1967 in film

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The year 1967 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1967
5 Short Film Series
6 Births
7 Deaths
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[edit] Events
December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television.
The prototype for the IMAX multi-screen system is exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada

[edit] Top grossing films
North America
The Dirty Dozen
You Only Live Twice
Casino Royale
A Man for All Seasons
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Barefoot in the Park
Georgy Girl
To Sir, with Love
The Jungle Book

[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night - Mirisch, United Artists
Achievement in Direction: Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Best Actor: Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke
Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
Best Foreign Language Film: Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky), directed by Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night
Best Actor: Rod Steiger' - In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress: Edith Evans - The Whisperers
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: The Graduate
Best Actor: Richard Harris - Camelot
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
Other
Best Director: Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Best English Language Foreign Film: The Fox, United Kingdom
Best Foreign Film: Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre), France
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Belle de jour, directed by Louis Buñuel, France / Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium

[edit] Films released in 1967
A Countess from Hong Kong
The Ambushers
The Andromeda Nebula
Barefoot in the Park
Bedazzled
Belle de jour
The Big Mouth, starring Jerry Lewis
Bonnie and Clyde
The Born Losers
Camelot
Casino Royale
Cervantes
Clambake
Cool Hand Luke
Le Depart
The Dirty Dozen
Doctor Dolittle
Double Trouble
Easy Come, Easy Go
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Fastest Guitar Alive
The Flim-Flam Man
Follow That Camel a.k.a Carry On...Follow That Camel or Carry On In The Legion
Good Times
Grand slam
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Graduate, premiered in Los Angeles on December 8
The Happiest Millionaire
Hombre
The Honey Pot
I Am Curious (Yellow)
In Like Flint
In the Heat of the Night
The Jungle Book
Komissar aka The Commissar
One Million Years B.C.
Playtime
Point Blank
The President's Analyst
Quatermass and the Pit
Reflections in a Golden Eye
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Le Samouraï (The Samurai), starring Alain Delon
Son of Godzilla
Stimulantia
The Fox
The Stranger (Lo Straniero)
This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Tiger Makes Out, starring Eli Wallach
Tobruk
To Sir, with Love
Valley of the Dolls
Wait Until Dark
The War Wagon
The Whisperers
Who's That Knocking at My Door, directed by Martin Scorsese
You Only Live Twice

[edit] Short Film Series
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

[edit] Births
January 2 - Tia Carrere, American actress
January 14 - Emily Watson, English actress
February 9 - Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
February 10 - Laura Dern, American actress
March 16 - Lauren Graham, American actress
April 2 - Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
May 1 - Scott Coffey, American actor/director
May 31 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
June 20 - Nicole Kidman, Australian actress
July 1 - Pamela Anderson, American actress
July 16 - Will Ferrell, American actor
October 4 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
October 5 - Guy Pearce, Australian actor
October 28 - Julia Roberts, American actress
September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr.
November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, model and actress ( d. 2007)

[edit] Deaths
January 21 - Ann Sheridan (b. 1915), American actress
February 16 - Martine Carol (b. 1922), French actress
June 10 - Spencer Tracy (b. 1900), American actor.
June 29 - Jayne Mansfield (b. 1933), American actress.
July 7 - Vivien Leigh (b. 1913), British actress.
July 21 - David Weisbart (b. 1915), film editor & producer