AFI's 10 Top 10

Personal Choices:

ANIMATION
1. Alice in Wonderland
Beauty and the Beast
Dumbo
Fantasia
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pinocchio
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Toy Story

FANTASY
1. The Wizard of Oz
Conan the Barbarian
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Harvey
It's a Wonderful Life
Lost Horizon (1937)
Mary Poppins
Miracle on 34th Street
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

GANGSTER
1. The Godfather
Bonnie and Clyde
Bugsy
Bullets Over Broadway
The Godfather Part II
GoodFellas
Miller's Crossing
Prizzi's Honor
Pulp Fiction
Some Like It Hot
(although I'm not totally happy with the nominees, I'm watching the Lakers, so I'm not going to think too hard here.)

SCIENCE FICTION
1. Star Wars
Alien
Back to the Future
Children of Men
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Total Recall
2001: A Space Odyssey

WESTERN
1. Little Big Man
The Big Country
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dances With Wolves
One-Eyed Jacks
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Professionals
Red River
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch

SPORTS
1. Raging Bull
The Bad News Bears
Breaking Away
Bull Durham
The Hustler
The Longest Yard (1974)
National Velvet
Rocky
Rudy
Slap Shot

MYSTERY
1. Chinatown
The Big Sleep
In a Lonely Place
L.A. Confidential
The Maltese Falcon
Murder On the Orient Express
North by Northwest
SE7EN
Rear Window
Sleuth (1972)

ROMANTIC COMEDY
1. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
As Good As It Gets
Bringing Up Baby
Harold and Maude
It Happened One Night
Love in the Afternoon
Lover Come Back (1961)
Roman Holiday
Sabrina (1954)
Two for the Road

COURTROOM DRAMA
1. Paths of Glory
Anatomy of a Murder
...And Justice for All
The Caine Mutiny
Inherit the Wind
Judgment at Nuremburg
To Kill a Mockingbird
12 Angry Men
The Verdict
Witness For the Prosecution

EPIC
1. Schindler's List
Ben-Hur (1959)
Braveheart
The Bridge On the River Kwai
Glory
Gone With the Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
The Man Who Would Be King
Saving Private Ryan
Spartacus

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OK, the special aired tonight on CBS and these were the winners for each of the genres...


ANIMATION
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Bambi
4. The Lion King
5. Fantasia
6. Toy Story
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Shrek
9. Cinderella
10. Finding Nemo


FANTASY
1. The Wizard of Oz
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. King Kong (1933)
5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
6. Field of Dreams
7. Harvey
8. Groundhog Day
9. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
10. Big


SCIENCE FICTION
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Star Wars (1977)
3. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
6. Blade Runner
7. Alien (1979)
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
10. Back to the Future


SPORTS
1. Raging Bull
2. Rocky
3. The Pride of the Yankees
4. Hoosiers
5. Bull Durham
6. The Hustler
7. Caddyshack
8. Breaking Away
9. National Velvet
10. Jerry Maguire


WESTERNS
1. The Searchers
2. High Noon
3. Shane
4. Unforgiven
5. Red River
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
9. Stagecoach
10. Cat Ballou


GANGSTER
1. The Godfather
2. GoodFellas
3. The Godfather Part II
4. White Heat
5. Bonnie & Clyde
6. Scarface (1932)
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Public Enemy
9. Little Caesar
10. Scarface (1983)


MYSTERY
1. Vertigo
2. Chinatown
3. Rear Window
4. Laura
5. The Third Man
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. North by Northwest
8. Blue Velvet
9. Dial 'M' for Murder
10. The Usual Suspects


ROMANTIC COMEDY
1. City Lights
2. Annie Hall
3. It Happened One Night
4. Roman Holiday
5. The Philadelphia Story
6. When Harry Met Sally...
7. Adam's Rib
8. Moonstruck
9. Harold & Maude
10. Sleepless in Seattle


COURTROOM DRAMA
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Kramer vs. Kramer
4. The Verdict
5. A Few Good Men
6. Witness for the Prosecution
7. Anatomy of a Murder
8. In Cold Blood (1967)
9. A Cry in the Dark
10. Judgment at Nuremberg


EPIC
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Ben-Hur (1959)
3. Schindler's List
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Spartacus
6. Titanic
7. All Quiet On the Western Front
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Reds
10. The Ten Commandments (1956)

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Many of them had placed on various other AFI lists. The Wizard of Oz has shown up eleven times now, Gone with the Wind ten. Sixteen of the hundred had never been on any previous list: The Lion King, Shrek, Cinderella, Finding Nemo, The Thief of Bagdad, Groundhog Day, Back to the Future, Red River, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Hustler, Kramer vs. Kramer, Witness for the Prosecution, Anatomy of a Murder, In Cold Blood, A Cry in the Dark and Judgment at Nuremberg. All ten of the Epics, Mysteries, Gangster and Romantic Comedies had been on at least one previous AFI list. Courtroom Drama introduced the most new titles with six, and there were four virgins in Animation.

The happiest surprise for me was that McCabe & Mrs. Miller made the Westerns list. And I love that Harold & Maude placed on Romantic Comedy. Oh, and I'm very happy that Raging Bull edged out Rocky for number one on the Sports list.


As for the broadcast, it was OK, exactly what you'd expect from these things at this point. They had different actors or directors give each of the ten lists. Some made perfect sense, such as Clint Eastwood with the Westerns and Sigourney Weaver with the Sci-Fi, and some were head-scratchers like Jennifer Love Hewitt for the Animated flicks (I guess because she's still fairly young and she has a series on CBS, which airs the AFI specials?). And of course they had little snippets of thoughts and memories on the movies from some of the people involved in making them (Scorsese, Lumet, Spielberg, Polanski, Ridley Scott, Rob Reiner, Michael J. Fox, Jane Fonda, Harrison Ford, etc.) as well as just general Hollywood fans (Vanessa Williams?!?).


As usual there are a few jaw-droppers but no real surprises when you get to the top few of all the lists. You can argue about the order from now until kingdom come, but with a few exceptions (depending on taste)...those are a hundred pretty good flicks. Even the ones I don't like I'd recommend everybody see at least once, anyway, and about six dozen are inarguable classics that should be seen many multiple times and whenever possible.

Ms. Hewitt has done voice work in animation. Classics like Garfield and The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, that's probably why she was there.

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I was disappointed with Blade Runner being ranked so low, but at least they're finally including it in the lists these days.

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I kinda knew it would place around that spot. Of course, they had to throw Star Wars up there, even though I consider it Fantasy...A lot of people don't really get Blade Runner, so it slips down in the voting, I guess...

Also, curious as to which of those films you didn't like, Holden. I would think Titanic, for one...

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I agree and disagree with some of their choices. First and foremost, why isn't Once Upon a Time in The West on their Westerns list. How did The Usual Suspects beat out Se7en. Mean Streets or Once Upon a Time in America should have beaten out Little Caesar.

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Once Upon a Time in the West wasn't a primarily American production like just about every other film on the list.

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Don't I feel stupid. Leone made ...in the West. Never mind. Thanks haha. He made ...in America as well.

Overall I thought the list were great but

I would like to have seen

Here Comes Mr. Jordan in fantasy (instead of Big)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance or The Gunfighter in Westerns (instead of Cat Ballou)

Miller's Crossing in gangster (instead of Scarface (1983))

Remember the Titans in sports (instead of Jerry Maguire)

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God no, I'm glad Remember the Titans wasn't in there. It's a decent film, but it isn't top 10 material.

I liked Personal Best, but still my complaint is with the acting, not only Patrice Donnely, but Muriel Hemingway, it's just funny to mention something with her name in it in the top 10 of anything, although she was in Manhattan, so...
I do recall a beautiful and sensual love scene between the two leads, however, that scene could go in the top 10 sex scenes.