Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list and in 1992, directors were invited to participate in a separate poll.
All the films which received more than 4 votes from directors.
| Film | Votes | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Citizen Kane (Welles) | 42 | 1 |
THE GODFATHER PART 1 & 2 (Coppola) |
28 | 2 |
| 8½ (Fellini) | 19 | 3 |
| Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) | 16 | 4 |
| Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) | 14 | 5 |
| Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) | 13 | 6 |
| Raging Bull (Scorsese) | 13 | 6 |
| Vertigo (Hitchcock) | 13 | 6 |
| La Régle du jeu (Renoir) | 12 | 9 |
| Rashomon (Kurosawa) | 12 | 9 |
| Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) | 12 | 9 |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) | 11 | 12 |
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder) |
11 | 12 |
The Apartment (Wilder) |
10 | 14 |
La dolce vita (Fellini) |
10 | 14 |
| Mirror (Tarkovsky) | 9 | 16 |
Psycho (Hitchcock) |
9 | 16 |
| Tokyo Story (Ozu) | 9 | 16 |
| Apocalypse Now (Coppola) | 8 | 19 |
Casablanca (Curtiz) |
8 | 19 |
City Lights (Chaplin) |
8 | 19 |
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) |
8 | 19 |
| Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) | 8 | 19 |
| Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) | 7 | 24 |
L’Avventura (Antonioni) |
7 | 24 |
Chinatown (Polanski) |
7 | 24 |
La Grande Illusion (Renoir) |
7 | 24 |
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) |
7 | 24 |
La Strada (Fellini) |
7 | 24 |
| The Searchers (Ford) | 7 | 24 |
Amarcord (Fellini) |
6 | 31 |
| Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) | 6 | 31 |
Breathless (Godard) |
6 | 31 |
Jules and Jim (Truffaut) |
6 | 31 |
Children of Paradise (Carné) |
6 | 31 |
On The Waterfront (Kazan) |
6 | 31 |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) | 6 | 31 |
The Seventh Seal (Bergman) |
6 | 31 |
| Taxi Driver (Scorsese) | 6 | 31 |
Touch of Evil (Welles) |
6 | 31 |
| The Conformist (Bertolucci) | 5 | 41 |
| Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) | 5 | 41 |
Persona (Bergman) |
5 | 41 |
Pickpocket (Bresson) |
5 | 41 |
| Ran (Kurosawa) | 5 | 41 |
| Sunrise (Murnau) | 5 | 41 |
Sweet Smell Of Success (Mackendrick) |
5 | 41 |
The Third Man (Reed) |
5 | 41 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) |
5 | 41 |
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming) |
5 | 41 |
On the Waterfront (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Touch of Evil (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ (BFI Silver) Paperback
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Chinatown (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
The Wizard of Oz (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
City Lights (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
La dolce vita (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
