Last Updated on 25 March 2024
I searched the Internet for lists of the best dinosaur movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 26 lists. I took the 26 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got (there were 49 that were on at least 2 lists) and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The movies that were on the most lists (out of 26) were:
- Jurassic Park (1993) – all 26 lists
- The Land Before Time (1988) – 19 lists
- The Good Dinosaur (2015) – 19 lists
- Jurassic World (2015) – 17 lists
- Dinosaur (2000) – 16 lists
- King Kong (2005) – 15 lists
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) – 13 lists
- The Valley of Gwangi (1969) – 13 lists
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) – 12 lists
- One Million Years B.C. (1966) – 12 lists
- Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) – 11 lists
- Land of the Lost (2009) – 11 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- IGN – 4 Sep 2023
- ReelGood – 16 Aug 2023
- Ranker – 23 Jul 2023
- News18 – 1 Jun 2023
- WION – 16 May 2023
- Bontena – 3 May 2023
- GoBookMark – 21 Mar 2023
- CBR – 19 Mar 2023
- Animal Vivid – 26 Feb 2023
- Budapest Reporter – 22 Jun 2022
- ScreenRant – 20 Jun 2022
- Screen OD – 18 Jun 2022
- The Guardian – 26 May 2022
- Entertainment Weekly – 17 May 2022
- Discover the Dinosaurs – 21 Feb 2022
- ThoughtCo – 27 Feb 2019
- Comicbook – 27 Jun 2018
- Showbiz Junkies – 12 Jan 2018
- My Dinosaurs – 14 Dec 2017
- Autostraddle – 11 Jun 2015
- MenStuff – 10 Jun 2015
- Top2040 – 1 Aug 2014
- FilmZone – no date
- MoviesList – no date
- The Top Tens – no date
- WatchMojo – no date