1968

Academy winnerOliver! poster

Oliver!

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Should have wonOnce Upon a Time in the West poster

Once Upon a Time in the West

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The Academy's ballot

Your #1 was Once Upon a Time in the West (#1).

The full slate

#1
Once Upon a Time in the West poster

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

⭐ Top-rated🏛️ All-time great

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Dir. Sergio Leone · Claudia Cardinale · Henry Fonda · Jason Robards · Charles Bronson

IMDb 8.5 (384,825 votes) · TMDB 8.273

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

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#2
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

⭐ Top-rated🏛️ All-time great💰 Box office #1

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Dir. Stanley Kubrick · Keir Dullea · Gary Lockwood · William Sylvester · Douglas Rain

IMDb 8.3 (784,972 votes) · TMDB 8.05

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

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#3
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #8

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Dir. Roman Polanski · Mia Farrow · John Cassavetes · Ruth Gordon · Sidney Blackmer

IMDb 8.0 (258,760 votes) · TMDB 7.82

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

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#4
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Planet of the Apes (1968)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #9

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Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner · Charlton Heston · Roddy McDowall · Kim Hunter · Maurice Evans

IMDb 8.0 (209,959 votes) · TMDB 7.654

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

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#5
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #10

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Dir. George A. Romero · Judith O'Dea · Duane Jones · Marilyn Eastman · Karl Hardman

IMDb 7.8 (151,321 votes) · TMDB 7.607

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

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#6
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Where Eagles Dare (1968)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Brian G. Hutton · Richard Burton · Clint Eastwood · Mary Ure · Patrick Wymark

IMDb 7.6 (66,792 votes) · TMDB 7.5

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

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#7
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The Lion in Winter (1968)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Anthony Harvey · Peter O'Toole · Katharine Hepburn · Anthony Hopkins · John Castle

IMDb 7.8 (36,883 votes) · TMDB 7.4

Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.

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#8
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The Odd Couple (1968)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #4

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Dir. Gene Saks · Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · John Fiedler · Herb Edelman

IMDb 7.6 (40,063 votes) · TMDB 7.427

In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.

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#9
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Romeo and Juliet (1968)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #6

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Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · Leonard Whiting · Olivia Hussey · John McEnery · Michael York

IMDb 7.6 (37,473 votes) · TMDB 7.404

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.

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#10
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Bullitt (1968)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #5

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Dir. Peter Yates · Steve McQueen · Robert Vaughn · Jacqueline Bisset · Don Gordon

IMDb 7.4 (81,018 votes) · TMDB 7.148

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.

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#11
Shame poster

Shame (1968)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Liv Ullmann · Max von Sydow · Sigge Fürst · Gunnar Björnstrand

IMDb 8.0 (16,504 votes) · TMDB 7.5

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

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#12
The Party poster

The Party (1968)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Blake Edwards · Peter Sellers · Claudine Longet · Natalia Borisova · Jean Carson

IMDb 7.4 (47,222 votes) · TMDB 7.294

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

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#13
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The Great Silence (1968)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Sergio Corbucci · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Klaus Kinski · Frank Wolff · Luigi Pistilli

IMDb 7.7 (20,567 votes) · TMDB 7.483

A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.

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#14
Oliver! poster

Oliver! (1968)

🏆 Winner⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #7

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Dir. Carol Reed · Ron Moody · Shani Wallis · Oliver Reed · Harry Secombe

IMDb 7.4 (44,477 votes) · TMDB 7.0

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

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#15
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Yellow Submarine (1968)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. George Dunning · Paul Angelis · John Clive · Dick Emery · Geoffrey Hughes

IMDb 7.4 (29,910 votes) · TMDB 7.2

The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.

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#16
Funny Girl poster

Funny Girl (1968)

🎬 Nominee💰 Box office #2

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Dir. William Wyler · Barbra Streisand · Omar Sharif · Kay Medford · Anne Francis

IMDb 7.4 (27,455 votes) · TMDB 7.2

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

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#17
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Rachel, Rachel (1968)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · James Olson · Kate Harrington · Estelle Parsons

IMDb 7.1 (4,489 votes) · TMDB 6.6

Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

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#18
The Love Bug poster

The Love Bug (1968)

💰 Box office #3

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Dir. Robert Stevenson · Dean Jones · Michele Lee · David Tomlinson · Buddy Hackett

IMDb 6.5 (19,093 votes) · TMDB 6.562

Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him.

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