AFI Picks Top 10 Romantic Comedies

Posted by Leslie C. Halpern Jun 20, 2008

Actors, filmmakers, critics, and others voted on movies that included 50 nominees per genre. Previous years have awarded “Top 10” status to comedies and love stories, but this year “romantic comedies” took up the slack. The 2008 AFI romantic comedy winners:

1. City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin as a little tramp who falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill).

2. Annie Hall (1977) Diane Keaton as a goofy singer who falls for a neurotic comedy writer (Woody Allen).

3. The Philadelphia Story (1940) Cary Grant and James Stewart plot to ruin Katharine Hepburn’s wedding plans.

4. It Happened One Night (1934) Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in the story of a runaway heiress who meets a reporter hungry for a story.

5. Roman Holiday (1953) Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the story of runaway princess who meets a reporter hungry for a story (in Rome).

6. When Harry Met Sally (1989) Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal as two opposites who keep attracting each other over many years.

7. Adam’s Rib (1949) Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn star as husband and wife lawyers who oppose each other in a court case.

8. Moonstruck (1987) Cher and Nicolas Cage in the story of a superstitious widow and a wolf-like man who fall in love.

9. Harold and Maude (1971) An aging Ruth Gordon meets the adolescent Bud Cort at a funeral and romantic sparks ignite.

10. Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Meg Ryan hears lonely widower Tom Hanks on a radio call-in show.

Do you have better choices for the Top 10 Romantic Comedies? Let us know.