"Best" best picture winner of the 1960's

[abe55]

What movie would you consider the "best" best picture winner of the 1960's?

The results thus far as voted by the members:

Best of 2000's: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Worst of 2000's: Crash

Best of 1990's: The Silence of the Lambs
Worst of 1990's: Shakespeare in Love

Best of 1980's: Platoon
Worst of 1980's: Driving Miss Daisy

Best of 1970's: The Godfather
Worst of 1970's: Kramer vs. Kramer

[PopcornTreeCt]

The Apartment

I think Lawrence of Arabia will end up the winner but The Apartment is such a great film I could watch over and over again.

[Ginwen]

I'm sure Lawrence of Arabia will win, but I also picked the Apartment.

[MoviePage]

The Apartment is great (and so are Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, and Midnight Cowboy, for that matter), but there's just no comparing to Lawrence of Arabia.

[Sierra Disc]

Very close call between Arabia and Apartment, even though they're completely different kinds of movies... but Arabia for me.

Worst, I dunno, but least impressive winner has to be In the Heat of the Night -- The Graduate or Bonnie and Clyde should've easily won over that.

[cranberries fan]

Lawrence of Arabia hands down winner and champ and O'Toole was so robbed that year at the Oscars.

[Rypro 525]

i picked the Apartment. As far as worst, Olver! by far. I mean, over 2001, come on.

[movielib]

It's surprisingly not that great overall. One that deserves at least a mention is A Man for All Seasons which I consider pretty great. But I have to go with Lawrence.

Worst: Oliver! Over The Lion in Winter? What were they thinking?

[TomOpus]

Midnight Cowboy.

I really liked the Mad Magazine parody "Midnight Wowboy" :)

[Charlie Goose]

My favorite movie of all time - West Side Story.

Start voting for it, daddy-o!

[Palaver]

Went with Lawrence of Arabia

[clckworang]

Like a couple of others have said, I think Lawrence of Arabia is a virtual lock to win, but I just had to vote for The Apartment, such a great movie.

[NoirFan]

Midnight Cowboy, with The Apartment coming in second.

[inri222]

Midnight Cowboy

[Rockmjd23]

Lawrence of Arabia of course.

[NoirFan]

Worst: Oliver! What were they thinking?

This will certainly dominate abe55's upcoming worst thread. Abe, how about including the percentages of previous best/worst winners in your first post, as well as links to previous polls?

[tommyp007]

no surprise at the way the poll is going, but I voted My Fair Lady.

[Rockmjd23]

As far as worst, Olver! by far. I mean, over 2001, come on.
2001 wasn't even nominated, sadly. Of those nominated, The Lion in Winter should have won.

[hasslein]

2001 wasn't even nominated, sadly. Of those nominated, The Lion in Winter should have won.

Planet of the Apes.

[mike7162]

Picking between LOA and The Apartment is unfair, but I chose The Apartment, a film I've seen a hundred times and could see a hundred more.

[Decker]

The Apartment is great (and so are Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, and Midnight Cowboy, for that matter), but there's just no comparing to Lawrence of Arabia.

QFT :up:

[Rockmjd23]

Planet of the Apes.
neither was that.

[hasslein]

I think Oliver! was better than Tom Jones.

[inri222]

Amazing decade for Non-English language films :

Andrei Rublev
Contempt
Au hasard Balthazar
The Battle of Algiers
Le Samourai
L'avventura
Breathless
Through a Glass Darkly
Viridiana
L'eclisse
Harakiri
Jules and Jim
8 1/2

[movielib]

I think Oliver! was better than Tom Jones.
Tom Jones was not a very good movie and quite unworthy of even a nomination let alone the award. And it hasn't aged well at all. Maybe a **½/**** then and **/**** now. (The one thing it had going for it from my point of view was that I was able to get in to see what was then an "adults only" movie when I was 16 - seems rather amazing now that such a tame movie was then considered adults only.) Compare Tom Jones with the masterful Barry Lyndon to see just how much better that "type" of film can be. But Oliver! is abysmal and never even had anything worthwhile to begin with to age from. I think the other three musical winners (in order, My Fair Lady (my second favorite musical after All That Jazz), West Side Story, even The Sound of Music) were all immeasurably better.

My opinion, of course. :)

[hasslein]

Amazing decade for Non-English language films :

Andrei Rublev
Contempt
Au hasard Balthazar
The Battle of Algiers
Le Samourai
L'avventura
Breathless
Through a Glass Darkly
Viridiana
L'eclisse
Harakiri
Jules and Jim
8 1/2

Does The Good, The Bad & the Ugly count?

[chris_sc77]

Lawrence...Easiest poll question in quite some time.

[naitram]

Lawrence is definitely the most epic on that list, but my favorite to watch from there would have to be In The Heat Of The Night.

[superdeluxe]

Lawrence of Arabia.

[davidh777]

Love WSS but voted for Lawrence

And I like Oliver :shrug:

[darkhawk]

Tough choice. I'll have to go along with The Apartment.

Would have been Mary Poppins. It was much better than My Fair Lady.

[NoirFan]

Amazing decade for Non-English language films:
And those are just the Criterions! :)
Don't forget:

Assassination
Belle de jour
Bay of Angels
Blow Up
The Cow
The Cremator
La Dolce Vita
I Am Cuba
Persona
King of Hearts
Last Year in Marienbad
Marketa Lazarova
Naked Island
The Party and the Guests
Rocco and his Brothers
Weekend
Z
An Actor's Revenge

[Ron G]

Best of 1990's: The Silence of the Lambs
Worst of 1990's: Shakespeare in Love



I would rather watch Shakespeare in Love ten times in a row than watch Craptanic once.

[Mondo Kane]

I'm really surprised how at how bad Midnight Cowboy got slaughtered here. It's #2 on my all-time favorite best picture winners.

[NoirFan]

I think Lawrence of Arabia will end up the winner but The Apartment is such a great film I could watch over and over again.

And it has a wonderful closing exchange:

Lemmon: “I love you, Miss Kubelik. You hear what I said? I absolutely adore you.”

MacLaine: “Shut up and deal.”