By Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 19 November 2020)
Since the holidays are going to look quite a bit different this year, so too will everyone's holiday movie-viewing habits. That's why Fandango surveyed more than 1,000 film fans age 18-34 during the first two weeks of November to find out which films and genres they'll be watching during the holidays from the comfort (and safety) of their own homes, and EW exclusively has the results.
New favorite Knives Out,
starring Chris Evans'
delicious cream sweater, was voted the top film to watch for Thanksgiving,
while the Macaulay Culkin classic Home Alone took
the prize for favorite family-friendly film. And no surprise here, but Die Hard won top
unconventional holiday film to watch over Christmas (so don't even try to
argue that
it's not a Christmas movie!)
As for how movie fans will stream films over the holidays
this year, 92 percent said they plan to watch more movies at home than in
previous years, with 71 percent planning to binge-watch. Sixty-two percent plan
to watch and then rewatch their favorite holiday classics more than once, and
61 percent are most interested in streaming a classic holiday movie rather than
a new one (not great news for new fare
like Happiest Season).
“Watching a favorite classic movie is part of a beloved
holiday tradition for many families,” says Fandango managing editor Erik Davis.
“This year there’s an extra nostalgia factor because many of us cannot gather
together in front of the same screen. The top picks center on the power of
families, warts and all, and serve as the kind of cinematic comfort food we
look forward to enjoying during the holiday season.”
Check out the full list on winners below.
Top Movies to Watch for the Holidays
Knives Out
Addams Family Values
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Home for the Holidays
Grumpy Old Men
Free Birds
Scent of a Woman
Pieces of April
The Oath
Favorite Family-Friendly Holiday Movies
Home Alone
Elf
The Santa Clause
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Polar Express
A Christmas Story
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
It's a Wonderful Life
Favorite Unconventional Christmas Movies
Die Hard
Edward Scissorhands
Gremlins
Bad Moms Christmas
Bad Santa
Krampus
Office Christmas Party
The Night Before
Trading Places
Anna and the Apocalypse
Favorite Performances as Santa Claus
Tim Allen, The Santa Clause
Edward Asner, Elf
Billy Bob Thornton, Bad Santa
Tom Hanks, The Polar Express
James Cosmo, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the
Witch and the Wardrobe
Richard Attenborough, Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Paul Giamatti, Fred Claus
Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Rickey Smiley, Friday After Next
Alec Baldwin, Rise of the Guardians
Favorite Holiday Movie Villains
Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern), Home Alone
Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), Die Hard
Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), It's a Wonderful Life
The Grinch (Jim Carrey), Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch
Stole Christmas
Oogie Boogie (Ken Ross), The Nightmare Before
Christmas
Frank Cross (Bill Murray), Scrooged
Scrooge (Jim Carey), Disney's A Christmas Carol
Fulton Greenway (Michael Lerner), Elf
Ted Maltin (Phil Hartman), Jingle All the Way
Scut Farkas (Zack Ward), A Christmas Story
