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*''[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)|Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]]'' (1984) was the highest-ranked animated film in an audience poll (with 80,402 voters) of 100 best animations, conducted by Japan’s [[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] in 2007. It was also the second highest animation overall on the list after the [[anime]] series ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. They were followed by ''[[Castle in the Sky]]'' (1986) in third place.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 100 Animations|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|year=2007|url=http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/hundred/bumon_anime.html|accessdate=2009-03-15}} (translation: [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fplaza.bunka.go.jp%2Fhundred%2Fbumon_anime.html&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8])</ref>
*''[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)|Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]]'' (1984) was the highest-ranked animated film in an audience poll (with 80,402 voters) of 100 best animations, conducted by Japan’s [[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] in 2007. It was also the second highest animation overall on the list after the [[anime]] series ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. They were followed by ''[[Castle in the Sky]]'' (1986) in third place.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 100 Animations|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|year=2007|url=http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/hundred/bumon_anime.html|accessdate=2009-03-15}} (translation: [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fplaza.bunka.go.jp%2Fhundred%2Fbumon_anime.html&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8])</ref>
*''[[Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal]]'' (1999) has been voted #1 on [[Anime News Network]]'s Top 500 [[anime]] list.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 500 Best Rated|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/ratings-anime.php?top50=best_bayesian&n=500|accessdate=2009-03-01}}</ref>
*''[[Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal]]'' (1999) has been voted #1 on [[Anime News Network]]'s Top 500 [[anime]] list.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 500 Best Rated|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/ratings-anime.php?top50=best_bayesian&n=500|accessdate=2009-03-01}}</ref>
*''[[Sita Sings the Blues]]'' (2008) is currently the highest ranked film on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]' "Best of Animation" list.<ref>{{cite web|title=Best of Animation|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes|url=http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt_genre.php?category=200207%2C+200015%2C+200016%2C+200017%2C+200135%2C+200231%2C+200293%2C+200438%2C+203590|accessdate=2010-01-11}}</ref>
*''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' (1937) was selected as the best American animated movie ever by the [[American Film Institute]] during their [[AFI's 10 Top 10|10 Top 10]].<ref name="Top 10">{{cite news | publisher = [[American Film Institute]] | title = AFI's 10 Top 10 | date = 2008-06-17 | url = http://www.afi.com/10top10/ | accessdate=2008-11-16}}</ref>
*''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' (1937) was selected as the best American animated movie ever by the [[American Film Institute]] during their [[AFI's 10 Top 10|10 Top 10]].<ref name="Top 10">{{cite news | publisher = [[American Film Institute]] | title = AFI's 10 Top 10 | date = 2008-06-17 | url = http://www.afi.com/10top10/ | accessdate=2008-11-16}}</ref>
*''[[Tale of Tales (film)|Tale of Tales]]'' (''Сказка сказок'') (1979) was voted by a large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad of Animation and the 2002 Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films.<ref>{{cite web
*''[[Tale of Tales (film)|Tale of Tales]]'' (''Сказка сказок'') (1979) was voted by a large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad of Animation and the 2002 Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films.<ref>{{cite web
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*''[[Toy Story]]'' (1995) was voted #1 on the Top 100 Animated Features of All Time by the [[Online Film Critics Society]] (list published March 2003).<ref>[http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/pages/pr/top100animated Top 100 Animated Features of All Time] at the [[Online Film Critics Society]] website.</ref>
*''[[Toy Story]]'' (1995) was voted #1 on the Top 100 Animated Features of All Time by the [[Online Film Critics Society]] (list published March 2003).<ref>[http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/pages/pr/top100animated Top 100 Animated Features of All Time] at the [[Online Film Critics Society]] website.</ref>
*''[[Toy Story 2]]'' (1999) topped a [[Rotten Tomatoes]] poll of the 50 best animated movies ever made.<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best_animated_films/toy_story_2/ Best Animated Films] at Rotten Tomatoes</ref> It is also #1 on their list of the best kids movies,<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt_genre.php?category=200002 Best of Kids/Family] at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-10-27</ref> and is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best animated movies.<ref>[http://www.mrqe.com/movies/special/best_cgi_animated_movies MRQE's Best CGI-Animated Movies]</ref>
*''[[Toy Story 2]]'' (1999) topped a [[Rotten Tomatoes]] poll of the 50 best animated movies ever made.<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best_animated_films/toy_story_2/ Best Animated Films] at Rotten Tomatoes</ref> It is also #1 on their list of the best kids movies,<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt_genre.php?category=200002 Best of Kids/Family] at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-10-27</ref> and is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best animated movies.<ref>[http://www.mrqe.com/movies/special/best_cgi_animated_movies MRQE's Best CGI-Animated Movies]</ref>
*''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]'' (2009) and ''[[WALL-E]]'' (2008) are currently tied for the highest rating of all animated films, on the top rated animated titles at the [[Internet Movie Database]].<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/chart/animation Top Rated "Animation" Titles] at IMDb. Retrieved 2009-10-26</ref> ''Up'' is also #1 on the [[Rotten Tomatoes]] list of the best animated movies.<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt_genre.php?category=200207%2C+200015%2C+200016%2C+200017%2C+200135%2C+200231%2C+200293%2C+200438%2C+203590 Best of Animation] at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-10-27</ref>
*''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]'' (2009) and ''[[WALL-E]]'' (2008) are currently tied for the highest rating of all animated films, on the top rated animated titles at the [[Internet Movie Database]].<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/chart/animation Top Rated "Animation" Titles] at IMDb. Retrieved 2009-10-26</ref> ''Up'' was also #1 on the [[Rotten Tomatoes]] list of the best animated movies.<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt_genre.php?category=200207%2C+200015%2C+200016%2C+200017%2C+200135%2C+200231%2C+200293%2C+200438%2C+203590 Best of Animation] at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-10-27</ref>
*''[[What's Opera, Doc?]]'' (1957) was voted the greatest animated short in animation historian [[Jerry Beck]]'s 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors.<ref>[[Jerry Beck|Beck, Jerry]] (ed.) (1994). ''[[The 50 Greatest Cartoons]]: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals''. Atlanta: Turner Publishing.</ref>
*''[[What's Opera, Doc?]]'' (1957) was voted the greatest animated short in animation historian [[Jerry Beck]]'s 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors.<ref>[[Jerry Beck|Beck, Jerry]] (ed.) (1994). ''[[The 50 Greatest Cartoons]]: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals''. Atlanta: Turner Publishing.</ref>


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*''[[Sholay|Sholay (Embers)]]'' (1975), a "[[Curry Western]]" [[Bollywood|Hindi film]] directed by [[Ramesh Sippy]], topped the [[British Film Institute]]'s poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 10 Indian Films|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|year=2002|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/india|accessdate=2009-03-14}}</ref>
*''[[Sholay|Sholay (Embers)]]'' (1975), a "[[Curry Western]]" [[Bollywood|Hindi film]] directed by [[Ramesh Sippy]], topped the [[British Film Institute]]'s poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 10 Indian Films|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|year=2002|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/india|accessdate=2009-03-14}}</ref>
*''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982), an [[Indian English]] [[biographical film]] about [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] directed by [[Richard Attenborough]], is the highest-ranked Indian co-production on the [[Internet Movie Database]]'s "Top 250 Movies" list.<ref>{{imdb title|id=0083987|title=Gandhi (1982)}}</ref>
*''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982), an [[Indian English]] [[biographical film]] about [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] directed by [[Richard Attenborough]], is the highest-ranked Indian co-production on the [[Internet Movie Database]]'s "Top 250 Movies" list.<ref>{{imdb title|id=0083987|title=Gandhi (1982)}}</ref>
*''[[Junoon (film)|Junoon]]'' (1978), produced by [[Shashi Kapoor]] and directed by acclaimed director [[Shyam Benegal]], is an Indian film about the violent uprising during the year 1857 and a beautiful love story at the backdrop. This film has received the highest acclaims from the reviewers. The film received awards for the best feature film and also swept many other awards such as the best cinematography, best editing, best dialogues and so on.<ref>[http://www.answers.com/topic/junoon-1978-film Answers.com]</ref>
*''[[Nayagan|Nayagan (The Leader)]]'' (1987), a [[Tamil cinema|Tamil film]] directed by [[Mani Ratnam]], is the highest-ranking Indian film and second highest-ranking [[Asian cinema|Asian film]] on [[Time (magazine)|''Time Magazine'']]'s "Readers Top Rated" list. [[Guru Dutt]]'s ''[[Pyaasa]]'' (1957) is the second highest-ranking Indian film and third highest-ranking Asian film on the list.<ref name=Time>{{cite web|title=Readers Top Rated: Your rankings of our ALL-TIME best films|publisher=[[Time (magazine)|''Time Magazine'']]|url=http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,ratethis,00.html|accessdate=2009-05-22}}</ref>
*''[[Nayagan|Nayagan (The Leader)]]'' (1987), a [[Tamil cinema|Tamil film]] directed by [[Mani Ratnam]], is the highest-ranking Indian film and second highest-ranking [[Asian cinema|Asian film]] on [[Time (magazine)|''Time Magazine'']]'s "Readers Top Rated" list. [[Guru Dutt]]'s ''[[Pyaasa]]'' (1957) is the second highest-ranking Indian film and third highest-ranking Asian film on the list.<ref name=Time>{{cite web|title=Readers Top Rated: Your rankings of our ALL-TIME best films|publisher=[[Time (magazine)|''Time Magazine'']]|url=http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,ratethis,00.html|accessdate=2009-05-22}}</ref>



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While there is no agreement upon the greatest film, many publications and organizations have tried to determine the films considered the greatest ever. The films mentioned in this article have all been mentioned in a notable survey — be it a popular poll or critics' poll. Many of these sources focus on American films or were polls of English-speaking film goers, but those considered the greatest within their respective countries are also included here.

None of these citations should be viewed as scientific measures of the film-watching world. All the surveys are flawed in one way or another. They are often influenced by vote stacking or they survey a population with skewed demographics. Internet-based surveys have a self-selecting audience of unknown participants. The methodology of some surveys may be questionable. Sometimes (as in the case of the American Film Institute) voters were asked to select films from a limited list of entries.

Polls of critics and filmmakers

  • Every decade, the British film monthly Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies--the only one most serious movie people take seriously."[1] The first poll, in 1952, was topped by Bicycle Thieves (1948).[2] The 2002 Sight and Sound critics' Top Ten Films
1. Citizen Kane
2. Vertigo
3. The Rules of the Game
4. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
5. Tokyo Story
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. The Battleship Potemkin
8. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
9.
10. Singin' in the Rain
Rank Film Director Year
1 Броненосец Потёмкин (The Battleship Potemkin) Sergei Eisenstein 1925
2 The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin 1925
3 Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) Vittorio De Sica 1948
4 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928
5 La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) Jean Renoir 1937
6 Greed Erich von Stroheim 1924
7 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages D. W. Griffith 1916
8 Мать (Mother) Vsevolod Pudovkin 1926
9 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941
10 Земля (Earth) Alexander Dovzhenko 1930

Audience polls

Particular genres or media

Action

Animation

Christmas

Comedy

Comicbook/Superhero

Courtroom

Crime/Gangster

Disaster

Documentary

Epic

Fantasy

Horror

Musical

Mystery

Propaganda

Romance

Science fiction

Sports

War

Western

Countries

Australia

Bangladesh

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

China

Denmark

  • Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) Carl Th. Dreyer's harrowing tale of adultery and repression is often cited in Denmark as the greatest Danish film.[100]
  • Flickering Lights (Blinkende lygter) the 2000 comedy about small-time gangsters was voted the Best Danish Film in a 2007 poll by Ekstra Bladet newspaper. Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration (Festen) was the runner-up.[101]

Finland

France

Germany

Hong Kong

Hungary

In 2000, Hungarian film critics chose the so-called "Budapest 12",[107] the twelve best films of Hungary:

India

Iran

  • Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine "Picture world" poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.[117]

Ireland

Israel

  • Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (1976) was voted "Favorite Israeli Film of all time" in a 2004 poll by Ynet, the web site of a popular Israeli newspaper. The film got 25,000 votes.[119]

Italy

Japan

  • Rashomon (羅生門), 1950: This film by Akira Kurosawa was the first Japanese film to gain worldwide acclaim. It is the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film in the Village Voice poll of "Best Films of the Century" (ranked #10).[6] It also tied for the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film on the Sight and Sound 2002 Directors' Top Ten Poll (ranked #9).[121]
  • Seven Samurai (七人の侍 Shichinin no Samurai), 1954: Also by Kurosawa, this period adventure film is frequently cited as the greatest Japanese film ever; at #12, it is the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film on the Internet Movie Database's "Top 250 movies" list.[122] It ranked, for the first time, at #3 in the 1982 Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll,[123] appeared on the Sight & Sound Directors' Top Ten Poll in 1992 (ranked #10),[124] and tied for the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film in 2002 (ranked #9).[121] It is ranked #2 on Rotten Tomatoes' top 100 foreign films,[91] and #3 on their top 100 action/adventure films.[48] It was also voted the "Best Japanese Film ever" in a 1979 Kinema Junpo critics’ poll.[125]
  • Tokyo Story (東京物語 Tokyo Monogatari), 1953: Directed by Yasujirō Ozu, is the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film on the 2002 Sight and Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll (ranked #5).[126] It was also declared the greatest film ever by Halliwell's Film Guide in 2005.[127]
  • Ugetsu, 1953: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, it was the highest-ranking Asian film in the Sight & Sound critics' polls in 1962 (ranked #4)[128] and 1972 (ranked #10).[129]

Mexico

  • El callejón de los milagros (Miracle Alley) is the most awarded film in Mexican history with 49 international awards.[130]
  • Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) is the highest rated film in Spanish on IMDb. While this film is set in Spain and primarily features Spanish actors, it was written and produced in Mexico and is considered a Mexican film.[131]

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

  • Flåklypa Grand Prix (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix - 1975 - Ivo Caprino): The people's choice for "Best Norwegian Film of the Century" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[133]
  • Ni Liv (Nine Lives - 1957 - Arne Skouen): The critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of the Century" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[133]

Pakistan

  • Baji (1963), directed by S. Suleman, topped the British Film Institute's critics poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time.[134]
  • Aina (1977), directed by Nazr-ul-Islam, topped the user poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time.[135]

Philippines

Poland

  • Sexmission (Seksmisja) is the best Polish film of the last 30 years according to a 2005 poll by readers of three popular film magazines.[140]. Seksmisja is also on the prominence position in the ranking of Polish movies on portal Filmweb.pl[141]. Other positions from the first ten places are: Polish-French cooproduction The Pianist (2002), comedies: The Day of a Freak (2002), Our Folks (1967), How I Unleashed World War II (1969), Teddy Bear (1980), Boys Don't Cry (2000), and dramas showing important social or political problem: The Debt (1999), Symmetry (2003), Psy-Pigs (1992).

Russia

Serbia

  • Who's That Singing Over There (Ko to tamo peva, 1980) was in 1996 voted the best Serbian movie made in the 1947-1995 period by the members of the Yugoslavian Board of the Academy of Film Art and Science (AFUN).[142]

South Korea

Sri Lanka

  • Pura Handa Kaluwara (1997), also known as Death on a Full Moon Day, directed by P. Vithanage and starring Joe Abeywickrama, topped the British Film Institute's poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time.[144]
  • Ananta Rathiriya (1995), directed by P. Vithanage, topped the user poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time.[145]

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

Since 1998, the American Film Institute has assembled juries of film community leaders and polled them for a series of top 100 lists. Two of the lists from the series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies from 1998 and AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) from 2007, identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever. In other years, AFI's jury members selected Some Like It Hot the greatest American comedy, Psycho as the most thrilling American movie, Casablanca as the greatest American love story, Singin' in the Rain as the greatest American film musical, and It's a Wonderful Life as the most inspiring American film.[153]

See also

Notes

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  2. ^ a b "Sight & Sound - Top ten". Retrieved 2008-11-11.
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  7. ^ Władysław Jewsiewicki: "Kronika kinematografii światowej 1895-1964", Warsaw 1967, no ISBN, page 129 (in Polish)
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  51. ^ Best of Drama at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-10-27
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  64. ^ West Side Story Tops Best Movie Musical
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