Letterboxd’s top film and actors of 2024 revealed
‘Dune 2’ and its star Zendaya were the platform’s highest-rated film and most-watched actor
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Your support makes all the difference.Letterboxd has released its list of the top-watched actors and highest-rated films of 2024, as determined by its 17 million users.
The massively popular movie review site compiled its end-of-the-year statistics to determine which actors and directors were the most watched, as well as the movies and TV shows with the highest average rating out of five stars.
It’s been revealed that for the second year in a row, 28-year-old Zendaya topped the charts as Letterboxd’s most-watched female actor with her two box office hits, Dune: Part 2 and Challengers.
The former was the top-rated movie of 2024 with an average rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, a significant bump from its predecessor, Dune: Part 1, which earned a 3.9-star rating.
The sci-fi epic — directed by Denis Villeneuve, who was additionally named the most-watched director of 2024 — was also the most popular and most obsessively rewatched film of the year.
“I’m gonna sleep well tonight,” Villeneuve said in response to the news, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “The idea that there’s a community, the Letterboxd community of film lovers, cinephiles, that are sharing film lists and their love and their passion, it brings me hope for the future of cinema.
“Frankly what I love about that is it’s coming from people who don’t give a s*** about me,” he added. They’re just talking about the movie, you know? Thank you everybody. It goes straight to my heart.”
Meanwhile, Zendaya’s Dune co-star Timothée Chalamet was dethroned by Willem Dafoe as the most-watched actor.
Dafoe starred in an impressive four major films last year: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Saturday Night, Kinds of Kindness and Nosferatu.
Find the full list of Letterboxd’s highest-rated and most popular films, actors and TV series below:
Highest Rated Film — Dune: Part Two
Most Popular Film — Dune: Part Two
Most Popular Documentary — Will & Harper
Highest Rated Documentary — No Other Land
Highest Rated Directorial Debut — How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
Highest Rated Animation — Look Back
Highest Rated Action/Adventure — Dune: Part Two
Highest Rated Comedy — Hundreds of Beavers
Highest Rated Drama — I’m Still Here
Highest Rated Horror — Nosferatu
Highest Rated Romance — Anora
Highest Rated Science Fiction — Dune: Part Two
Highest Rated Sports — Challengers
Highest Rated Film by a Woman Director — Laapataa Ladies
Highest Rated Directorial Debut by a Woman Director — All We Imagine As Light
Highest Rated Documentary by a Woman Director — No Other Land
Most Popular Film by a Woman Director — The Substance
Highest Rated African Film — Flight 404
Highest Rated Asian Film — How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (Thailand)
Highest Rated European Film — The Count of Monte Cristo (France)
Highest Rated North American Film — Dune: Part Two (USA)
Highest Rated Oceanian Film — Memoir of a Snail (Australia)
Highest Rated South American Film — I’m Still Here (Brazil)
Highest Rated Malayalam-language Film — Aattam (India) (NEW CATEGORY)
Highest Rated Live-Action Short — Coreys
Highest Rated Animated Short — Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin
Most Popular Limited Series — Baby Reindeer(NEW CATEGORY)
Highest Rated Limited Series — Samuel
Highest Rated Documentary Series — DJ Mehdi: Made in France
Highest Rated Comedy Special — Stand Up Solutions
Highest Rated TV Special or Movie — One Piece Fan Letter
Highest Rated Music Documentary — RM: Right People, Wrong Place
Highest Rated Concert Film — The Pop Out: Ken & Friends
Most Watched Actress — Zendaya
Most Watched Actor — Willem Dafoe
Most Watched Director — Denis Villeneuve
Most Watched Woman Director — Coralie Forgeat
Most Watched First-Time Director — Arturo Perez Jr. & Samantha Jayne
Most Anticipated Film of 2025 — Mickey 17
Most Obsessively Rewatched — Dune: Part Two
Most Hearts to Views (highest ratio of likes to watches) — I’m Still Here
Low Rated, Most Loved — Madame Web
Most Divisive — Aggro Dr1ft
Ones to Watch — Her Story
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