AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies (2007)
Introduction
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. The original list was unveiled in 1998.
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.
The following Hitchcock were nominated, but did not reach the final list:
- The Birds (1963)
- Notorious (1946)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
Four Alfred Hitchcock films appear in the final list. The figure in brackets is the relative change since this 1998 list.
The Full List
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- The Godfather (1972)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Vertigo (1958) (+52)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- City Lights (1931)
- The Searchers (1956)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Psycho (1960) (+4)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- The Graduate (1967)
- The General (1927)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- High Noon (1952)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- King Kong (1933)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Shane (1953)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Rear Window (1954) (-6)
- Intolerance (1916)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- North by Northwest (1959) (-15)
- Jaws (1975)
- Rocky (1976)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- Nashville (1975)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Sullivan's Travels (1941)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Cabaret (1972)
- Network (1976)
- The African Queen (1951)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Tootsie (1982)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- All The President's Men (1976)
- Modern Times (1936)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- The Apartment (1960)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Sunrise (1927)
- Titanic (1997)
- Easy Rider (1969)
- A Night at the Opera (1935)
- Platoon (1986)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- Swing Time (1936)
- Sophie's Choice (1982)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- The Last Picture Show (1971)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Ben-Hur (1959)