Empire Magazine readers selected The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time, published both in their October, 1999 issue, and updated for 2003 in their March 2004 issue of the magazine.

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".

Facts and Commentary About the Latest 2003 Polling:

• The films were indiscriminately and heavily weighted toward fan favorites, not necessarily the "greatest movies of all time" - Stars Wars films (at # 2, # 4, # 23, and # 51), The Lord of the Rings films (at # 1, # 3, and # 8), and Quentin Tarantino films ( Pulp Fiction (1994) at # 9, Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) at # 27, and Reservoir Dogs (1992) at # 49) for example, and other cultish favorites in the top 50, such as Fight Club (1999) (# 9), The Usual Suspects (1995) (# 18), Donnie Darko (2001) (# 21), The Big Lebowski (1998) (# 30), Magnolia (1999) (# 36), Memento (2001) (# 39), Leon (1994) (# 40), Se7en (1995) (# 41), Heat (1995) (# 42), and L.A. Confidential (1997) (# 43).
  
  
• Other cult favorites in the second half of the list included: Scarface (1983) (# 53), The Matrix (1999) (# 56), Ghostbusters (1984) (# 58), Die Hard (1988) (# 59), Stand By Me (1986) (# 67), Grosse Point Blank (1997) (# 78), True Romance (1993) (# 80), Cinema Paradiso (1989) (# 82), The Great Escape (1963) (# 85), The Blues Brothers (1980) (# 96), and The Untouchables (1987) (# 99), among others.
  
  
• Films broken down by decade: 1930's (2), 1940's (4), 1950's (9), 1960's (9), 1970's (14), 1980's (20), 1990's (28), 2000's (14) - obviously weighted toward the last two complete decades and the first few years of the new century. The earliest two films in the survey were both from 1939: Gone With the Wind (1939) (# 44) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) (# 84), and the latest films in the survey were all from 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (# 8), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) (# 19), and Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) (# 27).
  
  
• Films on this list (in the top 50) that were also selected by Filmsite.org as the "100 Greatest Films" included these 18 films: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (# 2), The Godfather (1972) (# 6), Jaws (1975) (# 10), Blade Runner (1982) (# 12), The Godfather, Part II (1974) (# 14), Raging Bull (1980) (# 17), Taxi Driver (1976) (# 20), Citizen Kane (1941) (# 22), Casablanca (1942) (# 24), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (# 25), Schindler's List (1993) (# 26), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (# 29), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (# 34), Apocalypse Now (1979) (# 35), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (# 38), Gone With the Wind (1939) (# 44), Vertigo (1958) (# 45), and Some Like It Hot (1959) (# 48).
  
  
• There were only 14 other Filmsite.org selections of "100 Greatest Films" in the 51-100 slots: Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (# 52), Singin' in the Rain (1952) (# 55), The Third Man (1949) (# 70), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (# 71), Psycho (1960) (# 72), Rear Window (1954) (# 76), Chinatown (1974) (# 81), The Searchers (1956) (# 83), The Wizard of Oz (1939) (# 84), The Wild Bunch (1969) (# 86), North by Northwest (1959) (# 88), The Graduate (1967) (# 89), Annie Hall (1977) (# 91), and Ben-Hur (1959) (# 93).
  
  
• Films broken down by Genres: Crime (23), Sci-Fi (16), Contemporary Drama (12), Action (10), Comedy (8), Historical Drama (8), War (6), Musicals (5), Foreign Language (4), Westerns (4), Horror (3), Animation (1).
  
  
• The Top 10 Films: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (# 1), Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (# 2), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (# 3), Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (# 4), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (# 5), The Godfather (1972) (# 6), Pulp Fiction (1994) (# 7), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (# 8), Fight Club (1999) (# 9), and Jaws (1975) (# 10). These top films were very weighted toward Peter Jackson's LOTR's films, Lucas' Star Wars franchise of films, and a few other machismo action films.
  
  
• Directors with the Most Films: Steven Spielberg (7), Alfred Hitchcock (4), James Cameron (4), Peter Jackson (3), Francis Ford Coppola (3), Quentin Tarantino (3), Ridley Scott (3), Stanley Kubrick (3), Sergio Leone (3), Martin Scorsese (3).
  
  
• Actor/Actress with the Most Films: Robert De Niro (8), Sigourney Weaver (4), Carrie Fisher (3).
  
  
• Highest B/W Film: Raging Bull (1980) at #17
  
  
• 16% of Films won Best Picture Oscar; 9% of films are over three hours in length.
  
  
• Films that went down in polling since 1999: 55; Films that went up in polling since 1999: 25; New Entries: 19.
  
  
• Stars not included within this list of films: Paul Newman, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, Mickey Mouse, Julia Roberts, Jim Carrey

See also Empire Magazine's polling of The 50 Best Films from their November, 2001 publication.