1968 in film

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

1. The Graduate
2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
3. Gone with the Wind re-release
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. Valley of the Dolls
6. The Odd Couple
7. Planet of the Apes
8. Rosemary's Baby
9. The Jungle Book
10. 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

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Oliver!

Best Actor: Ron Moody - Oliver!

Best Actress: Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

<u>Other

Best Director: Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel

PALM 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

• 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner
• 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 Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
• Faces
• Finian's Rainbow
• Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
•  ?? (17e Parallele Le Vietnam En Guerre)
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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 30 - Monica Bellucci, actress
• December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
• December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor

Deaths

• July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer French/American filmmaker (d. 1968)
• August 26 - Kay Francis, 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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