| 10th anniversary 2007 list |
Director |
Year |
Studio |
| Citizen Kane" |
WellesOrson Welles |
1941 |
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| GodfatherThe Godfather |
CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola |
1972 |
Paramount |
| Casablanca |
CurtizMichael Curtiz |
1942 |
Warner Brothers |
| Raging Bull |
ScorseseMartin Scorsese |
1980 |
United Artists |
| Singin' in the Rain |
KellyGene Kelly, Stanley Donen |
1952 |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Gone with the Wind |
FlemingVictor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited), Sam Wood (uncredited) |
1939 |
MGM (distributor), Selznick International Pictures |
| Lawrence of Arabia |
LeanDavid Lean |
1962 |
Columbia |
| Schindler's List |
SpielbergSteven Spielberg |
1993 |
Universal |
| Vertigo |
HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock |
1958 |
Paramount |
| WizardThe Wizard of Oz |
FlemingVictor Fleming |
1939 |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| City Lights |
ChaplinCharlie Chaplin |
1931 |
United Artists |
| SearchersThe Searchers |
FordJohn Ford |
1956 |
Warner Brothers |
| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
LucasGeorge Lucas |
1977 |
20th Century Fox |
| Psycho |
HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock |
1960 |
Paramount |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
KubrickStanley Kubrick |
1968 |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Sunset Boulevard |
Wilder Billy Wilder |
1950 |
Paramount |
| GraduateThe Graduate |
NicholsMike Nichols |
1967 |
United Artists |
| GeneralThe General |
KeatonBuster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman |
1927 |
United Artists |
| On the Waterfront |
KazanElia Kazan |
1954 |
Columbia |
| It's a Wonderful Life |
CapraFrank Capra |
1946 |
RKO |
| Chinatown |
Polanski Roman Polanski |
1974 |
Paramount |
| Some Like It Hot |
WilderBilly Wilder |
1959 |
United Artists |
| GrapesThe Grapes of Wrath |
FordJohn Ford |
1940 |
20th Century Fox |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
SpielbergSteven Spielberg |
1982 |
Universal |
| KillTo Kill a Mockingbird |
MulliganRobert Mulligan |
1962 |
Universal-International |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
CapraFrank Capra |
1939 |
Columbia |
| High Noon |
ZinnemannFred Zinnemann |
1952 |
United Artists |
| All About Eve |
MankiewiczJoseph L. Mankiewicz |
1950 |
20th Century Fox |
| Double Indemnity |
WilderBilly Wilder |
1944 |
Paramount |
| Apocalypse Now |
CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola |
1979 |
United Artists |
| MalteseThe Maltese Falcon |
HustonJohn Huston |
1941 |
Warner Brothers |
| GodfatherThe Godfather Part II |
CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola |
1974 |
Paramount |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
FormanMiloš Forman |
1975 |
United Artists |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
HandDavid Hand |
1937 |
RKO |
| Annie Hall |
AllenWoody Allen |
1977 |
United Artists |
| BridgeThe Bridge on the River Kwai |
LeanDavid Lean |
1957 |
Columbia |
| BestThe Best Years of Our Lives |
WylerWilliam Wyler |
1946 |
RKO, Samuel Goldwyn |
| Treasure The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
HustonJohn Huston |
1948 |
Warner Brothers |
| Dr. Strangelove |
KubrickStanley Kubrick |
1964 |
Columbia |
| SoundThe Sound of Music |
WiseRobert Wise |
1965 |
20th Century Fox |
| King Kong |
CooperMerian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack |
1933 |
RKO |
| Bonnie and Clyde |
PennArthur Penn |
1967 |
Warner Brothers |
| Midnight Cowboy |
SchlesingerJohn Schlesinger |
1969 |
United Artists |
| PhiladelphiaThe Philadelphia Story |
CukorGeorge Cukor |
1940 |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Shane |
StevensGeorge Stevens |
1953 |
Paramount |
| It Happened One Night |
CapraFrank Capra |
1934 |
Columbia |
| StreetcarA Streetcar Named Desire |
KazanElia Kazan |
1951 |
Warner Brothers |
| Rear Window |
HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock |
1954 |
Paramount |
| Intolerance |
GriffithD. W. Griffith |
1916 |
Triangle |
| LordThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
JacksonPeter Jackson |
2001 |
New Line Cinema |
| West Side Story |
RobbinsJerome Robbins, Robert Wise |
1961 |
United Artists |
| Taxi Driver |
ScorseseMartin Scorsese |
1976 |
Columbia Pictures |
| DeerThe Deer Hunter |
CiminoMichael Cimino |
1978 |
Universal |
| MASH |
AltmanRobert Altman |
1970 |
20th Century Fox |
| North by Northwest |
HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock |
1959 |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Jaws |
Spielberg Steven Spielberg |
1975 |
Universal |
| Rocky |
AvildsenJohn G. Avildsen |
1976 |
United Artists |
| GoldThe Gold Rush |
ChaplinCharlie Chaplin |
1925 |
United Artists |
| Nashville |
AltmanRobert Altman |
1975 |
ABC Entertainment |
| Duck Soup |
McCareyLeo McCarey |
1933 |
Paramount Pictures |
| Sullivan's Travels |
SturgesPreston Sturges |
1941 |
Paramount Pictures |
| American Graffiti |
LucasGeorge Lucas |
1973 |
Universal |
| Cabaret |
FosseBob Fosse |
1972 |
Allied Artists |
| Network |
LumetSidney Lumet |
1976 |
MGM, United Artists |
| AfricanThe African Queen |
HustonJohn Huston |
1951 |
United Artists |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark |
SpielbergSteven Spielberg |
1981 |
Paramount |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Nichols Mike Nichols |
1966 |
Warner Bros. |
| Unforgiven |
EastwoodClint Eastwood |
1992 |
Warner Brothers |
| Tootsie |
PollackSydney Pollack |
1982 |
Columbia |
| ClockworkA Clockwork Orange |
KubrickStanley Kubrick |
1971 |
Warner Brothers |
| Saving Private Ryan |
SpielbergSteven Spielberg |
1998 |
DreamWorks |
| ShawshankThe Shawshank Redemption |
DarabontFrank Darabont |
1994 |
Warner Brothers |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
HillGeorge Roy Hill |
1969 |
20th Century Fox |
| SilenceThe Silence of the Lambs |
DemmeJonathan Demme |
1991 |
Orion Pictures |
| In the Heat of the Night |
JewisonNorman Jewison |
1967 |
United Artists |
| Forrest Gump |
ZemeckisRobert Zemeckis |
1994 |
Paramount |
| All the President's Men |
PakulaAlan J. Pakula |
1976 |
Warner Brothers |
| Modern Times |
ChaplinCharlie Chaplin |
1936 |
United Artists |
| WildThe Wild Bunch |
PeckinpahSam Peckinpah |
1969 |
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
| ApartmentThe Apartment |
WilderBilly Wilder |
1960 |
United Artists |
| Spartacus |
KubrickStanley Kubrick |
1960 |
Universal-International |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
MurnauF. W. Murnau |
1927 |
20th Century Fox |
| Titanic |
CameronJames Cameron |
1997 |
Paramount, 20th Century Fox |
| Easy Rider |
HopperDennis Hopper |
1969 |
United Artists |
| NightA Night at the Opera |
WoodSam Wood |
1935 |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Platoon |
StoneOliver Stone |
1986 |
Orion Pictures |
| 12 Angry Men |
LumetSidney Lumet |
1957 |
United Artists |
| Bringing Up Baby |
HawksHoward Hawks |
1938 |
Warner Brothers |
| SixthThe Sixth Sense |
ShyamalanM. Night Shyamalan |
1999 |
Buena Vista Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company |
| Swing Time |
StevensGeorge Stevens |
1936 |
RKO |
| Sophie's Choice |
PakulaAlan J. Pakula |
1982 |
ITC Entertainment |
| Goodfellas |
ScorseseMartin Scorsese |
1990 |
Warner Brothers |
| FrenchThe French Connection |
FriedkinWilliam Friedkin |
1971 |
20th Century Fox |
| Pulp Fiction |
TarantinoQuentin Tarantino |
1994 |
Miramax |
| LastThe Last Picture Show |
BogdanovichPeter Bogdanovich |
1971 |
Columbia Pictures |
| Do the Right Thing |
LeeSpike Lee |
1989 |
40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks |
| Blade Runner |
ScottRidley Scott |
1982 |
The Ladd Company |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy |
CurtizMichael Curtiz |
1942 |
Warner Brothers |
| Toy Story |
LasseterJohn Lasseter |
1995 |
Disney, Pixar |
| Ben-Hur |
WylerWilliam Wyler |
1959 |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |