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Top Films by Year (1963-1966)

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

1963

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 Federico Fellini 80
2 The Great Escape John Sturges 166
3 The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 262
4 The Leopard Luchino Visconti 332
5 The Haunting Robert Wise 418
6 Contempt Jean-Luc Godard 422
7 Tom Jones** Tony Richardson 435
8 Charade Stanley Donen 638
9 The Servant Joseph Losey 688
10 Jason and the Argonauts Don Chaffey 715
11 From Russia with Love Terence Young 720
12 Hud Martin Ritt 724
13 This Sporting Life Lindsay Anderson 768
14 The Nutty Professor Jerry Lewis 809
15 The Pink Panther Blake Edwards 820
16 Shock Corridor Samuel Fuller 849
17 High and Low Akira Kurosawa 1074
18 Winter Light Ingmar Bergman 1266
19 Cleopatra* Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1397
20 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Stanley Kramer 1445
21 Billy Liar John Schlesinger 1535
22 An Actor's Revenge Kon Ichikawa 1722
23 Bye Bye Birdie George Sidney 1917
24 The Silence Ingmar Bergman 2014
25 The Damned Joseph Losey 2179
26 Blood Feast Herschell Gordon Lewis 2271
27 Lilies of the Field* Ralph Nelson 2274
28 America, America* Elia Kazan 2303
29 Flaming Creatures Jack Smith 2340
30 The Incredible Journey Fletcher Markle 2360
31 The Fire within Louis Malle 2373

1964

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* Stanley Kubrick 12
2 A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester 157
3 My Fair Lady** George Cukor 164
4 Goldfinger Guy Hamilton 186
5 Mary Poppins* Robert Stevenson 252
6 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy 368
7 Zulu Cy Endfield 491
8 A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone 653
9 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini 660
10 A Shot in the Dark Blake Edwards 861
11 Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara 914
12 Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer 942
13 The Train John Frankenheimer 1043
14 The Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni 1101
15 Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard 1127
16 Onibaba Kaneto Shindô 1324
17 Charulata Satyajit Ray 1336
18 Fail-Safe Sidney Lumet 1368
19 Zorba the Greek* Michael Cacoyannis 1503
20 The Pawnbroker Sidney Lumet 1547
21 Marnie Alfred Hitchcock 1617
22 Seven Days in May John Frankenheimer 1717
23 Scorpio Rising Kenneth Anger 1791
24 Barren Lives Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1860
25 The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller 2080
26 The Naked Kiss Samuel Fuller 2089
27 The Masque of the Red Death Roger Corman 2161
28 Topkapi Jules Dassin 2168
29 Becket* Peter Glenville 2224
30 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Robert Aldrich 2230
31 Seven Up! Paul Almond 2318
32 Black God and White Devil Glauber Rocha 2343

1965

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music** Robert Wise 79
2 Doctor Zhivago* David Lean 191
3 Repulsion Roman Polanski 350
4 Pierrot le Fou Jean-Luc Godard 551
5 The Ipcress File Sidney J. Furie 656
6 Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard 658
7 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Russ Meyer 879
8 The Shop on Main Street Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 956
9 Chimes at Midnight Orson Welles 1016
10 Darling* John Schlesinger 1084
11 Loves of a Blonde Milos Forman 1301
12 The War Game Peter Watkins 1408
13 Red Beard Akira Kurosawa 1450
14 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Martin Ritt 1497
15 Cat Ballou Elliot Silverstein 1510
16 For a Few Dollars More Sergio Leone 1533
17 Juliet of the Spirits Federico Fellini 1546
18 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Sergei Parajanov 1551
19 Tokyo Olympiad Kon Ichikawa 1570
20 Von Ryan's Express Mark Robson 2007

1966

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone 118
2 Persona Ingmar Bergman 158
3 The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo 215
4 Andrei Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky 236
5 Blow-Up Michelangelo Antonioni 266
6 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* Mike Nichols 476
7 A Man for All Seasons** Fred Zinnemann 482
8 Au hasard Balthazar Robert Bresson 544
9 Closely Watched Trains Jirí Menzel 664
10 Alfie* Lewis Gilbert 915
11 Seconds John Frankenheimer 1122
12 A Man and a Woman Claude Lelouch 1313
13 The Endless Summer Bruce Brown 1348
14 Fantastic Voyage Richard Fleischer 1361
15 Masculine Feminine Jean-Luc Godard 1434
16 Chelsea Girls Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1489
17 King of Hearts Phillippe de Broca 1723
18 Daisies Vera Chytilová 1912
19 Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut 1961
20 Batman Leslie H. Martinson 1966
21 The Professionals Richard Brooks 2021
22 The Round-up Miklós Jancsó 2165
23 Grand Prix John Frankenheimer 2324
24 Cul-de-sac Roman Polanski 2349
25 El Dorado Howard Hawks 2365

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

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