ditontonnya. Kali ini, American Film Institute menurunkan film-film terbaik sepanjang sejarah
dalam versi mereka dalam tajuk “AFI’s 10 Top 10”.
Pilihan AFI ini didasarkan kepada pilihan seribu lima ratus juri dari kalangan artis, kritikus dan
sejarahwan. Film-film yang masuk nominasi dikelompokkan dalam sepuluh kategori, mulai dari
film animasi hingga film epic.
Namanya juga film-film terbaik sepanjang masa, tentunya semua film, yang dari jaman jadul
sampai sekarang masuk hitungan. Masuk akal jadinya, jika film To Kill o Mockingbird produksi
tahun 1962 yang menjadi pemenang untuk genre Courtroom Drama, kurang dikenal anak jaman
sekarang. Padahal film ini mengalahkan Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979) dan A Few Good Men
(1992) yang lebih populer.
Lihat pula, misalnya The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of Ring (2001), yang harus puas
bertengger di posisi dua, di bawah The Wizard of Oz (1939) untuk genre fantasi. Sementara itu
film legendaris The Godfather (1972) bertahta di kursi nomor 1 genre gangster dan sekuelnya
The Godfather Part II (1974) di urutan ketiga, hanya dikalahkan oleh Goodfellas (1990)
Dari seluruh film pilihan, sutradara Alfred Hitchcock menempatkan empat filmnya di dalam
daftar. Sementara Steven Spielberg dan Stanley Kubric, masing-masing tiga film. (dans)
ANIMATION
1. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1937.
2. “Pinocchio,” 1940.
3. “Bambi,” 1942.
4. “The Lion King,” 1994.
5. “Fantasia,” 1940.
6. “Toy Story,” 1995.
7. “Beauty and the Beast,” 1991.
8. “Shrek,” 2001.
9. “Cinderella,” 1950.
10. “Finding Nemo,” 2003.
FANTASY
1. “The Wizard of Oz,” 1939.
2. “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” 2001.
3. “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 1946.
4. “King Kong,” 1933.
5. “Miracle on 34th Street, 1947.
6. “Field of Dreams,” 1989.
7. “Harvey,” 1950.
8. “Groundhog Day,” 1993.
9. “The Thief of Bagdad,” 1924.
10. “Big,” 1988.
GANGSTER
1. “The Godfather,” 1972.
2. “Goodfellas,” 1990.
3. “The Godfather Part II,” 1974.
4. “White Heat,” 1949.
5. “Bonnie and Clyde,” 1967.
6. “Scarface: The Shame of a Nation,” 1932.
7. “Pulp Fiction,” 1994.
8. “The Public Enemy,” 1931.
9. “Little Caesar,” 1930.
10. “Scarface,” 1983.
SCIENCE FICTION
1. “2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968.
2. “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope,” 1977.
3. “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” 1982.
4. “A Clockwork Orange,” 1971.
5. “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” 1951.
6. “Blade Runner,” 1982.
7. “Alien,” 1979.
8. “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” 1991.
9. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” 1956.
10. “Back to the Future,” 1985.
WESTERN
1. “The Searchers,” 1956.
2. “High Noon,” 1952.
3. “Shane,” 1953.
4. “Unforgiven,” 1992.
5. “Red River,” 1948.
6. “The Wild Bunch,” 1969.
7. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” 1969.
8. “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” 1971.
9. “Stagecoach,” 1939.
10. “Cat Ballou,” 1965.
SPORTS
1. “Raging Bull,” 1980.
2. “Rocky,” 1976.
3. “The Pride of the Yankees,” 1942.
4. “Hoosiers,” 1986.
5. “Bull Durham,” 1988.
6. “The Hustler,” 1961.
7. “Caddyshack,” 1980.
8. “Breaking Away,” 1979.
9. “National Velvet,” 1944.
10. “Jerry Maguire,” 1996.
MYSTERY
1. “Vertigo,” 1958.
2. “Chinatown,” 1974.
3. “Rear Window,” 1954.
4. “Laura,” 1944.
5. “The Third Man,” 1949.
6. “The Maltese Falcon,” 1941.
7. “North By Northwest,” 1959.
8. “Blue Velvet,” 1986.
9. “Dial M for Murder,” 1954.
10. “The Usual Suspects,” 1995.
ROMANTIC COMEDY
1. “City Lights,” 1931.
2. “Annie Hall,” 1977.
3. “It Happened One Night,” 1934.
4. “Roman Holiday,” 1953.
5. “The Philadelphia Story,” 1940.
6. “When Harry Met Sally …,” 1989.
7. “Adam’s Rib,” 1949.
8. “Moonstruck,” 1987.
9. “Harold and Maude,” 1971.
10. “Sleepless in Seattle,” 1993.
COURTROOM DRAMA
1. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” 1962.
2. “12 Angry Men,” 1957.
3. “Kramer Vs. Kramer,” 1979.
4. “The Verdict,” 1982.
5. “A Few Good Men,” 1992.
6. “Witness for the Prosecution,” 1957.
7. “Anatomy of a Murder,” 1959.
8. “In Cold Blood,” 1967.
9. “A Cry in the Dark,” 1988.
10. “Judgment at Nuremberg,” 1961.
EPIC
1. “Lawrence of Arabia,” 1962.
2. “Ben-Hur,” 1959.
3. “Schindler’s List,” 1993.
4. “Gone With the Wind,” 1939.
5. “Spartacus,” 1960.
6. “Titanic,” 1997.
7. “All Quiet on the Western Front,” 1930.
8. “Saving Private Ryan,” 1998.
9. “Reds,” 1981.
10. “The Ten Commandments,” 1956.
2. The Wizard of OZ (1939 – Director: Victor Fleming. Starring: Judy Garland, Frank
Morgan, Ray Bolger)
3. Gone with The Wind (1939 – Director: Victor Fleming. Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien
Leigh)
4. Casablanca (1942 – Director: Michael Curtiz. Starring: Humpley ogart, Inggrid
Bergman)
5. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966 – Director: Clint Eastwood. Starring: Eli
Wallach, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef)
6. The Godfather (1972 – Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Starring: Marlon Brando, Al
Pacino), and The Godfather Part II (1972 – Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Starring:
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino)
7. Jaws (1975 – Director: Steven Speielberg. Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975 – Director: Milos Forman. Starring: Jack
LLyod)
17. Aliens (1985 – Director: James Cameron. Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn)
18. Platoon (1986 – Director: Oliver Stone. Starring: Charlie Seen, Willem Dafoe, Tom
Berenger)
19. Empire of the Sun (1987 – Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Christian Bale, John
Malkovich, Miranda Richardson)
Anthony Hopkins)
26. Groundhoug Day (1993 – Director: Harold Ramis. Starring: Bill Murray, Andie
MacDowell, Chris Elliott)
27. Heaven and Earth (1993 – Director: Oliver Stone. Starring: Haing S. Ngor, Bussaro
Sanruck, Supak Pititam)
28. Schindler’s List (1993 – Director: Steven Speielberg. Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben
Kingsley)
29. Sleepless in Seattle (1993 – Director: Nora Ephron. Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan)
Kretschmann)
60. City of God (2002 – Director: Fernando Meirelles. Starring: Matheus Nachtergaele, Seu
Joge, Alexander Rodrigues)
61. Catch Me if You Can (2002 – Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken)
62. Gangs of New York (2002 – Director: Martin Scorsese. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Cameron Diaz)
63. Lost in Translation (2003 – Director:Sofia Copolla. Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Bill
Murray)
64. 21 Grams (2003 - Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Starring: Sean Pean, Naomi
Watts, Benicio Del Toro)
65. Mystic River (2003 – Director: Clint Eastwood. Starring: SeanPean, Tim Robbins, Kevin
Baccon)
66. Carandiru (2003 – Director: Hector Babenco. Starring: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton
Goncalves)
67. Cold Mountain (2003 – Director: Anthony Minghella. Starring: Jude Law, Nicole
Kidman, Renée Zellweger)
68. Finding Nemo (2003 – Director: Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich.Voice : Albert Brooks,
Ellen Degeneres)
69. The Dreamers (2003 – Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring:Michael Pitt, Eva Green,
Louis Garrel)
70. Bruce Almighty (2003 – Director: Tom Sadyac. Starring: Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman,
Jeniffer Aniston)
71. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003 – Director: Peter Weir.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D’Arcy)
72. Before Sunrise & Before Sunset (1995&2004) – Director: Richard Linklater. Starring:
78. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004 – Director: Je-gyu
Kang. Starring: Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-ju Lee)
79. Kingdom of Heaven (2005 – Director: Joe Johnston. Starring: Robin Williams, Jonathan
Hyde, Kirsten Dunst)
80. War of the Worlds (2005 – Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Tom Cruise, Dakota
Fanning, Miranda Otto)
81. Havoc (2005 – Director: Barbara Kopple. Starring: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips,
Channing Tatum)
82. Lower City (2005 – Director: Sérgio Machado. Starring: Lázaro Ramos, Wagner Moura,
Alice Braga)
83. Little Miss Sunshine (2006 – Director: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris. Starring: Greg
Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carrel)
84. Apocalypto (2006 – Director: Mel Gibson. Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia
Hernandez)
85. Babel (2006 – Director: Guilermo Prieto. Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett)
86. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006 – Director: Liam Lynch. Starring: Jack Black,
Kyle Gass, JR Reed)
87. Earth (2007 – Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfiel- Documentary)
88. Bobby (2006 – Director: Emilio Estevez. Starring: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick
Cannon)
89. The Curse of the Golden Flower (2006 – Director: Yimou Zhang. Starring: Yun-Fat
Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou)
90. Little Children (2006 – Director: Todd Field. Starring: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson,
Jennifer Connelly)
91. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006 – Director: Clint Eastwood. Starring: Ken Watanabe,
Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara)
92. Live Free or Die Hard 4.0 (2007 – Director: Len Wiseman. Starring: Bruce Willis,
Tomothy Olyphant)
93. Lust Caution (2007 – Director: Ang Lee. Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang,
Joan Chen.)
94. No Country for Old Men (2007 – Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. Starring: Tommy
Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin)
95. Cloverfield (2008 – Director: Matt Reeves. Starring: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, TJ
Miller)
96. Milk (2008 – Director: Gus Van Sant. Starring: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin)
97. Monster’s Ball (2008 – Director: Marc Forster. Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle
Berry, Taylor Simpson)
98. Slumdog Millionaire (2008 – Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan. Starring:Dev
Patel, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor)
99. Inglourious Basterds (2008 – Director: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Brad Pitt, Mélanie
Laurent, Christoph Waltz)
100. Avatar (2009 – Director: James Cameron. Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe
Saldana, Sigourney Weaver)
101. Alice in the Wonderland (2010 – Director: Tim Burton. Starring: Mia
Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter)