1960 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.

Roger Ebert called Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless the greatest movie debut by a director since Orson Welles's Citizen Kane and went so far as to say, "Modern movies begin here."

Thus, Godard's nod for best director.