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

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

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.