Sight and Sound 2012 Poll
Every ten years, Sight and Sound magazine polls the world's film critics to ascertain what films they think are the greatest of all time. From 1962 onwards, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was voted the greatest of them all. In 2012, Kane was finally dethroned by Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The canonization of both of these films and their directors by film critics since the 1950s is an indication of the continuing influence of the auteur theory expounded by the French critics of Cahiers du Cinema.
Sight and Sound Director's Top 10
Sight and Sound also poll a large selection of the world's film director's to see which films most excite and inspire filmmakers. This polls shows some interesting similarities but more importantly it speaks to an elite group of filmmakers who continue to inspire their fellow artists, Ozu, Kubrick, Scorsese, Welles, Hitchcock, Fellini, Coppola, Tarkovsky and De Sica.
