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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 ...
Advertisement from 1958 for The Space Children and co-feature, The Colossus of New York. The Space Children was William Alland's first feature film with Paramount. [7] It was loosely based on The Egg, an unpublished story by Tom Filer (involving a girl with polio) that was significantly different from the final plot of the film.
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.
Forbidden Planet pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a man-made faster-than-light starship. [6] It was also the first to be set entirely on a planet orbiting another star, far away from Earth and the Solar System.
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 ...