AFI's 100 GREATEST
AMERICAN MOVIES
100 Years...100 Movies

10th Anniversary Edition

Summary - Part 2
Films That Were New to the 2007 List




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.

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The original 400 Greatest American Films (nominees)

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Films That Were New to the 2007 List
(The 23 films removed from the original list were replaced by four newly-eligible films and 19 others.
Only four of the 43 new nominees in the 2007 list made the top 100.)
Title
1998 Ranking
2007 Ranking
The General (1927)
Not in top 100
# 18
Intolerance (1916)
Not in top 100
# 49
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
New nominee
# 50
Nashville (1975)
Not in top 100
# 59
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Not in top 100
# 61
Cabaret (1972)
Not in top 100
# 63
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not in top 100
# 67
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
New nominee
# 71
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Not in top 100
# 72
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Not in top 100
# 75
All the President's Men (1976)
Not in top 100
# 77
Spartacus (1960)
Not in top 100
# 81
Sunrise (1927)
Not in top 100
# 82
Titanic (1997)
New nominee
# 83
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Not in top 100
# 85
12 Angry Men (1957)
Not in top 100
# 87
The Sixth Sense (1999)
New nominee
# 89
Swing Time (1936)
Not in top 100
# 90
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Not in top 100
# 91
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Not in top 100
# 95
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Not in top 100
# 96
Blade Runner (1982)
Not in top 100
# 97
Toy Story (1995)
Not in top 100
# 99

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