Polls of Critics and Filmmakers
Every decade, the British film monthly Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies—the only one most serious movie people take seriously."
- Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles was voted number one in the five Sight & Sound critics' polls from 1962 to 2002. A separate Sight & Sound poll of established film directors, held for the first time in 1992, also placed Citizen Kane at the top in 1992 and 2002. Citizen Kane was also selected as number one in a Village Voice and in a Time Out critics' poll. It was listed as the greatest American film by the American Film Institute in both the first (1998) and second (2007) versions of its 100 Years... 100 Movies list.
- Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll, in 1952. It also came number seven in 1962 and number six in 2002. It also came number ten in the 2012 directors' poll.
- Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujirō Ozu topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane. Tokyo Story also appeared in the Sight & Sound critics' poll at third place in 1992, fifth in 2002, and third in 2012. Tokyo Story also topped a 1998 critics' poll conducted by Asian film magazine Cinemaya, where it was followed by Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955) and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) tied at second place.
- Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane. It also came number 7 in 1982, number 4 in 1992, and number two in 2002. In the directors' poll, it came number 6 in 1992 and 2002, and number 7 in 2012.
- La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939) by director Jean Renoir was named the greatest film by the French film magazine Positif in 1991. It also holds the second slot in the Village Voice poll, and is the only movie to have appeared in every one of the Sight & Sound polls.
- The Searchers (1956) is the film most often mentioned in a poll of the favorite films of directors by German language Steadycam magazine in 1995.
The Brussels World’s Fair, organized in 1958, offered the occasion for the organization by thousands of critics and filmmakers from all over the world, of the first universal film poll in history. These were the films chosen as most artistically fulfilled:
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Rank Film Director Year 1 Броненосец Потёмкин (The Battleship Potemkin) Sergei Eisenstein 1925 2 The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin 1925 3 Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) Vittorio De Sica 1948 4 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928 5 La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) Jean Renoir 1937 6 Greed Erich von Stroheim 1924 7 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages D. W. Griffith 1916 8 Мать (Mother) Vsevolod Pudovkin 1926 9 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 10 Земля (Earth) Alexander Dovzhenko 1930 11 Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) F.W. Murnau 1924 12 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) Robert Wiene 1920
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