Muriels Hall of Fame, Class of 2016: Final Tallies

For you morbidly curious Muriel fans, here are the standings for this year’s Hall of Fame voting:  

2016 Hall of Fame inductees
* - denotes first appearance on ballot  

9 votes
In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray, USA)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick, USA)  

8 votes
Brief Encounter (1946, David Lean, UK)
All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy, France)

7 votes
The General (1927, Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, USA)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston, USA)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, USA)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston, USA)
Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard, France)

Other nominated films

6 votes
Freaks (1932, Tod Browning, USA)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming, USA)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles, USA)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel, USA)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais, France)
*The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise, USA)

5 votes
Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau, Germany/Weimar Republic)
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang, Germany/Weimar Republic)
Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir, France)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks, USA)
*Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur, USA)
*The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks, USA)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra, USA)
Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
The Earrings of Madame De… (1953, Max Ophüls, France)
*Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray, USA)
*Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich, USA)
Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick, USA)
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini, Italy)

4 votes
*Pandora’s Box (1929, G.W. Pabst, Germany)
*It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra, USA)
*The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
*Sullivan’s Travels (1942, Preston Sturges, USA)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné, France)
Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau, France)
*A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, UK)
Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio de Sica, Italy)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
*Ace in the Hole (1951, Billy Wilder, USA)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson, France)
*12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet, USA)
Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini, Italy)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder, USA)
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard, France)
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan)

3 votes
*Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932, Howard Hawks, USA)
Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger, USA)
Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
The Steel Helmet (1951, Sam Fuller, USA)
*The Big Heat (1953, Fritz Lang, USA)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks, USA)
M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953, Jacques Tati, France)
*Les Diaboliques (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzôt, France)
A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan, USA)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, Alain Resnais, France)
*The Housemaid (1960, Kim Ki-young, South Korea)
*The House Is Black (1963, Furough Farrokhzad, Iran)
*A Hard Day’s Night! (1964, Richard Lester, UK)
*The War Game (1965, Peter Watkins, USA)

2 votes
*Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith, USA)
*Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey, USA)
Bringing Out Baby (1938, Howard Hawks, USA)
*The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944, Preston Sturges, USA)
On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan, USA)
*Eyes Without a Face (1959, Georges Franju, France)
*Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

1 vote
I Was Born, But… (1932, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
*Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Poland)