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Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological Vertigo has been named as the best movie of all time by the British Film Institute (BFI). The 1958 film Orson Welles’ movie Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time, a it had held for an 50 years. The BFI poll has taken once every ten years since 1962. Its is made up of 846 international film , movie directors, academics and writers. They voted for 2,045 different movies in this decade’s . Nick James, a BFI spokesman, said the voting "seems to be not so about films that…use cinema's entire arsenal of effects to make a grand statement, but more about that have personal meaning to the critic”.

Hitchcock called Vertigo his most . It is about a retired police detective suffering from acrophobia (a fear of heights) who is as a private investigator to follow the wife of a friend to find out the reasons for her behaviour. The film received reviews upon its release, but has gone on to amass considerable acclaim over the decades. The BFI said: "Vertigo is the critics' film because it is a dreamlike film about people who are not who they are but who are busy reconstructing themselves and each other to fit a kind of cinema ideal of the ideal ." A poll of 358 international film directors chose Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953) as its greatest ever movie.