OFCS Top 100: Top 100 Sci-Fi Films
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The OFCS Top 100 Top Sci-Fi Films was announced in 2002.
June 12, 2002: The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international association of the leading Internet-based cinema journalists, is celebrating the first century of science fiction filmmaking with a list of the Top 100 Sci-Fi Films of the Past 100 Years. At the top of the list, according to the 115 members of the OFCS, is Stanley Kubrick's cryptic 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Beginning with Georges Melies' 1902 fantasy A Trip to the Moon and continuing through this summer's top releases including Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and the upcoming Minority Report, sci-fi has proven to be among the most durable and prescient of film genres. In celebrating a century of sci-fi films, the OFCS writers considered more than 400 titles spanning every decade and a variety of formats ranging from short subjects to animation to classics of global cinema.
In polling the OFCS membership for this survey, the society invited its members to provide their choices for the century's greatest sci-fi offerings. "It's very interesting to see what a broad spectrum of films can be considered science fiction," says Erik Childress, editor of eFilmCritic.com and a member of the OFCS Governing Committee. "By letting our members vote with their own thoughts instead of tying them down with an absolute final ballot AFI-style, you get to see a wide array of titles that many, including myself, wouldn't even consider science-fiction (like Dr. Strangelove or Night of the Living Dead)."
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Solyaris
1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check -
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Stalker
1979, in 22 top lists Check -
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Bis ans Ende der Welt
1991 — a.k.a. Until the End of the World, in 1 top list Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
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Contact
1997, in 2 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001, in 11 top lists Check -
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Independence Day
1996, in 8 top lists Check -
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Strange Days
1995, in 4 top lists Check -
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Superman
1978, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Abyss
1989, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976, in 8 top lists Check -
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977, in 23 top lists Check -
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Aliens
1986, in 24 top lists Check -
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Matrix
1999, in 30 top lists Check -
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On the Beach
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
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Brazil
1985, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Andromeda Strain
1971, in 3 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
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Starship Troopers
1997, in 9 top lists Check -
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Twelve Monkeys
1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check -
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Dawn of the Dead
1978, in 15 top lists Check -
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Jurassic Park
1993, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Fifth Element
1997, in 7 top lists Check -
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Akira
1988, in 22 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1980, in 25 top lists Check -
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Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
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Abre los ojos
1997 — a.k.a. Open Your Eyes, in 2 top lists Check -
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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Alien
1979, in 30 top lists Check -
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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Back to the Future
1985, in 25 top lists Check -
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Highlander
1986, in 2 top lists Check -
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982, in 30 top lists Check -
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978, in 3 top lists Check -
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Starman
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
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Donnie Darko
2001, in 21 top lists Check -
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Jacob's Ladder
1990, in 3 top lists Check -
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982, in 6 top lists Check -
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Total Recall
1990, in 8 top lists Check -
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La cité des enfants perdus
1995 — a.k.a. The City of Lost Children, in 4 top lists Check -
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Fahrenheit 451
1966, in 4 top lists Check -
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Planet of the Apes
1968, in 16 top lists Check -
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Time After Time
1979, in 0 top lists Check -
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Star Trek: First Contact
1996, in 2 top lists Check -
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Time Bandits
1981, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Thing
1982, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Cell
2000, in 1 top list Check
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