Sight & Sound: 2002 Directors Poll

Top films as voted by select directors. The Sight & Sound poll is perhaps the most renowned film poll. Critic 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."

# Film Year Country Director
1 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
2 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Coppola
3 1963 France, Italy Federico Fellini
4 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
5 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 USA, UK, UK Stanley Kubrick
6 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
7 Raging Bull 1980 USA Martin Scorsese
8 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
9 Rashomon 1950 Japan Akira Kurosawa
10 The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
11 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa