Top Films by Year (1960-1962)

**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

1960

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	6
2	Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard	89
3	The Apartment**	Billy Wilder	141
4	La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	144
5	L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni	190
6	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	197
7	Peeping Tom	Michael Powell	274
8	The Magnificent Seven	John Sturges	325
9	Shoot the Piano Player	François Truffaut	628
10	Eyes without a Face	Georges Franju	656
11	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Karel Reisz	786
12	Black Sunday	Mario Bava	954
13	Rocco and His Brothers	Luchino Visconti	980
14	The Virgin Spring	Ingmar Bergman	1031
15	Two Women	Vittorio De Sica	1219
16	The Time Machine	George Pal	1222
17	Village of the Damned	Wolf Rilla	1265
18	Inherit the Wind	Stanley Kramer	1436
19	Elmer Gantry*	Richard Brooks	1581
20	The Cloud-Capped Star	Ritwik Ghatak	1587
21	Le Trou	Jacques Becker	1598
22	Swiss Family Robinson	Ken Annakin	1959
23	The Alamo*	John Wayne	2173
24	Purple Noon	René Clément	2233

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	West Side Story**	Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise	82
2	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Blake Edwards	182
3	The Hustler*	Robert Rossen	201
4	Viridiana	Luis Buñuel	328
5	Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa	391
6	Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Resnais	396
7	The Innocents	Jack Clayton	587
8	Splendor in the Grass	Elia Kazan	712
9	The Guns of Navarone*	J. Lee Thompson	803
10	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman	1013
11	Judgment at Nuremberg*	Stanley Kramer	1033
12	A Raisin in the Sun	Daniel Petrie	1198
13	La Notte	Michelangelo Antonioni	1252
14	The Misfits	John Huston	1315
15	One, Two, Three	Billy Wilder	1386
16	Lola	Jacques Demy	1486
17	One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando	1507
18	El Cid	Anthony Mann	1696
19	Accattone	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1749
20	Victim	Basil Dearden	1758
21	Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	1970
22	A Taste of Honey	Tony Richardson	1991
23	Whistle Down the Wind	Bryan Forbes	2063
24	Chronicle of a Summer	Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch	2123
25	Divorce - Italian Style	Pietro Germi	2157
26	Pit and the Pendulum	Roger Corman	2190

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Lawrence of Arabia**	David Lean	9
2	To Kill a Mockingbird*	Robert Mulligan	55
3	The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer	106
4	Jules and Jim	François Truffaut	169
5	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	John Ford	272
6	La Jetée	Chris Marker	522
7	Dr. No	Terence Young	558
8	The Longest Day*	Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki	607
9	Knife in the Water	Roman Polanski	669
10	The Exterminating Angel	Luis Buñuel	697
11	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Robert Aldrich	707
12	Ride the High Country	Sam Peckinpah	749
13	The Music Man*	Morton DaCosta	792
14	Lolita	Stanley Kubrick	816
15	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	Tony Richardson	838
16	Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey	906
17	The Eclipse	Michelangelo Antonioni	928
18	Long Day's Journey into Night	Sidney Lumet	952
19	My Life to Live	Jean-Luc Godard	983
20	The Miracle Worker	Arthur Penn	1038
21	Cleo from 5 to 7	Agnès Varda	1069
22	Winter Light	Ingmar Bergman	1226
23	Cape Fear	J. Lee Thompson	1289
24	Lonely Are the Brave	David Miller	1398
25	An Autumn Afternoon	Yasujiro Ozu	1418
26	Days of Wine and Roses	Blake Edwards	1545
27	Salvatore Giuliano	Francesco Rosi	1652
28	How the West Was Won*	John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall	1775
29	Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky	1808
30	Requiem for a Heavyweight	Ralph Nelson	1814
31	The Trial	Orson Welles	1875
32	Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi	1996

**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.