3. The Execution of Mary Stuart
• The execution of Mary,
Queen of Scots
• Directed by Alfred Clark
and produced by
Thomas Edison
• Stars: Robert Thomae
• 18 secs
1895
4. The Kiss
• Directed by William Heise
• Writer: John J.
McNally (play)
• Stars: May Irwin and John
C. Rice
• The first kiss ever on film
• Aka The Rice-Irwin Kiss
• 47 secs
1896
5. Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer
• Aka Comic Faces
• Directed by G.A Smith
• Stars: Tom Green
• 35 secs
1897
6. Santa Claus
• Directed by G.A Smith
• Stars:Laura
Bayley, Dorothy
Smith and Harold Smith
• 1 min 16 secs
1898
7. Jeanne d'Arc
• Joan of Arc
• Written and directed by
George Melies
• Stars: Bleuette
Bernon, Georges
Méliès and Jeanne d'Alcy
• One of the first colored films
• 10 mins
1899
8. Grandma's Reading Glass
• Directed by G.A Smith
• Stars: Harold Smith
• A girl looks through
glasses at various
objects, seen magnified
• 1 min 20 secs
1900
9. The Execution of Czolgosz with
Panorama of Auburn Prison
• Directed by Edwin S.
Porter
• The panorama that opens
this film was shot on the
day that Czolgosz was
actually executed
• 4 mins
1901
10. Levoyage dans la Lune
• A Trip to the Moon
• Stars: Georges
Méliès, Victor
André and Bleuette
Bernon
• A group of astronomers
go on an expedition to
the moon
• 14 mins
1902
11. The Great Train Robbery
• Written, produced and
directed by Edwin S.
Porter
• Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho
Billy' Anderson, A.C.
Abadieand George
Barnes
• 12 mins
1903
12. The Impossible Voyage
• Directed by George Melies
• Writers: Adolphe
d'Ennery (play)
and Georges Méliès
• Stars: Georges Méliès
• 24 mins
1904
13. Le Diable Noir
• Directed by George
Melies
• The Black Imp
• A traveler at an inn is
harassed by a
mischievous devil in his
room.
• 4 mins
1905
14. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
• Directed by J. Stuart
Blackton
• Stars: J. Stuart Blackton
• A cartoonist draws faces and
figures on a blackboard -
and they come to life.
• Considered the first truly
animated movie
• 3 mins
1906
15. Ben-Hur
• Directed by Sidney Olcott,
Frank Oakes Rose, H.
Temple and Harrey T
Morrey
• Writers: Gene Gauntier
and Lew Wallace (novel)
• Stars: Herman
Rottger and William S. Hart
• 15 mins
1907
16. Dreams of Toyland
• Directed by Arthur
Melbourne Cooper
• A boy dreams toys come
to life.
• 8 mins
1908
17. A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Directed by Charles Kent and J.
Stuart Blackton
• Writers: William
Shakespeare (play) and Eugene
Mullin (scenario)
• Stars: Walter Ackerman, Charles
Chapman and Dolores Costello
• Produced by J. Stuart Blackton
• 12 mins
1909
18. A Christmas Carol
• Directed by Harold Shaw
• Writer: Charles
Dickens (short story)
• Stars: Marc
McDermott, Charles
Ogle and William Bechtel
• English intertitles
• 15 mins
1910
19. The Lonedale Operator
• Directed by D.W. Griffith
• Stars:Verner Clarges, Guy
Hedlund and Jeanie
Macpherson
• Used close-ups which were
uncommon at the time
• 17 mins
• English intertitle
1911
20. Cleopatra
• Directed by Charles L.
Gaskill
• Produced by Helen Gardner
• Writer: Victorien
Sardou (play)
• Stars: Helen Gardner, Pearl
Sindelar and Miss Fielding
• English intertitles
• Just over an hour
1912
21. Fantomas
• Directed by Louis Feuillade
• Writers: Marcel Allain (novel)
and Louis Feuillade
• Stars: René Navarre, Georges
Melchior and Renée Carl
• Produced by Romeo Bosetti
• French intertitles
• 5 episodes
1913
22. Squaw Man
• Directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil
B. DeMille
• Produced by Cecil B. DeMill and
Jesse L. Lasky
• Writers: Edwin Milton Royle (play)
and Cecil B. DeMille(picturizer)
• Stars:Dustin Farnum
• First feature-length movie filmed
in Hollywood
• Remade 3 times
• English intertitles
• 74 mins
1914
23. The Birth of a Nation
• Directed by D.W. Griffith
• Writers: Thomas F. Dixon
Jr. (novel) and Thomas F.
Dixon Jr.(play)
• Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae
Marsh and Henry B.
Walthall
• English intertitles
• 190 mins
1915
24. Intolerance
• Directed by D.W. Griffith
• Love's Struggle Throughout the
Ages
• Four parallel storylines
– Crime and redemption
– Christ’s mission and death
– St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre
– The Fall of the Babylonian Empire
to Persia
• English intertitles
• 210 mins
1916
25. The Poor Little Rich Girl
• Directed by Maurice
Tourneur
• Writers: Eleanor Gates (play)
and Frances
Marion (scenario)
• Stars: Mary
Pickford, Madlaine
Traverse and Charles
Wellesley
• English intertitles
• 65 mins
1917
26. Tarzan of the Apes
• Directed by Scott Sidney
• Writers: Edgar Rice
Burroughs (novel)Fred Miller
• Stars: Elmo Lincoln, Enid
Markey and True Boardman
• First Tarzan movie ever made
• English intertitles
• 73 mins
1918
27. Feline Follies-Felix the Cat
• Directed by Otto Messmer
• First appearance of Felix
the Cat
• He is referred to as "Master
Tom"
• English intertitles
• 6 mins
1919
28. The Mark of Zorro
• Directed by Fred Niblo
• Writer: Johnston
McCulley (based on the story
by: "The Curse of Capistrano"
published in "All-Story
Weekly")
• Stars: Douglas
Fairbanks, Marguerite De La
Motte andRobert McKim
• English intertitles
• 90 mins
1920
29. Three Musketeers
• Directed by Fred Niblo
• Writers: Alexandre Dumas
père (by: "The Three
Musketeers") and Edward
Knoblock (adapted by)
• Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Mary
MacLaren and Nigel De Brulier
• English intertitles
• 119 mins
1921
30. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des
Grauens
• Nosferatu, A Symphony of
Horror
• Directed by F.W. Murnau
• Writer: Henrik Galeen (screen
play)
• Stars:Max Schreck, Greta
Schröder and Ruth Landshoff
• Geman intertitles
• 94 mins
1922
31. The Ten Commandments
• Directed and produced by
Cecil B. DeMille
• Written by Jeanie
MacPherson
• Stars: Theodore
Roberts, Charles de
Rochefort and Estelle Taylor
• English intertitles
• 136 mins
1923
32. The Thief of Baghdad
• Directed by Raoul Walsh
• Writers: Lotta
Woods (scenario editor)
and Douglas Fairbanks (story)
• Stars:Douglas
Fairbanks, Julanne
Johnston and Snitz Edwards
• Adapted from A Thousand and
One Nights
• 140 mins
1924
33. Bronenosets Potyomkin
• Battleship Potemkin
• Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• Writer: Nina Agadzhanova (script)
• Stars:Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir
Barsky and Grigori Aleksandrov
• Russian Intertitles
• Named greatest film of all time in
1958
• 75 mins
1925
34. The Adventures Of Prince Achmed
• Meeting Aladdin
• Directed by Lotte Reiniger
• One of the earliest feature-
length animated films
• Silhouette animation
• 65 mins
1926
35. Metropolis
• Directed by Fritz Lang
• Writers: Thea von
Harbou (screenplay and
novel)
• Stars:Brigitte Helm, Alfred
Abel and Gustav Fröhlich
• 145 mins (restored)
1927
36. Habeas corpus
• Directed by Leo McCarey and
James Parrott
• Writers: Leo McCarey, H.M.
Walker
• Stars:Stan Laurel, Oliver
Hardy and Richard Carle
• Produced by Hal Roach
• 20 mins
1928
37. The Broadway Melody
• Directed by Harry Beaumont
• Produced by Irving Thalberg and
Lawrence Weingarten
• Writers: Edmund
Goulding and Sarah Y. Mason
• Stars: Bessie Love, Anita
Page and Charles King
• The first sound film to win an
Academy Award for Best Picture
• Uses a technicolor sequence
• 110 mins
1929
38. All Quiet on the Western Front
• Director: Lewis Milestone
• Writers: Erich Maria
Remarque (by) and Maxwell
Anderson(adaptation),
• Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis
Wolheim and John Wray
• Produced by Irving Thalberg and
Lawrence Weingarten
• The first sound film to win and
Academy Award for Best Picture
• Uses a technicolor sequence
• 110 mins
1930
39. City Lights
• Written, directed by and
starring Charlie Chaplin
• Stars: Charles
Chaplin, Virginia
Cherrill and Florence Lee
• Silent film though sound
film was already popular
• 87 mins
1931
40. Scarface
• Directors: Howard
Hawks, Richard Rosson
• Writers: Armitage
Trail (novel) and Ben
Hecht (screen story)
• Stars: Paul Muni, Ann
Dvorak and Karen Morley
• Produced by Howard Hughes
• 93 mins
1932
41. King Kong
• Directed and produced by
Merian C. Cooper and Ernest
B. Schoedsack
• Writers: James Ashmore
Creelman (screenplay)
and Ruth Rose(screenplay)
• Stars: Fay Wray, Robert
Armstrong and Bruce Cabot
• 100-104 mins
1933
42. It Happened One Night
• Directed by Frank Capra
• Writers: Robert Riskin (screenplay)
and Samuel Hopkins Adams (short
story)
• Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette
Colbert and Walter Connolly
• Won five major Academy Awards
– Best Picture
– Director
– Actor
– Actress
– Screenplay
• 105 mins
1934
43. Bride of Frankenstein
• Director: James Whale
• Writers: Mary
Shelley (suggested by the
original story written by)
and William
Hurlbut (adapted by)
• Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa
Lanchester and Colin Clive
• 75 mins
1935
44. Modern Times
• Directed, written and
produced by Charlie
Chaplin
• Stars: Charles
Chaplin, Paulette
Goddard and Henry
Bergman
• 87 mins
1936
45. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Directed by David Hand,
William Cottrell, Wilfred
Jackson ,Larry Morey ,Perce
Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen
• Writers: Ted Sears (story)
and Richard Creedon (story)
• Stars: Adriana Caselotti, Harry
Stockwell and Lucille La Verne
• 83 mins
1937
46. The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
• Writers: Norman Reilly Raine (original
screen play: based upon ancient Robin
Hood legends), Seton I. Miller (original
screen play: based upon ancient Robin
Hood legends), and Rowland Leigh
(contributor to treatment) uncredited
• Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de
Havilland and Basil Rathbone
• Filmed in technicolor
• Won 3 Academy Awards
– Best Art Direction
– Film Editing
– Original Score
• 102 mins
1938
47. The Wizard of Oz
• Directed by Victor Fleming
• Writers: Noel
Langley (screenplay)
and Florence
Ryerson(screenplay)
• Stars: Judy Garland, Frank
Morgan and Ray Bolger
• Produced by Mervyn LeRoy
• 101 mins
1939
48. Fantasia
• 8 animated segments
– Live action
– Directed by Samuel Armstrong
• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Nutcracker Suite
– Directed by James Algar
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
– Directed by Bill Roberts and Paul Satterfield
• The Rite of Spring
– Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and David D. Hand
• Intermission/Meet the Soundtrack
– Directed by Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley and Ford
Beebe
• The Pastoral Symphony
– Directed by T. Hee and Norm Ferguson
• Dance of the Hours
– Directed by Wilfred Jackson
• Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria
• 125 mins
1940
49. Citizen Kane
• Director: Orson Welles
• Writers: Herman J.
Mankiewicz (original
screenplay) and Orson
Welles (original screenplay)
• Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph
Cotten and Dorothy Comingore
• Tops the list twice (1997, 2007)
of AFI’s Greatest Movies of All
Time
• 119 mins
1941
50. Casablanca
• Director: Michael Curtiz
• Writers: Julius J.
Epstein (screenplay)
and Philip G.
Epstein(screenplay)
• Stars:Humphrey
Bogart, Ingrid
Bergman and Paul Henreid
• 102 mins
1942
51. Shadow of a Doubt
• Directed by Alfred
Hitchcock
• Writers: Thornton
Wilder (screenplay) and
Sally Benson(screenplay),
• Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph
Cotten and Macdonald
Carey
• Produced by Jack H. Skirball
• 108 mins
1943
52. Laura
• Director: Otto Preminger,
• Writers: Vera
Caspary (novel) and Jay
Dratler (screenplay)
• Stars: Gene Tierney, Dana
Andrews and Clifton
Webb
• 119 mins
1944
53. The Lost Weekend
• Director: Billy Wilder
• Writers: Charles R. Jackson (from the novel
by) and Charles Brackett(screenplay)
• Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip
Terry
• Produced by Charles Brackett
• Won 4 Academy Awards
– Best Picture
– Director
– Actor
– Screenplay
• Won the 1945 Grand Prix du Festival
International du Film at the first Cannes Film
Festival
– Best director of the best feature film
• 101 min
1945
54. It's a Wonderful Life
• Director: Frank Capra
• Writers: Frances
Goodrich (screenplay)
and Albert
Hackett(screenplay)
• Stars:James
Stewart, Donna
Reed and Lionel
Barrymore
• 130 mins
1946
55. Miracle on 34th Street
• Director: George Seaton
• Writers: George
Seaton (written for the
screen by) and Valentine
Davies (story)
• Stars: Edmund
Gwenn, Maureen
O'Hara and John Payne
• 96 mins
1947
56. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Director: John Huston
• Writers: John Huston (screen
play)and B. Traven (based on
the novel by)
• Stars: Humphrey
Bogart, Walter
Huston and Tim Holt
• Produced by Henry Blake
• 126 mins
1948
57. The Third Man
• Director: Carol Reed
• Writers: Graham Greene
• Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph
Cotten and Alida Valli
• Film noir - a cinematic term
used primarily to describe
stylish Hollywood crime
dramas
• 104 mins
1949
58. Sunset Boulevard
• Director: Billy Wilder
• Writers: Charles Brackett and Billy
Wilder
• Stars: William Holden, Gloria
Swanson and Erich von Stroheim
• Produced by Charles Brackett
• Film noir
• Won 3 Academy Awards
– Best writing, story and screenplay
– Art Direction-Set Decoration
– Music
• 110 mins
1950
59. The Day The Earth Stood Still
• Director: Robert Wise
• Writers: Edmund H.
North (screenplay)
and Harry Bates (story)
• Stars: Michael
Rennie, Patricia
Neal and Hugh
Marlowe
• 92 mins
1951
60. Singing in the Rain
• Directors: Stanley
Donen, Gene Kelly
• Writers: Adolph
Green (story) and Betty
Comden (story)
• Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald
O'Connor and Debbie
Reynolds
• 103 mins
1952
61. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Director: Howard Hawks
• Writers: Charles
Lederer (screenplay)
and Joseph Fields (based on
the musical comedy by)
• Stars: Jane Russell, Marilyn
Monroe and Charles Coburn
• 91 mins
1953
62. On the Waterfront
• Director: Elia Kazan
• Writers: Budd Schulberg (screenplay and
based upon an original story by)
• Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Lee J.
Cobb
• Received 8 Academy Awards
– Best Motion Picture
– Director
– Actor
– Story and Screenplay
– Supporting Actress
– Art Direction-Set Decoration Black-and-White
– Cinematography
– Film Editing
• 108 mins
1954
63. Rebel Without A Cause
• Director: Nicholas Ray
• Writers: Stewart
Stern (screenplay)and Irving
Shulman(adaptation)
• Stars: James Dean, Natalie
Wood and Sal Mineo
• 111 mins
1955
64. The Searchers
• Director: John Ford
• Writers: Frank S.
Nugent (screenplay) and Alan
Le May (from the novel by)
• Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey
Hunter and Vera Miles
• Named Greatest American
Western of All Time in 2008
• Ranked 7th Best Film of All
Time in Sight & Sound’s 2012
survey
• 119 mins
1956
65. 12 Angry Men
• Director: Sidney Lumet
• Writer: Reginald
Rose (story)
• Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J.
Cobb and Martin Balsam
• 96 mins
1957
66. Vertigo
• Director: Alfred
Hitchcock
• Writers: Alec
Coppel (screenplay)
and Samuel A.
Taylor(screenplay)
• Stars: James
Stewart, Kim
Novak and Barbara Bel
Geddes
• 128 mins
1958
67. Ben Hur
• Director: William Wyler
• Writers: Lew Wallace (novel)
and Karl
Tunberg (screenplay),
• Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack
Hawkins and Stephen Boyd
• Won 11 Academy Awards
and 3 Golden Globe Awards
• 212 mins
1959
68. Psycho
• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Writers: Joseph
Stefano (screenplay), Robert
Bloch (novel)
• Stars: Anthony
Perkins, Janet
Leigh and Vera Miles
• Tops the list of AFI’s
Greatest Thriller Films
• 109 mins
1960
69. The Hustler
• Director: Robert Rossen
• Writers: Sidney
Carroll (screenplay)
and Robert
Rossen(screenplay)
• Stars: Paul
Newman, Jackie
Gleason and Piper Laurie
• 134 mins
1961
70. Lawrence of Arabia
• Director: David Lean
• Writers: T.E.
Lawrence (writings)
and Robert
Bolt (screenplay)
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec
Guinness and Anthony
Quinn
• 216 mins
1962
72. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Writers: Stanley
Kubrick (screenplay)
and Terry
Southern(screenplay)
• Stars: Peter Sellers, George
C. Scott and Sterling
Hayden
• Won 4 BAFTA Awards
• 95 mins
1964
73. The Sound of Music
• Director: Robert Wise
• Writers: Howard Lindsay (book) and Russel
Crouse (book)
• Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher
Plummer and Eleanor Parker
• Won 2 Golden Globes
– Best Motion Picture
– Actress
• Won 5 Academy Awards
– Best Picture
– Director
– Sound
– Scoring of Music
– Film Editing
• 174 mins 1965
74. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Director: Sergio Leone
• Writers: Luciano
Vincenzoni (story)
and Sergio Leone (story)
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli
Wallach and Lee Van
Cleef
• 161 mins
1966
75. Cool Hand Luke
• Director: Stuart Rosenberg
• Writers: Donn
Pearce (screenplay)
and Frank
Pierson (screenplay)
• Stars: Paul
Newman, George
Kennedy and Strother
Martin
• 126 mins
1967
76. 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Writers: Stanley
Kubrick (screenplay) and
Arthur C.
Clarke(screenplay)
• Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary
Lockwood and William
Sylvester
• 141 mins
1968
77. Easy Rider
• Director: Dennis Hopper
• Writers: Peter Fonda
and Dennis Hopper
• Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis
Hopper and Jack Nicholson
• Produced by Peter Fonda
• Received the First Film
Award in the 1969 Cannes
Film Festival
• 95 mins
1969
78. Patton
• Director: Franklin J.
Schaffner
• Writers: Francis Ford
Coppola (screen story and
screenplay) and Edmund H.
North (screen story and
screenplay)
• Stars: George C. Scott, Karl
Malden and Stephen Young
• Won 7 Academy Awards
• 172 mins
1970
79. Clockwork Orange
• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Writers: Stanley
Kubrick (screenplay)
and Anthony
Burgess(novel)
• Stars: Malcolm
McDowell, Patrick
Magee and Michael
Bates
• 136 mins
1971
80. The Godfather
• Director: Francis Ford
Coppola
• Writers: Mario
Puzo (screenplay)
and Francis Ford
Coppola(screenplay)
• Stars: Marlon Brando, Al
Pacino and James Caan
• 175 mins
1972
81. The Exorcist
• Director: William Friedkin
• Writers: William Peter
Blatty (written for the
screen by, novel)
• Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max
von Sydow and Linda Blair
• First horror film to be
nominated for Best Picture
• Won 2 Academy Awards
• 122 mins
1973
82. Chinatown
• Director: Roman Polanski
• Writer: Robert Towne
• Stars: Jack
Nicholson, Faye
Dunaway and John
Huston
• 130 mins
1974
83. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Director: Milos Forman
• Writers: Lawrence
Hauben (screenplay) and Bo
Goldman(screenplay)
• Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise
Fletcher and Michael
Berryman
• Second film to win the big
five major awards
• 133 mins
1975
84. Network
• Director: Sidney Lumet
• Writer: Paddy
Chayefsky (by)
• Stars: Faye
Dunaway, William
Holden and Peter Finch
• 121 mins
1976
85. Star Wars
• Director: George Lucas
• Writer: George Lucas
• Stars: Mark
Hamill, Harrison
Ford and Carrie Fisher
• 121 mins
1977
86. Superman
• Director: Richard Donner
• Writers: Jerry
Siegel (creator:
Superman) and Joe
Shuster (creator:
Superman)
Stars: Christopher
Reeve, Margot
Kidder and Gene
Hackman
• 143 mins
1978
87. Alien
• Director: Ridley Scott
• Writers: Dan
O'Bannon (story)
and Ronald
Shusett (story)
Stars: Sigourney
Weaver, Tom
Skerritt and John Hurt
• 117 mins
1979
88. Raging Bull
• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Writers: Jake
LaMotta (based on the
book by) and Joseph
Carter (with)
• Stars: Robert De
Niro, Cathy
Moriarty and Joe Pesci
• 129 mins
1980
89. Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Writers: Lawrence
Kasdan (screenplay)
and George Lucas(story)
• Stars: Harrison
Ford, Karen Allen and Paul
Freeman
• 115 mins
1981
90. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
• Director: Nicholas
Meyer
• Writers: Gene
Roddenberry (television
series Star Trek) and
Harve Bennett (story)
Stars: William
Shatner, Leonard
Nimoy and DeForest
Kelley
• 113 mins
1982
91. Scarface
• Director: Brian De Palma
• Writer: Oliver
Stone (screenplay) Stars: Al
Pacino, Michelle
Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer
• 170 mins
1983
92. The Terminator
• Director: James
Cameron
• Writers: James Cameron
and Gale Anne Hurd
• Stars: Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Linda
Hamilton and Michael
Biehn
• 107 mins
1984
93. Brazil
• Director: Terry Gilliam
• Writers: Terry
Gilliam (screenplay)
and Tom
Stoppard(screenplay)
• Stars: Jonathan
Pryce, Kim
Greist and Robert De
Niro
• 132 mins
1985
94. Platoon
• Director: Oliver Stone
• Writer: Oliver Stone
• Stars: Charlie
Sheen, Tom
Berenger and Willem
Dafoe
• 120 mins
1986
95. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
• Director: John Hughes
• Writer: John Hughes
• Stars: Steve
Martin, John
Candy and Laila Robins
• 93 mins
1987
96. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Director: Robert
Zemeckis
• Writers: Gary K.
Wolf (novel) and Jeffrey
Price (screenplay)
• Stars: Bob
Hoskins, Christopher
Lloyd and Joanna Cassidy
• 104 mins
1988
97. Do the Right Thing
• Director: Spike Lee
• Writer: Spike Lee
• Stars: Danny
Aiello, Ossie
Davis and Ruby Dee
• 120 mins
1989
98. Goodfellas
• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Writers: Nicholas
Pileggi (book and
screenplay) Stars: Robert
De Niro, Ray
Liotta and Joe Pesci
• 146 mins
1990
99. Silence of the Lambs
• Director: Jonathan Demme
• Writers: Thomas Harris (novel)
and Ted Tally (screenplay)
• Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony
Hopkins and Lawrence A.
Bonney
• Latest film to win the big five
major academy awards
• Latest horror film to win Best
Picture
• 118 mins 1991
100. The Player
• Director: Robert Altman
• Writers: Michael
Tolkin (screenplay and
novel)
• Stars: Tim Robbins, Greta
Scacchi and Fred Ward
• 124 mins
1992
101. Schindler's List
• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Writers: Thomas
Keneally (book)
and Steven
Zaillian(screenplay)
• Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph
Fiennes and Ben Kingsley
• 195 mins
1993
102. Pulp Fiction
• Director: Quentin Tarantino
• Writers: Quentin
Tarantino (story) and Roger
Avary (story) Stars: John
Travolta, Uma
Thurman and Samuel L.
Jackson
• Won the Palme d ‘Or (Best
Film) in Cannes Film Festival
• Won an Academy Award for
Best Original Screenplay
• 154 mins
1994
103. Toy Story
• Director: John Lasseter
• Writers: John
Lasseter (original story)
and Pete Docter (original
story) Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim
Allen and Don Rickles
• First computer- animated
film produced by Pixar
• 81 mins
1995
104. Fargo
• Director: Joel Coen
• Writers: Ethan Coen
and Joel Coen
• Stars: William H.
Macy, Frances
McDormand and Steve
Buscemi
• 98 mins
1996
105. L.A. Confidential
• Director: Curtis Hanson
• Writers: James
Ellroy (novel) and Brian
Helgeland (screenplay)
Stars: Kevin
Spacey, Russell
Crowe and Guy Pearce
• 138 mins
1997
106. The Truman Show
• Director: Peter Weir
• Writer: Andrew Niccol
• Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed
Harris and Laura Linney
• 103 mins
1998
107. The Matrix
• Directors: Andy Wachowski
and Lana Wachowski
• Writers: Andy Wachowski
and Lana Wachowski
• Stars: Keanu
Reeves, Laurence
Fishburne and Carrie-Anne
Moss
• 136 mins
1999
108. Memento
• Director: Christopher
Nolan
• Writers: Christopher
Nolan (screenplay)
and Jonathan Nolan(short
story "Memento Mori")
• Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-
Anne Moss and Joe
Pantoliano
• 113 mins
2000
109. Mulholland Drive
• Director: David Lynch
• Writer: David Lynch
• Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura
Harring and Justin Theroux
• 147 mins
2001
110. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of
the Ring
• Director: Peter Jackson
• Writers: J.R.R.
Tolkien (novel) and Fran
Walsh (screenplay)
• Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian
McKellen and Orlando
Bloom
• 178 mins
2002
111. Lost in Translation
• Director: Sofia Coppola
• Writer: Sofia Coppola
• Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett
Johansson and Giovanni
Ribisi
• 101 mins
2003
112. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Director: Michel Gondry
• Writers: Charlie
Kaufman (story), Michel
Gondry (story)
• Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate
Winslet and Tom
Wilkinson
• Best Original Screenplay
• 108 mins
2004
113. Brokeback Mountain
• Director: Ang Lee
• Writers: Annie
Proulx (short story)
and Larry
McMurtry(screenplay)
• Stars: Jake
Gyllenhaal, Heath
Ledger and Michelle
Williams
• 134 mins
2005
114. Little Miss Sunshine
• Directors: Jonathan
Dayton and Valerie Faris
• Writer: Michael Arndt
• Stars: Steve Carell, Toni
Collette and Greg Kinnear
• 101 mins
2006
115. There Will be Blood
• Director: Paul Thomas
Anderson
• Writers: Paul Thomas
Anderson (screenplay)
and Upton Sinclair (novel)
• Stars: Daniel Day-
Lewis, Paul
Dano and Ciarán Hinds
• 158 mins
2007
116. The Dark Knight
• Director: Christopher Nolan
• Writers: Jonathan
Nolan (screenplay) and
Christopher Nolan (screenplay)
• Stars: Christian Bale, Heath
Ledger and Aaron Eckhart
• Won Best Supporting Actor for
Heath Ledger as “Joker”
• This was the last film Heath
Ledger completed before his
death
• 152 mins 2008
117. District 9
• Director: Neill
Blomkamp
• Writers: Neill Blomkamp
and Terri Tatchell
• Stars: Sharlto
Copley, David
James and Jason Cope
• 112 mins
2009