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.

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.

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.

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	Charlie 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	John Schlesinger	1969
44.	The Birth of a Nation	Griffith	1915	OFF		7	The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor	1940
45.	A Streetcar Named Desire	Kazan	1951	2		24	Shane	George Stevens	1953
46.	A Clockwork Orange	Kubrick	1971	24		11	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	1934
47.	Taxi Driver	Scorsese	1976	5		2	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	1951
48.	Jaws	Spielberg	1975	8		6	Rear Window	Alfred 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 film trilogy	Peter Jackson	2001, 2002, 2003
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

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) (#49).

• 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.
• 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.

List breakdown

• Steven Spielberg is the most represented director with five films: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List. Spielberg was the most represented director on AFI’s original list—also with five films. Close Encounters of the Third Kind was replaced by Saving Private Ryan as the fifth entry. Directors Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Billy Wilder each have four films on the list. Frank Capra, Charles Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, and Martin Scorsese each have three.
• James Stewart is the most represented leading actor with five films: (Vertigo, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story and Rear Window).
• Robert De Niro appears in five films; he leads in four (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter and Goodfellas) and supports in one (The Godfather Part II).
• Harrison Ford appears in six films, although one (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) his role is a deleted scene. He has a lead role in Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner, but only a supporting role in Apocalypse Now and American Graffiti.
• Robert Duvall appears in six of the represented films, but all of them in varying degrees of support. The films are To Kill a Mockingbird, M*A*S*H, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Network, and Apocalypse Now.
• Faye Dunaway (starred in Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde and Network) and Katharine Hepburn (starred in The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen and Bringing Up Baby) are the most represented leading actresses with three films each. Diane Keaton appears in three films, she leads in one (Annie Hall) and supports in two (The Godfather and The Godfather Part II).
• The 1970s is the most represented decade with 20 entries.
• Three years tie for most represented year, each with four films: 1982 (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tootsie, Blade Runner, Sophie's Choice); 1976 (Network, Taxi Driver, Rocky, All the President's Men); 1969 (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch).
• The earliest film represented is Intolerance (1916) and the most recent is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
• Six silent films are featured on the list—and three are new additions: The General (#18), Intolerance (#49) and Sunrise (#82). Charles Chaplin's City Lights, The Gold Rush, and Modern Times round out the list at #11, #58, and #78, respectively.
• Of the films released between 1997-2006, four were added to AFI list: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (#50), Saving Private Ryan (#71), Titanic (#83), and The Sixth Sense (#89); of these, only The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is from the 2000s.
• There are two animated films on the list: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (#34) and Toy Story (#99).
• There are six musicals on the list: Cabaret, Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Swing Time, West Side Story, and The Wizard of Oz.
• There are also six westerns on the list: The Searchers (#12), High Noon (#27), Shane (#45), Unforgiven (#68), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (#73), and The Wild Bunch (#79).
• Star Wars (#13), 2001: A Space Odyssey (#15), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (#24), A Clockwork Orange (#70), and Blade Runner (#97) round out the five science-fiction films on the list.
• The eighteen comedies on the list are as follows: City Lights (#11), The Graduate (#17), The General (#18), Some Like It Hot (#22), Annie Hall (#36), Dr. Strangelove (#39), The Philadelphia Story (#44), It Happened One Night (#46), M*A*S*H (#54), The Gold Rush (#58), Duck Soup (#60), Sullivan's Travels (#61), American Graffiti (#62), Tootsie (#69), Modern Times (#78), The Apartment (#80), A Night at the Opera (#85), and Bringing Up Baby (#88)
• On the 2007 list, The Apartment (#80) and Spartacus (#81) are the only back-to-back movies from the same year (in this case 1960).

See also

• Films considered the greatest ever
• AFI's 10 Top 10
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

External links

• AFI website
• news release
• AFI's official PDF of the 1998 and 2007 rankings (registration required)
• AFI's 400-title ballot (registration required)
• Interesting facts about the list
• Movie blogger sophomorecritic's interview with a representative from the AFI