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)

AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies. The original list was first unveiled in 1998.

Announced on January 18, 2007, this 10th installment of the American Film Institute's (AFI) Emmy Award-winning AFI 100 Years... series counted down the 100 greatest American movies of all time in a three-hour television event. Aired 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 1996 to 2006. AFI will undertake broadcasting a program like this every 10 years to mark changing cultural perspectives.

AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movies to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians.

Contents 1 Criteria 2 The List 3 Changes 4 Distinctions 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Criteria

AFI asks 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.
• 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: This 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.

[edit] The List

Rank	Original 1998 List	Director	Date	Change in 2007		Change from 1998	10th Anniversary 2007 List	Director	Date	Studio
1.	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	1941	▬		▬	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	1941	RKO
2.	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	1942	▼ 1		▲ 1	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola	1972	Paramount
3.	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola	1972	▲ 1		▼ 1	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	1942	Warner Brothers
4.	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited), & Sam Wood (uncredited)	1939	▼ 2		▲ 20	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	1980	United Artists
5.	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	1962	▼ 2		▲ 5	Singin' in the Rain	Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen	1952	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
6.	The Wizard of Oz	Victor Fleming	1939	▼ 4		▼ 2	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited), & Sam Wood (uncredited)	1939	MGM (distributor) & Selznick International Pictures
7.	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	1967	▼ 10		▼ 2	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	1962	Columbia
8.	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	1954	▼ 11		▲ 1	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	1993	Universal
9.	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	1993	▲ 1		▲ 52	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock	1958	Paramount
10.	Singin' in the Rain	Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen	1952	▲ 5		▼ 4	The Wizard of Oz	Victor Fleming	1939	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
11.	It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	1946	▼ 9		▲ 65	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin	1931	United Artists
12.	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	1950	▼ 4		▲ 84	The Searchers	John Ford	1956	Warner Brothers
13.	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	1957	▼ 23		▲ 2	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope	George Lucas	1977	20th Century Fox
14.	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder	1959	▼ 8		▲ 4	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	1960	Paramount
15.	Star Wars	George Lucas	1977	▲ 2		▲ 7	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	1968	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
16.	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	1950	▼ 12		▼ 4	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	1950	Paramount
17.	The African Queen	John Huston	1951	▼ 48		▼ 10	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	1967	United Artists
18.	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	1960	▲ 4		NEW	The General	Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman	1927	United Artists
19.	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	1974	▼ 2		▼ 11	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	1954	Columbia
20.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Milos Forman	1975	▼ 13		▼ 9	It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	1946	RKO
21.	The Grapes of Wrath	John Ford	1940	▼ 2		▼ 2	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	1974	Paramount
22.	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	1968	▲ 7		▼ 8	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder	1959	United Artists
23.	The Maltese Falcon	John Huston	1941	▼ 8		▼ 2	The Grapes of Wrath	John Ford	1940	20th Century Fox
24.	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	1980	▲ 20		▲ 1	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	1982	Universal
25.	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	1982	▲ 1		▲ 9	To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	1962	Universal International
26.	Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick	1964	▼ 13		▲ 3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Frank Capra	1939	Columbia
27.	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	1967	▼ 15		▲ 6	High Noon	Fred Zinnemann	1952	United Artists
28.	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	1979	▼ 2		▼ 12	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	1950	20th Century Fox
29.	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Frank Capra	1939	▲ 3		▲ 9	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	1944	Paramount
30.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	1948	▼ 8		▼ 2	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	1979	United Artists
31.	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	1977	▼ 4		▼ 8	The Maltese Falcon	John Huston	1941	Warner Brothers
32.	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola	1974	▬		▬	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola	1974	Paramount
33.	High Noon	Fred Zinnemann	1952	▲ 6		▼ 13	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Milos Forman	1975	United Artists
34.	To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	1962	▲ 9		▲ 15	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	David Hand	1937	RKO
35.	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	1934	▼ 11		▼ 4	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	1977	United Artists
36.	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	1969	▼ 7		▼ 23	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	1957	Columbia
37.	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	1946	▬		▬	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	1946	RKO & Samuel Goldwyn
38.	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	1944	▲ 9		▼ 8	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	1948	Warner Brothers
39.	Doctor Zhivago	David Lean	1965	OFF		▼ 13	Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick	1964	Columbia
40.	North by Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	1959	▼ 15		▲ 15	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	1965	20th Century Fox
41.	West Side Story	Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise	1961	▼ 10		▲ 2	King Kong	Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack	1933	RKO
42.	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock	1954	▼ 6		▼ 15	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	1967	Warner Brothers
43.	King Kong	Cooper & Schoedsack	1933	▲ 2		▼ 7	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	1969	United Artists
44.	The Birth of a Nation	D. W. Griffith	1915	OFF		▲ 7	The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor	1940	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
45.	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	1951	▼ 2		▲ 24	Shane	George Stevens	1953	Paramount
46.	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	1971	▼ 24		▼ 11	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	1934	Columbia
47.	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	1976	▼ 5		▼ 2	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	1951	Warner Brothers
48.	Jaws	Steven Spielberg	1975	▼ 8		▼ 6	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock	1954	Paramount
49.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	David Hand	1937	▲ 15		NEW	Intolerance	D. W. Griffith	1916	Triangle
50.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill	1969	▼ 23		NEW	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson	2001	New Line Cinema
51.	The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor	1940	▲ 7		▼ 10	West Side Story	Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise	1961	United Artists
52.	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	1953	OFF		▼ 5	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	1976
53.	Amadeus	Miloš Forman	1984	OFF		▲ 26	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	1978	Universal
54.	All Quiet on the Western Front	Lewis Milestone	1930	OFF		▲ 2	MASH	Robert Altman	1970	20th Century Fox
55.	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	1965	▲ 15		▼ 15	North by Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	1959	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
56.	MASH	Robert Altman	1970	▲ 2		▼ 8	Jaws	Steven Spielberg	1975	Universal
57.	The Third Man	Carol Reed	1949	OFF		▲ 21	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	1976	United Artists
58.	Fantasia	James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield & Ben Sharpsteen	1940	OFF		▲ 16	The Gold Rush	Charlie Chaplin	1925	United Artists
59.	Rebel Without a Cause	Nicholas Ray	1955	OFF		NEW	Nashville	Robert Altman	1975
60.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	1981	▼ 6		▲ 25	Duck Soup	Leo McCarey	1933
61.	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock	1958	▲ 52		NEW	Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges	1941
62.	Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	1982	▼ 7		▲ 15	American Graffiti	George Lucas	1973	Universal
63.	Stagecoach	John Ford	1939	OFF		NEW	Cabaret	Bob Fosse	1972	Allied Artists
64.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	1977	OFF		▲ 2	Network	Sidney Lumet	1976	MGM & United Artists
65.	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	1991	▼ 9		▼ 48	The African Queen	John Huston	1951	United Artists
66.	Network	Sidney Lumet	1976	▲ 2		▼ 6	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	1981	Paramount
67.	The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer	1962	OFF		NEW	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Mike Nichols	1966
68.	An American in Paris	Vincente Minnelli	1951	OFF		▲ 30	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	1992	Warner Brothers
69.	Shane	George Stevens	1953	▲ 24		▼ 7	Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	1982	Columbia
70.	The French Connection	William Friedkin	1971	▼ 23		▼ 24	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	1971	Warner Brothers
71.	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	1994	▼ 5		NEW	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	1998	Dreamworks
72.	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	1959	▼ 28		NEW	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont	1994	Warner Brothers
73.	Wuthering Heights	William Wyler	1939	OFF		▼ 23	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill	1969
74.	The Gold Rush	Charlie Chaplin	1925	▲ 16		▼ 9	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	1991	Orion Pictures
75.	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	1990	OFF		NEW	In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	1967	United Artists
76.	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin	1931	▲ 65		▼ 5	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	1994	Paramount
77.	American Graffiti	George Lucas	1973	▲ 15		NEW	All the President's Men	Alan J. Pakula	1976	Warner Brothers
78.	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	1976	▲ 21		▲ 3	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin	1936	United Artists
79.	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	1978	▲ 26		▲ 1	The Wild Bunch	Sam Peckinpah	1969
80.	The Wild Bunch	Sam Peckinpah	1969	▲ 1		▲ 13	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	1960	United Artists
81.	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin	1936	▲ 3		NEW	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	1960	Universal International
82.	Giant	George Stevens	1956	OFF		NEW	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	F.W. Murnau	1927	20th Century Fox
83.	Platoon	Oliver Stone	1986	▼ 3		NEW	Titanic	James Cameron	1997	Paramount & 20th Century Fox
84.	Fargo	Joel Coen	1996	OFF		▲ 4	Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	1969	United Artists
85.	Duck Soup	Leo McCarey	1933	▲ 25		NEW	A Night at the Opera	Sam Wood	1935	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
86.	Mutiny on the Bounty	Frank Lloyd	1935	OFF		▼ 3	Platoon	Oliver Stone	1986	Orion Pictures
87.	Frankenstein	James Whale	1931	OFF		NEW	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	1957	United Artists
88.	Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	1969	▲ 4		▲ 9	Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	1938	Warner Brothers
89.	Patton	Franklin Schaffner	1970	OFF		NEW	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan	1999
90.	The Jazz Singer	Alan Crosland	1927	OFF		NEW	Swing Time	George Stevens	1936	RKO
91.	My Fair Lady	George Cukor	1964	OFF		NEW	Sophie's Choice	Alan J. Pakula	1982
92.	A Place in the Sun	George Stevens	1951	OFF		▲ 2	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese	1990	Warner Brothers
93.	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	1960	▲ 13		▼ 23	The French Connection	William Friedkin	1971	20th Century Fox
94.	GoodFellas	Martin Scorsese	1990	▲ 2		▲ 1	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	1994	Miramax
95.	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	1994	▲ 1		NEW	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	1971
96.	The Searchers	John Ford	1956	▲ 84		NEW	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee	1989
97.	Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	1938	▲ 9		NEW	Blade Runner	Ridley Scott	1982
98.	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	1992	▲ 30		▲ 2	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Michael Curtiz	1942	Warner Brothers
99.	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Stanley Kramer	1967	OFF		NEW	Toy Story	John Lasseter	1995	Disney & Pixar
100.	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Michael Curtiz	1942	▲ 2		▼ 28	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	1959	Metro Goldwyn Mayer

[edit] Changes

• Of the 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 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 highest ranked addition was The General at #18. The highest ranked expulsion was Dr. Zhivago (#39).

• The Searchers rose the most in the rankings, going from #96 to #12. The greatest drop was suffered by The African Queen, which went from #17 to #65.

• Duck Soup, featuring the Marx Brothers, moved up 25 positions to #60. It was replaced at #85 by another film starring the Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera.

• 73 of the films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and 30 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, Fantasia was dropped, and Toy Story was added at #99.

[edit] Distinctions

• Steven Spielberg is the most represented director, with five films: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List. He also led on AFI’s original list, again with five films. Close Encounters of the Third Kind was replaced by Saving Private Ryan. Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Billy Wilder each have four films on the list. Frank Capra, Charlie Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, and Martin Scorsese have three apiece.
• James Stewart is the most represented leading actor with five films: Vertigo, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story and Rear Window.
• Robert De Niro appears in five films, with leading roles in four (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter and Goodfellas) and a supporting part in The Godfather Part II.
• Harrison Ford worked on six films, although in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, his performance was in a deleted scene. He has a lead role in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner, and a supporting role in Apocalypse Now and American Graffiti.
• Robert Duvall has six supporting appearances, in To Kill a Mockingbird, MASH, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Network, and Apocalypse Now.
• Faye Dunaway (Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde and Network) and Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen and Bringing Up Baby) are the top leading actresses, with three films each. Diane Keaton appears in three films, starring in Annie Hall and in supporting roles in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.
• The 1970s outdistances all other decades, with 20 entries. There is at least one from from each decade from the 1930s through the 1990s in the top 10 of the 2007 list; only the 1980s were missing from the top of the original list.
• Three years boasted four films each: 1982 (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tootsie, Blade Runner, Sophie's Choice); 1976 (Network, Taxi Driver, Rocky, All the President's Men); and 1969 (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch).
• The earliest film is Intolerance (1916) and the most recent The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
• Six silent films are featured on the list, three being new additions: The General, Intolerance, and Sunrise. Charles Chaplin's City Lights, The Gold Rush, and Modern Times appear on both old and new lists (and all with new higher rankings).
• Four films released between 1997–2006 were added: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, and The Sixth Sense.
• There are seven musicals: Singin' in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Nashville, Cabaret, and Swing Time.
• There are also six westerns: The Searchers, High Noon, Shane, Unforgiven, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Wild Bunch.
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 2001: A Space Odyssey, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, A Clockwork Orange, and Blade Runner are the five science-fiction films.
• The eighteen comedies are: City Lights, The Graduate, The General, Some Like It Hot, Annie Hall, Dr. Strangelove, The Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night, MASH, The Gold Rush, Duck Soup, Sullivan's Travels, American Graffiti, Tootsie, Modern Times, The Apartment, A Night at the Opera, and Bringing Up Baby.
• Only one film made after 1999 made it onto the revised list: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) directed by Peter Jackson

[edit] See also

• Films considered the greatest ever
• AFI's 10 Top 10
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

[edit] External links

• AFI website
• news release
• AFI's official PDF of the 1998 and 2007 rankings (registration required)
• AFI's 400-title ballot (registration required)
• Interesting facts about the list
• Movie blogger sophomorecritic's interview with a representative from the AFI