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The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1968
5 Short Film Series
6 Births
7 Deaths
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[edit] Events
October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.
[edit] Top grossing films
North America
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Gone with the Wind re-release
Bonnie and Clyde
Valley of the Dolls
The Odd Couple
Planet of the Apes
Rosemary's Baby
The Jungle Book
Yours, Mine and Ours
[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Oliver! - Romulus, Columbia
Best Director: Carol Reed - Oliver!
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson - Charly
Best Actress (tie): Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter
Best Actress (tie): Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
Best Foreign Language Film: War and Peace (Война и мир), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (USSR)
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: The Lion in Winter
Best Actor: Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter
Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Oliver!
Best Actor: Ron Moody - Oliver!
Best Actress: Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
Other
Best Director: Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die? ), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden
[edit] Films released in 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick
Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner
The Astro-Zombies
Bandolero!
Barbarella
Brilliantovaya ruka (Diamond Arm) - a hugely popular Russian comedy
Bullitt
Candy
Charly
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - starring Dick Van Dyke
Coogan's Bluff
Danger: Diabolik
Destroy All Monsters
The Detective - starring Frank Sinatra
The Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
Faces
Finian's Rainbow
Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
Gamera and Mothra: Earth Defense War ?? (17e Parallele Le Vietnam En Guerre)
Head
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Ice Station Zebra
If... Palme d'Or winner
Isadora
The Lion in Winter
Live a Little, Love a Little
La Marca del Hombre Lobo
Il marchio di Kriminal
Mayerling
Monterey Pop
Night of the Living Dead
Las Noches del Hombre Lobo
The Odd Couple
Ole Dole Doff Golden Bear winner
Oliver!, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, and Harry Secombe
Once Upon a Time in the West
Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Donald Cammell and Mick Jagger
Petulia
The One and Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band
Planet of the Apes
The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet
Rosemary's Baby
Satanik
The Secret Life of an American Wife
The Shoes of the Fisherman, Anthony Quinn
Shame (Skammen)
Speedway
Star!
Stay Away, Joe
The Subject Was Roses
Twisted Nerve
War and Peace
Where Eagles Dare
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (short subject)
Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price
Yellow Submarine
Yours, Mine and Ours
[edit] Short Film Series
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)
[edit] Births
January 2 - Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
January 6 - John Singleton, director and writer
January 14 - LL Cool J, rapper, actor
February 1 - Pauly Shore, actor
February 18 - Molly Ringwald, actress
March 2 - Daniel Craig, actor
March 30- Celine Dion, singer
April 14 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
April 24 - Stacy Haiduk, actress
April 19 - Ashley Judd, actress
September 10 - Guy Ritchie, director, writer, married to Madonna
September 28 - Naomi Watts, actress
September 30 - Monica Bellucci, actress
December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor
[edit] Deaths
July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer French/American filmmaker
August 26 - Kay Francis, actress
September 3 - Isabel Withers, actress
October 30 - Ramon Novarro, actor
November 25 - Upton Sinclair, writer and producer
December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress
December 20 - John Steinbeck, writer
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