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

  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. 11.
    Cocoon

  10. 12.
    Contact (Snap Case)

  11. 13.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise

  12. 14.
    Destination Moon
    by Irving Pichel

  13. 15.
    E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  14. 16.
    Escape from New York

  15. 17.
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition)
    by Michel Gondry

  16. 18.
    Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition)
    by Richard Fleischer

  17. 19.

  18. 20.
    Forbidden Planet

  19. 21.
    Frankenstein
    by James Whale

  20. 22.
    The Incredible Shrinking Man
    by Jack Arnold

  21. 24.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel

  22. 25.
    The Invisible Man

  23. 26.
    It Came From Outer Space

  24. 28.
    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
    by George Miller

  25. 29.
    The Matrix

  26. 30.
    Men in Black (Deluxe Edition)
    by Barry Sonnenfeld

  27. 31.
    Minority Report (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  28. 32.
    Planet of the Apes (Widescreen 35th Anniversary Edition)
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

  29. 33.
    Repo Man (Collector's Edition)
    by Alex Cox

  30. 34.
    Robocop
    by Paul Verhoeven

  31. 35.
    Rollerball

  32. 36.
    Silent Running
    by Douglas Trumbull

  33. 37.
    Soylent Green

  34. 39.
    Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Lucas

  35. 40.
    Starman (Full Screen Edition)

  36. 41.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Bryan Forbes

  37. 43.
    Them! (Snapcase Packaging)
    by Gordon Douglas

  38. 44.
    The Thing from Another World
    by Christian Nyby

  39. 45.
    The Time Machine
    by George Pal

  40. 46.
    Total Recall
    by Paul Verhoeven

  41. 47.
    Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Meyer Burnett

  42. 48.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Stanley Kubrick

  43. 49.
    The War of the Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Byron Haskin

  44. 50.
    Westworld
    by Michael Crichton

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