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American Film Institute’s
100 Years . . . 100 Passions

The American Film Institute (AFI) celebrated the centennial of cinema by airing a number of television specials, each honoring a different aspect of excellence in American film. On June 11, 2002 AFI broadcast a program entitled “100 Years . . . 100 Passions—America’s Greatest Movie Love Stories.”

To determine the winners, AFI invited more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community—screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics, among them—to choose from a list of nominated films compiled by AFI. The selected films (and their ranking) are listed below.

TheOscar Nominated marker symbol appears next to those films which also received an Academy Award nomination (although this was not a requirement for inclusion on the list). Click on the name of one of those films to display more information about it. You can also click on the IMDb link to to open a new browser window or tabshowing information about the film from the Internet Movie Database. Or, click on a title in the column on the right to display the winners from another AFI program.

For more information, you can follow this link to the American Film Institute’s website.

Oscar Nominated marker1.Casablanca (1943)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker2.Gone with the Wind (1939)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker3.West Side Story (1961)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker4.Roman Holiday (1953)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker5.An Affair to Remember (1957)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker6.The Way We Were (1973)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker7.Doctor Zhivago (1965)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker8.It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker9.Love Story (1970)   IMDb
10.City Lights (1931)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker11.Annie Hall (1977)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker12.My Fair Lady (1964)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker13.Out of Africa (1985)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker14.The African Queen (1951)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker15.Wuthering Heights (1939)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker16.Singin’ in the Rain (1952)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker17.Moonstruck (1987)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker18.Vertigo (1958)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker19.Ghost (1990)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker20.From Here to Eternity (1953)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker21.Pretty Woman (1990)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker22.On Golden Pond (1981)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker23.Now, Voyager (1942)   IMDb
24.King Kong (1933)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker25.When Harry Met Sally . . . (1989)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker26.The Lady Eve (1941)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker27.The Sound of Music (1965)   IMDb
28.The Shop Around the Corner (1940)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker29.An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker30.Swing Time (1936)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker31.The King and I (1956)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker32.Dark Victory (1939)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker33.Camille (1936)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker34.Beauty and the Beast (1991)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker35.Gigi (1958)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker36.Random Harvest (1942)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker37.Titanic (1997)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker38.It Happened One Night (1934)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker39.An American in Paris (1951)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker40.Ninotchka (1939)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker41.Funny Girl (1968)   IMDb
42.Anna Karenina (1935)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker43.A Star Is Born (1954)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker44.The Philadelphia Story (1940)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker45.Sleepless in Seattle (1993)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker46.To Catch a Thief (1955)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker47.Splendor in the Grass (1961)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker48.Last Tango in Paris (1972)   IMDb
49.The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker50.Shakespeare in Love (1998)   IMDb
51.Bringing Up Baby (1938)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker52.The Graduate (1967)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker53.A Place in the Sun (1951)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker54.Sabrina (1954)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker55.Reds (1981)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker56.The English Patient (1996)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker57.Two for the Road (1967)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker58.Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker59.Picnic (1955)   IMDb
60.To Have and Have Not (1944)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker61.Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker62.The Apartment (1960)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker63.Sunrise (1927)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker64.Marty (1955)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker65.Bonnie and Clyde (1967)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker66.Manhattan (1979)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker67.A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)   IMDb
68.What’s Up, Doc? (1972)   IMDb
69.Harold and Maude (1972)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker70.Sense and Sensibility (1995)   IMDb
71.Way Down East (1920)   IMDb
72.Roxanne (1987)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker73.The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker74.Woman of the Year (1942)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker75.The American President (1995)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker76.The Quiet Man (1952)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker77.The Awful Truth (1937)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker78.Coming Home (1978)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker79.Jezebel (1938)   IMDb
80.The Sheik (1921)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker81.The Goodbye Girl (1977)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker82.Witness (1985)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker83.Morocco (1930)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker84.Double Indemnity (1944)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker85.Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker86.Notorious (1946)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker87.The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker88.The Princess Bride (1987)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker89.Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker90.The Bridges of Madison County (1995)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker91.Working Girl (1988)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker92.Porgy and Bess (1959)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker93.Dirty Dancing (1987)   IMDb
94.Body Heat (1981)   IMDb
95.Lady and the Tramp (1955)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker96.Barefoot in the Park (1967)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker97.Grease (1978)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker98.The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker99.Pillow Talk (1959)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker100.Jerry Maguire (1996)   IMDb