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Babak Payami’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

  1. 1

    Citizen Kane

    Orson Welles · 1941

  2. 2

    Seven Samurai

    Akira Kurosawa · 1954

  3. 3

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Stanley Kubrick · 1968

  4. 4

    Last Year at Marienbad

    Alain Resnais · 1961

  5. 5

    Blow-Up

    Michelangelo Antonioni · 1966

  6. 6

    Nashville

    Robert Altman · 1975

  7. 7

    8½

    Federico Fellini · 1963

  8. 8

    Water, Wind, Sand

    Amir Naderi · 1989

  9. 9

    Leviathan

    Andrey Zvyagintsev · 2014

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Ten films selected by Babak Payami for Sight and Sound’s 2022 directors’ poll of the Greatest Films of All Time.

Films appear in the order BFI lists them on the ballot page; the ballot does not rank them.

Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters/babak-payami

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. Seven Samurai (1954)
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  4. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
  5. Blow-Up (1966)
  6. Nashville (1975)
  7. 8½ (1963)
  8. Water, Wind, Sand (1989)
  9. Leviathan (2014)
  10. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)