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1960s Best Picture Oscar Nominees - Multiple Choice

Identify the 60s films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture* but lost.

Other decades in this quiz series here.

Wrong answers were nominated in categories other than Best Picture in the same year.
Year given is the year in film being awarded, not the date of the ceremony.
*Also known as the award for Best Motion Picture in this era.
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1. Which 1960 Best Picture nominee lost to The Apartment?
Spartacus
Sons and Lovers
The Entertainer
2. Which 1961 Best Picture nominee lost to West Side Story?
Yojimbo
La Dolce Vita
The Hustler
3. Which 1962 Best Picture nominee lost to Lawrence of Arabia?
Days of Wine and Roses
The Manchurian Candidate
To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Which 1963 Best Picture nominee lost to Tom Jones?
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Cleopatra
5. Which 1964 Best Picture nominee lost to My Fair Lady?
Dr. Strangelove
The Night of the Iguana
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
6. Which 1965 Best Picture nominee lost to The Sound of Music?
The Flight of the Phoenix
Doctor Zhivago
Othello
7. Which 1966 Best Picture nominee lost to A Man for All Seasons?
Fantastic Voyage
Blowup
Alfie
8. Which 1967 Best Picture nominee lost to In the Heat of the Night?
The Graduate
The Dirty Dozen
Barefoot in the Park
9. Which 1968 Best Picture nominee lost to Oliver!?
Funny Girl
The Producers
Planet of the Apes
10. Which 1969 Best Picture nominee lost to Midnight Cowboy?
Easy Rider
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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