The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), running more than 40 years.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1962.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink

Best Picture (tie): The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy

Other

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

Films released in 1962

• The 300 Spartans
• A Symposium on Popular Songs
• Advise and Consent
• The Amphibian Man
• Billy Budd
• Billy Rose's Jumbo
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Bon Voyage!
• Boys' Night Out
• Cape Fear
• David and Lisa
• Days of Wine and Roses
• Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana)
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Dr. No (U.K.)
• L'Eclisse
• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare)
• Freud
• Follow That Dream
• Gigot
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
• The Given Word (O Pagador de Promessas)
• Gypsy
• Hatari!, starring John Wayne
• How the West Was Won, starring Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, Agnes Moorehead, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck etc.
• Hussar of the Dead (Restored)
• In Search of the Castaways
• It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis
• Keeper of Promises
• Kid Galahad
• A Kind of Loving
• King Kong vs. Godzilla
• Knife in the Water
• Last Year at Marienbad (U.S. release)
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lisa
• Lolita
• Lonely are the Brave
• Long Day's Journey into Night
• The Longest Day
• Lycanthropus
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Merrill's Marauders
• The Miracle Worker
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
• The Music Man
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• My Geisha
• My Name is Ivan
• Panic in Year Zero!
• Phaedra
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Period of Adjustment
• The Premature Burial (film mentioned in article)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight (film mentioned in article)
• Ride the High Country
• State Fair
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray)
• Sweet Bird of Youth (film mentioned in article)
• The Tale of Zatoichi
• Tender Is the Night
• Taras Bulba
• Tender Is the Night
• That Touch of Mink
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• The Trial
• Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc)
• Tudor
• Two for the Seesaw
• War of the Buttons
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

Births

• January 1 - Nancy Mette,actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
• July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
• September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
• September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• November 11 - Demi Moore, US actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director

Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, actor
• April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director
• April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress
• May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress
• June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor
• June 24 - Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress
• July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, stage & silent screen actress
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress
• August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor
• October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director
• October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor
• December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress

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