The Best of the Nighthawk Awards: The 1960′s

101 Dalmations - the best of a weak decade for animation

1960 – 1969

Total Films I’ve Seen:  801

Films That Make the Top 5 in Any Category:  40

Best Film Not to Make the Top 5 in Any Category:  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Film of the Decade:  Bonnie and Clyde

Worst Film of the Decade:  Horrors of Spider Island

Worst Best Picture Nominee of the Decade:  Doctor Dolittle

Worst Film of the Decade Made by a Top 100 Director:  Tonight for Sure

 

The History of the Academy Awards: Best Picture – 1963

Tom Jones won Best Picture in 1963 and made Albert Finney a star.

The 36th Academy Awards for the film year 1963.

Best Picture:  Tom Jones

• Lilies of the Field
• America, America
• How the West Was Won
• Cleopatra

Most Surprising Omission:  Hud

Best Eligible Film Not Nominated:  The Great Escape

Rank (out of 82) Among Best Picture Years:  #78

 

The Year in Film: 1963

the magnificent jump in The Great Escape (1963)

My Top 20:

1. The Great Escape
2. Stray Dog
3. Winter Light
4. High and Low
5. Tom Jones
6. Ivan’s Childhood
7. Knife in the Water
8. Hud
9. 8 1/2
10. The Leopard
11. The Birds
12. Love with the Proper Stranger
13. Sundays with Cybele
14. The Idiot
15. Four Days of Naples
16. Sanjuro
17. The Music Room
18. This Sporting Life
19. Dr. No
20. Il Diavolo