Editing Sight and Sound (section)

====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>