In 2002, The film magazine Sight & Sound conducted their sixth ten-yearly poll of international critics and directors. They asked for a top ten from each of them and then compiled a top ten for each group based on number of votes.
The critics' top ten:
Citizen Kane (1941) - 46 votes
Vertigo (1958) - 41 votes
The Rules Of The Game (1939) - 30 votes
The Godfather & The Godfather: Part II (1972 / 74) - 23 votes
Tokyo Story (1953) - 22 votes
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - 21 votes
Battleship Potemkin (1925) - 19 votes
Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (1927) - 19 votes
8 1/2 (1963) - 18 votes
Singin' In The Rain (1951) - 17 votes 256
The directors' top ten:
Citizen Kane (1941) - 42 votes
The Godfather & The Godfather: Part 2 (1972 / 74) - 28 votes
8 1/2 (1963) - 19 votes
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) - 16 votes
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963) - 14 votes
Bicycle Thieves (1948) - 13 votes
Raging Bull (1980) - 13 votes
Vertigo (1958) - 13 votes
In The Woods (1950) - 12 votes
The Rules Of The Game (1939) - 12 votes
Seven Samurai (1954) - 12 votes
Critics' top ten directors:
Orson Welles - 69 votes
Alfred Hitchcock - 69 votes
Jean-Luc Godard - 43 votes
Jean Renoir - 40 votes
Stanley Kubrick - 39 votes
Kurosawa Akira - 38 votes
Federico Fellini - 36 votes
John Ford - 31 votes
Sergei Eisenstein - 30 votes
Francis Ford Coppola - 28 votes
Ozu Yasujiro - 28 votes
Directors' top ten directors:
Orson Welles - 52 votes
Federico Fellini - 50 votes
Kurosawa Akira - 39 votes
Francis Ford Coppola - 38 votes
Alfred Hitchcock - 35 votes
Stanley Kubrick - 34 votes
William Wilder - 33 votes
Ingmar Bergman - 28 votes
Martin Scorsese - 25 votes
David Lean - 23 votes
Jean Renoir - 23 votes