Every ten years, Sight & Sound conducts a poll for the greatest films of all time. For the 2012 edition, 846 top tens were contributed by critics, programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other cinephiles from 73 countries for the Sight & Sound Critic Top 250 list. Also 358 directors contributed their top tens for the Sight & Sound Director Top 100 list.
For this list, I am including every movie that received a vote in either poll, whether it made the Sight & Sound Critic Top 250 or Director Top 100 or not. The order of this list is the combined number of votes between both polls (so the order is a little different).
I put the number of votes each movie received in…
Every ten years, Sight & Sound conducts a poll for the greatest films of all time. For the 2012 edition, 846 top tens were contributed by critics, programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other cinephiles from 73 countries for the Sight & Sound Critic Top 250 list. Also 358 directors contributed their top tens for the Sight & Sound Director Top 100 list.
For this list, I am including every movie that received a vote in either poll, whether it made the Sight & Sound Critic Top 250 or Director Top 100 or not. The order of this list is the combined number of votes between both polls (so the order is a little different).
I put the number of votes each movie received in the notes if it received more than 15 votes. The movies in the following number range received these number of votes:
15: 159-174
14: 175-186
13: 187-199
12: 200-221
11: 222-236
10: 237-264
9: 265-296
8: 297-323
7: 324-368
6: 369-417
5: 418-489
4: 490-612
3: 613-806
2: 807-1,175
1: 1,176-2,542
I added a bunch of films to Letterboxd for this list, but I did not add the following films since they didn't have an IMDb page either (or are a TV show like in the case of The Wire):
The Wire - Creator David Simon - 2002-2008 (2 votes)
Bresson's entire oeuvre - Dir. Robert Bresson - 1933-1983 (1 vote)
Downfall Reworked for YouTube - Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel - 2006-present (1 vote)
Films of Nathaniel Dorsky - Dir. Nathaniel Dorsky - 1963-present (1 vote)
Fox News Outtakes 4-399/400 NYC Street Scenes and Noises - Anonymous (1 vote)
The Present - Dir. Eija-Liisa Ahtila - 2001 (1 vote)
Reel Time - Dir. Annabel Nicolson - 1973 (1 vote)
Review 36th Year No.5 - Uncredited - 1983 (1 vote)
Über uns der Dom - Dir. Rudolf Bamberger - 1934 (1 vote)