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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

100 YEARS...100 MOVIES

(America's Greatest Movies
Ranked by Decade by AFI)


The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California, in mid-June 1998 commemorated the extraordinary first 100 years of American movies by making a "definitive selection of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time, as determined by more than 1,500 leaders from the American film community." The 400 Nominated Films were feature-length fictional movies produced between 1912 and 1996 "with the goal of amassing a capsule of the first 100 years of American cinema, across decades and across genres."

Read this site's Commentary on AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies.

See AFI's 100 Greatest American Films - 10th Anniversary Edition


A few of the more interesting facts about the selected 100 films:

Also see this listing organized in ranked-winning order: America's 100 Greatest Movies.

Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 100 Greatest Films.



AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

AMERICA's 100
GREATEST MOVIES

(RANKED BY DECADE)

100 Greatest American Films



Silent Era: 1915-1927
3 Films
Oscar Winner or Nominee
for Best Picture

N/A
N/A
N/A

1930s: 1930-1939
15 Films
 
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Winner
 
 
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
 
 
 
Winner
 
Nominee

1940s: 1940-1949
12 Films
 
Nominee
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
 
 
Nominee

1950s: 1950-1959
20 Films
 
Winner
 
Nominee
Winner
 
Winner
 
Nominee
 
 
Nominee
Winner
 
 
Winner
Nominee
Winner
#82. Giant (1956)
Nominee
Nominee
 

1960s: 1960-1969
18 Films
 
Winner
Nominee
 
 
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Winner
#39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Nominee
Winner
Nominee
Winner
 
 
 
Winner
Winner
#99. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
Nominee

1970s: 1970-1979
18 Films
 
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Winner
Nominee
Winner
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
#56. M*A*S*H (1970)
Nominee
 
Nominee
Winner
Nominee
Winner
Winner
Winner

1980s: 1980-1989
6 Films
 
Nominee
Nominee
#53. Amadeus (1984)
Winner
Nominee
#62. Tootsie (1982)
Nominee
#83. Platoon (1986)
Winner

1990s: 1990-1996
8 Films
 
Winner
Winner
#71. Forrest Gump (1994)
Winner
#75. Dances With Wolves (1990)
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
#95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Nominee
Winner

AFI's Greatest 100 Films at Amazon.com


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