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1966 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerThe Sound of MusicRobert WiseA woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.Amazon1966 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesA Thousand ClownsFred CoeAmazonDarlingJoseph JanniAmazonDoctor ZhivagoCarlo PontiAmazonShip of FoolsStanley KramerAmazon

1965 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerMy Fair LadyJack L. WarnerSnobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) presentable in high society.Amazon1965 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesBecketHal B. WallisAmazonDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombStanley KubrickAmazonMary PoppinsWalt DisneyAmazonZorba the GreekMichael CacoyannisAmazon

1964 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerTom JonesTony RichardsonThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.Amazon1964 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesAmerica AmericaElia KazanAmazonCleopatraWalter WangerAmazonHow the West Was WonBernard SmithAmazonLilies of the FieldRalph NelsonAmazon

1963 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerLawrence of ArabiaSam SpiegelThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.Amazon1963 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesMutiny on the BountyAaron RosenbergAmazonThe Longest DayDarryl F. ZanuckAmazonThe Music ManMorton DaCostaAmazonTo Kill a MockingbirdAlan J. PakulaAmazon

1962 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerWest Side StoryRobert WiseTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.Amazon1962 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesFannyJoshua LoganAmazonJudgment at NurembergStanley KramerAmazonThe Guns of NavaroneCarl ForemanAmazonThe HustlerRobert RossenAmazon

1961 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerThe ApartmentBilly WilderA man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.Amazon1961 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesElmer GantryBernard SmithAmazonSons and LoversJerry WaldAmazonThe AlamoJohn WayneAmazonThe SundownersFred ZinnemannAmazon

1960 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerBen-HurSam ZimbalistWhen a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.Amazon1960 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesAnatomy of a MurderOtto PremingerAmazonRoom at the TopJohn WoolfAmazonThe Diary of Anne FrankGeorge StevensAmazonThe Nun's StoryHenry BlankeAmazon

1959 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerGigiArthur FreedWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.Amazon1959 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesAuntie MameJack L. WarnerAmazonCat on a Hot Tin RoofLawrence WeingartenAmazonSeparate TablesHarold HechtAmazonThe Defiant OnesStanley KramerAmazon

1958 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerThe Bridge on the River KwaiSam SpiegelBritish POWs build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, oblivious of the Allies' plans to destroy it.Amazon1958 Academy Awards - Best Picture Nominees12 Angry MenHenry FondaAmazonPeyton PlaceJerry WaldAmazonSayonaraWilliam GoetzAmazonWitness for the ProsecutionArthur Hornblow Jr.Amazon

1957 Academy Awards - Best Picture WinnerAround the World in 80 DaysMike ToddA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.Amazon1957 Academy Awards - Best Picture NomineesFriendly PersuasionWilliam WylerAmazonGiantGeorge StevensAmazonThe King and ICharles BrackettAmazonThe Ten CommandmentsCecil B. DeMilleAmazon