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List of the AFI’s Top Sports Movies. In 2008 the American Film Institute honored America’s 10 greatest films in 10 classic film genres, of which Sports was one. These were chosen from a ballot of 500 nominated films, to a jury of over 1500 leaders in the film industry. The ballot include films from 1915 to 2006.

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1980
    Martin Scorsese
    Drama, Black-and-white, Boxing, Period piece, Biography, Sports, Biographical film, New Hollywood, Neo-noir More
    Joe Pesci, Bill Hanrahan, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Frank Adonis, Charles Scorsese, John Turturro, Nicholas Colasanto, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Frank Topham, Theresa Saldana, Mario Gallo, Don Dunphy, Lori Anne Flax, Joseph Bono More
  2. 2
    1976
    John G. Avildsen
    Drama, Boxing, Action, Sports, Romance Film, New Hollywood
    Thayer David, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Tony Burton, Burgess Meredith, Jodi Letizia, Carl Weathers, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, Pedro Lovell More
  3. 3
    1942
    Sam Wood
    Drama, Black-and-white, Biography, Sports, Biographical film
    Virginia Gilmore, Harry Harvey, Walter Brennan, Pierre Watkin, Ludwig Stössel, Else Jannsen, Ernie Adams, Dan Duryea, Babe Ruth, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Bill Dickey More
  4. 4
    1986
    David Anspaugh
    Drama, Family, Sports, Teen, Sports, Family Drama
    Chelcie Ross, Fern Persons, Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley More
  5. 5
    1988
    Ron Shelton
    Comedy, Sports, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Baseball
    Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, William O'Leary, David Neidorf, Danny Gans, Tom Silardi, Lloyd T. Williams, Rick Marzan, George Buck, Jenny Robertson More
  6. 6
    1961
    Robert Rossen
  7. 7
    1980
    Harold Ramis
    Comedy, Slapstick, Sports, Cult, Satire
    Scott Colomby, Elaine Aiken, Rodney Dangerfield, Brian Doyle-Murray, Hamilton Mitchell, Albert Salmi, Ann Ryerson, Bill Murray, Cindy Morgan, Sarah Holcomb, Ted Knight, Henry Wilcoxon, Dan Resin, Chevy Chase, Michael O'Keefe More
  8. 8
    1979
    Peter Yates
    Comedy, Family, Sports, Drama Film, Coming of age
    Jackie Earle Haley, Peter Maloney, John Ashton, Lisa Shure, Barbara Barrie, Robyn Douglass, Amy Wright, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Paul Dooley, Hart Bochner, P. J. Soles, Jennifer K. Mickel More
  9. 9
    1945
    Clarence Brown
    Drama, Family, Film adaptation, Family Drama, Coming of age
    Mickey Rooney, Arthur Treacher, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, Anne Revere, Norma Varden, Terry Kilburn, Reginald Owen, Juanita Quigley, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury More
  10. 10
    1996
    Cameron Crowe
    Drama, Comedy, Sports, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Romantic drama
    Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King, Jonathan Lipnicki, Todd Louiso, Mark Pellington, Jeremy Suarez, Beau Bridges, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Jared Jussim, Alexandra Wentworth, Benjamin Kimball Smith, Ingrid Beer, Donal Logue, Lucy Liu, Drake Bell, Emily Procter, Aries Spears More

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