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.

via The Shawshank Redemption – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.