AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies, released in 1998, selected 100 classic movies from many excellent works by AFI. On January 18, 2007, the American Film Institute released an updated version of AFI's 100-year-old film.
In 1998, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of American cinema's birth (1896-1996), the American Film Institute selected from more than 400 recommended films. It then combined the votes of academia, production industry and general audiences to select the United States in the past 100 years A masterpiece of the movie. These works gather the works of more than one hundred film distribution companies across the United States.
In terms of age, a total of five films were selected in 1939, namely "Gone with the Wind", "The Wizard of Oz", "Mr Smith to Washington", "Wuthering Heights" and "Flying to Guanshan". 1939 also became the ultra-platinum era in movie history; Among the top ten classic movies, movies produced in the 1940s occupy the top two, namely "Citizen Kane" and "Budget of North Africa". In the 1930s, there were "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939. In the 1950s, there were also two "Docks" and "Song in the Rain", "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Graduate" in the 1960s occupied two places, "The Godfather" in the 1970s, and "Sinde" in the 90s. "Le List", but the movies of the 1980s became the losers of this selection. The top-ranking was "Angry Bull" in 1982, which only ranked 24th.
In terms of directors, Spielberg has a total of five works shortlisted in "Schindler's List", "Indiana Jones", "Alien ET", "Jaws" and "Third Kind of Contact", overwhelming Hitchcock's four "Scary" "The Story", "The Ecstasy", "Northwest" and "Rear Window" have become the directors with the most selected works.
Here are a few award-winning works:
1. Citizen Kane is a feature film produced by Orson Welsh in 1940 and produced by the American RKO film company in 1941. The film tells the life of the newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane. Director, producer, screenwriter (part of) and starring Orson Wales. He won nine nominations for the 1941 American Academy of Motion Picture Science and Art Awards (Oscar Awards) and finally won the Best Original Screenplay. This film is Orson Welsh's screen debut and one of his masterpieces. But in the 1940s, the film was almost destroyed because it alluded to the then newspaper magnate William Hirst. Although the film was finally released thereafter, it could only be shown in limited theatres because of Hirst's influence. This led to poor film box office performance. After World War II, this film should be shown on European TV, and it was gradually realized its artistic value. Since 1952, Citizen Kane has been ranked first in the "Ten Greatest Movies" published by the British Film Institute (BFI) magazine "Sight & Sound" every ten years. And ranked first in the "100-year-old film" selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) in 1998.
2.Casablanca: It is an American love movie of 1942, one of the most successful classic movies in movie history. The film won the 1944 Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The role, plot, and theme song of this movie have become a cultural icon. In 2007, the American Screenwriters Association announced the "101 Greatest Screenplays" in film history, and "Casablanca" won the championship.
3. The Godfather: is an American movie in 1972, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of the same name, directed by Francis Coppola, starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino gang movie. "The Godfather" is the first episode of "The Godfather Trilogy", which set off a new trend in gang movies. It won the 45th Oscar Award for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is one of the classic movies. "The Godfather" has been ranked in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for the best 250 movies in history for many years, and was voted second by fans, while its sequel "The Godfather 2" won the third place.
Okay, due to space reasons, axfans.com will list three works first. Let's take a look at the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies we have compiled. Let's guess together. Through the pictures, you can guess which AFI selected. What about the movie name of the movie?