An Introduction to Film

524 FURTHER VIEWING

Sight & Sound: Top Ten Best Movies of All Time

Every ten years since 1952, the editors of Sight & Sound—the official publication of the British Film Insti-
tute—have asked some 200 film critics and directors from around the world to choose the top ten feature
films made anytime, anywhere in the world. The results are separated into two lists—one derived from the
responses by film critics and one from the responses by directors. The following are the results from the
most recent poll, published in 2012.

Rank Year of Release Title Director(s)

THE CRITICS’ CHOICES

1 1958 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock

2 1941 Citizen Kane Orson Welles

3 1953 Tokyo Story Ozu Yasujirô

4 1939 The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir

5 1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau

6 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick

7 1956 The Searchers John Ford

8 1929 The Man With the Movie Camera Dziga Vertov

9 1927 The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Dreyer

10 1963 81 / 2 Federico Fellini

THE DIRECTORS’ CHOICES

11953 Tokyo Story Ozu Yasujirô

21968 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick

21941 Citizen Kane Orson Welles

41963 81 / 2 Federico Fellini

51976 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese

61979 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola

71972 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola

71958 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock

91974 Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky

10 1949 The Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica

Source: British Film Institute, http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound (accessed August 3, 2012).