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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

Events

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

Films released

By date

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

By name

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

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5 Card Stud, starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens
17th Parallel: Vietnam in War (17e Parallele Le Vietnam en Guerre), a documentary directed by Joris Ivens – (France/Vietnam)
2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood – (U.S./UK)

A

Aadmi, starring Dilip Kumar – (India)
Aankhen (The Eyes) – (India)
Ace High, starring Eli Wallach – (Italy)
Adieu l'ami (Farewell Friend), starring Alain Delon and Charles Bronson – (France)
All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci) – (Czechoslovakia)
The Amorous Ones (As Amorosas) – (Brazil)
The Anniversary, starring Bette Davis – (UK)
Anzio, starring Robert Mitchum, Earl Holliman, Peter Falk
Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner – (West Germany)
Assignment to Kill, starring Patrick O'Neal and Joan Hackett
Asterix and Cleopatra – (France/Belgium)

B

Baby Love, starring Linda Hayden and Keith Barron– (UK)
Bandits in Milan (Banditi a Milano), starring Gian Maria Volontè – (Italy)
Bandolero!, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Will Geer
Barbarella, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda – (France/Italy)
Be Sick... It's Free (Il medico della mutua), starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford and Diana Dors – (UK)
Les Biches, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All, starring Raquel Welch and Edward G. Robinson
The Birthday Party, directed by William Friedkin, starring Robert Shaw – (UK)
Black Jesus (Seduto alla sua destra), starring Woody Strode – (Italy)
Blackbeard's Ghost, starring Dean Jones, Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette
The Bofors Gun, starring Nicol Williamson and Ian Holm – (UK)
Boom!, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton – (UK)
The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda
The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Bouquet – (France)
Brilliantovaya ruka (The Diamond Arm) – a hugely popular Russian comedy – (U.S.S.R.)
The Brotherhood, starring Kirk Douglas
Bullitt, directed by Peter Yates, starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, starring Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas
Bye Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Joseph Wiseman

C

Candy, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Ringo Starr – (France/Italy/U.S.)
Capricious Summer (Rozmarné léto), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
Carry On... Up the Khyber, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (UK)
The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave – (UK)
Charly, starring Cliff Robertson
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, starring Dick Van Dyke – (UK)
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach – (West Germany)
Colonel Wolodyjowski, directed by Jerzy Hoffman – (Poland)
Coogan's Bluff, directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud
Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen
Curse of the Crimson Altar (aka The Crimson Cult), starring Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff – (UK)

D

Danger: Diabolik, starring John Phillip Law and Michel Piccoli – (Italy/U.S.)
Dark of the Sun (aka The Mercenaries), starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux – (UK/U.S.)
Day of the Evil Gun, starring Glenn Ford
Dead Season (Myortvyy sezon) – (U.S.S.R.)
Deadfall, starring Michael Caine – (UK)
Death by Hanging (Kōshikei), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
Destroy All Monsters (Kaijū Sōshingeki), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
The Detective, starring Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom, Robert Duvall
The Devil Rides Out, starring Christopher Lee and Charles Gray – (UK)
The Devil's Brigade, starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
The Doll (Lalka), directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has – (Poland)
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
Duniya (The World), starring Dev Anand and Vyjayanthimala – (India)

E

L'Enfance Nue (Naked Children), directed by Maurice Pialat – (France)
Eve, starring Robert Walker, Jr., Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom
Even the Wind is Frightened (Hasta el viento tiene miedo) – (Mexico)

F

Faces, directed by John Cassavetes
Fando y Lis (Fando and Lis) – (Mexico)
Finian's Rainbow, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Al Freeman, Jr.
Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes, directed by Alexander Rou, starring Natalya Sedykh and Georgy Millyar – (USSR)
Firecreek, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gary Lockwood, Jack Elam, James Best, Inger Stevens
The Fixer, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde – (UK)
For Love of Ivy, starring Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Robert Duvall
For Singles Only, starring John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Milton Berle
Funny Girl, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif

G

Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl), starring Claudia Cardinale and Franco Nero – (Italy)
The Girl on a Motorcycle, starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull – (UK/France)
The Girl with the Pistol (La ragazza con la pistola), starring Monica Vitti and Stanley Baker – (Italy)
Great Catherine, starring Peter O'Toole and Jeanne Moreau
The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski – (Italy)
The Green Berets, directed by and starring John Wayne, with Jim Hutton, David Janssen
Guns for San Sebastian, starring Anthony Quinn, Charles Bronson and Anjanette Comer

H

Hammerhead, starring Vince Edwards and Diana Dors
Hang 'Em High, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Pat Hingle, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern
Hatsukoi Jigokuhen (The Inferno of First Love) – (Japan)
Head, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring The Monkees
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, starring Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke
Hell in the Pacific, directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune
Hellfighters, starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, starring Dean Jones
Hot Millions, starring Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith
Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann – (Sweden)
House of Cards, starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens
How Sweet It Is!, starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds

I

I Am Curious (Blue) (Jag är nyfiken – en film i blått) – (Sweden)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, starring Peter Sellers
Ice Station Zebra, directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine
If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell – Palme d'Or winner – (UK)
The Immortal Story, directed by and starring Orson Welles – (France)
In Enemy Country, starring Anthony Franciosa
Inspector Clouseau, starring Alan Arkin – (UK)
Interlude, starring Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Donald Sutherland
Isabel, starring Geneviève Bujold – (Canada)
Isadora, aka The Loves of Isadora, a biopic of Isadora Duncan, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, James Fox – (UK)
It Rains in My Village (Biće skoro propast sveta), starring Annie Girardot – (Yugoslavia)

J

Je t'aime, je t'aime, directed by Alain Resnais – (France)
Jigsaw, starring Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman and Hope Lange
Joanna, starring Geneviève Waïte

K

Kill! (Kiru) – (Japan)
Killers Three, starring Dick Clark and Merle Haggard
The Killing of Sister George, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Beryl Reid, Susannah York and Coral Browne
King of Hearts – directed by Mohammad Ali Fardin (Iran)
Kona Coast, starring Vera Miles and Richard Boone
Kuroneko (aka Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko) – (Japan)

L

Lady in Cement, starring Frank Sinatra, Dan Blocker, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan
The Last of the Mohicans (Ultimul Mohican) – (Romania)
The Legend of Lylah Clare, starring Kim Novak and Peter Finch
El Libro de piedra (The Book of Stone) – (Mexico)
The Lion in Winter, starring Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn – (UK)
The Little Golden Calf (Zolotoy telyonok) – (U.S.S.R.)
Live a Little, Love a Little, starring Elvis Presley and Michele Carey
The Love Bug, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett
A Lovely Way to Die, starring Kirk Douglas and Sylva Koscina
Lucía – (Cuba)

M

Madigan, directed by Don Siegel, starring Richard Widmark, Inger Stevens, Henry Fonda, James Whitmore, Susan Clark
The Magus, starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn and Candice Bergen – (UK)
The Man Who Lies, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France/Czechoslovakia)
Mandabi (The Money Order), directed by Ousmane Sembène – (Senegal)
Matthew's Days (Żywot Mateusza) – (Poland)
Mayerling, starring Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve – (UK/France)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) – (Cuba)
Mera Naam Joker (My Name is Joker), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
The Mercenary, also known as A Professional Gun, starring Franco Nero and Jack Palance – (Italy)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall, starring Derek Godfrey, Ian Holm, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren – (UK)
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die, starring Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan – (Italy)
The Money Jungle, starring Lola Albright and Leslie Parrish
Monterey Pop, a concert film by D. A. Pennebaker, featuring Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & the Papas, Jimi Hendrix and others
More Dead Than Alive, starring Clint Walker and Anne Francis

N

Neel Kamal – (India)
Negatives, starring Peter McEnery, Glenda Jackson and Diane Cilento– (UK)
Never a Dull Moment, starring Dick Van Dyke, Dorothy Provine, Edward G. Robinson
The Night of the Following Day, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno
Night of the Living Dead, first in the zombie trilogy by George A. Romero
The Night They Raided Minsky's, directed by William Friedkin, starring Jason Robards
Nobody's Perfect, starring Doug McClure
No Way to Treat a Lady, starring Rod Steiger, George Segal, Lee Remick
Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (Nights of the Werewolf) – (Spain/France)

O

The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell – Golden Bear winner – (Sweden)
Oliver!, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Mark Lester – winner of six Academy Awards – (UK)
Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West), directed by Sergio Leone, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards – (Italy)
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, starring Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Kurt Russell, Wally Cox, Lesley Ann Warren
One Plus One (aka Sympathy for the Devil), a docudrama directed by Jean-Luc Godard, featuring The Rolling Stones – (UK)

P

Padosan (Neighbour), starring Sunil Dutt – (India)
Palo y hueso (Stick and Bone) – (Argentina)
The Party, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet
Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, starring Mick Jagger and James Fox – (UK)
Petulia, starring Julie Christie and George C. Scott
The Pink Jungle, starring James Garner
P.J., starring George Peppard, Gayle Hunnicutt, Raymond Burr, Susan Saint James
A Place for Lovers (Amanti), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway
Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
The Power, starring George Hamilton
Pretty Poison, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, starring Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller
The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
The Prophet (Il Profeta), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman and Ann-Margret – (Italy)
The Profound Desire of the Gods (Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubō), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
Prudence and the Pill, starring Deborah Kerr and David Niven – (UK)
Psych-Out, directed by Richard Rush, starring Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson

R

Rachel, Rachel, directed by Paul Newman and starring Joanne Woodward
Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey – (UK/Italy)
Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes

S

Saathi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar and Simi Garewal – (India)
Salt and Pepper, directed by Richard Donner, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford – (UK)
The Scalphunters, starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis and Telly Savalas
The Sea Gull, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Simone Signoret – (U.S./UK/Greece)
Sebastian, starring Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York – (UK)
Secret Ceremony, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum
The Secret Life of an American Wife, starring Walter Matthau
The Secret War of Harry Frigg, starring Paul Newman
The Sergeant, starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law
Sergeant Ryker, starring Lee Marvin and Vera Miles
The Shakiest Gun in the West, starring Don Knotts and Barbara Rhoades
Shalako, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot – (UK)
Shame (Skammen), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow – (Sweden)*
The Shoes of the Fisherman, starring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, Leo McKern, David Janssen, Barbara Jefford
Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen), directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)
Single Room Furnished, starring Jayne Mansfield in her final film
Skidoo, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing and, in his final film, Groucho Marx
Sol Madrid, starring David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
Speedway, starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
Spirits of the Dead, directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda – (France/Italy)
The Split, starring Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Julie Harris
The Stalking Moon, starring Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint
Star!, starring Julie Andrews
Stay Away, Joe, starring Elvis Presley
Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Delphine Seyrig – (France)
The Strange Affair, starring Susan George – (UK)
The Subject was Roses, starring Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
Sunghursh, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
The Swedish Kings (Shvedskite krale), directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Kiril Gospodinov – (Bulgaria)
The Sweet Ride, starring Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset
The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster

T

Targets, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Boris Karloff
Teorema, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp – (Italy)
Tevye and His Seven Daughters (Tuvia Vesheva Benotav), directed by Menahem Golan – (Israel)
They Came to Rob Las Vegas, starring Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance
The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway
Three in the Attic, starring Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett
A Twist of Sand, starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman – (UK)
Twisted Nerve, starring Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills – (UK)

U

The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran – (France)
Up the Junction, starring Dennis Waterman and Suzy Kendall – (UK)

V

Villa Rides, starring Yul Brynner and Robert Mitchum
Vixen!, directed by Russ Meyer

W

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?, starring George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, starring Rosalind Russell
Where Eagles Dare, directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood – (UK/U.S.)
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, starring Elke Sommer and Bob Crane
Wild 90, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
Wild in the Streets, starring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook
Will Penny, starring Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (animation short)
Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price – (UK)
With Six You Get Eggroll, directed by Howard Morris, starring Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey

Y

Yellow Submarine, an animated film with music by The Beatles – (UK)
Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda

Short film series

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

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	$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]

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 26 – Olivia Williams, actress
August 11 – Sophie Okonedo, actress
August 28 – Billy Boyd, actor
September 10 – Guy Ritchie, director, writer, husband of Madonna (2000–08)
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 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
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

↑ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=2001.htm
↑ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=funnygirl.htm
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↑ "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, 31 May 1973 pg 3
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↑ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969, pg 15.

External links

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

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[2] ttp://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=funnygirl.htm

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

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