Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz have most nominations
The American Film Institute (AFI) recently announced that it will count down the greatest movie quotes of the last century in its eighth annual celebration of 100 years of American cinema.
AFI's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases will highlight the 100 most memorable lines of dialogue spoken in the movies. Chosen from a list of 400 classic phrases, the winners will be chosen by 1500 industry experts and announced in June during a CBS special.
The phrases will be judged on their legacy and their impact on American popular culture. "Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary," AFI director Jean Picker Firstenberg said in a press release.
The money lines vying for the title of "movie quote of the century" include Jack Nicholson's "You can't handle the truth!" from A Few Good Men; Arnold Schwarzenegger's "I'll be back" from The Terminator; Cuba Gooding Jr.'s "Show me the money" from Jerry Maguire; Mike Myers' "Yeah, baby!" from Austin Powers; Sean Connery's "Bond. James Bond" from Dr. No and Tom Hanks' "Houston, we have a problem" from Apollo 13.
The nominees span from the first full-length sound film—1927's The Jazz Singer—with Al Jolson's "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet" to Gollum's eerie hiss of "My precious" in 2002's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Casablanca leads the field with seven nominations, including Humphrey Bogart's money line, "Here's lookin' at you, kid." The Wizard of Oz comes in second with six quotes on the list, including Judy Garland's "There's no place like home."
Bogart has the most quips on the ballot with ten, followed by Al Pacino and the Marx Brothers with six each and Robert De Niro, Hanks, Jack Nicholson and Jimmy Stewart, who all have five nominations. Woody Allen and Myers have four nominations each.
Other nominee entries include Deep Throat's "Follow the money" from All the President's Men; Harrison Ford's "May the force be with you" from Star Wars; Brad Pitt's "First rule of Fight Club is—you do not talk about Fight Club" from Fight Club; Alicia Silverstone's "As if!" from Clueless and Robert Duvall's "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" from Apocalypse Now.
This TV special is the AFI's eighth top-100 list. Previous rankings have rated the best American movies, comedies, love stories, heart-pounders, heroes, villains and movie songs.
The full list of nominees can be found on the AFI web site.
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