AFI's 10 Top 10

**AFI's 10 Top 10** is a list to honor the top films in ten genres. The lists are made by the American Film Institute. The different categories are animation, courtroom drama, epic, fantasy, gangster film, mystery, romantic comedy, science fiction, sports, and western.

## Animation

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_|1937||||
|2|_Pinocchio_|1940||||
|3|_Bambi_|1942||||
|4|_The Lion King_|1994||||
|5|_Fantasia_|1940||||
|6|_Toy Story_|1995||||
|7|_Beauty and the Beast_|1991||||
|8|_Shrek_|2001||||
|9|_Cinderella_|1950||||
|10|_Finding Nemo_|2003||||

## Courtroom Drama

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_To Kill a Mockingbird_|1962||||
|2|_12 Angry Men_|1957||||
|3|_Kramer vs. Kramer_|1979||||
|4|_The Verdict_|1982||||
|5|_A Few Good Men_|1992||||
|6|_Witness for the Prosecution_|1957||||
|7|_Anatomy of a Murder_|1959||||
|8|_In Cold Blood_|1967||||
|9|_A Cry in the Dark (Evil Angels)_|1988||||
|10|_Judgment at Nuremberg_|1961||||

## Epic

|width="5%"||width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_Lawrence of Arabia_|1962||||
|2|_Ben-Hur_|1959||||
|3|_Schindler's List_|1993||||
|4|_Gone with the Wind_|1939||||
|5|_Spartacus_|1960||||
|6|_Titanic_|1997||||
|7|_All Quiet on the Western Front_|1930||||
|8|_Saving Private Ryan_|1998||||
|9|_Reds_|1981||||
|10|_The Ten Commandments_|1956||||

## Fantasy

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_The Wizard of Oz_|1939||||
|2|_The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring_|2001||||
|3|_It's a Wonderful Life_|1946||||
|4|_King Kong_|1933||||
|5|_Miracle on 34th Street_|1947||||
|6|_Field of Dreams_|1989||||
|7|_Harvey_|1950||||
|8|_Groundhog Day_|1993||||
|9|_The Thief of Bagdad_|1924||||
|10|_Big_|1988||||

## Gangster Film

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_The Godfather_|1972||||
|2|_Goodfellas_|1990||||
|3|_The Godfather Part II_|1974||||
|4|_White Heat_|1949||||
|5|_Bonnie and Clyde_|1967||||
|6|_Scarface_|1932||||
|7|_Pulp Fiction_|1994||||
|8|_The Public Enemy_|1931||||
|9|_Little Caesar_|1931||||
|10|_Scarface_|1983||||

## Mystery

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_Vertigo_|1958||||
|2|_Chinatown_|1974||||
|3|_Rear Window_|1954||||
|4|_Laura_|1944||||
|5|_The Third Man_|1949||||
|6|_The Maltese Falcon_|1941||||
|7|_North by Northwest_|1959||||
|8|_Blue Velvet_|1986||||
|9|_Dial M for Murder_|1954||||
|10|_The Usual Suspects_|1995||||

## Romantic Comedy

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_City Lights_|1931||||
|2|_Annie Hall_|1977||||
|3|_It Happened One Night_|1934||||
|4|_Roman Holiday_|1953||||
|5|_The Philadelphia Story_|1940||||
|6|_When Harry Met Sally..._|1989||||
|7|_Adam's Rib_|1949||||
|8|_Moonstruck_|1987||||
|9|_Harold and Maude_|1971||||
|10|_Sleepless in Seattle_|1993||||

## Science Fiction

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_2001: A Space Odyssey_|1968||||
|2|_Star Wars_|1977||||
|3|_E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial_|1982||||
|4|_A Clockwork Orange_|1971||||
|5|_The Day the Earth Stood Still_|1951||||
|6|_Blade Runner_|1982||||
|7|_Alien_|1979||||
|8|_Terminator 2: Judgment Day_|1991||||
|9|_Invasion of the Body Snatchers_|1956||||
|10|_Back to the Future_|1985||||

## Sports

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_Raging Bull_|1980||||
|2|_Rocky_|1976||||
|3|_The Pride of the Yankees_|1942||||
|4|_Hoosiers_|1986||||
|5|_Bull Durham_|1988||||
|6|_The Hustler_|1961||||
|7|_Caddyshack_|1980||||
|8|_Breaking Away_|1979||||
|9|_National Velvet_|1944||||
|10|_Jerry Maguire_|1996||||

## Western

|width="5%"|#|width="85%"|Film|width="10%"|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|_The Searchers_|1956||||
|2|_High Noon_|1952||||
|3|_Shane_|1953||||
|4|_Unforgiven_|1992||||
|5|_Red River_|1948||||
|6|_The Wild Bunch_|1969||||
|7|_Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_|1969||||
|8|_McCabe & Mrs. Miller_|1971||||
|9|_Stagecoach_|1939||||
|10|_Cat Ballou_|1965||||