AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years...100 American Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list American films was unveiled in 1998. AFI released an updated list in 2007.

Criteria

Films were judged according to the following criteria:

Feature length: Narrative format, at least 60 minutes long.
American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
Critical recognition: Formal commendation in print.
Major award winner: Recognition from competitive events including awards from organizations in the film community and major film festivals.
Popularity over time: Including figures for box office adjusted for inflation, television broadcasts and syndication, and home video sales and rentals.
Historical significance: A film's mark on the history of the moving image through technical innovation, visionary narrative devices or other groundbreaking achievements.
Cultural impact: A film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance.
List

Film	Release year	Director	Production companies	1998 Rank	2007 Rank
Citizen Kane	1941		RKO Radio Pictures	1	1
Casablanca	1942		Warner Bros. Pictures	2	3
	1972		Paramount Pictures, Alfran Productions	3	2
Gone with the Wind	1939		Selznick International Pictures	4	6
Lawrence of Arabia	1962		Horizon Pictures	5	7
	1939		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	6	10
	1967		Lawrence Turman	7	17
On the Waterfront	1954		Horizon-American Pictures	8	19
Schindler's List	1993		Amblin Entertainment	9	8
Singin' in the Rain	1952	, Stanley Donen	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	10	5
It's a Wonderful Life	1946		Liberty Pictures	11	20
Sunset Boulevard	1950		Paramount Pictures	12	16
	1957		Horizon-American Pictures	13	36
Some Like It Hot	1959		Ashton Productions, The Mirisch Company	14	22
Star Wars	1977		Lucasfilm	15	13
All About Eve	1950		20th Century-Fox	16	28
	1951		Horizon Enterprises, Romulus Films	17	65
Psycho	1960		Shamley Productions	18	14
Chinatown	1974		Long Road Productions	19	21
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975		Fantasy Films	20	33
	1940		20th Century-Fox	21	23
2001: A Space Odyssey	1968		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	22	15
	1941		Warner Bros. Pictures	23	31
Raging Bull	1980		Chartoff-Winkler Productions	24	4
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982		Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment	25	24
Dr. Strangelove	1964		Hawk Films, Polaris Productions	26	39
Bonnie and Clyde	1967		Tatira-Hiller Productions	27	42
Apocalypse Now	1979		Omni Zoetrope	28	30
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939		Columbia Pictures	29	26
	1948		Warner Bros. Pictures	30	38
Annie Hall	1977		United Artists	31	35
	1974		The Coppola Company	32	32
High Noon	1952		Stanley Kramer Productions	33	27
To Kill a Mockingbird	1962		Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Brentwood Productions	34	25
It Happened One Night	1934		Columbia Pictures	35	46
Midnight Cowboy	1969		Jerome Hellman Productions	36	43
	1946		Samuel Goldwyn Productions	37	37
Double Indemnity	1944		Paramount Pictures	38	29
Doctor Zhivago	1965		Carlo Ponti Productions	39
North by Northwest	1959		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	40	55
West Side Story	1961	, Jerome Robbins	Beta Productions, The Mirisch Company, Seven Arts Productions, B & P Enterprises	41	51
Rear Window	1954		Paramount Pictures, Patron	42	48
King Kong	1933		RKO Radio Pictures	43	41
	1915		David W. Griffith Corp.	44
	1951		Warner Bros. Pictures, Charles K. Feldman Productions	45	47
	1971		Polaris Productions, Hawk Films	46	70
Taxi Driver	1976		B & P Enterprises, Italo-Judeo	47	52
Jaws	1975		Universal Pictures, Zanuck/Brown Company	48	56
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937		Walt Disney Productions	49	34
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969		Campanile Productions	50	73
	1940		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	51	44
From Here to Eternity	1953		Columbia Pictures	52
Amadeus	1984		The Saul Zaentz Company	53
All Quiet on the Western Front	1930		Universal Pictures	54
	1965		Argyle Enterprises, 20th Century-Fox	55	40
MASH*	1970		Aspen Productions	56	54
	1949		London Film Productions	57
Fantasia	1940	Various	Walt Disney Productions	58
Rebel Without a Cause	1955		Warner Bros. Pictures	59
Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981		Lucasfilm	60	66
Vertigo	1958		Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Paramount Pictures	61	9
Tootsie	1982		Mirage Enterprises, Punch Productions, Columbia Pictures, Delphi Productions	62	69
Stagecoach	1939		Walter Wanger Productions	63
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977		Columbia Pictures, EMI	64
	1991		Strong Heart Productions	65	74
Network	1976		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists	66	64
	1962		M. C. Productions	67
An American in Paris	1951		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	68
Shane	1953		Paramount Pictures	69	45
	1971		D'Antoni Productions	70	93
Forrest Gump	1994		The Tisch Company	71	76
Ben-Hur	1959		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	72	100
Wuthering Heights	1939		Samuel Goldwyn Productions	73
	1925		Charles Chaplin Productions	74	58
Dances with Wolves	1990		TIG Productions, Majestic Films International	75
City Lights	1931		Charles Chaplin Productions	76	11
American Graffiti	1973		Coppola Co., Lucasfilm	77	62
Rocky	1976		Chartoff-Winkler Productions	78	57
	1978		EMI	79	53
	1969		Phil Feldman Productions, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts	80	79
Modern Times	1936		Charles Chaplin Film Corp.	81	78
Giant	1956		Warner Bros. Pictures	82
Platoon	1986		Hemdale Film Corporation	83	86
Fargo	1996		Working Title Films	84
Duck Soup	1933		Paramount Productions	85	60
Mutiny on the Bounty	1935		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	86
Frankenstein	1931		Universal Pictures	87
Easy Rider	1969		The Pando Company, Raybert Productions	88	84
Patton	1970		20th Century-Fox	89
	1927		Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corp.	90
My Fair Lady	1964		Warner Bros. Pictures	91
	1951		Paramount Pictures	92
	1960		The Mirisch Company	93	80
Goodfellas	1990		Warner Bros. Pictures, Irwin Winkler Productions	94	92
Pulp Fiction	1994		A Band Apart, Jersey Films	95	94
	1956		C.V. Whitney Pictures	96	12
Bringing Up Baby	1938		RKO Radio Pictures	97	88
Unforgiven	1992		The Malpaso Company	98	68
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	1967		Columbia Pictures	99
Yankee Doodle Dandy	1942		Warner Bros. Pictures	100	98
	1926		Buster Keaton Productions, Joseph M. Schenck Productions		18
Intolerance	1916		Reliance-Majestic Studios		49
	2001		New Line Cinema, WingNut Films		50
Nashville	1975		ABC Motion Pictures		59
Sullivan's Travels	1941		Paramount Pictures		61
Cabaret	1972		ABC Pictures, Allied Artists		63
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966		Warner Bros.		67
Saving Private Ryan	1998		Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures		71
	1994		Castle Rock Entertainment		72
In the Heat of the Night	1967		The Mirisch Corporation		75
All the President's Men	1976		Wildwood Enterprises		77
Spartacus	1960		Bryna Productions		81
Sunrise	1927		Fox Film Corporation		82
Titanic	1997		Lightstorm Entertainment, Paramount Pictures		83
	1935		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer		85
	1957		Orion-Nova Productions		87
	1999		Hollywood Pictures		89
Swing Time	1936		RKO Radio Pictures		90
Sophie's Choice	1982		ITC Entertainment		91
	1971		BBS Productions		95
Do the Right Thing	1989		40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks		96
Blade Runner	1982		The Ladd Company, Shaw Brothers		97
Toy Story	1995		Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios		99

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

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