The year 1963 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Cleopatra | 20th Century Fox | $26,000,000 | | 2. | How the West Was Won | Cinerama/MGM | $20,933,000 | | 3. | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | United Artists | $20,850,000 | | 4. | Tom Jones | UA/Goldwyn | $18,500,900 | | 5. | Irma La Douce | United Artists | $11,922,000 | | 6. | The Sword in the Stone | Disney | $10,475,000 | | 7. | Son of Flubber | Disney | $10,450,000 | | 8. | Dr. No | United Artists | $6,435,000 | | 9. | Charade | Universal | $6,363,000 | | 10. | Bye Bye Birdie | Columbia | $6,200,000 | (*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1963.shtml [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: Tom Jones — Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British)
- Best Director: Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
- Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
- Best Actress: Patricia Neal - Hud
- Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas - Hud
- Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s
- Best Foreign Language Film: 8½ (Otto e mezzo), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Globe Awards: - Drama:
- Best Picture: The Cardinal
- Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
- Best Actress: Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Tom Jones
- Best Actor: Alberto Sordi - To Bed... or Not to Bed
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce
- Other
- Best Director: Elia Kazan - America, America
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): - The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): - Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): - Il Diavolo (To Bed... or Not to Bed), directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro, Italy
[edit] Films released in 1963 - 8½
- 55 Days at Peking, starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven
- America, America by Elia Kazan
- An Actor's Revenge
- Atragon
- La Baie des Anges
- The Balcony
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), starring Tippi Hedren in her film debut. Also starring Rod Taylor and Jessica Tandy
- Blood Feast
- Bushido:Samurai Saga (Bushidô zankoku monogatari) Golden Bear winner
- Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret
- Captain Newman, M.D., starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis and Angie Dickinson
- The Cardinal
- The Caretakers, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Stack and Polly Bergen
- Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
- Carry On Cabby
- Carry On Jack
- A Child Is Waiting, starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster
- Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton
- Come Blow Your Horn
- Contempt (Le Mépris), starring Brigitte Bardot
- Critic's Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
- Dementia 13
- Il Diavolo Golden Bear winner
- Donovan's Reef
- Dr. No (U.S. release)
- Father Came Too!
- Flaming Creatures
- The Four Days of Naples (U.S. release)
- From Russia with Love
- Fun in Acapulco
- A Gathering of Eagles
- Gidget Goes to Rome
- The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen and James Garner
- Hands Over the City Golden Lion winner
- Hud, starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal and Melvyn Douglas
- Irma la Douce, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
- It Happened at the World's Fair
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Ladies Who Do, starring Harry H. Corbett, Robert Morley and Peggy Mount
- Ladybug Ladybug
- The Leopard Palme d'Or winner
- The L-Shaped Room, starring Leslie Caron
- Lilies of the Field, starring Sidney Poitier
- Love With the Proper Stranger, starring Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen
- Matango
- McLintock!
- Move Over, Darling, starring Doris Day, James Garner and Polly Bergen
- A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- The Nutty Professor, starring Jerry Lewis
- One Got Fat
- The Prize, starring Paul Newman and Elke Sommer
- Promises! Promises!, starring Jayne Mansfield who (in this) became the first Hollywood actress to appear nude in a feature film.
- PT 109
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, starring Tony Randall and Barbara Eden
- Sleep, by Andy Warhol
- Son of Flubber
- Sundays and Cybele
- Sunshine in a Net
- The Sword in the Stone
- This Sporting Life, starring Richard Harris
- To Bed or Not to Bed
- Tom Jones, starring Albert Finney and Susannah York
- Torpedo Bay
- Toys in the Attic
- Twilight of Honor
- The Ugly American, starring Marlon Brando
- The V.I.P.s, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
- The Wheeler Dealers
- Who's Minding the Store?, starring Jerry Lewis and Jill St. John
- The Wrong Arm of the Law
- Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke starring Sunil Dutt
- Zuo ye meng hun zhong
[edit] Short Film Series [edit] Births - January 14 — Steven Soderbergh, director
- March 18 — Vanessa L. Williams, actress, singer and former beauty queen
- March 27 — Quentin Tarantino, director
- June 9 — Johnny Depp, US actor
- June 10 — Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actress
- June 15 — Helen Hunt, US actress
- July 30 — Lisa Kudrow, US actress
- October 6 — Elisabeth Shue, US actress
- November 5 — Tatum O'Neal, US actress
- December 15 — Helen Slater, US actress
- December 18 — Brad Pitt, actor
[edit] Deaths - January 2 - Jack Carson, 52, Canadian actor
- January 2 - Dick Powell, 58, American actor, director
- January 6 - Frank Tuttle, 70, American director
- January 28 - John Farrow, 58, Australian director
- February 18 - Monte Blue, 76, American actor
- April 4 - Jason Robards Sr., 70, American actor
- May 6 - Monty Woolley, 74, American actor
- June 7 - Zasu Pitts, 69, American actress
- July 25 - Leota Lane, 59, American singer, actress
- August 17 - Richard Barthelmess, 68, American actor
- October 29 - Adolphe Menjou, 73, American actor
- November 1 - Elsa Maxwell, 82, American gossip columnist
- December 2 - Sabu, 39, Indian actor
- December 5 - Tom London, 74, American actor
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