Editing Sight and Sound (section)

===Critics' Top Ten Poll===

====1952====
<ol>
<li value="1">''[[Bicycle Thieves]]'' (25 mentions)</li>
<li value="2">''[[City Lights]]'' and ''[[The Gold Rush]]'' (19 mentions)</li>
<li value="4">''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'' (16 mentions)</li>
<li value="5">''[[Intolerance (film)|Intolerance]]'' and ''[[Louisiana Story]]'' (12 mentions)</li>
<li value="7">''[[Greed (1924 film)|Greed]]'', ''[[The Passion of Joan of Arc]]'' and ''[[Le Jour Se Lève]]'' (11 mentions)</li> 
<li value="10">''[[Le Million]]'', ''[[The Rules of the Game]]'' and ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' (10 mentions)</li>  
</ol>
Closest runners-up: ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', ''[[La Grande Illusion]]'', and ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (film)|The Grapes of Wrath]]''. (9 mentions apiece)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1952|title=The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1952|website=BFI|date=22 February 2022 }}</ref>

====1962====
[[File:Citizen-Kane-Welles-Podium.jpg|thumb|''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941)]]
<ol>
<li value="1">''Citizen Kane'' (22 mentions)</li>
<li value="2">''[[L'Avventura]]'' (20 mentions)</li>
<li value="3">''The Rules of the Game'' (19 mentions)</li>
<li value="4">''Greed'' and ''[[Ugetsu]]'' (17 mentions)</li>
<li value="6">''Battleship Potemkin'', ''[[Ivan the Terrible (1944 film)|Ivan the Terrible]]'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (16 mentions)</li>
<li value="9">''[[La Terra Trema]]'' (14 mentions)</li>
<li value="10">''[[L'Atalante]]'' (13 mentions)</li>
</ol>
Closest runners-up: ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', {{Lang|bn-latn|[[Pather Panchali]]}} and ''[[Zero for Conduct]]''. (11 mentions apiece)

The number of silent films on the list dropped from six to two.<ref name=62poll/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1962|title=The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1962|website=BFI|date=17 June 2021 }}</ref> Films directed by [[Sergei Eisenstein]] received the most votes with 46, followed by [[Charles Chaplin]] with 43 and [[Jean Renoir]] with 35.<ref name=62poll>{{cite magazine |date=Winter 1961–1962 |title=Top/Ten |magazine=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |volume=31 |issue=1 |page=10|url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1962_01_BFI_GB/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater|access-date=3 December 2022|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>

====1972====
<ol>
<li value="1">''Citizen Kane'' (32 mentions)
<li value="2">''The Rules of the Game'' (28 mentions)
<li value="3">''Battleship Potemkin'' (16 mentions)
<li value="4">''[[8½]]'' (15 mentions)
<li value="5">''L'Avventura'' and ''[[Persona (1966 film)|Persona]]'' (12 mentions)
<li value="7">''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' (11 mentions)
<li value="8">''[[The General (1927 film)|The General]]'' and ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons (film)|The Magnificent Ambersons]]'' (10 mentions)
<li value="10">''Ugetsu'' and [[Wild Strawberries (film)|''Wild Strawberries'']] (9 mentions)
</ol>
Closest runners-up: ''The Gold Rush'', ''Hiroshima mon amour'', ''[[Ikiru]]'', ''Ivan the Terrible'', ''[[Pierrot le Fou]]'', and ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]''. (8 mentions apiece)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1972|title=The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1972|website=BFI|date=17 June 2021 }}</ref>

Films directed by [[Orson Welles]] received the most votes with 46 votes followed by [[Jean Renoir]] with 41 and [[Ingmar Bergman]] with 37.<ref name=72poll>{{cite magazine |date=Winter 1971–1972 |title=Top Ten 72 |magazine=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=12–13|url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1972_01_BFI_GB/page/n21/mode/2up?view=theater|access-date=9 December 2022|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>

====1982====
<ol>
<li value="1">''Citizen Kane'' (45 mentions)
<li value="2">''The Rules of the Game'' (31 mentions)
<li value="3">''[[Seven Samurai]]'' and ''[[Singin' in the Rain]]'' (15 mentions)
<li value="5">''8½'' (14 mentions)
<li value="6">''Battleship Potemkin'' (13 mentions)
<li value="7">''L'Avventura'', ''The Magnificent Ambersons'', and ''Vertigo'' (12 mentions)
<li value="10">''The General'' and ''[[The Searchers (film)|The Searchers]]'' (11 mentions)
</ol>
Closest runners-up: ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Andrei Rublev (film)|Andrei Rublev]]''. (10 mentions apiece)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1982|title=The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1982|website=BFI|date=17 June 2021 }}</ref>

====1992====
<ol>
<li value="1">''Citizen Kane'' (43 mentions)
<li value="2">''The Rules of the Game'' (32 mentions)
<li value="3">''[[Tokyo Story]]'' (22 mentions)
<li value="4">''Vertigo'' (18 mentions)
<li value="5">''The Searchers'' (17 mentions)
<li value="6">''Battleship Potemkin'', ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'', ''L'Atalante'' and {{Lang|bn-latn|[[Pather Panchali (film)|Pather Panchali]]}} (15 mentions)
<li value="10">''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (14 mentions)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/vhsvault_Film_92_-_Sight_and_Sound_survey-dZ4irS_x|title=Film 92 – Sight and Sound survey-dZ4irS x|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
</ol>
Closest runners-up: ''Bicycle Thieves'' and ''Singin' in the Rain''. (10 mentions apiece)<ref name=1992Poll>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1992|title=The Greatest Films of All Time… in 1992|website=BFI|date=17 June 2021 }}</ref>

====2002====
<ol>
<li value="1">''Citizen Kane'' (46 mentions)
<li value="2">''Vertigo'' (41 mentions)
<li value="3">''The Rules of the Game'' (30 mentions)
<li value="4">''[[The Godfather]]'' and ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (23 mentions)
<li value="5">''Tokyo Story'' (22 mentions)
<li value="6">''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (21 mentions)
<li value="7">''Battleship Potemkin'' and ''[[Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans]]'' (19 mentions)
<li value="9">''8½'' (18 mentions)
<li value="10">''Singin' in the Rain'' (17 mentions)
</ol>
Closest runners-up: ''Seven Samurai'' and ''The Searchers''. (15 mentions apiece)<ref name=2002Poll>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/2002|title=The Greatest Films of All Time… in 2002|website=BFI|date=17 May 2021 }}</ref>

====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>

====2022====
{{Main|The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022}}
The participants in this poll nearly doubled to 1,639. [[Chantal Akerman]] became the first woman director to top the poll with her 1975 film ''[[Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles]]''. The poll reflected greater diversity than previously, with films by black filmmakers increasing from one in 2012 to seven in 2022, and from two to eleven, by female filmmakers.<ref name="2022poll"/>

[[Stanley Kubrick]]'s ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' topped the directors' poll, in which 480 directors took part.<ref name="2022poll">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/01/chantal-akerman-becomes-first-woman-to-top-bfis-greatest-all-time-films-poll|title=Chantal Akerman first woman to top Sight and Sound's greatest all-time films poll|newspaper=Guardian|date=December 2022 |accessdate=2 December 2022|last1=Khomami |first1=Nadia |author-link=Nadia Khomami }}</ref>
<ol>
<li value="1">''[[Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles]]'' (215 votes)
<li value="2">''Vertigo'' (208 votes)
<li value="3">''Citizen Kane'' (163 votes)
<li value="4">''Tokyo Story'' (144 votes) 
<li value="5">''[[In the Mood for Love]]'' (141 votes)
<li value="6">''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (130 votes)
<li value="7">''[[Beau Travail]]'' (106  votes)
<li value="8">''[[Mulholland Drive (film)|Mulholland Drive]]'' (105 votes)
<li value="9">''Man with a Movie Camera'' (100 votes)
<li value="10">''Singin' in the Rain'' (99 votes)
</ol>
Closest runner-up: ''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans''