Gregory Peck Atticus Finch, a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". Released in 1962 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the Southern United States, this film and his role were Peck's favorites. In 2003, Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute. Peck served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1967, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute from 1967 to 1969, Chairman
The Tree of Life (film) it at #132). In 2015, Bradshaw named the film one of the top 50 films of the decade so far by "The Guardian". The "Tree of Life" ranked seventh on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'s "100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century" in August 2016. The list was compiled by polling 177 film critics from around the world. The Tree of Life (film) The Tree of Life is a 2011 American experimental epic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and featuring a cast of Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Jessica Chastain, and Tye Sheridan in