Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals is a list of the top musicals in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute at the Hollywood Bowl on September 3, 2006. Unlike most of the previous lists, it only includes 25 winners and was not presented in a televised program.
The list # Film Year Director Studio 1 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen MGM 2 West Side Story 1961 Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins United Artists 3 1939 Victor Fleming MGM 4 1965 Robert Wise 20th Century Fox 5 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse Allied Artists 6 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson Disney 7 1954 George Cukor Warner Bros. 8 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor Warner Bros. 9 1951 Vincente Minnelli MGM 10 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli MGM 11 1956 Walter Lang 20th Century Fox 12 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall Miramax 13 1933 Lloyd Bacon Warner Bros. 14 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 20th Century Fox 15 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich RKO 16 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler Columbia 17 1953 Vincente Minnelli MGM 18 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz Warner Bros. 19 On the Town 1949 Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen MGM 20 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser Paramount 21 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen MGM 22 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Disney 23 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz MGM 24 Show Boat 1936 James Whale Universal 25 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 20th Century Fox
External links AFI's 100 Years of Musicals List of the 180 nominated musicals. List of the 25 winning musicals.