The Films That Don't Belong on The AFI's Best 100 Films List

These are the films that I believe have no business being the the AFI's list of The Best 100 American Films.

The number next to each film represents its position on the AFI's list:

5) Lawrence of Arabia, 1962
13) The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
17) The African Queen, 1951
20) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975
21) The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
22) 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
27) Bonnie & Clyde, 1967
33) High Noon, 1952
34) To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
35) It Happened One Night, 1934
36) Midnight Cowboy, 1969
37) The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
39) Doctor Zhivago, 1965
40) North by Northwest, 1959
41) West Side Story, 1961
46) A Clockwork Orange, 1971
50) Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, 1969
52) From Here to Eternity, 1953
53) Amadeus, 1984
55) The Sound of Music, 1965
57) The Third Man, 1949
60) Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
62) Tootsie, 1982
65) The Silence of the Lambs, 1991
68) An American in Paris, 1951
69) Shane, 1953
71) Forrest Gump, 1994
72) Ben-Hur, 1959
75) Dances With Wolves, 1990
78) Rocky, 1976
79) The Deer Hunter, 1978
80) The Wild Bunch, 1969
82) Giant, 1956
83) Platoon, 1986
84) Fargo, 1996
87) Frankenstein, 1931
88) Easy Rider, 1969
89) Patton, 1970
90) The Jazz Singer, 1927
91) My Fair Lady, 1964
92) A Place in the Sun, 1951
97) Bringing Up Baby, 1938
98) Unforgiven, 1992
99) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967

The Ten Dumbest Choices of the AFI
(Listed in Order of Dumbness)

1) The Jazz Singer
2) Dances With Wolves
3) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
4) Easy Rider
5) Ben-Hur
6) The Sound of Music
7) Doctor Zhivago
8) It Happened One Night
9) My Fair Lady
10) Bringing Up Baby

The Twenty Biggest Omissions From The AFI's List
(Listed Chronologically)

1) Intolerance
2) Greed
3) The General
4) Sunrise
5) The Crowd
6) A Night at the Opera
7) Top Hat
8) His Girl Friday
9) The Magnificent Ambersons
10) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
11) Meet Me in St. Louis
12) The Night of the Hunter
13) Sweet Smell of Success
14) A Face in the Crowd
15) Touch of Evil
16) The Last Picture Show
17) Nashville
18) Days of Heaven
19) Diner
20) JFK

AFI List Links

If you'd like to see the AFI's list (among other things), click:
AFI's 100 Best Films

If you'd like to read my critique of the list, click:
My Critique of the AFI's List

If you'd like to read about the controversy surrounding the AFI's choices, read:
The Diversity Controversy

If you'd like to read my far more intelligent list, click:
My Best 100 List

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