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In 1999 the American Film Institute (AFI) picked the Top 100 American
films. Their sci-fi picks were as follows:
#15 Star Wars - 1977
#22 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968
#25 E.T.- The Extraterrestrial - 1982
#46 A Clockwork Orange - 1971
#64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977
#87 Frankenstein - 1931
I'd read the list when it came out in the newspaper and was appalled
that "The Ten Commandments" - 1956, was not on the list. Several
days later, a disgruntled person from NYC wrote a letter to USA
Today newspaper echoing my exact sentiments. While there are a lot
of great films that rightly belong on the list, there are a number
of others that I think rank far below "The Ten Commandments". - AH
and would therefore not qualify as American films. Maybe location is irrelevant and the studio source of money is what matters.
was not global and limited to American films, plus a couple of more
criticisms I don't recall. - AH
They stated their objective clearly when they said Top 100 AMERICAN Films.
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and would therefore not qualify as American films.
Did they indicate criteria for selection? ET for gods sake? It looks like a strong big boxoffice gross bias is at work here...joe
According to Ebert, AFI compiled a list of 400 finalists, including
every film that ever won an Oscar for Best Picture (The Ten Commandments lost out to Around The World In Eighty Days in 1957) and
then asked a group of directors, producers, screenwriters, actors,
critics and prominent citizens (supposedly Clinton and Gore were
included) to vote on them. Out of this came the Top 100. - AH
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