AFI’S 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

AFI'S 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

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The American Film Institute proudly curates lists to celebrate excellence in the art form. We believe their greatest impact is to inspire personal, passionate discussions about what makes a great film and why and, also, to chart the evolution of the art form. Since its inception, American film has marginalized the diversity of voices that make our nation and its stories strong – and these lists reflect that intolerable truth. AFI acknowledges its responsibility in curating these lists that has reinforced this marginality and looks forward to releasing new lists that will embrace our modern day and drive culture forward.

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1. Citizen Kane (1941)

Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

Directors: Orson Welles

Producer: Orson Welles, Sid Rogell

Writer: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

Editor: Robert Wise

Cinematographer: Gregg Toland, Harry Wild, Russell A. Cully, Russell Metty

Production Company: Mercury Productions, Inc., RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Directors: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen

Producer: Arthur Freed

Writer: Adolph Green, Betty Comden

Editor: Adrienne Fazan

Cinematographer: Harold Rosson

Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Psycho (1960)

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock

Producer: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: Joseph Stefano

Editor: George Tomasini

Cinematographer: John L. Russell

Production Company: Shamley Productions, Inc.

15. 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.

16. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

Directors: Billy Wilder

Producer: Charles Brackett

Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman Jr.

Editor: Arthur Schmidt, Doane Harrison

Cinematographer: John F. Seitz

Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.

17. The Graduate (1967)

Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross

Directors: Mike Nichols

Producer: Lawrence Turman

Writer: Calder Willingham, Buck Henry

Editor: Sam O'Steen

Cinematographer: Robert Surtees

Production Company: Lawrence Turman, Inc.

18. The General (1926)

Cast: Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley

Directors: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman

Producer: Joseph M. Schenck

Writer: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg, Charles Smith

Cinematographer: Dev Jennings, Bert Haines

Production Company: Buster Keaton Productions

19. 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..

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

Directors: Billy Wilder

Producer: Billy Wilder

Writer: Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt

Cinematographer: Charles Lang Jr.

Production Company: Ashton Productions, Inc., The Mirisch Company, Inc.

23. 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.

24. 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

25. 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.

26. 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.

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. All About Eve (1950)

Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Editor: Barbara McLean

Cinematographer: Milton Krasner

Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

29. Double Indemnity (1944)

Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Directors: Billy Wilder

Producer: B. G. DeSylva, Joseph Sistrom

Writer: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler

Editor: Doane Harrison

Cinematographer: John Seitz

Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc.

30. Apocalypse Now (1979)

Cast: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen

Directors: Francis Coppola

Producer: Francis Coppola

Writer: John Milius, Francis Coppola

Editor: Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman

Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro

Production Company: Omni Zoetrope

31. 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.

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt

Directors: John Huston

Producer: Jack L. Warner, Henry Blanke

Writer: John Huston

Editor: Owen Marks

Cinematographer: Ted McCord

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

39. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Directors: Stanley Kubrick

Producer: Stanley Kubrick

Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

Editor: Anthony Harvey

Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor

Production Company: Hawk Films, Ltd, Polaris Productions

40. 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.

41. 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.

42. 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

43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles

Directors: John Schlesinger

Producer: Jerome Hellman

Writer: Waldo Salt

Editor: Hugh A. Robertson

Cinematographer: Adam Holender

Production Company: Jerome Hellman Productions

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. 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.

47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter

Directors: Elia Kazan

Producer: Charles K. Feldman

Writer: Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul

Editor: David Weisbart

Cinematographer: Harry Stradling

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Charles K. Feldman Group Productions

48. 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.

49. Intolerance (1916)

Cast: Lillian Gish, Lillian Langdon, Olga Grey

Directors: D. W. Griffith

Producer: D. W. Griffith

Writer: D. W. Griffith

Production Company: D. W. Griffith; Wark Producing Corp.

50. 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

51. West Side Story (1961)

Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

Directors: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

Producer: Robert Wise

Writer: Ernest Lehman

Editor: Thomas Stanford

Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp

Production Company: B