AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)

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On January 18, 2007, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that the 10th installment of their Emmy Award-winning AFI 100 Years... series would be the updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies. The original list was first unveiled in 1998.

AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies—10th Anniversary Edition will count down the 100 greatest movies of all time in a three-hour television event on CBS in June. The program will consider classic favorites and newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006. AFI will undertake this program every 10 years to mark changing cultural perspectives.

AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movies to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians.

[edit] Criteria

AFI asks jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process:

Feature-length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes in length.
American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production elements 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.
Popularity Over Time: This 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.

[edit] Trivia about the ballots

All of the 100 honored films from the original AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list appear on the ballot.
Henry Fonda is the most represented male actor with 10 films. James Stewart and Cary Grant each have nine, while Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson have eight.
Katharine Hepburn is the most represented female actor with seven films. Lillian Gish and Bette Davis each have five.
1939 and 1942 are the most represented years with 11 films each.
Alfred Hitchcock and William Wyler are the most represented directors with 10 films each. Steven Spielberg and Howard Hawks are represented with eight films each, and Billy Wilder and George Stevens have seven.
Ernest Lehman is the most represented screenwriter with six films.
The ballot includes entries that span from Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat from 1915, to Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Good Night, and Good Luck., all from 2005.
About 11 percent of the ballot (44 films) comes from the last 10 years, newly eligible since the original AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies.