American film and television studios terminated production of black-and-white output in 1966 and, during the following two years, the rest of the world followed suit. At the start of the 1960s, transition to color proceeded slowly, with major studios continuing to release black-and-white films through 1965 and into 1966. Among the five Best Picture nominees at the 33rd Academy Awards in April 1961, two — Sons and Lovers and the winner, The Apartment — were black-and white. Two of the nominees in 1962, The Hustler and Judgment at Nuremberg, were likewise black-and white. The pattern continued into 1963, with The Longest Day and To Kill a Mockingbird; 1964, with America America and Lilies of the Field; and into 1965, with Dr. Strangelove and Zorba the Greek.

At the 38th Academy Awards, held on April 18, 1966, the Best Picture winner (The Sound of Music) and one other nominee (Doctor Zhivago) were in color, but the remaining three nominees (Darling, Ship of Fools and A Thousand Clowns) were in black-and-white. However, at the 39th Academy Awards, held on April 10, 1967, the winner (A Man for All Seasons) and three other nominees (Alfie, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming and The Sand Pebbles) were in color. Only one nominee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) was in black-and-white.

By the 40th Academy Awards, held on April 10, 1968, not only were the winner (In the Heat of the Night) and all four of the other nominees (Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor Dolittle, The Graduate and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) in color but, because studios had almost entirely stopped making black-and-white films, the awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design were merged into single categories rather than having a distinction between color and monochrome.

Transition

The transition to color started in earnest when NBC announced in May 1963 that a large majority of its 1964–65 TV season would be in color. By late September 1964, the move to potential all-color programming was being seen as successful and, on March 8, 1965, NBC confirmed that its 1965–66 season would be almost entirely in color. Three months later, on June 17, CBS, which had been limiting its color programming to only occasional specials, sent out a bulletin that it was preparing to broadcast at least 50 percent of its 1965–66 primetime programming in color.THE COLOR REVOLUTION: TELEVISION IN THE SIXTIES (Television Obscurities, April 26, 2018)

The move of American TV to color reached its final phase in February 1966 when the third network, ABC, announced plans for its 1966–67 season to be almost entirely in color. Since the premiere of NBC Saturday Night at the Movies in September 1961, post-1948 major studio feature films gained a dominant foothold in primetime American TV and, by the mid-1960s, feature films were being broadcast by all three networks in prime time on a nearly-daily basis. Although many of those films were in black-and-white, the ones that were presented in color on NBC had been singled out for special promotion as "broadcast in living color".

In the aftermath of ABC's announcement, studios quickly surmised that only the color features in their film library would have TV broadcast value and stopped production of black-and-white films. Other than a very small number of major films that the studios were willing to publicize — The Fortune Cookie, Is Paris Burning?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — completed or nearly completed black-and-white features were put into perfunctory release, but features that had been only partially completed were halted and ordered to restart in color. A similar situation had occurred 37 years earlier, in 1929, when studios stopped production on mid-completion silent films and ordered the addition of dialogue.

Since the 1970s, fiction feature films around the world have been filmed almost exclusively in color. Some films after the transition to color are occasionally presented in black-and-white for budgetary or stylistic reasons. This is a list of notable feature films made after the 1960s that have a significant amount of their running time in black-and-white or monochrome/sepia tone. Many modern black-and-white films are shot in color and converted in post-production.

Black-and-white films Note: This list does not include short films, documentaries, or films with less than 50% black-and-white footage.

1966–1969 FilmYearExclusively B/W Alice in Wonderland1966 Andrei Rublev Au hasard Balthazar The Battle of Algiers Blood Bath Chelsea Girls Chimes at Midnight Cul-de-sac Daisies Don't Let It Get You Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title Eye of the Devil Georgy Girl I Was Happy Here Is Paris Burning? Kid Rodelo Lord Love a Duck Mademoiselle A Man and a Woman Mister Buddwing Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment Naked Evil Red Zone Cuba Seconds Who Killed the Cat? Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967 In Cold Blood Who's That Knocking at My Door Cuckoo Patrol Mouchette Ulysses Bedazzled Warrendale Beyond the Law1968 Confessions of a Psycho Cat Faces If.... Night of the Living Dead Wild 90 Moss on the Stones Inadmissible Evidence Tell Me Lies Bronco Bullfrog1969 Everything for Sale Love Is Colder Than Death Mondo Trasho Out of It Putney Swope The Cremator The Graduation The Wedding Party

1970s FilmYearExclusively B/W Awakening of the Beast1970 Even Dwarfs Started Small Evil Spirits of Japan Gods of the Plague Heroic Purgatory How I Unleashed World War II King Lear Live Today, Die Tomorrow! Multiple Maniacs Quiet Days in Clichy Reconstruction The American Soldier The Honeymoon Killers The Man Who Left His Will on Film The Wild Child This Transient Life Wow A Bee in the Rain1971 Blood Thirst Demons Emperor Tomato Ketchup Hydrozagadka Johnny Got His Gun Love Summer in the City The Last Picture Show The Salamander What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi? 1972 Nathalie Granger Savages Tomorrow Coup d'Etat1973 John the Violent Noël and Juliette Old Walls Paper Moon The Mother and the Whore You Are Warm... You Are Warm... Alice in the Cities1974 Effi Briest Je Tu Il Elle Lenny Lust for Gold Pastoral: To Die in the Country Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market The Man Who Sleeps The Time of the Beginning The Traveler Vase de Noces Young Frankenstein Adoption1975 Beni Walks by Himself Cinema Paithiyam Companion Deafula Eiszeit Euridice BA 2037 Hester Street John Glückstadt Mirror Overlord Seasons of the Year The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard The Noah The Other Francisco Throne of Capricorn Thundercrack! Under the Pavement Lies the Strand Coup de Grâce1976 Kings of the Road Agraharathil Kazhutai1977 Hot Tomorrows Eraserhead Hitler: A Film from Germany Northern Lights1978 Killer of Sheep Stalker1979 Family Nest J-Men Forever Manhattan Radio On

1980s FilmYearExclusively B/W Forbidden Zone1980 Stardust Memories Raging Bull Sir Henry at Rawlinson End Angels of Iron1981 Looks and Smiles Muddy River Travelling Warrior The Rhythm of Crime You Are Not I Züri Brännt 1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Konopielka Veronika Voss Chassé-croisé Chan Is Missing Strasek, der Vampir Taking Tiger Mountain 1983 Zelig Rumble Fish Confidentially Yours Klassenverhältnisse1984 Calamari Union Boy Meets Girl Bless Their Little Hearts Broadway Danny Rose Screamplay Stranger Than Paradise Nothing Lasts Forever 1985 Mala Noche Noir et Blanc1986 Tree Without Leaves Under the Cherry Moon She's Gotta Have It To Sleep So as to Dream Down by Law Wings of Desire1987 Epidemic Heat and Sunlight My Best Friend's Birthday Border Radio The Noisy Requiem 1988 Damnation Heart of a Dog Hard Times L'imperatore di Roma Tales from the Gimli Hospital Begotten1989 Black Rain It Roadkill My 20th Century Circus Boys O Sangue The Pregnant Laddie Sidewalk Stories Tetsuo: The Iron Man

1990s FilmYearExclusively B/W Pervyy etazh1990 Singapore Sling Freeze Die Come to Life Twilight Archangel Korczak Ucho 1991 Night of the Day of the Dawn Part 2 Europa Kafka Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful Madonna: Truth or Dare No Skin Off My Ass Swoon1992 In the Soup Life According to Agfa Shadows and Fog Man Bites Dog 1993 Anchoress En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud Suture Schindler's List Go Fish1994 Ladoni Nadja Woyzeck Sátántangó Rhythm Thief Federal Hill Eclipse Ed Wood Clerks 1995 Dead Man Institute Benjamenta Living in Oblivion Dream for an Insomniac1996 Rubber's Lover Bitter Sugar Foreign Land Growing Artichokes in Mimongo Drawing Flies Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day House of the Damned Labyrinth of Dreams 1997 Desert Sky Leather Jacket Love Story Kasaba How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate Happy Together 24 7: Twenty Four Seven The Cruise1998 Pleasantville Khrustalyov, mashinu! Pi Bullet Ballet Samurai Fiction Celebrity Capuccino Following Of Freaks and Men Okraina Man of the Century1999 Judy Berlin Juha Wisconsin Death Trip Chi Girl Tuvalu Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras The Woman Chaser Girl on the Bridge

2000s FilmYearExclusively B/W Mysterious Object at Noon 2000 Devils on the Doorstep Eureka Werckmeister Harmonies Acne Memento 2001 25 Watts Makibefo Electric Dragon 80.000 V Return to Innocence Bolivia Don's Plum Planet of the Cannibals In Praise of Love Mongoland Box Head Revolution2002 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space Back Against the Wall The Last Letter Don't Ask Don't Tell Sin Destino Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino Woodenhead 2003 Cowards Bend the Knee Coffee and Cigarettes Temporada de patos2004 I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster Late Bloomer Evolution of a Filipino Family After the Apocalypse Aaltra Sin City 2005 Regular Lovers I'm Going to Tell You a Secret Good Night, and Good Luck Dark Horse Ashes and Snow Angel-A Night of the Day of the Dawn Part 3 Mutual Appreciation Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove 13 Tzameti A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or The Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos) Renaissance 2006 Ten Canoes Slow Days Automatons Brand Upon the Brain! Asudem Avida Destination Mars Ten Canoes Factory Girl Clerks II Vermilion Souls 2007 Persepolis The Mist (Black and white version) Life Kills Me Dreamscape J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster Tin Can Man ...a bude hůř In Search of a Midnight Kiss Dr. Plonk Control Honor Guard Peščanik Zift2008 Aegri Somnia Somers Town Frontier of the Dawn Fear(s) of the Dark Melancholia 2009 Tetro Stingray Sam Rewers Polytechnique City of Life and Death Antichrist Dark and Stormy Night Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench Only Human

2010s