National Polls
Argentina
Main article: The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema
Prisioneros de la tierra was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in two polls carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken in 1977 and 1984.[91]
Crónica de un niño solo (1965) was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken in 2000.[91]
La Ciénaga (2001) was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a 2022 poll organized by film magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema— inspired by the previous lists by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken—which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[92][93]
Australia
See also: Cinema of Australia
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) was voted the best Australian film of all time by members of the Australian Film Institute, industry guilds and unions, film critics and reviewers, academics and media teachers, and Kookaburra Card members of the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), in a 1996 poll organized by the Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee and the NFSA.[94]
The Castle (1997) was selected by the public as Australia's favourite film in a 2008 online poll conducted by the Australian Film Institute, in collaboration with Australia Post.[95] The Adelaide film festival ran a public vote, that again voted it as the greatest Australian film ever in 2018.[96]
Bangladesh
See also: Cinema of Bangladesh
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973) topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the British Film Institute in 2002.[97]
Bosnia and Herzegovina
See also: List of Bosnia and Herzegovina films
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) was voted the best Bosnian film of all time in a 2003 poll of 13 film professionals organized by The National Film Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[98]
Brazil
See also: Cinema of Brazil
Limite (1931) is ranked number 1 on the Brazilian Film Critics Association's list of the top 100 Brazilian films, voted by its 100 members in 2015.[99]
Black God, White Devil (1964) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 2001 poll of 108 critics and film professionals organized by Brazilian film magazine Contracampo.[100]
The Red Light Bandit (1968) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 2011 poll of 102 critics, researchers, and professionals organized by Brazilian film magazine Filme Cultura.[101][102]
Bulgaria
See also: Lists of Bulgarian films
Time of Violence (1988) – voted as the best Bulgarian movie of all times in an audience poll, organized by the Bulgarian National Television.[103]
Canada
See also: Cinema of Canada
Mon oncle Antoine (1971) was named first in the Toronto International Film Festival's Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time in 1984, 1993 and 2004.[104]
The Sweet Hereafter (1997) was voted the best Canadian film by readers of Playback in 2002 in an online poll. More than 500 industry respondents participated in the poll.[105]
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) was voted the best Canadian film of all time with 94 votes in a 2015 poll of 220 filmmakers, critics, programmers, and academics organized by the Toronto International Film Festival, dethroning Mon oncle Antoine which won the previous three polls.[106]
Chile
See also: Cinema of Chile
Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969) was voted the best Chilean film of all time with 57 votes in a 2016 poll of 77 directors, actors, programmers, scholars, journalists, and critics organized by CineChile.[107]
Julio comienza en julio (1979) was chosen in 1999 as the "Best Chilean Film of the Century" in a vote organized by the Municipality of Santiago.[108]
China
See also: Cinema of China
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春; 1948) was ranked number 1 on the Hong Kong Film Awards Association's Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures list in 2005.[109] It was also voted the best Chinese film of all time with 25 votes in a 2010 poll of 37 critics organized by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.[110]
Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬; 1993) was voted the best Mainland Chinese film of all time by 88 international film experts in a poll conducted by Time Out Shanghai and Time Out Beijing.[111]
Colombia
See also: Cinema of Colombia
The Strategy of the Snail (1993) was voted the best Colombian film of all time with 38 votes in a 2015 poll of 65 critics and journalists organized by Colombian magazine Semana.[112]
Croatia
See also: Cinema of Croatia
Tko pjeva zlo ne misli (One Who Sings Means No Harm, 1970) was voted the best Croatian film of all time by 44 Croatian film critics in 1999, in a poll organized by the Croatian magazine Hollywood. It was also voted the best Croatian film by Hollywood's readers.[113]
H-8 (1958) was voted the best Croatian feature film of all time by 38 Croatian film critics and scholars in a 2020 poll.[114]
Cuba
See also: Cinema of Cuba
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) was voted the best Latin American film of all time with 30 votes in a 1999 poll of 36 critics and film specialists from 11 countries organized by critics Carlos Galiano and Rufo Caballero.[115] It was also voted the best Ibero-American film of all time in a 2009 poll of more than 500 film professionals, critics, journalists, festival organizers, and fans around the world organized by Spanish magazine Noticine.[116]
Czech Republic
See also: Cinema of the Czech Republic and List of Czech films considered the best
Christian (1939) was voted best Czech film of all time in a poll held by Media Desk and Týden magazine in 2010.[117]
Marketa Lazarova (1967) was voted the best Czech film of all time by Czech journalists during the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1994.[118][119][120][121] It also topped 1998 poll of Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists during the 1998 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[122]
The Firemen's Ball (1967) was voted the best Czech film in a 2018 poll of 20 Czech historians, theorists and critics.[123]
The Cremator (1969) was voted the best Czech film by public in a 2018 poll, Kánon 100.[124][125]
Cosy Dens (1999) was voted the best Czech film with 622 votes in a readers' poll by Reflex magazine in 2011.[126]
See also Czechoslovakia, below.
Czechoslovakia
See also Czech Republic, and Slovakia below.
Marketa Lazarova (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time in a 1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists, receiving 41 votes.[127]
The Firemen's Ball (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time with 33 votes in a 2007 poll of 53 experts (mostly from the Czech Republic, but also from Slovakia and Poland) titled "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie".[128]
The Elementary School (1991) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film with 192 votes in a 2007 public poll of "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie".[128]
Denmark
Blinkende lygter (Flickering Lights, 2000) was voted best movie in Denmark by interviewing over 1500 people, reported by the analysis institute YouGov on behalf of the streamingservice Nordic Film+.[129]
Egypt
See also: Cinema of Egypt
The Night of Counting the Years (1969) was voted the best Arab film of all time (i.e. the best film made in an Arab country) in a 2013 poll of 475 film critics, writers, novelists, academics, and other arts professionals organized by the Dubai International Film Festival.[130][131]
Estonia
See also: Cinema of Estonia
Kevade (Spring, 1969) received first place in the Estonian feature films Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian film critics and journalists.[132]
Autumn Ball (2007) was voted the best Estonian film of all time with 29 votes in a 2011 poll of 33 film writers and film scholars organized by the Estonian Association of Film Journalists.[133]
Finland
See also: Cinema of Finland
The Unknown Soldier (1955) was voted the best Finnish movie by 1213 respondents in an Internet poll by Helsingin Sanomat in 2007.[134]
Inspector Palmu's Mistake (1960) was chosen as the best Finnish fictional movie of all time in a poll of 48 critics by Yle in 2012.[135]
France
See also: Cinema of France
The Rules of the Game (1939) was voted the best French film of all time with 15 votes in a 2012 poll of 85 film professionals conducted by Time Out Paris.[136] It was voted the best European film of all time with 56 votes (tied with the German film Nosferatu) in a 1994 poll of 70 critics and film historians organized by Cinemateca Portuguesa.[137]
Georgia
See also: Cinema of Georgia
Eliso (1928) was voted the best Georgian film of all time in a critic poll organized by Tbilisi Intermedia.[138]
Germany
See also: Cinema of Germany
Nosferatu (1922) was voted the best European film of all time with 56 votes (tied with the French film The Rules of the Game) in a 1994 poll of 70 critics and film historians organized by Cinemateca Portuguesa.[137]
M (1931) was voted the best German film of all time with 306 votes in a 1994 poll of 324 film journalists, film critics, filmmakers, and cineastes organized by the Association of German Cinémathèques [de].[139]
Greece
See also: Cinema of Greece
O Drakos (1956) was voted the best Greek film of all time by members of the Greek Film Critics Association in 2006.[140]
Evdokia (1971) was voted the best Greek film of all time by members of the Greek Film Critics Association in 1986.[140]
Hong Kong
See also: Cinema of Hong Kong
A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色; 1986), filmed and produced in Hong Kong, was voted the second-best Chinese film ever made by the Hong Kong Film Awards Association in 2005.[109]
Days of Being Wild (阿飛正傳; 1990) was voted the best Hong Kong film of all time with 16 votes in a 2010 poll of 37 critics organized by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.[110]
In the Mood for Love (花樣年華; 2000) reached the highest position (number 5 in 2022) of any Hong Kong film on the 2022 Sight & Sound poll's lists of greatest films of all time.[1]
Hungary
See also: Budapest Twelve, Cinema of Hungary, and hu:53 magyar film
The Round-Up (1965) was chosen as the best Hungarian film in a 2000 Hungarian film critics' poll.[141]
Iceland
Children of Nature (1991) was voted the best Icelandic film of all time in a Stockfish poll of 12 film experts.[142]
India
Pather Panchali (1955) was the highest-ranking Indian film on several international polls.
See also: Cinema of India
Pather Panchali (1955) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time in 2002.[143]
Mayabazar (1957) was chosen as the greatest Indian film of all time with 16,960 votes in an online poll conducted by IBN Live in 2013. Voters select from a list of 100 films from different Indian languages, and 70,926 votes were cast.[144][145]
Sholay (1975) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time in 2002.[146]
Bollywood
Mother India (1957) was voted the best Bollywood film of all time with 15 votes in a 2003 poll of 25 directors organized by Indian magazine Outlook.[147]
Sholay (1975) was voted the best Bollywood film of all time with 17 votes in a 2015 poll of 27 Bollywood experts organized by Time Out London.[148]
Iran
See also: Cinema of Iran
The Deer (1974) was voted the best Iranian film of all time with 33 votes in a 2009 poll of 92 critics organized by Iranian film magazine Film,[11] and again in a follow-up poll of 140 critics in 2019.[149]
Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine Picture World poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.[150]
Close-Up (1990) reached the highest position (number 17 in 2022) of Iranian film on the 2022 Sight & Sound poll's lists of greatest films of all time.[1]
Ireland
See also: Cinema of Ireland
The Commitments (1991) was voted the best Irish film of all time in a 2005 Jameson Whiskey online poll of over 10,000 Irish people.[151]
Israel
See also: Cinema of Israel
Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (1976) was voted "Favorite Israeli Film of All Time" in a 2004 poll by Ynet, the platform of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot. The film received votes from 25,000 web users.[152]
Avanti Popolo (1986) was voted "Greatest Israeli Film of All Time" in a 2013 poll of 20 Israeli film experts by NRG Ma'ariv.[153][154]
Italy
See also: Cinema of Italy
8½ (1963) was the highest-ranked Italian film in many international professional polls.
Bicycle Thieves (1948) topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll in 1952.[1]
8½ (1963) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Swedish) sound film with 21 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine Chaplin [sv].[13] It was also ranked number 1 when the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź [pl] asked 279 Polish film professionals (filmmakers, critics, and professors) to vote for the best films in 2015.[14]
Japan
See also: Cinema of Japan
Tokyo Story (1953) topped several international polls, including the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll.
Rashomon (1950) was ranked joint tenth in the 1992 Sight & Sound directors' poll, and joint ninth in 2002.[1]
Tokyo Story (東京物語; 1953) topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll with 48 votes and was number 3 in the critics' poll with 107 votes in 2012.[1] It was also voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 2009 poll of 114 critics and film professionals organized by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo.[15] It was voted the best Asian film of all time in a 2015 poll of 73 film critics, festival executives, programmers, and directors from around the world, organized by the Busan International Film Festival.[155]
Seven Samurai (1954) was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1989 poll of 372 celebrities for a book published by Bungeishunjū.[156] It was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by NHK.[22] It was the greatest foreign-language film in BBC Culture's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries.[8]
Mexico
See also: Cinema of Mexico
Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936) was ranked number 1 Mexican film of all time in a 1994 poll of 25 critics and journalists organized by Mexican magazine Somos.[157]
Los Olvidados (1950) was voted the best Mexican film of all time in a 2020 poll of 27 critics and journalists organized by Sector Cine online magazine.[158]
Netherlands
See also: Cinema of the Netherlands
Turkish Delight (1973) was voted the best Dutch film of the 20th century in a 1999 poll organized by the Netherlands Film Festival.[159]
Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange, 1977) was voted the best Dutch film of all time by nearly 9,000 people in a 2006 online poll organized by the now defunct Dutch website Filmwereld.net.[160]
Zwartboek (Black Book, 2006) was voted the best Dutch film of all time at the 2008 Netherlands Film Festival by nearly 15,000 members of the public.[161]
New Zealand
See also: Cinema of New Zealand
Once Were Warriors (1994) was voted the best New Zealand film of all time in a 2014 online poll organized by Fairfax Media. More than 500 people voted, including about 100 film professionals and 15 critics.[162]
North Korea
See also: Cinema of North Korea
Hong Kil-dong (1986) was voted the "best North Korean film ever" in a 2002 poll of ex-North Koreans living in South Korea, organized by newspaper The Chosun Ilbo.[163]
Norway
See also: Cinema of Norway
Ni Liv (Nine Lives, 1957) was the critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[164]
The Chasers (1959) was voted the best Norwegian film of all time with 23 votes in a 2011 poll of 32 critics and experts organized by Norwegian film magazine Rushprint [no].[165]
Flåklypa Grand Prix (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, 1975) was the people's choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[164]
Pakistan
See also: Cinema of Pakistan
Baji (1963) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.[166]
Aina (1977) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.[167]
Philippines
See also: Cinema of the Philippines
Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Light, 1975) was voted the best Filipino film of all time in a 2013 poll of 81 critics, filmmakers, archivists, and academics organized by Pinoy Rebyu.[168] It was also voted the best Filipino film of all time with 16 votes (tied with Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon) in a 1989 poll of 28 filmmakers and critics, organized by Joel David and his UP film criticism class, and published in Philippine magazine National Midweek. The article also included a list of the most common number-one choices (topped by Manila in the Claws of Light), as well as an alternate version of the top 10 (topped by Manila by Night) which was ordered by average rank.[169]
Himala (Miracle, 1982) won the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards Viewers Choice as "Best Asia-Pacific Film of All Time" (voted for by thousands of film fans around the world).[170]
Poland
See also: Cinema of Poland
The Promised Land (1975) was voted the best Polish film of all time in a 2015 poll of 279 Polish film professionals organized by the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź [pl].[14]
Teddy Bear (1981) was voted by the public of 2013 Filmfest PL as the best movie of all time.[171]
Portugal
See also: Cinema of Portugal
Os Verdes Anos (1963) was voted the best Portuguese film of all time in a 2020 poll of 122 critics and film professionals organized by filmSPOT.[172]
Romania
See also: Cinema of Romania
Reconstituirea (The Reenactment, 1968) was selected as the best Romanian film by 40 film critics in 2008.[173]
Russia
See also: Cinema of Russia
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) was voted the best Russian film of all time with 47 votes in a 2008 poll of 100 filmmakers and critics, organized by Russian film magazine Seance [ru].[174]
Serbia
See also: Cinema of Serbia
Who's Singin' Over There? (1980) was voted by Serbian critics the best Serbian film of all time.[175]
Slovakia
See also: Cinema of Slovakia
Pictures of the Old World (1972) was voted the best Slovak film of all time by Slovak critics in 2000.[176]
See also Czechoslovakia, above.
Slovenia
Dancing in the Rain (1961) was voted the best Slovenian film of all time in a poll by Slovenian critics.[177]
South Korea
See also: Cinema of South Korea
Obaltan (1961) was voted the best South Korean film of all time with 48 votes in a 1999 poll of 140 filmmakers organized by South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo.[178] It was also voted the best South Korean film of all time (tied with The Housemaid and The March of Fools in a 2014 poll of 62 film scholars, critics, film professionals, researchers, and programmers organized by the Korean Film Archive.[179]
Shiri (1999) was voted the favorite film of South Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by South Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.[31]
Memories of Murder (2003) was voted the best South Korean film of all time with 806 votes in a 2014 audience poll of 1462 people organized by the Korean Film Archive.[180]
Burning (2018) was voted the best South Korean film of all time in a 2021 poll of 158 critics from 28 countries organized by Korean Screen.[181]
Soviet Union
Battleship Potemkin (1925) was an early favorite and the top silent film.
See also: Cinema of the Soviet Union
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] It was ranked number 1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.[4]
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) was voted the eighth greatest film ever made in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll.[182]
Mirror (1975) ranked 9th in the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll.[183]
See also Russia, above.
Spain
See also: Cinema of Spain
Viridiana (1961) was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 227 votes in a 2016 poll of 350 experts organized by Spanish film magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.[184]
El verdugo (1963) was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 77 votes in a 1995 poll of 100 critics and film professionals organized by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon [es].[185]
Sri Lanka
See also: Cinema of Sri Lanka
Anantha Rathiriya (1995) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time in 2002.[186]
Pura Handa Kaluwara (1997) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time in 2002.[187]
Sweden
The Phantom Carriage (1921) was voted best Swedish film by critics and academics in FLM's poll.
See also: Cinema of Sweden
The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen, 1921) was voted the best Swedish film of all time with 30 votes in a poll of 50 film critics and academics conducted by film magazine FLM in 2012.[188]
Persona (1966) reached the highest position (number 5 in 1972) of any Swedish film on any of Sight & Sound's lists of greatest films of all time.[1]
Switzerland
See also: Cinema of Switzerland
Alpine Fire (1985) was voted the best Swiss film of all time in 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016, in polls organized by Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung [de]. 31 experts participated in 2011, and 36 experts in 2016.[189]
Taiwan
See also: Cinema of Taiwan
A City of Sadness (悲情城市; 1989) was voted the best Chinese-language film of all time with 73 votes in a 2010 poll of 122 film professionals organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.[190] It was also number 5, the highest ranked Taiwanese film, on the Hong Kong Film Awards' list of the Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, voted by 101 filmmakers, critics, and scholars.[109]
Turkey
See also: Cinema of Turkey
Dry Summer (1963) was voted the best Turkish film released between 1923 and 2013 in a 2014 poll launched by the Turkish Ministry of Tourism.[191]
Umut (1970) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a poll of 100 directors, actors, producers, and film writers organized by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.[192]
Yol (1982) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a 2016 poll of 383 experts organized by Turkish magazine Notos.[193] It was also selected as the best Turkish film in a 2003 poll undertaken by Ankara Sinema Derneği (Ankara Association for Cinema Culture) of people interested in cinema professionally.[194]
Ukraine
See also: Cinema of Ukraine
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) was voted the best Ukrainian film of all time with 30 votes in a 2012 poll of about 100 journalists organized by the Cinema Journalism Bureau of Ukraine and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.[195]
United Kingdom
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted the "best British film of all time" by Great Britain's leading filmmakers.
See also: Cinema of the United Kingdom
The Third Man (1949) was voted the best British film ever by 1000 industry professionals, academics, and critics in a British Film Institute poll conducted in 1999.[196]
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted the "best British film of all time" in August 2004 by over 200 respondents in a Sunday Telegraph poll of Britain's leading filmmakers.[197]
The Italian Job (1969) was voted the best British film in a poll of film fans conducted by Sky Movies HD in 2011 when it received 15% of votes.[198] It also topped a 2017 survey by Vue Entertainment.[199]
Get Carter (1971) was voted the best British film ever in a 2003 poll by Hotdog magazine.[200] It also topped the 2004 poll of 25 film critics conducted by Total Film.[201]
Don't Look Now (1973) was named the best British film in a poll of 150 film industry experts conducted by Time Out London in 2011.[202]
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) was voted the best British picture of all time by 7,000 film fans in a 2004 poll by the UK arm of Amazon and Internet Movie Database.[203]
United States
Gone with the Wind (1939) has topped several US audience polls.
See also: Cinema of the United States
Gone with the Wind (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults undertaken by Harris Interactive in 2008,[20] and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014.[21] It was also voted the best American film of all time by 35,000 members of the American Film Institute in 1977.[204] It was picked in 2011 as the best film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, an online poll in which over 500,000 votes were cast. Voters chose from a list of 10 English-language films selected by film industry experts.[205]
Citizen Kane (1941) was selected as the greatest American film in 2015 by sixty-two international film critics surveyed by the BBC.[206] It was also ranked top in every Sight & Sound critics' poll between 1962 and 2002, and the directors' poll in 1992 and 2002.[1] The American Film Institute polled 1,500 film community leaders for the lists 100 Years...100 Movies and the 10th Anniversary Edition in 1998 and 2007 respectively, asking voters to choose from a list of 400 nominations. Both polls identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever.[207][208] It was voted the best American film of all time with 156 votes in a 1977 poll of 203 experts from 22 countries (116 Americans and 87 non-Americans). The poll was organized by the Royal Belgian Film Archive and titled "The most important and misappreciated American films", and they were looking for subjective choices.[209]
Casablanca (1942) was voted the greatest American film by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997.[210]
Vertigo (1958) topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes.[1]
The Godfather (1972) was selected as the greatest film by 2,120 industry professionals in a Hollywood survey undertaken by The Hollywood Reporter in 2014.[16]
Uruguay
See also: Cinema of Uruguay
Whisky (2004) was voted the best Uruguayan film of all time by 22 members of the Uruguayan Film Critics Association in 2015.[211]
Venezuela
See also: Cinema of Venezuela
El Pez que Fuma (1977) was voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 22 votes in a 1987 poll of 29 experts organized by Imagen magazine.[212] It was also voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 33 votes in a 2016 poll of 41 experts organized by the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional.[212