The top-ranked films of the 60's
© 2009, William L. Sinclair
This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net that we compiled. This decade has the most ranked films so far, passing the 50's by about 20 films.
Total Ranked Films in the 60's: 155
- [ 1960 ] -
1. Psycho #8 - Hitchcock, Alfred (photo rt)
2. Apartment, The #65 - Wilder, Billy
3. Dolce vita, La #99 - Fellini, Federico4. Spartacus #177 - Kubrick, Stanley
5. L'Avventura #187 - Antonioni, Michelangelo
6. Peeping Tom #361 - Powell, Michael
7. Shoot the Piano Player #386 - Truffaut, François
8. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning #483 - Reisz, Karel
9. Cloud-Capped Star, The #594 - Ghatak, Ritwik
10. Magnificent Seven, The #881 - Sturges, John
11. Trou, Le #942 - Becker, Jacques
Best Picture: The Apartment
- [ 1961 ] -
1. Jules et Jim #59 - Truffaut, François
2. Hustler, The #153 - Rossen, Robert
3. Yojimbo #171 - Kurosawa, Akira
4. La Jetee #184 - Marker, Chris
5. Viridiana #211 - Buñuel, Luis
6. Last Year at Marienbad #215 - Resnais, Alain
7. West Side Story #251 - Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins
8. Notte, La #357 - Antonioni, Michelangelo
9. Lola #387 - Demy, Jacques
10. Salvatore Giuliano #494 - Rosi, Francesco
11. Accattone #551 - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
12. Judgment at Nuremberg #583 - Kramer, Stanley
13. Breakfast at Tiffany's #595 - Edwards, Blake
14. Splendor in the Grass #736 - Kazan, Elia
15. Misfits, The #737 - Huston, John
16. Innocents, The #743 - Clayton, Jack
17. Femme est une femme, Une #952 - Godard, Jean-Luc
18. Through a Glass Darkly #1005 - Bergman, Ingmar
Best Picture: West Side Story
- [ 1962 ] -
1. Manchurian Candidate, The #43 - Frankenheimer, John
2. Lawrence of Arabia #50 - Lean, David (photo rt)3. To Kill a Mockingbird #96 - Mulligan, Robert
4. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The #135 - Ford, John
5. L'Eclisse #301 - Antonioni, Michelangelo
6. Exterminating Angel, The #397 - Buñuel, Luis
7. My Life to Live #505 - Godard, Jean-Luc
8. Autumn Afternoon, An #592 - Ozu, Yasujiro
9. Lolita #651 - Kubrick, Stanley
10. Winter Light #674 - Bergman, Ingmar
11. Ivan's Childhood #744 - Tarkovsky, Andrei
12. Ride the High Country #780 - Peckinpah, Sam
13. Cleo from 5 to 7 #819 - Varda, Agnès
14. Hatari! #860 - Hawks, Howard
15. 47 Ronin, The #872 - Mizoguchi, Kenji
Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
- [ 1963 ] -
1. 8½ #37 - Fellini, Federico
2. Contempt #74 - Godard, Jean-Luc
3. Leopard, The #265 - Visconti, Luchino
4. Great Escape, The #295 - Sturges, John
5. Birds, The #349 - Hitchcock, Alfred
6. Vivre sa vie #396 - Godard, Jean-Luc
7. Verdugo, El #496 - Berlanga, Luis García
8. High and Low #516 - Kurosawa, Akira
9. Servant, The #560 - Losey, Joseph
10. Tom Jones #584 - Richardson, Tony
11. An Actor's Revenge #600 - Ichikawa, Kon
12. Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour #622 - Resnais, Alain
13. Silence, The #650 - Bergman, Ingmar
14. Barren Lives #753 - Dos Santos, Nelson Pereira
15. Actor's Revenge, An #874 - Ichikawa, Kon
16. America, America #886 - Kazan, Elia
17. Flaming Creatures #985 - Smith, Jack
Best Picture: Tom Jones
- [ 1964 ] -
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb #17 - Kubrick, Stanley
2. Gospel According to St. Matthew, The #103 - Pasolini, Pier Paolo (photo rt)3. Rocco and His Brothers #237 - Visconti, Luchino
4. Gertrud #272 - Dreyer, Carl
5. Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The #285 - Demy, Jacques
6. Hard Day's Night, A #328 - Lester, Richard
7. Band of Outsiders #369 - Godard, Jean-Luc
8. Red Desert #380 - Antonioni, Michelangelo
9. My Fair Lady #435 - Cukor, George
10. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors #510 - Parajanov, Sergei
11. Black God, White Devil #528 - Rocha, Glauber
12. Charulata #530 - Ray, Satyajit
13. Marnie #541 - Hitchcock, Alfred
14. Scorpio Rising #566 - Anger, Kenneth
15. I Am Cuba #638 - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil
16. Woman in the Dunes #862 - Teshigahara, Hiroshi
17. Goldfinger #909 - Hamilton, Guy
Best Picture: My Fair Lady
- [ 1965 ] -
1. Pierrot le fou #129 - Godard, Jean-Luc
2. Repulsion #307 - Polanski, Roman
3. Sound of Music, The #362 - Wise, Robert
4. Doctor Zhivago #394 - Lean, David
5. For a Few Dollars More #540 - Leone, Sergio
6. Loves of a Blonde #553 - Forman, Milos
7. Alphaville #727 - Godard, Jean-Luc
8. Juliet of the Spirits #784 - Fellini, Federico
9. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! #853 - Meyer, Russ
10. Not Reconciled #902 - Straub, Jean-Marie
11. Art of Vision, The #923 - Brakhage, Stan
12. Red Beard #926 - Kurosawa, Akira
13. Of a Thousand Delights #939 - Visconti, Luchino
Best Picture: Sound of Music, The
- [ 1966 ] -
1. Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The #73 - Leone, Sergio
2. Au Hasard Balthazar #93 - Bresson, Robert
3. Battle of Algiers, The #132 - Pontecorvo, Gillo (photo rt)4. Persona #185 - Bergman, Ingmar
5. Two or Three Things I Know About Her #214 - Godard, Jean-Luc
6. Masculine-Feminine #219 - Godard, Jean-Luc
7. Blow-Up #242 - Antonioni, Michelangelo
8. Rise to Power of Louis XIV, The #275 - Rossellini, Roberto
9. Andrei Rublev #278 - Tarkovsky, Andrei
10. Chimes at Midnight #399 - Welles, Orson
11. Closely Watched Trains #422 - Menzel, Jirí
12. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? #442 - Nichols, Mike
13. Mouchette #491 - Bresson, Robert
14. Hold Me While I'm Naked #557 - Kuchar, George
15. Man for All Seasons, A #714 - Zinnemann, Fred
16. Daisies #757 - Chytilová, Vera
17. Round-Up, The (Szegénylegények) #893 - Jancsó, Miklós
18. Seven Women #900 - Ford, John
19. El Dorado #969 - Hawks, Howard
Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons
[Note: This is the most ranked films for any year]
- [ 1967 ] -
1. Bonnie and Clyde #105 - Penn, Arthur
2. Graduate, The #107 - Nichols, Mike (photo rt)3. Playtime #209 - Tati, Jacques
4. Belle de jour #213 - Buñuel, Luis
5. Wavelength #259 - Snow, Michael
6. Week-End #273 - Godard, Jean-Luc
7. In the Heat of the Night #321 - Jewison, Norman
8. Cool Hand Luke #392 - Rosenberg, Stuart
9. Samouraï, Le #468 - Melville, Jean-Pierre
10. Point Blank #471 - Boorman, John
11. Don't Look Back #545 - Pennebaker, D.A.
12. Chelsea Girls #564 - Warhol, Andy
13. Young Girls of Rochefort, The #614 - Demy, Jacques
14. Terra em Transe #618 - Rocha, Glauber
15. Firemen's Ball, The #809 - Forman, Milos
16. Branded to Kill #938 - Suzuki, Seijun
17. Collectionneuse, La #990 - Rohmer, Eric
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night
- [ 1968 ] -
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey #2 - Kubrick, Stanley (photo top)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West #70 - Leone, Sergio
3. Rosemary's Baby #172 - Polanski, Roman
4. Night of the Living Dead #327 - Romero, George A.
5. Producers, The #400 - Brooks, Mel
6. Faces #417 - Cassavetes, John
7. If… #534 - Anderson, Lindsay
8. Memories of Underdevelopment #573 - Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez
9. Colour of Pomegranate, The #578 - Parajanov, Sergei
10. Teorema #659 - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
11. Hour of the Furnaces, The #721 - Getino, Octavio & Fernando E. Solanas
12. Party, The #725 - Edwards, Blake
13. Salesman #789 - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin
14. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, The #847 - Straub, Jean-Marie
15. Shame (Skammen) #917 - Bergman, Ingmar
Best Picture: Oliver!
- [ 1969 ] -
1. Wild Bunch, The #87 - Peckinpah, Sam
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid #149 - Hill, George Roy
3. Easy Rider #190 - Hopper, Dennis
4. Midnight Cowboy #290 - Schlesinger, John
5. Army of Shadows #292 - Melville, Jean-Pierre
6. My Night at Maud's #497 - Rohmer, Eric
7. Kes #526 - Loach, Ken
8. Fellini Satyricon #570 - Fellini, Federico
9. Touch of Zen, A #661 - Hu, King
10. Antonio das Mortes #669 - Rocha, Glauber
11. Damned, The #728 - Visconti, Luchino
12. Tom, Tom the Piper's Son #835 - Jacobs, Ken
13. Z #907 - Costa-Gavras, Constantin
Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy
Top Films of the Decade
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey #2 - Kubrick, Stanley
2. Psycho #8 - Hitchcock, Alfred
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb #17 - Kubrick, Stanley (photo rt)4. 8½ #37 - Fellini, Federico
5. Manchurian Candidate, The #43 - Frankenheimer, John
6. Lawrence of Arabia #50 - Lean, David
7. Jules et Jim #59 - Truffaut, François
8. Apartment, The #65 - Wilder, Billy
9. Once Upon a Time in the West #70 - Leone, Sergio
10. Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The #73 - Leone, Sergio
11. Contempt #74 - Godard, Jean-Luc
12. Wild Bunch, The #87 - Peckinpah, Sam
13. Au Hasard Balthazar #93 - Bresson, Robert
14. To Kill a Mockingbird #96 - Mulligan, Robert
15. Dolce vita, La #99 - Fellini, Federico
My favorites of the 60s:
1-2001: A Space Odyssey, 2-Lawrence of Arabia, 3-Dr. Strangelove, 4-My Fair Lady, 5-L'avventura, 6-Battle of Algiers, 7-To Kill a Mockingbird, 8-The Graduate, 9-Gospel According to St. Matthew, 10-Midnight Cowboy, 11-A Hard Day's Night, 12-West Side Story, 13-Doctor Zhivago, 14-Morgan, 15-Spartacus, 16-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 17-The Hustler, 18-La Dolce Vita, 19-The Servant, 20-8½
The only unranked best picture of the decade is Oliver!
