Top 10 American movies

In lieu of AFI's Top 100 American (and British) films...here is my top 10 - considering impact on cinema & society, as well as quality of the film:

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles - 1941)
2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola - 1972)
3. Apocolypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola - 1979)
4. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick - 1971)
5. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino - 1994)
6. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont - 1994)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick - 1968)
8. Star Wars (George Lucas - 1977)
9. The Matrix (Andy&Larry Wachowski - 1999)
10. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson - 2004)

My top 10 directors (American, British, or whatever!):
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Fritz Lang
4. Orson Welles
5. Martin Scorsese
6. Joel&Ethan Coen
7. Francis Ford Coppola
8. Steven Spielberg
9. Quentin Tarantino
10. Wes Anderson