Muriels Hall of Fame, Class of 2018: Parting Thoughts

To begin with, I would like to send thanks out to everyone who voted. Obviously, this couldn’t have happened without all of you.

Jason Alley
Josh Bell
Andrew Bemis
Christianne Benedict
Danny Bowes
Donald G. Carder
Kevin Cecil
Paul Clark
Dennis Cozzalio
Philip Dyess-Nugent
Steven Erickson
James Frazier
Kenji Fujishima
Luke Gorham
Jaime Grijalba
Glenn Heath Jr.
Odie Henderson
Sam Juliano
Craig Lindsey
Matt Lynch
Sam C. Mac
Jeff McMahon
Patrick Miller
Matt Noller
Jason Shawhan
Alice Stoehr
Ryan Swen
Scout Tafoya
Ian Scott Todd
Hedwig van Driel
Scott von Doviak
Isaac Weeks
Bryce Wilson

And here are the results of this year's Hall of Fame voting:

2018 Muriels Hall of Fame Inductees
Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati, France) [50th Anniversary Award winner]
What’s Opera, Doc? (1957, Charles M. Jones, USA) [14 votes] {appeared on short films ballot}
A Trip to the Moon (1902, Georges Méliès, France) [13 votes] {appeared on short films ballot}
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming, USA) [12 votes]
Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur, USA) [11 votes]
Freaks (1932, Tod Browning, USA) [11 votes]
Scorpio Rising (1964, Kenneth Anger, USA) [11 votes] {appeared on short films ballot}
Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow, Canada) [10 votes] {appeared on short films ballot} {first year of eligibility}
Night and Fog (1956, Alain Resnais, France) [9 votes]
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler, USA) [8 votes]
Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio De Sica, Italy) [8 votes]
The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks, USA) [8 votes]
Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir, France) [8 votes]
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, USA) [8 votes]
Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau, Germany) [8 votes]
Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur, USA) [8 votes]
Point Blank (1967, John Boorman, USA) [8 votes] {first year of eligibility}

7 votes
Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray, USA)
The Red Balloon (1956, Albert Lamorisse, France) {appeared on short films ballot}
Le Samouraï (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville, France) {first year of eligibility}

6 votes
All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra, USA)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson, France)
Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder, USA)

5 votes
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder, USA)
Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, UK)
Eyes Without a Face (1960, Georges Franju, France)
Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim, USA)
The House Is Black (1963, Furough Farrokhzad, Iran) {appeared on short films ballot}
Pandora’s Box (1929, G.W. Pabst, Germany)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan, USA)

4 votes
Ace in the Hole (1951, Billy Wilder, USA)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei M. Eisenstein, USSR)
Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray, USA)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn, USA) {first year of eligibility}
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné, France)
Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles, Spain)
The Crowd (1928, King Vidor, USA)
The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise, USA)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, Alain Resnais, France)
Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick, USA)
Kwaidan (1964, Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli, USA)
Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance, France)
Seven Up! (1964, Paul Almond, UK) {appeared on short films ballot}
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford, USA)
The Thin Man (1934, W.S. van Dyke, USA)
The Train (1964, John Frankenheimer, USA)
Vampyr (1932, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966, Mike Nichols, USA)

3 votes
All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie, USA) {appeared on short films ballot}
L’Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau, France)
Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel, France) {first year of eligibility}
The Big Parade (1925, King Vidor, USA)
Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks, USA)
Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith, USA)
A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan, USA)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
The Gold Rush (1925, Charlie Chaplin, USA)
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922, Benjamin Christensen, Denmark)
Land Without Bread (1933, Luis Buñuel, Spain) {appeared on short films ballot}
The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti, Italy)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey, USA)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford, USA)
Mothlight (1963, Stan Brakhage, USA) {appeared on short films ballot}
A Star Is Born (1954, George Cukor, USA)
Unsere Afrikareise (1966, Peter Kubelka, Austria) {appeared on short films ballot}
Week End (1967, Jean-Luc Godard, France) {first year of eligibility}

2 votes
Awaara (1951, Raj Kapoor, India)
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard, France)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957, Mikhail Kalatozov, USSR)
Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger, USA)
Fantasia (1940, various directors, USA)
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914, Winsor McCay, USA) {appeared on short films ballot}
Gertrud (1964, Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
Jules et Jim (1962, François Truffaut, France)
Kanal (1957, Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
Ménilmontant (1926, Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)
One Week (1920, Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, USA) {appeared on short films ballot}
Orpheus (1950, Jean Cocteau, France)
The Pawnbroker (1964, Sidney Lumet, USA)
Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
The Steel Helmet (1951, Sam Fuller, USA)
Sullivan’s Travels (1942, Preston Sturges, USA)
Suspense (1913, Lois Weber, USA) {appeared on short films ballot}
Window Water Baby Moving (1959, Stan Brakhage, USA)

1 vote
L’Âge d’Or (1930, Luis Buñuel, France)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Robert Wise, USA)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Simon of the Desert (1965, Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
Very Nice, Very Nice (1961, Arthur Lipsett, Canada) {appeared on short films ballot}

See you this winter for the 2018 Muriel Awards!