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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 2
2 The Apartment** Billy Wilder 62
3 Breathless Jean-Luc Godard 65
4 La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini 86
5 L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni 195
6 Peeping Tom Michael Powell 232
7 Spartacus Stanley Kubrick 254
8 The Magnificent Seven John Sturges 273
9 Eyes without a Face Georges Franju 406
10 Rocco and His Brothers Luchino Visconti 727
11 Shoot the Piano Player François Truffaut 807
12 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Karel Reisz 982
13 The Virgin Spring Ingmar Bergman 1003
14 Black Sunday Mario Bava 1246
15 Village of the Damned Wolf Rilla 1268
16 The Time Machine George Pal 1281
17 Le Trou Jacques Becker 1352
18 Purple Noon René Clément 1695
19 Inherit the Wind Stanley Kramer 1859
20 Two Women Vittorio De Sica 1986
21 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Mikio Naruse 2127
22 Elmer Gantry* Richard Brooks 2148
23 Primary Robert Drew 2166
24 The Cloud-Capped Star Ritwik Ghatak 2481
25 The Little Shop of Horrors Roger Corman 2671
26 Wild River Elia Kazan 2696
27 The Fall of the House of Usher Roger Corman 2768

1961

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 West Side Story** Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
2 The Hustler* Robert Rossen 301
3 Yojimbo Akira Kurosawa 328
4 Viridiana Luis Buñuel 332
5 Breakfast at Tiffany's Blake Edwards 359
6 Last Year at Marienbad Alain Resnais 392
7 The Innocents Jack Clayton 442
8 One Hundred and One Dalmatians Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman 755
9 Judgment at Nuremberg* Stanley Kramer 1055
10 Splendor in the Grass Elia Kazan 1233
11 The Misfits John Huston 1286
12 The Guns of Navarone* J. Lee Thompson 1303
13 One-Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando 1319
14 La Notte Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
15 Chronicle of a Summer Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1510
16 One, Two, Three Billy Wilder 1540
17 Accattone Pier Paolo Pasolini 1631
18 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer Masaki Kobayashi 1669
19 Through a Glass Darkly Ingmar Bergman 1770
20 Victim Basil Dearden 1846
21 Il Posto Ermanno Olmi 2153
22 The Parent Trap David Swift 2195
23 A Raisin in the Sun Daniel Petrie 2335
24 Lola Jacques Demy 2509
25 El Cid Anthony Mann 2544
26 Divorce - Italian Style Pietro Germi 2621
27 A Taste of Honey Tony Richardson 2726
28 A Woman Is a Woman Jean-Luc Godard 2766

1962

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia** David Lean 19
2 To Kill a Mockingbird* Robert Mulligan 100
3 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance John Ford 178
4 Jules and Jim François Truffaut 201
5 The Manchurian Candidate John Frankenheimer 214
6 La Jetée Chris Marker 350
7 Cleo from 5 to 7 Agnès Varda 461
8 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Robert Aldrich 488
9 L'Eclisse Michelangelo Antonioni 596
10 The Exterminating Angel Luis Buñuel 613
11 My Life to Live Jean-Luc Godard 628
12 Ride the High Country Sam Peckinpah 684
13 Dr. No Terence Young 742
14 Harakiri Masaki Kobayashi 754
15 Knife in the Water Roman Polanski 799
16 Ivan's Childhood Andrei Tarkovsky 818
17 Lolita Stanley Kubrick 823
18 Carnival of Souls Herk Harvey 887
19 The Longest Day* Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 923
20 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Tony Richardson 932
21 The Music Man* Morton DaCosta 1114
22 An Autumn Afternoon Yasujirô Ozu 1187
23 Cape Fear J. Lee Thompson 1237
24 The Trial Orson Welles 1244
25 The Miracle Worker Arthur Penn 1368
26 How the West Was Won* John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1530
27 Lonely Are the Brave David Miller 1704
28 Sanjuro Akira Kurosawa 1921
29 Advise & Consent Otto Preminger 1981
30 Days of Wine and Roses Blake Edwards 1998
31 Salvatore Giuliano Francesco Rosi 2068
32 Prelude: Dog Star Man Stan Brakhage 2241
33 Le Doulos Jean-Pierre Melville 2248
34 Il Sorpasso Dino Risi 2384
35 The Damned Joseph Losey 2430
36 Dog Star Man: Part I Stan Brakhage 2499

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

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