1960

1. Les Bonnes Femmes- Claude Chabrol
2. Peeping Tom- Michael Powell
3. The Apartment- Billy Wilder
4. L'Avventura- Michelangelo Antonioni
5. Psycho- Alfred Hitchcock
6. Breathless- Jean-Luc Godard
7. La Dolce Vita- Federico Fellini
8. Purple Noon- René Clement
9. Classe Tous Risques- Claude Sautet
10. The Truth- Henri-Georges Clouzot
11. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning- Karel Reisz
12. Shoot the Piano Player- Francois Truffaut
13. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs- Mikio Naruse
14. The Virgin Spring- Ingmar Bergman
15. Spartacus- Stanley Kubrick

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Human Vapor (Ishiro Honda), Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman), The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges), Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)

Need to see: Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka), The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa), The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis), Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli), Black Sunday (Mario Bava), Brainwashed (Gerd Oswald), The Cloud Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak), Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher), Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima), Devi (Satyajit Ray), Home From the Hill (Vincente Minnelli), The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young), The House of Usher (Roger Corman), Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer), The Lady With the Dog (Iosif Khejfits), Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu), Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima), Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford), The Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky), Strangers When We Meet (Richard Quine), The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang), Le Trou (Jacques Becker), Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame), Wild River (Elia Kazan), The Young One (Luis Bunuel)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Apartment
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Apartment
Cannes, Palme d’Or: La Dolce Vita
Venice, Golden Lion: The Crossing of the Rhine (André Cayatte)
Berlin, Golden Bear: El Lazarillo de Tormes (César Ardavin)