AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals

AFI 100 Years... series
1998100 Movies
1999100 Stars
2000100 Laughs
2001100 Thrills
2002100 Passions
2003100 Heroes & Villains
2004100 Songs
2005100 Movie Quotes
200525 Scores
2006100 Cheers
200625 Musicals
2007100 Movies (Updated)
2008AFI's 10 Top 10

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals is a list of the top musicals in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute at the Hollywood Bowl on September 3, 2006. Unlike most of the previous lists, it only includes 25 winners and was not presented in a televised program.

The list

# Film Year Director Studio
1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly MGM
2 West Side Story 1961 Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins United Artists
3 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming MGM
4 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 20th Century Fox
5 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse Allied Artists
6 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson Disney
7 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor Warner Bros.
8 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor Warner Bros.
9 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli MGM
10 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli MGM
11 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 20th Century Fox
12 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall Miramax
13 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon Warner Bros.
14 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 20th Century Fox
15 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich RKO
16 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler Columbia
17 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli MGM
18 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz Warner Bros.
19 On the Town 1949 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen MGM
20 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser Paramount
21 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen MGM
22 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Disney
23 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz MGM
24 Show Boat 1936 James Whale Universal
25 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 20th Century Fox