Legacy
In 1998, Shawshank was not listed in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, but nine years later (2007), it was #72 on the revised list, outranking both Forrest Gump (#76) and Pulp Fiction (#94), the two most critically acclaimed movies from the year of Shawshank's release. In 1999, film critic Roger Ebert listed Shawshank on his "Great Movies" list.
Readers of Empire magazine voted the film as the best film of the 1990s, and it placed number 4 on Empire's list of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" in 2008. In March 2011, the film was voted by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra listeners as their favorite film of all time.
| Year | Award | Nominee | Ranking | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | The Shawshank Redemption | ||
| 2003 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains | Andy Dufresne (Hero) | ||
| Warden Samuel Norton (Villain) | ||||
| 2004 | AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs | Duettino – Sull'Aria (from The Marriage of Figaro) | ||
| 2005 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes | "Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin" | ||
| 2005 | AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores | The Shawshank Redemption | ||
| 2006 | AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers | The Shawshank Redemption | #23 | |
| 2007 | AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) | The Shawshank Redemption | #72 |
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