The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola

American Film Institute

• 1998 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – No. 3[239]
• 2001 AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – No. 11[240]
• 2005 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
  • "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." – No. 2[241]
• 2006 AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – No. 5[242]
• 2007 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – No. 2[243]
• 2008 AFI's 10 Top 10 – No. 1 Gangster Film[244]

Others

• 1990 Selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[245]
• 1992 The Godfather ranked 6th in Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time director's poll.[246]
• 1998 Time Out conducted a poll and The Godfather was voted the best film of all time.[247]
• The Village Voice ranked The Godfather at number 12 in its Top 250 "Best Films of the Century" list in 1999, based on a poll of critics.[248]
• 1999 Entertainment Weekly named it the greatest film ever made.[249][250][251]
• 2002 Sight & Sound polled film directors and they voted the film and its sequel as the second best film ever;[252] the critics poll separately voted it fourth.[253]
• 2002 The Godfather was ranked the second best film of all time by Film4, after Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.[254]
• 2002 The film (along with The Godfather Part II) was voted at No. 39 on the list of the "Top 100 Essential Films of All Time" by the National Society of Film Critics.[255][256]
• 2005 Named one of the 100 greatest films of the last 80 years by Time magazine (the selected films were not ranked).[257][258]
• 2006 The Writers Guild of America, West agreed, voting it the number two in its list of the 101 greatest screenplays, after Casablanca.[259]
• 2008 Voted in at No. 1 on Empire magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[260]
• 2008 Voted at No. 50 on the list of "100 Greatest Films" by the prominent French magazine Cahiers du cinéma.[261]
• 2009 The Godfather was ranked at No. 1 on Japanese film magazine kinema Junpo's Top 10 Non-Japanese Films of All Time list.[262]
• 2010 The Guardian ranked the film 15th in its list of 25 greatest arthouse films.[263]
• 2012 The Motion Picture Editors Guild listed The Godfather as the sixth best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership.[264]
• 2012 The film ranked at number seven on Sight & Sound directors' top ten poll. On the same list it was ranked at number twenty one by critics.[265][266][267]
• 2014 The Godfather was voted the greatest film in a Hollywood Reporter poll of 2120 industry members, including every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in Hollywood in 2014.[268]
• 2015 Second on the BBC's "100 Greatest American Films", voted by film critics from around the world.[269]