Sight & Sound Combined 2002 Poll

A combination of the Directors' and Critics' polls. Every film with at least 4 votes is included.
Sources: BFI and the votes were tallied on this website, where you can see every film voted for.

2002 Critics
2002 Directors

The first value is for critics' votes and the second value is for directors' votes.

Combined Top 10
Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 88 = 46 + 42

Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 54 = 41+ 13

La Règle du Jeu 1939 Jean Renoir 42 = 30 + 12

8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 37 = 18 + 19

The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 36 = 17 + 19

2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kurbrick 32 = 21 + 11

Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 31 = 22 + 9
The Godfather Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 31 = 15 + 16

Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 27 = 15 + 12

Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 26 = 14 + 12

Next 5
Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 25 = 19 + 6
Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 25 = 17 + 8

Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 24 = 19 + 5

The Searchers 1956 John Ford 22 = 15 + 7

Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 21 = 5 + 16

Filling Out a Top 50
18 votes
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Dreyer 12 + 6
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio DeSica 5 + 13
La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 8 + 10

17 votes
Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 11 + 6
L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 10 + 7
À Bout de Souffle 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 11 + 6

16 votes
Jules et Jim 1961 Francois Truffaut 10 + 6
Dr. Strangelove 1964 Stanley Kurbrick 2 + 14
Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 3 + 13

15 votes
L'Atalante 1933 Jean Vigo 11 + 4
Sunset Boulevard 1950 Billy Wilder 4 + 11
Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 6 + 9

14 votes
The General 1926 Buster Keaton 11 + 3
Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 9 + 5
Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 7 + 7
Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 5 + 9
Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 6 + 8

13 votes makes for 36 films
City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 5 + 8
La Grande Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 6 + 7
Les Enfants du Paradis 1945 Marcel Carné 7 + 6
Andrei Roublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 6 + 7

12 votes
The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 6 + 6
The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 2 + 10
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 10 + 2
Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 6 + 6
Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 4 + 8

11 votes
Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3 + 8
The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 6 + 5
Ugetsu Monogatari 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 7 + 4
Le Mépris 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 9 + 2
Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 4 + 7

10 votes
Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 7 + 3
Ivan the Terrible 1945 Sergei Eisenstein 7 + 3

9 votes
Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 5 + 4
M 1931 Fritz Lang 8 + 1
Ordet 1955 Carl Dreyer 5 + 4
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 7 + 2
The 400 Blows 1959 Francois Truffaut 6 + 3

Ending the Top 50 films at 53 with 5 ties
The Next 50
8 votes brings total to 62 films
Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 6 + 2
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 8 + 0
On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 2 + 6
La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 1 + 7
North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 4 + 4
Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 3 + 5
The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 3 + 5
Amarcord 1974 Federico Fellini 2 + 6
Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 7 + 1

7 votes brings total to 80 films
Greed 1924 Eric von Stroheim 5 + 2
Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 4 + 3
The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 3 + 4
Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 7 + 0
L'Age d'Or 1930 Luis Buñuel 4 + 3
The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 2 + 5
The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 6 + 1
Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 4 + 3
Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 2 + 5
Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 2 + 5
Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 5 + 2
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 3 + 4
The Battle of Algiers 1965 Gillo Pontecorvo 3 + 4
Once Upon a Time in the West 1969 Sergio Leone 2 + 5
The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 3 + 4
Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 4 + 3
Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 5 + 2
Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 3 + 4

6 votes brings total from 80 to 93 films
Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 4 + 2
Voyage to Italy 1953 Roberto Rossellini 4 + 2
The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 3 + 3
The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 3 + 3
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 5 + 1
Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 3 + 3
Sansho Dayu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 5 + 1
A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 2 + 4
The Travelling Players 1975 Theo Angelopoulos 5 + 1
Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 1 + 5
Dekalog 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 4 + 2
A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 4 + 2
GoodFellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 3 + 3

5 votes includes 30 ties bringing total from 93 to 124 films
Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 4 + 1
Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 4 + 1
Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 2 + 3
Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 4 + 1
The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 1 + 4
His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 3 + 2
The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 1 + 4
Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 1 + 4
It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 4 + 1
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Powell, Pressburger 3 + 2
My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 2 + 3
Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 4 + 1
Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emric Pressburger 4 + 1
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophuls 5 + 0
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 0 + 5
El 1953 Luis Buñuel 2 + 3
Madame de... 1953 Max Ophuls 4 + 1
World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 2 + 3
Vivre sa Vie 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 4 + 1
The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1 + 4
Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 5 + 0
Chimes at Midnight 1967 Orson Welles 3 + 2
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 5 + 0
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 2 + 3
Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 1 + 4
L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 3 + 2
Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 5 + 0
Once upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 4 + 1
Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 3 + 2
Three Colours: Blue 1993 - Krzysztof Kieslowski 3 + 2
Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 4 + 1

This marks the end of the Top 100 at 124 films
4 votes advances total to 160 films
Un Chien Andalou 1928 Luis Buñuel 3 + 1
Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 2 + 2
Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 2 + 2
King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack 2 + 2
Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei Eisenstein 1 + 3
A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell, Emric Pressburger 3 + 1
Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 2 + 2
Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 2 + 2
La Belle et la Bête 1946 Jean Cocteau 2 + 2
Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 3 + 1
Late Spring 1949 Yasujiro Ozu 3 + 1
All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2 + 2
Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 2 + 2
Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 2 + 2
Floating Clouds 1955 Mikio Naruse 2 + 2
A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 2 + 2
Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 1 + 3
The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 3 + 1
L'Eclisse 1962 Antonioni 2 + 2
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 2 + 2
Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 3 + 1
Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 3 + 1
A Blonde in Love 1965 Milos Forman 1 + 3
Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 2 + 2
Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 4 + 0
Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 1 + 3
Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 3 + 1
The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 1 + 3
Jeanne Dielman... 1975 Chantal Akerman 4 + 0
The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 Hsiao-hsien Hou 2 + 2
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 1 + 3
Close-up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 4 + 0
Three Colours: Red 1994 - Krzysztof Kieslowski 4 + 0
Three Colours: White 1994 - Krzysztof Kieslowski 3 + 1
All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 3 + 1
Yi Yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 4 + 0

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