Question: Did Entertanment Weekly name The Godfather as the greatest film ever made?
About the article "The Godfather", section "Current rankings".

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 The film is ranked at the top of Metacritic's top 100 list, and is ranked 5th on Rotten Tomatoes' all time best list (100% "Certified Fresh").
 In 2002, "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" reached No.
2 on Film4's list of "The 100 Greatest Films of All Time".
 "Entertainment Weekly" named "The Godfather" the greatest film ever made.
 "The Godfather" was voted in at No.
1 on "Empire" magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" in November 2008.
 In "Time Out"'s 2003 readers' poll, "The Godfather" was ranked the second best film of all time, after "Some Like It Hot".
 Currently 2nd on IMDB's top 250 movies list, with its sequel occupying the 3rd position.
  "The Godfather" (1972) was selected as the best gangster movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.
It is the highest rated film on Metacritic with 100 and it also tops the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best drama movies.
"Goodfellas" (1990) was chosen as the greatest crime film out of the 25 movies by the IGN website.
"Pulp Fiction" (1994) was ranked the greatest film of the past 25 years (1983-2008) by "Entertainment Weekly".  
The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy from a screenplay by Mario Puzo and Coppola.
Based on Puzo's 1969 novel of the same name, the film stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family.
The story, spanning the years 1945 to 1955, centers on the transformation of Michael Corleone from reluctant family outsider to ruthless Mafia boss while also chronicling the family under the patriarch Vito Corleone.
"The Godfather" is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema—and as one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre.
Now ranked as the second greatest film in American cinema (behind "Citizen Kane") by the American Film Institute, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1990.
The film was for a time the highest grossing picture ever made, and remains the box office leader for 1972.
It won three Oscars that year: for Best Picture, for Best Actor (Brando) and in the category Best Adapted Screenplay for Puzo and Coppola.
Its nominations in seven other categories included Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor and Coppola for Best Director.
The success spawned two sequels: "The Godfather Part II" in 1974, and "The Godfather Part III" in 1990. 
Since its release, "The Godfather" has received critical acclaim.
Rotten Tomatoes reports that all 77 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average score of 9.1/10.
Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a perfect weighted average score of 100 (out of 100) based on 14 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "universal acclaim".
Both "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" were selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1990 and 1993, respectively.
International critics routinely list these two among cinema's pinnacle achievements, sometimes considering them as one work.
In the decennial 2002 "Sight & Sound" poll of film directors, the pair was ranked as the second best film of all time.
The critics poll separately voted it fourth.
The American Film Institute has listed it second in U.S. film history behind "Citizen Kane".
Other polls and publications have it first, as well, among them "Entertainment Weekly", and "Empire" magazine (November 2008)The soundtrack's main theme by Nino Rota was also critically acclaimed; the main theme ("Speak Softly Love") is well-known and widely used (see Score Controversy for more information).
Director Stanley Kubrick believed that "The Godfather" was possibly the greatest movie ever made, and had without question the best cast.
Previous Mafia movies had looked at the gangs from the perspective of an outraged outsider.
In contrast, "The Godfather" presents the gangster's perspective of the Mafia as a response to corrupt society.
Although the Corleone family is presented as immensely rich and powerful, no scenes depict prostitution, gambling, loan sharking or other forms of racketeering.
Some critics argue that the setting of a criminal counterculture allows for unapologetic gender stereotyping, and is an important part of the film's appeal ("You can act like a man!
", Don Vito tells a weepy Johnny Fontane).
Real-life gangsters responded enthusiastically to the film, with many of them feeling it was a portrayal of how they were supposed to act.
Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, the former underboss in the Gambino crime family, stated: "I left the movie stunned ...
I mean I floated out of the theater.
Maybe it was fiction, but for me, then, that was our life.
It was incredible.
I remember talking to a multitude of guys, made guys, who felt exactly the same way. "
According to Anthony Fiato after seeing the film, Patriarca crime family members Paulie Intiso and Nicky Giso altered their speech patterns closer to that of Vito Corleone's.
Intiso would frequently swear and use poor grammar; but after the movie came out, he started to articulate and philosophize more.
Remarking on the 40th anniversary of the film's release, film critic John Podhoretz praised "The Godfather" as "arguably "the" great American work of popular art" and "the summa of all great moviemaking before it".
Two years before, Roger Ebert wrote in his journal that it "comes closest to being a film everyone agrees... is unquestionably great."
  "Gone with the Wind" (1939) was ranked as the greatest film in a poll surveyed by Harris Interactive between January 15 and 22, 2008. ""
came in second place and "Casablanca" in third.
"Gone with the Wind" was also picked as the best film for .
"Casablanca" (1942) was voted the greatest film by readers of the "Los Angeles Daily News" in 1997.
It is also regarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" by the influential "Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide".
On April 7, 2006, the Writers' Guild of America declared "Casablanca"'s screenplay the best ever written.
"Seven Samurai" (1954) was voted #1 in an audience poll conducted by "MovieMail" in 2000.
It was followed by "The Third Man" (1949) in second place.
"The Godfather" (1972) was voted #1 by "Entertainment Weekly"'s readers and voted as #1 in a "Time Out" readers' poll in 1998.
The film was also voted as the "Greatest Movie of All Time" in September 2008 by 10,000 readers of "Empire" magazine, 150 people from the movie business and 50 film critics.
"The Godfather Part II" (1974) was voted best movie ever by "TV Guide" readers in 1998.
"Cross of Iron" (1977) was voted the greatest film of all time by "Cinemag".  '
(1977) and its sequel ' (1980) were chosen as the greatest films by readers of "Empire" magazine in November 2001 and by voters in a Channel 4 (Film4) poll.
"Star Wars" is also the highest ranking sci-fi film in both versions of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movies of all time (ranked #15 in the original list, and #13 in the updated list).
"Raise the Red Lantern" (1991) was voted the best Asian film in another audience poll conducted by "MovieMail" in 2000.
It was followed by "The Apu Trilogy" (1955–1959) at second place.
"Schindler's List" (1993) was voted the best film ever made by the German film magazine "Cinema".
"The Shawshank Redemption" (1994) was voted the best film not to have won an Academy Award in a 2004 Radio Times poll and again in 2008.
The film is ranked #1 on FilmCrave.com's top 100 movies list and holds the top spot on the Internet Movie Database's list of the top 250 films.
It holds an extremely high score on Rotten Tomatoes within the community, at 98%.
The "Lord of the Rings" series (2001–2003) was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special "My Favourite Film" and by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time").
Its first film, "" (2001), was the pick of readers in a poll by "Empire" magazine in November 2004.