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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 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

1961

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

1962

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.

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