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

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

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

Changes from the original list

The following films from the 1998 list were left off the 2007 list:

39. Doctor Zhivago
44. The Birth of a Nation
52. From Here to Eternity
53. Amadeus
54. All Quiet on the Western Front
57. The Third Man
58. Fantasia
59. Rebel Without a Cause
63. Stagecoach
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
67. The Manchurian Candidate
68. An American in Paris
73. Wuthering Heights
75. Dances with Wolves
82. Giant
84. Fargo
86. Mutiny on the Bounty
87. Frankenstein
89. Patton
90. The Jazz Singer
91. My Fair Lady
92. A Place in the Sun
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Added were:

18. The General
49. Intolerance
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
59. Nashville
61. Sullivan's Travels
63. Cabaret
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption
75. In the Heat of the Night
77. All the President's Men
81. Spartacus
82. Sunrise
83. Titanic
85. A Night at the Opera
87. 12 Angry Men
89. The Sixth Sense
90. Swing Time
91. Sophie's Choice
95. The Last Picture Show
96. Do the Right Thing
97. Blade Runner
99. Toy Story
Of the 77 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.The Searchers had the highest increase in ranking, moving from #96 to #12. The greatest decrease without being dropped was The African Queen, which went from #17 to #65.
The oldest film to be dropped was D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, from #44. The oldest film to be added was Griffith's Intolerance .
The newest film removed is Fargo, the newest added The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 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.Duck Soup, featuring the Marx Brothers, moved up 25 positions to #60. It was replaced at #85 by another film starring them, A Night at the Opera.
Seventy-three of the films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Twenty-eight won, including Sunrise, which won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production. 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, while Fantasia was dropped, and Toy Story was added at #99. Three were produced by Walt Disney Productions, while Toy Story was a joint production of Walt Disney Studios and Pixar, making Toy Story the only Pixar film on either list.

Most films by director

Steven Spielberg. Spielberg also had five films on the original list, but not the same five. Close Encounters of the Third Kind was dropped and Saving Private Ryan added.

Broadcast

This installment of the American Film Institute's Emmy Award-winning AFI 100 Years... series counted down the movies in a three-hour television event airing on 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. The special was nominated for two Emmy Awards.