Members of the American Society of Cinematographers have put their heads together to craft a list of the best-shot films of all time, honoring the best of the best in the realm of cinematography. The ASC is an elite professional organization comprised of cinematographers at the top of their field, and in celebration of its 100th anniversary today, they’ve revealed a list of the 100 best-shot films of all time as selected by professional cinematographers themselves.

Cinematography is a vital aspect of filmmaking that all too often goes overlooked. The art of cinematography is far more complex—and artful—than simply pointing a camera and shooting. Cinematographers spend countless hours perfecting the light for a scene, choosing the correct lenses, aspect ratio, framing, etc. all to capture the image in the best way possible for the story at hand. There is, obviously, a significant difference between good cinematography and bad cinematography, but what makes the artform so exciting is how diverse the range of “great” cinematographers is. You wouldn’t mistake a Roger Deakins-shot film for a Janusz Kaminski-shot film for a Bradford Young-shot film, and yet each DP’s artistic expression is exciting in its own right.

As for the ASC’s list of the 10 best-shot films ever made, there are a couple of obvious choices like Lawrence of Arabia (the top film) and Days of Heaven, but also some exciting choices like The French Connection thrown in as well.

Peruse the ASC’s list of the best-shot films of all time below, followed by the full list of the Top 100.

10. The French Connection (1971)

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Shot by Owen Roizman, ASC (Dir. William Friedkin)

9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Shot by Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC with additional photography by John Alcott, BSC (Dir. Stanley Kubrick)

8. Days of Heaven (1978)

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Shot by Néstor Almendros, ASC (Dir. Terrence Malick)

7. The Conformist (1970)

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Shot by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)

6. Raging Bull (1980)

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Shot by Michael Chapman, ASC (Dir. Martin Scorsese)

5. The Godfather (1972)

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Shot by Gordon Willis, ASC (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

4. Citizen Kane (1941)

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Shot by Gregg Toland, ASC (Dir. Orson Wells)

3. Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Shot by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

2. Blade Runner (1982)

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Shot by Jordan Cronenweth, ASC (Dir. Ridley Scott)

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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Shot by Freddie Young, BSC (Dir. David Lean)

The Other 90

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1927 Metropolis

1927 Napoleon

1927 Sunrise

1939 Gone with the Wind

1939 Wizard of Oz, The

1940 Grapes of Wrath, The

1941 Citizen Kane

1964 Dr. Strangelove

1964 I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)

1965 Doctor Zhivago

1966 Battle of Algiers, The

1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1967 Cool Hand Luke

1967 Graduate, The

1967 In Cold Blood

1968 2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 Once Upon a Time in the West

1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969 Wild Bunch

1970 Conformist, The

1971 Clockwork Orange, A

1971 French Connection, The

1971 Klute

1971 Last Picture Show, The

1971 McCabe and Mrs. Miller

1972 Cabaret

1972 Godfather, The

1972 Last Tango in Paris

1973 Exorcist, The

1974 Chinatown

1974 Godfather, The: Part II

1975 Barry Lyndon

1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1976 All the President's Men

1976 Bound for Glory

1976 Taxi Driver

1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977 Duellists, The

1978 Days of Heaven

1978 Deer Hunter, The

1979 Alien

1979 All that Jazz

1979 Apocalypse Now

1979 Being There

1979 Black Stallion, The

1979 Manhattan

1980 Raging Bull

1980 Shining, The

1981 Chariots of Fire

1981 Das Boot

1981 Reds

1982 Blade Runner

1982 Fanny and Alexander

1983 Right Stuff, The

1984 Amadeus

1984 Natural, The

1984 Paris, Texas

1985 Brazil

1986 Mission, The

1987 Empire of the Sun

1987 Last Emperor, The

1987 Wings of Desire

1988 Mississippi Burning

1991 JFK

1991 Raise the Red Lantern

1992 Unforgiven

1992 Baraka

1993 Schindler's List

1993 Searching For Bobby Fischer

1993 Trois Couleurs: Bleu

1994 Shawshank Redemption, The

1995 Se7en

1996 English Patient, The

1997 L. A. Confidential

1998 Saving Private Ryan

1998 Thin Red Line, The

1999 American Beauty

1999 The Matrix

2000 In the Mood for Love

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