first film to be directed by a woman to top the list. Vertigo received the second most and Citizen Kane third. Nearly 4,000 different films received at least one mention. 2001: A Space Odyssey topped the directors' poll for the first time in 2022 with Citizen Kane in second place and Tokyo Story in joint fourth together with Jeanne Dielman. Among the directors that participated were Julie Dash, Barry Jenkins, Lynne Ramsay, Martin Scorsese and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) appeared in the first seven of the magazine's decennial polls. Citizen Kane has appeared in the last seven. Critics' Top Ten Poll 1952 Bicycle Thieves (25 mentions) City Lights (19 mentions) The Gold Rush (19 mentions) Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions) Intolerance (12 mentions) Louisiana Story (12 mentions) Greed (11 mentions) Le Jour Se Lève (11 mentions) The Passion of Joan of Arc (11 mentions) Brief Encounter (10 mentions) The Rules of the Game (10 mentions) Le Million (10 mentions) Closest runners-up: Citizen Kane, La Grande Illusion, and The Grapes of Wrath. (9 mentions apiece) 1962 Citizen Kane (22 mentions) L'Avventura (20 mentions) The Rules of the Game (19 mentions) Greed (17 mentions) Ugetsu (17 mentions) Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions) Bicycle Thieves (16 mentions) Ivan the Terrible (16 mentions) La Terra Trema (14 mentions) L'Atalante (13 mentions) Closest runners-up: Hiroshima mon amour, Pather Panchali and Zero for Conduct. (11 mentions apiece) The number of silent films on the list reduced from six to two. Films directed by Sergei Eisenstein received the most votes with 46 votes followed by Charles Chaplin with 43 and Jean Renoir with 35. 1972 Citizen Kane (32 mentions) The Rules of the Game (28 mentions) Battleship Potemkin (16 mentions) 8½ (15 mentions) L'Avventura (12 mentions) Persona (12 mentions) The Passion of Joan of Arc (11 mentions) The General (10 mentions) The Magnificent Ambersons (10 mentions) Ugetsu (9 mentions) Wild Strawberries (9 mentions) Closest runners-up: The Gold Rush, Hiroshima mon amour, Ikiru, Ivan the Terrible, Pierrot le Fou, and Vertigo. (8 mentions apiece) Films directed by Orson Welles received the most votes with 46 votes followed by Jean Renoir with 41 and Ingmar Bergman with 37. 1982 Citizen Kane (45 mentions) The Rules of the Game (31 mentions) Seven Samurai (15 mentions) Singin' in the Rain (15 mentions) 8½ (14 mentions) Battleship Potemkin (13 mentions) L'Avventura (12 mentions) The Magnificent Ambersons (12