AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition

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100 GREATEST AMERICAN MOVIES
100 Years...100 Movies

10th Anniversary Edition

Summary - Part 3

Evaluations Downward from 1998 to 2007

The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California, in 2007 honored and updated its "definitive selection of the 100 greatest American movies of all time" from 1998, 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 newly-eligible films from 1996 to 2006.

Read this site's Commentary on AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies (original)
The original 400 Greatest American Films (nominees)

AMERICA's 100 GREATEST MOVIES
10th Anniversary - 4 parts

Evaluations Downward from 1998 to 2007
(Of the films that remained on the list, 38 had a decline in their ranking)

Title

1998 Ranking

2007 Ranking

Casablanca (1942)

# 2

# 3

Gone With the Wind (1939)

# 4

# 6

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

# 5

# 7

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

# 6

# 10

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

# 12

# 16

The Graduate (1967)

# 7

# 17

On the Waterfront (1954)

# 8

# 19

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

# 11

# 20

Chinatown (1974)

# 19

# 21

Some Like It Hot (1959)

# 14

# 22

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

# 21

# 23

All About Eve (1950)

# 16

# 28

Apocalypse Now (1979)

# 28

# 30

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

# 23

# 31

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

# 20

# 33

Annie Hall (1977)

# 31

# 35

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

# 13

# 36

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

# 30

# 38

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

# 26

# 39

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

# 27

# 42

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

# 36

# 43

It Happened One Night (1934)

# 35

# 46

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

# 45

# 47

Rear Window (1954)

# 42

# 48

West Side Story (1961)

# 41

# 51

Taxi Driver (1976)

# 47

# 52

North by Northwest (1959)

# 40

# 55

Jaws (1975)

# 48

# 56

The African Queen (1951) *

# 17

# 65

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

# 60

# 66

Tootsie (1982)

# 62

# 69

A Clockwork Orange (1971) *

# 46

# 70

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) *

# 50

# 73

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

# 65

# 74

Forrest Gump (1994)

# 71

# 76

Platoon (1986)

# 83

# 86

The French Connection (1971) *

# 70

# 93

Ben-Hur (1959) *

# 72

# 100

Note: Major Drop or Decrease in Ranking *

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