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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funny movies in American cinema. A wide variety of comedies, totalling 500 films, were nominated for the distinction; genres included slapstick, action comedy, screwball comedy, romantic comedy, satire, black comedy, musical comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of errors.
The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 American Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list American films ...
AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs; Lists of comedies; List of comedy television series. ... Time Out London 100 best comedy movies; Best Comedy Movies – FilmSchoolWTF
AFI asked jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process: Feature length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes long.; American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production from the United States.
2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers — most inspiring American films of all time Films in this list "inspire" viewers, encourage people "to make a difference", and leave audiences "with a greater sense of possibility and hope for the future." [10] 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals — the 25 greatest American musical films of all time
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Blazing Saddles (1974) was voted the funniest movie of all time in a 2014 readers' poll by American magazine Rolling Stone. [52] Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) was voted the greatest comedy of all time in a poll of over 22,000 people conducted by the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006. [53]
Time's All-Time 100 Movies is a list compiled by Time magazine of the 100 "greatest" films that were released between March 3, 1923—when the first issue of Time was published—and early 2005, when the list was compiled. [1]