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The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

Events[edit]

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

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

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1	2001: A Space Odyssey	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$56,700,000[1]
2	Funny Girl	Columbia Pictures	$52,000,000[2]
3	The Love Bug	Walt Disney Productions	$51,264,000[3]
4	The Odd Couple	Paramount Pictures	$44,527,234[4]
5	Bullitt	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts	$42,300,873[5]
6	Romeo and Juliet	Paramount Pictures	$38,901,218[6]
7	Oliver!	Columbia Pictures	$37,402,877[7]
8	Rosemary's Baby	Paramount Pictures	$33,395,426[8]
9	Planet of the Apes	20th Century Fox	$32,589,624[9]
10	Night of the Living Dead	Walter Reade Organization	$30,000,000[10]
11	Yours, Mine, and Ours	United Artists / Desilu	$25,912,624[11]
12	The Lion in Winter	AVCO Embassy	$22,276,975[12]
13	The Green Berets	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts	$21,707,027[13]
14	Blackbeard's Ghost	Walt Disney Productions	$21,540,050[14]
15	The Fox	Claridge Pictures	$19,146,711[15]
16	Charly	Cinerama	$19,125,000[16]
17	The Boston Strangler	20th Century Fox	$17,810,894[17]
18	Candy	Cinerama	$16,408,286[18]
19	The Thomas Crown Affair	United Artists	$14,000,000[19]
20	The Detective	20th Century Fox	$13,000,000[20]

Films released[edit]

By date[edit]

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

January–March[edit]

• January 8: Wild 90
• January 12: Nobody's Perfect
• January 15: More Dead Than Alive
• January 17: The Biggest Bundle of Them All
• January 24:
  • Danger: Diabolik (Italy/U.S.)
  • Firecreek
• February 7: Sol Madrid
• February 8: Blackbeard's Ghost
• February 21: Bye Bye Braverman
• February 29: The Secret War of Harry Frigg
• March 1: Day of the Evil Gun
• March 8: Stay Away, Joe
• March 13: Counterpoint
• March 18: The Producers
• March 20: No Way to Treat a Lady
• March 21: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
• March 29: Madigan

April–June[edit]

• April 2: The Scalphunters
• April 3:
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Planet of the Apes
• April 4: The Party
• April 10:
  • Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
  • Will Penny
• April 24: Yours, Mine and Ours
• May 2: The Odd Couple
• May 15:
  • The Devil's Brigade
  • The Swimmer
  • The Conqueror Worm
• May 23: Prudence and the Pill
• May 28: The Detective
• May 29:
  • Villa Rides
  • Wild in the Streets
• June 1: Bandolero!
• June 5:
  • For Singles Only
  • Jigsaw
• June 10: Petulia
• June 12:
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Speedway
  • The Sweet Ride
• June 19:
  • The Green Berets
  • The Thomas Crown Affair
  • The Lost Continent
• June 25: The Secret Life of an American Wife
• June 26: Never a Dull Moment

July–September[edit]

• July 12:
  • Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
  • A Lovely Way to Die
• July 17:
  • For Love of Ivy
  • Yellow Submarine
• July 19: Inspector Clouseau
• July 24: Anzio
• July 31:
  • 5 Card Stud
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• August 1: Destroy All Monsters (Japan)
• August 3: Hang 'Em High
• August 7: With Six You Get Eggroll
• August 15: Targets
• August 26: Rachel, Rachel
• September 18:
  • Funny Girl
  • Pretty Poison
• September 19: Hot Millions
• September 22: Psych-Out
• September 23: Charly
• September 26: Oliver! (UK)

October–December[edit]

• October 1: Night of the Living Dead
• October 2: Coogan's Bluff
• October 7: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
• October 9: Finian's Rainbow
• October 10: Barbarella (US)
• October 13: The Subject was Roses
• October 16: The Boston Strangler
• October 17: Bullitt
• October 22: Vixen!
• October 23:
  • Ice Station Zebra
  • Live a Little, Love a Little
• October 30: The Lion in Winter
• November 6: Head
• November 15: The Shoes of the Fisherman
• November 16: The Legend of Lylah Clare
• November 20: Lady in Cement
• November 24: Faces
• November 27: Hellfighters
• November 30: The Shakiest Gun in the West
• December 12: The Killing of Sister George
• December 16: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK)
• December 18: Hell in the Pacific
• December 19: Skidoo
• December 20:
  • The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
  • Three in the Attic
• December 21: Once Upon a Time in the West (Italy)
• December 22: The Night They Raided Minsky's
• December 24: The Love Bug
• December 25:
  • The Sergeant
  • The Stalking Moon

Notable Films Released in 1968[edit]

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

#

• 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 (a.k.a. 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 (a.k.a. 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, a.k.a. 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 (a.k.a. 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 (a.k.a. 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
• Spider Baby, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• 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/US)
• 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[edit]

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

Awards[edit]

Category/Organization	26th Golden Globe Awards January 22, 1969		41st Academy Awards March 21, 1969	22nd BAFTA Awards April 14, 1969
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
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			Mel Brooks The Producers
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[edit]

• 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
• Barbara Hershey - With Six You Get Eggroll
• Ali MacGraw - A Lovely Way to Die
• Marsha Mason - Beyond the Law
• Malcolm McDowell – if...
• Chuck Norris - The Wrecking Crew
• Hanna Schygulla – The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp
• Talia Shire - The Wild Racers
• Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl
• Jack Thompson – Personnel, or People?

Births[edit]

• 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[edit]

• January 7 - Hugo Butler, 53, Canadian screenwriter, Edison, the Man, Lassie Come Home
• January 18 – John Ridgely, 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot
• January 25 - Virginia Maskell, 31, British actress, Only Two Can Play, Virgin Island
• 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 18 - Harry Kurnitz, 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal a Million
• 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, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure
• March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island
• April 5 – Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan, The Desert Hawk
• 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, Disraeli, Kind Lady
• May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
• May 26 - Joseph MacDonald, 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions
• May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Happy Couple, 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 8 - Patricia Jessel, 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• 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, Waltz of Love, Let's Live Tonight
• 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 16 - Nedrick Young, 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones
• September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
• September 24 - Virginia Valli, 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden, Evening Clothes
• October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man
• 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, Harriet Craig
• 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 author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
• December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
• December 4 - Archie Mayo, 77, American director, The Petrified Forest, A Night in Casablanca
• December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
• December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling
• December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue
• December 20 - John Steinbeck, 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata!, The Red Pony

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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