1968 in film

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The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

Events[]

November 1 – The MPAA's film rating system was introduced.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)[]

Rank	Title	Studio	Director	Actors	Gross
1	2001: A Space Odyssey	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Stanley Kubrick	Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain	$56,700,000^[1]
2	Funny Girl	Columbia Pictures	William Wyler	Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon	$52,000,000^[2]
3	The Love Bug	Walt Disney Productions	Robert Stevenson	Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett	$51,264,000^[3]
4	The Odd Couple	Paramount Pictures	Gene Saks	Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman	$44,527,234^[4]
5	Bullitt	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts	Peter Yates	Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset	$42,300,873^[5]
6	Romeo and Juliet	Paramount Pictures	Franco Zeffirelli	Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea, Pat Heywood, John McEnery, Robert Stephens, Michael York, Bruce Robinson	$38,901,218^[6]
7	Oliver!	Columbia Pictures	Carol Reed	Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Harry Secombe, Sheila White, Joseph O'Connor, Hugh Griffith, Peggy Mount, Leonard Rossiter, Hylda Baker	$37,402,877^[7]
8	Rosemary's Baby	Paramount Pictures	Roman Polanski	Mia Farrow, Ruth Gordon, John Cassavetes, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Angela Dorian, Charles Grodin	$33,395,426^[8]
9	Planet of the Apes	20th Century Fox	Franklin J. Schaffner	Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison	$32,589,624^[9]
10	Night of the Living Dead	Walter Reade Organization	George A. Romero	Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea	$30,000,000^[10]
11	Yours, Mine, and Ours	United Artists / Desilu	Melville Shavelson	Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda	$25,912,624^[11]
12	The Lion in Winter	AVCO Embassy	Anthony Harvey	Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton	$22,276,975^[12]
13	The Green Berets	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts	John Wayne	John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton	$21,707,027^[13]
14	Blackbeard's Ghost	Walt Disney Productions	Robert Stevenson	Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones	$21,540,050^[14]
15	The Fox	Claridge Pictures	Mark Rydell	Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood	$19,146,711^[15]
16	Charly	Cinerama	Ralph Nelson	Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala	$19,125,000^[16]
17	The Boston Strangler	20th Century Fox	Richard Fleischer	Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy	$17,810,894^[17]
18	Candy	Cinerama	Christian Marquand	Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Walter Matthau, Ringo Starr	$16,408,286^[18]
19	The Thomas Crown Affair	United Artists	Norman Jewison	Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke	$14,000,000^[19]
20	The Detective	20th Century Fox	Gordon Douglas	Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset	$13,000,000^[20]

Films released[]

Action films released in 1968[]

Horror films released in 1968[]

Rosemary's Baby

Rockumentary films released in 1968[]

Sports films released in 1968[]

The Love Bug
Seven Old Men and a Girl
Paper Lion

The Classic Movies of 1968[]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Short film series[]

Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
Daffy Duck (1937–1968)

Awards[]

Category/Organization	26th Golden Globe Awards January 22, 1969		41st Academy Awards March 21, 1969	22nd BAFTA Awards April 14, 1969
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	41st Academy Awards March 21, 1969	22nd BAFTA Awards April 14, 1969
Best Film	The Lion in Winter	Oliver!		The Graduate
Best Director	Paul Newman Rachel, Rachel		Carol Reed Oliver!	Mike Nichols The Graduate
Best Actor	Peter O'Toole The Lion in Winter	Ron Moody Oliver!	Cliff Robertson Charly	Spencer Tracy Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Actress	Joanne Woodward Rachel, Rachel	Barbra Streisand Funny Girl	Katharine Hepburn The Lion in Winter Barbra Streisand Funny Girl	Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Lion in Winter
Best Supporting Actor	Daniel Massey Star		Jack Albertson The Subject Was Roses	Ian Holm The Bofors Gun
Best Supporting Actress	Ruth Gordon Rosemary's Baby			Billie Whitelaw Twisted Nerve Charlie Bubbles
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Stirling Silliphant Charly		James Goldman The Lion in Winter	Buck Henry and Calder Willingham The Graduate
Best Screenplay, Original	Stirling Silliphant Charly		Mel Brooks The Producers	Buck Henry and Calder Willingham The Graduate
Best Foreign Language Film	War and Peace			N/A

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

Actor's debuts[]

Gary Busey – Wild in the Streets
John Cleese – Interlude
Timothy Dalton – The Lion in Winter
Goldie Hawn – The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Malcolm McDowell – if...
Hanna Schygulla – The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp
Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl
Jack Thompson – Personnel, or People?

Births[]

January 2 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
January 6 – John Singleton, director and writer
January 14 – LL Cool J, rapper, actor
January 29 – Edward Burns, actor and producer
February 1 – Pauly Shore, actor
February 12 – Josh Brolin, American actor
February 18 – Molly Ringwald, actress
March 2 – Daniel Craig, actor
March 4 – Patsy Kensit, actress
March 12 – Aaron Eckhart, actor
March 30 – Celine Dion, singer
April 8 – Patricia Arquette, actress
April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, actor
April 19 – Ashley Judd, actress
April 24 – Stacy Haiduk, actress
May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
May 12 – Tony Hawk, actor and professional skateboarder
May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, actor
July 8 – Billy Crudup, actor
July 18 – Grant Bowler, actor
July 26 – Olivia Williams, actress
August 11 – Sophie Okonedo, actress
August 28 – Billy Boyd, actor
September 9 – Julia Sawalha, actor
September 10 – Guy Ritchie, director, writer, husband of Madonna (2000–08)
September 15 – Danny Nucci, actor
September 15 – Shawn Doyle, actor
September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, voice actress
September 25 – Will Smith, actor
September 26 – Jim Caviezel, actor, The Passion of the Christ
September 28 – Naomi Watts, actress
October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
October 11 – Tiffany Grant, voice actress
October 12 – Hugh Jackman, actor
October 13 – Tisha Campbell, actress
October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
November 5 – Sam Rockwell, actor
November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, actresses
November 18 – Owen Wilson, actor
November 21 – Sean Schemmel, voice actor
December 2 – Lucy Liu, actress
December 3 – Brendan Fraser, actor
December 7 – Greg Ayres, voice actor

Deaths[]

January 18 – John Ridgely, 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot
February 4 – Eddie Baker, 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons, Giant
February 7 – Nick Adams, 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause
February 13 – Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers
February 20 – Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy
March 10 – Helen Walker, 47, American actress, Impact, Call Northside 777
March 16 – June Collyer, 63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog
March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud
March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker
March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island
April 5 – Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan
April 6 – Keith Pyott, 66, English actor, Village of the Damned
April 16 – Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children's Hour
April 24 – Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
May 5 – Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly
May 9
- Albert Lewin, 73, American director, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Marion Lorne, 84, American actress, The Graduate, Strangers on a Train
May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, The Sound of Music, Alice in Wonderland
May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Le signe de la mort
May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg, 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten
June 4 – Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm
June 7 – Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, Winchester '73, Scarlet Street
June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
June 24 – Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man
June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz, 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård
July 1 – Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women
July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome, The Magnificent Cuckold
July 27 – Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, Inglourious Basterds, The Three from the Filling Station
July 30 – Alexander Hall, 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker
August 23 – Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Charley's Aunt, Little Men
August 30 – William Talman, 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout
August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal
September 3 – Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque
September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, Bombshell
October 29 – Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It
October 30 – Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari
November 8 – Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, Rear Window, The Search
November 9 – Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet
November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
November 25 – Upton Sinclair, 90, American writer and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen
December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue

References[]

↑ "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)". Box Office Mojo.
↑ "Funny Girl (1968)". Box Office Mojo.
↑ "The Love Bug, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "The Odd Couple, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
↑ "Bullitt, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Romeo and Juliet, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Box Office Information for Oliver!". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Rosemary's Baby, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Planet of the Apes, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Night of the Living Dead, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Box Office Information for Yours, Mine, and Ours". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "The Lion in Winter, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "The Green Berets, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
↑ "Blackbeard's Ghost, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
↑ "The Fox, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
↑ "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, 31 May 1973 pg 3
↑ "The Boston Strangler, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
↑ "Candy, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved March 4, 2012. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
↑ "The Thomas Crown Affair, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
↑ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969, pg 15.

External links[]

"Filmmaking in West Germany, 1968" (Goethe-Institut)

Template:1968 films

[1] "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)". Box Office Mojo.

[2] "Funny Girl (1968)". Box Office Mojo.

[3] "The Love Bug, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[4] "The Odd Couple, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 4, 2012.

[5] "Bullitt, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[6] "Romeo and Juliet, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[7] "Box Office Information for Oliver!". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[8] "Rosemary's Baby, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[9] "Planet of the Apes, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[10] "Night of the Living Dead, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[11] "Box Office Information for Yours, Mine, and Ours". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[12] "The Lion in Winter, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[13] "The Green Berets, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.

[14] "Blackbeard's Ghost, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.

[15] "The Fox, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.

[16] "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, 31 May 1973 pg 3

[17] "The Boston Strangler, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.

[18] "Candy, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved March 4, 2012. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[19] "The Thomas Crown Affair, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved May 23, 2012.

[20] "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969, pg 15.

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