In 2005, Channel 4 viewers in the United Kingdom, ranked "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as the numbertwenty best family film of all time. In 2018, "Empire" magazine readers named it the seventh-best film of all time. In 2019, it was ranked the sixteenth best film of all time, based on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes user votes and critical ratings. In 2020, readers of the "Los Angeles Times" voted it the number one summer film, ahead of competition including "Jaws" and "Alien" (1979).