AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies from 1998. There has been the suggestion that the AFI will conduct the poll every ten years to include new releases. A number of films lost their places from the 1998 list, including such classics as The Third Man, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Fantasia. Even with the loss of Close Encounters… Steven Spielberg has the most entries, 5, in the list.
1. Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941
2. The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 1972
3. Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942
4. Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 1980
5. Singin’ in the Rain Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen 1952
6. Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming 1939
7. Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 1962
8. Schindler’s List Steven Spielberg 1993
9. Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958
10. The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 1939
11. City Lights Charlie Chaplin 1931
12. The Searchers John Ford 1956
13. Star Wars George Lucas 1977
14. Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968
16. Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 1950
17. The Graduate Mike Nichols 1967
18. The General Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman 1926
19. On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954
20. It’s a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 1946
21. Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974
22. Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder 1959
23. The Grapes of Wrath John Ford 1940
24. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 1982
25. To Kill a Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 1962
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra 1939
27. High Noon Fred Zinnemann 1952
28. All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950
29. Double Indemnity Billy Wilder 1944
30. Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 1979
31. The Maltese Falcon John Huston 1941
32. The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola 1974
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Miloš Forman 1975
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs David Hand 1937
35. Annie Hall Woody Allen 1977
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean 1957
37. The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 1946
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 1948
39. Dr. Strangelove Stanley Kubrick 1964
40. The Sound of Music Robert Wise 1965
41. King Kong Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933
42. Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn 1967
43. Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger 1969
44. The Philadelphia Story George Cukor 1940
45. Shane George Stevens 1953
46. It Happened One Night Frank Capra 1934
47. A Streetcar Named Desire Elia Kazan 1951
48. Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock 1954
49. Intolerance D. W. Griffith 1916
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson 2001
51. West Side Story Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 1961
52. Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976
53. The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino 1978
54. MASH Robert Altman 1970
55. North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 1959
56. Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
57. Rocky John G. Avildsen 1976
58. The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin 1925
59. Nashville Robert Altman 1975
60. Duck Soup Leo McCarey 1933
61. Sullivan’s Travels Preston Sturges 1941
62. American Graffiti George Lucas 1973
63. Cabaret Bob Fosse 1972
64. Network Sidney Lumet 1976
65. The African Queen John Huston 1951
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 1981
67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mike Nichols 1966
68. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 1992
69. Tootsie Sydney Pollack 1982
70. A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 1971
71. Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg 1998
72. The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont 1994
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid George Roy Hill 1969
74. The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991
75. In the Heat of the Night Norman Jewison 1967
76. Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 1994
77. All the President’s Men Alan J. Pakula 1976
78. Modern Times Charlie Chaplin 1936
79. The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969
80. The Apartment Billy Wilder 1960
81. Spartacus Stanley Kubrick 1960
82. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau 1927
83. Titanic James Cameron 1997
84. Easy Rider Dennis Hopper 1969
85. A Night at the Opera Sam Wood 1935
86. Platoon Oliver Stone 1986
87. 12 Angry Men Sidney Lumet 1957
88. Bringing Up Baby Howard Hawks 1938
89. The Sixth Sense M. Night Shyamalan 1999
90. Swing Time George Stevens 1936
91. Sophie’s Choice Alan J. Pakula 1982
92. Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 1990
93. The French Connection William Friedkin 1971
94. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994
95. The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich 1971
96. Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 1989
97. Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz 1942
99. Toy Story John Lasseter 1995
100. Ben-Hur William Wyler 1959
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