The year 1968 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1968.shtml [edit] 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 Supporting Actor: Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses
- Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
- 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): - Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (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
[edit] Films released in 1968 # A B - Bandolero!, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin and Raquel Welch
- Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda
- Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford and Diana Dors
- Blackbeard's Ghost
- The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis
- Brilliantovaya ruka (Diamond Arm) - a hugely popular Russian comedy
- Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, starring Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas
C D F G H I L M N O P R S - Satanik
- The Secret Life of an American Wife
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg
- Separation
- The Shakiest Gun in the West
- Shalako, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot
- The Shoes of the Fisherman, Anthony Quinn
- Single Room Furnished, starring Jayne Mansfield in her final film
- Shame (Skammen)
- Speedway, starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
- Spirits of the Dead, starring Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda
- Star!, starring Julie Andrews
- Stay Away, Joe
- The Subject Was Roses, starring Patricia Neal
T W Y [edit] Short Film Series [edit] 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 23 - Damon Albarn, musician
- March 30- Celine Dion, singer
- April 8 - Patricia Arquette, actress
- April 14 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
- April 24 - Stacy Haiduk, actress
- April 19 - Ashley Judd, actress
- August 25 - Rachael Ray, chef, Food Network celebrity
- September 10 - Guy Ritchie, director, writer, married to Madonna
- September 28 - Naomi Watts, actress
- December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
- December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor
[edit] Deaths - February 7 - Nick Adams, 36, American actor
- February 13 - Mae Marsh, 73, American actress
- March 16 - June Collyer, 61, American actress
- March 30 - Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor
- April 16 - Fay Bainter, 74, American actress
- April 24 - Tommy Noonan, 45, American actor
- May 5 - Albert Dekker, 62, American actor
- May 9 - Marion Lorne, 84, American actress
- May 10 - Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor
- May 21 - Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress
- June 4 - Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress
- June 7 - Dan Duryea, 61, American actor
- July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker
- July 1 - Virginia Weidler, 42, American actress
- July 27 - Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer
- August 23 - Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer
- August 26 - Kay Francis, 69, American actress
- September 3 - Isabel Withers, 72, American actress
- September 18 - Franchot Tone, 63, American actor
- October 18 - Lee Tracy, 70, American actor
- October 30 - Ramón Novarro, 69, Mexican actor
- October 30 - Pert Kelton, 61, American actress
- November 8 - Wendell Corey, 54, American actor
- November 18 - Walter Wanger, 74, American producer
- November 25 - Upton Sinclair, 90, American writer and producer
- December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress
- December 15 - Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress
[edit] Film Debuts [edit] External links | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Funny Girl | Columbia | $26,325,000 | | 2. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | MGM | $25,522,000 | | 3. | The Odd Couple | Paramount | $20,000,000 | | 4. | Bullitt | Warner Brothers | $19,000,000 | | 5. | Romeo and Juliet | Paramount | $17,437,000 | | 6. | Oliver! | Columbia | $16,800,000 | | 7. | Planet of the Apes
Rosemary's Baby | 20th Century Fox
Paramount | $15,000,000 | | 8. | Yours, Mine, and Ours | United Artists | $11,639,000 | | 9. | Hang 'em High | United Artists | $11,620,000 | | 10. | The Lion In Winter | Embassy | $10,006,000 | |
