The new AFI special airs on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 in a 3-hour special starting at 8 PM ET on CBS. In this special, they are counting down the top ten films in these ten genres:

ANIMATED
FANTASY
GANGSTER
SCIENCE FICTION
WESTERN
SPORTS
MYSTERY
ROMANTIC COMEDY
COURTROOM DRAMA
EPIC FILMS

More information on their criteria for selecting these films and the guest stars that will be hosting these genre countdowns on the telecast can be found on the AFI web page. For our challenge, let's try to create individual top ten lists for each of these genres.

Discuss.

Stupid AFI, not including musicals!

Some guesses:

ANIMATED (Disney's to have.)
...Snow White
...Fantasia
...Pinochio
...Sleeping Beauty
...Toy Story
...Beauty & the Beast
...Dumbo
...Bambi
...The Lion King
...The Nightmare Before Christmas (I can only hope!)

FANTASY
...The Wizard of Oz
...King Kong (1933)
...LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
...LOTR: The Two Towers
...LOTR: The Return of the King

GANGSTER
...The Godfather
...The Godfather, part II
...Goodfellas
...The Public Enemey
...Scarface (30's)
...Little Caesar

SCIENCE FICTION
...Blade Runner
...The Day the Earth Stood Still
...2001: A Space Oydssey
...Star Wars
...The War of the Worlds
...Close Encounters of the Third Kind
...ET
...Alien
...Planet of the Apes
...The Matrix

WESTERN (John Ford to have.)
...The Seachers
...Stagecoach
...Red River
...The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
...High Noon
...Shane
...The Wild Bunch
...Unforgiven (92)
...My Darling Clementine
...The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
...The Magnificent Seven
...Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

SPORTS
...Rocky
...The Pride of the Yankees
...Field of Dreams (I could vomit)
...The Bad News Bears (lol, I don't know)

MYSTERY (Hitch**** to have.)
...Rear Window
...Vertigo
...North By Northwest
...Strangers On a Train
...Notorious
...Rebecca
...Chinatown
...The Silence of the Lambs
...The Maltese Falcon
...The Third Man

ROMANTIC COMEDY
Hasn't this been covered to death in 2 different AFI lists...
...Annie Hall
...Moonstruck
...Sabrina (54)
...Tootsie
...It Happened One Night
...Bringing Up Baby
...The Philadelphia Story
...When Harry Met Sally (Vomit again)
...City Lights
...The Lady Eve

COURTROOM DRAMA
...To Kill a Mockingbird
...Witness For the Prosecution
...The Verdict
...12 Angry Men
...Anatomy of a Murder
...And Justice For All
...The Letter (40)
...Philadelphia

EPIC FILMS
...Lawrence of Arabia
...Gone with the Wind
...The Bridge on the River Kwai
...Spartacus
...Ben-Hur
...Doctor Zhivago
...Giant
...The African Queen
...Titanic
...Out of Africa

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These lists are getting tired. They should only do one more list.

The People's List.

The top 100 films that regular people like.

quote:

Originally posted by JayDF:
ANIMATED (Disney's to have.)
...Snow White
...Fantasia
...Pinochio
...Sleeping Beauty
...Toy Story
...Beauty & the Beast
...Dumbo
...Bambi
...The Lion King
...The Nightmare Before Christmas (I can only hope!)

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" definitely won't be there. I think another Pixar movie (like "Finding Nemo") could be in there. But it will definitely be dominated by Disney classics (like "Cinderella," which has to be in there over "Dumbo").

They should do a foreign films list so when people look at the AFI lists they'll realize there are other and better films out there.

when are they doing the actors and actresses list from 1950-present

Here's my guess as to what is going to make their top list. I'm not going to list ten in each category, because that is one hundred films and it would take me one hundred minutes or more to type out:

Animation:
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
RU: many contenders, including Cinderella, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Lion King, Beauty and The Beast

Courtroom Drama:
Judgement at Nuremburg (1961)
RU: Inherit the Wind, 12 Angry Men, Anatomy of A Murder, In Cold Blood, Witness for The Prosecution, A Man for All Seasons

Epic:
Gone With the Wind (1939)
RU: Godfather2, Lawrence of Arabia, Titanic (1997)

Fantasy:
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
RU: TLOTR, It's a Wonderful Life, Jason and The Argonauts, King Kong (1933)

Gangster:
The Godfather (1972)
RU: Godfather2, On The Waterfront, Pulp Fiction, Bonny and Clyde, Goodfellas, Angels with Dirty Faces

Mystery:
Chinatown (1974)
RU: Maltese Falcon, Rebecca, Rear Window, Thin Man, Hound of the Baskervilles

Romantic Comedy:
Annie Hall (1977)
RU: It Happened One Night, Roman Holiday, Philadelphia Story, Sabrina (1954)

Sci-fi:
Star Wars Ep 1V, The New Hope (1977)
Who knows what they're going to eventually choose here? RU's I'll go with: Jurassic Park, Terminator2, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Alien, The Fly (1986), Bladerunner, 2001 A Space Odyssey

Sports:
Raging Bull (1980)
RU: The Natural, Pride of the Yankees, 8 Men Out, Rocky

Western:
Searchers (1956)
RU: Stage Coach, Shane, Wild Bunch, Ox-Bow Incident, Giant, High Noon, Magnificent Seven

I left a lot out and these arent necessarily my personal choices, but I suspect we'll be seeing these on their top lists. Also, I didnt see Treasure of the Sierra Madre as one of their choices. Too bad, because I thought it was a masterpiece of film making.

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Here are the ballots:

ANIMATED
Aladdin
Alice in Wonderland
American Pop
An American Tail
Antz
The Aristocats
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast
A Bug's Life
Cars
Charlotte's Web
Cinderella
Corpse Bride
Dumbo
Fantasia
Finding Nemo
Happy Feet
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ice Age
The Incredibles
The Iron Giant
The Jungle Book
Lady and the Tramp
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Madagascar
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Monster House
Monsters Inc.
Mulan
The Nigtmare Before Christmas
101 Dalmatians
Peter Pan
Pinocchio
Pocahontas
The Polar Express
The Rescuers
Robin Hood
Robots
The Secret of Nimh
Shrek
Shrek 2
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
The Sword in the Stone
Tarzan
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Waking Like

FANTASY
Babe
Batman
Beetlejuice
Being John Malkovich
Big
Brazil
Brigadoon
The Canterville Ghost
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
Clash of the Titans
Conan the Barbarian
The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Dark Crystal
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Edward Scissorhands
Field of Dreams
Ghost
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Groundhog Day
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harvey
Heaven Can Wait
Here Comes Mr. Jones
I Married a Witch
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jason and the Argonauts
King Kong (1933)
Labyrinth
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lost Horizon
The Lost World
Mary Poppins
The Mask
Miracle of 34th Street
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Peggy Sue Got Married
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pleasantville
Portrait of Jennie
The Princess Bride
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Spider-man 2
Splash
Superman
The Theif of Baghdad
Topper
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz

GANGSTER
Al Capone
Angels with Dirty Faces
Atlantic City
The Big Heat
Bloody Mama
Bonnie and Clyde
Boyz N The Hood
A Bronx Tale
Brother Orchid
Bugsy
Bugsy Malone
Bullets Over Broadway
Casino
City Streets
Dead End
The Departed
Donnie Brasco
Force of Evil
‘G’ Men
Get Shorty
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Goodfellas
Gun Crazy
Heat
A History of Violence
Key Largo
The Killers
Little Caeser
Miller’s Crossing
New Jack City
One The Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in America
Out of Sight
Prizzi’s Honor
The Public Honor
Pulp Fiction
Reservior Dogs
The Rise and Falls of Leg Diamond
The Roaring Twenties
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
Scarface
Scarelt Street
Some Like it Hot
Theievs Like Us
Touch of Evil
Underworld
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects
White Heat

SCIENCE FICTION
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Alien
Altered States
The Andromeda Strain
Back to the Future
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Blade Runner
Children of Men
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cocoon
Contact
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Destination Moon
E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial
Escape from New York
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fantastic Voyage
The Fly
Forbidden Planet
Frankenstein
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Independence Day
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Invisible Man
It Came from Outer Space
Jurassic Park
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The Matrix
Men in Black
Minority Report
Planet of the Apes
Repo Man
Robocop
Rollerball
Silent Running
Soylent Green
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Starman
The Stepford Wives
Terminator 2: Judement Day
Then!
The Thing From Another World
The Time Machine
Total Recall
Tron
2001: A Space Odyssey
War of the Worlds
Westworld

WESTERN
Bend of the River
The Big Country
Blazing Saddles
Broken Arrow
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cat Ballou
Cheyenne Autumn
Dances with Wolves
Destry Rides Again
Duel in the Sun
Fort Apache
Giant
The Gunfighter
High Noon
High Plains Drifter
How the West was Won
The Iron Horse
Jeremiah Johnson
Johnny Guitar
The Last Picture Show
Little Big Man
Lone Star
Lonely are the Brave
The Magnificent Seven
Major Dundee
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance
McCabe & Mrs Miller
My Darling Clementine
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Ox-Bow Incident
Pale Rider
The Plainsman
Red River
Ride the High Country
Rio Bravo
Rio Grande
The Searchers
Shane
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Shootist
Siverado
Stagecoach
The Tall T
True Girt
Tumbleweeds
Unforgiven
Union Pacific
The Westerner
The Wild Bunch
Will Penny

SPORTS
Ali
Angels in the Outfield
Any Given Sunday
The Bad News Bears
Bang the New Drum Slowly
The Bingo Traveling: All Stars and Motor Kings
Body and Soul
Breaking Away
Bull Durham
Caddyshack
Champion
Chariots of Fire
The Color of Money
Cool Runnings
Damn Yankees!
Downhill Racer
Eight Men Out
Fear Strikes Out
Field of Dreams
The Freshman
Friday Night Lights
The Great White Hope
Heart Like a Wheel
Hoosiers
Horse Feathers
The Hurricane
The hustker
Jerry Maguire
The Karate Kid
Knute Rockne – All American
A League of Their Own
The Longest Yard
Major League
The Mighty Ducks
Million Dollar Baby
Miracle
Mystery, Alaska
National Velvet
The Natural
North Dallas Forty
Pat and Mike
Personal Best
The Pride of the Yankees
Raging Bukk
Rocky
Rudy
Seabiscuit
Slap Shot
Somebody Up There Likes Me
White Men Can’t Jump

MYSTERY
And Then There Were None
The big Easy
The big Heat
The Big Lebowski
The Big Sleep
Blowout
Blue Velvet
The Bourne Identity
Charade
Chinatown
The Conversation
D.O.A.
Devil in a Blue Dress
Dial M For Muder
The Fugitive
The Game
Gaslight
Gosford Park
The Hound of the Bakersville
House of Games
In a Lonely Place
In the Heat of the Night
Kiss Me Deadly
Klute
L.A. Confidential
The Lady from Shanghai
The Last of Sheila
Laura
The List of Adrian Messenger
The Maltese Falcon
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Memento
Mulholland Dr.
Murder of the Orient Express
The Naked City
North by Northwest
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Rear Window
Rebecca
Se7en
Sea of Love
A Shot in the Dark
Sleuth
Spellbound
Suspicion
The Thin Man
The third Man
To Catch a Thief
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo

ROMANTIC COMEDY
Adam’s Rib
The American President
Annie Hall
The Apartment
As Good As It Gets
The Awful Truth
Ball of Fire
Barefoot in the Park
Born Yesterday
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bringing Up Baby
Bull Durham
City Lights
Clueless
Design for Living
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Goodbye Girl
Harold and Maude
His Girl Friday
It Happened One Night
Jerry Maguire
The Lady Eve
Moonstruck
My Best Friend’s Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Man Godfrey
Ninotchka
Nothing Sacred
The Palm Beach Story
The Philadelphia Story
Pillow Talk
Pretty Woman
Roman Holiday
Roxanne
Sabrina
Say Anything…
Shakespeare in Love
The Shop Around the Corner
Sixteen Candles
Sleepless in Seattle
Something’s Gotta Give
Splash
10
There’s Something About Mary
Trouble in Paradise
The Wedding Singer
What’s Up Doc?
When Harry Met Sally…
Woman of the Year
Working Girl

COURTROOM DRAMA
Absence of Malice
The Accused
Adam’s Rib
Advise and Consent
Amistad
Anatomy of a Murder
…And Justice for All
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
The Caine Mutny
The Children’s Hour
The Client
Compulsion
The Crucible
A Cry in the Dark
Erin Brockovich
A Few Good Man
Fury
Ghosts of Mississippi
I Confess
I Want to Live
In Cold Blood
Inherit the Wind
The Insider
Jagged Edge
Judgement at Nuremberg
Kramer vs. Kramer
Legally Blonde
Libel
Madame X
A Man for All Seasons
My Cousin Vinny
The Onion Field
Paths of Glory
The Pelican Brief
The People vs. Larry Flint
Philadelphia
Presumed Innocent
Primal Fear
The Rainmaker
Reversal of Fortune
A Soldier’s Story
Suspect
The Talk of the Down
A Time to Kill
To Kill a Mockingbird
12 Angry Men
The Verdict
Witness for the Prosecution
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Young Philadelphians

EPIC
All Quiet of on the Western Front
Apocalypse Now
Ben-Hur
The Big Parade
The Birth of a Nation
Braveheart
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Dances with Wolves
Doctor Zhivago
El Cid
Forrest Gump
The Four Horsemen
Gandhi
Giant
Gladiator
Glory
The Godfather Part II
Gone With the Wind
The Greatest Story Ever Told
How the West Was Won
Intolerance
Julius Ceasar
The King of Kings
The Last Emperor
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last Temptation of Christ
Lawrence of Arabia
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Longest Day
Malcolm X
The Man Who Would Be King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Once Upon a Time in America
The Passion of the Christ
Patton
Queen Christina
Quo Vadis?
Reds
The Robe
Samson and Delilah
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
The Sign of the Cross
Spartacus
The Ten Commandments (1923)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Titanic
War and Peace

1-Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
2-Pinocchio
3-Bambi
4-The Lion King
5-Fantasia
6-Toy Story
7-Beauty and the Beast
8-Shrek
9-Cinderella
10-Finding Nemo

I believe I got this correct but these are the top ten.

Fantasy

1-the wizard of oz
2-lord of the rings
3-it's a wonderful life
4-king kong
5- miracle on 34th street
6-Field of Dreams
7-Harvey
8-Groundhog Day
9-The Thief of Baghdad
10-Big

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Sci-Fi

1-2001: A Space Odyssey
2-Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
3-ET: Extra Terrestrial
4-A Clockwork Orange
5-The Day the Earth Stood Still
6-Blade Runner
7-Alien
8-Terminator 2: Judgement Day
9-Invasion of the Body Snatchers
10-Back to the Future

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Sports

1-Raging Bull
2-Rocky
3-The Pride of the Yankees
4-Hoosiers
5-Bull Durham
6-The Hustler
7-Caddyshack
8-Breaking Away
9-National Velvet
10-Jerry Maguire

Western

1-The Searchers
2-High Noon
3-Shane
4-Unforgiven
5-Red River
6-The Wild Bunch
7-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8-McCabe and Mrs. Miller
9-Stagecoach
10-Cat Ballou

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Gangster (so far)
1-The Godfather
2-Goodefellas
3-The Godfather Part II
4-White Heat
5-Bonnie and Clyde
6-Scarface (original)
7-Pulp Fiction
8-Public Enemy
9-Little Cesaer
10-Scarface

ew Scarface is a terrible movie...but thank God my favorite Gnagster movie was number 2

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Mystery

1-Vertigo
2-Chinatown
3-Rear Window
4-Laura
5-The Third Man
6-The Maltese Falcon
7-North by Northwest
8-Blue Velvet
9-Dial M for Murder
10-The Usual Suspects

I think this may be my favorite list so far

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This is the typical AFI mishmash - half great choices, half ridiculous.

And as always, no new ground is broken, no fresh insights, no different films for people to discover.

Mystery (Continued)

3. "Rear Window"
2. "Chinatown"
1. "Vertigo"

Dial M for Murder? It's not even one of the top 10 Hitch**** mysteries...

Romantic Comedies

1-City Lights
2-Annie Hall
3-It Happened One Night
4-Roman Holiday
5-Philadelphia Story
6-When Harry met Sally
7-Adam's Rib
8-Moonstruck
9-Harold and Maude
10-Sleepless in Seattle

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