Most popular movies of 1960s that are oscar winners or nominees

Easy Rider(1969)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.



The Time Machine(1960)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.



Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.





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.





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.



Midnight Cowboy(1969)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend.





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.



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.



True Grit(1969)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 27

A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.



Five Easy Pieces(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.



The Guns of Navarone(1961)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.



What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.



Fantastic Voyage(1966)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.



In the Heat of the Night(1967)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.



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.



Hatari!(1962)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.



Cool Hand Luke(1967)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.




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