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Hollywood's 100
Favorite Films
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9:00 AM 6/25/2014
by THR Staff
Who better to judge the best movies of all

time than the people who make them?
Studio chiefs, Oscar winners and TV royalty
all were surveyed as THR publishes its first
definitive entertainment-industry ranking
of cinema's most superlative.
Is it wrong to already declare this the No. 1 movie list of all

time?
After all, there are other movie lists. Lots and lots of others.
So many lists, you couldn't list them all. But this is the first to
ask the entertainment industry itself to pick its choices for the
best pictures ever made. In May, THR sent an online ballot all
over town — to every studio, agency, publicity firm and
production house on either side of the 405. Not everybody
was initially thrilled to participate.
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"I reject the idea," Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan told
 THR. "To me, it's the equivalent of having a party-size bag of
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Nacho Doritos, then being told to eat only five." In the end,
though, he sent in his favorites (one of which is 1961's
Yojimbo), as did a total of 2,120 industry members, including
Fox chief Jim Gianopulos, Disney's Alan Horn, director Gary
Ross, producer Frank Marshall, Warners' Sue Kroll, agent
Robert Newman, attorney John Burke, filmmaker John
Singleton and many more. These are the results: the greatest
movies ever made, according to Hollywood.
There are some surprises here. It's a far more commercial list
than the usual critics' picks. Who knew, for instance, that Back
to the Future would get more love than Lawrence of Arabia?
There also are shocking omissions — The 400 Blows, La Dolce
Vita, The Gold Rush and dozens of other undeniably great
films. And there are interesting differences of opinion along
professional divides: Directors, writers and agents all agreed
on their choice for the greatest movie ever (hint: It rhymes
with "Schmodfather"), while cinematographers chose 2001: A
Space Odyssey and entertainment lawyers, the big softies,
picked The Shawshank Redemption.
Whether you agree with their choices or not, there's lots to

enjoy on these pages, from the reunion photographs to the
whereabouts of famous props to THR critic Todd McCarthy's
own assessment of Hollywood's top pick. But keep in mind,
movie lists aren't forever. As Michael Bay points out, "Your
favorite film could change every day."
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The Seven Samurai

(1954)
Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation,

2014): $367,500
Famous quote: "What's the use of worrying about your
 beard when your head's about to be taken?" — Gisaku
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It's the only Japanese film on the list and later was remade
as The Magnificent Seven, a Western with Steve McQueen and
Charles Bronson.
99 100  
Bonnie and Clyde

(1967)
Warner Bros./Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): No

numbers available
Famous quote: “This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde

Barrow. We rob banks." — Clyde Barrow
One of the films that buried the Hays Code, though today it
looks about as risque as basic cable.
Read THR's 1967 review.
98 100  
Reservoir Dogs
(1992)
Miramax Films/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
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Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, SteveBuscemi,

Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation 2014):

$5,432,000
Famous quote: "I don't wanna kill anybody. But if I gotta get
out that door, and you're standing in my way, one way or the
other, you're gettin' outta my way." — Mr. Pink
It's actually not Tarantino's debut feature; the first film he

directed was 1987's My Best Friend's Birthday, much of which
was destroyed in a lab fire.
97 100  
Airplane!
(1980)
Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen

$246,948,000
Famous quote: "There's no reason to become alarmed, and

we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is
there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?" —
Elaine Dickinson
The film that forever changed the way people think about
 Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves,
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Barbara Billingsley and especially Nielsen.
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Pan's Labyrinth
(2006)
Picturehouse
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi Lopez
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014):

$43,542,400
Famous quote: “Her father, the King, always knew that the
Princess' soul would return, perhaps in another body, in
another place, at another time. And he would wait for her,
until he drew his last breath, until the world stopped
turning..." — Pan
It's the only Spanish-language movie to make the list.
95 100  
Doctor Zhivago
(1965)
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Director: David Lean
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Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie

$988,118,200
Famous quote: “Who are you to refuse my sugar? Who are

you to refuse me anything?" — Komarovski
Peter O'Toole turned down the title role, so Lean settled on

another Lawrence of Arabia star, which is how Sharif went
from playing an Arab prince to a Russian physician.
94 100  
The Deer Hunter

(1978)
Universal Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John

Savage, Meryl Streep

$166,613,400
Famous quote: “You have to think about one shot. One shot
is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.”
— Michael
When John Cazale got sick during filming, the studio wanted

to recast, but Streep threatened to walk off the picture if it
did.
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Close Encounters of the Third

Kind
(1977)
Courtesy Everett Collection
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut

$395,943,500
Famous quote: “How come I know so much? What the hell is

going on around here? Who the hell are you people?” — Roy
Neary
John Williams experimented with hundreds of five-note

melodies before hitting on just the right impossible-to-forget
theme.
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Up
(2009)
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai

 $312,619,300
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Famous quote: “Adventure is out there!” — Charles Mutz
Pixar has calculated it would take 26.5 million balloons to

actually lift the house in the animated feature.
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Rocky
(1976)
United Artists/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess

Meredith, Carl Weathers

$438,118,200
Famous quote: “Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky.” — Rocky
Stallone wrote the script's first draft in just three days, then

refused to sell it unless he was cast in the lead role.
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Memento
Archives
(2000)
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Newmarket Films/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

$35,925,300
Famous quote: “Memory can change the shape of a room; it

can change the color of a car. And memories can be
distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record,
and they're irrelevant if you have the facts.” — Leonard
Shelby
Nolan reportedly was going to cast Alec Baldwin in Pearce's

part, but he must have forgotten.
89 100  
Braveheart
(1995)
Twentieth Century-Fox/Courtesy
Neal Peters Collection
Director: Mel Gibson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan

$138,108,400
Famous quote: “Every man dies, not every man really

lives.” — William Wallace
Gibson didn't want to play the lead -- he thought he was too

old -- but Paramount wouldn't make the film without him.
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Slumdog Millionaire
(2008)
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto

$156,672,200
Famous quote: “When somebody asks me a question, I tell

them the answer.” — Jamal Malik
It nearly went straight to DVD but ended up sweeping the

Oscars after Fox Searchlight gave it a theatrical release.
87 100  
The Lord of the Rings: The

Return of the King
(2003)

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New Line Cinema/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando

Bloom

$489,843,600
Famous quote: “That still only counts as one.” — Gimli
Only one poll respondent claimed to be over 100 years old,

and this was one of his top picks. Nice to know Gandalf likes
online polls.
86 100  
Beauty and the Beast

(1991)
Walt Disney Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation,

2014): $278,327,100
It was the first animated film ever nominated for best picture.

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Seven
(1995)
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Director: David Fincher
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt

$182,770,700
Famous quote: “What's in the box?” — David Mills
The studio wasn't thrilled with the "head in a box" ending, but
Pitt and Freeman refused to promote the film if it got
changed.
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Inception
(2010)

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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page,

Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard

$292,944,200
Famous quote: “You're waiting for a train. A train that'll take

you far away. You know where you hope this train will take
you. But you can't know for sure.” — Cobb
Nolan himself is a lucid dreamer, which he has said inspired

much of the film.
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Die Hard
(1988)
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Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia

$160,766,500
Famous quote: “Yippee Ki-Yay, motherf*cker!” — John

McClane
The mini-mart on Olympic Boulevard where Reginald

VelJohnson bought Twinkies is now a dry cleaners.

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82 100  
The Lord of the Rings: The

Fellowship of the Ring
(2001)
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom

$433,579,200
Famous quote: “You cannot pass! I am a servant of the

Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not
avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow. You shall
not pass!” — Gandalf
There were many failed attempts at a live-action adaptation

of LOTR, dating back to the 1960s, when The Beatles asked
Stanley Kubrick to direct a version for them to star in.
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Amadeus
(1984)

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Warner Bros./Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge

$117,767,500
Famous quote: “Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you... I

absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you
all.” — Salieri
Hulce practiced piano four hours a day for the role, but the
music ended up being dubbed in anyway.
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On the Waterfront
(1954)
Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie

Saint

numbers available
Famous quote: “I coulda had class. I coulda been a

contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which
is what I am...” — Terry Malloy
Contrary to popular belief, Brando's most famous line --

"I coulda been a contender" -- was not improvised.
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Wall-E
(2008)
Director: Andrew Stanton
Cast: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin

$248,121,600
Famous quote: “WALL-E!” — WALL-E
The most engaging silent movie since Chaplin left the screen:
There's no "human" dialogue for the first 40 minutes.
78 100  
12 Angry Men
(1957)

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Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam

numbers available
Famous quote: “Bright? He's a common, ignorant slob. He

don't even speak good English.” — Juror #10
The last surviving jurist, Jack Klugman, died in 2012.
77 100  
Ghostbusters
(1984)
Columbia Pictures/Courtesy The Neal Peters Collection
Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver,

Harold Ramis

$541,962,900
Famous quote: “Don’t cross the streams!” — Dr. Egon

Spengler
In the original script, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was just

one of 50 monsters, but Reitman estimated it would have
cost $300 million to produce them all.

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Brokeback Mountain
(2005)
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Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger

$101,192,600
Famous quote: “I wish I knew how to quit you.” — Jack Twist
Lee won best director, but in one of the biggest Oscar upsets
in recent memory, Brokeback lost best picture to … see if you
can remember.
75 100  
The Bridge on the River Kwai

(1957)

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Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

$433,024,000
Famous quote: “Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This

is not a game of cricket!” - Colonel Saito
Pierre Boulle, who wrote the 1952 French novel on which the

movie is based, also wrote Planet of the Apes.
74 100  
Blazing Saddles
(1974)
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder

$503,291,000
Famous quote: “Gentlemen, please rest your

sphincters.” — Hedley Lamarr
Brooks offered John Wayne a part in the film, but the Duke
declined.

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All the President's Men

(1976)
Warner Bros./Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford

$263,838,500
Famous quote: “Follow the money.” — Deep Throat
Pakula was so intent on re-creating the Washington

Post newsroom, he had the paper's trash shipped to
Hollywood to clutter desks on the set.
72 100  
Young Frankenstein
(1974)

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20th Century Fox/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline

Kahn

$363,352,200
Famous quote: “My grandfather's work was doodoo! I am

not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is
the preservation of life! Class… is… dismissed.” — Dr.
Frederick Frankenstein
Wilder suggested the idea for the movie to Brooks while they
were filming Blazing Saddles, which is why Wilder's name is
first in the writing credits.
71 100  
Almost Famous
(2000)
DreamWorks/Courtesy Neal
Peters Collection
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Billy Crudup, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kate Hudson

$48,001,900
Famous quote: “I am a Golden God!” — Russell Hammond
One of Hoffman's most beloved performances -- and he

delivered the whole thing while suffering from the flu.
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Vertigo
(1958)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak

$17,046,200
Famous quote: “Only one is a wanderer; two together are

always going somewhere.” — Madeleine
The No. 1 film in the most recent Sight & Sound critics' poll

(2012) has a ways to go on this list.
69 100  
Gladiator
(2000)

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Dreamworks/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed

$277,119,800
Famous quote: “What we do in life echoes in

eternity.” — Maximus
It was Crowe's big entrance as a Hollywood star (he won an

Oscar) and Reed's big exit (he suffered a fatal heart attack
during filming).
68 100  
Monty Python and The Holy

Grail
(1975)

Peters Collection
Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam,

Terry Jones, Michael Palin

numbers available
Famous quote: “Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme

executive power just because some watery tart threw a
sword at you.” — Dennis
The original script was set half in the Middle Ages, half in
 the 20th century until Jones suggested doing the King Arthur
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story.
67 100  
Avatar
(2009)
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver

$763,396,900
Famous quote: “Everything is backwards now, like out there

is the true world, and in here is the dream.” — Jake Sully
It's the highest grosser of all time, which explains the three
sequels that will start rolling out in December 2016.
66 100  
The Lion King

(1994)

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Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy

Everett Collection
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones

$594,010,000
Famous quote: “When we die, our bodies become the grass,

and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected
in the great Circle of Life.” — Mufasa
It was the top-grossing animated film until Toy Story 3 passed

it in 2010 and then Frozen topped them both.
65 100  
Raging Bull
(1980)

Peters Collection
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci

$69,050,600
Famous quote: “If you win, you win. If you lose, you still
win.” — Joey La Motta
Scorsese used chocolate as blood in the boxing scenes

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Mary Poppins
(1964)
Disney/Courtesy Neal Peters

Collection
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke

$265,333,300
Famous quote: “Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even

though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, if you say
it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!” — Mary Poppins
Andrews did the film because she lost My Fair Lady to Audrey
Hepburn. But Andrews got the last laugh: She won the Oscar.
63 100  
Groundhog Day
(1993)

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Director: Harold Ramis
Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell

$136,333,200
Famous quote: “This is one time where television really fails

to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting
the weather.” — Phil
Murray reportedly was bitten by the groundhog twice during

shooting. Why isn't that on the DVD extras?
62 100  
North by Northwest
(1959)

Collection
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

numbers available
Famous quote: “Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising

man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother,
two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me,
and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself
"slightly" killed.” — Roger Thornhill
Martin Landau's character was secretly gay, at least
 according to Landau, who claimed it made more sense for
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West Side Story

(1961)

Peters Collection
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Cast: Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris

$445,523,500
Famous quote: “I feel pretty, oh so pretty! I feel pretty, and

witty, and gay!” — Maria
“The beautiful thing about the evening was that we went

together,” recalls Chakiris of the night he and Moreno picked
up Oscars for their performances as Bernardo and Anita in
West Side Story. “My category was called first, and I got lucky.
And then Rita got lucky. What a perfect night.” Moreno recalls
it slightly differently. “By the time my category came up, it
was very late. I had to wait a long time. At that point, West
Side Story had swept the awards, and I thought, ‘My Puerto
Rican luck; I’ll be the only one who doesn’t get an award.’”
When her name was called, she walked to the podium and
delivered one of the briefest speeches ever for an Oscar. “I
don’t believe it. Good Lord. I leave you with that.” Says
Moreno: “I was not ready to win. I had nothing planned.”
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Amelie
(2001)
Miramax Films/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Audrey Tautou

$46,051,200
Famous quote: “At least you'll never be a vegetable - even

artichokes have hearts.” — Amélie Poulain
The only French film to make it into the top 100, thanks
mostly to under-20s (it was that group's sixth-favorite film).
59 100  
Thelma & Louise

(1991)

Collection
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Brad Pitt

$85,765,500
Famous quote: “In the future, when a woman is crying like
 that, she isn't having any fun.” — Louise Sawyer
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“I thought of it as a cowboy movie with women instead of

guys,” says Sarandon of her role in Ridley Scott’s 1991
groundbreaking female-bonding road movie. “It was pretty
shocking that people were so threatened by it. Like somehow
we had backed into territory long held only by white
heterosexual men of a certain age.” Davis doesn’t disagree —
“I don’t think any of us knew it would strike a nerve the way it
did,” she says — but savors different memories of making the
movie, including getting paired with an unknown young actor
during his tryout for a key role. “I read with Brad Pitt,” she
recalls. “But I got a little distracted during the scene. I was
forgetting my lines. I was like, ‘I’m totally screwing up this kid’s
audition.’ ” It didn’t get any easier after Pitt, then 28, got the
part. “Ridley is really into the look of things,” says Davis, “so
he was spraying Evian on Brad’s stomach during the shots. I
was like, ‘Hello!’ ” — Stacy Wilson
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Sunset Blvd.
(1950)
Paramount Pictures/Courtesy
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson

numbers available
Famous quote: “All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-
 up.” — Norma Desmond
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Directors, editors and writers like it most. Everybody else

taking the poll still can't get over the fact that it's narrated by
a dead guy.
57 100  
The Dark Knight

(2008)
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger

$591,181,400
Famous quote: “Some people just want to watch the world

burn.” — Alfred Pennyworth
Ledger took the Joker very seriously, even applying his own
face paint before each shot.
56 100  
Eternal Sunshine of the

Spotless Mind
(2004)
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Director: Michel Gondry
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet

$44,094,400
Famous quote: “Why do I fall in love with every woman I see

who shows me the least bit of attention?” - Joel Barish
The film helped revive Winslet's career by proving she could

do (quirky) comedy. "It took me right away from that English
period-film thing and put me in the U.S. market," she recently
told THR.
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55 100  
Taxi Driver
(1976)
Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

$102,022,500
Famous quote: “You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You

talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you
talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do
you think you're talking to?” — Travis Bickle
Screenwriter Paul Schrader was inspired by the diaries of

Arthur Bremer, who shot George Wallace,
and Scorsese turned to Psycho composer

Bernard Herrmann, who initially turned down the job ("I
 don't write music for car movies").
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54 100  
Butch Cassidy and the

Sundance Kid
(1969)
Twentieth Century Fox/Courtesy

Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

$561,640,500
Famous quote: “You know, when I was a kid, I always

thought I'd grow up to be a hero.” — Butch Cassidy
In real life, Cassidy's gang was called The Wild Bunch, but Hill
changed it to "Hole in the Wall" to avoid confusion with the
Sam Peckinpah film.
53 100  
Good Will Hunting

(1997)
Miramax/Courtesy Neal Peters

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Director: Gus Van Sant
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Cast: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver

$234,953,100
Famous quote: “It’s not your fault…” — Sean Maguire
Terrence Malick suggested the bittersweet ending (in the

original version, Damon and Driver drive off into the sunset).
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52 100  
All About Eve

(1950)
20th Century Fox/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste

Holm

$626,466 (calculated)
Famous quote: “Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a

bumpy night!” — Margo Channing
It got 14 Oscar nominations, a record that stood until it was

tied by Titanic 47 years later.

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 The Big Lebowski 
(1998)
Gramercy Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection
Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore

$29,619,800
Famous quote: “Let me explain something to you. Um, I am

not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So
that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness,
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole
brevity thing.” — The Dude
The Dude was inspired by film promoter Jeff Dowd, who

helped secure distribution for the Coen brothers' first
film, Blood Simple.
50 100  
Jurassic Park
(1993)
Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard

Attenborough

$686,198,500
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There was a four-way bidding war for Michael
 Crichton's novel: Warner Bros. wanted it for Tim Burton, Fox
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Donner, but Universal won for Spielberg.
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49 100  
Rear Window
(1954)
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly

$375,542,200
Famous quote: “When two people love each other, they

come together - WHAM - like two taxis on Broadway.” —
Stella
It's the only movie in which you can watch Kelly smoke a
cigarette -- if you're into that sort of thing.
48 100  
The Usual Suspects

(1995)

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Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel

Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak

$42,712,400
Famous quote: “After that my guess is that you will never

hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled
was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he
is gone.” — Verbal
"Who is Keyser Soze?" was the question that drove the

summer of 1995. Shot on a $6 million budget, Singer's
breakthrough crime thriller would win Oscars for Spacey and
screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie.
47 100  
Some Like It Hot

(1959)

Peters Collection
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

numbers available
Famous quote: “I'm a boy. I'm a boy. I wish I were dead. I'm a
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my engagement present?” — Jerry
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"Everybody quotes me as saying kissing Marilyn was like
kissing Hitler," Curtis told a reporter a few years before his
death. "I never said that. I said that kissing Marilyn was like f--
ing her, the way she would grind against me."
46 100  
Saving Private Ryan

(1998)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore

$364,146,700
Famous quote: “I just know that every man I kill the farther
away from home I feel.” — Captain Miller
Spielberg used real amputees wearing prosthetics to simulate

soldiers losing their limbs during the opening Omaha Beach
battle scene.
45 100  
Titanic
(1997)

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Director: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

$1,021,633,200
Famous quote: “I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go.” — Rose
Both were the biggest of their day (882 feet for the vessel;
$200 million for the film). But the boat sank, while the film
went on to become the second-largest grosser in history
(after Avatar).
44 100  
The Matrix
(1999)
Warner Bros/Courtesy Neal Peters

Collection
Directors: Andy and Lana Wachowski
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

$268,696,900
Famous quote: “This is your last chance. After this, there is

no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you
wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to
believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I
show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” — Morpheus
A virtual-reality prison. Sentient computer programs.
 Downloadable abilities. Bullet-time. Whoa. No wonder it was

the first DVD to sell a million copies.
43 100  
Toy Story
(1995)
Mary Evans/DISNEY/PIXAR/Ronald
Grant/Everett Collection
Director: John Lasseter
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen

$349,191,900
Famous quote: “To infinity, and beyond!” — Buzz Lightyear
Each CGI frame took from four to 13 hours to render, nearly

as long as the last iPhone update.
42 100  
Alien
(1979)

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Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright,

John Hurt

$250,359,100
Famous quote: “You are my lucky star. You... Lucky, lucky,

lucky, lucky, lucky.” — Ripley
When they shot the film's most famous scene -- the alien
bursting through Hurt's chest -- the filmmakers didn't tell the
cast what would happen. The horror on their faces is real.
41 100  
Psycho
(1960)
Paramount/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh

$339,626,800
Famous quote: “They're probably watching me. Well, let

them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even
going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see.
They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, ‘Why, she
wouldn't even harm a fly…’” — Norman Bates
Hitch's serial killer thriller was a shocker -- but not just

because of the shower scene. It was the first film to show a
toilet.
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Fight Club
(1999)
Twentieth Century Fox/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter

$57,957,800
Famous quote: “Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight

Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of
Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!” — Tyler
Durden
Bonham Carter's line after her sex scene with Pitt -- "That was
the best f-- I've had since grade school" -- was a replacement.
The original, more offensive line: "I want to have your
abortion."
39 100  
The Shining
(1980)

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Collection
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall

$130,252,200
Famous quote: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
— Jack Torrance
Kubrick realized that the shot of Nicholson repeatedly typing

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" would make no
sense to European audiences, so he had the line typed in
Italian, German and Spanish.
38 100  
When Harry Met Sally

(1989)
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan

$186,114,700
Famous quote: “I came here tonight because when you

realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody,
you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” —
Harry Burns
Talk about great acting. According to sources on the set,

Crystal and Ryan hated each other's guts. (Although Crystal
denies it, saying he and Ryan had a great working
 relationship.)
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37 100  
Dr. Strangelove or: How I

Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb
(1964)

Peters Collection
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim

Pickens

$78,439,100
Famous quote: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is

the War Room." — President Merkin Muffley
Sellers was the first actor to be nominated for a single Oscar

for playing three characters (he lost on all three counts to
Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady).
36 100  

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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(1986)
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Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey, Alan Ruck

$150,481,300
Famous quote: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and
look around once in a while, you could miss it." — Ferris
Bueller
Hughes paid homage to his earlier movies via the license

plates on the characters' cars: "VCATION" for National
Lampoon's Vacation, "MMOM" for Mr. Mom and "TBC" for The
Breakfast Club.
35 100  
A Clockwork Orange
(1971)
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee

$124,500,700
Famous quote: "It's funny how the colors of the real world
only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen." —
Alex
It's the film that began the debate over violence in

cinema. Kubrick was so horrified by a copycat murder in
England that he pulled the movie from U.K. theaters.
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American Beauty
(1999)
DreamWorks/Courtesy Neal
Peters Collection
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening

$198,483,000
Famous quote: "Remember those posters that said, ‘Today is

the first day of the rest of your life?’ Well, that's true of every
day but one — the day you die." — Lester Burnham
Chevy Chase, Kevin Costner, and John Travolta all

reportedly were considered for the part of Lester Burnham
(which, incidentally, is an anagram for "Humbert learns," one
of the film's many hat tips to Lolita).
33 100  
Fargo
(1996)

 
Gramercy Pictures/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen
Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy

$43,930,100
Famous quote: "Just keep it still back there, lady, or we're

going to have to, you know, shoot you." — Carl Showalter
This is one of four films on the list to have inspired hit TV

shows that are current Emmy contenders. The other shows
are Bonnie and Clyde, Hannibal and Bates Motel.
32 100  
The Empire Strikes Back

(1980)
Lucasfilms/Courtesy Everett Collection
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

$627,743,400
Famous quote: "No. I am your father." — Darth Vader
An almost Shakespearean tragedy. The hero loses a hand but

gains a father. And his best friend is frozen solid. Try and
imagine the second installment of another giant sci-
fi franchise that ends on such a downer. Go ahead.

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The Princess Bride

(1987)
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Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin

$62,820,500
Famous quote: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed

my father. Prepare to die." — Inigo Montoya
Hardly anyone saw Rob Reiner's adaptation of William

Goldman's comic-fantasy novel in theaters. But this was back
when video could create a cult hit -- and that's precisely what
happened.
30 100  
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

Nest
(1975)

 

Peters Collection
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson

$427,335,400
Famous quote: "What do you think you are, for Chrissake,

crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no
crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the
streets and that's it." — McMurphy
Kirk Douglas optioned Ken Kesey's book in the early

'60s but decided he was too old to play McMurphy, so he
gave the rights to his son, Michael, who produced it instead.
29 100  
Blade Runner
(1982)
Courtesy of Everett Collection
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

$74,672,700
Famous quote: "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?

That's what it is to be a slave." — Batty
Despite studio tinkering (adding a voiceover, slapping in
 aerial footage shot for Kubrick's The Shining to give the ending
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a sunny feel), it remains the ultimate noir, sci-fi detective
movie.
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28 100  
The Graduate
(1967)
Embassy Pictures/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross

$680,698,700
Famous quote: "For god's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are.

You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You put on
music. Now you start opening up your personal life to me
and tell me your husband won't be home for hours … Mrs.
Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me." — Benjamin
Which of these actresses was not considered for Mrs.

Robinson: Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Rita
Hayworth, Doris Day, Shelley Winters, Ava Gardner,
Patricia Neal or Ingrid Bergman? Trick question: All
supposedly were up for the part.

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The Breakfast Club

(1985)
Universal Pictures/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony

Michael Hall, Paul Gleason, John Kapelos, Ally Sheedy

$102,863,800
Famous quote: "We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just

better at hiding it, that's all." — Andrew
More proof that men and women are different: Hughes'

after-school detention drama was the ninth most-popular
film for female respondents, but 75th for males.
26 100  
Singin' in the Rain

(1952)

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Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

 $1,741,800
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Famous quote: "Lina. She can't act, she can't sing, she can't
dance. A triple threat." — Cosmo Brown
Reynolds once said that making this film and giving birth
were the two hardest things she'd ever done. Kelly reportedly
was a tyrant on the set.
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25 100  
The Sound of Music

(1965)
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

$1,133,626,400
Famous quote: "When the Lord closes a door, somewhere

he opens a window." — Maria
Such a cheery spirit-lifter, during the Cold War the BBC

reportedly planned to air the film after a nuclear strike to
improve the morale of survivors. "So Long, Farewell" being
the perfect post-apocalyptic melody.
24 100  
Jaws
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(1975)
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Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

$1,019,507,400
Famous quote: "You're gonna need a bigger boat." — Brody
The original summer blockbuster. It cost only $9 million to

make and grossed nearly as much its first weekend alone.
And yet … the shark still looks fake.
23 100  
Lawrence of Arabia
(1962)

Peters Collection
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar

Sharif

$426,376,100
Famous quote: "There may be honor among thieves, but

there's none in politicians." — Lawrence
Steven Spielberg once estimated that remaking it today

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probably need to add some estrogen; the 227-minute movie
 has not a single line spoken by a woman.
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22 100  
The Silence of the Lambs

(1991)
Orion Pictures/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins

$247,200,400
Famous quote: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate
his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." — Hannibal
Lecter
The only horror film ever to win best picture. It also won best
director, adapted screenplay, actress and actor (for Hopkins'
25-minute turn, the second-shortest performance to win that
trophy behind Peter Finch's in Network).
21 100  
Chinatown
(1974)

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Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway

$124,295,200
Famous quote: " 'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians,

ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long
enough." — Noah Cross
This is the first of three Nicholson films to make the 100. But
he's beaten by Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro (both with
four) and by Marlon Brando and Harrison Ford (with five
apiece).
20 100  
It's a Wonderful Life

(1946)
RKO Pictures/Courtesy Neal

Peters Collection
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed

numbers available
Famous quote: “Teacher says, every time a bell rings an

angel gets his wings.” — Zuzu Bailey
It was Capra's favorite, and Stewart's, too, but it bombed

when it first was released. Like George Bailey, though, it got a
second chance, becoming a holiday classic thanks to endless
 Christmas TV showings.
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19 100  
Goodfellas
(1990)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

$88,219,800
Famous quote: “For as long as I can remember I always

wanted to be a gangster. To me that was better than being
president of the United States. To be a gangster was to own
the world.” — Henry Hill
Scorsese's first film on this list is remembered for many

things (like Pesci's "You think I'm funny?" riff), but it made the
record books by dropping the F-bomb more than any other
movie up till then (300 times). It was surpassed last year by
The Wolf of Wall Street, which used the F-word 569 times.
18 100  
Annie Hall
(1977)
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Neal Peterson Collection
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

$136,538,700
Famous quote: “A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You

know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think
what we got on our hands is a dead shark.” — Alvy Singer
For years there have been rumors of a bootleg cut of an

original, much longer version -- titled Anhedonia -- which
supposedly was more of a surreal murder mystery than a
love story. Please let THR know if you've got a copy.
17 100  
Apocalypse Now
(1979)
United Artists/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

$249,848,900
Famous quote: “I love the smell of napalm in the

morning.” — Kilgore
Harvey Keitel got fired. Brando showed up overweight and

unprepared.
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storms destroyed many of the sets. Has a better film ever
 been made from worse circumstances?
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16 100  
To Kill a Mockingbird
(1962)

Peters Collection
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Phillip

Alford

numbers available
Famous quote: “You never really understand a person until

you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb
inside of his skin and walk around in it.” — Atticus Finch
More than 50 years later, this is still a pitch-perfect portrait of

race and rural America during the Great Depression. No
wonder it's Superman's favorite movie (according to Clark
Kent's Wikipedia page, at any rate).
15 100  
Gone With the Wind

(1939)

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MGM/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh

$1,592,000,000
Famous quote: “I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll
go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.” — Scarlett
It's still the longest film to win best picture (nearly four hours)
and the first to have an African-American cast member win
an Oscar (Hattie McDaniel). Ironically, its only surviving star
is Olivia de Havilland, 97, whose character was the main one
to die.
14 100  
Forrest Gump
(1994)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

$625,223,100
Famous quote: “My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box
of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.’” —
Forrest Gump
The mind-blowing CGI -- from the floating feather to

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of the most competitive best picture races in memory. The
 Shawshank Redemption (No. 4) and Pulp Fiction (No. 5) also
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were nominated that year.
13 100  
Raiders of the Lost Ark

(1981)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen

$614,823,400
Famous quote: "You want to talk to God? Let's go see him

together, I've got nothing better to do." — Indiana Jones
Dreamed up while George Lucas and Spielberg were

vacationing in Hawaii, Raiders indulged Lucas' desire to make
an old-fashioned serial and scratched Spielberg's itch to
make a globe-trotting James Bond film (incredibly, the 007
producers had turned down his services). When Jeff Bridges
said no to the role of Indiana Jones (initially named Smith)
and Tom Selleck couldn't get out of his Magnum P.I. contract,
Lucas turned to his Han Solo.
12 100  
Back to the Future

(1985)

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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson,

Crispin Glover

$470,043,200
Famous quote: “If my calculations are correct, when this

baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious
shit.” — Dr. Emmett Brown
Fox was filming Family Ties when Zemeckis tapped the 24-
year-old television star to play unwitting time traveler Marty
McFly. (He was replacing Eric Stoltz, who had shot a few
scenes but proved the wrong fit.) Fox worked nights and
weekends, which explains why he looks so exasperated in
most of the film.
11 100  
Star Wars
(1977)
Twentieth Century Fox/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: George Lucas
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

$1,136,162,800
Famous quote: "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no

match for a good blaster at your side, kid." — Han Solo
Star Wars set the bar for lots of things: special effects, box-
office receipts, the incorporation of mythological storytelling
structure, the number of aliens that can fit comfortably into a
bar. But its real legacy is The Deal: Lucas negotiated rights to
both the merchandising and the sequels -- deemed worthless
by Fox in 1977, but today they are worth billions.
10 100  
Schindler's List
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley

$183,022,100
Famous quote: “Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell

that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy.” — Oskar
Schindler
The most shocking thing about this emotionally wrenching

black-and-white drama isn't that it's about an act of
heartbreaking kindness during the Holocaust; it's that
Spielberg released it only months after his other big hit of
1993, the one with the dinosaurs. Unlike Jurassic Park, this
film took home seven Oscars, including best director and best
picture (the first black-and-white movie to win that statuette
since 1960's The Apartment).
9 100  
2001: A Space Odyssey

(1968)
MGM/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

$344,621,600

Famous quote: “Well, I don’t think there is any question
 about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort
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of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due
to human error.” — Hal
It was the first outer-space movie to take outer space -- and

special effects -- seriously (so seriously Kubrick had the sets
destroyed after production to make sure they didn't turn up
in subsequent inferior sci-fi films). Sure, it creaks beside its
successors, including Close Encounters and Star Wars,
but 2001 does have one of the most famous match-cuts in
movie history (the bone turning into a spaceship). And even
though the smooth-talking computer in the film has an
operating system that's 46 years old, people still want to own
it: The HAL 9000 app on iTunes has been downloaded an
estimated quarter-million times.
8 100  
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

(1982)

Peters Collection
Cast: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace
Domestic lifetime gross: (adjusted for inflation, 2014):

$989,737,100
Famous quote: “Be good.” — E.T.
It's the first Spielberg film on the list but hardly the last (he
has seven). And it totally makes sense that E.T. would be his
most popular because it's basically The Wizard of Oz in
reverse. Think about it: A 3-foot-tall munchkin lands on Earth,
where he's befriended by a trio of locals (and their little dog)
who help him phone to no-place-like-home until, at the end,
where does E.T. go in his spaceship? That's right -- over the
rainbow. "I never thought of that before," said Spielberg a
few years ago when the theory was presented to him. "Do
you mind if I steal that?"
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 The Godfather: Part II 
(1974)
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

$202,374,900
Famous quote: "There are many things my father taught me

here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but
your enemies closer." — Michael Corleone
Arguments over which Godfather is greater, the first or

second, began as soon as the sequel was released. The first
film has the edge among this poll's respondents, but Part
II has die-hard fans as well. "It's one of those movies," says
producer Albert Berger, "that has every element of cinema
working at the highest level. And it's entertaining, and it says
something about our country."
6 100  
Casablanca
(1942)
Warner Bros./Courtesy The Neal Peters Collection
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman

 $4,452,100
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Famous quote: "Here's looking at you, kid." — Rick
Not surprisingly, Rick and Ilsa's war-torn romance was a big

favorite among seasoned poll respondents. Among those in
their 60s, it was the third-most-popular picture, while among
those in their 20s, it was 37th. Also not a big shocker, men
and women had different opinions: Casablanca was males'
third-favorite film and females' 14th. But then, men always
prefer their love stories with Nazis in them.
5 100  
Pulp Fiction
(1994)
Miramax Films/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce

Willis, Ving Rhames

$202,078,200
Famous quote: "If my answers frighten you then you should

cease asking scary questions." — Jules
"Quentin has always been a student of film, and after

Reservoir Dogs he said to me: 'The second movie from a
filmmaker is almost more important than the first. We've got
to get it right,'" recalls Lawrence Bender,
Tarantino's longtime producing partner. Tarantino got it right,
all right. In fact, Miramax's Pulp Fiction might be the most
influential movie made during the 1990s, inspiring scads of
imitators (nicknamed Tarantinies) and dozens of knockoffs.
"We didn't think we were taking a big risk," says Bender. "We
just though we were making something really cool."
4 100  

The Shawshank Redemption
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(1994)
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Peters Collection
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

$53,014,600
Famous quote: "Remember Red, hope is a good thing,

maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." –
Andy Dufresne [in letter to Red]
Of all the adaptations of Stephen King stories -- and they are

legion because he is the most-adapted living writer -- this is
only one of two (along with The Shining) to make the list.
All that Shawshank love apparently came after the film's

unexceptional theatrical release, when it began popping up
on cable TV nearly as regularly as Geico commercials. In 2013,
151 hours of basic cable time was devoted to airing the 142-
minute movie. That's about six days of watching Robbins try
to escape from prison.
3 100  
Citizen Kane
(1941)
RKO/Courtesy Neal Peters

Collection

Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore,
 Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick
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$2,998,000
Famous quote: "It isn't enough to tell us what a man did.

You've got to tell us who he was." — Rawlson
Critics have hailed this for decades as "the greatest American

movie ever made," making it an all-too-easy pick for anyone's
greatest-movie list. But not all moviegoers, especially younger
ones, are enthralled with the story of Charles Foster Kane
and his long-lost sled. Among poll respondents in their 20s,
for instance, it was only the 26th-favorite film. Among the
under-20s, it was 53rd. Among those over 60, though, it was
No. 1 or 2.
2 100  
The Wizard of Oz
(1939)
MGM/COURTESY NEAL PETERS

COLLECTION
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack

Haley

$32,950,500
Famous quote: "Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!" —

Dorothy
"If I was on a desert island, I'd bring The Wizard of Oz with

me," says Elizabeth Daley, dean of the USC School of
Cinematic Arts. "It always makes me feel alive. I could watch it
over and over." And people have, generation after
generation. In fact, it's the most-watched film of all time,
according to the Library of Congress, thanks to regular
showings on broadcast television since the mid-1950s (and
on cable since the '90s). That's not including sequels
and prequels, which Hollywood keeps releasing each decade
like swarms of flying monkeys. The most recent, Oz the Great
and Powerful, starring James Franco as a hunky young
wizard, grossed more than $230 million domestically. That
 yellow brick road clearly is made of gold.
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1 100  
The Godfather
(1972)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall,

Diane Keaton, Talia Shire

$626,025,500
Famous quote: "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't

refuse." — Don Corleone
The Godfather came into this world, in the form of Mario

Puzo's novel, as pulp. In a feat of creative alchemy arguably
unsurpassed before or since, Coppola and his collaborators
turned the Mafia melodrama into popular art that satisfies on
every possible level -- as a family drama, a crime saga, a
visual and musical ravishment and an impeccable evocation
of a historical period.
Godfather is 42 years old, meaning anyone who saw it when it

came out in 1972 is pushing 60 or older. This suggests its
narrative power, extraordinary performances and mythic
values register as strongly for younger viewers as they did at
the time. The film also happens to stand at the precise
midpoint between the arrival of sound films and the present.
It is both classical and modern, traditional in its storytelling
and contemporary in its critical perspective. It's a film that
does it all. — Todd McCarthy
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The Seven Samurai

Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation,

Bonnie and Clyde

Warner Bros./Courtesy Neal

Director: Arthur Penn

Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation, 2014): No

Famous quote: “This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde

Read THR's 1967 review.

Miramax Films/Courtesy Neal

Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, SteveBuscemi,

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation 2014):

It's actually not Tarantino's debut feature; the ﬁrst ﬁlm he

Read THR's 1992 review.

Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection

Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation 2014):

Famous quote: "There's no reason to become alarmed, and

Read THR's 1980 review.

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation, 2014):

It's the only Spanish-language movie to make the list.

Read THR's 2006 review.

MGM/Courtesy Neal Peters

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation, 2014):

Famous quote: “Who are you to refuse my sugar? Who are

Peter O'Toole turned down the title role, so Lean settled on

Read THR's 1965 review.

The Deer Hunter

Universal Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection

Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation, 2014):

When John Cazale got sick during ﬁlming, the studio wanted

Close Encounters of the Third

Courtesy Everett Collection

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truﬀaut

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation, 2014):

Famous quote: “How come I know so much? What the hell is

John Williams experimented with hundreds of ﬁve-note

Read THR's 1977 review.

Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai

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Famous quote: “Adventure is out there!” — Charles Mutz

Pixar has calculated it would take 26.5 million balloons to

Read THR's 2009 review.

United Artists/Courtesy Neal

Director: John G. Avildsen

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inﬂation, 2014):

Famous quote: “Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky.” — Rocky