AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies. The original list was unveiled in 1998.

Criteria AFI asked jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process: Feature length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes long. American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production from the United States. (A number of films on the list were British-made but financed by American studios; these include Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and A Clockwork Orange.) 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: 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.

List Rank 10th anniversary list (2007) Director Year Production companies Change from 1998 1. Citizen KaneOrson Welles 1941 Mercury Productions, RKO Radio Pictures 2.The GodfatherFrancis Ford Coppola 1972 Paramount Pictures, Alfran Productions 3. CasablancaMichael Curtiz 1942 Warner Bros. 4. Raging BullMartin Scorsese 1980 Chartoff-Winkler Productions 5. Singin' in the RainGene Kelly, Stanley Donen 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 6. Gone with the WindVictor Fleming 1939 Selznick International Pictures 7. Lawrence of ArabiaDavid Lean 1962 Horizon Pictures 8. Schindler's ListSteven Spielberg 1993 Amblin Entertainment 9. VertigoAlfred Hitchcock 1958 Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions 10.The Wizard of OzVictor Fleming 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 11. City LightsCharlie Chaplin 1931 Charles Chaplin Productions 12.The SearchersJohn Ford 1956 C. V. Whitney Pictures 13. Star WarsGeorge Lucas 1977 Lucasfilm 14. PsychoAlfred Hitchcock 1960 Shamley Productions 15. 2001: A Space OdysseyStanley Kubrick 1968 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 16. Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 1950 Paramount Pictures 17.The GraduateMike Nichols 1967 Lawrence Turman 18.The GeneralBuster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman 1926 Buster Keaton ProductionsNEW 19. On the WaterfrontElia Kazan 1954 Horizon-American Pictures 20. It's a Wonderful LifeFrank Capra 1946 Liberty Films 21. Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974 Long Road Productions 22. Some Like It HotBilly Wilder 1959 Ashton Productions, The Mirisch Company 23.The Grapes of WrathJohn Ford 1940 20th Century-Fox 24. E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialSteven Spielberg 1982 Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment 25.To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan 1962 Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Brentwood Productions 26. Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonFrank Capra 1939 Columbia Pictures 27. High NoonFred Zinnemann 1952 Stanley Kramer Productions 28. All About EveJoseph L. Mankiewicz 1950 20th Century-Fox 29. Double IndemnityBilly Wilder 1944 Paramount Pictures 30. Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola 1979 Omni Zoetrope 31.The Maltese FalconJohn Huston 1941 Warner Bros. 32.The Godfather Part IIFrancis Ford Coppola 1974 The Coppola Company 33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestMiloš Forman 1975 Fantasy Films 34. Snow White and the Seven DwarfsDavid Hand 1937 Walt Disney 35. Annie HallWoody Allen 1977 United Artists 36.The Bridge on the River KwaiDavid Lean 1957 Horizon-American Pictures 37.The Best Years of Our LivesWilliam Wyler 1946 Samuel Goldwyn Productions 38. The Treasure of the Sierra MadreJohn Huston 1948 Warner Bros. 39. Dr. StrangeloveStanley Kubrick 1964 Hawk Films, Polaris Productions 40.The Sound of MusicRobert Wise 1965 Argyle Enterprises, 20th Century-Fox 41. King KongMerian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933 RKO Radio Pictures 42. Bonnie and ClydeArthur Penn 1967 Tatira-Hiller Productions 43. Midnight CowboyJohn Schlesinger 1969 Jerome Hellman Productions 44.The Philadelphia StoryGeorge Cukor 1940 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 45. ShaneGeorge Stevens 1953 Paramount Pictures 46. It Happened One NightFrank Capra 1934 Columbia Pictures 47.A Streetcar Named DesireElia Kazan 1951 Warner Bros., Charles K. Feldman Productions 48. Rear WindowAlfred Hitchcock 1954 Paramount Pictures, Patron 49. IntoleranceD.W. Griffith 1916 D.W. Griffith, Wark ProducingNEW 50.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingPeter Jackson 2001 New Line Cinema, WingNut FilmsNEW 51. West Side StoryJerome Robbins, Robert Wise 1961 Beta Productions, The Mirisch Company, Seven Arts Productions, B & P Enterprises 52. Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese 1976 B & P Enterprises, Italo-Judeo 53.The Deer HunterMichael Cimino 1978 EMI 54. M*A*S*HRobert Altman 1970 Aspen Productions 55. North by NorthwestAlfred Hitchcock 1959 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 56. Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975 Universal Pictures, Zanuck/Brown Company 57. Rocky John G. Avildsen 1976 Chartoff/Winkler Productions 58.The Gold RushCharlie Chaplin 1925 Charles Chaplin Productions 59. NashvilleRobert Altman 1975 ABC EntertainmentNEW 60. Duck SoupLeo McCarey 1933 Paramount Productions, Inc. 61. Sullivan's TravelsPreston Sturges 1941 Paramount PicturesNEW 62. American GraffitiGeorge Lucas 1973 Coppola Co., Lucasfilm 63. CabaretBob Fosse 1972 ABC PicturesNEW 64. NetworkSidney Lumet 1976 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 65.The African QueenJohn Huston 1951 Horizon Enterprises, Romulus Films 66. Raiders of the Lost ArkSteven Spielberg 1981 Lucasfilm 67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mike Nichols 1966 Chenault Productions, Warner Bros.NEW 68. UnforgivenClint Eastwood 1992 The Malpaso Company 69. TootsieSydney Pollack 1982 Mirage Enterprises, Punch Productions, Columbia Pictures, Delphi Productions 70.A Clockwork OrangeStanley Kubrick 1971 Polaris Productions, Hawk Films 71. Saving Private RyanSteven Spielberg 1998 Amblin Entertainment, Mutual Film CompanyNEW 72.The Shawshank RedemptionFrank Darabont 1994 Castle Rock EntertainmentNEW 73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidGeorge Roy Hill 1969 Campanile Productions 74.The Silence of the LambsJonathan Demme 1991 Strong Heart Productions 75. In the Heat of the NightNorman Jewison 1967 The Mirisch CorporationNEW 76. Forrest GumpRobert Zemeckis 1994 The Tisch Company 77. All the President's MenAlan J. Pakula 1976 Wildwood EnterprisesNEW 78. Modern TimesCharlie Chaplin 1936 Charles Chaplin Film Corp. 79.The Wild BunchSam Peckinpah 1969 Phil Feldman Productions, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts 80.The ApartmentBilly Wilder 1960 The Mirisch Company 81. SpartacusStanley Kubrick 1960 Bryna Productions, Universal-International PicturesNEW 82. Sunrise: A Song of Two HumansF. W. Murnau 1927 Fox FilmNEW 83. TitanicJames Cameron 1997 Paramount Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, Lightstorm EntertainmentNEW 84. Easy RiderDennis Hopper 1969 The Pando Company, Raybert Productions 85.A Night at the OperaSam Wood 1935 Metro-Goldwyn-MayerNEW 86. PlatoonOliver Stone 1986 Hemdale Film Corporation 87. 12 Angry MenSidney Lumet 1957 Orion-Nova ProductionsNEW 88. Bringing Up BabyHoward Hawks 1938 RKO Radio Pictures 89.The Sixth SenseM. Night Shyamalan 1999 Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall CompanyNEW 90. Swing TimeGeorge Stevens 1936 RKO Radio PicturesNEW 91. Sophie's ChoiceAlan J. Pakula 1982 ITC Entertainment, Marble Arch ProductionsNEW 92. GoodfellasMartin Scorsese 1990 Warner Bros., Irwin Winkler Productions 93.The French ConnectionWilliam Friedkin 1971 D'Antoni Productions 94. Pulp FictionQuentin Tarantino 1994 A Band Apart, Jersey Films 95.The Last Picture ShowPeter Bogdanovich 1971 BBS ProductionsNEW 96. Do the Right ThingSpike Lee 1989 40 Acres & A Mule FilmworksNEW 97. Blade RunnerRidley Scott 1982 The Ladd Company, Sir Run Run ShawNEW 98. Yankee Doodle DandyMichael Curtiz 1942 Warner Bros. 99. Toy StoryJohn Lasseter 1995 Pixar, Walt Disney PicturesNEW 100. Ben-HurWilliam Wyler 1959 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Changes from the original list The following films from the 1998 list were left off the 2007 list:

39. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 44. The Birth of a Nation (1915) 52. From Here to Eternity (1953) 53. Amadeus (1984) 54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 57. The Third Man (1949) 58. Fantasia (1940) 59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 63. Stagecoach (1939) 64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 68. An American in Paris (1951) 73. Wuthering Heights (1939) 75. Dances with Wolves (1990) 82. Giant (1956) 84. Fargo (1996) 86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 87. Frankenstein (1931) 89. Patton (1970) 90. The Jazz Singer (1927) 91. My Fair Lady (1964) 92. A Place in the Sun (1951) 99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Added were:

18. The General (1926) 49. Intolerance (1916) 50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 59. Nashville (1975) 61. Sullivan's Travels (1941) 63. Cabaret (1972) 67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 71. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 75. In the Heat of the Night (1967) 77. All the President's Men (1976) 81. Spartacus (1960) 82. Sunrise (1927) 83. Titanic (1997) 85. A Night at the Opera (1935) 87. 12 Angry Men (1957) 89. The Sixth Sense (1999) 90. Swing Time (1936) 91. Sophie's Choice (1982) 95. The Last Picture Show (1971) 96. Do the Right Thing (1989) 97. Blade Runner (1982) 99. Toy Story (1995)

Of the 77 films that remained on the list, 36 improved their ranking, 38 saw their ranking decline, and three kept their positions: Citizen Kane, The Godfather Part II, and The Best Years of Our Lives. The Searchers had the highest increase in ranking, moving from #96 to #12. The greatest decrease without being dropped was The African Queen, which went from #17 to #65. The oldest film to be dropped was D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), from #44. The oldest film to be added was Griffith's Intolerance (1916) (#49). The newest film removed is Fargo (1996), the newest added The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), which is also the only film on the list released after 1999. The highest-ranked addition was The General at #18. The highest-ranked removal was Doctor Zhivago (#39). Duck Soup, featuring the Marx Brothers, moved up 25 positions to #60. It was replaced at #85 by another film starring them, A Night at the Opera. Seventy-three of the films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Twenty-eight won, including Sunrise (1927), which won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production (an award that was only presented at the first ceremony). The original list has 75 Academy Awards Best Picture nominees and 33 winners. In the 2007 list, eight of the top ten films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with five winning. In the original list, nine out of the top ten were nominees, and six won. Two animated films appear on each list. In 1998, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ranked at #49, and Fantasia at #58. Snow White moved up to #34 in 2007, while Fantasia was dropped, and Toy Story was added at #99. Three were produced by Walt Disney Productions, while Toy Story was a joint production of Walt Disney Studios and Pixar, making Toy Story the only Pixar film on either list.

Most films by director

5 Steven Spielberg. Spielberg also had five films on the original list, but not the same five. Close Encounters of the Third Kind was dropped and Saving Private Ryan added.

4 Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Billy Wilder

3 Frank Capra Charlie Chaplin Francis Ford Coppola John Huston Martin Scorsese

2 Robert Altman Michael Curtiz Victor Fleming John Ford Elia Kazan David Lean George Lucas Sidney Lumet Mike Nichols Alan J. Pakula George Stevens Robert Wise William Wyler

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