1960 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Psycho (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

2. The Cranes Are Flying (dir: Mikhail Kalatozov; US Release Date)

3. The Hidden Fortress (dir: Akira Kurosawa)

4. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (dir: Alain Resnais; US Release Date)

5. Ballad of a Soldier (dir: Grigoriy Chukhray; US Release Date)

6. The Apartment (dir: Billy Wilder)

7. Sergeant Rutledge (dir: John Ford)

8. Eyes Without a Face (dir: Georges Franju; US Release Date)

9. The Virgin Spring (dir: Ingmar Bergman)

10. Shoot the Piano Player (dir: François Truffaut)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): The Bad Sleep Well (dir: Akira Kurosawa), Cruel Story of Youth (dir: Nagisa Oshima), Late Autumn (dir: Yasujirô Ozu), Le Trou (dir: Jacques Becker), Les Bonnes Femmes (dir: Claude Chabrol), Midnight Lace (dir: David Miller), Never on Sunday (dir: Jules Dassin), Pollyanna (dir: David Swift), Rocco and His Brothers (dir: Luchino Visconti), and Spartacus (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

Best Picture: Psycho
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producers: Alfred Hitchcock
US Distributor: Universal Pictures

Best Director:
Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho
2. Mikhail Kalatozov, The Cranes Are Flying
3. Akira Kurosawa, The Hidden Fortress AND The Bad Sleep Well
4. Grigoriy Chukhray, The Ballad of a Soldier
5. Alain Resnais, Hiroshima, mon Amour

Best Actor:
Anthony Perkins, Psycho
2. Jack Lemmon, The Apartment
3. Charles Aznavour, Shoot the Piano Player
4. Alain Delon, Purple Noon
5. Albert Finney, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Best Actress:
Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment
2. Tatyana Samoylova, The Cranes Are Flying
3. Melina Mercouri, Never on a Sunday
4. Doris Day, Midnight Lace
5. Dorothy McGuire, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Best Supporting Actor:
Karl Malden, Pollyanna
2. Woody Strode, Sergeant Rutledge
3. Peter Ustinov, Spartacus
4. Charles Laughton, Spartacus
5. Fred MacMurray, The Apartment

Best Supporting Actress:
Janet Leigh, Psycho
2. Alida Valli, Eyes Without a Face
3. Shirley Knight, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
4. Agnes Moorehead, Pollyanna
5. Jean Simmons, Spartacus

Best Original Screenplay: 
Ballad of a Soldier — Grigoriy Chukhray and Valentin Ezhov
2. The Virgin Spring — Ulla Isaksson
3. The Hidden Fortress — Akira Kurosawa, Shiobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima and Hideo Oguni
4. Hiroshima, mon Amour — Marguerite Duras
5. Cruel Story of Youth — Nagisa Ôshima

Best Adapted Screenplay: 
Shoot the Piano Player — François Truffaut and Marcel Moussy
2.The Cranes Are Flying — Vitor Rozov
3. Sergeant Rutledge — James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck
4. Late Autumn — Kôgo Noda and Yasujirô Ozu
5. Le Trou — Jacques Becker, Jean Aurel, and Jose Giovanni

Best Cinematography: 
The Cranes Are Flying — Sergey Urusevskiy
2. The Virgin Spring — Sven Nykvist
3. Ballad of a Soldier — Vladimir Nikolayev and Era Savelyeva
4. Sergeant Rutledge — Bert Glennon
5. Psycho — John L. Russell

Best Film Editing:
Psycho — George Tomasini
2. Hiroshima, mon Amour — Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi, and Anne Sarraute
3. The Cranes Are Flying — Mariya Timofeeva
4. The Virgin Spring — Oscar Rosander
5. Ballad of a Soldier — Mariya Timofeeva

Best Original Score:
Psycho — Bernard Herrmann
2. Eyes Without a Face — Maurice Jarre
3. Shoot the Piano Player — Georges Delerue
4. Spartacus — Alex North
5. The Magnificent Seven — Elmer Bernstein

Best Production Design:
Spartacus — Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom
2. Pollyanna — Carroll Clark, Robert Clatworthy, Emile Kuri, and Fred MacLean
3. Psycho — Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Hurley and George Milo
4. Sons and Lovers — Thomas Morahan
5. The Virgin Spring – P.A. Lundgren and Karl-Arne Bergman

Best Costume Design:
Pollyanna — Walter Plunkett
2. Never on a Sunday — Theoni V. Aldredge
3. The Virgin Spring — Marik Vos
4. Spartacus — Fred Valles
5. Midnight Lace — Irene Lentz

Best Visual Effects:
The Time Machine

Best Sound:
The Virgin Spring

Best Ensemble Cast:
Spartacus

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Alain Resnais, Hiroshima, Mon Amour

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Spartacus (dir: Stanley Kubrick; in alphabetical order): Joanna Barnes, Peter Brocco, Tony Curtis, John Dall, Kirk Douglas, Nina Foch, John Gavin, John Ireland, Charles Laughton, Herbert Lom, Charles McGraw, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Harold Stone, Woody Strode, and Peter Ustinov

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Alain Resnais, Hiroshima, Mon Amour 

RECAP

W I N S :

Psycho — 6,
Pollyanna — 2, Spartacus — 2, The Apartment — 1, Ballad of a Soldier — 1, The Cranes Are Flying — 1, Hiroshima, Mon Amour — 1, Shoot the Piano Player — 1, The Time Machine – 1, The Virgin Spring — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Psycho — 8,
Spartacus — 6, The Virgin Spring — 6, Ballad of a Soldier — 5, The Cranes Are Flying — 5, Hiroshima, Mon Amour — 5, The Apartment — 4, Pollyanna — 4, Sergeant Rutledge — 4, Shoot the Piano Player — 4, Eyes without a Face — 3, Dark at the Top of the Stairs — 2, Midnight Lace — 2, Never on a Sunday – 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s