AFI's 10 Top 10 Film Genres Part 2 (Fantasy Films) |

|
To compile the final list, AFI distributed a ballot with 500 Nominated Films (50 per genre) to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians. In previous years, the AFI has also produced other lists of the following:
AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars/Legends (1999) AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs (2000) AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills (2001) AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions (2002) AFI's Heroes and Villains (2003) AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs (2004) AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes (2005) AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers (2006) AFI's 100 Greatest American Films - 10th Anniversary Edition (2007) AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies
(1998) (original) AFI asked jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process:
|
|
Film Genres Part 2 (Fantasy Films) |
AFI described fantasy films as "a genre where live-action characters inhabit imagined settings and/or experience situations that transcend the rules of the natural world. By presenting dreamlike realms where fairies flourish, witches scheme and pigs fly, fantasy demands that audiences believe in magic and hope for wishes to come true." Nominees: 11 movies featured ghosts and four movies featured super heroes. The 1980s was the most represented decade with 15 movies. Winners: Comments: Big (1988) was more a romantic comedy than a fantasy, and |