AFI 100 Years… series
100 Movies – (1998) 100 Stars – (1999) 100 Laughs – (2000) 100 Thrills – (2001) 100 Passions – (2002) 100 Heroes and Villains – (2003) 100 Songs – (2004) 100 Movie Quotes – (2005) 100 Film Scores – (2005) 100 Musicals – (2006) 100 Cheers – (2006) 100 Movies (10th Anniversary) – (2007) AFI's 10 Top 10 – (2008)

The first of the AFI 100 Years… series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list was unveiled in 1998.

It was released in video in two versions: a 145-minute version, which aired on CBS, and a 460-minute version available only on video. It was hosted by Jodie Foster, among others.^[1]

An updated version of the list, billed as a 10th Anniversary edition, aired on CBS on June 20, 2007, and was hosted by Morgan Freeman.

Contents 1 Criteria 2 1998 List 3 2007 List comparison 4 Criticisms 5 References 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Criteria

Films were judged according to the following criteria.

1. Feature-length: Narrative format, at least 40 minutes in length.
2. American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
3. Critical Recognition: Formal commendation in print.
4. Major Award Winner: Recognition from competitive events including awards from organizations in the film community and major film festivals.
5. Popularity Over Time: Including figures for box office adjusted for inflation, television broadcasts and syndication, and home video sales and rentals.
6. Historical Significance: A film's mark on the history of the moving image through technical innovation, visionary narrative devices or other groundbreaking achievements.
7. Cultural Impact: A film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance.

[edit] 1998 List

#	Movie	Year
1.	Citizen Kane	1941
2.	Casablanca	1942
3.	The Godfather	1972
4.	Gone with the Wind	1939
5.	Lawrence of Arabia	1962
6.	The Wizard of Oz	1939
7.	The Graduate	1967
8.	On the Waterfront	1954
9.	Schindler's List	1993
10.	Singin' in the Rain	1952
11.	It's a Wonderful Life	1946
12.	Sunset Boulevard	1950
13.	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957
14.	Some Like It Hot	1959
15.	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope	1977
16.	All About Eve	1950
17.	The African Queen	1951
18.	Psycho	1960
19.	Chinatown	1974
20.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975
21.	The Grapes of Wrath	1940
22.	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968
23.	The Maltese Falcon	1941
24.	Raging Bull	1980
25.	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982
26.	Dr. Strangelove	1964
27.	Bonnie and Clyde	1967
28.	Apocalypse Now	1979
29.	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939
30.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948
31.	Annie Hall	1977
32.	The Godfather Part II	1974
33.	High Noon	1952
34.	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962
35.	It Happened One Night	1934
36.	Midnight Cowboy	1969
37.	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946
38.	Double Indemnity	1944
39.	Doctor Zhivago	1965
40.	North by Northwest	1959
41.	West Side Story	1961
42.	Rear Window	1954
43.	King Kong	1933
44.	The Birth of a Nation	1915
45.	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951
46.	A Clockwork Orange	1971
47.	Taxi Driver	1976
48.	Jaws	1975
49.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937
50.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969
51.	The Philadelphia Story	1940
52.	From Here to Eternity	1953
53.	Amadeus	1984
54.	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930
55.	The Sound of Music	1965
56.	MASH	1970
57.	The Third Man	1949
58.	Fantasia	1940
59.	Rebel Without a Cause	1955
60.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981
61.	Vertigo	1958
62.	Tootsie	1982
63.	Stagecoach	1939
64.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977
65.	The Silence of the Lambs	1991
66.	Network	1976
67.	The Manchurian Candidate	1962
68.	An American in Paris	1951
69.	Shane	1953
70.	The French Connection	1971
71.	Forrest Gump	1994
72.	Ben-Hur	1959
73.	Wuthering Heights	1939
74.	The Gold Rush	1925
75.	Dances with Wolves	1990
76.	City Lights	1931
77.	American Graffiti	1973
78.	Rocky	1976
79.	The Deer Hunter	1978
80.	The Wild Bunch	1969
81.	Modern Times	1936
82.	Giant	1956
83.	Platoon	1986
84.	Fargo	1996
85.	Duck Soup	1933
86.	Mutiny on the Bounty	1935
87.	Frankenstein	1931
88.	Easy Rider	1969
89.	Patton	1970
90.	The Jazz Singer	1927
91.	My Fair Lady	1964
92.	A Place in the Sun	1951
93.	The Apartment	1960
94.	Goodfellas	1990
95.	Pulp Fiction	1994
96.	The Searchers	1956
97.	Bringing Up Baby	1938
98.	Unforgiven	1992
99.	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	1967
100.	Yankee Doodle Dandy	1942

[edit] 2007 List comparison

On June 20, 2007, a new list was released by AFI to update for the new generation of films.

The AFI removed twenty-three films from the original top 100 films list when they cut 20% of the original nomination list (80 from 400):

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)

Four films released between 1997-2006 were added:

50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
83. Titanic (1997)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Nineteen films made between 1916-1995 were also added:

18. The General (1927)
49. Intolerance (1916)
59. Nashville (1975)
61. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
63. Cabaret (1972)
67. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
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)

[edit] Criticisms

As with awards, the list of those who vote and the final vote tally are not released to the public.

On June 26, 1998, the Chicago Reader published an article by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum which offers a detailed response to the movies in the AFI list, as well as criticism of the AFI's appropriation of British films, such as Lawrence of Arabia and The Third Man. Rosenbaum also produced an alternate list of 100 American movies that he felt had been overlooked by the AFI.^[2] Rosenbaum chose to present this alternative list alphabetically since to rank them according to merit would be "tantamount to ranking oranges over apples or declaring cherries superior to grapes." The AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list includes five titles from Rosenbaum's list, and the accompanying promotional poster lists the titles in alphabetical order.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
• BFI Top 100 British films
• Films considered the greatest ever

[edit] External links

• AFI 100 Years...100 Movies
• List of the 400 nominated movies.
• List of the 100 winning movies.
• Filmsite.org article
• Montreal Mirror editorial
• SFM Entertainment page on the special; includes video clip