AFI Announces Top 10 in Top 10 Genres
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What are your favorite films in Fantasy, Epic, Gangster, Courtroom, and more...?
The American Film Institute has a new list, or lists, for us to complain about because it wasn't written up the way we would have liked. It's ten separate lists, listing off the top ten films in ten separate genres including sci-fi, rom-com, gangster, epic, sports, western, animation, courtroom drama, mystery and fantasy. The top films in each genre look like this:
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Science Fiction)
- CITY LIGHTS (Romantic Comedy)
- THE GODFATHER (Gangster)
- LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Epic)
- RAGING BULL (Sports)
- THE SEARCHERS (Western)
- SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (Animation)
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Courtroom Drama)
- VERTIGO (Mystery)
- THE WIZARD OF OZ (Fantasy)
I have listed below each genre's top ten and then on the second page there is a bunch of mumbo-jumbo about the selection process if you are interested.
AFI's honorees are:
ANIMATION
- SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 1937
- PINOCCHIO 1940
- BAMBI 1942
- THE LION KING 1994
- FANTASIA 1940
- TOY STORY 1995
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 1991
- SHREK 2001
- CINDERELLA 1950
- FINDING NEMO 2003
FANTASY
- THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939
- THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001
- IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1946
- KING KONG 1933
- MIRACLE ON 34th STREET 1947
- FIELD OF DREAMS 1989
- HARVEY 1950
- GROUNDHOG DAY 1993
- THE THIEF OF BAGDAD 1924
- BIG 1988
GANGSTER
- THE GODFATHER 1972
- GOODFELLAS 1990
- THE GODFATHER PART II 1974
- WHITE HEAT 1949
- BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967
- SCARFACE: THE SHAME OF A NATION 1932
- PULP FICTION 1994
- THE PUBLIC ENEMY 1931
- LITTLE CAESAR 1930
- SCARFACE 1983
SCIENCE FICTION
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968
- STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE 1977
- E.T. – THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL 1982
- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971
- THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL 1951
- BLADE RUNNER 1982
- ALIEN 1979
- TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 1991
- INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 1956
- BACK TO THE FUTURE 1985
WESTERN
- THE SEARCHERS 1956
- HIGH NOON 1952
- SHANE 1953
- UNFORGIVEN 1992
- RED RIVER 1948
- THE WILD BUNCH 1969
- BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 1969
- McCABE & MRS. MILLER 1971
- STAGECOACH 1939
- CAT BALLOU 1965
SPORTS
- RAGING BULL 1980
- ROCKY 1976
- THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES 1942
- HOOSIERS 1986
- BULL DURHAM 1988
- THE HUSTLER 1961
- CADDYSHACK 1980
- BREAKING AWAY 1979
- NATIONAL VELVET 1944
- JERRY MAGUIRE 1996
MYSTERY
- VERTIGO 1958
- CHINATOWN 1974
- REAR WINDOW 1954
- LAURA 1944
- THE THIRD MAN 1949
- THE MALTESE FALCON 1941
- NORTH BY NORTHWEST 1959
- BLUE VELVET 1986
- DIAL M FOR MURDER 1954
- THE USUAL SUSPECTS 1995
ROMANTIC COMEDY
- CITY LIGHTS 1931
- ANNIE HALL 1977
- IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT 1934
- ROMAN HOLIDAY 1953
- THE PHILADELPHIA STORY 1940
- WHEN HARRY MET SALLY … 1989
- ADAM'S RIB 1949
- MOONSTRUCK 1987
- HAROLD AND MAUDE 1971
- SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE 1993
COURTROOM DRAMA
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1962
- 12 ANGRY MEN 1957
- KRAMER VS. KRAMER 1979
- THE VERDICT 1982
- A FEW GOOD MEN 1992
- WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION 1957
- ANATOMY OF A MURDER 1959
- IN COLD BLOOD 1967
- A CRY IN THE DARK 1988
- JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG 1961
EPIC
- LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
- BEN-HUR 1959
- SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
- GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
- SPARTACUS 1960
- TITANIC 1997
- ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1930
- SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998
- REDS 1981
- THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 1956
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Yup, I dont agree with the list, except raging bull. Here's mine:
sci-fi: terminator 2
rom-com: can't think of any, but if it's just comedy then Superbad
gangster: scarface
epic: LOTR trilogy
sports: raging bull
western: proposition
animation: lion king
courtroom drama: few good men
mystery: Seven
fantasy: LOTR trilogy
Goodfellas > The Godfather
A few thing I think should have been different:
Fantasy: replace Fellowship with Return of the King
Science Fiction: replace New Hope with Empire, and put it #1…2001 is completely overrated. And add Planet of the Apes
Westerns: put Open Range on there somewhere
Sports: add Cinderella Man
Courtroom drama: add Runaway Jury
Epic: agree with above poster, LOTR is as epic as they come, plus, Lawrence of Arabia bores me
does the afi have one really big eyebrow and like pizza alot ?
As a humble fan of good movies, I am not really concerned about the movies list mentioned here as much as I am really concerned
about who were comprised in the group that voted for the Sc-Fi genre. I and my girlfriend, both software engineers and my sister,
a main-frame programmer herself, have always been interested in sci-fi movies, however whackily or realistically they have been
made. From the movies mentioned in the sci-fi list, we have watched exactly eight of those. And after a not-so-long discussion, we
immediately came to the conclusion, that the jury is SIMPLY INCOMPETENT to understand SCIENCE. Not surprising, considering
that (according to this article) the jury consisted of – over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists
(directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians. Fiction, maybe they understood. But they
should not, in my humble opinion, have had the rights to vote for the Sci-Fi section where Science was concerned.
Reason: There is this particular movie created by a Master, that we three, have described in single line as – ' The Most Realistic
Non-Exaggerated Practical Scientific Movie ever made.' – This Master is non other than Steven Spielberg and the movie is
'Artificial Intelligence(2001)' and we all three (me, my sis, my GF) have majored in AI. That speaks for itself. And this movie is
simply not present anywhere in the Top 10 (?) Sci-Fi List. Ouch! That hurts.
The fact that this movie does not contain any black leather, Ray-Bans, bullets, guns, explosions, ruthless man-killing robots and
mind-boggling action scenes or other fireworks does not mean that this movie is not a Sci-Fi Masterpiece.
This is movie has not been made keeping the ordinary non-technical movie-loving public in mind even though ironically it IS
concerned with the very near-future of all human beings.
So we three, who also enjoy-adore-love good movies even as fictional as 'The Lord of the Rings', have this to say about the Sci-Fi list of AFI – "That Sci-Fi List is Trash without the Best Sci-Fictional and yet realistic Movie of all time – Artificial Intelligence (2001) and the Jury is hypocrite."
My request to AFI jury or anyone in general: "Just because you failed to understand (a movie/anything in life), Never Under-rate it.Take opinion of someone who is Expert in that field to rate it."
As a humble fan of good movies, I am not really concerned about the movies list mentioned here as much as I am really concerned about who were comprised in the group that voted for the Sc-Fi genre. I and my girlfriend, both software engineers and my sister, a main-frame programmer herself, have always been interested in sci-fi movies, however whackily or realistically they have been made.
From the movies mentioned in the sci-fi list, we have watched exactly eight of those. And after a not-so-long discussion, we immediately came to the conclusion, that the jury is SIMPLY INCOMPETENT to understand SCIENCE. Not surprising, considering that (according to this article) the jury consisted of – over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians. Fiction, maybe they understood. But they should not, in my humble opinion, have had the rights to vote for the Sci-Fi section where Science was concerned.
Reason: There is this particular movie created by a Master, that we three, have described in single line as – ' The Most Realistic Non-Exaggerated Practical Scientific Movie ever made.' – This Master is non other than Steven Spielberg and the movie is 'Artificial Intelligence(2001)' and this movie is simply not present anywhere in the Top 10 (?) Sci-Fi List. Ouch! That hurts. We all three (me, my sis, my GF) have majored in AI. That speaks for itself.
The fact that this movie does not contain any black leather, Ray-Bans, bullets, guns, explosions, ruthless man-killing robots and mind-boggling action scenes or other fireworks does not mean that this movie is not a Sci-Fi Masterpiece. This is movie has not been made keeping the ordinary non-technical movie-loving public in mind even though ironically it IS concerned with the very near-future of all human beings.
The out-of-this-world 'Star-Wars', any one can make – a whole series of it. But it requires gumption to create one single masterpiece like 'Artificial Intelligence(2001)'
So we three, who also enjoy-adore-love good movies even as fictional as 'The Lord of the Rings', have this to say about the Sci-Fi list of AFI – "That Sci-Fi List is Trash without the Best Sci-Fi Movie of all time – Artificial Intelligence (2001) and the Jury is
hypocrite."My request to AFI jury or anyone in general: "Never under-rate (a movie/anything in life) simply because you do not understand it. Ask some one who is Expert in to rate it"
A suggestion to anybody who is reading this: Watch 'AI' keeping your feet on the ground and feel the effect of getting enlightened.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit should have been number 1 in fantasy. It was the first time people actually saw live action mixed with a toon. Who didn't fancy Jessica Rabbit back then. Here would be my fantasy 10
1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (set the standard of live action/animation hybrid movies also the sexiest toon ever came from here)
2. Lord of the Rings (brought interest back to the genre)
3. Pirates of the Carribean (brought back interest to the pirate world)
4. The Chronicles of Narnia (the franchise that renewed interest in it's books)
5. Batman (DC Comics' biggest film franchise)
6. James and the Giant Peach (first time live action and stopmotion was mixed)
7. Spider-Man (Marvel Comics' biggest film franchise)
8. Superman (started interest in superheroe movies)
9. Big (made body swap movies mainstream)
10. Harry Potter (most sucessful film series period)
Does anyone have issiues with my list?