Editing Siskel and Ebert (section)

==Preferences==
===Best films of the year===
As critics, Siskel's first top ten list was in 1969; Ebert's had debuted in 1967. Over the life of their partnership, these were the two critics' #1 selections.<ref name="Innermind.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.innermind.com/misc/s_e_top.htm|title=Siskel and Ebert Top Ten Lists (1969-1998)|website=Innermind.com|access-date=July 11, 2022}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Siskel
! Ebert
|-
| 1969
| colspan="2"|{{center|''[[Z (1969 film)|Z]]''}}
|-
| 1970
| ''[[My Night at Maud's]]
| ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]''
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Claire's Knee]]''
| ''[[The Last Picture Show]]''
|-
| 1972
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |''[[The Godfather]]''
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The Emigrants (film)|The Emigrants]]''
| ''[[Cries and Whispers]]''
|-
| 1974
| ''[[Day for Night (film)|Day for Night]]''
| ''[[Scenes from a Marriage]]''
|-
| 1975
| colspan="2"|{{center|''[[Nashville (film)|Nashville]]''}}
|-
| 1976
| ''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]''
| ''[[Small Change (film)|Small Change]]''
|-
| 1977
| ''[[Annie Hall]]''
| ''[[3 Women]]''
|-
| 1978
| ''[[Straight Time]]''
| ''[[An Unmarried Woman]]''
|-
| 1979
| ''[[Hair (film)|Hair]]''
| ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Raging Bull]]''
| ''[[The Black Stallion (film)|The Black Stallion]]''
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Ragtime (film)|Ragtime]]''
| ''[[My Dinner with Andre]]''
|-
| 1982
| ''[[Moonlighting (film)|Moonlighting]]''
| ''[[Sophie's Choice (film)|Sophie's Choice]]''
|-
| 1983
| colspan="2"|{{center|''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]''}}
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Once Upon a Time in America]]''
| ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]''
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Shoah (film)|Shoah]]''
| ''[[The Color Purple (1985 film)|The Color Purple]]''
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Hannah and Her Sisters]]''
| ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]''
|-
| 1987
| ''[[The Last Emperor]]''
| ''[[House of Games]]''
|-
| 1988
| ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ]]''
| ''[[Mississippi Burning]]''
|-
| 1989
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |''[[Do the Right Thing]]''
|-
| 1990
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |''[[GoodFellas]]''
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse|Hearts of Darkness]]''
| ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]''
|-
| 1992
| ''[[One False Move]]''
| ''[[Malcolm X (1992 film)|Malcolm X]]''
|-
| 1993
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |''[[Schindler's List]]''
|-
| 1994
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |''[[Hoop Dreams]]''
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Crumb (film)|Crumb]]''
| ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]''
|-
| 1996
| colspan="2"|{{center|''[[Fargo (1996 film)|Fargo]]''}}
|-
| 1997
| ''[[The Ice Storm (film)|The Ice Storm]]''
| ''[[Eve's Bayou]]''
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Babe: Pig in the City]]''
| ''[[Dark City (1998 film)|Dark City]]''
|-
|}
Previously, Siskel and Ebert had separately agreed on ''Z'' and ''The Godfather'' before sharing the same opinion on ''Nashville'', ''The Right Stuff'', ''Do the Right Thing'', ''GoodFellas'', ''Schindler's List'', ''Hoop Dreams'', and ''Fargo''.

Seven times, Siskel's #1 choice did not appear on Ebert's top ten list at all: ''Straight Time'', ''Ragtime'', ''Once Upon a Time in America'', ''Shoah'', ''The Last Temptation of Christ'', ''Hearts of Darkness'', and ''The Ice Storm''. Eight times, Ebert's top selection did not appear on Siskel's; these films were ''Small Change'', ''3 Women'', ''An Unmarried Woman'', ''Apocalypse Now'', ''Sophie's Choice'', ''Mississippi Burning'', ''Eve's Bayou'', and ''Dark City''. In 1985, Ebert declined to rank the Holocaust documentary ''Shoah'' as 1985's best film because he felt it was inappropriate to compare it to the rest of the year's candidates.<ref name="Innermind.com"/>

While ''Apocalypse Now'' appeared as Ebert's choice for best film of 1979 but not anywhere on Siskel's list, the documentary of the making of the film, ''Hearts of Darkness'', was Siskel's choice for the best film of 1991 while not appearing on Ebert's list.

In addition, neither critic's choice for the best film of 1988 (''The Last Temptation of Christ'' for Siskel and ''Mississippi Burning'' for Ebert) appeared anywhere on the other critic's list, but both starred [[Willem Dafoe]].