WGA 101 Greatest Screenplays

The 101 greatest screenplays as chosen by members of the Writer's Guild of America. The title suggests that it is the screenplays being recognized, and therefore not linked to any specific production (e.g. number 92 is both Hitchcock's Psycho and Van Sant's shot-by-shot remake of the same). As it contains no outstanding screenplays that were ruined by a bad director, however, I'm taking it as read that listings refer only to whatever specific production elevated that script to the Hollywood canon.

This list is ranked and is shown in descending order.

Rank	Title	Year	Rating
1	Casablanca	1942
2	Godfather, The	1972
3	Chinatown	1974
4	Citizen Kane	1941
5	All About Eve	1950
6	Annie Hall	1977
7	Sunset Boulevard	1950
8	Network	1976
9	Some Like It Hot	1959
10	Godfather: Part II, The	1974
11	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969
12	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964
13	Graduate, The	1967
14	Lawrence of Arabia	1962
15	Apartment, The	1960
16	Pulp Fiction	1994
17	Tootsie	1982
18	On the Waterfront	1954
19	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962
20	It's a Wonderful Life	1946
21	North by Northwest	1959
22	Shawshank Redemption, The	1994
23	Gone with the Wind	1939
24	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004
25	Wizard of Oz, The	1939
26	Double Indemnity	1944
27	Groundhog Day	1993
28	Shakespeare in Love	1998
29	Sullivan's Travels	1941
30	Unforgiven	1992
31	His Girl Friday	1940
32	Fargo	1996
33	Third Man, The	1949
34	Sweet Smell of Success	1957
35	Usual Suspects, The	1995
36	Midnight Cowboy	1969
37	Philadelphia Story, The	1940
38	American Beauty	1999
39	Sting, The	1973
40	When Harry Met Sally...	1989
41	Goodfellas	1990
42	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981
43	Taxi Driver	1976
44	Best Years of Our Lives, The	1946
45	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975
46	Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The	1948
47	Maltese Falcon, The	1941
48	Bridge on the River Kwai, The	1957
49	Schindler's List	1993
50	Sixth Sense, The	1999
51	Broadcast News	1987
52	Lady Eve, The	1941
53	All the President's Men	1976
54	Manhattan	1979
55	Apocalypse Now	1979
56	Back to the Future	1985
57	Crimes and Misdemeanors	1989
58	Ordinary People	1980
59	It Happened One Night	1934
60	L.A. Confidential	1997
61	Silence of the Lambs, The	1991
62	Moonstruck	1987
63	Jaws	1975
64	Terms of Endearment	1983
65	Singin' in the Rain	1952
66	Jerry Maguire	1996
67	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982
68	Star Wars	1977
69	Dog Day Afternoon	1975
70	African Queen, The	1951
71	Lion in Winter, The	1968
72	Thelma & Louise	1991
73	Amadeus	1984
74	Being John Malkovich	1999
75	High Noon	1952
76	Raging Bull	1980
77	Adaptation.	2002
78	Rocky	1976
79	Producers, The	1968
80	Witness	1985
81	Being There	1979
82	Cool Hand Luke	1967
83	Rear Window	1954
84	Princess Bride, The	1987
85	Grand Illusion, The aka Grande illusion, La	1937
86	Harold and Maude	1971
87	8½ aka 8 1/2	1963
88	Field of Dreams	1989
89	Forrest Gump	1994
90	Sideways	2004
91	Verdict, The	1982
92	Psycho	1960
93	Do the Right Thing	1989
94	Patton	1970
95	Hannah and Her Sisters	1986
96	Hustler, The	1961
97	Searchers, The	1956
98	Grapes of Wrath, The	1940
99	Wild Bunch, The	1969
100	Memento	2000
101	Notorious	1946