# 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. (A number of films on the list were British-made but financed by American studios; these include Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and A Clockwork Orange.)
* 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

| Rank | 10th anniversary list (2007) | Director | Year | Production companies | Change from 1998 |
| 1. | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 | Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures | |
| 2. | The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 | Paramount Pictures, Alfran Productions | 1 |
| 3. | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | Warner Bros. | 1 |
| 4. | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 | Chartoff-Winkler Productions | 20 |
| 5. | Singin' in the Rain | Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen | 1952 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 5 |
| 6. | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 | Selznick International Pictures | 2 |
| 7. | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 1962 | Horizon Pictures | 2 |
| 8. | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | 1993 | Amblin Entertainment | 1 |
| 9. | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 | Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions | 52 |
| 10. | The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | 1939 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 4 |
| 11. | City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 | Charles Chaplin Productions | 65 |
| 12. | The Searchers | John Ford | 1956 | C. V. Whitney Pictures | 84 |
| 13. | Star Wars | George Lucas | 1977 | Lucasfilm | 2 |
| 14. | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 | Shamley Productions | 4 |
| 15. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 7 |
| 16. | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 | Paramount Pictures | 4 |
| 17. | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 1967 | Lawrence Turman | 10 |
| 18. | The General | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman | 1926 | Buster Keaton Productions | NEW |
| 19. | On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 | Horizon-American Pictures | 11 |
| 20. | It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 | Liberty Films | 9 |
| 21. | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 | Long Road Productions | 2 |
| 22. | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 | Ashton Productions, The Mirisch Company | 8 |
| 23. | The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | 1940 | 20th Century-Fox | 2 |
| 24. | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | 1982 | Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment | 1 |
| 25. | To Kill a Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | 1962 | Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Brentwood Productions | 9 |
| 26. | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Frank Capra | 1939 | Columbia Pictures | 3 |
| 27. | High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | 1952 | Stanley Kramer Productions | 6 |
| 28. | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 | 20th Century-Fox | 12 |
| 29. | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 | Paramount Pictures | 9 |
| 30. | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | 1979 | Omni Zoetrope | 2 |
| 31. | The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 1941 | Warner Bros. | 8 |
| 32. | The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 | The Coppola Company | |
| 33. | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | 1975 | Fantasy Films | 13 |
| 34. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | David Hand | 1937 | Walt Disney | 15 |
| 35. | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1977 | United Artists | 4 |
| 36. | The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 1957 | Horizon-American Pictures | 23 |
| 37. | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | 1946 | Samuel Goldwyn Productions | |
| 38. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | 1948 | Warner Bros. | 8 |
| 39. | Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 | Hawk Films, Polaris Productions | 13 |
| 40. | The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | 1965 | Argyle Enterprises, 20th Century-Fox | 15 |
| 41. | King Kong | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | 1933 | RKO Radio Pictures | 2 |
| 42. | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 1967 | Tatira-Hiller Productions | 15 |
| 43. | Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | 1969 | Jerome Hellman Productions | 7 |
| 44. | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 7 |
| 45. | Shane | George Stevens | 1953 | Paramount Pictures | 24 |
| 46. | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1934 | Columbia Pictures | 11 |
| 47. | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | 1951 | Warner Bros., Charles K. Feldman Productions | 2 |
| 48. | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 | Paramount Pictures, Patron | 6 |
| 49. | Intolerance | D.W. Griffith | 1916 | D.W. Griffith, Wark Producing | NEW |
| 50. | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson | 2001 | New Line Cinema, WingNut Films | NEW |
| 51. | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | 1961 | Beta Productions, The Mirisch Company, Seven Arts Productions, B & P Enterprises | 10 |
| 52. | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 | B & P Enterprises, Italo-Judeo | 5 |
| 53. | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | 1978 | EMI | 26 |
| 54. | M*A*S*H | Robert Altman | 1970 | Aspen Productions | 2 |
| 55. | North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 15 |
| 56. | Jaws | Steven Spielberg | 1975 | Universal Pictures, Zanuck/Brown Company | 8 |
| 57. | Rocky | John G. Avildsen | 1976 | Chartoff/Winkler Productions | 21 |
| 58. | The Gold Rush | Charlie Chaplin | 1925 | Charles Chaplin Productions | 16 |
| 59. | Nashville | Robert Altman | 1975 | ABC Entertainment | NEW |
| 60. | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 1933 | Paramount Productions | 25 |
| 61. | Sullivan's Travels | Preston Sturges | 1941 | Paramount Pictures | NEW |
| 62. | American Graffiti | George Lucas | 1973 | Coppola Co., Lucasfilm | 15 |
| 63. | Cabaret | Bob Fosse | 1972 | ABC Pictures | NEW |
| 64. | Network | Sidney Lumet | 1976 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 2 |
| 65. | The African Queen | John Huston | 1951 | Horizon Enterprises, Romulus Films | 48 |
| 66. | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | 1981 | Lucasfilm | 6 |
| 67. | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | 1966 | Chenault Productions, Warner Bros. | NEW |
| 68. | Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | 1992 | The Malpaso Company | 30 |
| 69. | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 1982 | Mirage Enterprises, Punch Productions, Columbia Pictures, Delphi Productions | 7 |
| 70. | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | 1971 | Polaris Productions, Hawk Films | 24 |
| 71. | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | 1998 | Amblin Entertainment, Mutual Film Company | NEW |
| 72. | The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont | 1994 | Castle Rock Entertainment | NEW |
| 73. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill | 1969 | Campanile Productions | 23 |
| 74. | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | 1991 | Strong Heart Productions | 9 |
| 75. | In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 1967 | The Mirisch Corporation | NEW |
| 76. | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | 1994 | The Tisch Company | 5 |
| 77. | All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | 1976 | Wildwood Enterprises | NEW |
| 78. | Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | 1936 | Charles Chaplin Film Corp. | 3 |
| 79. | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 1969 | Phil Feldman Productions, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts | 1 |
| 80. | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 | The Mirisch Company | 13 |
| 81. | Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | 1960 | Bryna Productions, Universal-International Pictures | NEW |
| 82. | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F. W. Murnau | 1927 | Fox Film | NEW |
| 83. | Titanic | James Cameron | 1997 | Paramount Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment | NEW |
| 84. | Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 1969 | The Pando Company, Raybert Productions | 4 |
| 85. | A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | 1935 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | NEW |
| 86. | Platoon | Oliver Stone | 1986 | Hemdale Film Corporation | 3 |
| 87. | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 1957 | Orion-Nova Productions | NEW |
| 88. | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 1938 | RKO Radio Pictures | 9 |
| 89. | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan | 1999 | Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company | NEW |
| 90. | Swing Time | George Stevens | 1936 | RKO Radio Pictures | NEW |
| 91. | Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | 1982 | ITC Entertainment, Marble Arch Productions | NEW |
| 92. | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | 1990 | Warner Bros., Irwin Winkler Productions | 2 |
| 93. | The French Connection | William Friedkin | 1971 | D'Antoni Productions | 23 |
| 94. | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | 1994 | A Band Apart, Jersey Films | 1 |
| 95. | The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | 1971 | BBS Productions | NEW |
| 96. | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 | 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks | NEW |
| 97. | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 1982 | The Ladd Company, Sir Run Run Shaw | NEW |
| 98. | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | Warner Bros. | 2 |
| 99. | Toy Story | John Lasseter | 1995 | Pixar, Walt Disney Pictures | NEW |
| 100. | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | 1959 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 28 |

### Changes from the original 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)
Added were:
* 18. The General (1926)
* 49. Intolerance (1916)
* 50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
* 59. Nashville (1975)
* 61. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
* 63. Cabaret (1972)
* 67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
* 71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
* 72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
* 75. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
* 77. All the President's Men (1976)
* 81. Spartacus (1960)
* 82. Sunrise (1927)
* 83. Titanic (1997)
* 85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
* 87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
* 89. The Sixth Sense (1999)
* 90. Swing Time (1936)
* 91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
* 95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
* 96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
* 97. Blade Runner (1982)
* 99. Toy Story (1995)
* 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 (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 removal was Doctor Zhivago (#39).
* 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 (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, 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
### 5

* 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.

### 4

* Alfred Hitchcock
* Stanley Kubrick
* Billy Wilder

### 3

* Frank Capra
* Charlie Chaplin
* Francis Ford Coppola
* John Huston
* Martin Scorsese

### 2

* Robert Altman
* Michael Curtiz
* Victor Fleming
* John Ford
* Elia Kazan
* David Lean
* George Lucas
* Sidney Lumet
* Mike Nichols
* Alan J. Pakula
* George Stevens
* Robert Wise
* William Wyler

## Broadcast

This installment of the American Film Institute's (AFI) 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.