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Poll: A Poll Story

This poll is in celebration of 10,000 polls going live.

Thanks to all the poll authors, poll board members, poll administrators, voters and IMDb Staff for helping us reach this incredible milestone.

A special thanks to Dan Dassow for his ongoing work in compiling the statistics on which this poll is based.

From these poll milestones and other noteworthy polls throughout poll making history, which is your favorite?

After voting, feel free to discuss at our awesome poll board over here.

Results of 310 votes:

  1. 1.

    James Earl Jones and David Prowse in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

     
    First poll: Who Is the Nastiest Villain?
  2. 2.

    Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Clancy Brown, Mark Rolston, Gil Bellows, William Sadler, Bob Gunton, Brian Libby, and James Whitmore in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

     
    Most voted title poll and most voted poll overall: Best Movie to Have Been the IMDb Top 250 #1
  3. 3.

    Sean Connery in Goldfinger (1964)

     
    Most voted character poll (later recast as image poll): Who Are You?

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