	Wild Strawberries	1957	Ingmar Bergman
92	Paris Texas	1984	Wim Wenders
93	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick
94	La Grande Illusion	1937	Jean Renoir
95	There Will Be Blood	2007	Paul Thomas Anderson
96	Amadeus	1984	Miloš Forman
97	Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen
98	Whiplash	2014	Damien Chazelle
99	Pather Panchali	1955	Satyajit Ray
100	Cinema Paradiso	1988	Giuseppe Tornatore
101	It Happened One Night	1934	Frank Capra
102	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean
103	The Lives of Others	2006	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
104	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	James Cameron
105	Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott
106	Yojimbo	1961	Akira Kurosawa
107	Ugetsu	1953	Kenji Mizoguchi
108	Reservoir Dogs	1992	Quentin Tarantino
109	Memento	2000	Christopher Nolan
110	Princess Mononoke	1997	Hayao Miyazaki
111	Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	George Miller
112	The Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski
113	Wings of Desire	1987	Wim Wenders
114	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	1920	Robert Wiene
115	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	William Wyler
116	Inception	2010	Christopher Nolan
117	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975	Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
118	Fargo	1996	Joel & Ethan Coen
119	La Dolce Vita	1960	Federico Fellini
120	Oldboy	2003	Chan-wook Park
121	Nights of Cabiria	1957	Federico Fellini
122	Toy Story 3	2010	Lee Unkrich
123	Children of Paradise	1945	Marcel Carné
124	Gone with the Wind	1939	Victor Fleming,George Cukor...
125	Jaws	1975	Steven Spielberg
126	Das Boot	1981	Wolfgang Petersen
127	High and Low	1963	Akira Kurosawa
128	The Mirror	1975	Andrei Tarkovsky
129	L.A. Confidential	1997	Curtis Hanson
130	Unforgiven	1992	Clint Eastwood
131	Amelie	2001	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
132	My Neighbor Totoro	1988	Hayao Miyazaki
133	Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick
134	Le Samouraï	1967	Jean-Pierre Melville
135	Ordet	1955	Carl Theodor Dreyer
136	To Be or Not to Be	1942	Ernst Lubitsch
137	No Country for Old Men	2007	Joel & Ethan Coen
138	Solaris	1972	Andrei Tarkovsky
139	Coco	2017	Lee Unkrich
140	Your Name.	2016	Makoto Shinkai
141	Fight Club	1999	David Fincher
142	The Maltese Falcon	1941	John Huston
143	The Kid	1921	Charles Chaplin
144	Woman in the Dunes	1964	Hiroshi Teshigahara
145	Se7en	1995	David Fincher
146	Do the Right Thing	1989	Spike Lee
147	The Rules of the Game	1939	Jean Renoir
148	Aguirre: The Wrath of God	1972	Werner Herzog
149	The Grapes of Wrath	1940	John Ford
150	La Haine	1995	Mathieu Kassovitz
151	Once Upon a Time in America	1984	Sergio Leone
152	Throne of Blood	1957	Akira Kurosawa
153	Notorious	1946	Alfred Hitchcock
154	Badlands	1973	Terrence Malick
155	A Man Escaped	1956	Robert Bresson
156	Cool Hand Luke	1967	Stuart Rosenberg
157	Rosemary's Baby	1968	Roman Polanski
158	Before Sunrise	1995	Richard Linklater
159	The Lion King	1994	Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
160	Before Sunset	2004	Richard Linklater
161	Rebecca	1940	Alfred Hitchcock
162	La strada	1954	Federico Fellini
163	Duck Soup	1933	Leo McCarey
164	The Deer Hunter	1978	Michael Cimino
165	Sansho the Bailiff	1954	Kenji Mizoguchi
166	The Philadelphia Story	1940	George Cukor
167	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962	John Ford
168	Die Hard	1988	John McTiernan
169	Brazil	1985	Terry Gilliam
170	Sweet Smell of Success	1957	Alexander Mackendrick
171	The Departed	2006	Martin Scorsese
172	Three Colors: Blue	1993	Krzysztof Kieślowski
173	The Last Picture Show	1971	Peter Bogdanovich
174	Rome, Open City	1945	Roberto Rossellini
175	Up	2009	Pete Docter & Bob Peterson
176	The Princess Bride	1987	Rob Reiner
177	Breathless	1960	Jean-Luc Godard
178	Dog Day Afternoon	1975	Sidney Lumet
179	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	Robert Hamer
180	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Robert Mulligan
181	Chungking Express	1994	Wong Kar-wai
182	The Conversation	1974	Francis Ford Coppola
183	Rio Bravo	1959	Howard Hawks
184	Full Metal Jacket	1987	Stanley Kubrick
185	The Handmaiden	2016	Chan-wook Park
186	A Matter of Life and Death	1946	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
187	A Woman Under the Influence	1974	John Cassavetes
188	All the President's Men	1976	Alan J. Pakula
189	Portrait of a Lady on Fire	2019	Céline Sciamma
190	The Matrix	1999	Lilly & Lana Wachowski
191	12 Years a Slave	2013	Steve McQueen
192	Brief Encounter	1945	David Lean
193	Shoplifters	2018	Hirokazu Kore-eda
194	American Beauty	1999	Sam Mendes
195	His Girl Friday	1940	Howard Hawks
196	The Usual Suspects	1995	Bryan Singer
197	The Graduate	1967	Mike Nichols
198	Jurassic Park	1993	Steven Spielberg
199	Memories of Murder	2003	Bong Joon-ho
200	King Kong	1933	Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
201	Inside Out	2015	Pete Docter
202	Yi yi	2000	Edward Yang
203	Raise the Red Lantern	1991	Zhang Yimou
204	Rififi	1955	Jules Dassin
205	Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch
206	Army of Shadows	1969	Jean-Pierre Melville
207	This Is Spinal Tap	1984	Rob Reiner
208	The Wild Bunch	1969	Sam Peckinpah
209	Witness for the Prosecution	1957	Billy Wilder
210	Battleship Potemkin	1925	Sergei M. Eisenstein
211	Strangers on a Train	1951	Alfred Hitchcock
212	The Searchers	1956	John Ford
213	The Big Lebowski	1998	Joel & Ethan Coen
214	Nosferatu	1922	F.W. Murnau
215	Network	1976	Sidney Lumet
216	The Hustler	1961	Robert Rossen
217	The Exterminating Angel	1962	Luis Buñuel
218	Days of Heaven	1978	Terrence Malick
219	Finding Nemo	2003	Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich
220	Heat	1995	Michael Mann
221	The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges
222	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Elia Kazan
223	Diabolique	1955	Henri-Georges Clouzot
224	The Sting	1973	George Roy Hill
225	Night of the Living Dead	1968	George A. Romero
226	The Thing	1982	John Carpenter
227	Mulholland Drive	2001	David Lynch
228	The Conformist	1970	Bernardo Bertolucci
229	The Grand Budapest Hotel	2014	Wes Anderson
230	A Brighter Summer Day	1991	Edward Yang
231	Monty Python's Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones
232	Umberto D.	1952	Vittorio De Sica
233	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	Mike Nichols
234	Stagecoach	1939	John Ford
235	Beauty and the Beast	1991	Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
236	The Big Sleep	1946	Howard Hawks
237	Inglourious Basterds	2009	Quentin Tarantino
238	Viridiana	1961	Luis Buñuel
239	Incendies	2010	Denis Villeneuve
240	The Terminator	1984	James Cameron
241	Bride of Frankenstein	1935	James Whale
242	Sullivan's Travels	1941	Preston Sturges
243	Playtime	1967	Jacques Tati
244	Ivan's Childhood	1962	Andrei Tarkovsky
245	Life Is Beautiful	1997	Roberto Benigni
246	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	George Roy Hill
247	Manhattan	1979	Woody Allen
248	Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle
249	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	Lewis Milestone
250	The Young and the Damned	1950	Luis Buñuel
251	The Elephant Man	1980	David Lynch
252	All About My Mother	1999	Pedro Almodóvar
253	Le Trou	1960	Jacques Becker
254	The Leopard	1963	Luchino Visconti
255	Laura	1944	Otto Preminger
256	Shadow of a Doubt	1943	Alfred Hitchcock
257	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	Frank Capra
258	Hiroshima Mon Amour	1959	Alain Resnais
259	Bringing Up Baby	1938	Howard Hawks
260	Out of the Past	1947	Jacques Tourneur
261	Anatomy of a Murder	1959	Otto Preminger
262	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	2000	Ang Lee
263	L'avventura	1960	Michelangelo Antonioni
264	Beauty and the Beast	1946	Jean Cocteau
265	The Hunt	2012	Thomas Vinterberg
266	Forrest Gump	1994	Robert Zemeckis
267	Ace in the Hole	1951	Billy Wilder
268	Late Spring	1949	Yasujirō Ozu
269	The Celebration	1998	Thomas Vinterberg
270	Au Revoir Les Enfants	1987	Louis Malle
271	Spotlight	2015	Tom McCarthy
272	Roman Holiday	1953	William Wyler
273	Amour	2012	Michael Haneke
274	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	1974	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
275	Paddington 2	2017	Paul King
276	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
277	The French Connection	1971	William Friedkin
278	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	1972	Luis Buñuel
279	High Noon	1952	Fred Zinnemann
280	Akira	1988	Katsuhiro Otomo
281	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	2007	Cristian Mungiu
282	Ben-Hur	1959	William Wyler
283	Let the Right One In	2008	Tomas Alfredson
284	Nashville	1975	Robert Altman
285	Room	2015	Lenny Abrahamson
286	The Adventures of Robin Hood	1938	Michael Curtiz & William Keighley
287	Jules and Jim	1962	François Truffaut
288	Good Will Hunting	1997	Gus Van Sant
289	Young Frankenstein	1974	Mel Brooks
290	White Heat	1949	Raoul Walsh
291	Short Term 12	2013	Destin Cretton
292	The Killing	1956	Stanley Kubrick
293	In a Lonely Place	1950	Nicholas Ray
294	Frankenstein	1931	James Whale
295	Secrets & Lies	1996	Mike Leigh
296	Django Unchained	2012	Quentin Tarantino
297	Call Me by Your Name	2017	Luca Guadagnino
298	Magnolia	1999	Paul Thomas Anderson
299	Being There	1979	Hal Ashby
300	The Manchurian Candidate	1962	John Frankenheimer
301	Paper Moon	1973	Peter Bogdanovich
302	The Shop Around the Corner	1940	Ernst Lubitsch
303	Halloween	1978	John Carpenter
304	The World of Apu	1959	Satyajit Ray
305	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2003	Kim Ki-duk
306	L'Atalante	1934	Jean Vigo
307	The Iron Giant	1999	Brad Bird
308	The Exorcist	1973	William Friedkin
309	Amores Perros	2000	Alejandro González Iñárritu
310	Central Station	1998	Walter Salles
311	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	Arthur Penn
312	Persepolis	2007	Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
313	The Best of Youth	2003	Marco Tullio Giordana
314	The Spirit of the Beehive	1973	Víctor Erice
315	Z	1969	Costa-Gavras
316	Underground	1995	Emir Kusturica
317	The Killer	1989	John Woo
318	Kes	1969	Ken Loach
319	Moonlight	2016	Barry Jenkins
320	Howl's Moving Castle	2004	Hayao Miyazaki
321	Her	2013	Spike Jonze
322	Requiem for a Dream	2000	Darren Aronofsky
323	The Truman Show	1998	Peter Weir
324	The Incredibles	2004	Brad Bird
325	Cries and Whispers	1972	Ingmar Bergman
326	Stand by Me	1986	Rob Reiner
327	Before Midnight	2013	Richard Linklater
328	Groundhog Day	1993	Harold Ramis
329	Little Women	2019	Greta Gerwig
330	The Social Network	2010	David Fincher
331	The Right Stuff	1983	Philip Kaufman
332	Get Out	2017	Jordan Peele
333	It's Such a Beautiful Day	2012	Don Hertzfeldt
334	Boogie Nights	1997	Paul Thomas Anderson
335	Fantasia	1940	Samuel Armstrong, James Algar...
336	Black Narcissus	1947	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
337	Midnight Cowboy	1969	John Schlesinger
338	Children of Men	2006	Alfonso Cuarón
339	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	Steven Spielberg
340	Toy Story 2	1999	John Lasseter
341	Leon: The Professional	1994	Luc Besson
342	Cabaret	1972	Bob Fosse
343	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	2007	Julian Schnabel
344	Ratatouille	2007	Brad Bird
345	The Cranes Are Flying	1957	Mikhail Kalatozov
346	Day for Night	1973	François Truffaut
347	Withnail & I	1987	Bruce Robinson
348	Safety Last!	1923	Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor
349	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	1964	Jacques Demy
350	Shaun of the Dead	2004	Edgar Wright
351	Song of the Sea	2014	Tomm Moore
352	Scarface	1983	Brian De Palma
353	Harold and Maude	1971	Hal Ashby
354	Platoon	1986	Oliver Stone
355	The Nightmare Before Christmas	1993	Henry Selick
356	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg
357	Talk to Her	2002	Pedro Almodóvar
358	Wild Tales	2014	Damián Szifrón
359	Close-Up	1990	Abbas Kiarostami
360	Time of the Gypsies	1988	Emir Kusturica
361	Mary and Max	2009	Adam Elliot
362	The Return	2003	Andrey Zvyagintsev
363	Logan	2017	James Mangold
364	For a Few Dollars More	1965	Sergio Leone
365	A Prophet	2009	Jacques Audiard
366	La La Land	2016	Damien Chazelle
367	The Sound of Music	1965	Robert Wise
368	The King of Comedy	1982	Martin Scorsese
369	The Big Heat	1953	Fritz Lang
370	In the Heat of the Night	1967	Norman Jewison
371	Amarcord	1973	Federico Fellini
372	A Night at the Opera	1935	Sam Wood
373	Repulsion	1965	Roman Polanski
374	Freaks	1932	Tod Browning
375	Au Hasard Balthazar	1966	Robert Bresson
376	Downfall	2004	Oliver Hirschbiegel
377	Lost in Translation	2003	Sofia Coppola
378	Belle de Jour	1967	Luis Buñuel
379	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	1962	Robert Aldrich
380	The Circus	1928	Charles Chaplin
381	How to Train Your Dragon	2010	Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois
382	Crimes and Misdemeanors	1989	Woody Allen
383	Breaking the Waves	1996	Lars von Trier
384	Brokeback Mountain	2005	Ang Lee
385	Steamboat Bill, Jr.	1928	Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner
386	Werckmeister Harmonies	2000	Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky
387	Greed	1924	Erich von Stroheim
388	Roma	2018	Alfonso Cuarón
389	Make Way for Tomorrow	1937	Leo McCarey
390	The Lady Eve	1941	Preston Sturges
391	The Straight Story	1999	David Lynch
392	Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion	1997	Kazuya Tsurumaki & Hideaki Anno
393	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	Steven Spielberg
394	Peeping Tom	1960	Michael Powell
395	The Secret in Their Eyes	2009	Juan José Campanella
396	Cleo from 5 to 7	1962	Agnès Varda
397	Aladdin	1992	Ron Clements & John Musker
398	Rocco and His Brothers	1960	Luchino Visconti
399	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	Woody Allen
400	My Darling Clementine	1946	John Ford
401	Avengers: Endgame	2019	Joe & Anthony Russo
402	Infernal Affairs	2002	Alan Mak & Andrew Lau
403	Patton	1970	Franklin J. Schaffner
404	Mary Poppins	1964	Robert Stevenson
405	Monsters, Inc.	2001	Pete Docter
406	Hunt for the Wilderpeople	2016	Taika Waititi
407	Children of Heaven	1997	Majid Majidi
408	Last Year at Marienbad	1961	Alain Resnais
409	Sanjuro	1962	Akira Kurosawa
410	1917	2019	Sam Mendes
411	Avengers: Infinity War	2018	Joe & Anthony Russo
412	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	2013	Isao Takahata
413	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	2017	Martin McDonagh
414	Through a Glass Darkly	1961	Ingmar Bergman
415	The Thin Man	1934	W.S. Van Dyke
416	American History X	1998	Tony Kaye
417	Knives Out	2019	Rian Johnson
418	Orpheus	1950	Jean Cocteau
419	Evil Dead II	1987	Sam Raimi
420	Airplane!	1980	Jim Abrahams, Jerry & David Zucker
421	Red River	1948	Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson
422	Rope	1948	Alfred Hitchcock
423	Y tu mamá también	2001	Alfonso Cuarón
424	Million Dollar Baby	2004	Clint Eastwood
425	Pickpocket	1959	Robert Bresson
426	Being John Malkovich	1999	Spike Jonze
427	The Cameraman	1928	Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick
428	Satantango	1994	Béla Tarr
429	Hard Boiled	1992	John Woo
430	Naked	1993	Mike Leigh
431	The Double Life of Veronique	1991	Krzysztof Kieślowski
432	Arrival	2016	Denis Villeneuve
433	Rushmore	1998	Wes Anderson
434	Sing Street	2016	John Carney
435	Rebel Without a Cause	1955	Nicholas Ray
436	The Lady Vanishes	1938	Alfred Hitchcock
437	The Last Laugh	1924	F.W. Murnau
438	The Green Mile	1999	Frank Darabont
439	Vivre Sa Vie	1962	Jean-Luc Godard
440	Spartacus	1960	Stanley Kubrick
441	A Hard Day's Night	1964	Richard Lester
442	Autumn Sonata	1978	Ingmar Bergman
443	Ghostbusters	1984	Ivan Reitman
444	The Hidden Fortress	1958	Akira Kurosawa
445	Capernaum	2018	Nadine Labaki
446	Mommy	2014	Xavier Dolan
447	Le Cercle Rouge	1970	Jean-Pierre Melville
448	Down by Law	1986	Jim Jarmusch
449	Stalag 17	1953	Billy Wilder
450	Boyhood	2014	Richard Linklater
451	Trouble in Paradise	1932	Ernst Lubitsch
452	Judgment at Nuremberg	1961	Stanley Kramer
453	Casino	1995	Martin Scorsese
454	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	1971	Robert Altman
455	The Prestige	2006	Christopher Nolan
456	The Irishman	2019	Martin Scorsese
457	Blade Runner 2049	2017	Denis Villeneuve
458	Faust	1926	F.W. Murnau
459	Marriage Story	2019	Noah Baumbach
460	Fireworks	1997	Takeshi Kitano
461	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi	1983	Richard Marquand
462	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	1984	Hayao Miyazaki
463	Goldfinger	1964	Guy Hamilton
464	Gangs of Wasseypur	2012	Anurag Kashyap
465	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	David Hand
466	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	1956	Don Siegel
467	Top Hat	1935	Mark Sandrich
468	The King's Speech	2010	Tom Hooper
469	Farewell My Concubine	1993	Chen Kaige
470	The Breakfast Club	1985	John Hughes
471	Wolf Children	2012	Mamoru Hosoda
472	The Sixth Sense	1999	M. Night Shyamalan
473	Boyz n the Hood	1991	John Singleton
474	In the Name of the Father	1993	Jim Sheridan
475	Gladiator	2000	Ridley Scott
476	The Phantom Carriage	1921	Victor Sjöström
477	Dead Poets Society	1989	Peter Weir
478	What We Do in the Shadows	2014	Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi
479	The Birds	1963	Alfred Hitchcock
480	Moonrise Kingdom	2012	Wes Anderson
481	A Fistful of Dollars	1964	Sergio Leone
482	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	2003	Quentin Tarantino
483	Manchester by the Sea	2016	Kenneth Lonergan
484	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	1988	Robert Zemeckis
485	Almost Famous	2000	Cameron Crowe
486	Lady Bird	2017	Greta Gerwig
487	To Have and Have Not	1944	Howard Hawks
488	Kiki's Delivery Service	1989	Hayao Miyazaki
489	Kill Bill: Vol. 2	2004	Quentin Tarantino
490	Eyes Without a Face	1960	Georges Franju
491	Blazing Saddles	1974	Mel Brooks
492	The Sacrifice	1986	Andrei Tarkovsky
493	The 39 Steps	1935	Alfred Hitchcock
494	Donnie Darko	2001	Richard Kelly
495	Gone Girl	2014	David Fincher
496	Eraserhead	1977	David Lynch
497	Hero	2002	Zhang Yimou
498	Ghost in the Shell	1995	Mamoru Oshii
499	Miller's Crossing	1990	Joel & Ethan Coen
500	Meet Me in St. Louis	1944	Vincente Minnelli
501	Great Expectations	1946	David Lean
502	Contempt	1963	Jean-Luc Godard
503	Scarface	1932	Howard Hawks
504	Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	1975	Chantal Akerman
505	My Left Foot	1989	Jim Sheridan
506	The Long Goodbye	1973	Robert Altman
507	Zootopia	2016	Byron Howard
508	Catch Me If You Can	2002	Steven Spielberg
509	Fitzcarraldo	1982	Werner Herzog
510	West Side Story	1961	Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise
511	All That Jazz	1979	Bob Fosse
512	Castle in the Sky	1986	Hayao Miyazaki
513	Kagemusha	1980	Akira Kurosawa
514	The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Martin Scorsese
515	My Fair Lady	1964	George Cukor
516	Dunkirk	2017	Christopher Nolan
517	Guardians of the Galaxy	2014	James Gunn
518	The Lost Weekend	1945	Billy Wilder
519	The Intouchables	2011	Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache
520	Nightcrawler	2014	Dan Gilroy
521	Short Cuts	1993	Robert Altman
522	A Silent Voice	2016	Naoko Yamada
523	The Innocents	1961	Jack Clayton
524	Nostalgia	1983	Andrei Tarkovsky
525	Mean Streets	1973	Martin Scorsese
526	Rocky	1976	John G. Avildsen
527	I Am Cuba	1964	Mikhail Kalatozov
528	3-Iron	2004	Kim Ki-duk
529	Dirty Harry	1971	Don Siegel
530	Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior	1981	George Miller
531	The Crowd	1928	King Vidor
532	The Triplets of Belleville	2003	Sylvain Chomet
533	Black Swan	2010	Darren Aronofsky
534	Mon Oncle	1958	Jacques Tati
535	The Piano	1993	Jane Campion
536	Ed Wood	1994	Tim Burton
537	Head-On	2004	Fatih Akin
538	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	2004	Alfonso Cuarón
539	The Insider	1999	Michael Mann
540	Forbidden Games	1952	René Clément
541	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	2011	David Yates
542	When Harry Met Sally...	1989	Rob Reiner
543	The Wrestler	2008	Darren Aronofsky
544	The Player	1992	Robert Altman
545	Inside Llewyn Davis	2013	Joel & Ethan Coen
546	Blow-Up	1966	Michelangelo Antonioni
547	The Remains of the Day	1993	James Ivory
548	The Man Who Would Be King	1975	John Huston
549	The Florida Project	2017	Sean Baker
550	Napoleon	1927	Abel Gance
551	Suspiria	1977	Dario Argento
552	Drive	2011	Nicolas Winding Refn
553	The Producers	1967	Mel Brooks
554	That Obscure Object of Desire	1977	Luis Buñuel
555	The Outlaw Josey Wales	1976	Clint Eastwood
556	Klaus	2019	Sergio Pablos
557	The African Queen	1951	John Huston
558	Ninotchka	1939	Ernst Lubitsch
559	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	Danny Boyle
560	My Man Godfrey	1936	Gregory La Cava
561	Dangal	2016	Nitesh Tiwari
562	Blood Simple.	1984	Joel & Ethan Coen
563	Interstellar	2014	Christopher Nolan
564	About Elly	2009	Asghar Farhadi
565	Hot Fuzz	2007	Edgar Wright
566	Johnny Guitar	1954	Nicholas Ray
567	Planet of the Apes	1968	Franklin J. Schaffner
568	The Quiet Man	1952	John Ford
569	Fantastic Mr. Fox	2009	Wes Anderson
570	Casino Royale	2006	Martin Campbell
571	Monsieur Hulot's Holiday	1953	Jacques Tati
572	Adaptation.	2002	Spike Jonze
573	American Graffiti	1973	George Lucas
574	Barton Fink	1991	Joel & Ethan Coen
575	Tampopo	1985	Juzo Itami
576	Little Miss Sunshine	2006	Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
577	Edward Scissorhands	1990	Tim Burton
578	The Earrings of Madame de…	1953	Max Ophüls
579	Arsenic and Old Lace	1944	Frank Capra
580	Doctor Zhivago	1965	David Lean
581	The Virgin Spring	1960	Ingmar Bergman
582	Jean de Florette	1986	Claude Berri
583	Zodiac	2007	David Fincher
584	Aparajito	1956	Satyajit Ray
585	The Asphalt Jungle	1950	John Huston
586	Ex Machina	2014	Alex Garland
587	The Favourite	2018	Yorgos Lanthimos
588	The Royal Tenenbaums	2001	Wes Anderson
589	The Twilight Samurai	2002	Yôji Yamada
590	Pierrot le Fou	1965	Jean-Luc Godard
591	The Day the Earth Stood Still	1951	Robert Wise
592	Enter the Dragon	1973	Robert Clouse
593	Batman Begins	2005	Christopher Nolan
594	Hell or High Water	2016	David Mackenzie
595	Dersu Uzala	1975	Akira Kurosawa
596	Letter from an Unknown Woman	1948	Max Ophüls
597	Sleuth	1972	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
598	Whisper of the Heart	1995	Yoshifumi Kondô
599	Nobody Knows	2004	Hirokazu Koreeda
600	Glengarry Glen Ross	1992	James Foley
601	Dogville	2003	Lars von Trier
602	Nine Queens	2000	Fabián Bielinsky
603	The Sweet Hereafter	1997	Atom Egoyan
604	Dazed and Confused	1993	Richard Linklater
605	True Romance	1993	Tony Scott
606	The Great Beauty	2013	Paolo Sorrentino
607	Band of Outsiders	1964	Jean-Luc Godard
608	Eighth Grade	2018	Bo Burnham
609	The Killing Fields	1984	Roland Joffé
610	Once	2007	John Carney
611	The Artist	2011	Michel Hazanavicius
612	Sling Blade	1996	Billy Bob Thornton
613	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	1986	John Hughes
614	Dial M for Murder	1954	Alfred Hitchcock
615	The Farewell	2019	Lulu Wang
616	Limelight	1952	Charles Chaplin
617	Charade	1963	Stanley Donen
618	Prisoners	2013	Denis Villeneuve
619	Mildred Pierce	1945	Michael Curtiz
620	Kubo and the Two Strings	2016	Travis Knight
621	Winter Sleep	2014	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
622	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	2001	John Cameron Mitchell
623	Kiss Me Deadly	1955	Robert Aldrich
624	Pride	2014	Matthew Warchus
625	After Hours	1985	Martin Scorsese
626	East of Eden	1955	Elia Kazan
627	Mission: Impossible - Fallout	2018	Christopher McQuarrie
628	The Mother and the Whore	1973	Jean Eustache
629	Perfect Blue	1997	Satoshi Kon
630	The Blues Brothers	1980	John Landis
631	Elevator to the Gallows	1958	Louis Malle
632	Pain and Glory	2019	Pedro Almodóvar
633	The Fugitive	1993	Andrew Davis
634	The Vanishing	1988	George Sluizer
635	Hidden Figures	2016	Theodore Melfi
636	JFK	1991	Oliver Stone
637	Dancer in the Dark	2000	Lars von Trier
638	Don't Look Now	1973	Nicolas Roeg
639	Dallas Buyers Club	2013	Jean-Marc Vallée
640	Hotel Rwanda	2004	Terry George
641	Sense and Sensibility	1995	Ang Lee
642	The Avengers	2012	Joss Whedon
643	Vampyr	1932	Carl Theodor Dreyer
644	Twelve Monkeys	1995	Terry Gilliam
645	Rain Man	1988	Barry Levinson
646	Pinocchio	1940	Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen
647	The White Ribbon	2009	Michael Haneke
648	Zelig	1983	Woody Allen
649	The Magnificent Ambersons	1942	Orson Welles & Fred Fleck
650	Stranger Than Paradise	1984	Jim Jarmusch
651	Picnic at Hanging Rock	1975	Peter Weir
652	3 Idiots	2009	Rajkumar Hirani
653	Phantom Thread	2017	Paul Thomas Anderson
654	The Last Emperor	1987	Bernardo Bertolucci
655	Birdman	2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu
656	Day of Wrath	1943	Carl Theodor Dreyer
657	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	1974	Tobe Hooper
658	Deliverance	1972	John Boorman
659	Gandhi	1982	Richard Attenborough
660	Warrior	2011	Gavin O'Connor
661	In Bruges	2008	Martin McDonagh
662	C.R.A.Z.Y.	2005	Jean-Marc Vallée
663	To Live	1994	Zhang Yimou
664	The Fly	1986	David Cronenberg
665	The Lego Movie	2014	Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
666	Volver	2006	Pedro Almodóvar
667	The Thin Red Line	1998	Terrence Malick
668	Our Hospitality	1923	John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton
669	La Notte	1961	Michelangelo Antonioni
670	The Holy Mountain	1973	Alejandro Jodorowsky
671	Malcolm X	1992	Spike Lee
672	The Dark Knight Rises	2012	Christopher Nolan
673	The Purple Rose of Cairo	1985	Woody Allen
674	Isle of Dogs	2018	Wes Anderson
675	The Lion in Winter	1968	Anthony Harvey
676	A Short Film About Killing	1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski
677	Black Cat, White Cat	1998	Emir Kusturica
678	Mother	2009	Bong Joon-ho
679	Snatch.	2000	Guy Ritchie
680	If....	1968	Lindsay Anderson
681	Toy Story 4	2019	John Lasseter
682	Godzilla	1954	Ishirô Honda
683	A Short Film About Love	1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski
684	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	1916	D.W. Griffith
685	Carol	2015	Todd Haynes
686	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	Clint Eastwood
687	Fiddler on the Roof	1971	Norman Jewison
688	Moon	2009	Duncan Jones
689	L'Eclisse	1962	Michelangelo Antonioni
690	Serpico	1973	Sidney Lumet
691	Porco Rosso	1992	Hayao Miyazaki
692	The Heiress	1949	William Wyler
693	Winter Light	1963	Ingmar Bergman
694	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	1958	Richard Brooks
695	Elite Squad: The Enemy Within	2010	José Padilha
696	Deep Red	1975	Dario Argento
697	The Ox-Bow Incident	1942	William A. Wellman
698	Pride & Prejudice	2005	Joe Wright
699	The Blue Angel	1930	Josef von Sternberg
700	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	1988	Pedro Almodóvar
701	Three Colors: White	1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski
702	The Ladykillers	1955	Alexander Mackendrick
703	Breakfast at Tiffany's	1961	Blake Edwards
704	Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India	2001	Ashutosh Gowariker
705	Baby Driver	2017	Edgar Wright
706	Iron Man	2008	Jon Favreau
707	Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	Robert Benton
708	The Martian	2015	Ridley Scott
709	The Bourne Ultimatum	2007	Paul Greengrass
710	Thor: Ragnarok	2017	Taika Waititi
711	Burning	2018	Lee Chang-dong
712	The Wind Rises	2013	Hayao Miyazaki
713	Jojo Rabbit	2019	Taika Waititi
714	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2	2013	Jay Oliva
715	Cache (Hidden)	2005	Michael Haneke
716	Delicatessen	1991	Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro
717	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory	1971	Mel Stuart
718	Shrek	2001	Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
719	A Christmas Story	1983	Bob Clark
720	The Life of Oharu	1952	Kenji Mizoguchi
721	Pandora's Box	1929	G.W. Pabst
722	Five Easy Pieces	1970	Bob Rafelson
723	Thelma & Louise	1991	Ridley Scott
724	Andhadhun	2018	Sriram Raghavan
725	The Big Sick	2017	Michael Showalter
726	Gilda	1946	Charles Vidor
727	Creed	2015	Ryan Coogler
728	Blue Is the Warmest Color	2013	Abdellatif Kechiche
729	RoboCop	1987	Paul Verhoeven
730	Shane	1953	George Stevens
731	A Face in the Crowd	1957	Elia Kazan
732	Moana	2016	Ron Clements & John Musker
733	Argo	2012	Ben Affleck
734	Gravity	2013	Alfonso Cuarón
735	BlacKkKlansman	2018	Spike Lee
736	I Am a Fugitive from the Chain Gang	1932	Mervyn LeRoy
737	The Magnificent Seven	1960	John Sturges
738	Run Lola Run	1998	Tom Tykwer
739	A Star Is Born	1954	George Cukor
740	Mystic River	2003	Clint Eastwood
741	Brooklyn	2015	John Crowley
742	The Ten Commandments	1956	Cecil B. DeMille
743	Miracle on 34th Street	1947	George Seaton
744	Into the Wild	2007	Sean Penn
745	This Is England	2006	Shane Meadows
746	Love and Death	1975	Woody Allen
747	Mustang	2015	Deniz Gamze Ergüven
748	Departures	2008	Yojiro Takita
749	Star Trek	2009	J.J. Abrams
750	Selma	2014	Ava DuVernay

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As this article is all about accidents and deaths, and in motorsports deaths are usually very violent, be warned that many pictures linked in this article are NSFW.
Aerodynamics is hard. At least that was the case back in the 1960s, when the designers of the cars then focused more on reducing drag to achieve higher speeds, it would seem that adding drag to the car in the form of wings would be quite contradictory. That was until Jim Hall unveiled his series of Chaparral 2 cars with tiny front wings, and later, audacious looking rear wings. The success of the Chaparral 2 in Can-Am events proven that drag isn’t always detrimental to speed.
While the USA were making plans to launch and land a module on the moon, F1 teams only started using bolts and sheets of steel to create their own rather flimsy looking rear wings, it goes without saying that sharp and flimsy sheets of metal on stilts were later banned. The Lotus 49 with front wings fitted however already found success, winning the Constructor’s Championship in 1968. The first era of radical aerodynamic advancements in Formula One has just begun.
It did not take long for every other team to make completely new designs to take advantage of this largely unknown, but effective field. The Lotus team themselves started phasing out the iconic Lotus 49 for the Lotus 72, a brand new design that is made to fully incorporate wings instead of it being just being a fitting to the car like wings on the Lotus 49 were.
Drivers are now taking corners at unprecedented speeds, the extra grip generated allowed the drivers to extract milliseconds out of every corner, rewarding risky cornering, and It just so happens that the best drivers become the best by taking the greatest risks, taking corners at the highest speeds. With the poor reliability of cars then, a component failing while a corner is being taken at high speeds usually spelt death for the driver. And that was true for 8 men that died during race weekends in the 70s: Piers Courage, Jochen Rindt, Roger Williamson, Francois Cevert, Helmuth Koinigg, Mark Donohue, Tom Pryce and Ronnie Peterson. All of them drivers that either enjoyed successes or are already tipped for the World Championship.

PIERS COURAGE

Frank Williams in his earlier years of being a Grand Prix Team owner partnered with close friend and fellow Brit Piers Courage starting from 1969. 1 year into their partnership and they already scored 2 podiums as Courage scored 2nd in Monaco and the USA, other point scoring races gave Courage an 8th place finish at the end of the year, not too bad for a Privateer team. 1970 however was a much harder season for Frank Williams, the heavy and unreliable De Tomaso 505 chassis failed to impress at all, resulting in 4 straight retirements for the team.
The team arrived in the Netherlands with no points scored at all. To solve the problem of weight, the team resorted to rebuilding the car with magnesium parts. A very encouraging qualifying session which saw Courage qualify at 9th seems to make the car rebuilding worth the hassle. That was until the 22nd lap of the race, when the fragile magnesium suspension broke after the infamous Tunnel Oost bump that threw the car into the barriers. The car burst into flames and the magnesium parts certainly didn’t help, the intense flames dashed all hopes of saving Courage (NSFL), who may already have been killed by his own tire detaching and hitting him in the head, snapping his neck.

JOCHEN RINDT

On the other side of the paddock, the new and improved Lotus 72 arrived in the Netherlands with 14 points, and Rindt scoring 9 of those after a win in a very dramatic Monaco Grand Prix, when Jack Brabham crumbled under Rindt's pressure and braked late in the last corner of the last lap to gift Rindt the win, driving the 49. They leave Germany 4 races later with 36 additional points, Rindt scoring all of them with 4 straight wins, an incredibly rare feat with poor reliability in cars back then, a testament to both the skill of Jochen Rindt and the Lotus Formula 1 team.
After another DNF in Austria, Rindt came to Monza looking secure the Championship title, his lead at the top was 20 points, ahead of Jack Brabham. With 3 races remaining after Italy, Rindt could be a World Champion if he increased the gap to 27 points. Monza would be one of the few tracks were some drivers preferred a wingless setup, Rindt was one of them despite teammate John Miles suggesting that the car had little control around the track without the wings. Rindt was never one to take less speed for better handling, and enjoyed much better speeds around Monza during Friday practice. And on Saturday, Rindt took the reduced drag setup to another level by adjusting the gear ratios to increase the Lotus 72’s top speed to 330 km/h. Rindt’s aggressive style of driving would later prove to be his downfall.
On his 5th lap during practice, Rindt approached the Parabolica, the corner that puts a stop to the fast Ascari section, at high speeds. He slammed the brakes late, about 200 metres before the corner. The speed of the Lotus was too much for the brakeshaft to handle, it broke and sent Rindt straight into the barriers and then the gravel trap where he spun for ages. The impact of the crash was tremendous, but it was Rindt’s preference of not fastening his crotch strap in his safety harness that killed him, the impact of the crash slid his body down the cockpit without the crotch strap restraining it, leading to the harness that he did secure strangling him to death.
But Rindt’s lead at the top was too much to surpass. Brabham failed to score any points in the last 4 races, Jacky Ickx became the next closest title rival to a dead Jochen Rindt after a win in Canada, putting him 17 points behind Rindt with 2 races remaining. Ickx would need 2 wins out of 2 to snatch the championship from the cold hands of Rindt. But a 23 year-old Emerson Fittipaldi, now the team leader of Lotus scored his first win in only his 5th Grand Prix in the following race in Watkins Glen to prevent Ickx from winning the World Title from his teammate, leaving a widowed Nina Rindt to collect the World Championship for her husband.
The next 2 seasons of Formula One racing shown very encouraging signs of improvement in safety. Jochen Rindt’s death triggered a heavy response from the drivers themselves. Before his death, drivers already boycotted races that didn’t meet their safety standards, even the legendary Spa-Francorchamps and Nuerburgring didn’t avoid the hammer. The FIA themselves started introducing stricter regulations concerning driver safety. Cockpits were made mandatory to allow drivers to be rescued within 5 seconds, fuel tanks were made with security foams to reduce chances of it erupting and learning from Rindt’s death, the six-point harness must be completely fastened. Heading into the 1973 season even the circuit owners started giving in to the drivers, in the case of Zandvoort, they rebuilt the circuit with a massive spending of 2.5 million pounds in 1972. The newly upgraded Zandvoort featured fences for spectators, Armco barriers lining the whole of the circuit, fire engines and ambulances on standby at Grand Prix weekends. This only happened after the GPDA criticized the poor safety standards of the circuit and threatened to boycott it, and it seemed like the return of the Dutch Grand Prix in 1973 could not go wrong, they did more than enough to prevent another accident like Piers Courage’s one 3 years back. But they were in for a rude awakening.

ROGER WILLIAMSON

Roger Williamson came into the sport after being noticed from the British Formula 3 championship, winning the 1971 and 1972 seasons. Both March and BRM approached the 25 year-old, then touted as one of Britain’s brightest prospects, for a Grand Prix drive. Williamson then accepted the March contract, participating in the 1973 British Grand Prix. It was one to forget for the rookie as he was involved in a memorable 9 car pileup in Silverstone. He qualified at a lowly 18th place in the next race at Netherlands. It wouldn’t take long for Williamson to join the dreaded list of drivers who worked their way up only for their lives to be cut short.
In similar fashion to Courage’s crash 3 years back, Williamson’s car failed from a suspected tyre puncture near the Tunnel Oost section on his 8th lap, the same area where Courage perished 3 years back, and plunged into the Armco barriers. However, the Armco barriers were poorly installed, and gave way to the impact. It flipped the car upside down as the March slid down the track, catching fire before resting some 300 yards from the initial impact. Williamson was still alive, but trapped under the burning car with no way to get out.
Zandvoort was supposed to be prepared for this. But instead it was up to teammate and close friend David Purley, who forfeited his race to rescue Williamson. The only thing that assisted his attempt were a singular fire extinguisher, and a group of ill-equipped marshals who do not have the ability to handle the heat due to their lack of fire-retardant suits. Purley desperately appealed for other passing by drivers to stop and help, who ignored him due to them mistaking Purley as someone trying to save his burning car and save money for the team. The new control tower built at the circuit failed to identify the incident as a life-threatening one, as they too mistaken Purley as someone who safely exited the burning car. This led to the fire engine on standby to be deployed far too late to save the life of Williamson as the race continued under yellows. As Roger Williamson’s cries for help could still be audible to the marshals and Purley, they could do nothing more than try until the cries stopped. Britain again unnecessarily lost another one of its talents. Most absurdly however, was the fact that the race went on in full speed while fire engines were taking up half the width of the track while multiple people were working on the wreckage.

FRANÇOIS CEVERT

But the season would not end with just a singular death. The season would wrap up at Watkins Glen, with the title already sealed and handed to Jackie Stewart, now participating in his last race. The next season would likely see 29 year-old François Cevert become team leader of Tyrell, and make a run at the championship. The Frenchman had already shown he has the capability to keep up with Stewart in quite a few races, finishing 2nd 6 times during the season but never the top spot.
Before qualifying, both Stewart and Cevert took note of the Tyrell’s struggle through the Esses section due to it’s short wheelbase, making the car hard to handle. While Stewart would rather navigate the Esses with a higher gear for better handling, while Cevert preferred to take the Esses with a lower gear, riding it with the higher end of the engine’s power range for better speed. Jackie would be right in the end, as no speed could pay the price of life. Cevert failed to keep the car under control through the Esses, letting the car swerve into the barriers, hitting it in a near perpendicular angle. The barriers could not handle the force exerted by the car, hitting it at speeds exceeding 150 mph, the car was torn apart by the barriers, and according to some, that applies to Cevert’s body too. The flaw of the Armco barriers can be clearly seen in this picture. It wouldn’t take long for the next Armco barrier death to occur.

HELMUTH KOINIGG

The rookie stepping into the ring in 1974 was Helmuth Koinigg, an Austrian driver that had little racing pedigree outside of the Formula Super Vee series. He won the 1973 championship driving for current day Red Bull strongman Helmut Marko. He later secured sponsorship to participate in his home Grand Prix with Scuderia Finotto, a team that runs bought Brabham BT42s for customers. Though he failed to qualify for his home race, he still attracted attention from the Surtees team, who offered Koinigg a trip across the pond to race in the USA and Canada. A strong 10th place finish in Canada earned him more eyes from teams for a permanent drive, notably Fittipaldi and Penske racing.
Watkins Glen once again hosted the last race of the season, and Koinigg wasn’t doing too well, running near the back of the field. Eventually, his rear suspension gave way and the uncontrollable car ran into the Armco barriers at turn 7 with relatively low speeds. The crash shouldn’t be fatal at timid speeds like that, except the lower portion of the barrier were poorly installed, leading to Koinigg’s car sliding underneath the barrier and allowing the top half of it to decapitate Koinigg.
Another Armco failure accident occurred at Montjuic a year later, killing 5 spectators. In addition to that, American racing legend and Grand Prix winner Peter Revson was also killed in a testing session at Kyalami due to the Armco barriers giving in instead of deflecting the car. It was very clear by then that just Armco barriers weren’t enough to keep Formula One racing safe for everyone.

MARK DONOHUE

Another American racing legend was to succumb to the sport. Indianapolis 500 winner and famed driver of the “Can-Am Killer” Porsche 917-30 Mark Donohue was enjoying retirement until he decided to try his hand at Formula One racing again in 1974. Two of America’s best in Roger Penske and Mark Donohue partnered up and looked to kickstart a successful Formula One team. His previous outing in Canada back in 1971 saw him score an impressive 3rd place finish in the only race he started in Formula One. His return to Mosport Park 3 years later didn’t impress, and the same could be said about his next race in Watkins Glen, as he failed to score in both races.
That did not stop Mark from attempting a full season with Penske in the following year. The Penske PC1 still failed to impress, with only a 5th place finish in Sweden out of 9 races to show for. A switch to the March 751 seemed to have worked instantly, scoring a 5th place finish in its first race at Great Britain. Fresh from a speed record attempt back in Talladega, Donohue arrived in Oesterreichring with only 4 points in the bag. And he would not have the chance to add to that tally in Austria.
His front tyre blew at the Vöest Hügel Kurve, the fastest corner at the already high speed circuit, sliding the car into a catch fencing and killing a marshal. Though Donohue seemed alright from the accident, he would later lapse into a coma as it was revealed that he hit his head against what was suspected to be an advertising billboard post. He would succumb to his injuries later on.

TOM PRYCE

But the worst and most gruesome accident has yet to come. Peter Revson’s vacant seat has been taken over by Brian Redman and Bertil Roos, who both failed to impress at all in comparison to Jean-Pierre Jarier, who scored a podium at Monaco that year. Shadow who turn their eyes towards the rookie in Token Racing, Tom Pryce. Tom Pryce gained attention by winning the Monaco F3 race by 20.3 seconds after being denied a shot at the Formula One event due to him being “too inexperienced”. Pryce would later score Shadow’s only non-Jarier point that year, a 6th place finish in Germany netting him a point in the unimpressive Shadow car.
Talks of him becoming the next British World Champion started brewing after a very impressive 1975 season, where outscored Jarier by magnitudes while securing an unlikely pole position at Silverstone in the Shadow. He would end the season at 10th and a podium finish at Austria, a part of a string of results that saw him score in 3 races in a row. Pryce also won at the Race of Champions in dominating fashion that year, winning by 30 seconds ahead of the Surtees of John Watson and the Lotus of Ronnie Peterson. It was said that Pryce would be offered a Lotus contract if not for the team’s struggles in finance at the time.
A similar season followed in 1976, as he once again outperformed a pointless Jarier, adding to his podium tally in Brazil in the process. The 1977 season would be different, Jarier would leave the team, and Pryce was joined by Italian Renzo Zorzi, who managed to score a point in Brazil that year with a 6th place finish while Pryce failed to finish his first 2 races. Kyalami would be no different for Pryce, albeit in much, much more tragic circumstances.
22 laps in, Renzo Zorzi experienced a split pipe problem and had to stop at the left side of the start-finish straight, just ahead of the crest (top of the hill). No car from behind the crest could see what was coming ahead of it. Zorzi was stuck, his car was burning and he struggled to break himself free from his harness. His struggle did not go unnoticed by the Van Vuuren Brothers, both young and inexperienced marshals, who ran across the track from the pit wall, each holding a fire extinguisher, not noticing the train of cars approaching the crest. Hans-Joachim stuck was the first to cross the crest, and swerved just in time to avoid the two, the trailing Pryce in his slipstream however hit 19 year-old Jansen Van Vuuren at high speeds (NSFL), we can use Billy Monger’s accident as a comparison to this one, like Monger, Pryce simply didn’t have time to react. The teenager dropped the extinguisher he was holding as he flew across the air, dead. Tom Pryce’s helmet was struck and broke open by the extinguisher, which also crushed his head, killing him instantly. Pryce’s dead body still has his leg on the throttle as the feral car charged down the straight, colliding with Jacques Laffite’s Ligier before running straight into the catch fencing. The Shadow of Pryce at this point is more reminiscent of a pile of metal junk rather than a Formula One car. And again, another one of Britain’s potential World Champion perished under very unnecessary circumstances.

RONNIE PETERSON

The last death of the decade would once again highlight more flaws in the sport. Ronnie Peterson was one of the fastest drivers on the grid, his aggressive, on-the-edge driving style earned respect from fellow drivers and adoration from fans. It wouldn’t be a surprise to many that Gilles Villeneuve was also a fan of Ronnie before being a Formula One driver himself. The nearly-man of the 70s, Peterson never won the World Championship but was always in the conversation. In 1978, Peterson returned to Team Lotus, who just regained their old form with their breakthrough Ground Effect development. Peterson joined under the agreement that he would be a number 2 driver to Mario Andretti.
With 3 races to go, Peterson arrived in Monza 13 points behind his teammate. Peterson was always fond of Monza, where he won 3 times, and perhaps this would be the race where he closes the gap on Andretti. The successor to the famed Lotus 78, the Lotus 79 was an even bigger success than the already successful predecessor, with 6 wins out of the last 8 races. However, Peterson wrecked his 79 beyond repair during practice, and had to settle for an undermaintained Lotus 78 due to him not fitting into the spare 79 made for Andretti. He qualified in 5th for the race, with Andretti at pole.
On race day, as the cars were still scrambling their way onto their respective grid positions apart from the front few rows, the flag dropped, to the confusion of many drivers, including Peterson, who did not react in time. Some cars never even settled at their grid and went on with the start anyway, accelerating faster than some at the front. Peterson drastically lost positions as a result, and raced side by side with many drivers, bunched up as they entered Curva Grande, on his left was James Hunt. According to some accounts, Patrese swept in front of Hunt, taking him by surprise and forced him to drive into Peterson, who skid across the track and hit the barriers, igniting the Lotus. This resulted in a massive pile up, taking around 10 cars out of the race. Peterson was heroically rescued from the burning wreck by Hunt, Regazzoni and Depailler, but his legs were horrifyingly broken. Peterson, still conscious, had to have his eyes be covered by Hunt, who feared that Peterson would not be able to bear the sight of his legs. Peterson was sent to the hospital along with Vittorio Brambilla, who was initially the one at more risk due to him being unconscious after being hit in the head by a loose tyre in the accident.
Though it was clear that Peterson’s legs were not fit for racing and was in a serious condition, the general consensus then was that his life was not in danger, and could be fit for racing again as soon as the next season begins. Peterson, still conscious, agreed to have his legs be operated during the night in intensive care. However, his condition quickly worsened after the surgery, and he died in the next morning due to complications (or fat embolism for you medical nerds who get it). The episode didn’t end right there, as his widow committed suicide 9 years later, never recovering from her loss despite having a 12 year-old daughter.
And there we have it. 8 drivers dead during race weekends within 10 seasons, and all but one of them could’ve been easily prevented if not for half-hearted improvements to safety. Had the Armco barriers be installed properly or be replaced by a stronger option, we could see 9 lives being spared already, even though John Love already experienced an accident that really should’ve warned the track owners about how half-assing the Armcos could’ve resulted in a Cevert or Koinigg. If the track staff had been better trained, there would’ve been 3 lives saved. It seems like it would take multiple fatal accidents for the sport to learn from its mistakes.
But the good thing is, they did. Sweeping changes across the board from car structures to track safety followed, as the FIA seemed to finally keep up to the increasing speed of the cars, and it shows. Only 2 drivers would die in a race weekend in the next decade of Formula One racing, and both occurred in a singular 1982 season. The sport was far from perfect in terms of safety at this point, but it was not long before people would look back to an old footage of Formula One racing and exclaim their disbelief at the appalling safety standards then. Drivers also learnt their lesson from the accidents themselves, if Roger Williamson’s accident was not the wakeup call for the drivers, it may have been Lauda’s incident in 1976 instead (although the 2 situations were different), no driver would ever take a burning car lightly anymore. But most importantly, it was the tracks being modified heavily after the 70’s. A lap in the full Nuerburgring, the full Spa-Francorchamps or the old Monza at modern speeds would look like lunacy nowadays, and for good reasons. All 3 legendary circuits sacrificed legacy for safety, and it was well worth it. The new versions of these circuits that were once famed for being a glorified death trap did not see a fatality occur in the premier level of motorsports since Peterson in Monza.

Alain Prost vs Niki Lauda - the story of the 1984 Formula One season
The Closest Rivalry in F1 History?
Prologue
August 1st, 1976. I’d be surprised if there was anyone in the F1 community who does not know the meaning of that date. It was, of course, the German Grand Prix. The race that saw Niki Lauda’s trial by fire. Literally. When he stepped back onto the grid less than six weeks later, for the Italian round of the World Championship for Drivers, the Austrian was a changed man. By the end of the season, Lauda had narrowly missed out on winning the championship by a single point. His fierce rival, Briton James Hunt in his McLaren, had triumphed.
This, of course, was not the end for Lauda. He came back to win another championship with Ferrari the following year. However, following his decision to withdraw from the season-deciding Japanese Grand Prix of 1976, his relationship with the Scuderia had soured, and the newly-crowned double champion departed Maranello to join Bernie Ecclestone’s own Brabham team. Unfortunately, other than the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix, which saw the running of the infamous “Fan Car”, the next two seasons proved to be much less successful than his glory days with Ferrari. So, during practice at the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix, Lauda announced that he had no more desire to “drive around in circles” and retired with immediate effect, going back to Austria to manage his fledgling airline, Lauda Air.
The following year, a promising young talent began his Formula One career with McLaren, a career that would one day see him becoming one of the greatest drivers the sport had ever seen. However, in his first season, this young French driver, while showing promise, would only finish fifteenth – although equal on points with former champion Emerson Fittipaldi – and soon chose to break off his contract with McLaren to join Renault. Over the next three seasons, Alain Prost would start to show his talent, winning several races, but by the end of the 1983 season, his relationship with the French team had broken down completely. After criticising the team’s “uncompetitive” car once too often, he was sacked by the team only two days after the final race of the season. The breakdown was so bad, that some factory workers reportedly burned down one of Prost’s private cars before his departure back home to Switzerland.
Meanwhile, Niki Lauda’s career as an airline manager had proven to not quite be as fulfilling as the Austrian had hoped. When he returned to the paddock in a commentary role for the 1981 Austrian Grand Prix, he realised that, actually, driving around in circles wasn’t all that boring after all. Not much later, Lauda was behind the wheel of the McLaren MP4, and the following year, he was back on the grid, this time in a McLaren. At the third race of that season, the US Grand Prix in Long Beach, he silenced his doubters and proved that yes, Niki Lauda can still win races, hammering the point home by winning the British Grand Prix later that season. The 1983 season, however, was not to be as successful, as Lauda barely finished a race, and came home without a single win.
1984 – building up to a new season
As dawn broke on the 1984 seasons, an interesting off-season had drawn to a close. Reigning champion Nelson Piquet had remained with the Brabham team for yet another season, with the team’s BMW engines now reaching an incredible 900bhp in power. Williams had retained their lineup of Rosberg and Lafitte, becoming the exclusive user of the new 800 bhp turbocharged Honda V6. Lotus retained Mansell and de Angelis, while Renault went for a completely new driver team after sacking Prost, with Patrick Tambay of Ferrari and Derek Warwick of Toleman joining the team. Ferrari signed Alboreto to join Frenchman Arnoux, while Ligier made the move to turbo engines. Tyrrell was to be the only team running a naturally aspirated engine with the 012, driven by an all-new lineup of Stefan Bellof and Martin Brundle, a car that would prove the centre of controversy later on in the season. But two moves on the grid would prove to have the biggest impact on the future of Formula One. The Toleman team, having lost Warwick to Renault and released Bruno Giacomelli from his contract decided to sign veteran motorcycle racer Johnny Cecotto alongside the reigning British F3 champion, a young talent from Brazil going by the name of Ayrton Senna. Alain Prost, meanwhile, had returned home and rejoined the McLaren team. Mclaren’s new car, the MP4/2, was powered by a TAG-Porsche engine that, albeit down on power compared to the other leading teams, producing only 750 bhp, showed to have superior fuel economy, which, coupled with the car’s superior aerodynamics, proved to be a major factor for the season ahead. At the start of the season, commentators expected a continuation of the three-way battle between Brabham, Renault and Ferrari, with McLaren, Williams and Lotus being the “best of the rest”. However, things would turn out quite differently.
The opening rounds
And so, on 25 March, 1984, the F1 grid once again lined up to begin a new season of 16 races, with the Brazilian Grand Prix at Jacarepagua kicking off. Elio de Angelis in the Lotus had taken the first pole of the season, with fellow Italian Michele Alboreto alongside him in the Ferrari. Alain Prost started in fourth, with Mansell in the second Lotus and Lauda in the second McLaren rounding out the top 6. Reigning champion Piquet would start his home race in 7th. Further down the grid, newcomer Senna had put his Toleman on an impressive 17th, with Jonathan Palmer being the only driver who failed to qualify.
After a bad start, Prost had slumped down to 10th position, with Lauda in 4th. Eight laps into his debut, Ayrton Senna became the first driver to retire from a race this season. On lap 34, Lauda had built a comfortable lead when the electrics on his car failed, forcing him to retire from the race. Meanwhile, Prost had battled his way back to the front, and, after a short battle with Derek Warwick, comfortably won the race once the Englishman had to retire, with Rosberg and de Angelis making up the podium. Out of 26 cars that had started the race, only 9 had made the chequered flag.
Two weeks later, the F1 circus arrived in Kyalami, where Piquet took his first pole of the season, with Rosberg’s Williams alongside him. Prost and Lauda started in fifth and eighth, respectively. In a race that would once again see half the grid retire, both Brabhams would retire with turbo problems. After an excellent start, Lauda had taken second place by lap 10; Piquet’s retirement on lap 30 handed him an easy win. Prost came in second, over a minute behind his teammate, and the only other driver to finish on the lead lap. Warwick rounded up the podium, and a delighted Ayrton Senna gained his first championship point ever, bringing the Toleman home in sixth. But the story of the paddock was the dominance of the McLaren drivers. Prost, on 15 points, was comfortably leading the drivers’ championship with Lauda in second on 9, while in the constructors’ rankings, Williams and Alfa Romeo, both on 6 points, were far away from McLaren’s 24.
The season went to Belgium, with Zolder next hosting the circus. It proved to be a dismal weekend for McLaren, with both cars retiring. Alboreto took the win from pole, with Warwick in second and Arnoux in third. The next race in Imola would see Senna fail to qualify for the only time in his career, with Prost taking another win. Lauda, once again, failed to finish the race. A quarter of the season had passed, and Prost seemed on course to finally win his first championship, leading the standings with 24 points over Warwick’s 13. Lauda, meanwhile, had dropped out of even the top 5.
However, the Austrian’s luck began to turn as Formula One came to the Dijon-Prenois circuit for what was to be the last time. Lauda achieved his first win in France since the ‘75 season, while teammate Prost missed out on scoring any points in his home race, after having to pit for a loose wheel and coming in 7th. Suddenly, Lauda had moved back into second place in the drivers’ championship, a mere six points between his teammate. The challenge was back on as the field headed to Monaco, for a race that would go down in history as one of the most controversial grands prix yet.
Monaco. The Principality Under Water.
With the grid limited to 20 spots, qualifying here always had some surprises. Prost finally put the McLaren on pole alongside Mansell, with Lauda starting in eighth. Sunday morning then brought torrential rain to the Principality, and the start to the race was delayed by 45 minutes while, after a petition by Lauda, fire trucks flooded the tunnel to make sure the entire circuit was evenly wet. Prost led the race from the start, while Arnoux and Warwick crashed into each other in the first corner, in the first of a number of incidents that would throw the race into chaos. On lap nine, Mansell took the lead from Prost before crashing out of the race himself a few laps later. Prost retook the lead, but both his teammate Lauda and Senna’s Toleman were catching up to him. On lap 23, Lauda’s brakes failed and he spun out at the casino, stalling his engine and ending his race. The race was then only between Prost and Senna, a scenario that nobody had expected, but that showed the early beginnings of yet another legendary rivalry in years to come. By lap 29, Prost had begun to indicate his opinion that the race should not be continued in these circumstances, and the red flag and chequered flag were flown at the end of lap 32, just after Senna had passed Prost for the lead. Unfortunately for the Brazilian, the result was counted back to lap 31, and so Prost took the win in Monaco, with Senna’s second place giving him his first podium, and Tyrrell’s Stefan Bellof finishing third after having started last, his only visit to the podium in his tragically short career. As the race had run to less than 75% distance, only half points were awarded, a fact that would prove crucial to the outcome of the season.
The North American Races – Trouble for Tyrrell
Round seven of the championship took the drivers to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Piquet finally caught a break and scored a grand slam – pole, fastest lap, and race victory – with Lauda coming second and Prost in third, rejuvenating the Austrian’s title hopes. From Canada, the field moved on to Detroit, where Piquet once again took pole, leading from flag to flag and fending off a charge from rookie Brundle. He ended winning the race by just a second over the naturally-aspirated Tyrrell, after a massive cash at the start took out a number of drivers. Prost finished fifth, with Lauda once again retiring.
But in Parc ferme, controversy struck. Lead balls were found in the Tyrrell’s water injection system, and fuel traces were found in the water itself. Team manager Ken Tyrrell was called to a meeting of the FISA executive on July 18th and was accused of refuelling the car during the race, which had been banned prior to the season. After a lengthy process of appeals, the Tyrrell team was found in breach of regulations, and disqualified from the season, with all their results struck out, lifting Prost to fourth in the Detroit grand prix. He was now leading team mate Lauda by 10 ½ points in the drivers’ championship as the season passed its halfway point. Little changed there after the next race in Dallas, with both McLarens failing to score points, with Keke Rosberg scoring his only win for the season. Elio de Angelis, meanwhile, had finished third, and moved within half a point of Lauda for second in the championship.
On to Brands Hatch, for the 37th running of the British Grand Prix. Qualifying would see the career-ending crash of Toleman’s Johnny Cecotto, who broke both his legs and would never race again. Nelson Piquet went on to take yet another pole position, but ultimately could only finish seventh. Prost retired from second on the grid, and after yet another dominant McLaren performance, Niki Lauda took the win, 42 seconds ahead of local hero Derek Warwick in the Renault. Ayrton Senna once again showed his talent and came third. The race for the championship was now truly on, as Lauda had closed the gap to 1.5 points. The German Grand Prix would provide some respite to the Frenchman, as Prost took another win ahead of Lauda, with Warwick in third taking what would be the last podium of his career.
400 Grands Prix – and still counting
The 17th Austrian Grand Prix, race 12 of the season, was a landmark race for both the season and F1 history, as the sport celebrated its 400th World Championship race. After chaos at the race start, Prost crashed out on lap 28. Lauda, after some problems himself, won the race ahead of Piquet, who had once again started on pole. For the first time in the season, Niki Lauda was now leading the championship. Round 13, the Dutch Grand Prix, saw the beginning of what we would nowadays call the silly season. Rumours surfaced that Senna was to break his contract with Toleman and sign for Lotus, which was confirmed shortly after the race and led to the young Brazilian being suspended by the team for the following race in Italy. At the same time, Mansell was rumoured to be leaving Lotus for Williams, which was again proven right. In a rather uneventful race, meanwhile, Prost had won from pole with Lauda in second, giving McLaren the constructors’ trophy with three races to go and closing the gap between their two drivers to 1.5 points. At this point of the season, a McLaren triumph was guaranteed as no other driver stood any chance of winning the championship. The only question that remained was who the champion would be – Lauda, or Prost.
In the time between the Dutch and Italian Grands Prix, Tyrrell’s final appeal was thrown out and the team, having contested the previous races despite their pending disqualification, ended their season early. Thus, the 1984 Italian Grand Prix would be the first all-turbo race in F1 history.
Once again, Nelson Piquet dominated qualifying, with Prost taking second. Elio de Angelis and Niki Lauda had qualified on the second row of the grid. At the start, de Angelis took the lead, but Piquet quickly overtook him, with Lauda dropping back to seventh. Prost and Tambay overtook de Angelis and began to chase Piquet, when the McLaren’s TAG-Porsche engine failed. In the meantime, Lauda had moved back up to fourth place. The race once again showed a high attrition rate. By lap 15, both Ligiers, both Williams and both Lotuses had retired, with Arnoux’ Ferrari out after a gearbox failure. On lap 16, race leader Piquet suffered a similar fate to Prost earlier, handing the lead to Tambay in the Renault. Teo Fabi in the second Brabham had taken second from Lauda, and by half-distance the three were running in a close chase. On lap 40, Lauda caught Fabi, and took Tambay’s lead shortly on lap 43. One lap later, both the second and third place drivers dropped out of the race, leaving Lauda to take an easy win and widening his gap to 10.5 points, with two races to go.
The Final Showdown
The penultimate round of the season saw the F1 circus return to the Nürburgring for the first time since Lauda’s crash in 1976, with the famous Nordschleife no longer part of the circuit. Instead, the European Grand Prix was held on the much shorter GP-Strecke. Continuing the flavour of the season, Nelson Piquet once again took pole, ahead of Prost, with Lauda starting all the way down in 15th. The race was marked by a first corner accident caused by the returning Ayrton Senna, taking out Rosberg, Marc Surer, Gerhard Berger, and Piercarlo Ghinzani. At the front of the pack, Prost took the win from Michele Alboreto in the Ferrari and Piquet’s Brabham, who both ran out of fuel on the finish line, with Lauda finishing fourth – he could have finished third had it not been for a spin while lapping a backmarker. Thus, the championship decider would fall to the final round of the season in Portugal, with Niki Lauda leading Alain Prost by 3.5 points.
For the first time in 24 years, a Grand Prix had come to Portugal, on the newly-upgraded Estoril circuit. Qualifying was no different than it had been in the previous races – once again, Piquet was on pole alongside Prost, with Senna an impressive Third. Lauda, meanwhile, qualified all the way down in eleventh. Things were looking good for Prost – he would have to win the race with Lauda third or lower, or could finish second if Lauda failed to score at all.
At the start, Prost took the lead from Piquet, but he dropped down to third behind Rosberg and Mansell by the first corner. He quickly took second from Mansell and went to pursue Rosberg. Meanwhile, Lauda was working his way up through the midfield. On lap nine, Prost took the lead with Lauda running ninth. Mansell took Rosberg for second, with Senna soon overtaking the Williams as well. By lap 28, Prost had built a comfortable lead, with Lauda finally in the points. Five laps later, Lauda’s McLaren had overcome Senna’s Toleman, and it was all down to the final chase. If Lauda could overtake Mansell for second, he would be champion. On lap 51, Mansell spun. Lauda was now firmly attached to the rear wing of the Briton’s Lotus, and when he spun again on the following lap, the Austrian took second as Mansell retired from his final race with Lotus. It was all he needed. Nineteen laps later, Alain Prost took the chequered flag to take victory, with Lauda coming home 13 seconds later as newly-crowned triple world champion. Ayrton Senna rounded out the podium with yet another astounding third-place finish, putting three drivers on a truly legendary podium. After a thrilling season, the half-points race in Monaco had proven decisive as Niki Lauda took the World Championship by half a point, the smallest title winning margin in F1 history.
Epilogue
Prost would not remain uncrowned for long. By the end of the 1985 season, he would have won the first of his four world titles. Lauda, meanwhile, appeared to have lost his edge, winning only a single race. By the end of the season, the Austrian had decided to once again retire. This time, it was for good. The other two podium finishers of the ’84 Portuguese Grand Prix would of course move on to become legends in their own right. But Niki Lauda’s legend had come to a close. After three world championships, it was time to move on from Formula One. He returned to running his airline, before returning as a consultant to Ferrari in 1993. In 1996, he began commentating on races for German broadcaster RTL, a role from which he suddenly retired at the end of the 2017 season. He managed the Jaguar team in 2001 and 2002, and has been non-executive chairman of the Mercedes F1 team since 2012. Prost would go on to win the ’85, ’86, ’89 and ’93 titles, moving from McLaren to Ferrari and then Williams, before retiring from the sport ahead of the ’94 season, with arch-rival Senna taking his Williams seat. In 1997, he then acquired the Ligier team, running it in his own name as Prost F1 until it folded in 2002. He is now involved in the management of the Renault e.dams Formula E team, and has been hired as a special advisor to the reborn Renault team in Formula One, putting him and Lauda back into rivalling positions in the paddock once again. The rivalry of Prost and Senna has gone down in history as possibly the greatest of them all, but it was in the 1984 season that Prost first showed the legend that he was to become, while Lauda enjoyed his final hurrah in a season that will forever be known for its controversies and, ultimately, the closest result F1 might ever see.

Unless my searching failed me, the first list was in 2015 making the 2019 list the 5th.
Here are the movies to make it every time, sorted by highest rank then average rank.

Movie	Release Year	Director		2015	2016	2017	2018	2019		Highest		Average
The Dark Knight	2008	Christopher Nolan		4	2	1	1	1		1		1.80
Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino		1	1	2	10	6		1		4.00
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson		6	10	9	3	2		2		6.00
The Godfather	1972	Francis Ford Coppola		2	16	15	14	12		2		11.80
The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont		19	7	13	2	26		2		13.40
Whiplash	2014	Damien Chazelle		5	8	3	7	4		3		5.40
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back	1980	Irvin Kershner		7	3	7	5	10		3		6.40
Fight Club	1999	David Fincher		3	6	32	21	43		3		21.00
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson		14	4	4	4	9		4		7.00
Inglourious Basterds	2009	Quentin Tarantino		8	5	6	12	18		5		9.80
Inception	2010	Christopher Nolan		25	9	8	8	5		5		11.00
The Prestige	2006	Christopher Nolan		40	12	11	6	20		6		17.80
No Country for Old Men	2007	Ethan & Joel Coen		12	18	10	11	8		8		11.80
The Departed	2006	Martin Scorsese		9	11	20	22	36		9		19.60
Jurassic Park	1993	Steven Spielberg		38	34	36	9	15		9		26.40
The Grand Budapest Hotel	2014	Wes Anderson		10	29	24	28	27		10		23.60
Alien	1979	Ridley Scott		11	14	12	17	16		11		14.00
12 Angry Men	1957	Sidney Lumet		26	13	16	26	30		13		22.20
Goodfellas	1990	Martin Scorsese		13	21	19	18	42		13		22.60
Back to the Future	1985	Robert Zemeckis		31	27	31	13	19		13		24.20
2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick		18	25	58	40	13		13		30.80
The Social Network	2010	David Fincher		39	45	14	38	14		14		30.00
Toy Story	1995	John Lasseter		15	24	18	36	57		15		30.00
Se7en	1995	David Fincher		16	17	17	45	39		16		26.80
The Matrix	1999	Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski		17	20	48	25	47		17		31.40
The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme		22	19	39	30	28		19		27.60
Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	Steven Spielberg		37	31	33	19	29		19		29.80
There Will Be Blood	2007	Paul Thomas Anderson		21	32	25	20	21		20		23.80
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu		20	76	79	91	83		20		69.80
The Incredibles	2004	Brad Bird		44	64	21	24	41		21		38.80
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope	1977	George Lucas		32	22	29	23	34		22		28.00
Interstellar	2014	Christopher Nolan		85	35	40	35	22		22		43.40
Fargo	1996	Ethan & Joel Coen		29	23	41	32	23		23		29.60
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Michel Gondry		23	41	28	43	44		23		35.80
Saving Private Ryan	1998	Steven Spielberg		30	33	23	47	65		23		39.60
Hot Fuzz	2007	Edgar Wright		43	57	37	44	24		24		41.00
The Big Lebowski	1998	Ethan & Joel Coen		24	36	43	56	49		24		41.60
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	Peter Jackson		27	30	27	37	25		25		29.20
Nightcrawler	2014	Dan Gilroy		62	58	26	52	35		26		46.60
The Godfather: Part II	1974	Francis Ford Coppola		64	26	75	48	61		26		54.80
The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick		28	28	38	27	32		27		30.60
The Truman Show	1998	Peter Weir		49	42	47	31	33		31		40.40
Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott		70	44	51	34	31		31		46.00
Spirited Away	2001	Hayao Miyazaki		41	39	35	33	37		33		37.00
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone		33	40	44	71	82		33		54.00
The Lion King	1994	Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff		34	54	34	57	50		34		45.80
Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola		35	38	54	60	62		35		49.80
Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese		36	48	52	66	74		36		55.20
Reservoir Dogs	1992	Quentin Tarantino		45	37	53	63	84		37		56.40
Children of Men	2006	Alfonso Cuarón		51	49	42	39	38		38		43.80
Pan's Labyrinth	2006	Guillermo del Toro		59	68	59	41	71		41		59.60
WALL-E	2008	Andrew Stanton		56	59	57	42	48		42		52.40
Her	2013	Spike Jonze		42	50	65	61	59		42		55.40
Memento	2000	Christopher Nolan		48	43	49	55	46		43		48.20
Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg		52	70	45	62	60		45		57.80
The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Martin Scorsese		78	60	69	96	45		45		69.60
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	Stanley Kubrick		46	47	50	49	72		46		52.80
Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975	Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones		53	46	71	50	52		46		54.40
Good Will Hunting	1997	Gus van Sant		47	51	46	65	80		46		57.80
City of God	2002	Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund		50	63	68	90	99		50		74.00
In Bruges	2008	Martin McDonagh		57	53	56	51	79		51		59.20
Django Unchained	2012	Quentin Tarantino		54	56	67	87	51		51		63.00
Die Hard	1988	John McTiernan		61	52	72	59	67		52		62.20
Terminator 2: Judgement Day	1991	James Cameron		60	61	60	75	53		53		61.80
Drive	2011	Nicolas Winding Refn		83	78	66	64	54		54		69.00
Zodiac	2007	David Fincher		71	88	76	54	66		54		71.00
Forrest Gump	1994	Robert Zemeckis		65	55	64	72	69		55		65.00
Gone Girl	2014	David Fincher		80	65	55	73	77		55		70.00
A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick		55	80	81	79	86		55		76.20
Shaun of the Dead	2004	Edgar Wright		58	66	74	58	73		58		65.80
The Thing	1982	John Carpenter		96	87	73	68	58		58		76.40
American Beauty	1999	Sam Mendes		67	69	62	98	104		62		80.00
Up	2009	Pete Docter, Bob Peterson		81	82	63	77	81		63		76.80
Groundhog Day	1993	Harold Ramis		69	84	89	80	63		63		77.00
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	Milos Forman		63	75	103	107	100		63		89.60
Aliens	1986	James Cameron		88	81	80	88	64		64		80.20
Oldboy	2003	Chan-wook Park		66	79	85	83	103		66		83.20
Jaws	1975	Steven Spielberg		82	71	70	67	68		67		71.60
Kill Bill: Vol 1	2003	Quentin Tarantino		84	67	77	81	76		67		77.00
Gladiator	2000	Ridley Scott		86	74	78	69	92		69		79.80
The Princess Bride	1987	Rob Reiner		74	92	94	70	75		70		81.00
Mulholland Dr.	2001	David Lynch		116	99	101	97	70		70		96.60
Full Metal Jacket	1987	Stanley Kubrick		77	72	93	89	94		72		85.00
Boogie Nights	1997	Paul Thomas Anderson		72	97	100	82	102		72		90.60
Rear Window	1954	Alfred Hitchcock		97	73	87	78	88		73		84.60
District 9	2009	Neill Blomkamp		73	93	92	100	108		73		93.20
Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa		93	86	84	74	96		74		86.60
American History X	1998	Tony Kaye		75	91	83	111	227		75		117.40
Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock		76	90	82	76	85		76		81.80
Finding Nemo	2003	Andrew Stanton		92	98	90	94	78		78		90.40
Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz		79	83	88	84	89		79		84.60
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles		87	85	86	85	90		85		86.60
Airplane!	1980	Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker		89	89	91	86	91		86		89.20
O Brother, Where Art Thou?	2000	Joel Coen		91	94	98	95	97		91		95.00
Toy Story 3	2010	Lee Unkrich		98	100	99	92	93		92		96.40
Moonrise Kingdom	2012	Wes Anderson		94	103	116	115	136		94		112.80
Lost in Translation	2003	Sophia Copolla		95	95	95	99	95		95		95.80
The Lego Movie	2014	Phil Lord, Christopher Miller		154	233	96	101	228		96		162.40
Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean		118	107	115	102	98		98		108.00
Boyhood	2014	Richard Linklater		99	119	151	217	223		99		161.80
Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese		100	102	140	149	133		100		124.80
Princess Mononoke	1997	Hayao Miyazaki		101	105	117	104	105		101		106.40
Léon: The Profession	1994	Luc Besson		109	101	114	164	187		101		135.00
Office Space	1999	Mike Judge		102	139	198	159	218		102		163.20
Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski		103	106	122	110	109		103		110.00
Prisoners	2013	Denis Villeneuve		145	146	104	191	113		104		139.80
Magnolia	1999	Paul Thomas Anderson		105	129	167	128	202		105		146.20
Catch Me If You Can	2002	Steven Spielberg		214	117	110	106	121		106		133.60
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World	2010	Edgar Wright		123	137	107	120	107		107		118.80
Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle		124	108	111	166	195		108		140.80
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	Steven Spielberg		108	195	230	112	141		108		157.20
Fantastic Mr. Fox	2009	Wes Anderson		127	131	130	109	125		109		124.40
The Terminator	1984	James Cameron		131	111	243	123	159		111		153.40
Ratatouille	2007	Brad Bird		140	248	112	113	116		112		145.80
L.A. Confidential	1997	Curtis Hanson		155	112	132	202	153		112		150.80
Inside LLewyn Davis	2013	Ethan & Joel Coen		141	113	119	122	138		113		126.60
Being John Malkovich	1999	Spike Jonze		113	126	214	124	150		113		145.40
Casino Royale	2006	Martin Campbell		181	213	113	116	201		113		164.80
Amadeus	1984	Milos Forman		148	114	128	121	162		114		134.60
Ferris Bueller's Day Off	1986	John Hughes		114	216	169	118	131		114		149.60
The Breakfast Club	1985	John Hughes		117	231	202	179	166		117		179.00
Edge of Tomorrow	2014	Doug Liman		222	162	118	140	119		118		152.20
M	1931	Fritz Lang		200	176	153	130	120		120		155.80
Heat	1995	Michael Mann		130	121	129	162	241		121		156.60
It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Frank Capra		122	124	197	133	204		122		156.00
The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder		190	172	195	144	122		122		164.60
The Graduate	1967	Mike Nichols		125	140	156	229	123		123		154.60
Singin' in the Rain	1952	Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen		179	219	133	126	124		124		156.20
Akira	1988	Katsuhiro Otomo		126	212	248	147	171		126		180.80
Sunset Blvd	1950	Billy Wilder		199	161	210	145	127		127		168.40
Before Sunset	2004	Richard Linklater		207	194	137	189	129		129		171.20
Unforgiven	1992	Clint Eastwood		129	170	206	205	214		129		184.80
The Wizard of Oz	1939	Victor Fleming		132	189	205	196	163		132		177.00
Ikiru	1952	Akira Kurosawa		208	201	229	213	132		132		196.60
Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch		204	141	171	134	160		134		162.00
Stalker	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky		205	197	209	137	178		137		185.20
Almost Famous	2000	Cameron Crowe		137	177	219	248	243		137		204.80
Adaptation	2002	Spike Jonze		144	138	224	138	169		138		162.60
The Seventh Seal	1957	Ingmar Bergman		169	171	166	139	142		139		157.40
The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed		149	153	181	141	167		141		158.20
Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick		188	178	212	152	143		143		174.60
8½	1963	Federico Fellini		143	149	211	193	217		143		182.60
My Neighbor Totoro	1988	Hayao Miyazaki		162	145	158	167	186		145		163.60
Persona	1966	Ingmar Bergman		193	182	199	178	146		146		179.60
Amélie	2001	Jean-Pierre Jeunet		146	240	170	215	148		146		183.80
In the Mood for Love	2000	Wong Kar Wai		218	191	148	157	152		148		173.20
Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones		226	148	187	207	199		148		193.40
Black Swan	2010	Darren Aronofsky		150	183	152	168	151		150		160.80
Paths of Glory	1957	Stanley Kubrick		175	152	236	209	161		152		186.60
The Great Dictator	1940	Charles Chaplin		158	155	201	250	207		155		194.20
Brazil	1985	Terry Gilliam		168	157	161	158	221		157		173.00
Chungking Express	1994	Wong Kar Wai		223	217	190	201	157		157		197.60
Blazing Saddles	1974	Mel Brooks		170	232	159	177	208		159		189.20
Metropolis	1927	Fritz Lang		180	234	200	238	164		164		203.20
The Thin Red Line	1998	Terrence Malick		216	207	196	203	226		196		209.60
Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder		198	202	247	200	205		198		210.40