And here we go!
This is the nominations thread for the sixth portion of The Great Movie Tournament (sixth of ten) where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1960s (from 1960 to 1969). For our purposes, an eligible film must be a feature narrative film (no short films or documentaries) and its first release date must be between January 1, 1960 and December 31, 1969 according to IMDb (sometimes films will premiere at festivals one year but have a wide release the following year; we'll use the IMDb and Wikipedia convention of the year of initial exhibition).
Participation is very much encouraged and extremely welcomed, but please do follow these guidelines for this nomination process (subject to adjustment):
- You can nominate one film per post, and you can nominate another film after two other members have made their nominations.
- You can second one film per post, and you can second another film after two other members have made their seconds.
- If possible, please include a trailer and/or a scene from the film using Spoiler tags (this version and delete the s in https for YouTube links when embedding a video, making sure to use the full URL from the address bar, not the sharing link).
- Nominations can also be optionally accompanied by year of release and director.
Once 192 nominated films have been seconded, the tournament will begin, following the structure shown below (an overall event overview thread is posted with links to all the polls so members can easily navigate during the tournament). Each poll will be open for 7 days and any tiebreaker polls will be open for 4 days.
- Round 1: 32 groups of 6 titles - top 4 move on
- Round 2: 32 groups of 4 titles - top 2 move on
- Round 3: 16 groups of 4 titles - top 2 move on
- Round 4: 16 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Octofinals: 8 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Quarterfinals: 4 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
- Final: 1 group of 2 titles - top 1 is the winner
This post will be updated with the list of nominated and seconded titles as they come in. You can also keep up to date with this handy Google Sheet.
Enjoy and have fun!
List of seconded films:
- One, Two, Three (1961), dir. Billy Wilder
- Psycho (1960), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Harakiri (1962), dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- La Dolce Vita (1960), dir. Federico Fellini
- Dr. Strangelove (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Night of the Living Dead (1968), dir. George A. Romero
- Easy Rider (1969), dir. Dennis Hopper
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Andrei Rublev (1966), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Planet of the Apes (1968), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
- Fail Safe (1964), dir. Sidney Lumet
- The Battle of Algiers (1966), dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
- Onibaba (1964), dir. Kaneto Shindō
- Le Samouraï (1967), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962), dir. John Frankenheimer
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), dir. Stanley Kramer
- The Virgin Spring (1960), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Midnight Cowboy (1969), dir. John Schlesinger
- The Great Escape (1963), dir. John Sturges
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967), dir. Arthur Penn
- Seconds (1966), dir. John John Frankenheimer
- The Hustler (1961), dir. Robert Rossen
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), dir. Sergio Leone
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), dir. Robert Bresson
- Cool Hand Luke (1967), dir. Stuart Rosenberg
- The Producers (1967), dir. Mel Brooks
- The Graduate (1967), dir. Mike Nichols
- Blow-Up (1966), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- The Birds (1963), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean
- In the Heat of the Night (1967), dir. Norman Jewison
- Goldfinger (1964), dir. Guy Hamilton
- Thunderball (1965), dir. Terence Young
- The Lion in Winter (1968), dir. Anthony Harvey
- Persona (1966) , dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Ocean's 11 (1960), dir. Lewis Milestone
- Yojimbo (1961), dir. Akira Kurosawa
- The Wild Bunch (1969), dir. Sam Peckinpah
- Ice Station Zebra (1968), dir. John Sturges
- The Exterminating Angel (1962), dir. Luis Buñuel
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), dir. Ken Hughes
- Spartacus (1960), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Rosemary's Baby (1968), dir. Roman Polanski
- Village of the Damned (1960), dir. Wolf Rilla
- The Longest Day (1962), dir. Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, and Andrew Marton
- The Bad Sleep Well (1960), dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Lolita (1962), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- The Sound of Music (1965), dir. Robert Wise
- Blood and Black Lace (1964), dir. Mario Bava
- My Fair Lady (1964), dir. George Cukor
- Funny Girl (1968), dir. William Wyler
- Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), dir. Hideo Gosha
- Kwaidan (1965), dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- Yellow Submarine (1968), dir. George Dunning
- Eyes Without a Face (1960), dir. Georges Franju
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961), dir. Daniel Petrie
- The Innocents (1961), dir. Jack Clayton
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), dir. Mike Nichols
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), dir. Jacques Demy
- Mary Poppins (1964), dir. Robert Stevenson
- High and Low (1963), dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), dir. Sergio Leone
- Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), dir. Agnès Varda
- In Cold Blood (1967), dir. Richard Brooks
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), dir. Robert Aldrich
- The Apartment (1960), dir. Billy Wilder
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), dir. Robert Mulligan
- The Leopard (1963), dir. Luchino Visconti
- Red Beard (1965), dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Repulsion (1965), dir. Roman Polanski
- West Side Story (1961), dir. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
- Romeo and Juliet (1968), dir. Franco Zeffirelli
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), dir. George Roy Hill
- Shock Corridor (1963), dir. Samuel Fuller
- Peeping Tom (1960), dir. Michael Powell
- 8½ (1963), dir. Federico Fellini
- Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), dir. Robert Aldrich
- Purple Noon (1960), dir. René Clément
- The Pink Panther (1963), dir. Blake Edwards
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963), dir. Don Chaffey
- Breathless (1960), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Doctor Zhivago (1965), dir. David Lean
- The Haunting (1963), dir. Robert Wise
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), dir. Blake Edwards
- Black Sabbath (1963), dir. Mario Bava
- Winter Light (1963), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- The Time Machine (1960), dir. George Pal
- The Odd Couple (1968), dir. Gene Saks
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), dir. Sydney Pollack
- Cape Fear (1962), dir. J. Lee Thompson
- The Magnificent Seven (1960), dir. John Sturges
- Z (1969), dir. Costa Gavras
- The Parent Trap (1961), dir. David Swift
- Fantastic Voyage (1966), dir. Richard Fleischer
- Wait Until Dark (1967), dir. Terence Young
- Cleopatra (1963), dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), dir. Ishirō Honda
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964), dir. Sergio Leone
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), dir. Stanley Kramer
- Bullitt (1968), dir. Peter Yates
- Charade (1963), dir. Stanley Donen
- Belle de Jour (1967), dir. Luis Buñuel
- The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), dir. Robert Stevenson
- Casino Royale (1967), dir. John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath, and Val Guest
- The Children's Hour (1961), dir. William Wyler
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman
- A Shot in the Dark (1964), dir. Blake Edwards
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), dir. Peter R. Hunt
- Batman (1966), dir. Leslie H. Martinson
- The Trouble with Angels (1966), dir. Ida Lupino
- Jules and Jim (1962), dir. François Truffaut
- Viridiana (1961), dir. Luis Buñuel
- Hang 'Em High (1968), dir. Ted Post
- The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), dir. Henry Hathaway
- Contempt (1963), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Barbarella (1968), dir. Roger Vadim
- For a Few Dollars More (1965), dir. Sergio Leone
- Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), dir. Otto Preminger
- One Million Years B.C. (1966), dir. Don Chaffey
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), dir. John Ford
- True Grit (1969), dir. Henry Hathaway
- Inherit the Wind (1960), dir. Stanley Kramer
- Zorba the Greek (1964), dir. Michael Cacoyannis
- The Valley of Gwangi (1969), dir. Jim O'Connolly
- Woman in the Dunes (1964), dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
- The Music Man (1962), dir. Morton DaCosta
- The Sand Pebbles (1966), dir. Robert Wise
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), dir. Stanley Kramer
- Point Blank (1967), dir. John Boorman
- A Hard Day's Night (1964), dir. Richard Lester
- The Tale of Zatoichi (1962), dir. Kenji Misumi
- Mouchette (1967), dir. Robert Bresson
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), dir. Richard Lester
- Hud (1963), dir. Martin Ritt
- Carnival of Souls (1962), dir. Herk Harvey
- The Masque of the Red Death (1964), dir. Roger Corman
- The Love Bug (1969), dir. Robert Stevenson
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), dir. Russ Meyer
- If… (1968), dir. Lindsay Anderson
- Oliver! (1968), dir. Carol Reed
- Sanjuro (1962), dir. Akira Kurosawa
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962), dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Days of Wine and Roses (1962), dir. Blake Edwards
- Through a Glass Darkly (1961), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Samurai Rebellion (1967), dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- From Russia with Love (1963), dir. Terence Young
- Dr. No (1962), dir. Terence Young
- The Night of the Iguana (1964), dir. John Huston
- Army of Shadows (1969), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
- You Only Live Twice (1967), dir. Lewis Gilbert
- Kuroneko (1968), dir. Kaneto Shindō
- The Misfits (1961), dir. John Huston
- Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965), dir. Doris Wishman
- Gertrud (1964), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Two Women (1960), dir. Vittorio De Sica
- The Dirty Dozen (1967), dir. Robert Aldrich
- Juliet of the Spirits (1965), dir. Federico Fellini
- Blood Feast (1963), dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
- The Guns of Navarone (1961), dir. J. Lee Thompson
- The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), dir. Roman Polanski
- Exodus (1960), dir. Otto Preminger
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961), dir. Alain Resnais
- Destroy All Monsters (1968), dir. Ishirō Honda
- Valley of the Dolls (1967), dir. Mark Robson
- Elmer Gantry (1960), dir. Richard Brooks
- Chimes at Midnight (1965), dir. Orson Welles
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), dir. Luis Buñuel
- Swiss Family Robinson (1960), dir. Ken Annakin
- L'Avventura (1960), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- Splendor in the Grass (1961), dir. Elia Kazan
- The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), dir. Arthur Lubin
- The Pawnbroker (1964), dir. Sidney Lumet
- The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), dir. Norman Jewison
- The Silence (1963), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- A Man for All Seasons (1966), dir. Fred Zinnemann
- Seven Days in May (1964), dir. John Frankenheimer
- Coogan's Bluff (1968), dir. Don Siegel
- The Miracle Worker (1962), dir. Arthur Penn
- Playtime (1967), dir. Jacques Tati
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), dir. Sidney Lumet
- Tokyo Drifter (1966), dir. Seijun Suzuki
- Targets (1968), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- The Jungle Book (1967), dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
- The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), dir. Roger Corman
- Shame (1968), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Viy (1967), dir. Georgiy Kropachyov and Konstantin Ershov
- Cul-de-sac (1966), dir. Roman Polanski
- Victim (1961), dir. Basil Dearden
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966), dir. François Truffaut
- The Battle of Britain (1969), dir. Guy Hamilton
- Teorema (1968), dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), dir. Ishirō Honda
List of films not seconded:
- Ohyaku: The Female Demon (1968), dir. Yoshihiro Ishikawa
- War and Peace (1966), dir. Sergey Bondarchuk
- How to Steal a Million (1966), dir. William Wyler
- Come Drink with Me (1966), dir. King Hu
- Satyricon (1969), dir. Federico Fellini
- Youth of the Beast (1963), dir. Seijun Suzuki
- Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969), dir. Kōji Wakamatsu
- Knife in the Water (1962), dir. Roman Polanski
- The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), dir. Chang Cheh
- Le Trou (1960), dir. Jacques Becker
- Kill! (1968), dir. Kihachi Okamoto
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), dir. Val Guest
- Zulu (1964), dir. Cy Endfield
- Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), dir. Toshio Matsumoto
- The Damned (1969), dir. Luchino Visconti
- Closely Watched Trains (1966), dir. Jiří Menzel
- Divorce Italian Style (1961), dir. Pietro Germi
- Putney Swope (1969), dir. Robert Downey Sr.
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961), dir. Masaki Kobayashi
- The Collector (1965), dir. William Wyler
- Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), dir. Billy Wilder
- The Sundowners (1960), dir. Fred Zinnemann
- The Party (1968), dir. Blake Edwards
- The Killing of Sister George (1968), dir. Robert Aldrich
- Son of Godzilla (1967), dir. Jun Fukuda
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), dir. Mikio Naruse
- Father Goose (1964), dir. Ralph Nelson
- Stolen Kisses (1968), dir. François Truffaut
- Sword of the Beast (1965), dir. Hideo Gosha
- Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), dir. John Huston
- Ride the High Country (1962), dir. Sam Peckinpah
- Pale Flower (1964), dir. Masahiro Shinoda
- BUtterfield 8 (1960), dir. Daniel Mann
- Have Sword, Will Travel (1969), dir. Chang Cheh
- Goyokin (1969), dir. Hideo Gosha
- Manji (1964), dir. Yasuzō Masumura
- Kes (1969), dir. Ken Loach
- The Cincinnati Kid (1965), dir. Norman Jewison
- The Firemen's Ball (1967), dir. Miloš Forman
- Daisies (1966), dir. Věra Chytilová
Current streaming availability of the nominated films here.