Throughout the year, I induct worthy nominees into the Embrace Your Geekness Hall of Fame. Whether it be the regular vote on the ballot by the EYG Nation, the Legends nominees, the Comic Issue Wing or special inductees, the EYG Hall of Fame is very active.

I decided that it was time to open a new wing of the EYG Hall of Fame. One of the biggest ‘geeks’ that many people have is movies. There are some movies that have made it into the EYG Hall of Fame, but I have always felt like there had not been enough considering how many amazing movies there have been over the years.

The films that have already been inducted into the EYG HoF are as follows: The Princess Bride, Star wars: A New Hope, Ghostbusters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Planet of the Apes (1968), Marvel’s The Avengers, Back to the Future, The Terminator, The Empire Strikes Back, Jaws, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, Marvel’s Black Panther, Die Hard, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Return of the Jedi, and Jurassic Park.

I approached Death Tribble, one of the members of the Hero Games Forum. DT had been active in the ballot this year and he had some suggestions for future possible inductees. Several of his suggestions were movies and he sounded very well versed in them. I asked him if he was interested in helping open an EYG Hall of Fame Cinema Wing, and he said that he would be happy to be involved.

He suggested several ideas on how to proceed. In order to kick off the Cinema Wing with a bang, he commented on organizing a series of decades, choosing potential inductees from each decade and narrowing it down to one from each of the following: 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s,70s, 80s, 90s. We chose not to do anything from the current century.

There was some question between us about what makes up a decade. DT was with the idea that the decade of the 1950s should run from 1951-1960 and so forth. I was more of a 1950-1959 guy for this, even though I recognized that the decades technically end with the aught year.

To get past this, we agreed to also include a group of ten that were from the “aught” years (1950, 1960, 1970 etc.).

DT provided me with a list of ten possible films from each of these decades to consider. I looked at his lists and made a couple of adjustments, but, honestly, I did not make too many changes. Then we went decade by decade and discussed the positives and negatives of each film. There were times when we each had to put aside personal biases and favorites in order to find the most worthwhile films for the first official induction into the EYG Cinema Wing of the Hall of Fame.

We looked at such things as influence, awards, acting, personal choices, what could be considered ‘geek’ and success. Every decade was a little different in how we made decisions. There were even a few times when DT used his percent dice to help make a decision (if you are on the NGD forum board, you know about DT’s percent dice).

After several weeks of work, we have found nine inductees into the first class of the EYG Cinema Wing of the Hall of Fame. They will join the other films that are already in the HoF.

Moving forward, the plan is to not induct a many films as this first year. Specifics are yet to be determined, but the initial plan is to do this Cinema induction at the beginning of May, to coincide with the summer movie season.

So without any further adieu, here are the first inductees into the EYG HoF Cinema Wing.

1920: Nosferatu (1922)

1930: King Kong (1933)

1940: Citizen Kane (1941)

1950: Seven Samurai (1954)

1960: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

1970: The Godfather (1972)

1980: Blade Runner (1982)

1990: Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Aughts: Psycho (1960)

There they are. Congratulations to all of the inductees into the inaugural Cinema Wing.

I would like to thank Death Tribble for his efforts in making this happen. His knowledge and insights were extremely helpful and welcome in making these decisions. I appreciate his time and everything that he did to help make this a great kickoff. He really put in some work on these lists and helping to highlight the credentials of each film.