The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
• November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1968.shtml

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 Foreign Language Film: War and Peace (????? ? ???), 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

Films released in 1968

• 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner
• The Astro-Zombies
• Bandolero!
• Barbarella
• 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
• Candy
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Charly
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - starring Dick Van Dyke
• Coogan's Bluff
• Danger: Diabolik
• Destroy All Monsters
• The Detective - starring Frank Sinatra
• The Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
• Faces
• Firecreek
• Finian's Rainbow
• Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
• Gamera and Mothra: Earth Defense War ?? (17e Parallele Le Vietnam En Guerre)
• Gamera vs. Viras (also known as "Destroy All Planets")
• The Great Silence
• The Green Berets
• Hang 'Em High
• Head
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Hell in the Pacific
• Hellfighters
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
• Ice Station Zebra
• If.... Palme d'Or winner
• Isadora
• The Lion in Winter
• Live a Little, Love a Little
• La Marca del Hombre Lobo
• Il marchio di Kriminal
• Mayerling
• The Mercenary, also known as A Professional Gun
• Monterey Pop
• Never a Dull Moment
• Night of the Living Dead
• Nobody's Perfect
• Las Noches del Hombre Lobo
• The Odd Couple
• Ole Dole Doff Golden Bear winner
• Oliver!, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Mark Lester
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• The Party
• Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Donald Cammell and Mick Jagger
• Petulia
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
• Planet of the Apes
• The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars
• Rachel, Rachel
• Romeo and Juliet
• Rosemary's Baby
• Satanik
• The Secret Life of an American Wife
• The Secret War of Harry Frigg
• Separation
• The Shakiest Gun in the West
• The Shoes of the Fisherman, Anthony Quinn
• Shame (Skammen)
• Speedway
• Star!
• Stay Away, Joe
• The Subject Was Roses
• Targets
• The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway
• Twisted Nerve
• War and Peace
• Where Eagles Dare
• Will Penny
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (short subject)
• Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price
• Yellow Submarine
• Yours, Mine and Ours

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

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 30- Celine Dion, singer
• April 14 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
• April 24 - Stacy Haiduk, actress
• April 19 - Ashley Judd, actress
• September 10 - Guy Ritchie, director, writer, married to Madonna
• September 28 - Naomi Watts, actress
• September 30 - Monica Bellucci, actress
• December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
• December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor

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

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