The AFI lists the top 10 films in 10 genres

[TVC15]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080618/ap_en_mo/film_afi_top100_5
http://www.avclub.com/content/newswire/afi_names_top_genre_films

Animation

1. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, 1937

2. Pinocchio, 1940

3. Bambi, 1942

4. The Lion King, 1994

5. Fantasia, 1940

6. Toy Story, 1995

7. Beauty And The Beast, 1991

8. Shrek, 2001

9. Cinderella ,1950

10. Finding Nemo, 2003

Fantasy

1. The Wizard Of Oz, 1939

2. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, 2001

3. It's A Wonderful Life, 1946

4. King Kong, 1933

5. Miracle On 34th Street, 1947

6. Field Of Dreams, 1989

7. Harvey, 1950

8. Groundhog Day, 1993

9. The Thief Of Bagdad, 1924

10. Big, 1988

Science Fiction

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 (woohoo, they got this right)

2. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977

3. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982

4. A Clockwork Orange, 1971

5. The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951

6. Blade Runner, 1982

7. Alien, 1979

8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991

9. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ,1956

10. Back To The Future, 1985

Sports

1. Raging Bull, 1980

2. Rocky, 1976

3. The Pride Of The Yankees, 1942

4. Hoosiers, 1986

5. Bull Durham, 1988

6. The Hustler, 1961

7. Caddyshack, 1980

8. Breaking Away, 1979

9. National Velvet, 1944

10. Jerry Maguire, 1996

Western

1. The Searchers, 1956

2. High Noon, 1952

3. Shane, 1953

4. Unforgiven, 1992

5. Red River, 1948

6. The Wild Bunch, 1969

7. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, 1969

8. McCabe And Mrs. Miller, 1971

9. Stagecoach, 1939

10. Cat Ballou, 1965

Where's the fuckin' spaghetti?  They bombed this category.  They aren't listing only American movies.

Gangster

1. The Godfather, 1972

2. Goodfellas, 1990

3. The Godfather Part II, 1974

4. White Heat, 1949

5. Bonnie And Clyde ,1967

6. Scarface: The Shame Of The Nation, 1932

7. Pulp Fiction ,1994

8. The Public Enemy, 1931

9. Little Caesar, 1931

10. Scarface, 1983

Mystery

1. Vertigo, 1958

2. Chinatown, 1974

3. Rear Window, 1954

4. Laura, 1944

5. The Third Man, 1949  (this should be higher)

6. The Maltese Falcon, 1941  (so should this)

7. North By Northwest, 1959

8. Blue Velvet, 1986 (omg cummmmm)

9. Dial M For Murder, 1954

10. The Usual Suspects, 1995 (should be lower. Overrated movie total)

Romantic Comedies 

1. City Lights, 1931

2. Annie Hall, 1977 (<3 woody)

3. It Happened One Night, 1934

4. Roman Holiday, 1953

5. The Philadelphia Story, 1940

6. When Harry Met Sally..., 1989

7. Adam's Rib, 1949

8. Moonstruck, 1987

9. Harold And Maude, 1971

10. Sleepless In Seattle, 1993

Courtroom Drama

1. To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962 (I'd personally put 12 Angry Men here--I'm not sure I'd call this a pure courtroom drama)

2. 12 Angry Men, 1957

3. Kramer Vs. Kramer, 1979

4. The Verdict, 1982

5. A Few Good Men, 1992

6. Witness For The Prosecution, 1957

7. Anatomy of a Murder, 1959

8. In Cold Blood, 1967

9. A Cry In The Dark, 1988

10. Judgment At Nuremberg, 1961

Epic

1. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962

2. Ben-Hur, 1959

3. Schindler's List, 1993

4. Gone With The Wind, 1939

5. Spartacus, 1960

6. Titanic, 1997

7. All Quiet On The Western Front, 1930

8. Saving Private Ryan, 1998

9. Reds, 1981

10. The Ten Commandments, 1956

[The Fake Shemp]

These picks are all fucked up.  And the Western genre was a disaster.  No Sergio Leone films?  What the hell.

And horror genre doesn't get any picks?  Lame.

[TVC15]

I think the AFI might have done a list for horror by itself in the past.  That's the only possible reason they would have skipped it.

I think they must be running out of lists to do, lol.

Yeah, here's horror (er, 100 Years, 100 Thrills, there's some like, not horror on this):

http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/thrills.aspx

1. PSYCHO 1960
2. JAWS 1975
3. THE EXORCIST 1973
4. NORTH BY NORTHWEST 1959
5. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1991
6. ALIEN 1979
7. THE BIRDS 1963
8. THE FRENCH CONNECTION 1971
9. ROSEMARY'S BABY 1968
10. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 1981
11. THE GODFATHER 1972
12. KING KONG 1933
13. BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967
14. REAR WINDOW 1954
15. DELIVERANCE 1972
16. CHINATOWN 1974
17. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 1962
18. VERTIGO 1958
19. THE GREAT ESCAPE 1963
20. HIGH NOON 1952
21. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971
22. TAXI DRIVER 1976
23. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
24. DOUBLE INDEMNITY 1944
25. TITANIC 1997
26. THE MALTESE FALCON 1941
27. STAR WARS 1977
28. FATAL ATTRACTION 1987
29. THE SHINING 1980
30. THE DEER HUNTER 1978
31. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 1977
32. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 1951
33. THE FUGITIVE 1993
34. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 1955
35. JURASSIC PARK 1993
36. BULLITT 1968
37. CASABLANCA 1942
38. NOTORIOUS 1946
39. DIE HARD 1988
40. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968
41. DIRTY HARRY 1971
42. THE TERMINATOR 1984
43. THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939
44. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982
45. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998
46. CARRIE 1976
47. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 1956
48. DIAL M FOR MURDER 1954
49. BEN-HUR 1959
50. MARATHON MAN 1976
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51. RAGING BULL 1980
52. ROCKY 1976
53. PULP FICTION 1994
54. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 1969
55. WAIT UNTIL DARK 1967
56. FRANKENSTEIN 1931
57. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN 1976
58. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI 1957
59. PLANET OF THE APES 1968
60. THE SIXTH SENSE 1999
61. CAPE FEAR 1962
62. SPARTACUS 1960
63. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? 1962
64. TOUCH OF EVIL 1958
65. THE DIRTY DOZEN 1967
66. THE MATRIX 1999
67. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE 1948
68. HALLOWEEN 1978
69. THE WILD BUNCH 1969
70. DOG DAY AFTERNOON 1975
71. GOLDFINGER 1964
72. PLATOON 1986
73. LAURA 1944
74. BLADE RUNNER 1982
75. THE THIRD MAN 1949
76. THELMA & LOUISE 1991
77. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 1991
78. GASLIGHT 1944
79. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 1960
80. REBECCA 1940
81. THE OMEN 1976
82. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL 1951
83. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 1925
84. POLTERGEIST 1982
85. DRACULA 1931
86. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY 1945
87. THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD 1951
88. 12 ANGRY MEN 1957
89. THE GUNS OF NAVARONE 1961
90. THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE 1972
91. BRAVEHEART 1995
92. BODY HEAT 1981
93. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1968
94. THE CHINA SYNDROME 1979
95. FULL METAL JACKET 1987
96. BLUE VELVET 1986
97. SAFETY LAST 1923
98. BLOOD SIMPLE 1984
99. SPEED 1994
100. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD 1938


Keep in mind that I dunno how old that list is.

[The Fake Shemp]

That's not a horror genre list!  Half the films on there are on their other lists.

SPEED IS ON THAT LIST.

[TVC15]

STFU Will.  Are you trying to tell me that Ben-Hur isn't a horror film?

[Mandark]

These picks are all fucked up.  And the Western genre was a disaster.  No Sergio Leone films?  What the hell.

And horror genre doesn't get any picks?  Lame.

AMERICAN Film Institute.

I was watching some of this on TV and was trying to figure out if Lawrence of Arabia qualified when they were listing the Epic movies.

[TVC15]

These picks are all fucked up.  And the Western genre was a disaster.  No Sergio Leone films?  What the hell.

And horror genre doesn't get any picks?  Lame.

AMERICAN Film Institute.

I was watching some of this on TV and was trying to figure out if Lawrence of Arabia qualified when they were listing the Epic movies.

They are pretty loose about what they qualify as American.  The Third Man is as American as any of the big Leone spaghetti westerns.

[Mandark]

True, though I still think they left off the Leone films for that reason.  The Third Man was on their top 100 back in the day.

These lists, especially with the AFI, are basically about what's considered important in the film canon and needs to be represented.  This one is particularly awkward with the labels to boot.

They botched the Westerns, the Animation one proves how thin animated features have been in this country, Mystery shafts film noirs by making them split a category with Hitchcock thrillers, and Fantasy is just all over the damn place.

I think the AFI should do a series of middlebrow documentaries on better-defined genres, sort of a Behind the Music level thing where they can give people a run down of older and foreign stuff they wouldn't look at otherwise.

[lordmaji]

oh... not the band AFI?

bummer.

[bagofeyes]

ET in the sci-fi top 10? ewwww.

[Raban]

Dumbest fucking list I've ever read. It doesn't even make sense.

[jiji]

Shrek? Shrek?!

[Mupepe]

what the fuck?  that is the worst list ever.  even those romantic comedies are trash.  what the fuck

[Phoenix Dark]

They got Raging Bull correct as well. I'm a LOTR fanboy but even I wouldn't put it #2 on the fantasy list, especially a list that includes It's a Wonderful Life

[Mupepe]

seriously, or especially when a movie like pan's labyrinth exists.

[Great Rumbler]

seriously, or especially when a movie like pan's labyrinth exists.

Pan's Labyrinth isn't American no matter how you look at it.

[Mupepe]

seriously, or especially when a movie like pan's labyrinth exists.

Pan's Labyrinth isn't American no matter how you look at it.

oh yeah, that part slipped my mind :p

STILL

[cool breeze]

Several picks there make me want to vomit on these people.  Shrek has no place anywhere near the top 10 animation.  No Gattaca in the top 10 is disgusting.  Western is just all kinds of shit.  Gangster is actually pretty good. 

[TakingBackSunday]

Beauty and the Beast rapes the shit out of Snow White.

[Tauntaun]

Alien is 7?  7?!?!?!?   

[Mandark]

I have a huge soft spot for Breaking Away, so I was glad to see it make the sports list.  Field of Dreams shouldn't be anywhere, but I'm glad they stuck it in fantasy to avoid placing it higher than Bull Durham in sports, which would be a travesty.

L.A. Confidential should have been the modern mystery representative instead of Usual Suspects.  The Big Sleep should be there too.

Annie Hall should be the #1 romantic comedy.  Eternal Sunshine, The Goodbye Girl, The Thin Man, and A Night At The Opera should all be on that list.  I'm fudging the criteria on those last two, but Sleepless in Seattle!?  I think Roman Holiday is waaaay overrated, and I've got a big retro-crush on Audrey Hepburn.  Why not Sabrina?

Kind of surprised that Inherit the Wind didn't make the courtroom drama list.  Haven't seen enough of those movies to bitch about it though.

[recursivelyenumerable]

LOTR over Wonderful Life? Is this a joke list.

at least they had the sense to limit themselves to the only good Jackson LOTR movie.

[BobbyRobby]

Groundhog Day

[Ganhyun]

OMG lists fail.




But I do agree the gangsta list is all right.

[Himu]

That animation list is pathetic.

[Himu]

No Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Most of that list is bullshit.

[Ganhyun]

That animation list is pathetic.

Seriously pathetic.

[Himu]

raiders of the lost ark is horror? what's with the lack of the good, bad, and ugly and the rest of the dollars trilogy?

AFI FAILS

[Himu]

That's not a horror genre list!  Half the films on there are on their other lists.

SPEED IS ON THAT LIST.

 

[Himu]

ctrl + f

*himu types*

last of the mohicans

"no results"

FAIL

[Tucah]

Shrek but no Iron Giant 

[WrikaWrek]

I stopped reading when Lion King wasn't first in animation.

What's the point, if you can't even get animation right, you can't get anything right.

Snow white? Seriously? F that.

[Rman]

You two make a cute couple.

[Phoenix Dark]

LOTR over Wonderful Life? Is this a joke list.

at least they had the sense to limit themselves to the only good Jackson LOTR movie.

eat a dick

[xnikki118x]

When Harry Met Sally... like DEFINES the genre of romantic comedy and should totally be higher.

The Lion King

I have to laugh at that "horror" list TVC posted from that site, because I just glanced at it and saw Titanic and lol'd SO HARD.

[CHOW CHOW]

Although I totally respect older films from past generations, they personally do nothing for me, and most of the lists are comprised of them.

There are few exceptions like Lawrence of Arabia, Bonnie & Clyde, etc., that still stand up to this day (imo).

[thekavorka]

good to see AFI recognize that Fellowship was the best LOTR movie.

come on, did you really expect them to list any spaghetti westerns? at least the director of the Third Man could speak english.

Maybe to be qualified, at least one of the producers has to be American?

[Mupepe]

i wish el topo was american.  best western movie.