One of the greatest films of all time, it is one of the first 50 films entered in the “United States Library of Congress’ National Film Registry”.

Critically and commercially successful on release, it won 6 Academy Awards with major awards including Best Motion Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay for Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

It marked an Oscar record with 14 Academy Award Nominations, a record which today has since only been matched by two other films, “Titanic” (1997) and “La La Land” (2016). In addition, it marks another major record as the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations, with Bette Davis and Anne Baxter for Best Actress and Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter for Best Supporting Actress.

It is largely considered as “a classic of the American cinema – to this day the quintessential depiction of ruthless ambition in the entertainment industry, with legendary performances from Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders anchoring one of the very best films from one of Hollywood’s very best Golden Era filmmakers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz” as described by BoxOffice.com.

Roger Ebert praised the film in 2000 for its central performance from Bette Davis, stating that “Margo Channing in All About Eve was her greatest role”.

The Writers Guild of America has ranked the film’s screenplay as the fifth greatest ever written.

The American Film Institute has selected the film for many of their “100 Years… 100 Movies” rankings with it at #16 in 1998 and #28 in 2007.