Ben-Hur and William Wyler Win Best Picture and Directing: 1960 Oscars 

One of the best films ever -period!

@@claudiacotner1638 Totally agree.

And 1997 s Titanic received 11 awards as well and it's not nearly as good, no way !!!!!

but so many animals are killed during filming, so this doesnt't deserve any award...

@@MJ-po7je Never knew that Cecil B. De Mille allowed this, sad.

Amen

Gone with the Wind almost did. Gigi had nine. The next year Ben Hur got 11.

Sudeep Sarkar West Side Story almost tied with Ben Hur’s record but lost Best Adapted Screenplay to Judgment of Nuremberg.

@@hunterolaughlin both Ben-Hur and West Side Story won in each category they were nominated for except for adapted screenplay.

@@couch.patati-patata Speaking of Gigi, what a ridiculous recognition, it was an ok film But The Big Country was so much better and deserved Best Picture of 1958, Hands down!!!!!

@@scottmiller6495 there was nepotism involved.

+Joseph Malham Thank you for posting this, Joe. It needed to be included.

You're right, The 10 Commandments is right behind it, and Cecil B. Demille was robbed in 1956 !!!!!

Agreed, The Best Best Picture ever deserving all 11 Academy Awards, Without a Question!!!!!

And the producer and director were Jewish! That’s a tribute to the film.

@@AuntieMamie It was mainly about a Jew remember.

darthstarkiller1912 Spielberg relies on 'special effects'...Wyler, Stevens, Hitchcock, Huston and many others are far more talented than that guy...Jesus, most of his movies are so shallow...but just a sign of the times.

The speech at the end was done by big Paramount Executive Henry Wilcoxon who wrote it for the scene then went off to war the next day serving in the US Coast Gaurd. He was quite the man!

@@johnnypastrana6727 moron

Wyler was robbed in 1958 for The Big Country, so in 1959 he had to win this deserved award!

and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King tied with Titanic many years later

I think he should have won the Best Supporting Actor award. His role wasn't nearly as big as Charlton Heston's, but I've seen Boyd in other pictures and it wasn't just the brown contact lenses that made him disappear into the role of Messala. He played Messala as a man obsessed--and, along with Heston, he also learned to drive a chariot. Oh, and his death scene is so visceral it never gets old.

Agreed. Far better actor than Heston. As a child, I recall his death scene as the most magnificent and memorable piece of acting in the movie.

I agree, Stephen Boyd was absolutely brilliant as Messala, yet wasn't even nominated. Most memorable death scene in film history, in my opinion.

He is missed so much!

@@kirsteni.russell5903 Amen! Same here!

Diego Pisfil That is not true at all not a lot of people know about Some like it Hot. So many people know about Ben Hur it’s considered one of the greatest films ever made.

Diego Pisfil Did you really just use Watchmojo. You just lost all your credibility.

TITANIC DESERVE 11 OSCARS

But Titanic has always been the most talked about film even in 2023 which make it a timeless classic film and became a huge part of cultural zeitgeist in film history...

Too bad they never made a movie together

Yes it does. As does every movie

I think with time, a tie with Some Like it Hot and North by Northwest stood out the most.

Sorry, The Diary of Ann Frank was a marvelous piece of work by the incomparable George GungaDin Stevens. But Films about Jews persecuted are never popular.

robert szvetics I don't think that ever would have happened. I just pulled this from the IMDB about "High Noon" - John Wayne strongly disliked this movie because he knew it was an allegory for blacklisting, which he and his friend Ward Bond had strongly and actively supported. Twenty years later he was still criticizing it in his controversial May 1971 interview with Playboy magazine. Inventing a scene that was never in the movie, he claimed Gary Cooper had thrown his marshal's badge to the ground and stepped on it. He also stated he would never regret having driven blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman out of Hollywood.

yes i know thats why him and howard hawks did rio bravo as a answer to high noon and carl foreman was a commie and your right coop never stepped on his tin star

John Prothero It's true that Wayne disliked High Noon. I'm not sure it was for political reasons, however. He and Howard Hawks didn't like it because they thought it wasn't realistic. In the real west, the lawman was hired precisely because the townspeople were too scared to fight the bad guys themselves. In the real west, the sheriff never would've gone around begging the townspeople for help fighting the bad guys. That's why they hired him. So HE would do the shooting & the getting shot at. Maybe politics had something to do with it but publicly Duke & Hawks didn't like it because it wasn't realistic.

Lynn Turman also coop had no balls beggin for help grace kelly had more guts there answer to high noon was rio bravo one of the best westerns ever done

Who cares? This is movie history right here

Yes, the American Color television standard (NTSC) was not determined until this time. So, events in this time were captured via film or Kinescope (filming CRT image). Since the RCA/GE proposal with FM audio was adopted, NBC television stations first adopted in 1963. CBS stations (Columbia mechanical proposal, not adopted) followed in color by 1965. Live sporting events (baseball, football, basketball) helped with color adoption. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez (Desilu Studios) used 3-film cameras for their 1950s sitcom (why that 1950s sitcom looks good today, after digitalization). In 1960s, Desilu was an early adopter of color film for TV production of these shows: The Lucy Show, Mission Impossible, Star Trek, & Hogan’s Hereos (with Bing Crosby Productions)

IMO the epic films of the 50s and 60s were a highlight in movie history. Movies that took us back in time to a world we'd never seen or experienced. With authentic large-scale sets, carefully and amazingly detailed costumes, and brilliant music and stories, they were able to bring the might and power of ancient Rome and other ancient stories to our imaginations, seeing how no different they were than us (minus the technology). Some examples of the epic films are: "Quo Vadis" (1951) best picture nominee "Julius Caesar" (1953) best picture nominee "The Robe" (1953) best picture nominee "The Ten Commandments" best picture nominee "Ben-Hur" (1959) best picture winner "Spartacus" (1960) "Cleopatra" (1963) best picture nominee It's even inspired modern films like "Gladiator" (2000) which was also a best picture winner. All in all, best picture also means best production, and the productions done for all these films were of a scale you'd rarely see in a movie nowadays (examples include "Titanic" and "Star Wars"). This coming from a 22-year-old guy who's going for a Film Studies minor in college.

Ikr

Same with North by Northwest.

Some Like it Hot is considered the Best Comedy of all time according to AFI.

It's pretty hard to knock the quality of "Ben-Hur." Yes, there was Maestro Rozsa's Roman marches and the cast of thousands, but it was also a very intimate film with Ben-Hur's love affair and his conversion to Christ.I thought Heston, Stephen Boyd and Hugh Griffith were superb.

Diego Pisfil You actually use watch mojo as a reliable source. Your a comedy genius

Well, to be frank, it’s pretty hard to measure up against something on a such grand scale like Ben-Hur.

At the end of the day Bob Hope was all about...Bob Hope.

dr strangelove It’s your opinion being wrong that’s what it is

@@scifinerd17 What makes that troll particularly obnoxious is its appropriation of the title of one of my favorite films.

Alec Foster This troll always shits on every movie that wins and says “This movie should’ve won instead”

@@scifinerd17 There is always one in every group. Both Kubrick and Peter Sellars would be disgusted.

john edwards , foreign films can't be nominated for best picture but it can be in best foreign film , i prefer The 400 blows father than black orpheus also from France (my country ) .

Don't forget North by Northwest.