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The 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century is a list compiled in August 2016 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), chosen by a voting poll of 177 film critics from around the world. [ 1 ] It was compiled by collating the top ten films submitted by the critics who were asked to list the best films released since the year 2000 .
Seven Samurai (1954) topped the BBC poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.. Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. [3]
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
The "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time" is a list published every ten years by Sight and Sound according to worldwide opinion polls they conduct. They published the critics' list, based on 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics, and the directors' list, based on 480 directors and filmmakers.
The following is a list of the highest-grossing opening weekends for films. The list is dominated by recent films due to inflation , steadily increasing production and marketing budgets, and modern films opening on more screens.
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Films on the list span a period of 80 years, starting with Sherlock Jr. (1924) directed by Buster Keaton, and finishing with Finding Nemo (2003) directed by Andrew Stanton. Of the 33 films in the list that were released before 1950, only 6 were produced outside Hollywood, and 13 of those 27 American films were directed by men born abroad: [4]
But best of all is Kananga’s death scene—a wonderfully cartoony, Tex Avery–style demise in which he explodes after being force-fed a shark-gun pellet! 14. You Only Live Twice (1967)