Rank |
10th anniversary list (2007) |
Director |
Year |
Production companies |
Change from 1998 |
1. |
Citizen Kane |
Orson Welles |
1941 |
Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |