SCI FI Wire readers overwhelmingly selected Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back as the movie most neglected for being left off the American Film Institute’s list of the 50 best SF movies of all time.

Some 24 percent of the responses for the top 10 most neglected movies went to Empire out of the hundreds of e-mails sent by SCI FI Wire readers.

The SF movie that received the second-highest percentage of votes was James Cameron’s Aliens, with 18 percent of the vote.

And Joss Whedon’s cult favorite Serenity came in a close third, with 17 percent of the vote.

Overall, readers nominated more than 60 SF movies that should have been included on the AFI’s list, but most received only a single vote. Among those that received more than one vote, the top 10 most neglected films were these: Empire, Aliens, Serenity, Terminator, Gattaca, The Fifth Element, The Road Warrior, Metropolis, Stargate and Armageddon.

SCI FI Readers also picked their top 10 favorite films from the AFI’s list.