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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003) is number 1 on the list of the top rated fantasy titles at the [[Internet Movie Database]].<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/chart/fantasy Top Rated "Fantasy" Titles] on IMDb. Retrieved 2010-02-23</ref> It is the only film in the genre to win the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]. It also won 11 [[Academy Awards]], the highest number of any film ever made (tying with ''Ben-Hur'' and ''Titanic''). It is also the only film in history having won Best Film awards from both [[Academy Award for Best Film|Academy]], [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|BAFTA]], [[Empire Award for Best Film|Empire]], [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Golden Globe]], [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation|Hugo]], [[MTV Movie Award for Best Movie|MTV]], and [[Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film|Saturn Awards]].
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939) was selected as the best American fantasy movie ever by the [[American Film Institute]] during their 10 Top 10.<ref name="Top 10"/>
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939) was selected as the best American fantasy movie ever by the [[American Film Institute]] during their 10 Top 10.<ref name="Top 10"/>
* ''[[Spirited Away]]'' (2001) is the highest-ranking animated film on "The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time" list published by ''[[The Guardian]]'', and the second highest-ranking fantasy film on on the list after ''The Wizard of Oz''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time: the full list|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/21/science-fiction-fantasy-25|work=[[The Guardian]]|accessdate=9 August 2012|date=21 October 2010}}</ref>
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' film series is currently one of the best reviewed of all time, with the final instalment, ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2]]'' winning Best Reviewed film of 2011 on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003) is number 1 on the list of the top rated fantasy titles at the [[Internet Movie Database]].<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/chart/fantasy Top Rated "Fantasy" Titles] on IMDb. Retrieved 2010-02-23</ref> It is the only film in the genre to win the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]. It also won 11 [[Academy Awards]], the highest number of any film ever made (tying with ''Ben-Hur'' and ''Titanic''). It is also the only film in history having won Best Film awards from both [[Academy Award for Best Film|Academy]], [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|BAFTA]], [[Empire Award for Best Film|Empire]], [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Golden Globe]], [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation|Hugo]], [[MTV Movie Award for Best Movie|MTV]], and [[Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film|Saturn Awards]].


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While there is no general agreement upon the greatest film, many publications and organizations have tried to determine the films considered the best. 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. 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]

  • Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles was voted number one in the five Sight & Sound critics' polls from 1962 to 2002.[2] A separate Sight & Sound poll of established film directors, held for the first time in 1992, also placed Citizen Kane at the top in 1992 and 2002.[2] Citizen Kane was also selected as number one in a Village Voice and in a Time Out critics' poll. It was listed as the greatest American film by the American Film Institute in both the first (1998) and second (2007) versions of its 100 Years... 100 Movies list.
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll, in 1952. It also came number seven in 1962 and number six in 2002.[2] It also came number ten in the 2012 directors' poll.[3]
  • Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane.[3] It also came number 7 in 1982, number 4 in 1992, and number two in 2002.[2] In the directors' poll, it came number 6 in 1992 and 2002,[2] and number 7 in 2012.[3]
  • The Searchers (1956) is the film most often mentioned in a poll of the favorite films of directors by German language Steadycam magazine in 1995.[8]

The Brussels World’s Fair, organized in 1958, offered the occasion for the organization by thousands of critics and filmmakers from all over the world, of the first universal film poll in history.[9] These were the films chosen as most artistically fulfilled:[10][11][12][13]

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
11 Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) F.W. Murnau 1924
12 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) Robert Wiene 1920

Audience polls

Particular genres or media

Action

Animation

Christmas

Comedy

Comic book / superhero

Courtroom

Crime / gangster

Disaster

Documentary

Epic

Fantasy

High school

Horror/thriller

Musical

Mystery

Political / historical

Propaganda

Religious

Romance

Science fiction

Sports

War

Western

Countries

Australia

Bangladesh

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

Czech Republic / Slovakia

In a poll of filmmakers, critics, and theorists Marketa Lazarova was named best film in the 100 years of Czechoslovak cinema.[192]

Chile

China

Croatia

  • Tko pjeva zlo ne misli (One Who Sings Means No Harm, 1970) was voted the best Croatian all time movie by the Croatian Society of Film Critics.

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.[195]
  • 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.[196]

Egypt

To mark the centennial of Egyptian cinema, Al Ahram daily newspaper asked the country's top 20 critics to choose the best 15 best Egyptian films of all time. This is the result of the poll (first published July 12, 2007):

Estonia

  • Kevade (Spring, 1969) received the first place in the Estonian feature films Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian film critics and journalists.[197]

Finland

France

Germany

Hong Kong

Hungary

In 2000, Hungarian film critics chose the so-called "Budapest 12",[204] the twelve best films of Hungary:

  1. Szegénylegények (The Round-Up) – Miklós Jancsó
  2. Szerelem (Love) – Károly Makk
  3. Szindbád (Sinbad) – Zoltán Huszárik
  4. Emberek a havason (Men on the Mountain) – István Szőts
  5. Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe) – Géza von Radványi
  6. Megáll az idő (Time Stands Still) – Péter Gothár
  7. Hyppolit, a lakáj (Hyppolit) – István Székely
  8. Körhinta (Merry-Go-Round) – Zoltán Fábri
  9. A kis Valentino (Little Valentino) – András Jeles
  10. Az én XX. Századom (My 20th Century) – Ildikó Enyedi
  11. Apa (Father) – István Szabó
  12. Hannibál tanár úr (Professor Hannibal) – Zoltán Fábri

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.[217]

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.[219]

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 number 10).[7] It also tied for the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film on the Sight and Sound 2002 Directors' Top Ten Poll (ranked number 9).[223]
  • 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 number 12, it is the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film on the Internet Movie Database's "Top 250 movies" list.[224] It ranked, for the first time, at number 3 in the 1982 Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll,[225] appeared on the Sight & Sound Directors' Top Ten Poll in 1992 (ranked number 10),[226] tied for the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film in 2002 (ranked number 9),[223] and ranked number seventeen on the 2012 critics' poll.[227] It is ranked number 2 on Rotten Tomatoes' top 100 foreign films,[186] and number 1 on their top 100 action/adventure films.[31] It was also voted the "Best Japanese Film ever" in a 1979 Kinema Junpo critics’ poll.[228] It also topped Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" list.[229]
  • 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 number 5).[230] It was also declared the greatest film ever by Halliwell's Film Guide in 2005.[231] In 2012, Tokyo Story topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll, dethroning Citizen Kane for the first time since the directors' poll began in 1992, and has also come third place in the 2012 critics' poll.[3]
  • Ugetsu (雨月物語 Ugetsu Monogatari), 1953: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, it was the highest-ranking Asian film in the Sight & Sound critics' polls in 1962 (ranked number 4)[232] and 1972 (ranked number 10).[233]

Macedonia

Mexico

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.[235]
  • Ni Liv (Nine Lives – 1957 – Arne Skouen): The critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of the Century" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[235]

Pakistan

  • Baji (1963), directed by S. Suleman, topped the British Film Institute's critics poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time.[236]
  • Aina (1977), directed by Nazr-ul-Islam, topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time.[237]

Philippines

Poland

Romania

Best 10 Romanian films as considered by the Union of Romanian Cineastes and the Film Critics Association[246] (Uniunea Cineaştilor din România şi Asociaţia Criticilor de Film):

  1. Reconstituirea (The Reenactment – Lucian Pintilie, 1968)
  2. Pădurea spânzuraţilor (The Forest of the Hanged – Liviu Ciulei, 1965)
  3. Moartea domnului Lazarescu (The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu – Cristi Puiu, 2005
  4. 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
  5. Secvenţe (Sequences) – Alexandru Tatos, 1982
  6. Nunta de piatră (The Stone Wedding) – Mircea Veroiu, Dan Piţa. 1973
  7. La moara cu noroc (Victor Iliu. 1956)
  8. A fost sau n-a fost? (12:08 East of Bucharest – Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006)
  9. Probă de microfon (Microphone Test) (Mircea Daneliuc, 1979)
  10. Croaziera (The Cruise) (Mircea Daneliuc, 1981)

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).[247]

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.[251]
  • Ananta Rathiriya (1995), directed by P. Vithanage, topped the user poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time.[252]

Sweden

  • The Emigrants (Utvandrarna): Jan Troell's naturalist masterwork is often cited in Sweden as the greatest Swedish film of all-time.[citation needed]
  • Persona: Acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman's movie reached the highest position (number 5 in 1972) of any Swedish film on any of Sight & Sound's lists of greatest films of all time.[citation needed]
  • The Seventh Seal (Sjunde Inseglet), also directed by Ingmar Bergman, is the highest rated Swedish film on the IMDb top 250 list.[23]

Taiwan

Turkey

  • In 2003 Ankara Sinema Derneği (Ankara Association for Cinema Culture) chose the "Best 10 Turkish films ever" by a poll among people who are interested in cinema professionally:[254]
  1. Yol (1982), Şerif Gören
  2. Umut (1970), Yılmaz Güney
  3. Sürü (1978), Zeki Ökten
  4. Muhsin Bey (1987), Yavuz Turgul
  5. Masumiyet (1997), Zeki Demirkubuz
  6. Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım (1978), Atıf Yılmaz
  7. Anayurt Oteli (1986), Ömer Kavur
  8. Susuz Yaz (1964), Metin Erksan
  9. Gelin (1973), Ömer Lütfi Akad
  10. Uzak (2002), Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Ukraine

  1. Земля (Earth), one of the World's twelve greatest films of all time (Brussels World's Fair, 1958).[255][256]
  2. Пропала грамота (The Lost Letter), was banned in Soviet Union. 20 years later was awarded with Golden Pagoda during the Bangkok International Film Festival, 1991.
  3. Тіні забутих предків (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) received the British Academy Award and Grand Prix at Mar del Plata International Film Festival (1965)

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, 100 Years... 100 Movies from 1998 and 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.[262]

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