

Reception Īccording to Richard Corliss, the list's web pages attracted a record 7.8 million page views in its first week, including 3.5 million on May 23, its opening day. An effort was made to make the list as diverse as possible in terms of directors, actors, countries, and genres represented. The process took about four months to complete. Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss each independently compiled a list of 115–120 films that they judged to be worthy of inclusion and then debated and weighed each choice until they agreed on the top 100.

The list is also complemented by three sidebars, each with 10 contributions by Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss. Of the 11 non-Caucasian directors, all were of Asian descent: Japanese, Chinese, or Indian.

įilms on the list span a period of 80 years, starting with Sherlock Jr. Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Donen, Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Ernst Lubitsch, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Steven Spielberg, François Truffaut, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler all had two films each on the list. More than any other actor, Robert De Niro had five of his films on the list, including the three directed by Scorsese.
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Martin Scorsese also had three films on the list: Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990). Riefenstahl's film is also the only one out of the 100 that was not directed by a man. There are 106 films in this list, with Olympia (1938 directed by Leni Riefenstahl), The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959 Satyajit Ray), The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (1972, 1974 Francis Ford Coppola), and The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–03 Peter Jackson) each listed as single entries.
