AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions
| 1998 | 100 Movies |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 100 Stars |
| 2000 | 100 Laughs |
| 2001 | 100 Thrills |
| 2002 | 100 Passions |
| 2003 | 100 Heroes & Villains |
| 2004 | 100 Songs |
| 2005 | 100 Movie Quotes |
| 2005 | 25 Scores |
| 2006 | 100 Cheers |
| 2006 | 25 Musicals |
| 2007 | 100 Movies (Updated) |
| 2008 | AFI's 10 Top 10 |
Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions is a list of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 11, 2002, in a CBS television special hosted by American film and TV actress Candice Bergen.
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn are tied for the most films in the list, with six each. They co-starred in two of them - Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story. Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart each have five movies on the list. They co-starred in Sabrina.
Contents
1 The list
2 Criteria
3 References
4 External links
The list
| # | Film | Director | Year | She | He |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | Ingrid Bergman | Humphrey Bogart |
| 2 | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 | Vivien Leigh | Clark Gable |
| 3 | West Side Story | Robert Wise | 1961 | Natalie Wood | Richard Beymer |
| 4 | Roman Holiday | William Wyler | 1953 | Audrey Hepburn | Gregory Peck |
| 5 | An Affair to Remember | Leo McCarey | 1957 | Deborah Kerr | Cary Grant |
| 6 | The Way We Were | Sydney Pollack | 1973 | Barbra Streisand | Robert Redford |
| 7 | Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | 1965 | Julie Christie | Omar Sharif |
| 8 | It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 | Donna Reed | James Stewart |
| 9 | Love Story | Arthur Hiller | 1970 | Ali MacGraw | Ryan O'Neal |
| 10 | City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 | Virginia Cherrill | Charlie Chaplin |
| 11 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1977 | Diane Keaton | Woody Allen |
| 12 | My Fair Lady | George Cukor | 1964 | Audrey Hepburn | Rex Harrison |
| 13 | Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | 1985 | Meryl Streep | Robert Redford |
| 14 | The African Queen | John Huston | 1951 | Katharine Hepburn | Humphrey Bogart |
| 15 | Wuthering Heights | William Wyler | 1939 | Merle Oberon | Laurence Olivier |
| 16 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen | 1952 | Debbie Reynolds | Gene Kelly |
| 17 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | 1987 | Cher | Nicolas Cage |
| 18 | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 | Kim Novak | James Stewart |
| 19 | Ghost | Jerry Zucker | 1990 | Demi Moore | Patrick Swayze |
| 20 | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | 1953 | Deborah Kerr | Burt Lancaster |
| 21 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | 1990 | Julia Roberts | Richard Gere |
| 22 | On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | 1981 | Katharine Hepburn | Henry Fonda |
| 23 | Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | 1942 | Bette Davis | Paul Henreid |
| 24 | King Kong | Merian C. Cooper | 1933 | Fay Wray | Kong |
| 25 | When Harry Met Sally... | Rob Reiner | 1989 | Meg Ryan | Billy Crystal |
| 26 | The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | 1941 | Barbara Stanwyck | Henry Fonda |
| 27 | The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | 1965 | Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer |
| 28 | The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 | Margaret Sullavan | James Stewart |
| 29 | An Officer and a Gentleman | Taylor Hackford | 1982 | Debra Winger | Richard Gere |
| 30 | Swing Time | George Stevens | 1936 | Ginger Rogers | Fred Astaire |
| 31 | The King and I | Walter Lang | 1956 | Deborah Kerr | Yul Brynner |
| 32 | Dark Victory | Edmund Goulding | 1939 | Bette Davis | George Brent |
| 33 | Camille | George Cukor | 1936 | Greta Garbo | Robert Taylor |
| 34 | Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise | 1991 | Paige O'Hara | Robby Benson |
| 35 | Gigi | Vincente Minnelli | 1958 | Leslie Caron | Louis Jourdan |
| 36 | Random Harvest | Mervyn LeRoy | 1942 | Greer Garson | Ronald Colman |
| 37 | Titanic | James Cameron | 1997 | Kate Winslet | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| 38 | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1934 | Claudette Colbert | Clark Gable |
| 39 | An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | 1951 | Leslie Caron | Gene Kelly |
| 40 | Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch | 1939 | Greta Garbo | Melvyn Douglas |
| 41 | Funny Girl | William Wyler | 1968 | Barbra Streisand | Omar Sharif |
| 42 | Anna Karenina | Clarence Brown | 1935 | Greta Garbo | Fredric March |
| 43 | A Star Is Born | George Cukor | 1954 | Judy Garland | James Mason |
| 44 | The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 | Katharine Hepburn | Cary Grant |
| 45 | Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | 1993 | Meg Ryan | Tom Hanks |
| 46 | To Catch a Thief | Alfred Hitchcock | 1955 | Grace Kelly | Cary Grant |
| 47 | Splendor in the Grass | Elia Kazan | 1961 | Natalie Wood | Warren Beatty |
| 48 | Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1973 | Maria Schneider | Marlon Brando |
| 49 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 | Lana Turner | John Garfield |
| 50 | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | 1998 | Gwyneth Paltrow | Joseph Fiennes |
| 51 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 1938 | Katharine Hepburn | Cary Grant |
| 52 | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 1967 | Katharine Ross | Dustin Hoffman |
| 53 | A Place in the Sun | George Stevens | 1951 | Elizabeth Taylor | Montgomery Clift |
| 54 | Sabrina | Billy Wilder | 1954 | Audrey Hepburn | Humphrey Bogart |
| 55 | Reds | Warren Beatty | 1981 | Diane Keaton | Warren Beatty |
| 56 | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | 1996 | Juliette Binoche Kristin Scott Thomas | Naveen Andrews Ralph Fiennes |
| 57 | Two for the Road | Stanley Donen | 1967 | Audrey Hepburn | Albert Finney |
| 58 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer | 1967 | Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton | Spencer Tracy Sidney Poitier |
| 59 | Picnic | Joshua Logan | 1955 | Kim Novak | William Holden |
| 60 | To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | 1944 | Lauren Bacall | Humphrey Bogart |
| 61 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | 1961 | Audrey Hepburn | George Peppard |
| 62 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 | Shirley MacLaine | Jack Lemmon |
| 63 | Sunrise | F.W. Murnau | 1927 | Janet Gaynor Margaret Livingston | George O'Brien |
| 64 | Marty | Delbert Mann | 1955 | Betsy Blair | Ernest Borgnine |
| 65 | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 1967 | Faye Dunaway | Warren Beatty |
| 66 | Manhattan | Woody Allen | 1979 | Diane Keaton | Woody Allen |
| 67 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | 1951 | Vivien Leigh | Marlon Brando |
| 68 | What's Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich | 1972 | Barbra Streisand | Ryan O'Neal |
| 69 | Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby | 1971 | Ruth Gordon | Bud Cort |
| 70 | Sense and Sensibility | Ang Lee | 1995 | Emma Thompson Kate Winslet | Alan Rickman Hugh Grant |
| 71 | Way Down East | D.W. Griffith | 1920 | Lillian Gish | Richard Barthelmess |
| 72 | Roxanne | Fred Schepisi | 1987 | Daryl Hannah | Steve Martin |
| 73 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1947 | Gene Tierney | Rex Harrison |
| 74 | Woman of the Year | George Stevens | 1942 | Katharine Hepburn | Spencer Tracy |
| 75 | The American President | Rob Reiner | 1995 | Annette Bening | Michael Douglas |
| 76 | The Quiet Man | John Ford | 1952 | Maureen O'Hara | John Wayne |
| 77 | The Awful Truth | Leo McCarey | 1937 | Irene Dunne | Cary Grant |
| 78 | Coming Home | Hal Ashby | 1978 | Jane Fonda | Jon Voight |
| 79 | Jezebel | William Wyler | 1938 | Bette Davis | Henry Fonda |
| 80 | The Sheik | George Melford | 1921 | Agnes Ayres | Rudolph Valentino |
| 81 | The Goodbye Girl | Herbert Ross | 1977 | Marsha Mason | Richard Dreyfuss |
| 82 | Witness | Peter Weir | 1985 | Kelly McGillis | Harrison Ford |
| 83 | Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | 1930 | Marlene Dietrich | Gary Cooper |
| 84 | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 | Barbara Stanwyck | Fred MacMurray |
| 85 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Henry King | 1955 | Jennifer Jones | William Holden |
| 86 | Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 | Ingrid Bergman | Cary Grant |
| 87 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | 1988 | Juliette Binoche | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| 88 | The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | 1987 | Robin Wright | Cary Elwes |
| 89 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | 1966 | Elizabeth Taylor Sandy Dennis | Richard Burton George Segal |
| 90 | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | 1995 | Meryl Streep | Clint Eastwood |
| 91 | Working Girl | Mike Nichols | 1988 | Melanie Griffith | Harrison Ford |
| 92 | Porgy and Bess | Otto Preminger | 1959 | Dorothy Dandridge | Sidney Poitier |
| 93 | Dirty Dancing | Emile Ardolino | 1987 | Jennifer Grey | Patrick Swayze |
| 94 | Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | 1981 | Kathleen Turner | William Hurt |
| 95 | Lady and the Tramp | Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske Clyde Geronimi | 1955 | Barbara Luddy | Larry Roberts |
| 96 | Barefoot in the Park | Gene Saks | 1967 | Jane Fonda | Robert Redford |
| 97 | Grease | Randal Kleiser | 1978 | Olivia Newton-John | John Travolta |
| 98 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | William Dieterle | 1939 | Maureen O'Hara | Charles Laughton |
| 99 | Pillow Talk | Michael Gordon | 1959 | Doris Day | Rock Hudson |
| 100 | Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | 1996 | Renée Zellweger | Tom Cruise |
Criteria
- Feature-Length Fiction Film: The film must be in narrative format, typically more than 60 minutes long.
- American Film: The film must be in the English language with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
- Love Story: Regardless of genre, a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film’s narrative.
- Legacy: Films whose "passion" have enriched America’s film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.
References
External links
- AFI's list
