Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Greatest Years, Ranked

When was the golden age of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer? We ranked every year by the accumulated weighted rating of its best Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer titles — a year rises when it delivered many strongly-rated entries, not just a lone classic. Data from 3eyedraven's catalog.

  1. #1 1982 15 great titles Best: Pink Floyd: The Wall
  2. #2 1943 13 great titles Best: Red Hot Riding Hood
  3. #3 1949 12 great titles Best: Little Women
  4. #4 1939 11 great titles Best: Gone with the Wind
  5. #5 1988 12 great titles Best: A Fish Called Wanda
  6. #6 2002 11 great titles Best: Red Dragon
  7. #7 1953 10 great titles Best: The Band Wagon
  8. #8 1984 10 great titles Best: Breakin'
  9. #9 2006 10 great titles Best: Casino Royale
  10. #10 1959 9 great titles Best: North by Northwest
  11. #11 1958 9 great titles Best: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  12. #12 1991 9 great titles Best: Thelma & Louise
  13. #13 2018 9 great titles Best: A Star Is Born
  14. #14 2007 9 great titles Best: Death at a Funeral
  15. #15 2004 9 great titles Best: Hotel Rwanda
  16. #16 1940 8 great titles Best: The Shop Around the Corner
  17. #17 2005 9 great titles Best: Nanny McPhee
  18. #18 1934 8 great titles Best: The Thin Man
  19. #19 2021 8 great titles Best: No Time to Die
  20. #20 1967 8 great titles Best: The Dirty Dozen
  21. #21 1968 8 great titles Best: 2001: A Space Odyssey
  22. #22 1962 8 great titles Best: Mutiny on the Bounty
  23. #23 2001 8 great titles Best: Legally Blonde
  24. #24 2008 8 great titles Best: Stargate: Continuum
  25. #25 1995 8 great titles Best: Fluke
  26. #26 1956 7 great titles Best: Forbidden Planet
  27. #27 1951 7 great titles Best: Quo Vadis
  28. #28 1945 7 great titles Best: The Picture of Dorian Gray
  29. #29 1944 7 great titles Best: Gaslight
  30. #30 1941 7 great titles Best: Shadow of the Thin Man
  31. #31 2014 7 great titles Best: If I Stay
  32. #32 1987 7 great titles Best: Spaceballs
  33. #33 1983 7 great titles Best: A Christmas Story
  34. #34 2009 7 great titles Best: Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods
  35. #35 1997 7 great titles Best: Hoodlum
  36. #36 2003 7 great titles Best: Uptown Girls
  37. #37 1936 6 great titles Best: Fury
  38. #38 1973 6 great titles Best: Ludwig
  39. #39 1965 6 great titles Best: Doctor Zhivago
  40. #40 1935 6 great titles Best: A Night at the Opera