Alexander Payne’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)
- 1

Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa · 1954
- 2

8½
Federico Fellini · 1963
- 3

Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder · 1950
- 4

L'Avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni · 1960
- 5

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sergio Leone · 1966
- 6

Viridiana
Juan Luis Buñuel · 1961
- 7

Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola · 1979
- 8

Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica · 1948
- 9

Citizen Kane
Orson Welles · 1941
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Nine films selected by Alexander Payne 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/alexander-payne
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