What films overlap?/Real Top Lists

[Gordon]

I left, and now for some reason I have been compelled to come back, starting this thread or that for various questions I had. Since I figure I've been here for the last week and I may be gone for a long while longer, I feel like I should go one further.

Make top ten lists for:

Best Films
Best Directors
Best Performances
Best Cinematography
Best Screenplays

Now let's start making lists from 0-10 for which one of our favorites overlap in ALL categories. If you have three that overlap, figure them out and rank them. And so on and so forth. I think it's not only the best method to figure out real best lists, but also, if anyone ever wants to do a JoBlo Forums Top 100.

Stay reasonable! It's your opinion, but, Dark Knight ain't not goin' win all them categories.

[Le_Big_Mac]

I'm a little confused, but I'll do what I think you're saying.

Best Films

1. Pulp Fiction
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Taxi Driver
5. Sunset Blvd.
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Psycho
9. La Dolce Vita
10. Dr. Strangelove

Best Directors

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Billy Wilder
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Federico Fellini
7. Sergio Leone
8. Sam Peckinpah
9. Woody Allen
10. David Lynch

Best Performances

1. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
2. Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
3. Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
4. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd.
5. Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
6. Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
7. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
8. Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
9. Marlon Brando - The Godfather
10. Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs

Best Cinematography

1. Citizen Kane
2. Touch of Evil
3. Manhattan
4. Blade Runner
5. Barry Lyndon
6. The Cranes Are Flying
7. Days of Heaven
8. The Elephant Man
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10. Ashes and Diamonds


Best Screenplays

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Sunset Blvd.
3. Taxi Driver
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Goodfellas
6. The Godfather
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Clerks
9. The Departed
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Overlaps

1. Taxi Driver (Film, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Screenplay)
2. Sunset Blvd. (Film, Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, Screenplay)
3. Dr. Strangelove (Film, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, Screenplay)
4. Pulp Fiction (Film, Screenplay)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Film, Stanley Kubrick)
6. A Clockwork Orange (Film, Stanley Kubrick)
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Film, Sergio Leone)
8. Psycho (Film, Alfred Hitchcock)
9. La Dolce Vita (Film, Federico Fellini)
10. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, Screenplay)
11. The Godfather (Marlon Brando, Screenplay)
12. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)
13. Manhattan (Woody Allen, Cinematography)
14. The Elephant Man (David Lynch, Cinematography)
15. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, Cinematography)

[Gordon]

Only difference is that I was referring to what films you have that rank in all categories as the overlaps.

[Le_Big_Mac]

Oh. Well, that's obviously not the case with me.

[Natty]

There will probably not be any overlaps for me.

In no particular order, 'best' in my opinion (even then its near impossible to pick 10), not favourite:

Films

The Godfather
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Goodfellas
Apocalypse Now
A Clockwork Orange
Sunset Boulevard
Lawrence of Arabia
Schindler's List
No Country for Old Men
Star Wars Episode V

Performances

Robert De Niro in Raging Bull
Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York
Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy
Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon
Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean
Peter O Toole in Lawrence of Arabia
Tom Hanks in Cast Away
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard
Russell Crowe in Gladiator

(man that was tough)

Cinematography

The Assassination of Jesse James...
Schindlers' List
Saving Private Ryan
The Mission
Lawrence of Arabia
Citizen Kane
Apocalypse Now
Barry Lyndon
The Deer Hunter
Days of Heaven

Screenplay

Pulp Fiction
Sunset Boulevard
American Beauty
On the Waterfront
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Star Wars
Fargo
Magnolia
Schindler's List

Directors

Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Joel and Ethan Coen
Michael Curtiz
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lean
Akira Kurosawa
Francis Ford Coppola
Peter Jackson

Overlaps

None, but two were close. Lawrence of Arabia would have needed a screenplay pick and Apocalypse Now would have needed a performance pick.