Sight & Sound: Poll

Sight & Sound Poll

Critics’ Top Ten Poll

1952

  1. Bicycle Thieves (25 mentions)
  2. City Lights (19 mentions)
  3. The Gold Rush (19 mentions)
  4. Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions)
  5. Intolerance (12 mentions)
  6. Louisiana Story (12 mentions)
  7. Greed (11 mentions)
  8. Le Jour se leve (11 mentions)
  9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (11 mentions)
  10. Brief Encounter (10 mentions)
  11. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (10 mentions)
  12. Le Million (10 mentions)
  13. runners-up: Citizen Kane, La Grande Illusion, and The Grapes of Wrath (9 mentions apiece)

1962

  1. Citizen Kane (22 mentions)
  2. L’avventura (20 mentions)
  3. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (19 mentions)
  4. Greed (17 mentions)
  5. Ugetsu Monogatari (17 mentions)
  6. Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions)
  7. Bicycle Thieves (16 mentions)
  8. Ivan the Terrible (16 mentions)
  9. La Terra Trema (14 mentions)
  10. L’Atalante (13 mentions)
  11. runners-up: Hiroshima Mon Amour, Pather Panchali and Zero de Conduite (11 mentions apiece)

1972

  1. Citizen Kane (32 mentions)
  2. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (28 mentions)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions)
  4. 8½ (15 mentions)
  5. L’avventura (12 mentions)
  6. Persona (12 mentions)
  7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (11 mentions)
  8. The General (10 mentions)
  9. The Magnificent Ambersons (10 mentions)
  10. Ugetsu Monogatari (9 mentions)
  11. Wild Strawberries (9 mentions)
  12. runners-up: The Gold Rush, Hiroshima mon Amour, Ikiru, Ivan the Terrible, Pierrot le Fou, and Vertigo (8 mentions apiece)

1982

  1. Citizen Kane (45 mentions)
  2. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (31 mentions)
  3. Seven Samurai (15 mentions)
  4. Singin’ in the Rain (15 mentions)
  5. 8½ (14 mentions)
  6. Battleship Potemkin (13 mentions)
  7. L’avventura (12 mentions)
  8. The Magnificent Ambersons (12 mentions)
  9. Vertigo (12 mentions)
  10. The General (11 mentions)
  11. The Searchers (11 mentions)
  12. runners-up: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrei Rublev (10 mentions apiece)

1992

  1. Citizen Kane (43 mentions)
  2. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (32 mentions)
  3. Tokyo Story (22 mentions)
  4. Vertigo (18 mentions)
  5. The Searchers (17 mentions)
  6. L’Atalante (15 mentions)
  7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (15 mentions)
  8. Pather Panchali (15 mentions)
  9. Battleship Potemkin (15 mentions)
  10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (14 mentions)
  11. runners-up: Bicycle Thieves and Singin’ in the Rain (10 mentions apiece)

2002

  1. Citizen Kane (46 mentions)
  2. Vertigo (41 mentions)
  3. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (30 mentions)
  4. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (23 mentions)
  5. Tokyo Story (22 mentions)
  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (21 mentions)
  7. Battleship Potemkin (19 mentions)
  8. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (19 mentions)
  9. 8½ (18 mentions)
  10. Singin’ in the Rain (17 mentions)
  11. runners-up: Seven Samurai and The Searchers (15 mentions apiece)

Directors’ Top Ten Poll

1992

  1. Citizen Kane
  2. 8½
  3. Raging Bull
  4. La Strada
  5. L’Atalante
  6. The Godfather
  7. Modern Times
  8. Vertigo
  9. The Godfather Part II
  10. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  11. Rashomon
  12. Seven Samurai

2002

  1. Citizen Kane
  2. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
  3. 8½
  4. Lawrence of Arabia
  5. Dr. Strangelove
  6. Bicycle Thieves
  7. Raging Bull
  8. Vertigo
  9. Rashomon
  10. La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
  11. Seven Samurai

Greatest Documentaries of All Time

2014

  1. Man with a Movie Camera (100 votes)
  2. Shoah (68 votes)
  3. Sans Soleil (62 votes)
  4. Night and Fog (56 votes)
  5. The Thin Blue Line (49 votes)
  6. Chronicle of a Summer (32 votes)
  7. Nanook of the North (31 votes)
  8. The Gleaners and I (27 votes)
  9. Dont Look Back (25 votes)
  10. Grey Gardens (25 mentions)