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1960's Academy Award 'Best Picture' Winners
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Listed in ascending order, beginning with 1960.

Each of the film’s Producers took home the coveted ‘Oscar’. Credit for coining the term ‘Oscar’ is given to Margaret Herrick, the Academy executive secretary. When she first saw the award in 1931, she said the statuette reminded her of “Uncle Oscar”, a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce.


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Movie: The Apartment ( 1960 )
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
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Movie: West Side Story ( 1961 )
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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Movie: Lawrence of Arabia ( 2013 )
The 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.
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Movie: Tom Jones ( 1963 )
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
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Movie: My Fair Lady ( 1964 )
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
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Movie: The Sound of Music ( 1965 )
A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
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Movie: A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 )
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
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Movie: In the Heat of the Night ( 1967 )
A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
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Movie: Oliver! ( 1968 )
After being sold to the mortician Sowerberry, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by their elderly mentor Fagin in 1830s London in this musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
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Movie: Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 )
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.