Sight & Sound Directors’ Poll Top 100

An important update to the BFI’s Sight & Sound Poll results. We can now explore the Director’s Top 100 Films as chosen by a worldwide panel of directors. UPDATE: The complete list of 100 films.

=1. Tokyo Story (1953) Ozu Yasujirô
=2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
=2. Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
=4. 8½ (1963) Federico Fellini
=5. Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
=6. Apocalypse Now (1979)
=7. Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
=7. The Godfather: Part I (1972)
=9. Mirror (1974) Andrei Tarkovsky
=10. The Bicycle Thieves (1948)
=11. Breathless (1960) Jean-Luc Godard
=12. Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
=13. Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman
=13. The 400 Blows (1959) François Truffaut
=13. Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky
=16. Fanny and Alexander (1984) Ingmar Bergman
=17. Seven Samurai (1954)
=18. Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa
=19. Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick
=19. Ordet (1955) Carl Theodor Dreyer
=21. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson
=22. Modern Times (1936) Charles Chaplin
=22. L’Atalante (1934) Jean Vigo
=22. Sunrise (1927) F. W. Murnau
=22. La Règle du jeu (1939) Jean Renoir

=26. Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles
=26. The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton
=26. The Battle of Algiers (1966) Gillo Pontecorvo
=26. La strada (1954) Federico Fellini
=30. Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky
=30. City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin
=30. L’Avventura, (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni
=30. Amarcord (1972) Federico Fellini
=30. The Gospel According to St Matthew (1964) Pier Paolo Pasolini
=30. The Godfather: Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
=30. Come And See (1985) Elem Klimov
=37. Close-Up (1989) Abbas Kiarostami
=37. Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder
=37. La dolce vita (1960) Federico Fellini.
=37. Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) Carl Theodor Dreyer
=37. Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati
=37. A Man Escaped (1956) Robert Bresson
=37. Viridiana (1961) Luis Buñuel
=44. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Sergio Leone
=44. Le mépris (1963) Jean-Luc Godard
=44. The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder
=44. Hour of the Wolf (1968) Ingmar Bergman
=48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Milos Forman
=48. The Searchers (1956) John Ford
=48. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
=48. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Dziga Vertov
=48. Shoah (1985) Claude Lanzmann
=48. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
=48. L’eclisse (1962) Michelangelo Antonioni
=48. Pickpocket (1959) Robert Bresson
=48. Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray
=48. Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
=48. Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese
=59. Blow Up (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
=59. The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci
=59. Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972) Werner Herzog
=59. Gertrud (1964) Carl Theodor Dreyer
=59. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) John Cassavetes
=59. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone
=59. Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch
=59. La grande illusion (1937) Jean Renoir
=67. Badlands (1973) Terrence Malick
=67. Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott
=67. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Billy Wilder
=67. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) Mizoguchi Kenji
=67. Singin’ in the Rain (1951) Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
=67. In The Mood For Love (2000) Wong Kar Wai
=67. Journey to Italy (1954) Roberto Rossellini
=67. Vivre Sa Vie (1962) Jean-Luc Godard
=75. The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman
=75. Hidden (2004) Michael Haneke
=75. Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei M Eisenstein
=75. M (1931) Fritz Lang
=75. There Will Be Blood (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson
=75. The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
=75. The General (1926) Buster Keaton
=75. Mulholland Dr (2003) David Lynch
=75. Clockwork Orange, A (1971) Stanley Kubrick
=75. Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder
=75. Kes (1969) Ken Loach
=75. Husbands (1970) John Cassavetes
=75. The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah
=75. Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini
=75. Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg
=75. Los Olvidados (1950) Luis Buñuel
=91. Pierrot le Fou (1965) Jean-Luc Godard
=91. Un chien andalou (1928) Luis Buñuel
=91. Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
=91. La Maman et la putain (1973) Jean Eustache
=91. Beau Travail (1998) Claire Denis
=91. Opening Night (1977) John Cassavetes
=91. The Gold Rush (1925) Charles Chaplin
=91. Zero de Conduite (1933) Jean Vigo
=91. The Deer Hunter (1977) Michael Cimino
=91. L’argent (1983) Robert Bresson

(thanks Bryce!)

You can also filter the voter breakdown to select director’s only, making it easier to spot familiar names of interest. For example:

Anton Corbijn, Netherlands

Voted for:
Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard
Kes 1969 Ken Loach
Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone
Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese
Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa
Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky
strada, La 1954 Federico Fellini
Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles