The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012

[1] For this poll, Sight & Sound listened to decades of criticism about the lack of diversity of its poll participants and made a huge effort to invite a much wider variety of critics and filmmakers from around the world to participate, taking into account gender, ethnicity, race, geographical region, socioeconomic status, and other kinds of underrepresentation.

[2] A new rule was imposed for this ballot: related films that are considered part of a larger whole (e.g.

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy and Dekalog, or Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy) were to be treated as separate films for voting purposes.

[2] They published the critics' list of "greatest films" based on 846 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors,[3] as well as a directors' list based on 358 directors and filmmakers.

[14] Among the directors that participated were Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Ken Loach and Francis Ford Coppola.