AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)

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AFI 100 Years… series

100 Movies – (1998)
100 Stars – (1999)
100 Laughs – (2000)
100 Thrills – (2001)
100 Passions – (2002)
100 Heroes and Villains – (2003)
100 Songs – (2004)
100 Movie Quotes – (2005)
100 Film Scores – (2005)
100 Musicals – (2006)
100 Cheers – (2006)
100 Movies (10th Anniversary) – (2007)
AFI's 10 Top 10 – (2008)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies. The original list was first unveiled in 1998.

Announced on January 18, 2007, this 10th installment of the American Film Institute's (AFI) Emmy Award-winning AFI 100 Years... series counted down the 100 greatest American movies of all time in a three-hour television event. Aired June 20, 2007 on CBS, it was hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman. The program considered classic favorites and newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006. AFI will undertake broadcasting a program like this every 10 years to mark changing cultural perspectives.

AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movies to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians.

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[edit] Criteria

AFI asks jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process:

  • Feature-length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes in length.
  • American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production from the United States.
  • Critical Recognition: Formal commendation in print, television, and digital media.
  • Major Award Winner: Recognition from competitive events including awards from peer groups, critics, guilds, and major film festivals.
  • Popularity Over Time: This includes success at the box office, television and cable airings, and DVD/VHS sales and rentals.
  • Historical Significance: A film's mark on the history of the moving image through visionary narrative devices, technical innovation or other groundbreaking achievements.
  • Cultural Impact: A film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance.

[edit] The List

Rank Original 1998 List Director Date x x x 10th Anniversary 2007 List Director Date
1. Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941
2. Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942 1 1 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 1972
3. The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 1972 1 1 Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942
4. Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming 1939 2 20 Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 1980
5. Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 1962 2 5 Singin' in the Rain Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen 1952
6. The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 1939 4 2 Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming 1939
7. The Graduate Mike Nichols 1967 10 2 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 1962
8. On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954 11 1 Schindler's List Steven Spielberg 1993
9. Schindler's List Steven Spielberg 1993 1 52 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958
10. Singin' in the Rain Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen 1952 5 4 The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 1939
11. It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 1946 9 65 City Lights Chaplin 1931
12. Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 1950 4 84 The Searchers John Ford 1956
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean 1957 23 2 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope George Lucas 1977
14. Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder 1959 8 4 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
15. Star Wars George Lucas 1977 2 7 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968
16. All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950 12 4 Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 1950
17. The African Queen John Huston 1951 48 10 The Graduate Mike Nichols 1967
18. Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960 4 NEW The General Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman 1927
19. Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974 2 11 On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Milos Forman 1975 13 9 It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 1946
21. The Grapes of Wrath John Ford 1940 2 2 Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968 7 8 Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder 1959
23. The Maltese Falcon John Huston 1941 8 2 The Grapes of Wrath John Ford 1940
24. Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 1980 20 1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 1982
25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 1982 1 9 To Kill a Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 1962
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 1964 13 3 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra 1939
27. Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn 1967 15 6 High Noon Fred Zinnemann 1952
28. Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 1979 2 12 All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra 1939 3 9 Double Indemnity Billy Wilder 1944
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 1948 8 2 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 1979
31. Annie Hall Woody Allen 1977 4 8 The Maltese Falcon John Huston 1941
32. The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola 1974 The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola 1974
33. High Noon Fred Zinnemann 1952 6 13 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Milos Forman 1975
34. To Kill a Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 1962 9 15 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs David Hand 1937
35. It Happened One Night Frank Capra 1934 11 4 Annie Hall Woody Allen 1977
36. Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger 1969 7 23 The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean 1957
37. The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 1946
38. Double Indemnity Billy Wilder 1944 9 8 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 1948
39. Doctor Zhivago David Lean 1965 OFF 13 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 1964
40. North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 1959 15 15 The Sound of Music Robert Wise 1965
41. West Side Story Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise 1961 10 2 King Kong Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933
42. Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock 1954 6 15 Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn 1967
43. King Kong Cooper & Schoedsack 1933 2 7 Midnight Cowboy Schlesinger 1969
44. The Birth of a Nation Griffith 1915 OFF 7 The Philadelphia Story Cukor 1940
45. A Streetcar Named Desire Kazan 1951 2 24 Shane Stevens 1953
46. A Clockwork Orange Kubrick 1971 24 11 It Happened One Night Capra 1934
47. Taxi Driver Scorsese 1976 5 2 A Streetcar Named Desire Kazan 1951
48. Jaws Spielberg 1975 8 6 Rear Window Hitchcock 1954
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs David Hand 1937 15 NEW Intolerance D. W. Griffith 1916
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid George Roy Hill 1969 23 NEW The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson 2001
51. The Philadelphia Story George Cukor 1940 7 10 West Side Story Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise 1961
52. From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann 1953 OFF 5 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976
53. Amadeus Miloš Forman 1984 OFF 26 The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino 1978
54. All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone 1930 OFF 2 MASH Robert Altman 1970
55. The Sound of Music Robert Wise 1965 15 15 North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 1959
56. MASH Robert Altman 1970 2 8 Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
57. The Third Man Carol Reed 1949 OFF 21 Rocky John G. Avildsen 1976
58. Fantasia James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield & Ben Sharpsteen 1940 OFF 16 The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin 1925
59. Rebel Without a Cause Nicholas Ray 1955 OFF NEW Nashville Robert Altman 1975
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 1981 6 25 Duck Soup Leo McCarey 1933
61. Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958 52 NEW Sullivan's Travels Preston Sturges 1941
62. Tootsie Sydney Pollack 1982 7 15 American Graffiti George Lucas 1973
63. Stagecoach John Ford 1939 OFF NEW Cabaret Bob Fosse 1972
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg 1977 OFF 2 Network Sidney Lumet 1976
65. The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991 9 48 The African Queen John Huston 1951
66. Network Sidney Lumet 1976 2 6 Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 1981
67. The Manchurian Candidate John Frankenheimer 1962 OFF NEW Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mike Nichols 1966
68. An American in Paris Vincente Minnelli 1951 OFF 30 Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 1992
69. Shane George Stevens 1953 24 7 Tootsie Sydney Pollack 1982
70. The French Connection William Friedkin 1971 23 24 A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 1971
71. Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 1994 5 NEW Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg 1998
72. Ben-Hur William Wyler 1959 28 NEW The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont 1994
73. Wuthering Heights William Wyler 1939 OFF 23 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid George Roy Hill 1969
74. The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin 1925 16 9 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991
75. Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner 1990 OFF NEW In the Heat of the Night Norman Jewison 1967
76. City Lights Charlie Chaplin 1931 65 5 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 1994
77. American Graffiti George Lucas 1973 15 NEW All the President's Men Alan J. Pakula 1976
78. Rocky John G. Avildsen 1976 21 3 Modern Times Charlie Chaplin 1936
79. The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino 1978 26 1 The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969
80. The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969 1 13 The Apartment Billy Wilder 1960
81. Modern Times Charlie Chaplin 1936 3 NEW Spartacus Stanley Kubrick 1960
82. Giant George Stevens 1956 OFF NEW Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F.W. Murnau 1927
83. Platoon Oliver Stone 1986 3 NEW Titanic James Cameron 1997
84. Fargo Joel Coen 1996 OFF 4 Easy Rider Dennis Hopper 1969
85. Duck Soup Leo McCarey 1933 25 NEW A Night at the Opera Sam Wood 1935
86. Mutiny on the Bounty Frank Lloyd 1935 OFF 3 Platoon Oliver Stone 1986
87. Frankenstein James Whale 1931 OFF NEW 12 Angry Men Sidney Lumet 1957
88. Easy Rider Dennis Hopper 1969 4 9 Bringing Up Baby Howard Hawks 1938
89. Patton Franklin Schaffner 1970 OFF NEW The Sixth Sense M. Night Shyamalan 1999
90. The Jazz Singer Alan Crosland 1927 OFF NEW Swing Time George Stevens 1936
91. My Fair Lady George Cukor 1964 OFF NEW Sophie's Choice Alan J. Pakula 1982
92. A Place in the Sun George Stevens 1951 OFF 2 Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 1990
93. The Apartment Billy Wilder 1960 13 23 The French Connection William Friedkin 1971
94. Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 1990 2 1 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994
95. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994 1 NEW The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich 1971
96. The Searchers John Ford 1956 84 NEW Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 1989
97. Bringing Up Baby Howard Hawks 1938 9 NEW Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982
98. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 1992 30 2 Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz 1942
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Stanley Kramer 1967 OFF NEW Toy Story John Lasseter 1995
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz 1942 2 28 Ben-Hur William Wyler 1959

[edit] 1998 List And 2007 List Comparison

  • Of the films that remained on the list, 36 improved their ranking and 38 saw their ranking decline.
  • Three films maintained the same positions as ten years ago: Citizen Kane, The Godfather Part II and The Best Years of Our Lives.
  • The oldest film to be dropped was D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), from #44. The oldest film to be added to the new list was Griffith's Intolerance (1916), ranked at #49.
  • The highest-ranking film that fell from the previous list was Doctor Zhivago (1965), from #39; the highest-ranking debut on the new list was The General (1927), at #18.
  • The films that improved their standings by the most dramatic leaps were The Searchers (+84), City Lights (+65), Vertigo (+52), Unforgiven (+30), and The Deer Hunter (+26).
  • The African Queen suffered the largest rankings tumble, dropping 48 slots to #65.
  • Raging Bull (#4) and Vertigo (#9) made their Top 10 debuts in the new list, ousting The Graduate (formerly #7) and On the Waterfront (formerly #8).
  • Two pairs of films switched each other in rank: North by Northwest and The Sound of Music (fifteen positions between #40 and #55); and Casablanca and The Godfather (one position between #2 and #3).
  • Duck Soup, featuring the Marx Brothers, was replaced at #85 by another film starring the Marx Brothers -- A Night at the Opera. Duck Soup itself remained on the list, moving up 25 positions to #60.
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (#99) was replaced by another Sidney Poitier film, In the Heat of the Night, at #75.
  • 73 of the films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and 30 won the award, including Sunrise (1927) which won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production (a now defunct category that was given only in the first ceremony). The Original list has 75 Academy Awards Best Picture nominees and 33 winners.
  • Considering that the Oscars are a yearly competition, and have been going on for less than the 100 years the AFI list is composed of, 75% of the ones to make the cut were nominated for best picture. 8-9 out of the top ten were nominated as well, depending on which list.
  • 8 of the top 10 films were nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, of which 5 won the award. In the original list, 9 out of the top 10 were Best Picture nominees, and 6 were winners.

[edit] List breakdown

[edit] About the 400 nominees

[edit] See also

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