MoFo Sight & Sound 2003 Results

THE MOVIE FORUM SIGHT & SOUND POLL 2003

WINNING FILM: The Godfather & The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 & 1974 | 5 votes (3.125%)

RUNNER UP: The Shawshank Redemption
Frank Darabont | 1994 | 4 votes (2.5%)

FILMS WITH THREE VOTES (1.875%):
Casablanca [1942 | Michael Curtiz]
Chinatown [1974 | Roman Polanski]
Lawrence of Arabia [1962 | David Lean]
Pulp Fiction [1994 | Quentin Tarantino]
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring [2001 | Peter Jackson]
The Silence Of The Lambs [1991 | Jonathan Demme]

FILMS WITH TWO VOTES (1.25%):
2001: A Space Odyssey [1968 | Stanley Kubrick]
Apocalypse Now [1979 | Francis Ford Coppola]
Arsenic And Old Lace [1944 | Frank Capra]
BladeRunner [1982 | Ridley Scott]
Duck Soup [1933 | Leo McCarey]
Forrest Gump [1994 | Robert Zemeckis]
It's A Wonderful Life [1946 | Frank Capra]
O, Brother Where Art Thou? [2000 | Joel Coen]
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest [1975 | Milos Forman]
Spirited Away [2002 | Hayao Miyazaki]
Star Wars: A New Hope [1977 | George Lucas]
The Maltese Falcon [1941 | John Huston]
The Matrix [1999 | Andy & Larry Wachowski]
To Kill A Mockingbird [1962 | Robert Mulligan]
Vertigo [1958 | Alfred Hitchcock]
Young Frankenstein [1974 | Mel Brooks]


WINNING DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese 10 votes (6.84%)
RUNNER UP: Alfred Hitchcock 9 votes (6.16%)
THIRD PLACE: Steven Spielberg 8 votes (5.47%)
FOURTH PLACE: Francis Ford Coppola 7 votes (4.79%)
TIED FIFTH PLACE: Stanley Kubrick & Quentin Tarantino 6 votes each (4.1%)
SIXTH PLACE: Joel Coen 5 votes (3.42%)

DIRECTORS WITH FOUR VOTES (2.73%):
Tim Burton
James Cameron
David Lynch
Robert Zemeckis

DIRECTORS WITH THREE VOTES (2.05%):
Frank Capra
Peter Jackson
Akira Kurosawa
Ridley Scott

DIRECTORS WITH TWO VOTES (1.36%):
Brian De Palma
Fritz Lang
George Lucas
Hayao Miyazaki
Yasujiro Ozu
Steven Soderbergh
Orson Welles

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Too predictable... that's why I didn't bother doing it.

Uh, yeah, whatever.

I think the results were completely unpredictable. Maybe not so much with the directors, but I am genuinely suprised with the films. I was thinking we were going to get a heap of people saying that Fight Club or The Matrix were the best films of all time. I think the results are actually quite encouraging.

I wasn't expecting those to win, but I knew they'd show up. Godfather, Shawshank, Casablanca, Silence of the Lambs, Lord of the Rings... they always pop up and take charge.

Yes. As predictable as night.

Weak list.

Vaguely prescient, eh?

I'm not sure what is so 'encouraging' about people preferring Lord of the Rings or The Shawshank Redemption to Fight Club and The Matrix...

You don't think the first two are far superior films to the last two?

I can't really see the differences in artistry between them; they're all equally effective at just entertaining the viewer and not much else.