Rank
|
Year
|
Director(s)
|
Cast
|
Film
|
1
|
1941
|
Orson Welles
|
Orson Welles Joseph Cotten Dorothy Comingore Everett Sloane Ray Collins George Coulouris Agnes Moorehead Paul Stewart Ruth Warrick Erskine Sanford William Alland
|
Citizen Kane
|
2
|
1972
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Marlon Brando Al Pacino James Caan Richard Castellano Robert Duvall Sterling Hayden John Marley Richard Conte Diane Keaton
|
The Godfather
|
3
|
1942
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul Henreid Claude Rains Conrad Veidt Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre
|
Casablanca
|
4
|
1980
|
Martin Scorsese
|
Robert De Niro Joe Pesci Cathy Moriarty
|
Raging Bull
|
5
|
1952
|
|
Gene Kelly Donald O'Connor Debbie Reynolds Jean Hagen Millard Mitchell Cyd Charisse
|
Singin' in the Rain
|
6
|
1939
|
Victor Fleming
|
Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard Olivia de Havilland
|
Gone with the Wind
|
7
|
1962
|
David Lean
|
Alec Guinness Anthony Quinn Jack Hawkins José Ferrer Anthony Quayle Claude Rains Arthur Kennedy Omar Sharif Peter O'Toole
|
Lawrence of Arabia
|
8
|
1993
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Liam Neeson Ben Kingsley Ralph Fiennes Caroline Goodall Jonathan Sagall Embeth Davidtz
|
Schindler's List
|
9
|
1958
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes Tom Helmore Henry Jones
|
Vertigo
|
10
|
1939
|
Victor Fleming
|
Judy Garland Frank Morgan Ray Bolger Bert Lahr Jack Haley Billie Burke Margaret Hamilton Charley Grapewin
|
The Wizard of Oz
|
11
|
1931
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
Charlie Chaplin Virginia Cherrill Florence Lee Harry Myers Al Ernest Garcia
|
City Lights
|
12
|
1956
|
John Ford
|
John Wayne Jeffrey Hunter Vera Miles Ward Bond Natalie Wood
|
The Searchers
|
13
|
1977
|
George Lucas
|
Mark Hamill Harrison Ford Carrie Fisher Peter Cushing Alec Guinness
|
Star Wars
|
14
|
1960
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Anthony Perkins Vera Miles John Gavin Martin Balsam John McIntire Janet Leigh
|
Psycho
|
15
|
1968
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Keir Dullea Gary Lockwood William Sylvester
|
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
16
|
1950
|
Billy Wilder
|
William Holden Gloria Swanson Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Fred Clark Lloyd Gough Jack Webb
|
Sunset Boulevard
|
17
|
1967
|
Mike Nichols
|
Anne Bancroft Dustin Hoffman Katharine Ross
|
The Graduate
|
18
|
1927
|
Clyde Bruckman Buster Keaton
|
|
The General
|
19
|
1954
|
Elia Kazan
|
Marlon Brando Karl Malden Lee J. Cobb Rod Steiger Pat Henning Eva Marie Saint
|
On the Waterfront
|
20
|
1946
|
Frank Capra
|
James Stewart Donna Reed Lionel Barrymore Thomas Mitchell Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Ward Bond Frank Faylen Gloria Grahame
|
It's a Wonderful Life
|
21
|
1974
|
Roman Polanski
|
Jack Nicholson Faye Dunaway John Hillerman Perry Lopez Burt Young John Huston
|
Chinatown
|
22
|
1959
|
Billy Wilder
|
Marilyn Monroe Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon George Raft Joe E. Brown Pat O'Brien
|
Some Like It Hot
|
23
|
1940
|
John Ford
|
Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Shirley Mills John Qualen Eddie Quillan
|
The Grapes of Wrath
|
24
|
1982
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Dee Wallace Henry Thomas Peter Coyote Robert MacNaughton Drew Barrymore
|
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
|
25
|
1962
|
Robert Mulligan
|
Gregory Peck Mary Badham Phillip Alford John Megna Ruth White Paul Fix Brock Peters Frank Overton
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
26
|
1939
|
Frank Capra
|
Jean Arthur James Stewart Claude Rains Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Thomas Mitchell Eugene Pallette Beulah Bondi
|
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
|
27
|
1952
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
Gary Cooper Thomas Mitchell Lloyd Bridges Katy Jurado Grace Kelly Otto Kruger Lon Chaney Henry Morgan
|
High Noon
|
28
|
1950
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
Bette Davis Anne Baxter George Sanders Celeste Holm Gary Merrill Hugh Marlowe Thelma Ritter Marilyn Monroe
|
All About Eve
|
29
|
1944
|
Billy Wilder
|
Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson Porter Hall Jean Heather Byron Barr Richard Gaines John Philliber
|
Double Indemnity
|
30
|
1979
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Marlon Brando Robert Duvall Martin Sheen Frederic Forrest Albert Hall Sam Bottoms Laurence Fishburne Dennis Hopper
|
Apocalypse Now
|
31
|
1941
|
John Huston
|
Humphrey Bogart Mary Astor Gladys George Peter Lorre Barton MacLane Lee Patrick Sydney Greenstreet
|
The Maltese Falcon
|
32
|
1974
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Al Pacino Robert Duvall Diane Keaton Robert De Niro Talia Shire Morgana King John Cazale Mariana Hill Lee Strasberg
|
The Godfather Part II
|
33
|
1975
|
Miloš Forman
|
Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher Will Sampson Danny DeVito Sydney Lassick William Redfield Christopher Lloyd Brad Dourif
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
34
|
1937
|
David Hand William Cottrell Wilfred Jackson Larry Morey Perce Pearce Ben Sharpsteen
|
Adriana Caselotti Lucille La Verne Harry Stockwell Roy Atwell Pinto Colvig Otis Harlan Scotty Mattraw Billy Gilbert Eddie Collins Moroni Olsen Stuart Buchanan
|
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
|
35
|
1977
|
Woody Allen
|
Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Carol Kane Paul Simon Janet Margolin Shelley Duvall Christopher Walken Colleen Dewhurst
|
Annie Hall
|
36
|
1957
|
David Lean
|
William Holden Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins Sessue Hayakawa
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai
|
37
|
1946
|
William Wyler
|
Myrna Loy Fredric March Dana Andrews Teresa Wright Virginia Mayo Harold Russell
|
The Best Years of Our Lives
|
38
|
1948
|
John Huston
|
Humphrey Bogart Walter Huston Tim Holt Bruce Bennett
|
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
|
39
|
1964
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Peter Sellers George C. Scott Sterling Hayden Keenan Wynn Slim Pickens Tracy Reed
|
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
|
40
|
1965
|
Robert Wise
|
Julie Andrews Christopher Plummer Richard Haydn Peggy Wood Charmian Carr Eleanor Parker
|
The Sound of Music
|
41
|
1933
|
Merian C. Cooper Ernest B. Shoedsack
|
Fay Wray Robert Armstrong Bruce Cabot
|
King Kong
|
42
|
1967
|
Arthur Penn
|
Warren Beatty Faye Dunaway Michael J. Pollard Gene Hackman Estelle Parsons
|
Bonnie and Clyde
|
43
|
1969
|
John Schlesinger
|
Dustin Hoffman Jon Voight Brenda Vaccaro John McGiver Ruth White Sylvia Miles Barnard Hughes
|
Midnight Cowboy
|
44
|
1940
|
George Cukor
|
Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn James Stewart Ruth Hussey John Howard Roland Young John Halliday Mary Nash Virginia Weidler
|
The Philadelphia Story
|
45
|
1953
|
George Stevens
|
Alan Ladd Jean Arthur Van Heflin Brandon deWilde Jack Palance
|
Shane
|
46
|
1934
|
Frank Capra
|
Clark Gable Claudette Colbert
|
It Happened One Night
|
47
|
1951
|
Elia Kazan
|
Vivien Leigh Marlon Brando Kim Hunter Karl Malden
|
A Streetcar Named Desire
|
48
|
1954
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
James Stewart Grace Kelly Wendell Corey Thelma Ritter Raymond Burr
|
Rear Window
|
49
|
1916
|
D. W. Griffith
|
Vera Lewis Ralph Lewis Mae Marsh Robert Harron Constance Talmadge Lillian Gish Josephine Crowell Margery Wilson Frank Bennett Elmer Clifton Miriam Cooper Alfred Paget
|
Intolerance
|
50
|
2001
|
Peter Jackson
|
Elijah Wood Ian McKellen Liv Tyler Viggo Mortensen Sean Astin Cate Blanchett John Rhys-Davies Billy Boyd Dominic Monaghan Orlando Bloom Christopher Lee Hugo Weaving Sean Bean Ian Holm Andy Serkis
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
|
51
|
1961
|
Robert Wise Jerome Robbins
|
Natalie Wood Richard Beymer Russ Tamblyn Rita Moreno George Chakiris
|
West Side Story
|
52
|
1976
|
Martin Scorsese
|
Robert De Niro Jodie Foster Albert Brooks Harvey Keitel Leonard Harris Peter Boyle Cybill Shepherd
|
Taxi Driver
|
53
|
1978
|
Michael Cimino
|
Robert De Niro John Cazale John Savage Meryl Streep Christopher Walken
|
The Deer Hunter
|
54
|
1970
|
Robert Altman
|
Donald Sutherland Elliott Gould Tom Skerritt Sally Kellerman Robert Duvall Roger Bowen René Auberjonois David Arkin
|
M*A*S*H
|
55
|
1959
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Jessie Royce Landis
|
North by Northwest
|
56
|
1975
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Roy Scheider Robert Shaw Richard Dreyfuss Lorraine Gary Murray Hamilton
|
Jaws
|
57
|
1976
|
John G. Avildsen
|
Sylvester Stallone Talia Shire Burt Young Carl Weathers Burgess Meredith
|
Rocky
|
58
|
1925
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
Charlie Chaplin Georgia Hale Mack Swain Tom Murray Malcolm Waite
|
The Gold Rush
|
59
|
1975
|
Robert Altman
|
David Arkin Barbara Baxley Ned Beatty Karen Black Ronee Blakley Timothy Brown Geraldine Chaplin Robert DoQui Shelley Duvall Allen Garfield Henry Gibson Scott Glenn Jeff Goldblum Barbara Harris David Hayward Michael Murphy Allan F. Nicholls Dave Peel Cristina Raines Bert Remsen Lily Tomlin Gwen Welles Keenan Wynn
|
Nashville
|
60
|
1933
|
Leo McCarey
|
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Zeppo Marx Margaret Dumont Louis Calhern Raquel Torres Edgar Kennedy
|
Duck Soup
|
61
|
1941
|
Preston Sturges
|
Joel McCrea Veronica Lake Robert Warwick William Demarest Franklin Pangborn
|
Sullivan's Travels
|
62
|
1973
|
George Lucas
|
Richard Dreyfuss Ron Howard Paul Le Mat Charles Martin Smith Candy Clark Mackenzie Phillips Cindy Williams Wolfman Jack
|
American Graffiti
|
63
|
1972
|
Bob Fosse
|
Liza Minnelli Michael York Helmut Griem Marisa Berenson Fritz Wepper Joel Grey
|
Cabaret
|
64
|
1976
|
Sidney Lumet
|
Faye Dunaway William Holden Peter Finch Robert Duvall Wesley Addy Ned Beatty Beatrice Straight
|
Network
|
65
|
1951
|
John Huston
|
Humphrey Bogart Katharine Hepburn Robert Morley Peter Bull Walter Gotell Richard Marner Theodore Bikel
|
The African Queen
|
66
|
1981
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Harrison Ford Karen Allen Paul Freeman Ronald Lacey John Rhys-Davies Denholm Elliott
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark
|
67
|
1966
|
Mike Nichols
|
Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton George Segal Sandy Dennis
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
68
|
1992
|
Clint Eastwood
|
Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman Morgan Freeman Richard Harris
|
Unforgiven
|
69
|
1982
|
Sydney Pollack
|
Dustin Hoffman Jessica Lange Teri Garr Dabney Coleman Charles Durning Bill Murray
|
Tootsie
|
70
|
1971
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Malcolm McDowell Patrick Magee Adrienne Corri Miriam Karlin
|
A Clockwork Orange
|
71
|
1998
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Tom Hanks Edward Burns Matt Damon Tom Sizemore Jeremy Davies
|
Saving Private Ryan
|
72
|
1994
|
Frank Darabont
|
Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman Bob Gunton William Sadler Clancy Brown Gil Bellows James Whitmore
|
The Shawshank Redemption
|
73
|
1969
|
George Roy Hill
|
Paul Newman Robert Redford Katharine Ross Strother Martin Jeff Corey Henry Jones
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
|
74
|
1991
|
Jonathan Demme
|
Jodie Foster Anthony Hopkins Scott Glenn Ted Levine Anthony Heald Kasi Lemmons
|
The Silence of the Lambs
|
75
|
1967
|
Norman Jewison
|
Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger Warren Oates Lee Grant
|
In the Heat of the Night
|
76
|
1994
|
Robert Zemeckis
|
Tom Hanks Robin Wright Gary Sinise Mykelti Williamson Sally Field
|
Forrest Gump
|
77
|
1976
|
Alan J. Pakula
|
Dustin Hoffman Robert Redford Jack Warden Martin Balsam Hal Holbrook Jason Robards
|
All the President's Men
|
78
|
1936
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
Charlie Chaplin Paulette Goddard Henry Bergman Tiny Sandford Chester Conklin
|
Modern Times
|
79
|
1969
|
Sam Peckinpah
|
William Holden Ernest Borgnine Robert Ryan Edmond O'Brien Warren Oates Jaime Sánchez Ben Johnson Emilio Fernández Strother Martin L.Q. Jones
|
The Wild Bunch
|
80
|
1960
|
Billy Wilder
|
Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine Fred MacMurray Ray Walston Jack Kruschen David Lewis Willard Waterman David White Hope Holiday Edie Adams
|
The Apartment
|
81
|
1960
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Kirk Douglas Laurence Olivier Jean Simmons Charles Laughton Peter Ustinov John Gavin Tony Curtis
|
Spartacus
|
82
|
1927
|
F. M. Murnau
|
Janet Gaynor George O'Brien Margaret Livingston
|
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
|
83
|
1997
|
James Cameron
|
Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Billy Zane Kathy Bates Frances Fisher Bernard Hill Jonathan Hyde Danny Nucci David Warner Bill Paxton
|
Titanic
|
84
|
1969
|
Dennis Hopper
|
Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper Jack Nicholson
|
Easy Rider
|
85
|
1935
|
Sam Wood
|
Groucho Marx Chico Marx Harpo Marx Kitty Carlisle Allan Jones
|
A Night at the Opera
|
86
|
1986
|
Oliver Stone
|
Tom Berenger Willem Dafoe Charlie Sheen Keith David Kevin Dillon John C. McGinley Forest Whitaker Johnny Depp
|
Platoon
|
87
|
1957
|
Sidney Lumet
|
Henry Fonda Lee J. Cobb Ed Begley E.G. Marshall Jack Warden
|
12 Angry Men
|
88
|
1938
|
Howard Hawks
|
Katharine Hepburn Cary Grant Charles Ruggles Barry Fitzgerald May Robson Walter Catlett Fritz Feld
|
Bringing Up Baby
|
89
|
1999
|
M. Night Shyamalan
|
Bruce Willis Haley Joel Osment Toni Collette Olivia Williams Donnie Wahlberg
|
The Sixth Sense
|
90
|
1936
|
George Stevens
|
Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Helen Broderick Victor Moore Betty Furness Eric Blore Georges Metaxa
|
Swing Time
|
91
|
1982
|
Alan J. Pakula
|
Meryl Streep Kevin Kline Peter MacNicol Rita Karin Stephen D. Newman Josh Mostel
|
Sophie's Choice
|
92
|
1990
|
Martin Scorsese
|
Robert De Niro Ray Liotta Joe Pesci Lorraine Bracco Paul Sorvino
|
Goodfellas
|
93
|
1971
|
William Friedkin
|
Gene Hackman Fernando Rey Roy Scheider Tony Lo Bianco Marcel Bozzuffi
|
The French Connection
|
94
|
1994
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
John Travolta Samuel L. Jackson Uma Thurman Harvey Keitel Tim Roth Amanda Plummer Maria de Medeiros Ving Rhames Eric Stoltz Rosanna Arquette Christopher Walken Bruce Willis
|
Pulp Fiction
|
95
|
1971
|
Peter Bogdanovich
|
Timothy Bottoms Jeff Bridges Ellen Burstyn Ben Johnson Cloris Leachman Cybill Shepherd
|
The Last Picture Show
|
96
|
1989
|
Spike Lee
|
Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Richard Edson Giancarlo Esposito Rosie Perez Martin Lawrence Spike Lee Bill Nunn John Turturro John Savage
|
Do the Right Thing
|
97
|
1982
|
Ridley Scott
|
Harrison Ford Rutger Hauer Sean Young Edward James Olmos M. Emmet Walsh Daryl Hannah
|
Blade Runner
|
98
|
1942
|
Michael Curtiz
|
James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Richard Whorf Irene Manning George Tobias Rosemary DeCamp Jeanne Cagney Vera Lewis
|
Yankee Doodle Dandy
|
99
|
1995
|
John Lasseter
|
Tom Hanks Tim Allen Don Rickles Jim Varney Wallace Shawn John Ratzenberger Annie Potts John Morris Erik von Detten
|
Toy Story
|
100
|
1959
|
William Wyler
|
Charlton Heston Jack Hawkins Haya Harareet Stephen Boyd Hugh Griffith Martha Scott Cathy O'Donnell Sam Jaffe
|
Ben-Hur
|