AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version ofAFI's 100 Years...100 Movies. The original list was unveiled in 1998.
Critical recognition: Formal commendation in print, television, and digital media.
Major award winner: Recognition from competitive events including awards from peer groups, critics, guilds, and major film festivals.
Popularity over time: Includes success at the box office, television and cable airings, and DVD/VHS sales and rentals.
Historical significance: A film's mark on the history of the moving image through visionary narrative devices, technical innovation or other groundbreaking achievements.
Cultural impact: A film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance.
Of the 77 films that remained on the list, 36 improved their ranking, 38 saw their ranking decline, and three kept their positions:Citizen Kane,The Godfather Part II, andThe Best Years of Our Lives.
The Searchers had the highest increase in ranking, moving from #96 to #12. The greatest decrease without being dropped wasThe African Queen, which went from #17 to #65.
The oldest film to be dropped wasD.W. Griffith'sThe Birth of a Nation (1915), from #44. The oldest film to be added was Griffith'sIntolerance (1916) (#49).
The newest film removed isFargo (1996), the newest addedThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), which is also the only film on the list released after 1999.
The highest-ranked addition wasThe General at #18. The highest-ranked removal wasDoctor Zhivago (#39).
Duck Soup, featuring theMarx Brothers, moved up 25 positions to #60. It was replaced at #85 by another film starring them,A Night at the Opera.
Seventy-three of the films were nominated for theAcademy Award forBest Picture. Twenty-eight won, includingSunrise (1927), which won theAcademy Award for Unique and Artistic Production (an award that was only presented at the first ceremony). The original list has 75 Academy Awards Best Picture nominees and 33 winners.
In the 2007 list, eight of the top ten films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with five winning. In the original list, nine out of the top ten were nominees, and six won.
Two animated films appear on each list. In 1998,Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ranked at #49, andFantasia at #58.Snow White moved up to #34 in 2007, whileFantasia was dropped, andToy Story was added at #99. Three were produced byWalt Disney Productions, whileToy Story was a joint production of Walt Disney Studios and Pixar, makingToy Story the onlyPixar film on either list.
Steven Spielberg. Spielberg also had five films on the original list, but not the same five.Close Encounters of the Third Kind was dropped andSaving Private Ryan added.