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	7
2	Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard	81
3	The Apartment**	Billy Wilder	127
4	La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	134
5	L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni	196
6	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	211
7	Peeping Tom	Michael Powell	258
8	The Magnificent Seven	John Sturges	318
9	Eyes without a Face	Georges Franju	662
10	Shoot the Piano Player	François Truffaut	699
11	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Karel Reisz	772
12	Black Sunday	Mario Bava	995
13	Rocco and His Brothers	Luchino Visconti	1008
14	The Virgin Spring	Ingmar Bergman	1110
15	Two Women	Vittorio De Sica	1262
16	The Time Machine	George Pal	1264
17	Inherit the Wind	Stanley Kramer	1338
18	Village of the Damned	Wolf Rilla	1465
19	The Cloud-Capped Star	Ritwik Ghatak	1664
20	Le Trou	Jacques Becker	1680
21	Purple Noon	René Clément	1998
22	Swiss Family Robinson	Ken Annakin	2016
23	Elmer Gantry*	Richard Brooks	2044
24	The Alamo*	John Wayne	2258
25	The Bellboy	Jerry Lewis	2336

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	West Side Story**	Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise	88
2	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Blake Edwards	203
3	The Hustler*	Robert Rossen	222
4	Viridiana	Luis Buñuel	309
5	Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa	342
6	Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Resnais	439
7	The Innocents	Jack Clayton	583
8	Splendor in the Grass	Elia Kazan	769
9	The Guns of Navarone*	J. Lee Thompson	783
10	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman	1089
11	Judgment at Nuremberg*	Stanley Kramer	1126
12	La Notte	Michelangelo Antonioni	1299
13	One, Two, Three	Billy Wilder	1382
14	One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando	1513
15	The Misfits	John Huston	1549
16	A Raisin in the Sun	Daniel Petrie	1652
17	A Taste of Honey	Tony Richardson	1743
18	Victim	Basil Dearden	1823
19	Lola	Jacques Demy	1882
20	Chronicle of a Summer	Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch	1931
21	Accattone	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1984
22	El Cid	Anthony Mann	2004
23	Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	2035
24	Whistle Down the Wind	Bryan Forbes	2156
25	Divorce - Italian Style	Pietro Germi	2243
26	Pit and the Pendulum	Roger Corman	2281

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Lawrence of Arabia**	David Lean	9
2	To Kill a Mockingbird*	Robert Mulligan	62
3	The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer	124
4	Jules and Jim	François Truffaut	168
5	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	John Ford	288
6	La Jetée	Chris Marker	480
7	Dr. No	Terence Young	524
8	The Longest Day*	Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki	614
9	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Robert Aldrich	682
10	Knife in the Water	Roman Polanski	689
11	The Exterminating Angel	Luis Buñuel	735
12	The Music Man*	Morton DaCosta	773
13	Lolita	Stanley Kubrick	806
14	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	Tony Richardson	813
15	Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey	824
16	Ride the High Country	Sam Peckinpah	880
17	The Eclipse	Michelangelo Antonioni	967
18	My Life to Live	Jean-Luc Godard	1028
19	Cleo from 5 to 7	Agnès Varda	1136
20	Cape Fear	J. Lee Thompson	1160
21	Long Day's Journey into Night	Sidney Lumet	1167
22	The Miracle Worker	Arthur Penn	1174
23	How the West Was Won*	John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall	1625
24	Lonely Are the Brave	David Miller	1629
25	An Autumn Afternoon	Yasujiro Ozu	1638
26	Requiem for a Heavyweight	Ralph Nelson	1658
27	Days of Wine and Roses	Blake Edwards	1731
28	Salvatore Giuliano	Francesco Rosi	1737
29	The Trial	Orson Welles	1794
30	Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky	1873
31	Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi	1949
32	Birdman of Alcatraz	John Frankenheimer	2382

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