This is a list of films voted the best in a notable survey—either by critics or by the public. Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Both national surveys and worldwide surveys are included.
The winner of a survey may depend on the voting system, which differs from poll to poll. Some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics, or may be susceptible to vote-stacking.
Every decade, starting in 1952, the British film magazine Sight & Sound asks an international group of film critics to vote for the greatest film of all time. Starting in 1992, they invited directors as well, to vote in a separate poll. 63 critics participated in 1952, 70 critics in 1962, 89 critics in 1972, 122 critics in 1982, 132 critics and 101 directors in 1992, 145 critics and 108 directors in 2002, and 846 critics and 358 directors in 2012.
This poll is regarded as one of the most important "greatest ever film" lists. American critic Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies—the only one most serious movie people take seriously."
Bicycle Thieves (1948) topped the first poll in 1952 with 25 votes.
Citizen Kane (1941) topped five critics' polls, with 22 votes in 1962, 32 votes in 1972, 45 votes in 1982, 43 votes in 1992, and 46 votes in 2002. It also topped the first two directors' polls, with 30 votes in 1992 and 42 votes in 2002.
Vertigo (1958) topped the critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes, dethroning Citizen Kane.
Tokyo Story (1953) topped the directors' poll in 2012 with 48 votes, dethroning Citizen Kane.
La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939) is the only movie to have appeared in every critics' poll, achieving its highest rank of #2 in 1972, 1982, and 1992; its only appearance in the directors' poll was #9 in 2002.
Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked #1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. It was also ranked #1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.
Citizen Kane (1941) was ranked #1 with 48 votes when French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma asked 78 French critics and historians to vote for the best films in 2007. It was also ranked #1 with 48 votes when Chinese website Cinephilia.net asked 135 Chinese-speaking critics, scholars, curators, and cultural workers to vote for the best films in 2012. It was ranked #1 with 49 votes when Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon asked 150 Spanish film experts to vote for the best films in 1999.
Vertigo (1958) was ranked #1 with 39 votes when German film magazine Steadycam asked 174 critics and filmmakers to vote for their favorite films in 2007. It was also ranked #1 with 25 votes when Iranian film magazine Film asked 92 Iranian critics to vote for the best films in 2009.
8½ (1963) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Swedish) sound film with 21 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine Chaplin. It was also ranked #1 when the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź asked 279 Polish film professionals (filmmakers, critics, and professors) to vote for the best films in 2015.
The Godfather (1972) was ranked #1 when Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo asked 114 Japanese critics and film professionals to vote for the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) films in 2009. It was also voted the greatest film in a Hollywood Reporter poll of 2120 industry members, including every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in Hollywood in 2014.
In the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate score rankings, The Wizard of Oz (1939) is in 1st place with a 99% rating based on 109 reviews as of 3 March 2017.
Gone with the Wind (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults undertaken by Harris Interactive in 2008, and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014.
Roman Holiday (1953) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
The Godfather (1972) was voted #1 by Entertainment Weekly's readers in 1999 and voted as #1 in a Time Out readers' poll in 1998. The film was voted the "Greatest Movie of All Time" in September 2008 by 10,000 readers of Empire magazine, 150 people from the movie business, and 50 film critics.
Shiri (1999) was voted the favorite film of Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film in 2005 and by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time") in 2004.
Mad Max 2 (1981) was voted the greatest action film of all time in a readers' poll by American magazine Rolling Stone in 2015.
Die Hard (1988) was voted the best action film of all time with 21 votes in a 2014 poll of 50 directors, actors, critics, and experts conducted by Time Out New York.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) tops Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Action & Adventure Movies list with a 97% score based on 359 reviews as of 3 March 2017.
Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) was ranked #1 in a poll at the 2003 Laputa Animation Festival where 140 animators from around the world voted for the best animated films of all time.
Tale of Tales (1979) was ranked #1 with 17 votes in a poll at the Olympiad of Animation in 1984 where an international panel of 35 journalists, scholars, festival directors, and animation programmers voted for the best animated films. It was also ranked #1 in a poll organized by the Channel 4 animation magazine Dope Sheet in 1997, as well as a poll organized by the Zagreb International Animation Festival, which announced the results in 2002.
Toy Story (1995) was voted #1 on the "Top 100 Animated Features of All Time" list by the Online Film Critics Society (published March 2003). Voters chose from a reminder list of more than 350 films.
Spirited Away (2001) received 39 votes, more than any other film, when Time Out New York asked 112 animators, critics, and experts voted for the best animated movies. Time Out only published their own version of the list (not based on the poll results), but they also published the individual ballots.
Inside Out (2015) topped Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Animation Movies list with a 98% score based on 319 reviews as of 3 March 2017.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best holiday movies as of 3 March 2017. It also tops Rotten Tomatoes' Best Christmas Movies list as of 3 March 2017.
Die Hard (1988) was voted the greatest Christmas movie by British film magazine Empire's readers in 2015.
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) was voted the greatest comedy ever in polls conducted by British film magazine Total Film in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006, and British newspaper The Guardian in 2007.
The Dark Knight (2008) was voted the greatest superhero movie in a reader's poll conducted by American magazine Rolling Stone in 2014 and tops a list on comic book adaptations by Movie Review Query Engine as of 3 March 2017.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was voted best disaster movie in a poll of 500 members of the UCI Cinemas staff in May 2004.
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) was voted the greatest documentary of all time with 125 votes (100 critics and 25 filmmakers) in a 2014 Sight & Sound poll of 238 critics, curators, and academics (including many documentary specialists) and 103 filmmakers.
Hoop Dreams (1994) was ranked as the greatest documentary of all time by IDA in 2007. Voters selected from a list of over 700 films.
Bowling for Columbine (2002) heads the list of 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films selected by members of the International Documentary Association (IDA) in 2002.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Horror Movies list with a 100% score based on 49 reviews as of 3 March 2017.
The Exorcist (1973) was voted the best horror film of all time with 53 votes in a 2012 poll of 150 experts conducted by Time Out London.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) ranked #1 on British film magazine Total Film's 2005 list of the greatest horror films.
See The Wizard of Oz in the Rotten Tomatoes section above.
West Side Story (1961) was chosen as the best screen musical by readers of British newspaper The Observer in a 2007 poll.
Citizen Kane (1941) is ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Mystery & Suspense Movies list with a 100% score based on 73 reviews as of 3 March 2017.
Casablanca (1942) was voted the best romance film of all time with 56 votes in a 1996 poll of 100 experts organized by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon.
Brief Encounter (1945) was voted the best romance film of all time with 25 votes in a 2013 poll of 101 experts conducted by Time Out London.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was voted the best science fiction film of all time with 73 votes in a 2014 poll of 136 sci-fi experts, filmmakers, science fiction writers, film critics, and scientists conducted by Time Out London. It was voted the best science fiction film of all time by 115 members of the Online Film Critics Society in 2002. It is also the only science fiction film to make the Sight and Sound critics' poll for ten best movies (#10 in 1992, #6 in 2002 and 2012).
Blade Runner (1982) was voted the best science fiction film by a panel of 56 scientists assembled by the British newspaper The Guardian in 2004. In British magazine New Scientist, Blade Runner was voted "all-time favourite science fiction film" in the readers' poll in 2008, with 12 percent of thousands of votes.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is ranked #2 on Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Movies list with a 97% score based on 359 reviews as of 3 March 2017, behind fantasy film The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Battleship Potemkin (1925) was voted the best silent film with 32 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine Chaplin.
Rocky (1976) topped British website Digital Spy's "greatest ever sports movie" online poll in 2012, with 18.7% of the votes. Voters chose from a list of 25 films.
Murderball (2005) is ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Sports & Fitness Movies list with a 98% score based on 138 reviews as of 3 March 2017.
Stagecoach (1939) was voted the best western film of all time with 54 votes in a 1996 poll of 100 experts organized by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Western Movies list with a 100% score based on 45 reviews as of 3 March 2017.
Johnny Guitar (1954) was the most cited film in the "Ten Best Westerns" lists of 27 French critics in Le Western.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) was voted the best Australian film of all time by members of the Australian Film Institute, industry guilds and unions, film critics and reviewers, academics and media teachers, and the NFSA's Kookaburra Card members, in a 1996 poll organized by the Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee and the National Film & Sound Archive.
The Castle (1997) was selected by the public as Australia's favourite film in a 2008 poll conducted by the Australian Film Institute, in collaboration with Australia Post.
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973) topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute in 2002.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) was voted the best Bosnian film of all time in a 2003 poll of 13 film professionals organized by The National Film Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Limite (1931) is ranked #1 on the Brazilian Film Critics Association's list of the top 100 Brazilian films, voted by its 100 members in 2015.
Black God, White Devil (1964) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 2001 poll of 108 critics and film professionals organized by Brazilian film magazine Contracampo.
The Red Light Bandit (1968) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 2011 poll of 102 critics, researchers, and professionals organized by Brazilian film magazine Filme Cultura.
Mon oncle Antoine (1971) was named first in the Toronto International Film Festival's Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time in 1984, 1993 and 2004.
The Sweet Hereafter (1997) was voted the best Canadian film by readers of Playback in 2002.
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) was voted the best Canadian film of all time with 94 votes in a 2015 poll of 220 filmmakers, critics, programmers, and professors organized by the Toronto International Film Festival, dethroning Mon oncle Antoine which won the previous three polls.
Jackal of Nahueltoro (1975) was voted the best Chilean film of all time with 57 votes in a 2016 poll of 77 directors, actors, programmers, scholars, journalists, and critics organized by CineChile.
Julio comienza en julio (1979) was chosen in 1999 as the "Best Chilean Film of the Century" in a vote organized by the Municipality of Santiago.
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春; 1948) was ranked #1 on the Hong Kong Film Awards Association's Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures list in 2005. It was also voted the best Chinese film of all time with 25 votes in a 2010 poll of 37 critics organized by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.
Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬; 1993) was voted the best Mainland Chinese film of all time by 88 international film experts in a poll conducted by Time Out Shanghai and Time Out Beijing.
The Strategy of the Snail (1993) was voted the best Colombian film of all time with 38 votes in a 2015 poll of 65 critics and journalists organized by Colombian magazine Semana.
Tko pjeva zlo ne misli (One Who Sings Means No Harm, 1970) was voted the best Croatian film of all time by 44 Croatian film critics in 1999, in a poll organized by the Croatian magazine Hollywood. It was also voted the best Croatian film by Hollywood's readers.
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) was voted the best Latin American film of all time with 30 votes in a 1999 poll of 36 critics and film specialists from 11 countries organized by critics Carlos Galiano and Rufo Caballero. It was also voted the best Ibero-American film of all time in a 2009 poll of more than 500 film professionals, critics, journalists, festival organizers, and fans around the world organized by Spanish magazine Noticine.
Marketa Lazarova (1967) was voted the all-time best Czech-Slovak movie in a few polls. During Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1994 it was voted by Czech journalists the best Czech film ever made. Markéta Lazarová was once again voted all-time best Czech-Slovak film in a 1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists when it received 41 votes.
The Firemen's Ball (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time with 33 votes in a 2007 poll of 53 experts (mostly from the Czech Republic, but also from Slovakia and Poland) titled "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie."
The Elementary School was voted the best Czech-Slovak film with 192 votes in a public poll of "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie."
Cosy Dens (1999) was voted the best Czech film with 622 votes in a readers' poll by Reflex magazine in 2011.
The Night of Counting the Years (1969) was voted the best Arab film of all time (i.e. the best film made in an Arab country) in a 2013 poll of 475 film critics, writers, novelists, academics, and other arts professionals organized by the Dubai International Film Festival.
Kevade (Spring, 1969) received first place in the Estonian feature films Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian film critics and journalists.
Autumn Ball (2007) was voted the best Estonian film of all time with 29 votes in a 2011 poll of 33 film writers and film scholars organized by the Estonian Association of Film Journalists.
Finland
The Unknown Soldier (1955) was voted the best Finnish movie by 1213 respondents in an Internet poll by Helsingin Sanomat in 2007.
Komisario Palmun erehdys (1960) was chosen as the best Finnish fictional movie of all time in a poll of 48 critics by Yle in 2012.
The Rules of the Game (1939) was voted the best French film of all time with 15 votes in a 2012 poll of 85 film professionals conducted by Time Out Paris. It was voted the best European film of all time with 56 votes (tied with the German film Nosferatu) in a 1994 poll of 70 critics and film historians organized by Cinemateca Portuguesa. It is also the only film that ranked in the top 10 of every Sight & Sound critics' poll.
Eliso (1928) was voted the best Georgian film of all time in a critic poll organized by Tbilisi Intermedia.
Nosferatu (1922) was voted the best European film of all time with 56 votes (tied with the French film The Rules of the Game) in a 1994 poll of 70 critics and film historians organized by Cinemateca Portuguesa.
M (1931) was voted the best German film of all time with 306 votes in a 1994 poll of 324 film journalists, film critics, filmmakers, and cineastes organized by the Association of German Cinémathèques.
O Drakos (1956) was voted the best Greek film of all time by members of the Greek Film Critics Association in 2006.
Evdokia (1971) was voted the best Greek film of all time by members of the Greek Film Critics Association in 1986.
A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色; 1986), filmed and produced in Hong Kong, was voted the second best Chinese film ever made by the Hong Kong Film Awards Association in 2005.
Days of Being Wild (阿飛正傳; 1990) was voted the best Hong Kong film of all time with 16 votes in a 2010 poll of 37 critics organized by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.
The Round-Up (1965) was chosen as the best Hungarian film in a 2000 Hungarian film critics' poll.
Satan's Tango (1994) is 36th, the highest rank for a Hungarian film, in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll.
Pather Panchali (1955) appeared on the Sight & Sound Critics' Poll in 1992 (ranked #6). It also topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time in 2002.
Mayabazar (1957) was chosen as the greatest Indian film of all time with 16,960 votes in an online poll conducted by IBN Live in 2013. Voters select from a list of 100 films from different Indian languages, and 70,926 votes were cast.
Sholay (1975) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time in 2002.
The Cow (1969) was voted the best Iranian film of all time with 33 votes in a 2009 poll of 92 critics organized by Iranian film magazine Film.
Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine Picture World poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.
Ireland
The Commitments (1991) was voted the best Irish film of all time in a 2005 Jameson Whiskey online poll of over 10,000 Irish people.
Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (1976) was voted "Favorite Israeli Film of All Time" in a 2004 poll by Ynet, the platform of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot. The film received votes from 25,000 web users.
Avanti Popolo (1986) was voted "Greatest Israeli Film of All Time" in a 2013 poll of 20 Israeli film experts by NRG Ma'ariv.
Bicycle Thieves (1948) topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll in 1952.
8½ (1963) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Swedish) sound film with 21 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine Chaplin. It was also ranked #1 when the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź asked 279 Polish film professionals (filmmakers, critics, and professors) to vote for the best films in 2015. It also ranked in the top 10, and was the highest ranked Italian film, in the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 1972, 1982, 2002, and 2012, and the directors' poll in 1992, 2002, and 2012.
Tokyo Story (東京物語; 1953) topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll with 48 votes and was #3 in the critics' poll with 107 votes in 2012. It was also voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 2009 poll of 114 critics and film professionals organized by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo. It was voted the best Asian film of all time in a 2015 poll of 73 film critics, festival executives, programmers, and directors from around the world, organized by the Busan International Film Festival.
Seven Samurai (1954) was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1989 poll of 372 celebrities for a book published by Bungeishunjū. It was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by NHK. It was also #3 with 15 votes, the highest ranked Japanese film, in the 1982 Sight & Sound critics' poll.
Netherlands
Zwartboek (Black Book, 2006) was voted the best Dutch film of all time at the 2008 Netherlands Film Festival by nearly 15,000 members of the public.
New Zealand
Once Were Warriors (1994) was voted the best New Zealand film of all time in a 2014 online poll organized by Fairfax Media. More than 500 people voted, including about 100 film professionals and 15 critics.
Ni Liv (Nine Lives, 1957) was the critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.
The Chasers (1959) was voted the best Norwegian film of all time with 23 votes in a 2011 poll of 32 critics and experts organized by Norwegian film magazine Rushprint.
Flåklypa Grand Prix (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, 1975) was the people's choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.
Baji (1963) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.
Aina (1977) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) was voted the best Philippine film of all time with 16 votes (tied with Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon) in a 1989 poll of 28 filmmakers and critics, organized by Joel David and his UP film criticism class, and published in Philippine magazine National Midweek. The article also included a list of the most common number-one choices (topped by Manila in the Claws of Light), as well as an alternate version of the top 10 (topped by Manila by Night) which was ordered by average rank.
Himala (Miracle, 1982) won the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards Viewers Choice as "Best Asia-Pacific Film of All Time" (voted for by thousands of film fans around the world).
Poland
The Promised Land (1975) was voted the best Polish film of all time in a 2015 poll of 279 Polish film professionals organized by the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź.
Teddy Bear (1980) was voted by the public of 2013 Filmfest PL as the best movie of all time.
Reconstituirea (The Reenactment, 1968) was selected as the best Romanian film by 40 film critics in 2008.
Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked #1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. It was ranked #1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958. It also ranked in the top 10, and was the highest ranked Russian film, in every Sight & Sound critics' poll between 1952 and 2002.
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) was voted the best Russian film of all time with 47 votes in a 2008 poll of 100 filmmakers and critics, organized by Russian film magazine Seance.
The Shop on Main Street (1965) was named the second best film in the 100 years of Czech-Slovak cinema with 38 votes in a poll of 55 filmmakers, critics, and theorists. It was the best placed Slovak film in this poll. A controversy continues over whether the film is Slovak or Czech.
Pictures of the Old World (1972) was voted the best Slovak film of all time by Slovak critics in 2000.
Obaltan (1961) was voted the best Korean film of all time with 48 votes in a 1999 poll of 140 filmmakers organized by Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo. It was also voted the best Korean film of all time (tied with The Housemaid and The March of Fools) in a 2014 poll of 62 film scholars, critics, film professionals, researchers, and programmers organized by the Korean Film Archive.
Shiri (1999) was voted the favorite film of Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.
Memories of Murder (2003) was voted the best Korean film of all time with 806 votes in a 2014 audience poll of 1462 people organized by the Korean Film Archive.
Viridiana (1961) was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 227 votes in a 2016 poll of 350 experts organized by Spanish film magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.
El verdugo (1963) was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 77 votes in a 1995 poll of 100 critics and film professionals organized by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon.
Ananta Rathiriya (1995) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time in 2002.
Pura Handa Kaluwara (1997) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time in 2002.
The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen, 1921) was voted the best Swedish film of all time with 30 votes in a poll of 50 film critics and academics conducted by film magazine FLM in 2012.
Persona (1966) reached the highest position (#5 in 1972) of any Swedish film on any of Sight & Sound's lists of greatest films of all time.
A City of Sadness (悲情城市; 1989) was voted the best Chinese-language film of all time with 73 votes in a 2010 poll of 122 film professionals organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. It was also #5, the highest ranked Taiwanese film, on the Hong Kong Film Awards' list of the Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, voted by 101 filmmakers, critics, and scholars.
Yol (1982) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a 2016 poll of 383 experts organized by Turkish magazine Notos. It was also selected as the best Turkish film in a 2003 poll undertaken by Ankara Sinema Derneği (Ankara Association for Cinema Culture) of people interested in cinema professionally.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) was voted the best Ukrainian film of all time with 30 votes in a 2012 poll of about 100 journalists organized by the Cinema Journalism Bureau of Ukraine and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.
The Third Man (1949) was voted the best British film ever by 1000 industry professionals, academics, and critics in a British Film Institute poll conducted in 1999. Highest ranked British entry and #3 overall on the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best films of all time with a 100% rating based on 76 reviews as of 3 March 2017.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted the "best British film of all time" in August 2004 by over 200 respondents in a Sunday Telegraph poll of Britain's leading filmmakers.
Don't Look Now (1973) was named the best British film in a poll of 150 film industry experts conducted by Time Out London in 2011.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) was voted the best British picture of all time by 7000 film fans in a 2004 poll by the UK arm of Amazon and Internet Movie Database.
Gone with the Wind (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults undertaken by Harris Interactive in 2008, and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014. It was also voted the best American film of all time by 35,000 members of the American Film Institute in 1977. It was picked in 2011 as the best film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, an online poll in which over 500,000 votes were cast. Voters chose from a list of 10 English-language films selected by film industry experts.
Citizen Kane (1941) was selected as the greatest American film in 2015 by sixty-two international film critics surveyed by the BBC. It was also ranked top in every Sight & Sound critics' poll between 1962 and 2002, and the directors' poll in 1992 and 2002. The American Film Institute polled 1,500 film community leaders for the lists 100 Years... 100 Movies and 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) in 1998 and 2007 respectively, asking voters to choose from a list of 400 nominations. Both polls identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever. It was voted the best American film of all time with 156 votes in a 1977 poll of 203 experts from 22 countries (116 Americans and 87 non-Americans). The poll was organized by the Royal Belgian Film Archive of Belgium and titled "The most important and misappreciated American films," and they were looking for subjective choices.
Vertigo (1958) topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes.
The Godfather (1972) was selected as the greatest film by 2,120 industry professionals in a Hollywood survey undertaken by The Hollywood Reporter in 2014.
Whisky (2004) was voted the best Uruguayan film of all time by 22 members of the Uruguayan Film Critics Association in 2015.
El Pez que Fuma (1977) was voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 22 votes in a 1987 poll of 29 experts organized by Imagen magazine. It was also voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 33 votes in a 2016 poll of 41 experts organized by the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional.
