1961 IN FILM

The year '1961 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1961

Short Film Series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ ''Last Year at Marienbad'' (''L'année dernière à Marienbad'') released

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''

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

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''

★ ''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''

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')

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

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