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

AFI 100 Years... series

1998	100 Movies
1999	100 Stars
2000	100 Laughs
2001	100 Thrills
2002	100 Passions
2003	100 Heroes & Villains
2004	100 Songs
2005	100 Movie Quotes
2005	25 Scores
2006	100 Cheers
2006	25 Musicals
2007	100 Movies (Updated)
2008	AFI's 10 Top 10

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.

Broadcast

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 1997 to 2005.^[1]

List updates

AFI will conduct the poll every ten years to include new releases.

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.

List

Rank	10th anniversary list (2007)	Director	Year	Studio	Change from 1998
1.	Citizen Kane	WellesOrson Welles	1941	RKO Pictures	200
2.	GodfatherThe Godfather	CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola	1972	Paramount	201 1
3.	Casablanca	CurtizMichael Curtiz	1942	Warner Brothers	199 1
4.	Raging Bull	ScorseseMartin Scorsese	1980	United Artists	220 20
5.	Singin' in the Rain	KellyGene Kelly, Stanley Donen	1952	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	205 5
6.	Gone with the Wind	FlemingVictor Fleming	1939	MGM (distributor), Selznick International Pictures	198 2
7.	Lawrence of Arabia	LeanDavid Lean	1962	Horizon, Columbia	198 2
8.	Schindler's List	SpielbergSteven Spielberg	1993	Universal	201 1
9.	Vertigo	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock	1958	Paramount	252 52
10.	WizardThe Wizard of Oz	FlemingVictor Fleming	1939	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	196 4
11.	City Lights	ChaplinCharlie Chaplin	1931	United Artists	265 65
12.	SearchersThe Searchers	FordJohn Ford	1956	Warner Brothers	284 84
13.	Star Wars	LucasGeorge Lucas	1977	20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm	202 2
14.	Psycho	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock	1960	Shamley Productions, Paramount (distr.)	204 4
15.	2001: A Space Odyssey	KubrickStanley Kubrick	1968	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	207 7
16.	Sunset Boulevard	Wilder Billy Wilder	1950	Paramount	196 4
17.	GraduateThe Graduate	NicholsMike Nichols	1967	United Artists, Embassy	190 10
18.	GeneralThe General	KeatonBuster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman	1926	United Artists	382NEW
19.	On the Waterfront	KazanElia Kazan	1954	Columbia	189 11
20.	It's a Wonderful Life	CapraFrank Capra	1946	RKO	191 9
21.	Chinatown	Polanski Roman Polanski	1974	Paramount	198 2
22.	Some Like It Hot	WilderBilly Wilder	1959	United Artists	192 8
23.	GrapesThe Grapes of Wrath	FordJohn Ford	1940	20th Century Fox	198 2
24.	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	SpielbergSteven Spielberg	1982	Universal	201 1
25.	KillTo Kill a Mockingbird	MulliganRobert Mulligan	1962	Universal-International	209 9
26.	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	CapraFrank Capra	1939	Columbia	203 3
27.	High Noon	ZinnemannFred Zinnemann	1952	United Artists	206 6
28.	All About Eve	MankiewiczJoseph L. Mankiewicz	1950	20th Century Fox	188 12
29.	Double Indemnity	WilderBilly Wilder	1944	Paramount	209 9
30.	Apocalypse Now	CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola	1979	United Artists	198 2
31.	MalteseThe Maltese Falcon	HustonJohn Huston	1941	Warner Brothers	192 8
32.	GodfatherThe Godfather Part II	CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola	1974	Paramount	200
33.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	FormanMiloš Forman	1975	United Artists	187 13
34.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	HandDavid Hand	1937	RKO, Disney	215 15
35.	Annie Hall	AllenWoody Allen	1977	United Artists	196 4
36.	BridgeThe Bridge on the River Kwai	LeanDavid Lean	1957	Columbia	177 23
37.	BestThe Best Years of Our Lives	WylerWilliam Wyler	1946	RKO, Samuel Goldwyn	200
38.	Treasure The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	HustonJohn Huston	1948	Warner Brothers	192 8
39.	Dr. Strangelove	KubrickStanley Kubrick	1964	Columbia	187 13
40.	SoundThe Sound of Music	WiseRobert Wise	1965	20th Century Fox	215 15
41.	King Kong	CooperMerian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack	1933	RKO	202 2
42.	Bonnie and Clyde	PennArthur Penn	1967	Warner Brothers	185 15
43.	Midnight Cowboy	SchlesingerJohn Schlesinger	1969	United Artists	193 7
44.	PhiladelphiaThe Philadelphia Story	CukorGeorge Cukor	1940	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	207 7
45.	Shane	StevensGeorge Stevens	1953	Paramount	224 24
46.	It Happened One Night	CapraFrank Capra	1934	Columbia	189 11
47.	StreetcarA Streetcar Named Desire	KazanElia Kazan	1951	Warner Brothers	198 2
48.	Rear Window	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock	1954	Paramount	194 6
49.	Intolerance	GriffithD. W. Griffith	1916	Triangle	351NEW
50.	LordThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	JacksonPeter Jackson	2001	New Line Cinema	350NEW
51.	West Side Story	RobbinsJerome Robbins, Robert Wise	1961	United Artists	190 10
52.	Taxi Driver	ScorseseMartin Scorsese	1976	Columbia Pictures	195 5
53.	DeerThe Deer Hunter	CiminoMichael Cimino	1978	Universal	226 26
54.	MASH	AltmanRobert Altman	1970	20th Century Fox	202 2
55.	North by Northwest	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock	1959	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	185 15
56.	Jaws	Spielberg Steven Spielberg	1975	Universal	192 8
57.	Rocky	Avildsen John G. Avildsen	1976	United Artists	221 21
58.	GoldThe Gold Rush	ChaplinCharlie Chaplin	1925	United Artists	216 16
59.	Nashville	AltmanRobert Altman	1975	Paramount, ABC Entertainment	341NEW
60.	Duck Soup	McCareyLeo McCarey	1933	Paramount Pictures	225 25
61.	Sullivan's Travels	SturgesPreston Sturges	1941	Paramount Pictures	339NEW
62.	American Graffiti	LucasGeorge Lucas	1973	Universal, Lucasfilm	215 15
63.	Cabaret	FosseBob Fosse	1972	Allied Artists	337NEW
64.	Network	LumetSidney Lumet	1976	MGM, United Artists	202 2
65.	AfricanThe African Queen	HustonJohn Huston	1951	United Artists	152 48
66.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	SpielbergSteven Spielberg	1981	Paramount, Lucasfilm	194 6
67.	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nichols Mike Nichols	1966	Warner Bros.	333NEW
68.	Unforgiven	EastwoodClint Eastwood	1992	Warner Brothers	230 30
69.	Tootsie	PollackSydney Pollack	1982	Columbia	193 7
70.	ClockworkA Clockwork Orange	KubrickStanley Kubrick	1971	Warner Brothers	176 24
71.	Saving Private Ryan	SpielbergSteven Spielberg	1998	DreamWorks	329NEW
72.	ShawshankThe Shawshank Redemption	DarabontFrank Darabont	1994	Warner Brothers	328NEW
73.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	HillGeorge Roy Hill	1969	20th Century Fox	177 23
74.	SilenceThe Silence of the Lambs	DemmeJonathan Demme	1991	Orion Pictures	191 9
75.	In the Heat of the Night	JewisonNorman Jewison	1967	United Artists	325NEW
76.	Forrest Gump	ZemeckisRobert Zemeckis	1994	Paramount	195 5
77.	All the President's Men	PakulaAlan J. Pakula	1976	Warner Brothers	323NEW
78.	Modern Times	ChaplinCharlie Chaplin	1936	United Artists	203 3
79.	WildThe Wild Bunch	PeckinpahSam Peckinpah	1969	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts	201 1
80.	ApartmentThe Apartment	WilderBilly Wilder	1960	United Artists	213 13
81.	Spartacus	KubrickStanley Kubrick	1960	Universal-International	319NEW
82.	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	MurnauF. W. Murnau	1927	20th Century Fox	318NEW
83.	Titanic	CameronJames Cameron	1997	Paramount, 20th Century Fox	317NEW
84.	Easy Rider	HopperDennis Hopper	1969	United Artists	204 4
85.	NightA Night at the Opera	WoodSam Wood	1935	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	315NEW
86.	Platoon	StoneOliver Stone	1986	Orion Pictures	197 3
87.	12 Angry Men	LumetSidney Lumet	1957	United Artists	313NEW
88.	Bringing Up Baby	HawksHoward Hawks	1938	Warner Brothers	209 9
89.	SixthThe Sixth Sense	ShyamalanM. Night Shyamalan	1999	Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company	311NEW
90.	Swing Time	StevensGeorge Stevens	1936	RKO	310NEW
91.	Sophie's Choice	PakulaAlan J. Pakula	1982	ITC Entertainment	309NEW
92.	Goodfellas	ScorseseMartin Scorsese	1990	Warner Brothers	202 2
93.	FrenchThe French Connection	FriedkinWilliam Friedkin	1971	20th Century Fox	177 23
94.	Pulp Fiction	TarantinoQuentin Tarantino	1994	Miramax	201 1
95.	LastThe Last Picture Show	BogdanovichPeter Bogdanovich	1971	Columbia Pictures	305NEW
96.	Do the Right Thing	LeeSpike Lee	1989	Universal, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks	304NEW
97.	Blade Runner	ScottRidley Scott	1982	Warner Brothers, The Ladd Company	303NEW
98.	Yankee Doodle Dandy	CurtizMichael Curtiz	1942	Warner Brothers	202 2
99.	Toy Story	LasseterJohn Lasseter	1995	Disney, Pixar	301NEW
100.	Ben-Hur	WylerWilliam Wyler	1959	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	172 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)

Most Films by Director

5 Films

• Steven Spielberg

4 Films

• Alfred Hitchcock
• Stanley Kubrick
• Billy Wilder

3 Films

• Frank Capra
• Charlie Chaplin
• Francis Ford Coppola
• John Huston
• Martin Scorsese

2 Films

• Robert Altman
• Michael Curtiz
• Victor Fleming
• John Ford
• Elia Kazan
• David Lean
• George Lucas
• Sidney Lumet
• Mike Nichols
• Alan J. Pakula
• George Stevens
• Robert Wise
• William Wyler

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.
• Steven Spielberg has the most films of any director on the list with five films. The original version of the list also contained five films by Spielberg, with four films carrying over to the new list and Close Encounters of the Third Kind being replaced by Saving Private Ryan. Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock tie for second place with four films each making the list.
• 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 was Griffith's Intolerance (1916) (#49).
• The newest film removed is Fargo (1996), the newest added The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), which is also the only film on the list released after 1999.
• The highest ranked addition was The General at #18. The highest ranked removal was Doctor Zhivago (#39).
• The Searchers rose the most, going from #96 to #12. The greatest drop without complete removal was suffered by The African Queen, which went from #17 to #65.
• Duck Soup, featuring the Marx Brothers, moved up 25 positions to #60. It was replaced at #85 by another film starring the Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera.
• 73 of the films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and 30 won, including Sunrise (1927) which won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production (an award that was only presented at the first ceremony). The original list has 75 Academy Awards Best Picture nominees and 33 winners.
• In the 2007 list, eight of the top ten films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with five winning. In the original list, nine out of the top ten were nominees, and six won.
• Two animated films appear on each list. In 1998, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ranked at #49, and Fantasia at #58. Snow White moved up to #34 in 2007, Fantasia was dropped, and Toy Story was added at #99.

See also

• AFI's 10 Top 10
• List of films considered the best

References

1. "Citizen Kane Stands the Test of Time", June 20, 2007, News release about the 2007 list

External links

• AFI website
• AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (1998 edition)
• AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (2007 edition)
• List of the 400 nominated movies (1998 edition)
• List of the 400 nominated movies (2007 edition)