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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 74
2 The Great Escape John Sturges 234
3 The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 251
4 The Leopard Luchino Visconti 293
5 Contempt Jean-Luc Godard 371
6 The Haunting Robert Wise 497
7 High and Low Akira Kurosawa 662
8 The Servant Joseph Losey 824
9 From Russia with Love Terence Young 856
10 Winter Light Ingmar Bergman 872
11 Jason and the Argonauts Don Chaffey 877
12 Hud Martin Ritt 911
13 This Sporting Life Lindsay Anderson 977
14 Charade Stanley Donen 1007
15 Tom Jones** Tony Richardson 1043
16 Shock Corridor Samuel Fuller 1060
17 Scorpio Rising Kenneth Anger 1122
18 The Pink Panther Blake Edwards 1143
19 The Nutty Professor Jerry Lewis 1269
20 The Silence Ingmar Bergman 1318
21 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Stanley Kramer 1476
22 Cleopatra* Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1654
23 Billy Liar John Schlesinger 1678
24 The House Is Black Forugh Farrokhzad 1870
25 Flaming Creatures Jack Smith 1880
26 The Fire within Louis Malle 1915
27 Not on Your Life Luis García Berlanga 2210
28 Barren Lives Nelson Pereira dos Santos 2386
29 America, America* Elia Kazan 2421
30 Dog Star Man: Part II Stan Brakhage 2482
31 Blood Feast Herschell Gordon Lewis 2554
32 Black Sabbath Mario Bava and Salvatore Billitteri 2564

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 Goldfinger Guy Hamilton 244
3 Mary Poppins* Robert Stevenson 267
4 A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester 270
5 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy 298
6 My Fair Lady** George Cukor 322
7 A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone 383
8 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini 557
9 Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara 667
10 Zulu Cy Endfield 825
11 I Am Cuba Mikheil Kalatozishvili 965
12 Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard 985
13 Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer 1015
14 The Train John Frankenheimer 1064
15 Charulata Satyajit Ray 1140
16 Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi 1161
17 Seven Up! Paul Almond 1196
18 Black God and White Devil Glauber Rocha 1197
19 Onibaba Kaneto Shindô 1393
20 Marnie Alfred Hitchcock 1401
21 The Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni 1415
22 Fail-Safe Sidney Lumet 1520
23 A Shot in the Dark Blake Edwards 1544
24 The Naked Kiss Samuel Fuller 1847
25 Seven Days in May John Frankenheimer 2018
26 The Pawnbroker Sidney Lumet 2052
27 The Masque of the Red Death Roger Corman 2268
28 Dog Star Man: Part IV Stan Brakhage 2368
29 Becket* Peter Glenville 2409
30 Dog Star Man: Part III Stan Brakhage 2506
31 Blood and Black Lace Mario Bava 2531
32 Zorba the Greek* Michael Cacoyannis 2569
33 Nothing but a Man Michael Roemer 2654

1965

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music** Robert Wise 144
2 Repulsion Roman Polanski 358
3 Pierrot le Fou Jean-Luc Godard 422
4 Doctor Zhivago* David Lean 425
5 For a Few Dollars More Sergio Leone 468
6 Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard 517
7 Chimes at Midnight Orson Welles 858
8 The Ipcress File Sidney J. Furie 912
9 The Shop on Main Street Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1121
10 Red Beard Akira Kurosawa 1225
11 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Russ Meyer 1278
12 Loves of a Blonde Milos Forman 1428
13 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Sergei Parajanov 1671
14 The Endless Summer Bruce Brown 1765
15 Cat Ballou Elliot Silverstein 1837
16 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Martin Ritt 1984
17 Fist in His Pocket Marco Bellocchio 2081
18 Juliet of the Spirits Federico Fellini 2109
19 Tokyo Olympiad Kon Ichikawa 2122
20 The Saragossa Manuscript Wojciech Has 2291
21 Major Dundee Sam Peckinpah 2311
22 Darling* John Schlesinger 2458
23 Thunderball Terence Young 2535
24 A Charlie Brown Christmas Bill Melendez 2640

1966

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone 44
2 Persona Ingmar Bergman 105
3 The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo 145
4 Andrei Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky 160
5 Blow-Up Michelangelo Antonioni 246
6 Au hasard Balthazar Robert Bresson 348
7 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* Mike Nichols 448
8 Closely Watched Trains Jirí Menzel 680
9 Seconds John Frankenheimer 817
10 A Man for All Seasons** Fred Zinnemann 838
11 Daisies Vera Chytilová 1138
12 Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut 1178
13 The War Game Peter Watkins 1369
14 Black Girl Ousmane Sembene 1379
15 Alfie* Lewis Gilbert 1418
16 The Professionals Richard Brooks 1480
17 Fantastic Voyage Richard Fleischer 1500
18 Django Sergio Corbucci 1583
19 Chelsea Girls Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1717
20 War and Peace Sergey Bondarchuk 1776
21 A Man and a Woman Claude Lelouch 1955
22 The Shooting Monte Hellman 1958
23 Masculine Feminine Jean-Luc Godard 2041
24 Kill, Baby...Kill! Mario Bava 2250
25 The Face of Another Hiroshi Teshigahara 2397
26 The Rise of Louis XIV Roberto Rossellini 2477
27 Batman Leslie H. Martinson 2556
28 Tokyo Drifter Seijun Suzuki 2677
29 Cul-de-sac Roman Polanski 2694

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

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