The Top 100 'Academy Award Nominated' Movies

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The Top 100 'Academy Award Nominated' Movies
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas PG -
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola R -
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg PG -
5 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont R -
6 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino R -
7 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand PG -
8 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis PG -
10 The Godfather Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola R -
11 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
14 GoodFellas 1990 Martin Scorsese R -
19 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme R -
24 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder NR -
25 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz PG -
26 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa NR -
27 The Matrix 1999 The Wachowskis R -
32 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman R -
33 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder NR -
34 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau NR -
38 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
39 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick NR -
40 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson PG13 -
41 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed NR -
42 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles NR -
47 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese R -
48 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer R -
49 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson PG13 -
53 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg R -
54 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet NR -
57 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg R -
58 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola R -
61 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
64 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis PG13 -
65 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski R -
66 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg PG -
68 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter G -
71 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick R -
72 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan R -
73 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson PG13 -
78 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston NR -
81 Fargo 1996 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
82 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
83 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut NR -
84 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra NR -
85 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
86 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman NR -
88 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder NR -
89 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese R -
90 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder NR -
91 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick G -
92 Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir NR -
93 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
95 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
97 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan NR -
98 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen PG -
99 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini NR -
100 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino R -
102 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet R -
105 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor NR -
106 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
113 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
115 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese R -
118 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant R -
120 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle R -
123 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston NR -
124 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini NR -
129 Parasite 2019 Bong Joon Ho NR -
132 No Country for Old Men 2007 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
134 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin G -
136 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott R -
141 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger NR -
143 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick PG -
144 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
145 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry R -
150 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra NR -
153 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman R -
156 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill PG -
159 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming NR -
160 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood R -
162 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
164 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger NR -
167 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen PG -
169 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra NR -
171 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler NR -
173 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
174 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean G -
177 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill PG -
178 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula PG -
180 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet R -
182 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder NR -
186 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols PG -
187 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund R -
194 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo NR -
195 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg PG -
196 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino R -
199 WALL·E 2008 Andrew Stanton PG -
200 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen NR -
201 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan NR -
205 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah R -
206 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes R -
210 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson R -

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