The 80 Greatest Hollywood Moments

10:27 PM PST 1/3/2011 by Todd McCarthy

From the 1915 epic 'The Birth of a Nation' to 2010's record-breaking 'Toy Story 3,' Todd McCarthy looks at the best of Hollywood for THR's 80th anniversary.

In commemoration of The Hollywood Reporter's 80^th anniversary, we've chosen 80 moments in the history of Hollywood -- from its movies as well as from real life -- that we feel carry more weight than others, that linger in the mind after many years, that signal changes in the way movies and their own company town developed, operated and felt. Eighty entirely different occasions could have been chosen, and 80 more beyond those, so rich is the history and resonant are the emotional reverberations that American films carry with them.