So another year, another American Film Institute TV special. This year they counted down the top ten films in ten different genres. We learned that apparentley Disney is the only company that can make animated movies, Gene Hackman is the effing man and Courtroom Drama and Gangster are more important genres than Action or Horror. Check out the lists below.
Animation:
- Snow White
- Pinocchio
- Bambi
- The Lion King
- Fantasia
- Toy Story
- Beauty and the Beast
- Shrek
- Cinderella
- Finding Nemo
Romantic Comedies
- City Lights
- Annie Hall
- It Happened One Night
- Roman Holiday
- The Philadelphia Story
- When Harry Met Sally
- Adam’s Rib
- Moonstruck
- Harry and Maude
- Sleepless in Seattle
Western
- The Searchers
- High Noon
- Shane
- Unforgiven
- Red River
- The Wild Bunch
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- Stagecoach
- Cat Ballou
Sports
- Raging Bull
- Rocky
- The Pride of the Yankees
- Hoosiers
- Bull Durham
- The Hustler
- Caddyshack
- Breaking Away
- National Velvet
- Jerry Maguire
Mystery
- Vertigo
- Chinatown
- Rear Window
- Laura
- The Third Man
- The Maltese Falcon
- North by Northwest
- Blue Velvet
- Dial M for Murder
- The Usual Suspects
Fantasy
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- King Kong
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Field of Dreams
- Harvey
- Groundhog Day
- The Thief of Bagdad
- Big
Sci-Fi
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- E.T.
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Blade Runner
- Alien
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Back to the Future
Gangster
- The Godfather
- Goodfellas
- The Godfather Part II
- White Heat
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
- Pulp Fiction
- The Public Enemy
- Little Caesar
- Scarface
Courtroom Drama
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- 12 Angry Men
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- The Verdict
- A Few Good Men
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Anatomy of a Murder
- In Cold Blood
- A Cry in the Dark
- Judgment at Nuremberg
Epic
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Ben Hur
- Schind ler’s List
- Gone with the Wind
- Spartacus
- Titanic
- All’s Quiet on the Western Front
- Saving Private Ryan
- Reds
- The Ten Commandments