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TOP BIOPICS (full results)

Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980) 48 14 3
#2 Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) 45 13 3
#3 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) 43 11 6
#4 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) 29 8 4
#5 Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974) 26 7 2
#6 Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984) 23 7 1
#7 Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927) 21 6 3
#8 Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1995) 16 7 1
#9 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 15 4 2
Ivan the Terrible I & II (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944-46) 15 5 1
#11 The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934) 14 3 2
#12 The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980) 12 6 -
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939) 12 3 2
#14 Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) 8 3 -
#15 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) 7 3 -
Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956) 7 2 -
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) 7 3 -
#18 An Angel at my Table (Jane Campion, 1990) 6 2 -
Malcom X (Spike Lee, 1992) 6 2 -
Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox, 1986) 6 2 -
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991) 6 2 -
#22 The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004) 5 1 1
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004) 5 1 1
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007) 5 3 -
Lili Marleen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981) 5 1 1
Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970) 5 2 -
Rasputin and the Empress (Richard Boleslawski, 1932) 5 1 1
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987) 5 3 -
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh (Paul Cox, 1987) 5 1 1
#30 Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988) 4 1 -
The Flowers of Saint Francis (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) 4 1 -
Frances (Graeme Clifford, 1982) 4 1 -
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964) 4 2 -
Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007) 4 2 -
Isadora (Karel Reisz, 1968) 4 1 -
The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut, 1980) 4 1 -
Molokh (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1999) 4 1 -
Nijinsky (Paul Cox, 2001) 4 1 -
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1993) 4 1 -
The Story of Adele H. (François Truffaut, 1975) 4 1 -
#41 American Hot Wax (Floyd Mutrux, 1978) 3 1 -
Becket (Peter Glenville, 1964) 3 1 -
Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini, 1972) 3 1 -
Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995) 3 1 -
Chronicle of Anna Magdelena Bach (Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub, 1968) 3 2 -
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2006) 3 1 -
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) 3 1 -
Lenny (Bob Fosse, 1976) 3 1 -
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985) 3 1 -
Reds (Warren Beatty 1981) 3 1 -
Sayat Nova: The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Pharajanov, 1968) 3 1 -
Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel, 1965) 3 1 -
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960) 3 2 -
Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson, 1962) 3 1 -
#55 Ali (Michael Mann, 2001) 2 1 -
Dillinger (John Milius, 1973) 2 1 -
Forbidden Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1924) 2 1 -
In The Name of The Father (Jim Sheridan 1993) 2 1 -
The Long Gray Line (John Ford, 1955) 2 1 -
Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller, 1992) 2 1 -
La Môme (La Vie en rose) (Olivier Dahan. 2007) 2 1 -
The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 1974) 2 1 -
Rudy (David Anspaugh, 1993) 2 1 -
Shine (Scott Hicks, 1996) 2 1 -
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999) 2 1 -
#66 Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone, 1989) 1 1 -
Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005) 1 1 -
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007) 1 1 -
Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh, 1942) 1 1 -
Infamous (Douglas McGrath, 2006) 1 1 -
Lisztomania (Ken Russell, 1975) 1 1 -
Max (Menno Meyjes, 2002) 1 1 -
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989) 1 1 -
Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood, 1942) 1 1 -
Sunrise at Campobello (Vincent Donehue 1960) 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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