These Are the Most Influential Movies\, Directors and Actors of All Time\, According to Science

A new study conducted by the University of Turin in Italy, has just named the most influential film of all time… according to science.????VO-network/money film??The research, published in the journal Applied Network Science, didn’t just look at box office revenue, however… ????VO-avatar??Which is probably why James Cameron’s Avatar is nowhere to be found.????VO-films??Instead researchers looked at 47,000 films using algorithms in conjunction with the internet movie database as a means to determine how much each one impacted films that came after.????VO-film??Livio Bioglio, lead author on the study told Newsweek:????VO-’’??"The IMDb dataset contains information that recognizes the types of connections [between movies], but among those categories we employed 'references,' 'features,' 'follows,' 'spoofs,' 'remake of' and 'spin-off from.”????VO-countdown/wizard of oz??And the number one most influential film of all time?

The Wizard of Oz.????VO-Wizard of Oz??All of the top twenty most influential films were made pre-1980, which makes sense considering their impact would likely take years to sink in.????VO-??With Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope????SOT-Star Wars??“Everythings perfectly alright now.

We’re fine, we’re all fine here.

How are you?”????VO-SOT Psycho ??

And Hitchcock’s Psycho (SOT murder sound)-coming in second and third place respectively.????VO-director??The Study applied the same method to directors and actors, as well.????VO-hitchcock/spielberg/de palma??With Alfred Hitchcock, spielberg and brian De Palma taking the one two and three spots for directors-????VO-sam jackson/clint/cruise??And Sam Jackson, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise topping the list for most influential actors of all time.????