1960's

FILMS OF THE YEAR: THE 1960's

"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed." - Stanley Kubrick   

1969

1. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
2. Z (Costa-Gavras)
3. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
5. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
6. Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie)
7. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
8. The Italian Job (Peter Collinson) 
9. Kes (Ken Loach) 
10. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)

Honourary Mentions:

The Sicilian Clan (Henri Verneuil)

1968

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone) 
3. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski) 
4. Bullitt (Peter Yates) 
5. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero) 
6. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
7. Faces (John Cassavetes)
8. The Producers (Mel Brooks)
9. Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Dark of the Sun (Jack Cardiff)

Honourary Mentions:
The Odd Couple (Gene Saks)

The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher)

Yellow Submarine (George Dunning) 

Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli) 

1967

1. Bonnie and Clyde  (Arthur Penn) 
2. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg) 
3. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville) 
4. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks) 
5. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich) 
6. Point Blank (John Boorman) 
7. The Graduate (Mike Nichols) 
8. In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison) 
9. Day of Anger (Tonino Valerii) 
10. Who's That Knocking at My Door (Martin Scorsese)

Honourary Mentions:
Hombre (Martin Ritt)

1966

1. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Sergio Leone) 
2. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) 
3. Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) (Orson Welles) 
4. Le deuxième souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville) 
5. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) 
6. Django (Sergio Corbucci) 
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols) 
8. The Professionals (Richard Brooks) 
9. The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto) 
10. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)

Honourary Mentions:
The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
A Man For All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)

Alfie (Charles Shyer)
Navajo Joe (Sergio Corbucci)

1965

1. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone) 
2. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa) 
3. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt) 
4. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard) 
5. The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich) 
6. Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah) 
7. The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie) 
8. Pierrot Le fou (Jean-Luc Godard) 
9. Repulsion (Roman Polanski) 
10. The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár/Elmar Klos)

Honourary Mentions:

The Hill (Sidney Lumet)

The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison)

1964

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer)
3. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
4. The Train (John Frankenheimer)
5. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
6. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
7. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô) 
8. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
9. The Killers (Don Siegel) 
10. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)

Honourary Mentions:
Marriage, Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica)
Kaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Bryon Haskin)

Zorba the Greek (Mihalis Kakogiannis)

1963

1. 8½ (Federico Fellini)
2. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti) 
3. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
4. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Hud (Martin Ritt)
7. The Haunting (Robert Wise)
8. The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
9. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
10. Judex (Georges Franju)

Honourary Mentions:
From Russia with Love (Terence Young)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
America America (Elia Kazan)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)
The Organiser (Mario Monicelli)

1962

1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
2. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
4. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
5. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson)
7. Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi)
9. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan) 
10. L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Honourary Mentions:

Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards)

Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)

Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller)

Hell Is for Heroes (Don Siegel)

Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson)

1961

1. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
2. La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. Léon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville)
4. The Long and the Short and the Tall (Leslie Norman)
5. Blast of Silence (Allen Baron)
6. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
7. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
8. Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi)
9. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)

Honourary Mentions:

A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)

One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)

The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson)

1960

1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) 
2. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini) 
3. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju) 
4. The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti) 
6. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
8. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
9. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Purple Noon (René Clément) 

Honourary Mentions:

Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer) 

Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)

The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

Shoot the Pianist (1960, François Truffaut)

The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)