WGA 101 Greatest Screenplays

WGA 101 Greatest Screenplays is a ranked list published in 2006 — one of the 31 sources behind the film canon, weighted as critics' canon. 70 of its 101 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

1. 1Casablanca (1942)Canon #17
2. 2The Godfather (1972)Canon #2
3. 3Chinatown (1974)Canon #9
4. 4Citizen Kane (1941)Canon #1
5. 5All About Eve (1950)Canon #46
6. 6Annie Hall (1977)Canon #38
7. 7Sunset Boulevard (1950)Canon #33
8. 8Network (1976)Canon #72
9. 9Some Like It Hot (1959)Canon #16
10. 10The Godfather: Part II (1974)Canon #7
11. 11Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)Canon #144
12. 12Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)Canon #47
13. 13The Graduate (1967)Canon #82
14. 14Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Canon #11
15. 15The Apartment (1960)Canon #50
16. 16Pulp Fiction (1994)Canon #22
17. 17Tootsie (1982)Canon #246
18. 18On the Waterfront (1954)Canon #64
19. 19To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)Canon #132
20. 20It's a Wonderful Life (1946)Canon #36
21. 21North by Northwest (1959)Canon #26
22. 22The Shawshank Redemption (1994)Canon #95
23. 23Gone With the Wind (1939)Canon #37
24. 24Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)Canon #97
25. 25The Wizard of Oz (1939)Canon #23
26. 26Double Indemnity (1944)Canon #62
27. 27Groundhog Day (1993)Canon #213
28. 28Shakespeare in Love (1998)
29. 29Sullivan's Travels (1941)
30. 30Unforgiven (1992)Canon #122
31. 31His Girl Friday (1940)Canon #76
32. 32Fargo (1996)Canon #92
33. 33The Third Man (1949)Canon #44
34. 34Sweet Smell of Success (1957)Canon #128
35. 35The Usual Suspects (1995)Canon #178
36. 36Midnight Cowboy (1969)Canon #212
37. 37The Philadelphia Story (1940)Canon #241
38. 38American Beauty (1999)
39. 39The Sting (1973)Canon #211
40. 40When Harry Met Sally... (1989)Canon #207
41. 41Goodfellas (1990)Canon #12
42. 42Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)Canon #54
43. 43Taxi Driver (1976)Canon #14
44. 44The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)Canon #110
45. 45One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)Canon #154
46. 46The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)Canon #134
47. 47The Maltese Falcon (1941)Canon #140
48. 48The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)Canon #101
49. 49Schindler's List (1993)Canon #133
50. 50The Sixth Sense (1999)
51. 51Broadcast News (1987)
52. 52The Lady Eve (1941)Canon #162
53. 53All the President's Men (1976)
54. 54Manhattan (1979)Canon #121
55. 55Apocalypse Now (1979)Canon #6
56. 56Back to the Future (1985)Canon #174
57. 57Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
58. 58Ordinary People (1980)
59. 59It Happened One Night (1934)Canon #170
60. 60L.A. Confidential (1997)
61. 61The Silence of the Lambs (1991)Canon #83
62. 62Moonstruck (1987)
63. 63Jaws (1975)Canon #35
64. 64Terms of Endearment (1983)
65. 65Singin' in the Rain (1952)Canon #8
66. 66Jerry Maguire (1996) (1996)
67. 67E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)Canon #63
68. 68Star Wars (1977)
69. 69Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
70. 70The African Queen (1951)
71. 71The Lion in Winter (1968)
72. 72Thelma & Louise (1991)
73. 73Amadeus (1984)Canon #115
74. 74Being John Malkovich (1999)
75. 75High Noon (1952)
76. 76Raging Bull (1980)Canon #32
77. 77Adaptation. (2002)
78. 78Rocky (1976)
79. 79The Producers (1967)
80. 80Witness (1985)
81. 81Being There (1979)Canon #237
82. 82Cool Hand Luke (1967)
83. 83Rear Window (1954)Canon #49
84. 84The Princess Bride (1987)
85. 85Grand Illusion (1937)Canon #77
86. 86Harold and Maude (1971)
87. 878½ (1963)Canon #27
88. 88Field of Dreams (1989)
89. 89Forrest Gump (1994)Canon #248
90. 90Sideways (2004)
91. 91The Verdict (1982)
92. 92Psycho (1960)Canon #13
93. 93Do the Right Thing (1989)Canon #52
94. 94Patton (1970)
95. 95Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
96. 96The Hustler (1961)Canon #232
97. 97The Searchers (1956)Canon #19
98. 98The Grapes of Wrath (1940)Canon #168
99. 99The Wild Bunch (1969)Canon #79
100. 100Memento (2000)Canon #179
101. 101Notorious (1946)Canon #75

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. View the original at wga.org. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.