A good list with many of my favourites.
Who better to judge the best movies of all time
than the people who make them? Studio chiefs, Oscar winners and TV royalty all
were surveyed as THR publishes its first definitive entertainment-industry
ranking of cinema's
most superlative.
This
story first appeared in the July 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter
magazine.
Is it
wrong to already declare this the No. 1 movie list of all time?
After
all, there are other movie lists. Lots and lots of others. So many lists, you
couldn't list them all. But this is the first to ask the entertainment industry
itself to pick its choices for the best pictures ever made. In May, THR
sent an online ballot all over town — to every studio, agency, publicity firm
and production house on either side of the 405. Not everybody was initially
thrilled to participate.
"I
reject the idea," Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan told THR.
"To me, it's the equivalent of having a party-size bag of Nacho Doritos,
then being told to eat only five." In the end, though, he sent in his
favorites (one of which is 1961's Yojimbo), as did a total of 2,120
industry members, including Fox chief Jim Gianopulos, Disney's Alan
Horn, director Gary Ross, producer Frank Marshall, Warners' Sue
Kroll, agent Robert Newman, attorney John Burke, filmmaker
John Singleton and many more. These are the results: the greatest movies
ever made, according to Hollywood.
There are
some surprises here.
It's a far more commercial list than the usual critics' picks.
Who knew, for instance, that Back to the Future would get more love than Lawrence of Arabia?
There also are shocking omissions — The 400 Blows, La Dolce Vita, The Gold Rush and dozens of other undeniably great films.
And there are interesting differences of opinion along professional divides: Directors, writers and agents all agreed on their choice for the greatest movie ever (hint: It rhymes with "Schmodfather"), while cinematographers chose 2001: A Space Odyssey and entertainment lawyers, the big softies, picked The Shawshank Redemption.
It's a far more commercial list than the usual critics' picks.
Who knew, for instance, that Back to the Future would get more love than Lawrence of Arabia?
There also are shocking omissions — The 400 Blows, La Dolce Vita, The Gold Rush and dozens of other undeniably great films.
And there are interesting differences of opinion along professional divides: Directors, writers and agents all agreed on their choice for the greatest movie ever (hint: It rhymes with "Schmodfather"), while cinematographers chose 2001: A Space Odyssey and entertainment lawyers, the big softies, picked The Shawshank Redemption.
Whether
you agree with their choices or not, there's lots to enjoy on these pages, from
the reunion photographs to the whereabouts of famous props to THR critic
Todd McCarthy's own
assessment of Hollywood's top pick. But keep in mind, movie lists
aren't forever. As Michael Bay points out, "Your favorite film
could change every day."
Read the
list here, and find related
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