Best Even Genre Movies Named.

[Istik]

The American Film Institute (AFI) has selected the top 10 movies from 10 genres including mystery, animation, courtroom dramas, fantasy, science fiction, sports and westerns

The winners were chosen by actors, filmmakers, critics and other Hollywood types from ballots that included 50 nominees in each genre.

Snow White and the Seven Drawfs was named best animation, followed by Pinocchio and Bambi.

2001: A Space Odyssey was number one in the science fiction genre, followed by followed by the original Star Wars film and ET.

Best epics were Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur and Schindler's List, in that order.

The best romantic comedy, Charlie Chaplin's silent movie City Lights, was a surprise winner, ahead of Woody Allen's Annie Hall and the black and white It Happened One Night.

In the sports category Raging Bull was first, Rocky second and The Pride of the Yankees third.

The top five films in each category were:

Courtroom drama

1. To Kill a Mocking Bird
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Kramer vs Kramer
4. The Verdict
5. A Few Good Men

Epic

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Ben-Hur
3. Schindler's List
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Spartacus

Science fiction

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
3. ET - The Extra Terrestrial
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still

Fantasy

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. King Kong
5. Miracle on 34th Street

Mystery

1. Vertigo
2. Chinatown
3. Rear Window
4. Laura
5. The Third Man

Sports

1. Raging Bull
2. Rocky
3. The Pride of the Yankees
4. Hoosiers
5. Bull Durham

Romantic comedies

1. City Lights
2. Annie Hall
3. It Happened One Night
4. Roman Holiday
5. The Philadephia Story

Animation

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Bambi
4. The Lion King
5. Fantasia

Gangster

1. The Godfather
2. Goodfellas
3. The Godfather Part II
4. White Heat
5. Bonnie and Clyde

Western

1. The Searchers
2. High Noon
3. Shane
4. Unforgiven
5. Red River

For the complete lists see the AFI website.

[Toucan]

empire should be top of the scifi one, and goodfellas rapes the godfather in ever position known to man

[asharin]

They missed out 'Hawk the Slayer' in the fantasy section too...lol

[Parrot]

Blade runner didn't make the list /
What about John Wayne too.

[Toucan]

to quote jack and victor

"john wayne's an arsehole"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pAmPxKPbik

[Toucan]

haha, just realised i'm in that clip!!

about 4.30secs the 2 old guys walk past a phone shop
i'm the guys sitting down at the desk at the front
you see my shadowed face for about 1 second!

was recorded about 7 years ago

[swalmy]

lol, you still have 14 min and 59 sec of fame left.

[Iakimo]

Blade runner didn't make the list /
What about John Wayne too.

Blade Runner clocked in at #6 on the list, and John Wayne grabbed the #1 Western slot with The Searchers. But it's tough not giving The Duke another slot or two with True Grit and Rooster Cogburn and the Lady, the latter of which has him locking horns with a redoubtable Katherine Hepburn in a movie in which the storyline is almost irrelevant compared to their on-screen performances.

I'd have placed The Untouchables (with Kevin Costner and Sean Connery) somewhere high on the list of gangster movies. Sean Connery richly deserved his boatload of awards including his Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and Robert DeNiro is, well, Robert DeNiro playing another infamous gangster.

As for the Epic Movie category, that's the toughest category to call, but The Ten Commandments at #10?? I'm sorry, but drop Schindler's List down a few notches, delete Titanic, and stick 10C's in it's rightful place at #3, right behind Gone With The Wind and just ahead of Ben Hur. And yank that pretender, Reds, and replace it with Dr. Zhivago, and round out the Top Ten with Gladiator.