1961 in film

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The year 1961 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1961
5 Short Film Series
6 Births
7 Deaths
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[edit] Events
Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) released

[edit] Top grossing films
North America
The Guns of Navarone
Exodus
The Parent Trap
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Alamo
Swiss Family Robinson
Come September
The World of Suzie Wong
Gone with the Wind (reissued to commemorate the American Civil War centennial)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
La dolce vita

[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
Achievement in Directing: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
Best Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women
Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris - West Side Story
Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno - West Side Story
Best Foreign Language Film: Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: The Guns of Navarone
Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgement at Nuremberg
Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture (tie): A Majority of One
Best Picture (tie): West Side Story
Best Actor: Glenn Ford - Pocketful of Miracles
Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One
Other
Best Director: Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence), directed by Henri Colpi, France
Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel, Spain
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
La botte (The Night), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

[edit] Films released in 1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Amphibian Man
Atlantis, the Lost Continent
Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Children's Hour, nominated for five Academy Awards
Come September
El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
The Errand Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
Fanny
Flower Drum Song
The Fruit Is Ripe (Les Filles sèment le vent)
Goodbye Again
The Guns of Navarone
Hoodlum Priest
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
King of Kings
La Notte Golden Bear winner
The Ladies Man, starring Jerry Lewis
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Last Year at Marienbad, Golden Lion winner
The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) - Palme d'Or winner
Lover Come Back
A Majority of One
The Mark
The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable
Mothra
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Parent Trap
The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price
Pocketful of Miracles
Il Posto
Question 7
Return to Peyton Place -(film mentioned in article)
Sennin Buraku
Splendor in the Grass
Summer and Smoke
Teen Kanya
Through a Glass Darkly - (Såsom i en spegel)
Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
Victim
Viridiana - Palme d'Or winner
West Side Story
Yojimbo

[edit] Short Film Series
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Terrytoons (1930-1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)
Goofy (1961)

[edit] Births
January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
February 11 - Carey Lowell, actress
April 6 - Gene Eugene, actor, lead singer of Adam Again
July 15 - Forest Whitaker, actor
July 18 - Elizabeth McGovern, actress
October 31 - Peter Jackson, director
November 19 - Meg Ryan, US actress

[edit] Deaths
February 11 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director
February 17 - Nita Naldi, American actress
May 4 - Anita Stewart, American actress
August 4 - Maurice Tourneur, French film director
October 11 - Chico Marx, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers
October 18 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress
October 22 - Joseph Schenck, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive
November 15 - Elsie Ferguson, American stage and film actress
November 24 - Ruth Chatterton, actress