AFI's 10 Top 10
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By Josh M on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 2:56 am:

AFI's top movies in ten genres just aired tonight. Their picks:

Animation
10. Finding Nemo
9. Cinderella
8. Shrek
7. Beauty and the Beast
6. Toy Story
5. Fantasia
4. The Lion King
3. Bambi
2. Pinocchio
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Romantic Comedies
10. Sleepless in Seattle
9. Harold and Maude
8. Moonstruck
7. Adam's Rib
6. When Harry Met Sally...
5. The Philadelphia Story
4. Roman Holiday
3. It Happened One Night
2. Annie Hall
1. City Lights

Sports
10. Jerry Maguire
9. National Velvet
8. Breaking Away
7. Caddyshack
6. The Hustler
5. Bull Durham
4. Hoosiers
3. The Pride of the Yankees
2. Rocky
1. Raging Bull

Western
10. Cat Ballou
9. Stagecoach
8. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
6. The Wild Bunch
5. Red River
4. Unforgiven
3. Shane
2. High Noon
1. The Searchers

Fantasy
10. Big
9. The Thief of Bagdad
8. Groundhog Day
7. Harvey
6. Field of Dreams
5. Miracle on 34th Street
4. King Kong
3. It's a Wonderful Life
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
1. The Wizard of Oz

Science Fiction
10. Back to the Future
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7. Alien
6. Blade Runner
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
4. A Clockwork Orange
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Gangster
1. The Godfather
2. Goodfellas
3. The Godfather Part II
4. White Heat
5. Bonnie and Clyde
6. Scarface: The Shame of the Nation
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Public Enemy
9. Little Caesar
10. Scarface

Mystery
10. The Usual Suspects
9. Dial M for Murder
8. Blue Velvet
7. North by Northwest
6. The Maltese Falcon
5. The Third Man
4. Laura
3. Rear Window
2. Chinatown
1. Vertigo

Courtroom Drama
10. Judgment at Nuremberg
9. A Cry in the Dark
8. In Cold Blood
7. Anatomy of a Murder
6. Witness for the Prosecution
5. A Few Good Men
4. The Verdict
3. Kramer vs. Kramer
2. 12 Angry Men
1. To Kill a Mockingbird

Epic
10. The Ten Commandments
9. Reds
8. Saving Private Ryan
7. All Quiet on the Western Front
6. Titanic
5. Spartacus
4. Gone with the Wind
3. Schindler's List
2. Ben-Hur
1. Lawrence of Arabia

I'm surprised to see Romantic Comedies as one of the genres, but neither plain Romance or Comedy represented.

Having just seen "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", I'm sorry to see it didn't make the list. At least "Unforgiven" is on there.

By ScottN on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 9:11 am:

Sports: "National Velvet" over "The Natural"?

What genre were "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca" considered to be in that they didn't make these lists?

By ScottN on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 9:11 am:

Also, in the Western Genre, in addition to GBU (mentioned by Josh), where is "The Magnificent Seven"?

By Josh M on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 9:31 pm:

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ScottN: What genre were "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca" considered to be in that they didn't make these lists?



That is interesting, seeing as both are top five on AFI's list (and isn't Kane #1?). I guess they couldn't fit them in.

Whoops on the Gangster movies order.

By Ryan Whitney on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 11:12 pm:

Re: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"

I believe this movie was omitted from AFI's (American Film Institute's) Top 10 Westerns list because it was a production from the nation of Italy (hence the term, "Spaghetti Western"), rather than the United States of America.

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