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 and Villains
2004	100 Songs
2005	100 Movie Quotes
2005	Film Scores
2006	100 Cheers
2006	Movie Musicals
2007	100 Movies (Updated)
2008	AFI's 10 Top 10
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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 conduct different versions of this poll every ten years as more films are released to be considered the greatest.

Criteria

AFI asks 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.

The list

Rank	10th anniversary list (2007)	Director	Year	Studio	Change from 1998
1.	Citizen Kane	WellesOrson Welles	1941	RKO	200
2.	GodfatherThe Godfather	CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola	1972	Paramount	2011
3.	Casablanca	CurtizMichael Curtiz	1942	Warner Brothers	1991
4.	Raging Bull	ScorseseMartin Scorsese	1980	United Artists	22020
5.	Singin' in the Rain	KellyGene Kelly, Stanley Donen	1952	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	2055
6.	Gone with the Wind	FlemingVictor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited), Sam Wood (uncredited)	1939	MGM (distributor), Selznick International Pictures	1982
7.	Lawrence of Arabia	LeanDavid Lean	1962	Columbia	1982
8.	Schindler's List	SpielbergSteven Spielberg	1993	Universal	2011
9.	Vertigo	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock	1958	Paramount	25252
10.	WizardThe Wizard of Oz	FlemingVictor Fleming	1939	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	1964
11.	City Lights	ChaplinCharlie Chaplin	1931	United Artists	26565
12.	SearchersThe Searchers	FordJohn Ford	1956	Warner Brothers	28484
13.	Star Wars	LucasGeorge Lucas	1977	20th Century Fox Lucasfilm	2022
14.	Psycho	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock	1960	Paramount	2044
15.	2001: A Space Odyssey	KubrickStanley Kubrick	1968	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	2077
16.	Sunset Boulevard	Wilder Billy Wilder	1950	Paramount	1964
17.	GraduateThe Graduate	NicholsMike Nichols	1967	United Artists	19010
18.	GeneralThe General	KeatonBuster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman	1927	United Artists	382NEW
19.	On the Waterfront	KazanElia Kazan	1954	Columbia	18911
20.	It's a Wonderful Life	CapraFrank Capra	1946	RKO	1919
21.	Chinatown	Polanski Roman Polanski	1974	Paramount	1982
22.	Some Like It Hot	WilderBilly Wilder	1959	United Artists	1928
23.	GrapesThe Grapes of Wrath	FordJohn Ford	1940	20th Century Fox	1982
24.	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	SpielbergSteven Spielberg	1982	Universal	2011
25.	KillTo Kill a Mockingbird	MulliganRobert Mulligan	1962	Universal-International	2099
26.	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	CapraFrank Capra	1939	Columbia	2033
27.	High Noon	ZinnemannFred Zinnemann	1952	United Artists	2066
28.	All About Eve	MankiewiczJoseph L. Mankiewicz	1950	20th Century Fox	18812
29.	Double Indemnity	WilderBilly Wilder	1944	Paramount	2099
30.	Apocalypse Now	CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola	1979	United Artists	1982
31.	MalteseThe Maltese Falcon	HustonJohn Huston	1941	Warner Brothers	1928
32.	GodfatherThe Godfather Part II	CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola	1974	Paramount	200
33.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	FormanMiloš Forman	1975	United Artists	18713
34.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	HandDavid Hand	1937	RKO Disney	21515
35.	Annie Hall	AllenWoody Allen	1977	United Artists	1964
36.	BridgeThe Bridge on the River Kwai	LeanDavid Lean	1957	Columbia	17723
37.	BestThe Best Years of Our Lives	WylerWilliam Wyler	1946	RKO, Samuel Goldwyn	200
38.	Treasure The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	HustonJohn Huston	1948	Warner Brothers	1928
39.	Dr. Strangelove	KubrickStanley Kubrick	1964	Columbia	18713
40.	SoundThe Sound of Music	WiseRobert Wise	1965	20th Century Fox	21515
41.	King Kong	CooperMerian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack	1933	RKO	2022
42.	Bonnie and Clyde	PennArthur Penn	1967	Warner Brothers	18515
43.	Midnight Cowboy	SchlesingerJohn Schlesinger	1969	United Artists	1937
44.	PhiladelphiaThe Philadelphia Story	CukorGeorge Cukor	1940	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	2077
45.	Shane	StevensGeorge Stevens	1953	Paramount	22424
46.	It Happened One Night	CapraFrank Capra	1934	Columbia	18911
47.	StreetcarA Streetcar Named Desire	KazanElia Kazan	1951	Warner Brothers	1982
48.	Rear Window	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock	1954	Paramount	1946
49.	Intolerance	GriffithD. W. Griffith	1916	Triangle	351NEW
50.	LordThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	JacksonPeter Jackson	2001	New Line Cinema	350NEW
51.	West Side Story	RobbinsJerome Robbins, Robert Wise	1961	United Artists	19010
52.	Taxi Driver	ScorseseMartin Scorsese	1976	Columbia Pictures	1955
53.	DeerThe Deer Hunter	CiminoMichael Cimino	1978	Universal	22626
54.	MASH	AltmanRobert Altman	1970	20th Century Fox	2022
55.	North by Northwest	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock	1959	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	18515
56.	Jaws	Spielberg Steven Spielberg	1975	Universal	1928
57.	Rocky	AvildsenJohn G. Avildsen	1976	United Artists	22121
58.	GoldThe Gold Rush	ChaplinCharlie Chaplin	1925	United Artists	21616
59.	Nashville	AltmanRobert Altman	1975	ABC Entertainment	341NEW
60.	Duck Soup	McCareyLeo McCarey	1933	Paramount Pictures	22525
61.	Sullivan's Travels	SturgesPreston Sturges	1941	Paramount Pictures	339NEW
62.	American Graffiti	LucasGeorge Lucas	1973	Universal	21515
63.	Cabaret	FosseBob Fosse	1972	Allied Artists	337NEW
64.	Network	LumetSidney Lumet	1976	MGM, United Artists	2022
65.	AfricanThe African Queen	HustonJohn Huston	1951	United Artists	15248
66.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	SpielbergSteven Spielberg	1981	Paramount Lucasfilm	1946
67.	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nichols Mike Nichols	1966	Warner Bros.	333NEW
68.	Unforgiven	EastwoodClint Eastwood	1992	Warner Brothers	23030
69.	Tootsie	PollackSydney Pollack	1982	Columbia	1937
70.	ClockworkA Clockwork Orange	KubrickStanley Kubrick	1971	Warner Brothers	17624
71.	Saving Private Ryan	SpielbergSteven Spielberg	1998	DreamWorks	329NEW
72.	ShawshankThe Shawshank Redemption	DarabontFrank Darabont	1994	Warner Brothers	328NEW
73.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	HillGeorge Roy Hill	1969	20th Century Fox	17723
74.	SilenceThe Silence of the Lambs	DemmeJonathan Demme	1991	Orion Pictures	1919
75.	In the Heat of the Night	JewisonNorman Jewison	1967	United Artists	325NEW
76.	Forrest Gump	ZemeckisRobert Zemeckis	1994	Paramount	1955
77.	All the President's Men	PakulaAlan J. Pakula	1976	Warner Brothers	323NEW
78.	Modern Times	ChaplinCharlie Chaplin	1936	United Artists	2033
79.	WildThe Wild Bunch	PeckinpahSam Peckinpah	1969	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts	2011
80.	ApartmentThe Apartment	WilderBilly Wilder	1960	United Artists	21313
81.	Spartacus	KubrickStanley Kubrick	1960	Universal-International	319NEW
82.	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	MurnauF. W. Murnau	1927	20th Century Fox	318NEW
83.	Titanic	CameronJames Cameron	1997	Paramount, 20th Century Fox	317NEW
84.	Easy Rider	HopperDennis Hopper	1969	United Artists	2044
85.	NightA Night at the Opera	WoodSam Wood	1935	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	315NEW
86.	Platoon	StoneOliver Stone	1986	Orion Pictures	1973
87.	12 Angry Men	LumetSidney Lumet	1957	United Artists	313NEW
88.	Bringing Up Baby	HawksHoward Hawks	1938	Warner Brothers	2099
89.	SixthThe Sixth Sense	ShyamalanM. Night Shyamalan	1999	Buena Vista Pictures Spyglass Entertainment The Kennedy/Marshall Company	311NEW
90.	Swing Time	StevensGeorge Stevens	1936	RKO	310NEW
91.	Sophie's Choice	PakulaAlan J. Pakula	1982	ITC Entertainment	309NEW
92.	Goodfellas	ScorseseMartin Scorsese	1990	Warner Brothers	2022
93.	FrenchThe French Connection	FriedkinWilliam Friedkin	1971	20th Century Fox	17723
94.	Pulp Fiction	TarantinoQuentin Tarantino	1994	Miramax	2011
95.	LastThe Last Picture Show	BogdanovichPeter Bogdanovich	1971	Columbia Pictures	305NEW
96.	Do the Right Thing	LeeSpike Lee	1989	40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks	304NEW
97.	Blade Runner	ScottRidley Scott	1982	The Ladd Company	303NEW
98.	Yankee Doodle Dandy	CurtizMichael Curtiz	1942	Warner Brothers	2022
99.	Toy Story	LasseterJohn Lasseter	1995	Disney Pixar	301NEW
100.	Ben-Hur	WylerWilliam Wyler	1959	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	17228

Films removed from list

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

39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940)
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American in Paris (1951)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
82. Giant (1956)
84. Fargo (1996)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Changes

• Of the 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.
• Steven Spielberg has the most films of any director on the list at 5 films. The original version of the list also contained 5 films by Spielberg, with 4 films carrying over to the new list and Close Encounters of the Third Kind being replaced by "Saving Private Ryan". Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock tie for 2nd place with 4 of their films making the list.
• 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 was Griffith's Intolerance (1916) (#49).
• The newest film removed is Fargo (1996), the newest added The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), which is also the only film on the list released after 1999.
• The highest ranked addition was The General at #18. The highest ranked expulsion was Doctor Zhivago (#39).
• The Searchers rose the most, going from #96 to #12. The greatest drop without complete removal was suffered by The African Queen, which went from #17 to #65.
• Duck Soup, featuring the Marx Brothers, moved up 25 positions to #60. It was replaced at #85 by another film starring the Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera.
• 73 of the films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and 30 won, including Sunrise (1927) which won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production (an award that was only presented at the first ceremony). 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, Fantasia was dropped, and Toy Story was added at #99.

See also

• AFI's 10 Top 10
• List of films considered the best

External links

• AFI website
• News release
• AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (1998 edition)
• AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (2007 edition)
• List of the 400 nominated movies (1998 edition)
• List of the 400 nominated movies (2007 edition)
• List of the 100 winning movies (1998 edition)
• List of the 100 winning movies (2007 edition)
• Interesting facts about the list
• Movie blogger sophomorecritic's interview with a representative from the AFI