Highest grossing movies of 1960s that are oscar winners or nominees

The Sound of Music(1965)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.



The Jungle Book(1967)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.



Doctor Zhivago(1965)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.



Love Story(1970)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.



The Graduate(1967)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.





Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.



Airport(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.





Thunderball(1965)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.



Cleopatra(1963)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.



Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.



2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.



Goldfinger(1964)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.



West Side Story(1961)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.





Psycho(1960)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

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.



El Cid(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.



Planet of the Apes(1968)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.



Joe(1970)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...




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