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WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays

From the WGA website: "101 Greatest Screenplays compiles the finest achievements in film writing, as voted upon by professional film and television writers…. Any film, past or present, English-language or otherwise, was eligible. The resulting list is like a travelogue of the greatest films of the century, with all decades from the 1930s on represented among the rankings."

(found at: http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1807)

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1. Casablanca
by Michael Curtiz
 
2. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
 
3. Chinatown  
4. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
 
5. All About Eve
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
 
6. Annie Hall  
7. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
 
8. Network
by Sidney Lumet
 
9. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)  
10. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
 
11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
by George Roy Hill
 
12. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
 
13. The Graduate (Special Edition)
by Mike Nichols
 
14. Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)  
15. The Apartment  
16. Pulp Fiction  
17. Tootsie  
18. On the Waterfront (Special Edition)  
19. To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)
by Robert Mulligan
 
20. It's a Wonderful Life
by Frank Capra
 
21. North by Northwest  
22. The Shawshank Redemption
by Frank Darabont
 
23. Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by George Cukor
 
24. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
by Michel Gondry
 
25. The Wizard of Oz
by Victor Fleming
 
26. Double Indemnity
by Billy Wilder
 
27. Groundhog Day (Special Edition)  
28. Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
by John Madden
 
29. Sullivan's Travels
by Preston Sturges
 
30. Unforgiven (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
31. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
 
32. Fargo
by Joel Coen
 
33. The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection  
34. Sweet Smell of Success
by Alexander Mackendrick
 
35. The Usual Suspects
by Bryan Singer
 
36. Midnight Cowboy
by John Schlesinger
 
37. The Philadelphia Story
by George Cukor
 
38. American Beauty
by Sam Mendes
 
39. The Sting (Universal Legacy Series)
by George Roy Hill
 
40. When Harry Met Sally...  
41. GoodFellas
by Martin Scorsese
 
42. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Widescreen Edition)  
43. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)  
44. The Best Years of Our Lives
by William Wyler
 
45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Milos Forman
 
46. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by John Huston
 
47. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
 
48. The Bridge on the River Kwai
by David Lean
 
49. Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
 
50. The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)  
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Created by Chris Nolan.ca on Apr 07, 2006.