‘Die Hard’ narrowly clinches win for favorite Christmas movie. What else are you watching?

“Die Hard” beat out “Elf” and the classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

But only by a hair in a crowded pool of 31 Christmas movies.

More than 1,000 people voted in our favorite Christmas movie poll featured across McClatchy’s California papers, including The Sacramento Bee. More of you wrote in to let us know what we missed.

Here are your top 10 favorite Christmas movies, and how they polled against other picks:

1. “Die Hard” (1988): 15%; 153 votes
2. “Elf” (2003): 14%; 136 votes
3. “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946): 10%; 101 votes
4. “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989): 8%, 85 votes
5. “A Christmas Story” (1983): 7%; 68 votes
6. “Holiday” (1938): 6%; 63 votes
7. “Home Alone” (1990): 5%; 53 votes
8. “Love Actually” (2003): 4%; 45 votes
9. “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (1967): 4%; 40 votes
10. “White Christmas” (1954): 3%; 32 votes

Many more of you wrote in to tell us “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947) deserved to be on the list. Other write-ins included “The Man Who Came to Dinner” (1942) and “A Christmas without Snow” (1980).

This story was originally published December 20, 2021 at 10:43 AM.