AFI's "10 Greatest Sci-Fi Films: The 50 Nominees"

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The American Film Institute’s official 50 nominees for the Top 10 Science Fiction Films of All-Time (to be announced June 17, 2008)

"AFI defines “science fiction” as a genre that marries a scientific or technological premise with imaginative speculation."

"Whether it’s a flying saucer whirling through space or a gleaming city on a distant planet, at the core of all science fiction is the provocative question, “What if…?” Science fiction presents stories and situations that tap our brightest hopes and darkest fears about what might, one day, turn out to be true."

Check out all the entries from "AFI’s Top 10" here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55322/tagged_as?name=afi+top+10

In alphabetical order.

  1. 2.
    Alien
    by Ridley Scott

  2. 3.
    Altered States

  3. 4.
    The Andromeda Strain
    by Robert Wise

  4. 5.
    Back to the Future

  5. 6.
    The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
    by Eugène Lourié

  6. 7.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

  7. 8.
    Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
    by Alfonso Cuarón

  8. 9.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

  9. 10.

  10. 11.
    Cocoon
    by Ron Howard

  11. 12.
    Contact (Snap Case)

  12. 13.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise

  13. 14.
    Destination Moon
    by Irving Pichel

  14. 15.
    E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  15. 16.
    Escape from New York
    by John Carpenter

  16. 17.
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
    by Michel Gondry

  17. 18.
    Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition)
    by Richard Fleischer

  18. 19.

  19. 20.
    Forbidden Planet
    by Fred M. Wilcox

  20. 21.
    Frankenstein
    by James Whale

  21. 22.
    The Incredible Shrinking Man
    by Jack Arnold

  22. 24.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel

  23. 25.
    The Invisible Man
    by James Whale

  24. 26.
    It Came from Outer Space
    by Jack Arnold

  25. 28.
    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
    by George Miller

  26. 29.
    The Matrix
    by Andy Wachowski

  27. 30.
    Men in Black (Deluxe Edition)
    by Barry Sonnenfeld

  28. 31.
    Minority Report (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  29. 32.
    Planet of the Apes (Widescreen 35th Anniversary Edition)
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

  30. 33.
    Repo Man (Collector's Edition)
    by Alex Cox

  31. 34.
    Robocop
    by Paul Verhoeven

  32. 35.
    Rollerball
    by Norman Jewison

  33. 36.
    Silent Running
    by Douglas Trumbull

  34. 37.
    Soylent Green
    by Richard Fleischer

  35. 39.
    Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Lucas

  36. 40.
    Starman (Full Screen Edition)

  37. 41.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Bryan Forbes

  38. 42.
    Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (The Ultimate Edition DVD)
    by James Cameron

  39. 43.
    Them! (Snapcase Packaging)
    by Gordon Douglas

  40. 44.
    The Thing from Another World
    by Christian Nyby

  41. 45.
    The Time Machine
    by George Pal

  42. 46.
    Total Recall
    by Paul Verhoeven

  43. 47.
    Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Meyer Burnett

  44. 48.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Stanley Kubrick

  45. 49.
    The War of the Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Byron Haskin

  46. 50.
    Westworld
    by Michael Crichton

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