AFI Announces Top 10 in Top 10 Genres
What are your favorite films in Fantasy, Epic, Gangster, Courtroom, and more...?
Interesting facts about the list include:
– The earliest entry on the list is THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Fantasy) from 1924; with the most recent being FINDING NEMO (Animated) from 2003.
– Alfred Hitchcock is the most represented director with 4 films; Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick follow with 3 entries each.
– James Stewart is the most represented actor with 6 entries; Tom Hanks is next with 4; Warren Beatty, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, James Earl Jones, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and John Wayne all have 3 films each.
– Diane Keaton is the most represented actress with 4 films on the list; Grace Kelly and Talia Shire each have 3 entries.
To compile the final list, AFI distributed a ballot with 500 nominated movies (50 per genre) to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians.
AFI asks jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process:
FEATURE-LENGTH FICTION FILMS
Narrative format, typically over 60 minutes in length.
AMERICAN FILM
English-language film with significant creative and/or production elements from the United States. Additionally, only films released before January 1, 2008 will be considered.
GENRE:
ANIMATED
AFI defines "animated" as a genre in which the film's images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors.
FANTASY
AFI defines "fantasy" as a genre where live-action characters inhabit imagined settings and/or experience situations that transcend the rules of the natural world.
GANGSTER
AFI defines the "gangster film" as a genre that centers on organized crime or maverick criminals in a twentieth century setting.
SCIENCE FICTION
AFI defines "science fiction" as a genre that marries a scientific or technological premise with imaginative speculation.
WESTERN
AFI defines "western" as a genre of films set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier.
SPORTS
AFI defines "sports" as a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition.
MYSTERY
AFI defines "mystery" as a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime.
ROMANTIC COMEDY
AFI defines "romantic comedy" as a genre in which the development of a romance leads to comic situations.
COURTROOM DRAMA
AFI defines "courtroom drama" as a genre of film in which a system of justice plays a critical role in the film's narrative.
EPIC
AFI defines "epic" as a genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic interpretation of the past. Their scope defies and demands-either in the mode in which they are presented or their range across time.
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
Including success at the box office, television and cable airing, and DVD/VHS sales and rentals.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
A film's mark on the history of moving images through visionary narrative devices, technical innovation, or other ground breaking achievements.
CULTURAL IMPACT
A film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance.
AFI allows one write-in vote per genre.
At the conclusion of AFI's 10 TOP 10 special at 11:00 p.m. EDT, AFI will premiere a companion web site at http://www.AFI.com that will feature over 400 video clips about all 100 movies within the 10 genres. The site will also feature movie trailers and interview clips, AFI Catalog entries, movie stills and posters. Users can also download all of AFI's popular movie lists, and can comment about their favorite movies on the site. The site will also feature a new edition of 'AFI's 10 TOP 10 Movie Quiz' that tests players' knowledge of the movies from the 10 genres.
The primetime special was executive produced and directed by Gary Smith; executive produced for AFI by former AFI Board Chair Emeritus Frederick S. Pierce; and produced by Dann Netter. SFM Entertainment LLC is the distributor of the program. Sponsors of the series have included Pepsi, Best Buy, Breyers, ConAgra, Procter & Gamble, Anheuser-Busch, Colgate-Palmolive, Sony and all major motion picture companies.
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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?