Lawrence of Arabia won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Picture. The film is a sweeping epic that dramatizes the real life adventures of T.E. Lawrence, a British major who unified Arab tribes and led them in the fight for independence from the Ottoman Turks in the 1920s.

Tom Jones won in 1963. Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film follows Tom Jones (Albert Finney), a country boy who becomes one of the wildest playboys in 18th-century England, developing a ravenous taste for women, food, and rowdy adventures. Over the course of the film, Jones tries to amass his own fortune and win the heart of Sophie (Susannah York).

My Fair Lady won in 1964. The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Picture and Director. This popular musical is based on George Bernard Shaw;s 1913 play Pygmalion. Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can transform cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in time for an important society ball. His gamble could pay off--but as the spirited Eliza becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his consternation, that he can not live without her.

Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia.

Audrey Hepburn and Jeremy Brett in My Fair Lady.

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