AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies. The original list was unveiled in 1998.
Broadcast
Announced on January 18, 2007, this installment of the American Film Institute's Emmy Award-winning AFI 100 Years... series counted down the 100 greatest American movies of all time in a three-hour television event. Aired June 20, 2007 on CBS, it was hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman. The program considered classic favorites and newly eligible films released from 1997 to 2005.
Criteria
AFI asked jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process:
Feature length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes long.
American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production from the United States.
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.
:Category:Lists of box office number-one films in the United States|Popularity over time: Includes success at the box office, television and cable airings, and DVD/VHS sales and rentals.
Historical significance: A film's mark on the history of the moving image through visionary narrative devices, technical innovation or other groundbreaking achievements.
Cultural impact: A film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance.
List
Films removed from list
The following films from the 1998 list were left off the 2007 list:
Do the Right Thing and The Sixth Sense are the only films on this list made by non-white filmmakers.
Of the films that remained on the list, 36 improved their ranking, 38 saw their ranking decline, and three kept their positions: Citizen Kane, The Godfather Part II, and The Best Years of Our Lives.
Steven Spielberg has the most films of any director on the list with five films. The original version of the list also contained five films by Spielberg, with four films carrying over to the new list and Close Encounters of the Third Kind being replaced by Saving Private Ryan. Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder, and Alfred Hitchcock tie for second place with four films each making the list.
The oldest film to be dropped was D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, from #44. The oldest film to be added was Griffith's Intolerance .
The highest-ranked addition was The General at #18. The highest-ranked removal was Doctor Zhivago.
The Searchers rose the most, going from #96 to #12. The greatest drop without complete removal was suffered by The African Queen, which went from #17 to #65.
Duck Soup, featuring the Marx Brothers, moved up 25 positions to #60. It was replaced at #85 by another film starring the Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera.
In the 2007 list, eight of the top ten films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with five winning. In the original list, nine out of the top ten were nominees, and six won.
Two animated films appear on each list. In 1998, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ranked at #49, and Fantasia at #58. Snow White moved up to #34 in 2007, Fantasia was dropped, and Toy Story was added at #99. Each animated film on both lists were of Disney Studios.
