Albert M. Shapiro

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Alias:
Al Shapiro

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Assistant Director:
1981  Going Ape!

Associate Producer:
1981  Going Ape!
1993  And the Band Played On
2000  Nurse Betty

First Assistant Director:
1981  Going Ape!
1982  Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1983  Flashdance
1983  Terms of Endearment
1984  Mike's Murder
1985  Summer Rental
1986  One Crazy Summer
1987  Project X
1990  Air America
1992  Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
1992  The Bodyguard
1993  And the Band Played On
2000  Nurse Betty
2000  The 6th Day

Second Assistant Director:
1977  Sorcerer
1979  Meteor
1980  Urban Cowboy
1981  Going Ape!
1982  Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1983  Flashdance
1983  Terms of Endearment
1984  Mike's Murder
1985  Summer Rental
1986  One Crazy Summer
1987  Project X
1990  Air America
1992  Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
1992  The Bodyguard
1993  And the Band Played On
2000  Nurse Betty
2000  The 6th Day

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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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