Editing Sight and Sound (section)

====1972====
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<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>