AFI's 100 Years...

100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)

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AFI's 100 Years100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of 100 Years 100 Movies. The original list was first unveiled in 1998.

AFI 100 Years... series

1998 1999 2000 2001 100 Movies 100 Stars 100 Laughs 100 Thrills 100 Passions

2002 Announced on January 18, 100 Heroes & Villains 2003 2007, this 10th installment of the American Film 100 Songs 2004 Institute's (AFI) Emmy 100 Movie Quotes 2005 Award-winning AFI 100 Years... series counted 25 Scores 2005 down the 100 greatest 100 Cheers 2006 American movies of all 25 Musicals 2006 time in a three-hour television event. Aired June 2007 100 Movies (Updated) 20, 2007 on CBS, it was AFI's 10 Top 10 2008 hosted by Academy V T E (//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:AFI_100_Years..._series&action=edit) Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman. The program considered classic favorites and newly eligible films released from 1997 to 2005.[1]

AFI will conduct different versions of this poll every ten years as more films are released to be considered the greatest.

Contents
1 Criteria 2 The list 2.1 Films removed from list 3 Changes 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Criteria
AFI asked jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process: Feature length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes long.

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: 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.

The list
Rank 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 10th anniversary list (2007) Citizen Kane The Godfather Casablanca Raging Bull Singin' in the Rain Director Orson Welles Year 1941 Studio RKO Pictures Paramount Warner Brothers United Artists Metro-GoldwynMayer MGM (distributor), Selznick International Pictures Horizon, Columbia Universal Paramount Metro-GoldwynMayer United Artists Warner Brothers 1 1 20 5 Change from 1998

Francis Ford 1972 Coppola Michael Curtiz Martin Scorsese 1942 1980

Gene Kelly, Stanley 1952 Donen Victor Fleming

6.

Gone with the Wind

1939

7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Lawrence of Arabia Schindler's List Vertigo The Wizard of Oz City Lights The Searchers

David Lean 1962 Steven Spielberg Alfred Hitchcock Victor Fleming Charlie Chaplin John Ford 1993 1958 1939 1931 1956

2 1 52 4 65 84

13.

Star Wars

George Lucas Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Mike Nichols Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman Elia Kazan Roman Polanski John Ford Steven Spielberg Robert Mulligan Fred Zinnemann

1977

20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm Shamley Productions, Paramount (distr.) Metro-GoldwynMayer Paramount United Artists

14. 15. 16. 17.

Psycho 2001: A Space Odyssey Sunset Boulevard The Graduate

1960 1968

4 7 4 10

Billy Wilder 1950 1967

18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34.

The General On the Waterfront It's a Wonderful Life Chinatown Some Like It Hot The Grapes of Wrath E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial To Kill a Mockingbird Mr. Smith Goes to Washington High Noon All About Eve Double Indemnity Apocalypse Now The Maltese Falcon The Godfather Part II One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1926 1954

United Artists Columbia RKO Paramount United Artists 20th Century Fox Universal UniversalInternational Columbia United Artists 20th Century Fox Paramount United Artists Warner Brothers Paramount United Artists RKO, Disney

NEW 11 9 2 8 2 1 9 3 6 12 9 2 8

Frank Capra 1946 1974

Billy Wilder 1959 1940 1982 1962

Frank Capra 1939 1952

Joseph L. 1950 Mankiewicz Billy Wilder 1944 Francis Ford 1979 Coppola John Huston 1941 Francis Ford 1974 Coppola Milo Forman Woody 1975

13 15

David Hand 1937

35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.

Annie Hall The Bridge on the River Kwai The Best Years of Our Lives The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Dr. Strangelove The Sound of Music King Kong Bonnie and Clyde Midnight Cowboy The Philadelphia Story Shane It Happened One Night A Streetcar Named Desire Rear Window Intolerance The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring West Side Story Taxi Driver The Deer Hunter MASH North by Northwest

Allen

1977

United Artists Columbia RKO, Samuel Goldwyn Warner Brothers Columbia 20th Century Fox RKO Warner Brothers United Artists Metro-GoldwynMayer Paramount Columbia Warner Brothers Paramount Triangle New Line Cinema United Artists Columbia Pictures Universal 20th Century Fox Metro-GoldwynMayer

4 23

David Lean 1957 William Wyler Stanley Kubrick 1946

John Huston 1948 1964

8 13 15 2 15 7 7 24 11 2 6 NEW NEW 10 5 26 2 15

Robert Wise 1965 Merian C. Cooper, 1933 Ernest B. Schoedsack Arthur Penn 1967 John Schlesinger George Cukor George Stevens Elia Kazan Alfred Hitchcock D. W. Griffith Peter Jackson 1969 1940 1953

Frank Capra 1934 1951 1954 1916 2001

Jerome Robbins, 1961 Robert Wise Martin Scorsese Michael Cimino Robert Altman Alfred Hitchcock Steven 1976 1978 1970 1959

56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76.

Jaws Rocky The Gold Rush Nashville Duck Soup Sullivan's Travels American Graffiti Cabaret Network The African Queen Raiders of the Lost Ark Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Unforgiven Tootsie A Clockwork Orange Saving Private Ryan The Shawshank Redemption Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Silence of the Lambs In the Heat of the Night Forrest Gump

Spielberg John G. Avildsen Charlie Chaplin Robert Altman Leo McCarey Preston Sturges George Lucas Bob Fosse Sidney Lumet Steven Spielberg Mike Nichols Clint Eastwood Sydney Pollack Stanley Kubrick Steven Spielberg Frank Darabont

1975 1976 1925 1975 1933 1941 1973 1972 1976

Universal United Artists United Artists Paramount, ABC Entertainment Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Universal Allied Artists MGM, United Artists United Artists Paramount, Lucasfilm Warner Bros. Warner Brothers Columbia Warner Brothers DreamWorks Warner Brothers 20th Century Fox Orion Pictures United Artists Paramount

8 21 16 NEW 25 NEW 15 NEW 2 48 6 NEW 30 7 24 NEW NEW 23 9 NEW 5

John Huston 1951 1981 1966 1992 1982 1971 1998 1994

George Roy 1969 Hill Jonathan Demme Norman Jewison Robert Zemeckis 1991 1967 1994

77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88.

All the President's Men Modern Times The Wild Bunch The Apartment Spartacus Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Titanic Easy Rider A Night at the Opera Platoon 12 Angry Men Bringing Up Baby

Alan J. Pakula Charlie Chaplin Sam Peckinpah Stanley Kubrick F. W. Murnau James Cameron Dennis Hopper Sam Wood

1976 1936 1969

Warner Brothers United Artists Warner Bros.Seven Arts United Artists UniversalInternational 20th Century Fox Paramount, 20th Century Fox United Artists Metro-GoldwynMayer Orion Pictures United Artists Warner Brothers Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company RKO

NEW 3 1 13 NEW NEW NEW 4 NEW 3 NEW 9

Billy Wilder 1960 1960 1927 1997 1969 1935

Oliver Stone 1986 Sidney Lumet Howard Hawks 1957 1938

89.

The Sixth Sense

M. Night Shyamalan

1999

NEW

90.

Swing Time

George Stevens Alan J. Pakula Martin Scorsese William Friedkin Quentin Tarantino

1936

NEW

91. 92. 93. 94. 95.

Sophie's Choice Goodfellas The French Connection Pulp Fiction The Last Picture Show

1982 1990 1971 1994

ITC Entertainment Warner Brothers 20th Century Fox Miramax Columbia Pictures

NEW 2 23 1 NEW

Peter 1971 Bogdanovich

96.

Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee

1989

Universal, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks Warner Brothers, The Ladd Company Warner Brothers Disney, Pixar Metro-GoldwynMayer

NEW

97. 98. 99. 100.

Blade Runner Yankee Doodle Dandy Toy Story Ben-Hur

Ridley Scott 1982 Michael Curtiz John Lasseter William Wyler 1942 1995 1959

NEW 2 NEW 28

Films removed from list

The following films from the 1998 list were left off the 2007 list: 39. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 44. The Birth of a Nation (1915) 52. From Here to Eternity (1953) 53. Amadeus (1984) 54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 57. The Third Man (1949) 58. Fantasia (1940) 59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 63. Stagecoach (1939) 64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 68. An American in Paris (1951) 73. Wuthering Heights (1939) 75. Dances with Wolves (1990) 82. Giant (1956) 84. Fargo (1996) 86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 87. Frankenstein (1931) 89. Patton (1970) 90. The Jazz Singer (1927) 91. My Fair Lady (1964) 92. A Place in the Sun (1951) 99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Changes
Of the films that remained on the list, 36 improved their ranking, 38 saw their ranking decline, and three kept their positions: Citizen Kane, The Godfather Part II and The Best Years of Our Lives.