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Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time.

Critics are asked to provide a top ten list.

Since 1992 world's finest directors are invited to participate in a separate poll.

The individual results are eclectic ; in the 2002 poll, 885 different films received at least one mention from one voter.

Even the top-of-the-list consensus has its limits.

In 2002, both the critics and the directors selected Stanley Kubrick films in their top ten ; however, the critics chose 2001: A Space Odyssey, while the directors preferred Dr. Strangelove.

The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the " greatest ever film " polls.

Roger Ebert described it as " by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies -- the only one most serious movie people take seriously.

" The first poll, in 1952, was topped by Bicycle Thieves.

The five subsequent polls ( 1962 – 2002 ) were won by Citizen Kane ( which finished 13th in 1952 ), while Vertigo received the most votes in 2012.

Only La Règle du jeu ( The Rules of the Game ) has appeared in all seven of the magazine's decennial polls.

Among the directors that participated in 2012 are Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Ken Loach and Francis Ford Coppola.