Recently, Sight and Sound magazine took a poll of filmmakers, asking them what they thought were the greatest films of all time. They polled over 350 directors with the Ozu film Tokyo Story taking the #1 spot (based on an average). Below, you will find 5 of the biggest participating filmmakers’ lists.

Woody Allen

• “Bicycle Thieves” (1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
• “The Seventh Seal” (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
• “Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
• “Amarcord” (1973, dir. Federico Fellini)
• “8 1/2″ (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
• “The 400 Blows” (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut)
• “Rashomon” (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
• “La Grande Illusion” (1937, dir. Jean Renoir)
• “The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie” (1972, dir. Luis Bunuel)
• “Paths Of Glory” (1957, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Francis Ford Coppola

• “Ashes And Diamonds” (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
• “The Best Years Of Our Lives” (1946, dir William Wyler)
• “I Vitteloni” (1953, dir. Federico Fellini)
• “The Bad Sleep Well (1960, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
• “Yojimbo” (1961, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
• “Singin’ In The Rain (1952, dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
• “The King Of Comedy” (1983, dir Martin Scorsese)
• “Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
• “The Apartment” (1960s, dir. Billy Wilder)
• “Sunrise” (1927, dir. F.W. Murnau)

Michael Mann

• “Apocalypse Now” (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
• “Battleship Potemkin” (1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
• “Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
• “Avatar” (2009, dir. James Cameron)
• “Dr. Strangelove” (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
• “Biutiful” (2010, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
• “My Darling Clementine” (1946, dir. John Ford)
• “The Passion Of Joan Of Arc” (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
• “Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
• “The Wild Bunch” (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Martin Scorsese

• “8 1/2″ (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
• “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
• “Ashes And Diamonds” (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
• “Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
• “The Leopard” (1963, dir. Luchino Visconti)
• “Paisan” (1946, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
• “The Red Shoes” (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
• “The River” (1951, dir. Jean Renoir)
• “Salvatore Giuliano” (1962, dir. Francesco Rosi)
• “The Searchers” (1956, dir. John Ford)
• “Ugetsu Monogatari” (1953, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
• “Vertigo” (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Quentin Tarantino

• “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” (1966, dir. Sergio Leone)
• “Apocalypse Now” (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
• “The Bad News Bears” (1976, dir. Michael Ritchie)
• “Carrie” (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
• “Dazed And Confused” (1993, dir. Richard Linklater)
• “The Great Escape” (1963, dir. John Sturges)
• “His Girl Friday” (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
• “Jaws” (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
• “Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
• “Rolling Thunder” (1977, dir. John Flynn)
• “Sorcerer” (1977, dir. William Friedkin)
• “Taxi Driver” (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)

As with any list, some of the choices are debatable. The Bad News Bears? Avatar? What do you think?