Editing Sight and Sound (section)

====2012====
[[File:Vertigo 1958 trailer Kim Novak at Golden Gate Bridge Fort Point.jpg|thumb|''Vertigo'' (1958), the #1 film according to ''Sight & Sound'' in 2012]] 
{{Main|The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012}}

A new rule was imposed for this ballot: related films that are considered part of a larger whole (e.g. ''The Godfather'' and ''The Godfather Part II'', [[Krzysztof Kieślowski]]'s ''[[Three Colors trilogy]]'' and ''[[Dekalog]]'', or [[Satyajit Ray]]'s ''[[The Apu Trilogy]]'') were to be treated as separate films for voting purposes.<ref name="how2012pollmade">{{cite web |title=How we made the Greatest Films of All Time poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/introduction |date=8 June 2021|first=Nick |last=James|website=Sight & Sound |publisher=BFI}}</ref>
<ol>
<li value="1">''Vertigo'' (191 mentions) 
<li value="2">''Citizen Kane'' (157 mentions)
<li value="3">''Tokyo Story'' (107 mentions)
<li value="4">''The Rules of the Game'' (100 mentions)
<li value="5">''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (93 mentions) 
<li value="6">''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (90 mentions)
<li value="7">''The Searchers'' (78 mentions)
<li value="8">''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' (68 mentions)
<li value="9">''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' (65 mentions)
<li value="10">''8½'' (64 mentions)
</ol>
Closest runner-up: ''Battleship Potemkin''. (63 mentions)<ref>{{cite news |title= The 100 Greatest Films of All Time |work=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time |date=28 June 2021|access-date=23 March 2020}}</ref>