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These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics. Collectively, the science fiction films from the 1960s received five Academy Awards, a Hugo Award and a BAFTA Award.
Pages in category "1960s science fiction films" The following 142 pages are in this category, out of 142 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/Notes 12 to the Moon: David Bradley: Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway: United States [1] [2]The Amazing Transparent Man: Edgar G. Ulmer ...
Similar to spy films, the heist or caper film included worldly settings and hi-tech gadgets, as in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), Topkapi (1964) or The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). The spaghetti westerns (made in Italy and Spain), were typified by Clint Eastwood films, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965) or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...
Beyond the Time Barrier is a 1960 American science fiction film. It was released in September 1960 on a double bill with The Angry Red Planet. [3] It starred Robert Clarke (who also served as producer) and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Ulmer's wife Shirley acted as a script editor while their daughter Arianne Arden appeared as a Russian pilot.
While not strictly-speaking science fiction, some of the James Bond films included a variety of science fiction-like gadgetry. Possibly the most significant Science Fiction film of the 1960s was 2001: A Space Odyssey of 1968, directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke . 2001 is regarded as the seminal entry in the ...
Genesis (Lebrun), 1960 mural by Italian-American painter and sculptor Rico Lebrun; Genesis (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain; Genesis, a fictional character in the comic book series Preacher; Genesis, a 1951 story by H. Beam Piper; Genesis: The Origins of Man and the Universe, a 1982 science text by John Gribbin
According to Vivian Sobchack, a British cinema and media theorist and cultural critic: . Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or 2.0 speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in a social context with the lesser emphasized, but still present, transcendentalism of magic and religion, in an attempt to reconcile man with the unknown.