Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics, while others may be susceptible to forms of interference such as vote stacking.
(1941) stood at number 1 for five consecutive 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.[1]
Citizen Kane
(1953) topped the directors' poll in 2012 with 48 votes, also dethroning Citizen Kane.[1]
Tokyo Story
(1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults taken by Harris Interactive in 2008,[20] and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014.[21]
Gone with the Wind
(1972) was voted number 1 by Entertainment Weekly's readers in 1999[23] and voted as number 1 in a Time Out readers' poll in 1998.[24] 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.[25] It also topped Empire's June 2017 poll of 20,000 readers.[26][27]
The Godfather
(1980) was voted the best film of all time by over 250,000 readers of the Empire film magazine in 2015.[28]
The Empire Strikes Back
(1994) was voted the greatest film of all time by Empire readers in "The 201 Greatest Movies of All Time" poll taken in March 2006.[29]
The Shawshank Redemption
(1997) was voted the greatest hit of all time in a poll of 6,000 movie fans conducted by English-language newspaper China Daily in March 2008.[30]
Titanic
(1999) was voted the favorite film of South Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by South Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.[31]
Shiri
(2001–2003) was voted the favorite film of Australians in an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film in 2005.[32] It was also voted the best film in a poll of 120,000 German voters for the TV special Die besten Filme aller Zeiten ("The best films of all time") in 2004.[33]
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
(1981) was voted the greatest action film of all time in a readers' poll by American magazine Rolling Stone in 2015.[34]
Mad Max 2
was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in two polls carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken in 1977 and 1984.[91]
Prisioneros de la tierra
(1965) was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken in 2000.[91]
Crónica de un niño solo
(2001) was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a 2022 poll organized by film magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema— inspired by the previous lists by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken—which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[92][93]
La Ciénaga
List of best picture awards
List of film awards
List of highest-grossing films
List of film-related topics
List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
List of films considered the worst
at They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
"The 1,000 Greatest Films"
The American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies
Sight & Sound magazine: The 50 Greatest Films of All Time
at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 June 2011)
The BFI 100: A selection of the favourite British films of the 20th century
at the Wayback Machine (archived 9 February 2008)