The Moonlight Awards: 1963

It's 1963, and the Cold War is at its peak - and luckily for us, so is cinema. Alfred Hitchcock continues his run with another horror classic, Jean-Luc Godard and Federico Fellini unveil masterpieces of their own, and Luchino Visconti returns with a lavish historical epic that only he could have made. But which one film of 1963 has best stood the test of time? Join Rachel Schaevitz and Aaron Keck as they discuss the year in cinema, multilingual casts, Communist allegories, special effects, director's block, long arguments, and Steve McQueen - and then we dig into the data and the numbers (and our expert panel votes) to identify the best picture of 1963. The nominees are The Birds, Contempt, 8 1/2, The Great Escape, and The Leopard. Who wins the Moonlight?