With the winter holiday season upon us again, OFCS members considered the great Christmas movies of cinema history, and have chosen their five favorites.
By a wide margin, It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra’s 1946 classic, came out on top.
Results were tabulated on a weighed-score basis: a vote for favorite received five points; a vote for second favorite received four points; third favorite, three points; fourth favorite, two points; and fifth favorite, one point. It’s a Wonderful Life was ranked in one of the top five positions by 26 members, and received a cumulative score of 104 points.
The rest of the top five:
A Christmas Story (67 points; ranked by 18 members)
Die Hard (65 points; ranked by 18 members)
Bad Santa (38 points; ranked by 12 members)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (34 points; ranked by 11 members)
Other films with significant rankings:
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (31 points; ranked by 12 members)
Love Actually (28 points; ranked by 10 members)
Scrooge (1951) (27 points; ranked by 7 members)
Gremlins (26 points; ranked by 10 members)
Home Alone (26 points; ranked by 9 members)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (22 points; ranked by 9 members)
Edward Scissorhands (18 points; ranked by 6 members)
The Polar Express (17 points; ranked by 6 members)
Elf (15 points; ranked by 7 members)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) (15 points; ranked by 5 members)
Black Christmas (1974) (14 points; ranked by 5 members)
Scrooged (13 points; ranked by 9 members)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (12 points; ranked by 3 members)
White Christmas (11 points; ranked by 4 members)
