The best western of every year
The highest-scoring western from each year, scored 0–100 on IMDb ratings, critics, major awards and box office against every film from the same year. Pick a year for its full list of westerns.
- 2025: Eddington Score 52.1 · 2 westerns
- 2024: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 Score 50.4 · 3 westerns
- 2023: The Dead Don't Hurt Score 41.9 · 2 westerns
- 2022: Redeeming Love Score 38.1 · 4 westerns
- 2021: The Power of the Dog Score 68.2 · 3 westerns
- 2020: Concrete Cowboy Score 42.0 · 1 western
- 2019: First Cow Score 53.0 · 5 westerns
- 2018: The Sisters Brothers Score 59.4 · 2 westerns
- 2017: Hostiles Score 61.0 · 5 westerns
- 2016: Brimstone Score 42.6 · 3 westerns
- 2015: The Revenant Score 85.7 · 3 westerns
- 2014: The Homesman Score 48.0 · 5 westerns
- 2013: Sweetwater Score 27.0 · 1 western
- 2012: Django Unchained Score 84.8 · 2 westerns
- 2010: True Grit Score 81.8 · 2 westerns
- 2007: Sukiyaki Western Django Score 31.3 · 1 western
- 2005: The Proposition Score 55.9 · 1 western
- 2004: Dead Birds Score 29.8 · 1 western
- 2001: Manitou's Shoe Score 43.5 · 2 westerns
- 2000: The Claim Score 33.7 · 2 westerns
- 1998: The Horse Whisperer Score 55.3 · 2 westerns
- 1996: Lone Star Score 60.4 · 1 western
- 1995: Dead Man Score 49.1 · 2 westerns
- 1994: City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold Score 28.2 · 4 westerns
- 1993: Geronimo: An American Legend Score 41.6 · 2 westerns
- 1992: Unforgiven Score 95.3 · 2 westerns
- 1991: City Slickers Score 66.8 · 1 western
- 1990: Dances with Wolves Score 93.2 · 2 westerns
- 1988: Young Guns Score 51.6 · 1 western
- 1986: ¡Three Amigos! Score 44.9 · 1 western
- 1985: Pale Rider Score 66.0 · 2 westerns
- 1980: Urban Cowboy Score 50.1 · 2 westerns
- 1979: The Villain Score 11.4 · 1 western
- 1978: Goin' South Score 30.4 · 1 western
- 1976: The Outlaw Josey Wales Score 64.7 · 5 westerns
- 1975: The Apple Dumpling Gang Score 43.9 · 4 westerns
- 1974: Blazing Saddles Score 75.3 · 1 western
- 1973: High Plains Drifter Score 57.9 · 5 westerns
- 1972: Jeremiah Johnson Score 68.4 · 8 westerns
- 1971: McCabe & Mrs. Miller Score 59.0 · 9 westerns
- 1970: They Call Me Trinity Score 50.8 · 9 westerns
- 1969: True Grit Score 71.0 · 4 westerns
- 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West Score 65.8 · 7 westerns
- 1967: Hombre Score 57.6 · 8 westerns
- 1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Score 78.0 · 9 westerns
- 1965: For a Few Dollars More Score 66.2 · 5 westerns
- 1964: A Fistful of Dollars Score 72.2 · 2 westerns
- 1963: Hud Score 71.1 · 3 westerns
- 1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Score 68.7 · 3 westerns
- 1961: The Misfits Score 48.8 · 4 westerns
- 1960: Sergeant Rutledge Score 48.1 · 5 westerns
- 1959: Rio Bravo Score 63.2 · 6 westerns
- 1958: The Big Country Score 61.5 · 4 westerns
- 1957: The Tall T Score 50.6 · 3 westerns
- 1956: Giant Score 79.1 · 4 westerns
- 1955: The Man from Laramie Score 49.4 · 1 western
- 1954: Johnny Guitar Score 54.7 · 3 westerns
- 1953: Shane Score 72.8 · 2 westerns
- 1952: High Noon Score 90.6 · 3 westerns
- 1950: The Gunfighter Score 56.4 · 5 westerns
- 1949: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Score 52.0 · 1 western
- 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Score 85.5 · 6 westerns
- 1947: Angel and the Badman Score 29.3 · 1 western
- 1946: My Darling Clementine Score 58.7 · 3 westerns
- 1943: The Ox-Bow Incident Score 65.2 · 1 western
- 1941: They Died with Their Boots On Score 37.6 · 1 western
- 1940: The Westerner Score 47.3 · 2 westerns
- 1939: Stagecoach Score 64.4 · 4 westerns
- 1937: Way Out West Score 56.5 · 1 western
- 1931: Cimarron Score 52.6 · 1 western
- 1925: Go West Score 38.3 · 1 western
- 1924: Greed Score 54.8 · 1 western
- 1923: The Pilgrim Score 63.3 · 1 western