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Sight & Sound International Critics Poll

 

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Limited to: feature films made any time, anywhere
Type of honor: poll conducted every 10 years since 1952, in the second year of each decade
Selected by: an international assortment of film critics and directors (200 in 1992), selected by the editors
of Sight & Sound; in 1992, the directors' choices were tallied separately
Sponsored by: Sight & Sound, a prestigious British film magazine
Announced: every 10 years; next in 2002

"The Sight & Sound poll is generally considered the most authoritative
of all 'best film' lists..."
-- Roger Ebert

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2002

1) Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (43 votes) US
2) Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (18) US
3) The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir, 1939 (32) FR
4) The Godfather
5) Tokyo Story- Yasujiro Ozu, 1953 (22) JP
7) Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (15) USSR
8) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - F.W. Murnau, 1927
9) 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini, 1963
10) Singin' in the Rain Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952 (15) US
11) Seven Samurai - Akiro Kurosawa, 1956
12) The Searchers - John Ford, 1956 (17) US
13) Rashomon - Akiro Kurosawa, 1951
14) The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (15) FR
15) L'Atalante - Jean Vigo, 1934 (15) FR

1992
1) Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (43 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir, 1939 (32) FR
3) Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu, 1953 (22) JP
4) Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (18) US
5) The Searchers - John Ford, 1956 (17) US
6) L'Atalante - Jean Vigo, 1934 (15) FR
6) The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (15) FR
6) Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray, 1955 (15) IN
6) Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (15) USSR
10) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (14) UK

1982
1) Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (45 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir, 1939 (31) FR
3) The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa, 1954 (15) JP
3) Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952 (15) US
5) 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini, 1963 (14) IT
6) Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (13) USSR
7) L'Avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (12) IT
7) The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles, 1942 (12) US
7) Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (12) US
10) The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (11) US
10) The Searchers - John Ford, 1956 (11) US

1972
1) Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (32 votes) US
2) The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir, 1939 (28) FR
3) Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
4) 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini, 1963 (15) IT
5) L'Avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (12) IT
5) Persona - Ingmar Bergman, 1967 (12) SW
7) The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (11) FR
8) The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (10) US
9) The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles, 1942 (10) US
10) Ugetsu Monogatari - Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (9) JP
10) Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman, 1957 (9) SW

1962
1) Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941 (22 votes) US
2) L'Avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (20) IT
3) The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir, 1939 (19) FR
4) Greed - Erich von Stroheim, 1924 (17) US
4) Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (17) JP
6) Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
6) The Bicycle Thief - Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (16) IT
6) Ivan the Terrible - Sergei Eisenstein, 1943-46 (16) USSR
9) La terra trema - Luchino Visconti, 1948 (14) IT
10) L'Atalante - Jean Vigo, 1934 (13) FR

1952
1) The Bicycle Thief - Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (25 votes) IT
2) City Lights - Charles Chaplin, 1930 (19) US
2) The Gold Rush - Charles Chaplin, 1925 (19) US
4) Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR
5) Intolerance - DW Griffith, 1916 (12) US
5) Louisiana Story - Robert Flaherty, 1947 (12) US
7) Greed - Erich von Stroheim, 1924 (11) US
7) Le Jour se leve - Marcel Carne, 1939 (11) FR
7) The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (11) FR
10) Brief Encounter - David Lean, 1945 (10) UK
10) Le Million - Rene Clair, 1930 (10) FR
10) The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir, 1939 (10) FR

 

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