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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 100
2 The Great Escape John Sturges 154
3 The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 226
4 The Leopard Luchino Visconti 340
5 The Haunting Robert Wise 428
6 Contempt Jean-Luc Godard 496
7 High and Low Akira Kurosawa 642
8 From Russia with Love Terence Young 889
9 Jason and the Argonauts Don Chaffey 931
10 The Servant Joseph Losey 1000
11 Charade Stanley Donen 1009
12 Hud Martin Ritt 1037
13 The Pink Panther Blake Edwards 1206
14 This Sporting Life Lindsay Anderson 1223
15 Scorpio Rising Kenneth Anger 1331
16 Winter Light Ingmar Bergman 1464
17 Tom Jones** Tony Richardson 1531
18 Shock Corridor Samuel Fuller 1624
19 The Silence Ingmar Bergman 1718
20 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Stanley Kramer 1806
21 Cleopatra* Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1904
22 The House Is Black Forugh Farrokhzad 1921
23 Black Sabbath Mario Bava 2061
24 The Nutty Professor Jerry Lewis 2138
25 Lilies of the Field* Ralph Nelson 2476
26 Billy Liar John Schlesinger 2503
27 America, America* Elia Kazan 2546
28 Le Petit soldat Jean-Luc Godard 2577
29 The Sword in the Stone Wolfgang Reitherman 2634
30 The Fire within Louis Malle 2649
31 Blood Feast Herschell Gordon Lewis 2782
32 Flaming Creatures Jack Smith 2799
33 Not on Your Life Luis García Berlanga 2952

1964

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* Stanley Kubrick 16
2 Mary Poppins* Robert Stevenson 204
3 Goldfinger Guy Hamilton 246
4 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy 292
5 A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester 303
6 My Fair Lady** George Cukor 348
7 A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone 429
8 Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara 805
9 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini 845
10 Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi 852
11 The Train John Frankenheimer 860
12 Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard 953
13 Zulu Cy Endfield 1036
14 I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov 1072
15 Seven Up! Paul Almond 1227
16 Onibaba Kaneto Shindô 1252
17 Black God and White Devil Glauber Rocha 1397
18 Charulata Satyajit Ray 1425
19 A Shot in the Dark Blake Edwards 1525
20 The Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni 1583
21 Fail-Safe Sidney Lumet 1618
22 Marnie Alfred Hitchcock 1785
23 The Masque of the Red Death Roger Corman 1816
24 Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer 1872
25 Blood and Black Lace Mario Bava 1973
26 Dog Star Man Stan Brakhage 2133
27 The Pawnbroker Sidney Lumet 2369
28 Nothing but a Man Michael Roemer 2449
29 The Naked Kiss Samuel Fuller 2673
30 Seven Days in May John Frankenheimer 2776
31 Becket* Peter Glenville 2820
32 The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller 2933
33 Viva Las Vegas George Sidney 2935

1965

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music** Robert Wise 135
2 Doctor Zhivago* David Lean 393
3 Repulsion Roman Polanski 396
4 For a Few Dollars More Sergio Leone 476
5 Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard 636
6 Pierrot le Fou Jean-Luc Godard 671
7 Chimes at Midnight Orson Welles 739
8 The Ipcress File Sidney J. Furie 1336
9 Red Beard Akira Kurosawa 1437
10 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Sergei Parajanov 1762
11 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Russ Meyer 1774
12 War and Peace Sergey Bondarchuk 1787
13 Loves of a Blonde Milos Forman 1966
14 The Shop on Main Street Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1980
15 Cat Ballou Elliot Silverstein 2104
16 Juliet of the Spirits Federico Fellini 2161
17 Thunderball Terence Young 2181
18 Tokyo Olympiad Kon Ichikawa 2293
19 Le Bonheur Agnès Varda 2411
20 The Saragossa Manuscript Wojciech Has 2459
21 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Martin Ritt 2624
22 Von Ryan's Express Mark Robson 2927

1966

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone 48
2 Persona Ingmar Bergman 122
3 The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo 158
4 Andrei Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky 264
5 Blow-Up Michelangelo Antonioni 346
6 Au hasard Balthazar Robert Bresson 365
7 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* Mike Nichols 559
8 Daisies Vera Chytilová 859
9 Seconds John Frankenheimer 901
10 Closely Watched Trains Jirí Menzel 947
11 Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut 1108
12 Black Girl Ousmane Sembene 1181
13 A Man for All Seasons** Fred Zinnemann 1237
14 The Professionals Richard Brooks 1501
15 The Endless Summer Bruce Brown 1595
16 Django Sergio Corbucci 1666
17 The War Game Peter Watkins 1749
18 The Shooting Monte Hellman 1887
19 Chelsea Girls Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1915
20 Masculine Feminine Jean-Luc Godard 1948
21 Fantastic Voyage Richard Fleischer 2090
22 Alfie* Lewis Gilbert 2122
23 Kill, Baby...Kill! Mario Bava 2213
24 A Man and a Woman Claude Lelouch 2266
25 Batman Leslie H. Martinson 2311
26 El Dorado Howard Hawks 2643
27 Tokyo Drifter Seijun Suzuki 2705
28 The Face of Another Hiroshi Teshigahara 2751
29 The Sand Pebbles* Robert Wise 2795
30 Second Breath Jean-Pierre Melville 2836
31 The Round-up Miklós Jancsó 2849
32 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Chuck Jones 2870
33 The Rise of Louis XIV Roberto Rossellini 2917

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

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