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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?
Sons and Lovers
The Entertainer
Spartacus
2. Which 1961 Best Picture nominee lost to West Side Story?
La Dolce Vita
Yojimbo
The Hustler
3. Which 1962 Best Picture nominee lost to Lawrence of Arabia?
Days of Wine and Roses
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Manchurian Candidate
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?
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Dr. Strangelove
The Night of the Iguana
6. Which 1965 Best Picture nominee lost to The Sound of Music?
Othello
The Flight of the Phoenix
Doctor Zhivago
7. Which 1966 Best Picture nominee lost to A Man for All Seasons?
Alfie
Blowup
Fantastic Voyage
8. Which 1967 Best Picture nominee lost to In the Heat of the Night?
The Graduate
Barefoot in the Park
The Dirty Dozen
9. Which 1968 Best Picture nominee lost to Oliver!?
The Producers
Planet of the Apes
Funny Girl
10. Which 1969 Best Picture nominee lost to Midnight Cowboy?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Easy Rider
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