The films celebrities watched in 2020

A transparent view of 10,521 diary entries, including rewatches, from 64 active people across 5,693 films. The data comes from public Letterboxd diaries. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was most watched, while Parasite led the sample-adjusted rating ranking.

Calendar year 2020.

Summary

Diary entries
10,521
Rewatches are separate entries
Active people
64
With an entry in this period
Distinct films
5,693
Each title counted once
Rated combinations
7,426
One representative rating per person-film

Viewing activity

Diary entries and active people by calendar month. This describes use of public Letterboxd diaries, not cinema attendance.

Diary entriesActive people

Most watched

Ranked by distinct people, then diary entries and recency. 10 films shown; each has at least 10 watchers during 2020 and an existing film page.

  1. 1
  2. 2
    Palm Springs (2020)

    27 people · 31 diary entries · 19 raters · 3.74★ Fameboxd average

  3. 3
    The Invisible Man (2020)

    27 people · 30 diary entries · 19 raters · 3.71★ Fameboxd average

  4. 4
    1917 (2019)

    25 people · 25 diary entries · 16 raters · 3.75★ Fameboxd average

  5. 5
    Soul (2020)

    24 people · 27 diary entries · 17 raters · 3.97★ Fameboxd average

  6. 6
    Tenet (2020)

    23 people · 27 diary entries · 16 raters · 3.00★ Fameboxd average

  7. 7
    I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

    22 people · 26 diary entries · 12 raters · 3.96★ Fameboxd average

  8. 8
    Mank (2020)

    22 people · 24 diary entries · 15 raters · 3.57★ Fameboxd average

  9. 9
    Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

    22 people · 23 diary entries · 16 raters · 3.56★ Fameboxd average

  10. 10
    Uncut Gems (2019)

    19 people · 22 diary entries · 14 raters · 4.39★ Fameboxd average

Highest rated within Fameboxd

Top 10 eligible films, ordered by a weighted ranking but displaying their ordinary Fameboxd average. Minimum 5 representative raters.

  1. 1
    Parasite (2019)

    4.62★ · 13 representative raters

  2. 2
    The Thing (1982)

    4.92★ · 6 representative raters

  3. 3
    Alien (1979)

    4.69★ · 8 representative raters

  4. 4
    Jaws (1975)

    4.69★ · 8 representative raters

  5. 5
    Zodiac (2007)

    4.71★ · 7 representative raters

  6. 6
    Citizen Kane (1941)

    4.90★ · 5 representative raters

  7. 7
    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    4.90★ · 5 representative raters

  8. 8
    North by Northwest (1959)

    4.90★ · 5 representative raters

  9. 9
    The Shining (1980)

    4.90★ · 5 representative raters

  10. 10
    Lady Bird (2017)

    4.75★ · 6 representative raters

Most rewatched

10 films ranked by people who rewatched, then entries explicitly marked as rewatches. Minimum 3 rewatchers.

  1. 1
    Home Alone (1990)

    8 people rewatched · 9 marked rewatch entries · 11 diary entries total

  2. 2
    Parasite (2019)

    7 people rewatched · 10 marked rewatch entries · 17 diary entries total

  3. 3
    Uncut Gems (2019)

    7 people rewatched · 9 marked rewatch entries · 22 diary entries total

  4. 4
    Alien (1979)

    7 people rewatched · 7 marked rewatch entries · 10 diary entries total

  5. 5
    Jaws (1975)

    7 people rewatched · 7 marked rewatch entries · 9 diary entries total

  6. 6
    Joker (2019)

    6 people rewatched · 6 marked rewatch entries · 9 diary entries total

  7. 7
    The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

    6 people rewatched · 6 marked rewatch entries · 9 diary entries total

  8. 8
    Interstellar (2014)

    6 people rewatched · 6 marked rewatch entries · 8 diary entries total

  9. 9
    Zodiac (2007)

    6 people rewatched · 6 marked rewatch entries · 8 diary entries total

  10. 10
    Lady Bird (2017)

    6 people rewatched · 6 marked rewatch entries · 7 diary entries total

Most divisive within Fameboxd

10 films ranked by population standard deviation across representative ratings. Minimum 10 raters.

  1. 1
    Hubie Halloween (2020)

    0.97 σ · 2.90★ average · 10 representative ratings

  2. 2
    The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

    0.86 σ · 2.86★ average · 11 representative ratings

  3. 3
    Uncut Gems (2019)

    0.85 σ · 4.39★ average · 14 representative ratings

  4. 4
    Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

    0.84 σ · 2.29★ average · 14 representative ratings

  5. 5
    Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

    0.83 σ · 4.36★ average · 11 representative ratings

  6. 6
    Mank (2020)

    0.81 σ · 3.57★ average · 15 representative ratings

  7. 7
    Da 5 Bloods (2020)

    0.81 σ · 3.65★ average · 10 representative ratings

  8. 8
    The Hunt (2020)

    0.72 σ · 3.45★ average · 10 representative ratings

  9. 9
    On the Rocks (2020)

    0.71 σ · 3.15★ average · 10 representative ratings

  10. 10
    Tenet (2020)

    0.71 σ · 3.00★ average · 16 representative ratings

Rating behavior and release decades

Aggregate patterns in the selected period. Release decades describe when unique films were released, not when diary entries were logged.

Representative rating distribution

7,426 unique person-film ratings.

View rating data
  • 0.5★50
  • 1.0★158
  • 1.5★161
  • 2.0★428
  • 2.5★571
  • 3.0★1,265
  • 3.5★1,341
  • 4.0★1,822
  • 4.5★773
  • 5.0★857

Unique films by release decade

Excludes 2 films with an unknown release year.

  • 1890s1
  • 1900s1
  • 1910s7
  • 1920s31
  • 1930s112
  • 1940s136
  • 1950s216
  • 1960s301
  • 1970s501
  • 1980s765
  • 1990s851
  • 2000s741
  • 2010s1,426
  • 2020s602

Methodology

Scope. These figures cover public Letterboxd diaries belonging to people listed in Fameboxd. They are not a Letterboxd-wide chart, a representative celebrity poll or a measure of cinema attendance.

Watches. A watcher is one person per film. Every diary log is an entry, so rewatches increase entry totals but never the watcher count.

Ratings and rewatches. Each person contributes their most recent non-null rating for a film in the period. A rewatcher has either a marked rewatch or multiple entries; marked rewatch entries are counted separately.

Dates. Year views use dated entries only. All-time totals retain 0 undated entries, while time charts exclude them. The all-time activity chart starts in 2011; older entries remain in all-time totals and rankings. Dates after the committed cutoff of 20 October 2026 are excluded everywhere.

Weighted ratings. Ranking score = (v ÷ (v + m)) × R + (m ÷ (v + m)) × C, where R is the film average, v its raters, C the period-wide representative-rating mean and m is 5. The displayed rating is still the ordinary Fameboxd average.

Refresh. Fameboxd refreshes committed public-diary data daily. All calculations happen when the site builds; the browser downloads no diary dataset.