528 FURTHER VIEWING
Entertainment Weekly:
One Hundred Greatest Movies of All Time
Following publication of the American Film Institute’s list, many critics and pundits criticized it for its
omissions and the order of its rankings. Among the alternative lists that were published soon after the
AFI’s was Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Greatest Movies of All Time, published in book form in 1999. The list
was selected from 500 choices nominated by Entertainment Weekly’s editors. In addition to correcting what-
ever omissions the Entertainment Weeklyeditors perceived in AFI’s listing of top American movies, the list
also included movies made outside the United States.
1 1972 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
2 1941 Citizen Kane Orson Welles
3 1942 Casablanca Michael Curtiz
4 1974 Chinatown Roman Polanski
5 1980 Raging Bull Martin Scorsese
6 1960 La dolce vita Federico Fellini
7 1974 The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola
8 1939 Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming
9 1959 Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder
10 1952 Singin’ in the Rain Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
11 1960 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock
12 1954 The Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa
13 1956 The Searchers John Ford
14 1964 Dr. Strangelove Stanley Kubrick
15 1925 The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin
16 1977 Star Wars George Lucas
17 1954 On the Waterfront Elia Kazan
18 1962 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean
19 1958 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock
20 1982 E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial Steven Spielberg
21 1950 All about Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz
22 1948 Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica
23 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (no director credited)
24 1938 Bringing Up Baby Howard Hawks
25 1916 Intolerance D. W. Griffith
26 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick
27 1940 The Grapes of Wrath John Ford
28 1950 Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder
29 1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino
30 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank CapraRank Year of Release Title Director(s)