| 01 | Citizen Kane | 76.8 |
| 02 | Sight & Sound | 59.0 |
| 03 | Vertigo | 53.4 |
| 04 | BFI | 50.8 |
| 05 | Orson Welles | 48.6 |
| 06 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 48.4 |
| 07 | The Godfather | 46.2 |
| 08 | BFI’s Sight and Sound poll | 41.0 |
| 09 | Seven Samurai | 36.8 |
| 10 | Akira Kurosawa | 35.8 |
| 11 | Alfred Hitchcock | 34.0 |
| 12 | Do the Right Thing | 33.3 |
| 13 | Stanley Kubrick | 32.9 |
| 14 | Francis Ford Coppola | 31.8 |
| 15 | AFI’s major American-film list | 31.5 |
| 16 | Casablanca | 30.7 |
| 17 | In the Mood for Love | 29.9 |
| 18 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | 27.8 |
| 19 | Schindler's List | 27.5 |
| 20 | Apocalypse Now | 26.7 |
| 21 | Vittorio De Sica | 25.6 |
| 22 | The Shawshank Redemption | 24.8 |
| 23 | Pulp Fiction | 24.4 |
| 24 | Singin' in the Rain | 24.1 |
| 25 | Gene Kelly | 23.1 |
| 26 | American Film Institute (AFI) | 22.3 |
| 27 | Stanley Donen | 22.2 |
| 28 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 20.3 |
| 29 | BBC Culture | 19.6 |
| 30 | Spike Lee | 18.4 |