Martin Scorsese reveals top ten favorite films

Director Martin Scorsese participated in the 2022 Sight and Sound decennial ranking, where a group of 460 filmmakers voted on the greatest films in history.

Scorsese identified his top ten preferences, with Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968) taking the first position. He praised the film’s audacity and visual effects. His second choice was Federico Fellini’s ‘8½’ (1963), which he described as a landmark for its innovation and camera movement. His third selection was Andrzej Wajda’s ‘Ashes and Diamonds’ (1958), followed by Orson Welles’s ‘Citizen Kane’ (1941) in fourth place.