1968 IN FILM

The year '1968 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1968

Short Film Series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ October 30 - The film ''The Lion in Winter'', starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.

★ November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

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''

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):'
:'''' (''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

Films released in 1968

★ '', 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

★ ''

★ ''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

★ '' ?? (''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''

Short Film Series

★ ''Looney Tunes'' (1930-1969)

★ ''Merrie Melodies'' (1931-1969)

★ ''Speedy Gonzales'' (1953-'1968')

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

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