The year 1960 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Swiss Family Robinson* | Disney | $20,178,000 | | 2. | Psycho* | Paramount/Universal | $11,200,000 | | 3. | Spartacus | Universal | $11,100,000 | | 4. | Exodus | United Artists | $8,332,000 | | 5. | The Alamo | United Artists | $7,919,000 | | 6. | Butterfield 8 | MGM | $7,552,000 | | 7. | The World of Suzie Wong | Paramount | $7,500,000 | | 8. | The Apartment | United Artists | $6,680,000 | | 9. | Ocean's 11 | Warner Brothers | $5,650,000 | | 10. | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | MGM | $5,369,000 | (*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1960.shtml [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists
- Best Director: Billy Wilder - The Apartment
- Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
- Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8
- Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
- Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Golden Globe Awards: - Drama:
- Best Picture: Spartacus
- Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
- Best Actress: Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): The Apartment
- Best Picture (tie): Song Without End
- Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
- Other
- Best Director: Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): - La dolce vita, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): - Le passage du Rhin (The Crossing of the Rhine), directed by André Cayatte, Italy / France / W.Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): - El lazarillo de tormes, directed by César Fernández Ardavin, Spain / Italy
[edit] Films released in 1960 - The Long and the Short and the Tall
- The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
- 13 Ghosts
- Alakazam the Great
- The Alamo, starring John Wayne, Richard Widmark and Laurence Harvey
- The Amazing Transparent Man
- The Angry Silence
- The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
- An Arabian Night
- L'avventura
- Beat Girl
- The Bellboy
- Bells Are Ringing
- Black Sunday
- Breathless (À bout de souffle)
- BUtterfield 8, starring Elizabeth Taylor
- Can-Can
- Carry On Constable
- The Challenge (US: It Takes A Thief), starring Jayne Mansfield
- Cimarron
- Cinderfella
- College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Devi
- La dolce vita, directed by Frederico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg
- Elmer Gantry, starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons
- The Entertainer, starring Laurence Olivier
- Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan
- Exodus, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint and Sal Mineo
- The Facts of Life
- Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
- From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- G.I. Blues
- Goliath II
- Heller in Pink Tights
- Herod the Great (Erode il grande)
- High Time
- House of Usher, starring Vincent Price
- Inherit the Wind, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly
- It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren
- Jigoku
- Last Woman on Earth
- The Last Voyage
- Late Autumn (Akibiyori)
- Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe
- The Lost World
- The Loves of Hercules, starring Jayne Mansfield and her husband Mickey Hargitay
- Macumba Love
- The Magnificent Seven, starring Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen
- Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin and Myrna Loy
- Make Mine Mink
- The Millionairess, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers
- The Mountain Road
- Mughal-e-Azam
- Murder, Inc.
- Never on Sunday, starring Melina Mercouri
- Noi duri
- North to Alaska
- Ocean's Eleven, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Angie Dickinson
- Le Passage du Rhin
- Peeping Tom
- Pepe
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies, starring Doris Day and David Niven
- Pollyanna
- Portrait in Black, starring Lana Turner with Anthony Quinn and Sandra Dee
- The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
- Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles and John Gavin
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
- The Rat Race
- The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
- Scent of Mystery
- Sergeant Rutledge
- Seven Thieves
- Sex Kittens Go to College, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Sink the Bismarck!
- Song Without End
- Sons and Lovers, starring Dean Stockwell
- Space Men
- Spartacus, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis and John Dall
- The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama based on Ruth
- The Sundowners, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
- Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée)
- The Time Machine
- Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield
- The Truth, starring Brigitte Bardot
- Tunes of Glory
- Two Women, starring Sophia Loren
- The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn
- Vice Raid, starring Mamie Van Doren
- The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
- Visit to a Small Planet
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
- Where the Boys Are
- The White Horse Inn
- The World of Suzie Wong
- The Young One
- Man in the Moon
- Watch Your Stern
[edit] Short Film Series [edit] Births - January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
- January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
- January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
- February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980)
- May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
- May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
- August 16 - Timothy Hutton, actor
- August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
- September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
- October 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
- November 5 - Tilda Swinton, British actress
- November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director.
- December 3 - Daryl Hannah, actress
- December 3 - Julianne Moore, actress
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