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ANIMATION
AFI defines “animated” as a genre in which the film’s images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors.
Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille LaVerne
Producer: Walt Disney
Writer: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith
Genre: Musical
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions, Ltd.
Composer: Frank Churchill
Cast: Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Christian Rub
Writer: Ted Sears, Webb Smith, Joseph Sabo, Otto Englander, William Cottrell, Erdman Penner, Aurelius Battaglia
Genre: Fantasy
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
Composer: Paul J. Smith
Cast: Peter Behn, Hardie Albright, Ann Gillis
Writer: Larry Morey, George Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch, Ralph Wright
Genre: Children's works
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
Composer: Frank Churchill
Cast: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Producer: Don Hahn
Writer: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton
Editor: Ivan Bilancio
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Cast: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor
Directors: Sam Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norm Ferguson , Wilfred Jackson
Producer: Walt Disney, Ben Sharpsteen
Writer: Lee Blair, Elmer Plummer, Phil Dike, Sylvia Moberly-Holland, Norman Wright, Albert Heath, Bianca Majolie, Graham Heid, Perce Pearce, Carl Fallberg, William Martin, Leo Thiele, Robert Sterner, John Fraser McLeish, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Bill Peet , George Stallings, Campbell Grant, Arthur Heinemann
Genre: Musical
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
Composer: Edward Plumb
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles
Directors: John Lasseter
Producer: Ralph Guggenheim, Bonnie Arnold
Writer: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Editor: Robert Gordon, Lee Unkrich
Genre: Comedy
Production Company: Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
Composer: Randy Newman
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Producer: Don Hahn, Howard Ashman
Editor: John Carnochan
Genre: Musical
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures , Silver Screen Partners IV
Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
Producer: Aron Warner, John H. Williams, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Penney Finkelman Cox, Sandra Rabins
Writer: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S. H. Schulman, Jenna Grigg Thomas, Kelly Asbury, Francisco Avalos, Rejean Bourdages, Ken Harsha, Ken Bruce, Cody Cameron, Becky Cassady, Eric Darnell, Rick Farmiloe, James Fujii, Edmund Fong, Robert Koo, Todd Kurosawa, Robert Lence, Chris Miller, Catherine Yuh Rader, Tom Sito, David Soren, Robert Souza, John Stevenson, Conrad Vernon
Editor: Sim Evan-Jones
Genre: Comedy
Production Company: PDI/DreamWorks Pictures
Cast: Ilene Woods, Helene Stanley, Eleanor Audley
Directors: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
Producer: Ben Sharpsteen
Writer: William Peed, Erdman Penner, Ted Sears, Winston Hibler, Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Kenneth Anderson, Joe Rinaldi
Editor: Donald Halliday
Genre: Children's works
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
Composer: Oliver Wallace
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould
Directors: Andrew Stanton
Producer: Graham Walters, John Lasseter
Writer: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds, Ronnie del Carmen, Dan Jeup, Jason Katz
Editor: David Ian Salter
Cinematographer: Sharon Calahan, Jeremy Lasky
Genre: Comedy-drama
Production Company: Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
Composer: Thomas Newman
ROMANTIC COMEDY
AFI defines “romantic comedy” as a genre in which the development of a romance leads to comic situations.
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Directors: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Editor: Charles Chaplin
Cinematographer: Rollie Totheroh, Gordon Pollock, Mark Marklatt
Genre: Comedy-drama
Production Company: Charles Chaplin Productions
Composer: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Directors: Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H. Joffe, Robert Greenhut
Writer: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Editor: Ralph Rosenblum , A.C.E., Wendy Greene Bricmont
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis , A.S.C.
Genre: Romantic comedy
Production Company: United Artists Corp.
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Harry Cohn
Writer: Robert Riskin
Editor: Gene Havlick
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Genre: Screwball comedy
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corp.
Composer: Louis Silvers
Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Directors: William Wyler
Producer: William Wyler
Writer: Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo
Editor: Robert Swink
Cinematographer: Frank F. Planer, Henri Alekan
Genre: Romantic comedy
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
Composer: Georges Auric
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Directors: George Cukor
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer: Donald Ogden Stewart
Editor: Frank Sullivan
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
Genre: Romantic comedy, Screwball comedy
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Franz Waxman
Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
Directors: Rob Reiner
Producer: Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman
Writer: Nora Ephron
Editor: Robert Leighton
Cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Genre: Romantic comedy
Production Company: Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
Directors: George Cukor
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten
Writer: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Editor: George Boemler
Cinematographer: George J. Folsey
Genre: Comedy
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Miklos Rozsa
Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
Directors: Norman Jewison
Producer: Patrick Palmer, Norman Jewison
Writer: John Patrick Shanley
Editor: Lou Lombardo
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Genre: Romantic comedy
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., Star Partners, Ltd.
Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles
Directors: Hal Ashby
Producer: Mildred Lewis, Colin Higgins, Charles B. Mulvehill
Writer: Colin Higgins
Editor: William A. Sawyer, Edward Warschilka
Cinematographer: John Alonzo
Genre: Romantic comedy, Satire
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Mildred Lewis & Colin Higgins Productions, Inc.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman
Directors: Nora Ephron
Producer: Gary Foster, Lynda Obst, Patrick Crowley
Writer: Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch, Jeff Arch
Editor: Robert Reitano
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Genre: Romantic comedy
Production Company: TriStar Pictures
WESTERN
AFI defines “western” as a genre of films set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier.
Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
Directors: John Ford
Producer: Merian C. Cooper
Writer: Frank S. Nugent
Editor: Jack Murray
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch
Genre: Western
Production Company: C. V. Whitney Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges
Directors: Fred Zinnemann
Writer: Carl Foreman
Editor: Harry Gerstad, Elmo Williams
Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
Genre: Western
Production Company: Stanley Kramer Productions, Inc.
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Directors: George Stevens
Producer: George Stevens
Writer: A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Editor: William Hornbeck, Tom McAdoo
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Genre: Western
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
Composer: Victor Young
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
Directors: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Clint Eastwood, David Valdes
Writer: David Webb Peoples
Editor: Joel Cox
Cinematographer: Jack N. Green
Genre: Western
Production Company: The Malpaso Company
Composer: Lennie Niehaus
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Directors: Howard Hawks
Producer: Charles K. Feldman, Howard Hawks
Writer: Borden Chase, Charles Schnee
Editor: Christian Nyby
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Genre: Western
Production Company: Monterey Productions, Inc.
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan [1909-1973]
Directors: Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Phil Feldman
Writer: Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner
Editor: Louis Lombardo
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Genre: Western
Production Company: Phil Feldman Productions, Inc., Warner Bros.--Seven Arts, Inc.
Composer: Jerry Fielding
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Directors: George Roy Hill
Producer: John Foreman, Paul Newman, Paul Monash
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: John C. Howard, Richard C. Meyer
Cinematographer: Conrad Hall
Genre: Comedy-drama, Western
Production Company: Campanile Productions, Inc.
Composer: Burt Bacharach
Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois
Directors: Robert Altman
Producer: David Foster, Mitchell Brower
Writer: Robert Altman, Brian McKay
Editor: Louis Lombardo
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Genre: Western
Production Company: Lion's Head, David Foster Productions
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine
Directors: John Ford
Writer: Dudley Nichols
Editor: Otho Lovering, Dorothy Spencer, Walter Reynolds
Cinematographer: Bert Glennon
Genre: Western
Production Company: Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
Composer: Boris Morros
Cast: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan
Directors: Elliot Silverstein
Producer: Harold Hecht
Writer: Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson
Editor: Charles Nelson
Cinematographer: Jack Marta
Genre: Comedy, Satire, Western
Production Company: Harold Hecht Corp.
Composer: De Vol
SPORTS
AFI defines “sports” as a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Directors: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, Peter Savage
Writer: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
Genre: Biography
Production Company: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc.
Composer: Pietro Mascagni
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Directors: John G. Avildsen
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, Gene Kirkwood
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Editor: Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
Cinematographer: James Crabe
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc.
Composer: Bill Conti
Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Directors: Sam Wood
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté
Genre: Biography
Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.
Composer: Leigh Harline
Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
Directors: David Anspaugh, Angelo Pizzo
Producer: Carter De Haven, Angelo Pizzo, John Daly, Derek Gibson
Writer: Angelo Pizzo
Editor: C. Timothy O'Meara
Cinematographer: Fred Murphy, Oliver Wood
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Hemdale Film Corporation
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Cast: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
Directors: Ron Shelton
Producer: Thom Mount, Mark Burg, David V. Lester
Writer: Ron Shelton
Editor: Robert Leighton, Adam Weiss
Cinematographer: Bobby Byrne , Bob Hillman
Genre: Comedy
Production Company: Mount Company
Composer: Michael Convertino
Cast: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Directors: Robert Rossen
Producer: Robert Rossen
Writer: Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
Editor: Dede Allen
Cinematographer: Eugen Shuftan
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Rossen Enterprises
Composer: Kenyon Hopkins
Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight
Directors: Harold Ramis
Producer: Douglas Kenney, Jon Peters
Writer: Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
Editor: William Carruth, Robert Barrére
Cinematographer: Stevan Larner
Genre: Comedy
Production Company: Orion Pictures Company
Composer: Johnny Mandel
Cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern
Directors: Peter Yates
Producer: Peter Yates
Writer: Steve Tesich
Editor: Cynthia Scheider
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti
Genre: Comedy-drama
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Directors: Clarence Brown
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Writer: Theodore Reeves, Helen Deutsch
Editor: Robert J. Kern
Cinematographer: Leonard Smith
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Herbert Stothart
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renée Zellweger
Directors: Cameron Crowe
Producer: James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Richard Sakai, Laurence Mark
Writer: Cameron Crowe
Editor: Joe Hutshing
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Genre: Comedy-drama, Romance
Production Company: TriStar Pictures
Composer: Nancy Wilson
MYSTERY
AFI defines “mystery” as a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime.
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Genre: Romance
Production Company: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp.
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Directors: Roman Polanski
Producer: Robert Evans
Writer: Robert Towne
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo , Stanley Cortez
Genre: Mystery, Romance
Production Company: Long Road Productions, Inc.
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hayes
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Genre: Mystery
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Patron, Inc.
Composer: Franz Waxman
Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Directors: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Writer: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
Editor: Louis Loeffler
Cinematographer: Joseph La Shelle, Lucien Ballard
Genre: Film noir
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: David Raksin
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles
Directors: Carol Reed
Producer: Carol Reed
Writer: Graham Greene
Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Cinematographer: Robert Krasker
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: London Film Productions, Ltd.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Directors: John Huston
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Writer: John Huston
Editor: Thomas Richards
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Adolph Deutsch
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Directors: David Lynch
Producer: Fred Caruso, Richard Roth
Writer: David Lynch
Editor: Duwayne Dunham
Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Blue Velvet Productions
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Frederick Knott
Editor: Rudi Fehr
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro
Directors: Bryan Singer
Producer: Bryan Singer, Michael McDonnell
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie
Editor: John Ottman
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Blue Parrot
Composer: John Ottman
FANTASY
AFI defines “fantasy” as a genre where live-action characters inhabit imagined settings and/or experience situations that transcend the rules of the natural world.
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Producer: Mervyn Le Roy
Writer: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, Noel Langley
Editor: Blanche Sewell
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson
Genre: Fantasy, Musical
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Cast: Alan Howard, Noel Appleby, Sean Astin
Directors: Peter Jackson
Producer: Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Tim Sanders, Mark Ordesky, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Robert Shaye, Michael Lynne
Writer: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
Editor: John Gilbert
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie, Allen Guilford, John Cavill, Simon Raby, Richard Bluck, Nigel Bluck, Alun Bollinger, Chuck Schuman, David Hardberger
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Production Company: New Line Cinema , Wingnut Films
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Editor: William Hornbeck
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker, Joseph Biroc, Victor Milner
Genre: Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Production Company: Liberty Films, Inc.
Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: James Creelman , Ruth Rose
Editor: Ted Cheesman
Cinematographer: Eddie Linden, Vernon Walker , J. O. Taylor
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn
Directors: George Seaton
Producer: William Perlberg
Writer: George Seaton, Valentine Davies
Editor: Robert Simpson
Cinematographer: Charles [G.] Clarke , Lloyd Ahern
Genre: Comedy-drama
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: Cyril J. Mockridge
Cast: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon, Brian Frankish
Editor: Ian Crafford
Cinematographer: John Lindley, Ricky Bravo
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Production Company: Gordon Company
Composer: James Horner
Cast: Wallace Ford, William Lynn, Victoria Horne
Directors: Henry Koster
Producer: John Beck
Writer: Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney
Editor: Ralph Dawson
Cinematographer: William Daniels
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Production Company: Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
Composer: Frank Skinner
Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Directors: Harold Ramis
Producer: Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis, C. O. Erickson
Writer: Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin
Editor: Pembroke J. Herring
Cinematographer: John Bailey, James Blanford, George Kohut
Genre: Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
Composer: George Fenton
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Writer: Elton Thomas, Lotta Woods
Editor: William Nolan
Genre: Fantasy
Production Company: Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp.
Composer: Mortimer Wilson
Cast: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia
Directors: Penny Marshall
Producer: James L. Brooks, Robert Greenhut
Writer: Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
Editor: Barry Malkin
Cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Genre: Comedy-drama, Romance
Production Company: Gracie Films
Composer: Howard Shore
SCI-FI
AFI defines “science fiction” as a genre that marries a scientific or technological premise with imaginative speculation.
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Directors: George Lucas
Producer: Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Editor: Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew, John Jympson
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Genre: Adventure, Science fiction
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Cast: Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Melissa Mathison
Editor: Carol Littleton
Cinematographer: Allen Daviau
Genre: Fantasy, Science fiction
Production Company: Universal Pictures , Amblin' Entertainment
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick, Max L. Raab, Si Litvinoff
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Editor: Bill Butler
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Production Company: Hawks Films Limited, Polaris Productions, Inc.
Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Directors: Robert Wise
Producer: Julian Blaustein
Writer: Edmund H. North
Editor: William Reynolds
Cinematographer: Leo Tover
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Directors: Ridley Scott
Producer: Michael Deeley, Brian Kelly, Hampton Fancher
Writer: Hampton Fancher, David Peoples
Editor: Marsha Nakashima
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: The Ladd Company, Sir Run Run Shaw
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
Directors: Ridley Scott
Producer: Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ronald Shusett
Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Editor: Terry Rawlings, Peter Weatherley
Cinematographer: Derek Vanlint
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
Writer: James Cameron, William Wisher
Editor: Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg, Michael A. Benson
Genre: Adventure, Science fiction
Production Company: Carolco, Pacific Western , Lightstorm Entertainment
Composer: Brad Fiedel
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates
Directors: Don Siegel
Producer: Walter Wanger
Writer: Daniel Mainwaring
Editor: Robert S. Eisen
Cinematographer: Ellsworth Fredericks
Genre: Horror, Science fiction
Production Company: Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Carmen Dragon
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Directors: Robert Zemeckis, Frank Marshall
Producer: Bob Gale, Neil Canton, Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Editor: Arthur Schmidt, Harry Keramidas
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey, Raymond Stella
Genre: Comedy, Science fiction
Production Company: Universal Pictures , Amblin Entertainment
Composer: Alan Silvestri
GANGSTER
AFI defines the “gangster film” as a genre that centers on organized crime or maverick criminals in a twentieth century setting.
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Robert Evans, Albert S. Ruddy
Writer: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Editor: William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Alfran Productions, Inc.
Composer: Nino Rota
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Directors: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Barbara De Fina
Writer: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker, James Kwei
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures , Irwin Winkler Productions
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Robert Evans, Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
Editor: Richard Marks
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Genre: Drama
Production Company: The Coppola Company
Composer: Nino Rota
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Writer: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Editor: Owen Marks
Cinematographer: Sid Hickox
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Directors: Arthur Penn
Producer: Warren Beatty
Writer: David Newman, Robert Benton
Editor: Dede Allen
Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey
Genre: Biography, Drama
Production Company: Tatira-Hiller Productions
Composer: Charles Strouse
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
Directors: Howard Hawks
Writer: Ben Hecht, Fred Pasley
Editor: Edward Curtiss
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes, L. W. O'Connell
Genre: Drama
Production Company: The Caddo Co., Inc.
Composer: Adolph Tandler
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Editor: Sally Menke
Cinematographer: Andrzej Sekula
Genre: Comedy-drama
Production Company: A Band Apart , Jersey Films
Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Directors: William A. Wellman
Writer: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Harvey Thew
Editor: Edward M. McDermott
Cinematographer: Dev Jennings
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Writer: Francis Faragoh
Editor: Ray Curtiss
Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio
Genre: Drama
Production Company: First National Pictures, Inc.
Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
Directors: Brian DePalma
Producer: Martin Bregman, Louis A. Stroller
Writer: Oliver Stone
Editor: Jerry Greenberg, David Ray
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Composer: Giorgio Moroder
COURTROOM DRAMA
AFI defines “courtroom drama” as a genre of film in which a system of justice plays a critical role in the film’s narrative.
Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
Directors: Robert Mulligan
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Horton Foote
Editor: Aaron Stell, J. Terry Williams
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Inc., Brentwood Productions, Inc.
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
Writer: Reginald Rose
Editor: Carl Lerner
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Orion-Nova Productions
Composer: Kenyon Hopkins
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander
Directors: Robert Benton
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe
Writer: Robert Benton
Editor: Jerry Greenberg
Cinematographer: Nestor Almendros
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown, Burtt Harris
Writer: David Mamet
Editor: Peter Frank
Cinematographer: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Zanuck/Brown Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Composer: Johnny Mandel
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore
Directors: Rob Reiner
Producer: David Brown, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, William Gilmore, Rachel Pfeffer
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
Editor: Robert Leighton, Steve Nevius
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Castle Rock Entertainment
Composer: Marc Shaiman
Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Directors: Billy Wilder
Producer: Arthur Hornblow
Writer: Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz, Larry Marcus
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Production Company: Theme Pictures, Inc., Edward Small Productions, Inc.
Composer: Matty Malneck
Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
Directors: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Writer: Wendell Mayes
Editor: Louis R. Loeffler
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Carlyle Productions, Inc.
Composer: Duke Ellington
Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
Directors: Richard Brooks
Producer: Richard Brooks
Writer: Richard Brooks
Editor: Peter Zinner
Cinematographer: Conrad Hall
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Pax Enterprises
Composer: Quincy Jones
Cast: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Bruce Myles
Directors: Fred Schepisi
Producer: Verity Lambert, Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
Writer: Robert Caswell, Fred Schepisi
Editor: Jill Bilcock
Cinematographer: Ian Baker
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Cannon Entertainment Inc., Cinema Verity , Evil Angels Films Pty. Ltd.
Composer: Bruce Smeaton
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Directors: Stanley Kramer
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Writer: Abby Mann
Editor: Frederic Knudtson
Cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Roxlom Films
Composer: Ernest Gold
EPIC
AFI defines “epic” as a genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic interpretation of the past.
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Directors: David Lean
Producer: Sam Spiegel, David Lean
Writer: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Editor: Anne V. Coates
Cinematographer: F. A. Young
Genre: Adventure, Biography
Production Company: Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.
Composer: Maurice Jarre
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
Directors: William Wyler
Producer: Joseph R. Vogel, Sol C. Siegel, Sam Zimbalist, J. J. Cohn
Writer: Karl Tunberg
Editor: Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning, Margaret Booth
Cinematographer: Robert L. Surtees
Genre: Epic
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Miklos Rozsa
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh
Directors: Victor Fleming, Sam Wood, George Cukor, Chester Franklin, James Fitzpatrick
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: Sidney Howard, Barbara Keon, Lydia Schiller, Connie Earl
Cinematographer: Ernest Haller, Lee Garmes
Genre: Romance
Production Company: Selznick International Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann
Producer: Kirk Douglas, Edward Muhl, Edward Lewis
Writer: Dalton Trumbo
Editor: Robert Lawrence
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
Genre: Epic
Production Company: Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., Bryna Productions, Inc.
Composer: Alex North
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Jon Landau
Writer: James Cameron
Editor: Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
Genre: Drama, Romance
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Lightstorm Entertainment
Composer: James Horner
Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray
Directors: Lewis Milestone
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Writer: George Abbott, Del Andrews
Editor: Edgar Adams, Milton Carruth
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Universal Pictures Corp.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
Writer: Robert Rodat
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment , Mutual Film Company
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
Directors: Warren Beatty
Producer: Warren Beatty, Simon Relph, Dede Allen
Writer: Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths
Editor: Dede Allen, Craig McKay
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
Genre: Biography, Drama, Epic, Romance
Production Company: Paramount Pictures , J. R. S. Productions
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Producer: Cecil B. DeMille
Writer: Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank
Editor: Anne Bauchens
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Genre: Epic
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
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ANIMATION
AFI defines “animated” as a genre in which the film’s images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors.
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille LaVerne
Producer: Walt Disney
Writer: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions, Ltd.
2. Pinocchio (1940)
Cast: Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Christian Rub
Writer: Ted Sears, Webb Smith, Joseph Sabo, Otto Englander, William Cottrell, Erdman Penner, Aurelius Battaglia
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
3. Bambi (1942)
Cast: Peter Behn, Hardie Albright, Ann Gillis
Writer: Larry Morey, George Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch, Ralph Wright
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
4. The Lion King (1994)
Cast: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Producer: Don Hahn
Writer: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton
Editor: Ivan Bilancio
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures
5. Fantasia (1940)
Cast: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor
Directors: Sam Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norm Ferguson , Wilfred Jackson
Producer: Walt Disney, Ben Sharpsteen
Writer: Lee Blair, Elmer Plummer, Phil Dike, Sylvia Moberly-Holland, Norman Wright, Albert Heath, Bianca Majolie, Graham Heid, Perce Pearce, Carl Fallberg, William Martin, Leo Thiele, Robert Sterner, John Fraser McLeish, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Bill Peet , George Stallings, Campbell Grant, Arthur Heinemann
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
6. Toy Story (1995)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles
Directors: John Lasseter
Producer: Ralph Guggenheim, Bonnie Arnold
Writer: Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Editor: Robert Gordon, Lee Unkrich
Production Company: Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
7. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Producer: Don Hahn, Howard Ashman
Editor: John Carnochan
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures , Silver Screen Partners IV
8. Shrek (2001)
Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
Producer: Aron Warner, John H. Williams, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Penney Finkelman Cox, Sandra Rabins
Writer: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S. H. Schulman, Jenna Grigg Thomas, Kelly Asbury, Francisco Avalos, Rejean Bourdages, Ken Harsha, Ken Bruce, Cody Cameron, Becky Cassady, Eric Darnell, Rick Farmiloe, James Fujii, Edmund Fong, Robert Koo, Todd Kurosawa, Robert Lence, Chris Miller, Catherine Yuh Rader, Tom Sito, David Soren, Robert Souza, John Stevenson, Conrad Vernon
Editor: Sim Evan-Jones
Production Company: PDI/DreamWorks Pictures
9. Cinderella (1950)
Cast: Ilene Woods, Helene Stanley, Eleanor Audley
Directors: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
Producer: Ben Sharpsteen
Writer: William Peed, Erdman Penner, Ted Sears, Winston Hibler, Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Kenneth Anderson, Joe Rinaldi
Editor: Donald Halliday
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
10. Finding Nemo (2003)
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould
Directors: Andrew Stanton
Producer: Graham Walters, John Lasseter
Writer: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds, Ronnie del Carmen, Dan Jeup, Jason Katz
Editor: David Ian Salter
Cinematographer: Sharon Calahan, Jeremy Lasky
Production Company: Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
ROMANTIC COMEDY
AFI defines “romantic comedy” as a genre in which the development of a romance leads to comic situations.
1. City Lights (1931)
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Directors: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Editor: Charles Chaplin
Cinematographer: Rollie Totheroh, Gordon Pollock, Mark Marklatt
Production Company: Charles Chaplin Productions
2. Annie Hall (1977)
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Directors: Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H. Joffe, Robert Greenhut
Writer: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Editor: Ralph Rosenblum , A.C.E., Wendy Greene Bricmont
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis , A.S.C.
Production Company: United Artists Corp.
3. It Happened One Night (1934)
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Harry Cohn
Writer: Robert Riskin
Editor: Gene Havlick
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corp.
4. Roman Holiday (1953)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Directors: William Wyler
Producer: William Wyler
Writer: Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo
Editor: Robert Swink
Cinematographer: Frank F. Planer, Henri Alekan
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
5. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Directors: George Cukor
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer: Donald Ogden Stewart
Editor: Frank Sullivan
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
6. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
Directors: Rob Reiner
Producer: Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman
Writer: Nora Ephron
Editor: Robert Leighton
Cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Production Company: Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment
7. Adam's Rib (1949)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
Directors: George Cukor
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten
Writer: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Editor: George Boemler
Cinematographer: George J. Folsey
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
8. Moonstruck (1987)
Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
Directors: Norman Jewison
Producer: Patrick Palmer, Norman Jewison
Writer: John Patrick Shanley
Editor: Lou Lombardo
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., Star Partners, Ltd.
9. Harold and Maude (1971)
Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles
Directors: Hal Ashby
Producer: Mildred Lewis, Colin Higgins, Charles B. Mulvehill
Writer: Colin Higgins
Editor: William A. Sawyer, Edward Warschilka
Cinematographer: John Alonzo
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Mildred Lewis & Colin Higgins Productions, Inc.
10. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman
Directors: Nora Ephron
Producer: Gary Foster, Lynda Obst, Patrick Crowley
Writer: Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch, Jeff Arch
Editor: Robert Reitano
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Production Company: TriStar Pictures
WESTERN
AFI defines “western” as a genre of films set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier.
1. The Searchers (1956)
Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
Directors: John Ford
Producer: Merian C. Cooper
Writer: Frank S. Nugent
Editor: Jack Murray
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch
Production Company: C. V. Whitney Pictures, Inc.
2. High Noon (1952)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges
Directors: Fred Zinnemann
Writer: Carl Foreman
Editor: Harry Gerstad, Elmo Williams
Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
Production Company: Stanley Kramer Productions, Inc.
3. Shane (1953)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Directors: George Stevens
Producer: George Stevens
Writer: A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Editor: William Hornbeck, Tom McAdoo
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
4. Unforgiven (1992)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
Directors: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Clint Eastwood, David Valdes
Writer: David Webb Peoples
Editor: Joel Cox
Cinematographer: Jack N. Green
Production Company: The Malpaso Company
5. Red River (1948)
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Directors: Howard Hawks
Producer: Charles K. Feldman, Howard Hawks
Writer: Borden Chase, Charles Schnee
Editor: Christian Nyby
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Production Company: Monterey Productions, Inc.
6. The Wild Bunch (1969)
Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan [1909-1973]
Directors: Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Phil Feldman
Writer: Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner
Editor: Louis Lombardo
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Production Company: Phil Feldman Productions, Inc., Warner Bros.--Seven Arts, Inc.
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Directors: George Roy Hill
Producer: John Foreman, Paul Newman, Paul Monash
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: John C. Howard, Richard C. Meyer
Cinematographer: Conrad Hall
Production Company: Campanile Productions, Inc.
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois
Directors: Robert Altman
Producer: David Foster, Mitchell Brower
Writer: Robert Altman, Brian McKay
Editor: Louis Lombardo
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Production Company: Lion's Head, David Foster Productions
9. Stagecoach (1939)
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine
Directors: John Ford
Writer: Dudley Nichols
Editor: Otho Lovering, Dorothy Spencer, Walter Reynolds
Cinematographer: Bert Glennon
Production Company: Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
10. Cat Ballou (1965)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan
Directors: Elliot Silverstein
Producer: Harold Hecht
Writer: Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson
Editor: Charles Nelson
Cinematographer: Jack Marta
Production Company: Harold Hecht Corp.
SPORTS
AFI defines “sports” as a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition
1. Raging Bull (1980)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Directors: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, Peter Savage
Writer: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
Production Company: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc.
2. Rocky (1976)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Directors: John G. Avildsen
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, Gene Kirkwood
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Editor: Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
Cinematographer: James Crabe
Production Company: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc.
3. The Pride of the Yankees (1943)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Directors: Sam Wood
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté
Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.
4. Hoosiers (1986)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
Directors: David Anspaugh, Angelo Pizzo
Producer: Carter De Haven, Angelo Pizzo, John Daly, Derek Gibson
Writer: Angelo Pizzo
Editor: C. Timothy O'Meara
Cinematographer: Fred Murphy, Oliver Wood
Production Company: Hemdale Film Corporation
5. Bull Durham (1988)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
Directors: Ron Shelton
Producer: Thom Mount, Mark Burg, David V. Lester
Writer: Ron Shelton
Editor: Robert Leighton, Adam Weiss
Cinematographer: Bobby Byrne , Bob Hillman
Production Company: Mount Company
6. The Hustler (1961)
Cast: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Directors: Robert Rossen
Producer: Robert Rossen
Writer: Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
Editor: Dede Allen
Cinematographer: Eugen Shuftan
Production Company: Rossen Enterprises
7. Caddyshack (1980)
Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight
Directors: Harold Ramis
Producer: Douglas Kenney, Jon Peters
Writer: Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
Editor: William Carruth, Robert Barrére
Cinematographer: Stevan Larner
Production Company: Orion Pictures Company
8. Breaking Away (1979)
Cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern
Directors: Peter Yates
Producer: Peter Yates
Writer: Steve Tesich
Editor: Cynthia Scheider
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox
9. National Velvet (1945)
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Directors: Clarence Brown
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Writer: Theodore Reeves, Helen Deutsch
Editor: Robert J. Kern
Cinematographer: Leonard Smith
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
10. Jerry Maguire (1996)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renée Zellweger
Directors: Cameron Crowe
Producer: James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Richard Sakai, Laurence Mark
Writer: Cameron Crowe
Editor: Joe Hutshing
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Production Company: TriStar Pictures
MYSTERY
AFI defines “mystery” as a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime.
1. Vertigo (1958)
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Production Company: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp.
2. Chinatown (1974)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Directors: Roman Polanski
Producer: Robert Evans
Writer: Robert Towne
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo , Stanley Cortez
Production Company: Long Road Productions, Inc.
3. Rear Window (1954)
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hayes
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Patron, Inc.
4. Laura (1944)
Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Directors: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Writer: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
Editor: Louis Loeffler
Cinematographer: Joseph La Shelle, Lucien Ballard
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
5. The Third Man (1949)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles
Directors: Carol Reed
Producer: Carol Reed
Writer: Graham Greene
Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Cinematographer: Robert Krasker
Production Company: London Film Productions, Ltd.
6. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Directors: John Huston
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Writer: John Huston
Editor: Thomas Richards
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
7. North by Northwest (1959)
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
8. Blue Velvet (1986)
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Directors: David Lynch
Producer: Fred Caruso, Richard Roth
Writer: David Lynch
Editor: Duwayne Dunham
Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
Production Company: Blue Velvet Productions
9. Dial M for Murder (1954)
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Frederick Knott
Editor: Rudi Fehr
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
10. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro
Directors: Bryan Singer
Producer: Bryan Singer, Michael McDonnell
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie
Editor: John Ottman
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
Production Company: Blue Parrot
FANTASY
AFI defines “fantasy” as a genre where live-action characters inhabit imagined settings and/or experience situations that transcend the rules of the natural world.
1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Producer: Mervyn Le Roy
Writer: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, Noel Langley
Editor: Blanche Sewell
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Cast: Alan Howard, Noel Appleby, Sean Astin
Directors: Peter Jackson
Producer: Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Tim Sanders, Mark Ordesky, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Robert Shaye, Michael Lynne
Writer: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
Editor: John Gilbert
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie, Allen Guilford, John Cavill, Simon Raby, Richard Bluck, Nigel Bluck, Alun Bollinger, Chuck Schuman, David Hardberger
Production Company: New Line Cinema , Wingnut Films
3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Editor: William Hornbeck
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker, Joseph Biroc, Victor Milner
Production Company: Liberty Films, Inc.
4. King Kong (1933)
Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: James Creelman , Ruth Rose
Editor: Ted Cheesman
Cinematographer: Eddie Linden, Vernon Walker , J. O. Taylor
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn
Directors: George Seaton
Producer: William Perlberg
Writer: George Seaton, Valentine Davies
Editor: Robert Simpson
Cinematographer: Charles [G.] Clarke , Lloyd Ahern
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
6. Field of Dreams (1989)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon, Brian Frankish
Editor: Ian Crafford
Cinematographer: John Lindley, Ricky Bravo
Production Company: Gordon Company
7. Harvey (1950)
Cast: Wallace Ford, William Lynn, Victoria Horne
Directors: Henry Koster
Producer: John Beck
Writer: Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney
Editor: Ralph Dawson
Cinematographer: William Daniels
Production Company: Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
8. Groundhog Day (1993)
Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Directors: Harold Ramis
Producer: Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis, C. O. Erickson
Writer: Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin
Editor: Pembroke J. Herring
Cinematographer: John Bailey, James Blanford, George Kohut
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
9. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Writer: Elton Thomas, Lotta Woods
Editor: William Nolan
Production Company: Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp.
10. Big (1988)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia
Directors: Penny Marshall
Producer: James L. Brooks, Robert Greenhut
Writer: Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
Editor: Barry Malkin
Cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Production Company: Gracie Films
SCI-FI
AFI defines “science fiction” as a genre that marries a scientific or technological premise with imaginative speculation.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
2. Star Wars (1977)
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Directors: George Lucas
Producer: Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Editor: Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew, John Jympson
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
3. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Cast: Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Melissa Mathison
Editor: Carol Littleton
Cinematographer: Allen Daviau
Production Company: Universal Pictures , Amblin' Entertainment
4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick, Max L. Raab, Si Litvinoff
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Editor: Bill Butler
Production Company: Hawks Films Limited, Polaris Productions, Inc.
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Directors: Robert Wise
Producer: Julian Blaustein
Writer: Edmund H. North
Editor: William Reynolds
Cinematographer: Leo Tover
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
6. Blade Runner (1982)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Directors: Ridley Scott
Producer: Michael Deeley, Brian Kelly, Hampton Fancher
Writer: Hampton Fancher, David Peoples
Editor: Marsha Nakashima
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
Production Company: The Ladd Company, Sir Run Run Shaw
7. Alien (1979)
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
Directors: Ridley Scott
Producer: Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ronald Shusett
Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Editor: Terry Rawlings, Peter Weatherley
Cinematographer: Derek Vanlint
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
Writer: James Cameron, William Wisher
Editor: Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg, Michael A. Benson
Production Company: Carolco, Pacific Western , Lightstorm Entertainment
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates
Directors: Don Siegel
Producer: Walter Wanger
Writer: Daniel Mainwaring
Editor: Robert S. Eisen
Cinematographer: Ellsworth Fredericks
Production Company: Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc.
10. Back to the Future (1985)
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Directors: Robert Zemeckis, Frank Marshall
Producer: Bob Gale, Neil Canton, Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Editor: Arthur Schmidt, Harry Keramidas
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey, Raymond Stella
Production Company: Universal Pictures , Amblin Entertainment
GANGSTER
AFI defines the “gangster film” as a genre that centers on organized crime or maverick criminals in a twentieth century setting.
1. The Godfather (1972)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Robert Evans, Albert S. Ruddy
Writer: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Editor: William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Alfran Productions, Inc.
2. Goodfellas (1990)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Directors: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Barbara De Fina
Writer: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker, James Kwei
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures , Irwin Winkler Productions
3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Robert Evans, Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
Editor: Richard Marks
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Production Company: The Coppola Company
4. White Heat (1949)
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Writer: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Editor: Owen Marks
Cinematographer: Sid Hickox
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Directors: Arthur Penn
Producer: Warren Beatty
Writer: David Newman, Robert Benton
Editor: Dede Allen
Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey
Production Company: Tatira-Hiller Productions
6. Scarface (1932)
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
Directors: Howard Hawks
Writer: Ben Hecht, Fred Pasley
Editor: Edward Curtiss
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes, L. W. O'Connell
Production Company: The Caddo Co., Inc.
7. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Editor: Sally Menke
Cinematographer: Andrzej Sekula
Production Company: A Band Apart , Jersey Films
8. The Public Enemy (1931)
Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Directors: William A. Wellman
Writer: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Harvey Thew
Editor: Edward M. McDermott
Cinematographer: Dev Jennings
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
9. Little Caesar (1931)
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Writer: Francis Faragoh
Editor: Ray Curtiss
Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio
Production Company: First National Pictures, Inc.
10. Scarface (1983)
Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
Directors: Brian DePalma
Producer: Martin Bregman, Louis A. Stroller
Writer: Oliver Stone
Editor: Jerry Greenberg, David Ray
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
Production Company: Universal Pictures
COURTROOM DRAMA
AFI defines “courtroom drama” as a genre of film in which a system of justice plays a critical role in the film’s narrative.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
Directors: Robert Mulligan
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Horton Foote
Editor: Aaron Stell, J. Terry Williams
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Production Company: Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Inc., Brentwood Productions, Inc.
2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
Writer: Reginald Rose
Editor: Carl Lerner
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Production Company: Orion-Nova Productions
3. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander
Directors: Robert Benton
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe
Writer: Robert Benton
Editor: Jerry Greenberg
Cinematographer: Nestor Almendros
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
4. The Verdict (1982)
Cast: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown, Burtt Harris
Writer: David Mamet
Editor: Peter Frank
Cinematographer: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Production Company: Zanuck/Brown Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
5. A Few Good Men (1992)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore
Directors: Rob Reiner
Producer: David Brown, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, William Gilmore, Rachel Pfeffer
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
Editor: Robert Leighton, Steve Nevius
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Production Company: Castle Rock Entertainment
6. Witness for the Prosecution (1958)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Directors: Billy Wilder
Producer: Arthur Hornblow
Writer: Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz, Larry Marcus
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Production Company: Theme Pictures, Inc., Edward Small Productions, Inc.
7. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
Directors: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Writer: Wendell Mayes
Editor: Louis R. Loeffler
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Production Company: Carlyle Productions, Inc.
8. In Cold Blood (1967)
Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
Directors: Richard Brooks
Producer: Richard Brooks
Writer: Richard Brooks
Editor: Peter Zinner
Cinematographer: Conrad Hall
Production Company: Pax Enterprises
9. A Cry in the Dark (1988)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Bruce Myles
Directors: Fred Schepisi
Producer: Verity Lambert, Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
Writer: Robert Caswell, Fred Schepisi
Editor: Jill Bilcock
Cinematographer: Ian Baker
Production Company: Cannon Entertainment Inc., Cinema Verity , Evil Angels Films Pty. Ltd.
10. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Directors: Stanley Kramer
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Writer: Abby Mann
Editor: Frederic Knudtson
Cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo
Production Company: Roxlom Films
EPIC
AFI defines “epic” as a genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic interpretation of the past.
1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Directors: David Lean
Producer: Sam Spiegel, David Lean
Writer: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Editor: Anne V. Coates
Cinematographer: F. A. Young
Production Company: Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.
2. Ben-Hur (1959)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
Directors: William Wyler
Producer: Joseph R. Vogel, Sol C. Siegel, Sam Zimbalist, J. J. Cohn
Writer: Karl Tunberg
Editor: Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning, Margaret Booth
Cinematographer: Robert L. Surtees
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
3. Schindler's List (1993)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh
Directors: Victor Fleming, Sam Wood, George Cukor, Chester Franklin, James Fitzpatrick
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: Sidney Howard, Barbara Keon, Lydia Schiller, Connie Earl
Cinematographer: Ernest Haller, Lee Garmes
Production Company: Selznick International Pictures, Inc.
5. Spartacus (1960)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann
Producer: Kirk Douglas, Edward Muhl, Edward Lewis
Writer: Dalton Trumbo
Editor: Robert Lawrence
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
Production Company: Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., Bryna Productions, Inc.
6. Titanic (1997)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Jon Landau
Writer: James Cameron
Editor: Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Lightstorm Entertainment
7. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray
Directors: Lewis Milestone
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Writer: George Abbott, Del Andrews
Editor: Edgar Adams, Milton Carruth
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson
Production Company: Universal Pictures Corp.
8. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
Writer: Robert Rodat
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment , Mutual Film Company
9. Reds (1981)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
Directors: Warren Beatty
Producer: Warren Beatty, Simon Relph, Dede Allen
Writer: Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths
Editor: Dede Allen, Craig McKay
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
Production Company: Paramount Pictures , J. R. S. Productions
10. The Ten Commandments (1956)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Producer: Cecil B. DeMille
Writer: Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank
Editor: Anne Bauchens
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.