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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

Genre: Comedy-drama, Fantasy

Production Company: Liberty Films, Inc.

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

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Inc., Brentwood Productions, Inc.

Composer: Elmer Bernstein

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

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Amblin Entertainment

Composer: John Williams [composer]

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

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc.

Composer: Bill Conti

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains

Directors: Frank Capra

Producer: Frank Capra

Writer: Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster

Editor: Gene Havlick, Al Clark

Cinematographer: Joseph Walker

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corp.

Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin

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

Genre: Fantasy, Science fiction

Production Company: Universal Pictures , Amblin' Entertainment

Composer: John Williams [composer]

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine

Directors: John Ford

Writer: Nunnally Johnson

Editor: Robert Simpson

Cinematographer: Gregg Toland

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Composer: Alfred Newman

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

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox

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

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Composer: Cyril J. Mockridge

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

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Amblin Entertainment , Mutual Film Company

Composer: John Williams [composer]

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews

Directors: William Wyler

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Writer: Robert E. Sherwood

Editor: Daniel Mandell

Cinematographer: Gregg Toland

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.

Composer: Hugo Friedhofer

Apollo 13 (1995)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton

Directors: Ron Howard

Producer: Brian Grazer

Writer: William Broyles, Jr., Al Reinert

Editor: Mike Hill, Dan Hanley

Cinematographer: Dean Cundey

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Imagine Entertainment , Universal Pictures

Composer: James Horner

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

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Hemdale Film Corporation

Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

Directors: David Lean

Producer: Sam Spiegel

Writer: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson

Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Horizon-American Pictures, Inc.

Composer: Malcolm Arnold

The Miracle Worker (1962)

Cast: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory

Directors: Arthur Penn

Producer: Fred Coe

Writer: William Gibson

Editor: Aram Avakian

Cinematographer: Ernesto Caparros

Genre: Biography

Production Company: Playfilms Productions

Composer: Laurence Rosenthal

Norma Rae (1979)

Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges

Directors: Martin Ritt

Producer: Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose

Writer: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.

Editor: Sidney Levin

Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Composer: David Shire

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Cast: Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks

Directors: Milos Forman

Producer: Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas

Writer: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman

Editor: Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn

Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Fantasy Films

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters

Directors: George Stevens

Producer: George Stevens

Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Editor: David Bretherton, Robert Swink, William Mace

Cinematographer: William C. Mellor

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Composer: Alfred Newman

The Right Stuff (1983)

Cast: Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey

Directors: Philip Kaufman

Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, James D. Brubaker

Writer: Philip Kaufman

Editor: Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf

Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Composer: Bill Conti

Philadelphia (1993)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards

Directors: Jonathan Demme

Producer: Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme, Gary Goetzman, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman

Writer: Ron Nyswaner

Editor: Craig McKay

Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto

Genre: Drama

Production Company: TriStar Pictures , Clinica Estetico

Composer: Howard Shore

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

Directors: Norman Jewison

Producer: Walter Mirisch

Writer: Stirling Silliphant

Editor: Hal Ashby

Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler

Genre: Drama

Production Company: The Mirisch Corp.

Composer: Quincy Jones

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

Genre: Biography

Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.

Composer: Leigh Harline

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

Directors: Frank Darabont

Producer: Niki Marvin

Writer: Frank Darabont

Editor: Richard Francis-Bruce

Cinematographer: Roger Deakins

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Castle Rock Entertainment

Composer: Thomas Newman

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

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

Composer: Herbert Stothart

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick

Directors: Preston Sturges

Producer: B. G. DeSylva

Writer: Preston Sturges

Editor: Stuart Gilmore

Cinematographer: John Seitz

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc.

Composer: Charles W. Bradshaw

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

Genre: Fantasy, Musical

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

High Noon (1952)

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

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

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Production Company: Gordon Company

Composer: James Horner

Gandhi (1982)

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth

Directors: Richard Attenborough

Producer: Richard Attenborough

Writer: John Briley

Editor: John Bloom

Cinematographer: Ronnie Taylor , Billy Williams

Genre: Biography

Production Company: Goldcrest Films, International Film Investors, National Film Development Corporation of India, Indo-British Films

Composer: Ravi Shankar

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

Genre: Adventure, Biography

Production Company: Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.

Composer: Maurice Jarre

Glory (1989)

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes

Directors: Edward Zwick

Producer: Freddie Fields

Writer: Kevin Jarre

Editor: Steven Rosenblum

Cinematographer: Freddie Francis, David Wargreich

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Tri-Star Pictures

Composer: James Horner

Casablanca (1942)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Directors: Michael Curtiz

Producer: Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis

Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch

Editor: Owen Marks

Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson

Genre: Romance

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Composer: Max Steiner

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

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Charles Chaplin Productions

Composer: Charles Chaplin

All the President's Men (1976)

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden

Directors: Alan J. Pakula

Producer: Walter Coblenz

Writer: William Goldman

Editor: Robert L. Wolfe

Cinematographer: Gordon Willis

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.

Composer: David Shire

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn

Directors: Stanley Kramer

Producer: Stanley Kramer

Writer: William Rose

Editor: Robert C. Jones, Tony Friedman

Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Columbia Pictures

Composer: Frank De Vol

On the Waterfront (1954)

Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

Directors: Elia Kazan

Producer: Sam Spiegel

Writer: Budd Schulberg

Editor: Gene Milford

Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Horizon-American Pictures, Inc..

Composer: Leonard Bernstein

Forrest Gump (1994)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

Directors: Robert Zemeckis

Producer: Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey

Writer: Eric Roth

Editor: Arthur Schmidt

Cinematographer: Don Burgess, David M. Dunlap

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: The Tisch Company

Pinocchio (1940)

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

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

Genre: Adventure, Science fiction

Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.

Composer: John Williams [composer]

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright

Directors: William Wyler

Producer: Sidney Franklin

Writer: Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel , James Hilton, Claudine West

Editor: Harold F. Kress

Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

Composer: Herbert Stothart

The Sound of Music (1965)

Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker

Directors: Robert Wise

Producer: Robert Wise

Writer: Ernest Lehman

Editor: William Reynolds, Larry Allen

Cinematographer: Ted McCord

Genre: Drama, Musical

Production Company: Argyle Enterprises, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

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

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Orion-Nova Productions

Composer: Kenyon Hopkins

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

Genre: Romance

Production Company: Selznick International Pictures, Inc.

Composer: Max Steiner

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

Genre: Epic

Production Company: Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., Bryna Productions, Inc.

Composer: Alex North

On Golden Pond (1981)

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda

Directors: Mark Rydell

Producer: Bruce Gilbert

Writer: Ernest Thompson

Editor: Robert L. Wolfe

Cinematographer: Billy Williams

Genre: Drama

Production Company: ITC Films , IPC Films

Composer: Dave Grusin

Lilies of the Field (1963)

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann

Directors: Ralph Nelson

Producer: Ralph Nelson

Writer: James Poe

Editor: John McCafferty

Cinematographer: Ernest Haller

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Rainbow Productions, Inc.

Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

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

Genre: Science fiction

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

The African Queen (1951)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

Directors: John Huston

Producer: S. P. Eagle

Writer: Peter Viertel, John Collier

Editor: Ralph Kemplen

Cinematographer: Jack Cardiff

Genre: Romance

Production Company: Horizon Enterprises, Inc., Romulus Films, Ltd.

Composer: Allan Gray

Meet John Doe (1941)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold

Directors: Frank Capra

Producer: Frank Capra, Robert Riskin

Writer: Robert Riskin

Editor: Daniel Mandell

Cinematographer: George Barnes

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Frank Capra Productions, Inc.

Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin

Seabiscuit (2003)

Cast: David McCullough, Jeff Bridges, Paul Vincent O'Connor

Directors: Gary Ross, Frank Marshall, Don Bradley

Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross, Jane Sindell, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Tobey Maguire, Allison Thomas, Robin Bissell

Writer: Gary Ross

Editor: William Goldenberg

Cinematographer: John Schwartzman, Mitch Amundsen, Billy Roe

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Universal Studios , Spyglass Entertainment Group, L. P.

Composer: Randy Newman

The Color Purple (1985)

Cast: Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery

Directors: Steven Spielberg

Producer: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones, Jon Peters, Peter Guber

Writer: Menno Meyjes

Editor: Michael Kahn

Cinematographer: Allen Daviau

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Amblin Entertainment , Guber-Peters Company

Composer: Quincy Jones

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Cast: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke

Directors: Peter Weir

Producer: Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas

Writer: Tom Schulman

Editor: William Anderson , Priscilla Nedd, Lee Smith

Cinematographer: John Seale

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV, Witt-Thomas Productions

Composer: Maurice Jarre

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

Genre: Western

Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.

Composer: Victor Young

Rudy (1993)

Cast: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton

Directors: David Anspaugh

Producer: Robert N. Fried, Cary Woods, Lee R. Mayes

Writer: Angelo Pizzo

Editor: David Rosenbloom

Cinematographer: Oliver Wood

Genre: Biography, Drama

Production Company: TriStar Pictures , Fried/Woods Films

Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel

Directors: Stanley Kramer

Producer: Stanley Kramer

Writer: Nathan E. Douglas , Harold Jacob Smith

Editor: Frederic Knudtson

Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Lomitas Productions, Inc., Curtleigh Productions, Inc.

Composer: Ernest Gold

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

Genre: Epic

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

Composer: Miklos Rozsa

Sergeant York (1941)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie

Directors: Howard Hawks

Producer: Jesse L. Lasky, Hal B. Wallis

Writer: Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston

Editor: William Holmes

Cinematographer: Sol Polito

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Composer: Max Steiner

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr

Directors: Steven Spielberg

Producer: Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips

Writer: Steven Spielberg

Editor: Michael Kahn

Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond, William A. Fraker , Douglas Slocombe

Genre: Science fiction

Production Company: Columbia Pictures, EMI

Composer: John Williams [composer]

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene

Directors: Kevin Costner

Producer: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Jake Eberts

Writer: Michael Blake

Editor: Neil Travis, William Hoy, Stephen Potter, Chip Masamitsu

Cinematographer: Dean Semler

Genre: Western

Production Company: TIG Productions , Majestic Films International

Composer: John Barry

The Killing Fields (1984)

Cast: Sam Waterson, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

Directors: Roland Joffé

Producer: David Puttnam, Roland Joffé

Writer: Ally Walker, Bruce Robinson

Editor: Jim Clark

Cinematographer: Chris Menges

Genre: Western

Sounder (1972)

Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks

Directors: Martin Ritt

Producer: Robert B. Radnitz

Writer: Lonne Elder III

Editor: Sid Levin, Michael Hoey

Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Radnitz/Mattel Productions, Inc.

Braveheart (1995)

Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan

Directors: Mel Gibson

Producer: Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd Jr., Bruce Davey

Writer: Randall Wallace

Editor: Steven Rosenblum

Cinematographer: John Toll

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Icon Productions , Ladd Company

Composer: James Horner

Rain Man (1988)

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino

Directors: Barry Levinson

Producer: Mark Johnson, Peter Guber, Jon Peters

Writer: Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow, Barry Morrow

Editor: Stu Linder

Cinematographer: John Seale

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Guber-Peters Company, [in association with] Star Partners II, Ltd.

Composer: Hans Zimmer

The Black Stallion (1979)

Cast: Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse

Directors: Carroll Ballard

Producer: Fred Roos, Tom Sternberg, Francis Coppola

Writer: Melissa Mathison, Jeanne Rosenberg, William D. Wittliff

Editor: Robert Dalva

Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel

Genre: Adventure

Production Company: Omni Zoetrope

Composer: Carmine Coppola

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee

Directors: Daniel Petrie

Producer: David Susskind, Philip Rose

Writer: Lorraine Hansberry

Editor: William A. Lyon , Paul Weatherwax

Cinematographer: Charles Lawton Jr.

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Paman--Doris Productions

Composer: Laurence Rosenthal

Silkwood (1983)

Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher

Directors: Mike Nichols

Producer: Mike Nichols, Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Larry Cano

Writer: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen

Editor: Sam O'Steen

Cinematographer: Miroslav Ondricek

Genre: Drama

Production Company: ABC Motion Pictures

Composer: Georges Delerue

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

Genre: Science fiction

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Composer: Bernard Herrmann

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

Cast: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith

Directors: Taylor Hackford

Producer: Martin Elfand

Writer: Douglas Day Stewart

Editor: Peter Zinner

Cinematographer: Donald Thorin

Genre: Drama, Romance

Production Company: Lorimar, Inc.

Composer: Jack Nitzsche

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Cast: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith

Directors: Billy Wilder

Producer: Leland Hayward, Billy Wilder

Writer: Billy Wilder, Wendell Mayes, Charles Lederer

Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt

Cinematographer: Robert Burks, J. Peverell Marley

Genre: Biography

Production Company: Leland Hayward Productions, Inc., Billy Wilder Productions, Inc.

Composer: Franz Waxman

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo

Directors: Michael Apted

Producer: Bernard Schwartz, Bob Larson

Writer: Tom Rickman

Editor: Arthur Schmidt

Cinematographer: Ralf D. Bode

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Universal Pictures

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon

Directors: Stuart Rosenberg

Producer: Gordon Carroll

Writer: Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson

Editor: Sam O'Steen

Cinematographer: Conrad Hall

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Jalem Productions, Inc.

Composer: Lalo Schifrin

Dark Victory (1939)

Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart

Directors: Edmund Goulding

Producer: Hal B. Wallis

Writer: Casey Robinson

Editor: William Holmes

Cinematographer: Ernest Haller

Genre: Melodrama

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Composer: Max Steiner

Erin Brockovich (2000)

Cast: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick

Directors: Steven Soderbergh

Producer: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, John Hardy, Carla Santos Shamberg

Writer: Susannah Grant

Editor: Anne V. Coates

Cinematographer: Ed Lachman

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Universal Pictures , Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jersey Films

Composer: Thomas Newman

Gunga Din (1939)

Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Directors: George Stevens

Producer: George Stevens

Writer: Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Editor: Henry Berman, John Lockert, John Sturges

Cinematographer: Joseph H. August

Genre: Adventure

Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Composer: Alfred Newman

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

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Zanuck/Brown Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Composer: Johnny Mandel

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

Directors: John Frankenheimer

Producer: Stuart Millar, Guy Trosper, Harold Hecht

Writer: Guy Trosper

Editor: Edward Mann

Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey

Genre: Biography

Production Company: Norma Productions, Inc.

Composer: Elmer Bernstein

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd

Directors: Bruce Beresford

Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, David Brown

Writer: Alfred Uhry

Editor: Mark Warner

Cinematographer: Peter James

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: The Zanuck Company

Composer: Hans Zimmer

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel

Directors: Ridley Scott, Bobby Bass

Producer: Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk

Writer: Callie Khouri

Editor: Thom Noble

Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Production Company: Pathe Entertainment

Composer: Hans Zimmer

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

Genre: Epic

Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.

Composer: Elmer Bernstein

Babe (1995)

Cast: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh

Directors: Chris Noonan

Producer: George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller

Writer: George Miller, Chris Noonan

Editor: Marcus D'Arcy, Jay Friedkin

Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Kennedy Miller Productions

Composer: Nigel Westlake

Boys Town (1938)

Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull

Directors: Norman Taurog

Producer: John W. Considine Jr., O. O. Dull

Writer: John Meehan, Dore Schary

Editor: Elmo Veron

Cinematographer: Sidney Wagner

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

Composer: Edward Ward

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey

Directors: Norman Jewison

Producer: Norman Jewison

Writer: Joseph Stein

Editor: Antony Gibbs, Robert Lawrence

Cinematographer: Oswald Morris

Genre: Comedy-drama, Musical

Production Company: Mirisch Productions, Inc., Cartier Productions, Inc.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft

Directors: Frank Capra

Producer: Frank Capra

Writer: Robert Riskin

Editor: Gene Havlick

Cinematographer: Joseph Walker

Genre: Comedy-drama

Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd.

Composer: Howard Jackson

Serpico (1973)

Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe

Directors: Sidney Lumet

Producer: Martin Bregman

Writer: Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler

Editor: Dede Allen

Cinematographer: Arthur J. Ornitz

Genre: Drama

Production Company: De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company S.p.A., Artists Entertainments Complex, Inc.

Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)

Cast: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Bell Calloway

Directors: Brian Gibson

Producer: Doug Chapin, Barry Krost, Roger Davies, Mario Iscovich

Writer: Kate Lanier

Editor: Stuart Pappe, David Rawlins, Michael J. Hill, Thomas G. Finnan

Cinematographer: Jamie Anderson

Genre: Biography, Drama

Production Company: Touchstone Pictures

Stand and Deliver (1988)

Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosana De Soto

Directors: Ramon Menendez

Producer: Tom Musca, Lindsay Law

Writer: Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca

Editor: Nancy Richardson

Cinematographer: Tom Richmond

Genre: Biography, Drama

Production Company: Eastside Productions

Composer: Craig Safan

Working Girl (1988)

Cast: Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith

Directors: Mike Nichols

Producer: Douglas Wick, Robert Greenhut, Laurence Mark

Writer: Kevin Wade

Editor: Sam O'Steen

Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus

Genre: Romantic comedy

Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Composer: Carly Simon

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Directors: Michael Curtiz

Producer: Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis

Writer: Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph

Editor: George Amy

Cinematographer: James Wong Howe, Sol Polito

Genre: Biography, Musical

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Composer: Leo F. Forbstein

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

Genre: Romantic comedy, Satire

Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp., Mildred Lewis & Colin Higgins Productions, Inc.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix

Directors: Terry George

Producer: A. Kitman Ho, Terry George

Writer: Keir Pearson, Terry George

Editor: Naomi Geraghty

Cinematographer: Robert Fraisse

Genre: Biography, Drama

Production Company: Miracle Pictures, Seamus

Composer: Andrea Guerra

The Paper Chase (1973)

Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman

Directors: James Bridges

Producer: Robert C. Thompson, Rodrick Paul

Writer: James Bridges

Editor: Walter Thompson

Cinematographer: Gordon Willis

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Thompson-Paul Productions

Composer: John Williams [composer]

Fame (1980)

Cast: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri

Directors: Alan Parker

Producer: David De Silva, Alan Marshall

Writer: Christopher Gore

Editor: Gerry Hambling

Cinematographer: Michael Seresin

Genre: Musical

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

A Beautiful Mind (2002)

Cast: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly

Directors: Ron Howard

Producer: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Kehela, Todd Hallowell

Writer: Akiva Goldsman

Editor: Mike Hill, Dan Hanley

Cinematographer: Roger Deakins

Genre: Biography

Production Company: Universal Pictures , DreamWorks Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Composer: James Horner

Captains Courageous (1937)

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore

Directors: Victor Fleming

Producer: Louis D. Lighton

Writer: John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every

Editor: Elmo Veron

Cinematographer: Harold Rosson

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

Composer: Franz Waxman

Places in the Heart (1984)

Cast: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris

Directors: Robert Benton

Producer: Arlene Donovan, Michael Hausman

Writer: Robert Benton

Editor: Carol Littleton

Cinematographer: Nestor Almendros

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Tri-Star-Delphi II Productions

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Laurence Fishburne

Directors: Steven Zaillian

Producer: Scott Rudin, William Horberg, Sydney Pollack

Writer: Steven Zaillian

Editor: Wayne Wahrman

Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall

Genre: Biography, Drama

Production Company: Mirage Enterprises

Composer: James Horner

Madame Curie (1944)

Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin

Producer: Sidney Franklin, Edward J. Mannix

Writer: Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau

Editor: Harold F. Kress

Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg

Genre: Biography

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

Composer: Herbert Stothart

The Karate Kid (1984)

Cast: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue

Directors: John G. Avildsen

Producer: Jerry Weintraub, R. J. Louis

Writer: Robert Mark Kamen

Editor: Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery, John G. Avildsen

Cinematographer: James Crabe

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Columbia Pictures

Composer: Bill Conti

Ray (2004)

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell

Directors: Taylor Hackford

Producer: Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin

Writer: James L. White, Taylor Hackford, James L. White

Editor: Paul Hirsch

Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman

Genre: Biography, Drama

Production Company: Universal Pictures , Bristol Bay Productions

Composer: Craig Armstrong

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Cast: Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson

Directors: Hugh Hudson

Producer: David Puttnam, Dodi Fayed

Editor: Terry Rawlings

Cinematographer: David Watkin

Genre: Drama

Production Company: Allied Stars, Enigma Productions Limited

1. 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.

2. 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.

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. 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.

5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains

Directors: Frank Capra

Producer: Frank Capra

Writer: Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster

Editor: Gene Havlick, Al Clark

Cinematographer: Joseph Walker

Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corp.

6. 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

7. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine

Directors: John Ford

Writer: Nunnally Johnson

Editor: Robert Simpson

Cinematographer: Gregg Toland

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

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. 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.

10. 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

11. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews

Directors: William Wyler

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Writer: Robert E. Sherwood

Editor: Daniel Mandell

Cinematographer: Gregg Toland

Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.

12. Apollo 13 (1995)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton

Directors: Ron Howard

Producer: Brian Grazer

Writer: William Broyles, Jr., Al Reinert

Editor: Mike Hill, Dan Hanley

Cinematographer: Dean Cundey

Production Company: Imagine Entertainment , Universal Pictures

13. 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

14. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

Directors: David Lean

Producer: Sam Spiegel

Writer: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson

Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard

Production Company: Horizon-American Pictures, Inc.

15. The Miracle Worker (1962)

Cast: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory

Directors: Arthur Penn

Producer: Fred Coe

Writer: William Gibson

Editor: Aram Avakian

Cinematographer: Ernesto Caparros

Production Company: Playfilms Productions

16. Norma Rae (1979)

Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges

Directors: Martin Ritt

Producer: Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose

Writer: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.

Editor: Sidney Levin

Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Cast: Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks

Directors: Milos Forman

Producer: Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas

Writer: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman

Editor: Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn

Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler

Production Company: Fantasy Films

18. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters

Directors: George Stevens

Producer: George Stevens

Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Editor: David Bretherton, Robert Swink, William Mace

Cinematographer: William C. Mellor

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

19. The Right Stuff (1983)

Cast: Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey

Directors: Philip Kaufman

Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, James D. Brubaker

Writer: Philip Kaufman

Editor: Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf

Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel

20. Philadelphia (1993)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards

Directors: Jonathan Demme

Producer: Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme, Gary Goetzman, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman

Writer: Ron Nyswaner

Editor: Craig McKay

Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto

Production Company: TriStar Pictures , Clinica Estetico

21. In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

Directors: Norman Jewison

Producer: Walter Mirisch

Writer: Stirling Silliphant

Editor: Hal Ashby

Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler

Production Company: The Mirisch Corp.

22. 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.

23. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

Directors: Frank Darabont

Producer: Niki Marvin

Writer: Frank Darabont

Editor: Richard Francis-Bruce

Cinematographer: Roger Deakins

Production Company: Castle Rock Entertainment

24. 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.

25. Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick

Directors: Preston Sturges

Producer: B. G. DeSylva

Writer: Preston Sturges

Editor: Stuart Gilmore

Cinematographer: John Seitz

Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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

29. Gandhi (1982)

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth

Directors: Richard Attenborough

Producer: Richard Attenborough

Writer: John Briley

Editor: John Bloom

Cinematographer: Ronnie Taylor , Billy Williams

Production Company: Goldcrest Films, International Film Investors, National Film Development Corporation of India, Indo-British Films

30. 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.

31. Glory (1989)

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes

Directors: Edward Zwick

Producer: Freddie Fields

Writer: Kevin Jarre

Editor: Steven Rosenblum

Cinematographer: Freddie Francis, David Wargreich

Production Company: Tri-Star Pictures

32. Casablanca (1942)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Directors: Michael Curtiz

Producer: Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis

Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch

Editor: Owen Marks

Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

33. 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

34. All the President's Men (1976)

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden

Directors: Alan J. Pakula

Producer: Walter Coblenz

Writer: William Goldman

Editor: Robert L. Wolfe

Cinematographer: Gordon Willis

Production Company: Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.

35. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn

Directors: Stanley Kramer

Producer: Stanley Kramer

Writer: William Rose

Editor: Robert C. Jones, Tony Friedman

Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt

Production Company: Columbia Pictures

36. On the Waterfront (1954)

Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

Directors: Elia Kazan

Producer: Sam Spiegel

Writer: Budd Schulberg

Editor: Gene Milford

Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman

Production Company: Horizon-American Pictures, Inc..

37. Forrest Gump (1994)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

Directors: Robert Zemeckis

Producer: Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey

Writer: Eric Roth

Editor: Arthur Schmidt

Cinematographer: Don Burgess, David M. Dunlap

Production Company: The Tisch Company

38. 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

39. 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.

40. Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright

Directors: William Wyler

Producer: Sidney Franklin

Writer: Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel , James Hilton, Claudine West

Editor: Harold F. Kress

Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

41. The Sound of Music (1965)

Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker

Directors: Robert Wise

Producer: Robert Wise

Writer: Ernest Lehman

Editor: William Reynolds, Larry Allen

Cinematographer: Ted McCord

Production Company: Argyle Enterprises, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

42. 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

43. 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.

44. 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.

45. On Golden Pond (1981)

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda

Directors: Mark Rydell

Producer: Bruce Gilbert

Writer: Ernest Thompson

Editor: Robert L. Wolfe

Cinematographer: Billy Williams

Production Company: ITC Films , IPC Films

46. Lilies of the Field (1963)

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann

Directors: Ralph Nelson

Producer: Ralph Nelson

Writer: James Poe

Editor: John McCafferty

Cinematographer: Ernest Haller

Production Company: Rainbow Productions, Inc.

47. 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.

48. The African Queen (1951)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

Directors: John Huston

Producer: S. P. Eagle

Writer: Peter Viertel, John Collier

Editor: Ralph Kemplen

Cinematographer: Jack Cardiff

Production Company: Horizon Enterprises, Inc., Romulus Films, Ltd.

49. Meet John Doe (1941)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold

Directors: Frank Capra

Producer: Frank Capra, Robert Riskin

Writer: Robert Riskin

Editor: Daniel Mandell

Cinematographer: George Barnes

Production Company: Frank Capra Productions, Inc.

50. Seabiscuit (2003)

Cast: David McCullough, Jeff Bridges, Paul Vincent O'Connor

Directors: Gary Ross, Frank Marshall, Don Bradley

Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross, Jane Sindell, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Tobey Maguire, Allison Thomas, Robin Bissell

Writer: Gary Ross

Editor: William Goldenberg

Cinematographer: John Schwartzman, Mitch Amundsen, Billy Roe

Production Company: Universal Studios , Spyglass Entertainment Group, L. P.

51. The Color Purple (1985)

Cast: Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery

Directors: Steven Spielberg

Producer: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones, Jon Peters, Peter Guber

Writer: Menno Meyjes

Editor: Michael Kahn

Cinematographer: Allen Daviau

Production Company: Amblin Entertainment , Guber-Peters Company

52. Dead Poets Society (1989)

Cast: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke

Directors: Peter Weir

Producer: Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas

Writer: Tom Schulman

Editor: William Anderson , Priscilla Nedd, Lee Smith

Cinematographer: John Seale

Production Company: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV, Witt-Thomas Productions

53. 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.

54. Rudy (1993)

Cast: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton

Directors: David Anspaugh

Producer: Robert N. Fried, Cary Woods, Lee R. Mayes

Writer: Angelo Pizzo

Editor: David Rosenbloom

Cinematographer: Oliver Wood

Production Company: TriStar Pictures , Fried/Woods Films

55. The Defiant Ones (1958)

Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel

Directors: Stanley Kramer

Producer: Stanley Kramer

Writer: Nathan E. Douglas , Harold Jacob Smith

Editor: Frederic Knudtson

Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt

Production Company: Lomitas Productions, Inc., Curtleigh Productions, Inc.

56. 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.

57. Sergeant York (1941)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie

Directors: Howard Hawks

Producer: Jesse L. Lasky, Hal B. Wallis

Writer: Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston

Editor: William Holmes

Cinematographer: Sol Polito

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

58. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr

Directors: Steven Spielberg

Producer: Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips

Writer: Steven Spielberg

Editor: Michael Kahn

Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond, William A. Fraker , Douglas Slocombe

Production Company: Columbia Pictures, EMI

59. Dances with Wolves (1990)

Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene

Directors: Kevin Costner

Producer: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Jake Eberts

Writer: Michael Blake

Editor: Neil Travis, William Hoy, Stephen Potter, Chip Masamitsu

Cinematographer: Dean Semler

Production Company: TIG Productions , Majestic Films International

60. The Killing Fields (1984)

Cast: Sam Waterson, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

Directors: Roland Joffé

Producer: David Puttnam, Roland Joffé

Writer: Ally Walker, Bruce Robinson

Editor: Jim Clark

Cinematographer: Chris Menges

61. Sounder (1972)

Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks

Directors: Martin Ritt

Producer: Robert B. Radnitz

Writer: Lonne Elder III

Editor: Sid Levin, Michael Hoey

Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo

Production Company: Radnitz/Mattel Productions, Inc.

62. Braveheart (1995)

Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan

Directors: Mel Gibson

Producer: Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd Jr., Bruce Davey

Writer: Randall Wallace

Editor: Steven Rosenblum

Cinematographer: John Toll

Production Company: Icon Productions , Ladd Company

63. Rain Man (1988)

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino

Directors: Barry Levinson

Producer: Mark Johnson, Peter Guber, Jon Peters

Writer: Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow, Barry Morrow

Editor: Stu Linder

Cinematographer: John Seale

Production Company: Guber-Peters Company, [in association with] Star Partners II, Ltd.

64. The Black Stallion (1979)

Cast: Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse

Directors: Carroll Ballard

Producer: Fred Roos, Tom Sternberg, Francis Coppola

Writer: Melissa Mathison, Jeanne Rosenberg, William D. Wittliff

Editor: Robert Dalva

Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel

Production Company: Omni Zoetrope

65. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee

Directors: Daniel Petrie

Producer: David Susskind, Philip Rose

Writer: Lorraine Hansberry

Editor: William A. Lyon , Paul Weatherwax

Cinematographer: Charles Lawton Jr.

Production Company: Paman--Doris Productions

66. Silkwood (1983)

Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher

Directors: Mike Nichols

Producer: Mike Nichols, Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Larry Cano

Writer: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen

Editor: Sam O'Steen

Cinematographer: Miroslav Ondricek

Production Company: ABC Motion Pictures

67. 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.

68. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

Cast: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith

Directors: Taylor Hackford

Producer: Martin Elfand

Writer: Douglas Day Stewart

Editor: Peter Zinner

Cinematographer: Donald Thorin

Production Company: Lorimar, Inc.

69. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Cast: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith

Directors: Billy Wilder

Producer: Leland Hayward, Billy Wilder

Writer: Billy Wilder, Wendell Mayes, Charles Lederer

Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt

Cinematographer: Robert Burks, J. Peverell Marley

Production Company: Leland Hayward Productions, Inc., Billy Wilder Productions, Inc.

70. Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo

Directors: Michael Apted

Producer: Bernard Schwartz, Bob Larson

Writer: Tom Rickman

Editor: Arthur Schmidt

Cinematographer: Ralf D. Bode

Production Company: Universal Pictures

71. Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon

Directors: Stuart Rosenberg

Producer: Gordon Carroll

Writer: Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson

Editor: Sam O'Steen

Cinematographer: Conrad Hall

Production Company: Jalem Productions, Inc.

72. Dark Victory (1939)

Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart

Directors: Edmund Goulding

Producer: Hal B. Wallis

Writer: Casey Robinson

Editor: William Holmes

Cinematographer: Ernest Haller

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

73. Erin Brockovich (2000)

Cast: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick

Directors: Steven Soderbergh

Producer: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, John Hardy, Carla Santos Shamberg

Writer: Susannah Grant

Editor: Anne V. Coates

Cinematographer: Ed Lachman

Production Company: Universal Pictures , Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jersey Films

74. Gunga Din (1939)

Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Directors: George Stevens

Producer: George Stevens

Writer: Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Editor: Henry Berman, John Lockert, John Sturges

Cinematographer: Joseph H. August

Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

75. 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

76. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter

Directors: John Frankenheimer

Producer: Stuart Millar, Guy Trosper, Harold Hecht

Writer: Guy Trosper

Editor: Edward Mann

Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey

Production Company: Norma Productions, Inc.

77. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd

Directors: Bruce Beresford

Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, David Brown

Writer: Alfred Uhry

Editor: Mark Warner

Cinematographer: Peter James

Production Company: The Zanuck Company

78. Thelma & Louise (1991)

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel

Directors: Ridley Scott, Bobby Bass

Producer: Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk

Writer: Callie Khouri

Editor: Thom Noble

Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle

Production Company: Pathe Entertainment

79. 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.

80. Babe (1995)

Cast: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh

Directors: Chris Noonan

Producer: George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller

Writer: George Miller, Chris Noonan

Editor: Marcus D'Arcy, Jay Friedkin

Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie

Production Company: Kennedy Miller Productions

81. Boys Town (1938)

Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull

Directors: Norman Taurog

Producer: John W. Considine Jr., O. O. Dull

Writer: John Meehan, Dore Schary

Editor: Elmo Veron

Cinematographer: Sidney Wagner

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

82. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey

Directors: Norman Jewison

Producer: Norman Jewison

Writer: Joseph Stein

Editor: Antony Gibbs, Robert Lawrence

Cinematographer: Oswald Morris

Production Company: Mirisch Productions, Inc., Cartier Productions, Inc.

83. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft

Directors: Frank Capra

Producer: Frank Capra

Writer: Robert Riskin

Editor: Gene Havlick

Cinematographer: Joseph Walker

Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd.

84. Serpico (1973)

Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe

Directors: Sidney Lumet

Producer: Martin Bregman

Writer: Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler

Editor: Dede Allen

Cinematographer: Arthur J. Ornitz

Production Company: De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company S.p.A., Artists Entertainments Complex, Inc.

85. What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)

Cast: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Bell Calloway

Directors: Brian Gibson

Producer: Doug Chapin, Barry Krost, Roger Davies, Mario Iscovich

Writer: Kate Lanier

Editor: Stuart Pappe, David Rawlins, Michael J. Hill, Thomas G. Finnan

Cinematographer: Jamie Anderson

Production Company: Touchstone Pictures

86. Stand and Deliver (1988)

Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosana De Soto

Directors: Ramon Menendez

Producer: Tom Musca, Lindsay Law

Writer: Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca

Editor: Nancy Richardson

Cinematographer: Tom Richmond

Production Company: Eastside Productions

87. Working Girl (1988)
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