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	1
2	The Apartment**	Billy Wilder	59
3	Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard	97
4	La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	124
5	Peeping Tom	Michael Powell	274
6	L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni	299
7	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	336
8	Eyes without a Face	Georges Franju	381
9	The Magnificent Seven	John Sturges	388
10	Rocco and His Brothers	Luchino Visconti	838
11	The Virgin Spring	Ingmar Bergman	1084
12	Village of the Damned	Wolf Rilla	1085
13	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Karel Reisz	1190
14	Black Sunday	Mario Bava	1224
15	Shoot the Piano Player	François Truffaut	1291
16	The Time Machine	George Pal	1375
17	Inherit the Wind	Stanley Kramer	1430
18	Le Trou	Jacques Becker	1706
19	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs	Mikio Naruse	2251
20	Purple Noon	René Clément	2435
21	The Little Shop of Horrors	Roger Corman	2457
22	The Cloud-Capped Star	Ritwik Ghatak	2482
23	Elmer Gantry*	Richard Brooks	2616
24	The Housemaid	Kim Ki-young	2623
25	Wild River	Elia Kazan	2719
26	Two Women	Vittorio De Sica	2950
27	The Fall of the House of Usher	Roger Corman	3017

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	West Side Story**	Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise	146
2	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Blake Edwards	326
3	Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa	354
4	The Hustler*	Robert Rossen	426
5	Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Resnais	433
6	The Innocents	Jack Clayton	444
7	Viridiana	Luis Buñuel	485
8	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman	885
9	Judgment at Nuremberg*	Stanley Kramer	936
10	Splendor in the Grass	Elia Kazan	1189
11	The Misfits	John Huston	1311
12	The Guns of Navarone*	J. Lee Thompson	1399
13	La Notte	Michelangelo Antonioni	1454
14	One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando	1507
15	A Raisin in the Sun	Daniel Petrie	1579
16	The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer	Masaki Kobayashi	1766
17	Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	1845
18	One, Two, Three	Billy Wilder	1865
19	Chronicle of a Summer	Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch	1870
20	The Parent Trap	David Swift	1896
21	Accattone	Pier Paolo Pasolini	2091
22	Victim	Basil Dearden	2207
23	Il Posto	Ermanno Olmi	2551
24	Divorce - Italian Style	Pietro Germi	2687
25	The Pit and the Pendulum	Roger Corman	2864
26	El Cid	Anthony Mann	2872
27	The Children's Hour	William Wyler	2888
28	A Taste of Honey	Tony Richardson	3008

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Lawrence of Arabia**	David Lean	25
2	To Kill a Mockingbird*	Robert Mulligan	109
3	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	John Ford	230
4	Jules and Jim	François Truffaut	241
5	The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer	261
6	Cleo from 5 to 7	Agnès Varda	383
7	La Jetée	Chris Marker	474
8	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Robert Aldrich	530
9	Ride the High Country	Sam Peckinpah	683
10	Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey	716
11	My Life to Live	Jean-Luc Godard	724
12	Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi	753
13	Dr. No	Terence Young	781
14	L'Eclisse	Michelangelo Antonioni	806
15	The Longest Day*	Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki	864
16	The Exterminating Angel	Luis Buñuel	896
17	Knife in the Water	Roman Polanski	983
18	Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky	1025
19	Lolita	Stanley Kubrick	1089
20	Cape Fear	J. Lee Thompson	1219
21	The Trial	Orson Welles	1244
22	An Autumn Afternoon	Yasujirô Ozu	1306
23	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	Tony Richardson	1363
24	The Music Man*	Morton DaCosta	1440
25	How the West Was Won*	John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall	1519
26	The Miracle Worker	Arthur Penn	1597
27	Sanjuro	Akira Kurosawa	1900
28	Il Sorpasso	Dino Risi	2228
29	Advise & Consent	Otto Preminger	2323
30	Salvatore Giuliano	Francesco Rosi	2361
31	Le Doulos	Jean-Pierre Melville	2466
32	Lonely Are the Brave	David Miller	2491
33	Days of Wine and Roses	Blake Edwards	2493
34	Mamma Roma	Pier Paolo Pasolini	2756
35	The Damned	Joseph Losey	2860

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