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The 100 Most Acclaimed
Movies of All Time
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Academy Awards
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Los Angeles Film Critics Assoc.
National Film Registry
National Society of Film Critics
New York Film Critics Circle
Sight & Sound critics poll

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Sight & Sound International Critics Poll

Limited to: feature films made any time, anywhere
Type of honor: poll conducted every 10 years since 1952, in the second year of each decade
Selected by: an international assortment of film critics and directors (200 in 1992), selected by the editors of Sight & Sound; in 1992, the directors' choices were tallied separately
Sponsored by: Sight & Sound, a prestigious British film magazine
Announced:
every 10 years; next in 2002

"The Sight & Sound poll is generally considered the most authoritative
of all 'best film' lists..."  
-- Roger Ebert

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The Lists

1992
1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (43 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (32) FR
3) Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu, 1953 (22) JP
4) Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (18) US
5) The Searchers John Ford, 1956 (17) US
6) L'Atalante Jean Vigo, 1934 (15) FR
6) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (15) FR
6) Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray, 1955 (15) IN
6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (15) USSR
10) 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (14) UK

1982
1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (45 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (31) FR
3) The Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa, 1954 (15) JP
3) Singin' in the Rain Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952 (15) US
5) 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, 1963 (14) IT
6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (13) USSR
7) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (12) IT
7) The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles, 1942 (12) US
7) Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (12) US
10) The General Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (11) US
10) The Searchers John Ford, 1956 (11) US

1972
1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (32 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (28) FR
3) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
4) 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, 1963 (15) IT
5) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (12) IT
5) Persona Ingmar Bergman, 1967 (12) SW
7) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (11) FR
8) The General Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (10) US
9) The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles, 1942 (10) US
10) Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (9) JP
10) Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman, 1957 (9) SW

1962
1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (22 votes) US
2) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (20) IT
3) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (19) FR
4) Greed Erich von Stroheim, 1924 (17) US
4) Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (17) JP
6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
6) The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (16) IT
6) Ivan the Terrible Sergei Eisenstein, 1943-46 (16) USSR
9) La terra trema Luchino Visconti, 1948 (14) IT
10) L'Atalante Jean Vigo, 1934 (13) FR

1952
1) The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (25 votes) IT
2) City Lights Charles Chaplin, 1930 (19) US
2) The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin, 1925 (19) US
4) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
5) Intolerance DW Griffith, 1916 (12) US
5) Louisiana Story Robert Flaherty, 1947 (12) US
7) Greed Erich von Stroheim, 1924 (11) US
7) Le Jour se leve Marcel Carne, 1939 (11) FR
7) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (11) FR
10) Brief Encounter David Lean, 1945 (10) UK
10) Le Million Rene Clair, 1930 (10) FR
10) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (10) FR


 

Directors' top films
(1992)

Citizen Kane
Raging Bull
8 1/2
La Strada
L'Atlante
Modern Times
The Godfather
Vertigo
Seven Samurai
The Godfather (Part II)

Directors'
top directors
(1992)

Federico Fellini
Orson Welles
Akira Kurosawa
Francis Ford Coppola
Luis Buñuel
Martin Scorsese
Ingmar Bergman
Charles Chaplin
John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock

Critics' top directors
(1992)

Orson Welles
Jean Renoir
Jean-Luc Godard
Alfred Hitchcock
Charles Chaplin
John Ford
Satjayit Ray
Yasujiro Ozu
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sergei Eisenstein

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