If you want to look over the Western genre’s entire history, it does seem like it was most popular some decades ago, rather than a few years. Many of the essential ones, like High Noon, The Searchers, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, came out around the middle of the 20th century or a bit after. But then, a little later on, you did have Best Picture winners like Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven (both from the early 1990s).
The Best Western Movie From Every Year of the Past Decade
