Best of 1960
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1. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,685 | Gross: $32.00M
BEST PICTURE
Psycho
The Apartment
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita)
Two Women (La ciociara)
Spartacus
Peeping Tom
Elmer Gantry
The Magnificent Seven
Breathless (À bout de souffle)
2. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,685 | Gross: $32.00M
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Ingmar Bergman - The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
Federico Fellini - The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita)
Michael Powell - Peeping Tom
Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless (À bout de souffle)
3. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,685 | Gross: $32.00M
BEST ACTOR
Anthony Perkins - Psycho
Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
Max von Sydow - The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
Marcello Mastroianni - The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita)
Albert Finney - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
4. Two Women (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War
In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown
Votes: 12,439
BEST ACTRESS
Sophia Loren - Two Women (La ciociara)
Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
Melina Mercouri - Never on Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki)
Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8
Jean Seberg - Breathless (À bout de souffle)
Rachel Roberts - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
5. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,268 | Gross: $30.00M
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
Fred MacMurray - The Apartment
Laurence Olivier - Spartacus
Eli Wallach - The Magnificent Seven
Martin Balsam - Psycho
Jack Kruschen - The Apartment
6. The Virgin Spring (1960)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson
Votes: 31,657 | Gross: $1.53M
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Birgitta Valberg - The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
Janet Leigh - Psycho
Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
Vera Miles - Psycho
Birgitta Pettersson - The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
Anna Massey - Peeping Tom
7. The Apartment (1960)
Approved | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Votes: 196,952 | Gross: $18.60M
BEST CASTING
The Apartment
Psycho
Elmer Gantry
Spartacus
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
The Magnificent Seven
8. The Apartment (1960)
Approved | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Votes: 196,952 | Gross: $18.60M
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Apartment
The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita)
Never on Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki)
Peeping Tom
Breathless (À bout de souffle)
9. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,685 | Gross: $32.00M
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Psycho
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
Elmer Gantry
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Butterfield 8
The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru)
10. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,685 | Gross: $32.00M
BEST TITLES/CREDIT DESIGN
Psycho
Elmer Gantry
Spartacus
The Apartment
Butterfield 8
Peeping Tom
11. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,685 | Gross: $32.00M
BEST EDITING
Psycho
The Apartment
Peeping Tom
Breathless (À bout de souffle)
Spartacus
The Magnificent Seven
12. La Dolce Vita (1960)
Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 78,230 | Gross: $19.52M
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita)
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
Psycho
Two Women (La ciociara)
The Apartment
Spartacus
13. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,268 | Gross: $30.00M
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Spartacus
The Apartment
Psycho
Elmer Gantry
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
The Alamo
14. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,268 | Gross: $30.00M
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Spartacus
The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita)
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
Elmer Gantry
Butterfield 8
The Alamo
15. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,268 | Gross: $30.00M
BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
Spartacus
The Alamo
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
Psycho
The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita)
The Magnificent Seven
16. 13 Ghosts (1960)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery
A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 7,282 | Gross: $3.27M
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
13 Ghosts
The Alamo
Spartacus
17. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,685 | Gross: $32.00M
BEST SCORE
Psycho
Never on Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki)
The Magnificent Seven
Spartacus
The Alamo
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
18. Never on Sunday (1960)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas, Titos Vandis
Votes: 6,148
BEST SONG
Never on Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki) - "Ta paidia tou Peiraia"
Flaming Star - "Flaming Star"
The Alamo - "The Green Leaves of Summer"
19. The Alamo (1960)
Passed | 162 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Director: John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon
Votes: 17,733 | Gross: $17.26M
BEST SOUND
The Alamo
Spartacus
The Apartment
The Magnificent Seven
Psycho
Peeping Tom
20. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,268 | Gross: $30.00M
BEST SOUND EDITING
Spartacus
The Alamo
The Magnificent Seven
13 Ghosts
Psycho
Peeping Tom
21. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 143,268 | Gross: $30.00M
BEST STUNTS
Spartacus
The Magnificent Seven
The Alamo
Psycho
22. The Virgin Spring (1960)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson
Votes: 31,657 | Gross: $1.53M
BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita)
Two Women (La ciociara)
Breathless (À bout de souffle)
Never on Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki)
The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru)
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