AFI's 100 Years 100 Passions

Preamble

AFI’s 100 Years... 100 Passions is a list of the 100 greatest love stories of all time.

Regardless of genre, in these films, a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film's narrative.

These movies possess a "passion" which has enriched America's film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.

The AFI’s 100 Years... 100 Passions television special, hosted by Candice Bergen, originally aired on June 11, 2002.

Selection criteria

The jurors were asked to consider the following criteria while making their selections:

Feature-Length Fiction Film: The film must be in narrative format, typically more than 60 minutes in length.

American Film: The film must be in the English language with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.

MAJOR AWARD WINNER: Recognition from competitive events including awards from peer groups, critics, guilds and major film festivals.

Legacy: Films whose “passion” has enriched America’s film and cultural heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.

100 PASSIONS chart of seats per decades

Rank	Film	Year	He	She	Director
1	CASABLANCA	1942	Humphrey Bogart	Ingrid Bergman	Michael Curtiz
2	GONE WITH THE WIND	1939	Clark Gable	Vivien Leigh	Victor Fleming
3	WEST SIDE STORY	1961	Richard Beymer	Natalie Wood	Jerome Robbins Robert Wise
4	ROMAN HOLIDAY	1953	Gregory Peck	Audrey Hepburn	William Wyler
5	AFFAIR TO REMEMBER, AN	1957	Cary Grant	Deborah Kerr	Leo McCarey
6	WAY WE WERE, THE	1973	Robert Redford	Barbra Streisand	Sydney Pollack
7	DOCTOR ZHIVAGO	1965	Omar Sharif	Julie Christie Geraldine Chaplin	David Lean
8	IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE	1946	James Stewart	Donna Reed	Frank Capra
9	LOVE STORY	1970	Ryan O'Neal	Ali MacGraw	Arthur Hiller
10	CITY LIGHTS	1931	Charlie Chaplin	Virginia Cherrill	Charlie Chaplin
11	ANNIE HALL	1977	Woody Allen	Diane Keaton	Woody Allen
12	MY FAIR LADY	1964	Rex Harrison	Audrey Hepburn	George Cukor
13	OUT OF AFRICA	1985	Robert Redford	Meryl Streep	Sydney Pollack
14	AFRICAN QUEEN, THE	1951	Humphrey Bogart	Katharine Hepburn	John Huston
15	WUTHERING HEIGHTS	1939	Laurence Olivier	Merle Oberon	William Wyler
16	SINGIN' IN THE RAIN	1952	Gene Kelly	Debbie Reynolds	Stanley Donen Gene Kelly
17	MOONSTRUCK	1987	Nicolas Cage	Cher	Norman Jewison
18	VERTIGO	1958	James Stewart	Kim Novak	Alfred Hitchcock
19	GHOST	1990	Patrick Swayze	Demi Moore	Jerry Zucker
20	FROM HERE TO ETERNITY	1953	Burt Lancaster Montgomery Clift	Deborah Kerr Donna Reed	Fred Zinnemann
21	PRETTY WOMAN	1990	Richard Gere	Julia Roberts	Garry Marshall
22	ON GOLDEN POND	1981	Henry Fonda	Katharine Hepburn	Mark Rydell
23	NOW, VOYAGER	1942	Paul Henreid	Bette Davis	Irving Rapper
24	KING KONG	1933	Bruce Cabot	Fay Wray	Merian C. Cooper Ernest B. Schoedsack
25	WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...	1989	Billy Crystal	Meg Ryan	Rob Reiner
26	LADY EVE, THE	1941	Henry Fonda	Barbara Stanwyck	Preston Sturges
27	SOUND OF MUSIC, THE	1965	Christopher Plummer	Julie Andrews	Robert Wise
28	SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE	1940	James Stewart	Margaret Sullavan	Ernst Lubitsch
29	OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, AN	1982	Richard Gere	Debra Winger	Taylor Hackford
30	SWING TIME	1936	Fred Astaire	Ginger Rogers	George Stevens
31	KING AND I, THE	1956	Yul Brynner	Deborah Kerr	Walter Lang
32	DARK VICTORY	1939	George Brent Humphrey Bogart	Bette Davis	Edmund Goulding
33	CAMILLE	1937	Robert Taylor	Greta Garbo	George Cukor
34	BEAUTY AND THE BEAST	1991	Robby Benson	Paige O'Hara	Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise
35	GIGI	1958	Louis Jourdan	Leslie Caron	Vincente Minnelli
36	RANDOM HARVEST	1942	Ronald Colman	Greer Garson	Mervyn LeRoy
37	TITANIC	1997	Leonardo DiCaprio	Kate Winslet	James Cameron
38	IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT	1934	Clark Gable	Claudette Colbert	Frank Capra
39	AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN	1951	Gene Kelly	Leslie Caron	Vincente Minnelli
40	NINOTCHKA	1939	Melvyn Douglas	Greta Garbo	Ernst Lubitsch
41	FUNNY GIRL	1968	Omar Sharif	Barbra Streisand	William Wyler
42	ANNA KARENINA	1935	Fredric March	Greta Garbo	Clarence Brown
43	STAR IS BORN, A	1954	James Mason	Judy Garland	George Cukor
44	PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE	1940	Cary Grant James Stewart	Katharine Hepburn	George Cukor
45	SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE	1993	Tom Hanks	Meg Ryan	Nora Ephron
46	TO CATCH A THIEF	1955	Cary Grant	Grace Kelly	Alfred Hitchcock
47	SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS	1961	Warren Beatty	Natalie Wood	Elia Kazan
48	LAST TANGO IN PARIS	1972	Marlon Brando	Maria Schneider	Bernardo Bertolucci
49	POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, THE	1946	John Garfield	Lana Turner	Tay Garnett
50	SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE	1998	Joseph Fiennes	Gwyneth Paltrow	John Madden
51	BRINGING UP BABY	1938	Cary Grant	Katharine Hepburn	Howard Hawks
52	GRADUATE, THE	1967	Dustin Hoffman	Katharine Ross	Mike Nichols
53	PLACE IN THE SUN, A	1951	Montgomery Clift	Elizabeth Taylor	George Stevens
54	SABRINA	1954	Humphrey Bogart	Audrey Hepburn	Billy Wilder
55	REDS	1981	Warren Beatty	Diane Keaton	Warren Beatty
56	ENGLISH PATIENT, THE	1996	Naveen Andrews Ralph Fiennes	Juliette Binoche Kristin Scott Thomas	Anthony Minghella
57	TWO FOR THE ROAD	1967	Albert Finney	Audrey Hepburn	Stanley Donen
58	GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER	1967	Spencer Tracy Sidney Poitier	Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton	Stanley Kramer
59	PICNIC	1955	William Holden	Kim Novak	Joshua Logan
60	TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT	1944	Humphrey Bogart	Lauren Bacall	Howard Hawks
61	BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S	1961	George Peppard	Audrey Hepburn	Blake Edwards
62	APARTMENT, THE	1960	Jack Lemmon	Shirley MacLaine	Billy Wilder
63	SUNRISE	1927	George O'Brien	Janet Gaynor Margaret Livingston	F. W. Murnau
64	MARTY	1955	Ernest Borgnine	Betsy Blair	Delbert Mann
65	BONNIE AND CLYDE	1967	Warren Beatty	Faye Dunaway	Arthur Penn
66	MANHATTAN	1979	Woody Allen	Diane Keaton	Woody Allen
67	STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A	1951	Marlon Brando	Vivien Leigh	Elia Kazan
68	WHAT'S UP, DOC?	1972	Ryan O'Neal	Barbra Streisand	Peter Bogdanovich
69	HAROLD AND MAUDE	1971	Bud Cort	Ruth Gordon	Hal Ashby
70	SENSE AND SENSIBILITY	1995	Hugh Grant	Emma Thompson	Ang Lee
71	WAY DOWN EAST	1920	Richard Barthelmess	Lillian Gish	D. W. Griffith
72	ROXANNE	1987	Steve Martin	Daryl Hannah	Fred Schepisi
73	GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, THE	1947	Rex Harrison	Gene Tierney	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
74	WOMAN OF THE YEAR	1942	Spencer Tracy	Katharine Hepburn	George Stevens
75	AMERICAN PRESIDENT, THE	1995	Michael Douglas	Annette Bening	Rob Reiner
76	QUIET MAN, THE	1952	John Wayne	Maureen O'Hara	John Ford
77	AWFUL TRUTH, THE	1937	Cary Grant	Irene Dunne	Leo McCarey
78	COMING HOME	1978	Jon Voight	Jane Fonda	Hal Ashby
79	JEZEBEL	1939	Henry Fonda	Bette Davis	William Wyler
80	SHEIK, THE	1921	Rudolph Valentino	Agnes Ayres	George Melford
81	GOODBYE GIRL, THE	1977	Richard Dreyfuss	Marsha Mason	Herbert Ross
82	WITNESS	1985	Harrison Ford	Kelly McGillis	Peter Weir
83	MOROCCO	1930	Gary Cooper	Marlene Dietrich	Josef von Sternberg
84	DOUBLE INDEMNITY	1944	Fred MacMurray	Barbara Stanwyck	Billy Wilder
85	LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING	1955	William Holden	Jennifer Jones	Henry King
86	NOTORIOUS	1946	Cary Grant	Ingrid Bergman	Alfred Hitchcock
87	UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, THE	1988	Daniel Day-Lewis	Juliette Binoche	Philip Kaufman
88	PRINCESS BRIDE, THE	1987	Cary Elwes	Robin Wright	Rob Reiner
89	WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?	1966	Richard Burton	Elizabeth Taylor	Mike Nichols
90	BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, THE	1995	Clint Eastwood	Meryl Streep	Clint Eastwood
91	WORKING GIRL	1988	Harrison Ford	Melanie Griffith	Mike Nichols
92	PORGY AND BESS	1959	Sidney Poitier	Dorothy Dandridge	Otto Preminger
93	DIRTY DANCING	1987	Patrick Swayze	Jennifer Grey	Emile Ardolino
94	BODY HEAT	1981	William Hurt	Kathleen Turner	Lawrence Kasdan
95	LADY AND THE TRAMP	1955	Larry Roberts	Barbara Luddy	Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske
96	BAREFOOT IN THE PARK	1967	Robert Redford	Jane Fonda	Gene Saks
97	GREASE	1978	John Travolta	Olivia Newton-John	Randal Kleiser
98	HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, THE	1939	Charles Laughton	Maureen O'Hara	William Dieterle
99	PILLOW TALK	1959	Rock Hudson	Doris Day	Michael Gordon
100	JERRY MAGUIRE	1996	Tom Cruise	Renée Zellweger	Cameron Crowe
N	AS GOOD AS IT GETS	1997	Jack Nicholson	Helen Hunt	James Brooks
N	SOMEWHERE IN TIME	1980	Christopher Reeve	Jane Seymour	Richard Matheson
N	YOU'VE GOT MAIL	1998	Tom Hanks	Meg Ryan	Nora Ephron

AFI's 100 Years 100 Passions America’s Greatest Love Stories

Preamble

Selection criteria

List

Most celebrated (passion) actor/actress

Interesting facts

Movies seats per decades