mentions) Vertigo (12 mentions) The General (11 mentions) The Searchers (11 mentions) Closest runners-up: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrei Rublev. (10 mentions apiece) 1992 Citizen Kane (43 mentions) The Rules of the Game (32 mentions) Tokyo Story (22 mentions) Vertigo (18 mentions) The Searchers (17 mentions) L'Atalante (15 mentions) The Passion of Joan of Arc (15 mentions) Pather Panchali (15 mentions) Battleship Potemkin (15 mentions) 2001: A Space Odyssey (14 mentions) Closest runners-up: Bicycle Thieves and Singin' in the Rain. (10 mentions apiece) 2002 Citizen Kane (46 mentions) Vertigo (41 mentions) The Rules of the Game (30 mentions) The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (23 mentions) Tokyo Story (22 mentions) 2001: A Space Odyssey (21 mentions) Battleship Potemkin (19 mentions) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (19 mentions) 8½ (18 mentions) Singin' in the Rain (17 mentions) Closest runners-up: Seven Samurai and The Searchers. (15 mentions apiece) 2012 A new rule was imposed for this ballot: related films that are considered part of a larger whole (e.g. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy and Dekalog, or Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy) were to be treated as separate films for voting purposes. Vertigo (191 mentions) Citizen Kane (157 mentions) Tokyo Story (107 mentions) The Rules of the Game (100 mentions) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (93 mentions) 2001: A Space Odyssey (90 mentions) The Searchers (78 mentions) Man with a Movie Camera (68 mentions) The Passion of Joan of Arc (65 mentions) 8½ (64 mentions) Closest runner-up: Battleship Potemkin. (63 mentions) 2022 The number of participants in this poll nearly doubled to 1,639. Chantal Akerman became the first woman director to win the poll with her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. The poll reflected greater diversity than previous years, with the number of films made by Black filmmakers increasing from one in 2012 to seven in 2022 and the number made by female filmmakers increasing from two in 2012 to eleven in 2022. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey topped the directors' poll, in which 480 directors took part. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Vertigo Citizen Kane Tokyo Story In the Mood for Love 2001: A Space Odyssey Beau Travail Mulholland Drive Man with a Movie Camera Singin' in the Rain Closest runners-up: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Directors' Top Ten Poll 1992