AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
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On January 18, 2007, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that the 10th installment of their Emmy Award-winning AFI 100 Years... series would be the updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies. The original list was first unveiled in 1998.
AFI’s 100 Years...100 Movies—10th Anniversary Edition counted down the 100 greatest American movies of all time in a three-hour television event on CBS on June 20th and was hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman. The program considered classic favorites and newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006. AFI will undertake broadcasting a program like this every 10 years to mark changing cultural perspectives.
AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movies to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians.
Criteria
AFI asks jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process:
- Feature-length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes in length.
- American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
- Critical Recognition: Formal commendation in print, television, and digital media.
- Major Award Winner: Recognition from competitive events including awards from peer groups, critics, guilds and major film festivals.
- Popularity Over Time: This includes success at the box office, television and cable airings, and DVD/VHS sales and rentals.
- Historical Significance: A film's mark on the history of the moving image through visionary narrative devices, technical innovation or other groundbreaking achievements.
- Cultural Impact: A film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance.
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The List
Trivia about the ballots
- Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart are the most represented male actor, with 10 films. Cary Grant has nine, while Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson have eight.
- Katharine Hepburn is the top female actor, with seven films. Lillian Gish and Bette Davis each have five.
- 1939 and 1942 saw the release of 11 films each.
- Alfred Hitchcock and William Wyler directed 10 films each. Steven Spielberg and Howard Hawks are next, with eight films each, with Billy Wilder and George Stevens following with seven.
- Ernest Lehman was the screenwriter for six films.
- The ballot includes entries that range from D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat from 1915, to Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Good Night, and Good Luck., all from 2005.
- About 11 percent of the ballot (44 films) comes from the last 10 years, newly eligible since the original AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies.
- Only Citizen Kane and The Godfather Part II are the same on both lists.
- The Lord of the Rings is the only movie in the list that is from the 2000's
- Citizen Kane is the only movie that is at the same spot on both lists.