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The 100 best sci-fi movies: who voted?

Leading sci-fi experts, filmmakers, science fiction writers, film critics and scientists pick the best sci-fi movies ever made

Wednesday 20 June 2018

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Film and TV personalities

Guillermo Del Toro

Del Toro is the director behind ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’, ‘Pacific Rim’ and ‘Hellboy’. See top ten

John Carpenter

The director’s films include ‘The Thing’, ‘Escape From New York’, ‘They Live’ and ‘Ghosts of Mars’. See...

Brian Blessed

Blessed appeared in ‘Flash Gordon’, ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’. See top ten

Anthony Daniels

Anthony Daniels played the droid C-3PO in six ‘Star Wars’ movies. See top ten

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Scientists

Jim Al-Khalili

Al-Khalili is one of the most recognisable scientists on British TV and radio. See top ten

Maggie Aderin Pocock MBE

Maggie Aderin Pocock co-presents the BBC’s long-running ‘The Sky at Night’. See top ten

Dr Adam Rutherford

Rutherford is best known for BBC Radio’s ‘Inside Science’ and his blogs for the Guardian. See top ten

Professor Robert Winston

Robert Winston is familiar from documentaries including ‘How Science Changed Our World’. See top ten

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Science fiction authors

Stephen King

Stephen King has explored sci-fi in the likes of ‘The Long Walk’, ‘The Stand’ and ‘Under the Dome’. See top ten

George RR Martin

Martin is best known for ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, the inspiration for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’. See top ten

Alastair Reynolds

Reynolds’s works include the Revelation Space series and the Poseidon’s Children trilogy. See top ten

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Mars’ trilogy redefined modern sci-fi. See top ten

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