OFFICIAL BALLOT - LiveInternet

Dear Juror:You have been chosen to participate in a historic moment in American film.Ten years ago, AFI invited leaders from across the film community—artists, scholars,critics and historians—to select the 100 greatest American movies of all time. It wasan event designed to celebrate the cinema centennial and to catalyze a nationalconversation about the movies. And it worked.AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies and the annual specials that have followed continueto draw attention to the classics of American film—driving audiences to watch andre-watch the movies and stimulating discussion from the watercooler to the Internet.This year, to honor the 10th Anniversary of the AFI’s 100 Years… Series, AFI isrepolling the experts and asking, “What are the greatest American films of all time?And which is the greatest?”AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies—10th Anniversary Edition will allow us toadd the past decade of American films to the debate, as well as to consider achanging cultural perspective. This is a poll we will conduct every ten years acrossthe 21st century, so now is the time to cast your vote for the decade and help AFIbegin the conversation for a new generation.The celebration begins here—with you. Attached is a ballot from which you mayvote for the movies that AFI will honor in a three-hour CBS television event inJune, 2007 that will reveal the 100 greatest movies in American film history,counting down from #100 to #1.Your choices will have a significant impact on the results due to the exclusivity of thevoting pool, so we urge you to consider your selections with great care.Your vote must be received no later than Friday, February 2, 2007.Thank you for your participation as a member of the AFI Jury and this extraordinaryopportunity to honor excellence in American film.Sincerely,Jean Picker FirstenbergPresident and CEOAmerican Film Institute1