The Hollywood Reporter: Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films

A poll of 2,120 industry members, across every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in Hollywood

# Film Year Country Director
1 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Coppola
2 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
3 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
4 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 USA Frank Darabont
5 Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
6 Casablanca 1943 USA Michael Curtiz
7 The Godfather Part II 1974 USA, USA, USA Francis Ford Coppola
8 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
9 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
10 Schindler's List 1993 USA Steven Spielberg
11 Star Wars 1977 USA, USA, USA George Lucas
12 Back to the Future 1985 USA Robert Zemeckis
13 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA Steven Spielberg
14 Forrest Gump 1994 USA Robert Zemeckis
15 Gone with the Wind 1939 USA, USA Victor Fleming
16 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 USA, USA Robert Mulligan
17 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Coppola
18 Annie Hall 1977 USA Woody Allen
19 GoodFellas 1990 USA, USA, USA Martin Scorsese
20 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 USA Frank Capra
21 Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
22 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 USA Jonathan Demme
23 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
24 Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
25 The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
26 Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
27 The Breakfast Club 1985 USA John Hughes
28 The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
29 Blade Runner 1982 USA, Hong Kong, UK Ridley Scott
30 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 USA Miloš Forman
31 The Princess Bride 1987 USA Rob Reiner
32 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 USA, USA, USA Irvin Kershner
33 Fargo 1996 USA, UK Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
34 American Beauty 1999 USA Sam Mendes
35 A Clockwork Orange 1971 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
36 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 USA John Hughes
37 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 USA, UK, UK Stanley Kubrick
38 When Harry Met Sally... 1989 USA, USA Rob Reiner
39 The Shining 1980 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
40 Fight Club 1999 USA, Germany David Fincher
41 Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
42 Alien 1979 USA, UK Ridley Scott
43 Toy Story 1995 USA John Lasseter
44 The Matrix 1999 USA Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
45 Titanic 1997 USA James Cameron
46 Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
47 Some Like It Hot 1959 USA Billy Wilder
48 The Usual Suspects 1995 USA Bryan Singer
49 Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
50 Jurassic Park 1993 USA Steven Spielberg
51 The Big Lebowski 1998 USA, UK Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
52 All About Eve 1950 USA Joseph L. Mankiewicz
53 Good Will Hunting 1997 USA Gus Van Sant
54 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 USA George Roy Hill
55 Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
56 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 USA Michel Gondry
57 The Dark Knight 2008 USA, UK Christopher Nolan
58 Sunset Boulevard 1950 USA, USA Billy Wilder
59 Thelma & Louise 1991 USA, UK Ridley Scott
60 Amélie 2001 France, Germany Jean-Pierre Jeunet
61 West Side Story 1961 USA Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
62 North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
63 Groundhog Day 1993 USA Harold Ramis
64 Mary Poppins 1964 USA Robert Stevenson
65 Raging Bull 1980 USA Martin Scorsese
66 The Lion King 1994 USA, USA Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
67 Avatar 2009 USA, UK James Cameron
68 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 UK Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
69 Gladiator 2000 USA, UK Ridley Scott
70 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
71 Almost Famous 2000 USA Cameron Crowe
72 Young Frankenstein 1974 USA Mel Brooks
73 All the President's Men 1976 USA, USA Alan J. Pakula
74 Blazing Saddles 1974 USA Mel Brooks
75 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
76 Brokeback Mountain 2005 USA, Canada Ang Lee
77 Ghostbusters 1984 USA, USA Ivan Reitman
78 12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sidney Lumet
79 WALL·E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
80 On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
81 Amadeus 1984 France, USA Miloš Forman
82 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 USA, New Zealand Peter Jackson
83 Die Hard 1988 USA John McTiernan
84 Inception 2010 USA, UK Christopher Nolan
85 Se7en 1995 USA David Fincher
86 Beauty and the Beast 1991 USA Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
87 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 USA, New Zealand Peter Jackson
88 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 UK Danny Boyle
89 Braveheart 1995 USA Mel Gibson
90 Memento 2000 USA Christopher Nolan
91 Rocky 1976 USA John G. Avildsen
92 Up 2009 USA Pete Docter
93 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 USA Steven Spielberg
94 The Deer Hunter 1978 USA, UK Michael Cimino
95 Doctor Zhivago 1965 USA, UK, Italy David Lean
96 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 USA, Spain, Mexico Guillermo del Toro
97 Airplane! 1980 USA Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
98 Reservoir Dogs 1992 USA Quentin Tarantino
99 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA Arthur Penn
100 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa