The big 20

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | The big 20: "A month ago, we asked you to vote for the best ever film made from a novel. The results are in, and we reveal the readers' chart of the top 50 film adaptations. Our critics Peter Bradshaw and Xan Brooks cast their eyes over your favourites"

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan (1962)
Adapted by Horton Foote from Harper Lee's 1960 novel

2 .One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman (1975)
Adapted by Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben from the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey

3. Blade Runner
Ridley Scott (1982)
Adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples from the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick

4. The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
Adapted by Mario Puzo from his 1969 novel

5. The Remains of the Day
James Ivory (1993)
Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

6. Kes
Ken Loach (1969)
Adapted by Tony Garnett from the 1968 novel A Kestrel For a Knave by Barry Hines

7. Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
Adapted by Coppola and John Milius from the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

8 .The Shawshank Redemption
Frank Darabont (1994)
Adapted by Darabont from the 1982 short story Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

9. LA Confidential
Curtis Hanson (1997)
Adapted by Hanson and Brian Helgeland from the 1990 novel by James Ellroy

10. Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee (2005)
Adapted by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry from the 1997 short story by E Annie Proulx

11. A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick (1971)
Adapted by Kubrick from the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess

12. Doctor Zhivago
David Lean (1965)
Adapted by Robert Bolt from the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak

13. The Maltese Falcon
John Huston (1941)
Adapted by Huston from the 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett

14. Fight Club
David Fincher (1999)
Adapted by Jim Uhls from the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk

15. The English Patient
Anthony Minghella (1996)
Adapted by Minghella from the 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje

16. Brighton Rock
John Boulting (1947)
Adapted by Graham Greene and Terence Rattigan from the 1938 novel by Greene

17. Trainspotting
Danny Boyle (1996)
Adapted by John Hodge from the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh

18. Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock (1940)
Adapted by Philip MacDonald from the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier

19. Oliver Twist
David Lean (1948)
Adapted by Lean and Stanley Haynes from the 1838 novel by Charles Dickens

20. Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg (1993)
Adapted by Steven Zaillian from the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

The next 30

21. The Railway Children
dir: Lionel Jeffries (1970)
adapted from E Nesbit

22. Breakfast at Tiffany's
dir: Blake Edwards (1961)
adapted from Truman Capote

23. Dangerous Liaisons
dir: Stephen Frears (1988)
adapted from Choderlos de Laclos

24 Orlando
dir: Sally Potter (1992)
adapted from Virginia Woolf

25 Empire of the Sun
dir: Steven Spielberg (1987)
adapted from JG Ballard

26 Goodfellas
dir: Martin Scorsese (1990)
adapted from Nicholas Pileggi

27. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
dir: Ronald Neame (1969)
adapted from Muriel Spark

28. The Talented Mr Ripley
dir: Anthony Minghella (1999)
adapted from Patricia Highsmith

29. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
dir: Martin Ritt (1965)
adapted from John le Carré

30. Lord of the Flies
dir: Peter Brook (1963)
adapted from William Golding

31. Pride and Prejudice
dir: Joe Wright (2005)
adapted from Jane Austen

32. Sin City
dir: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino (2005)
adapted from Frank Miller

33. The Vanishing
dir: George Sluizer (1993)
adapted from Tim Krabbé

34. Jaws
dir: Steven Spielberg (1975)
adapted from Peter Benchley

35. Watership Down
dir: Martin Rosen (1978)
adapted from Richard Adams

36. Nineteen Eighty-Four
dir: Michael Radford (1984)
adapted from George Orwell

37. The French Lieutenant's Woman
dir: Karel Reisz (1981)
adapted from John Fowles

38. Catch-22
dir: Mike Nichols (1970)
adapted from Joseph Heller

39. Lolita
dir: Stanley Kubrick (1962)
adapted from Vladimir Nabokov

40. Tess
dir: Roman Polanski (1979)
adapted from Thomas Hardy

41. Get Shorty
dir: Barry Sonnenfeld (1995)
adapted from Elmore Leonard

42. The Jungle Book
dir: Wolfgang Reitherman (1967)
adapted from Rudyard Kipling

43. Alice
dir: Jan Svankmajer (1988)
adapted from Lewis Carroll

44. American Psycho
dir: Mary Harron (2000)
adapted from Bret Easton Ellis

45. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
dir: Tim Burton (2005)
adapted from Roald Dahl

46. Devil in a Blue Dress
dir: Carl Franklin (1995)
adapted from Walter Mosley

47. Goldfinger
dir: Guy Hamilton (1964)
adapted from Ian Fleming

48. The Day of the Triffids
dir: Steve Sekely (1962)
adapted from John Wyndham

49. The Hound of the Baskervilles
dir: Sidney Lanfield (1939)
adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle

50. The Outsiders
dir: Francis Ford Coppola (1983)
adapted from SE Hinton