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Overview of the events of 1968 in film
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events, most notably with the release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as two highly successful musical films, Funny Girl and Oliver!, the former earning Barbra Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress (an honour she shared with Katharine Hepburn for her role in The Lion in Winter) and the latter winning both the Best Picture and Best Director awards.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1968 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1968
| Rank |
Title |
Distributor |
Domestic rentals
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| 1
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Funny Girl
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Columbia
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$24,900,000[1]
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| 2
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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MGM
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$21,500,000[1]
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| 3
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The Odd Couple
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Paramount
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$20,000,000[1]
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| 4
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Bullitt
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Warner Bros.
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$19,000,000[1]
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| 5
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Oliver!
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Columbia
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$16,800,000[1]
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| 6
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Planet of the Apes
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20th Century Fox
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$15,000,000[1]
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| 7
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Rosemary's Baby
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Paramount
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$15,000,000[1]
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| 8
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Romeo and Juliet
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Paramount
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$14,500,000[1]
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| 9
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Yours, Mine and Ours
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United Artists
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$11,500,000[1]
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| 10
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The Lion in Winter
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AVCO Embassy
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$10,006,000[2]
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Events
Awards
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
1968 films
By country/region
By genre/medium
Short film series
Births
- January 1 - Tom DeSanto, American producer and screenwriter
- January 2
- January 5 - Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress and singer
- January 6 – John Singleton, American director and writer (d. 2019)
- January 9 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
- January 12
- January 14 – LL Cool J, American rapper, actor
- January 15
- January 18 - David Ayer, American filmmaker
- January 19 – Matt Hill, Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian
- January 20 - Chris Miller, American voice actor, animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
- January 29 – Edward Burns, American actor and producer
- January 31 - Matt King, English actor, DJ and comedian
- February 1 – Pauly Shore, American actor
- February 8 - Gary Coleman, American actor and comedian (d. 2010)
- February 12
- February 13 - Kelly Hu, American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen
- February 14
- February 18 – Molly Ringwald, American actress
- February 21 - Patrick Gallagher, Canadian actor
- February 24 - Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (d. 2005)
- March 2 – Daniel Craig, British actor
- March 4 – Patsy Kensit, English actress
- March 6 - Moira Kelly, American actress
- March 12
- March 15 - Sean Bridgers, American actor, screenwriter and producer
- March 18 - Juan Carlos Vellido, Spanish actor
- March 20
- March 21 - Greg Ellis, English actor
- March 26 - Max Perlich, American actor
- March 29
- March 30
- April 3 - Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)
- April 8
- April 11 - Dimitri Diatchenko, American actor (d. 2020)
- April 12 - Alicia Coppola, American actress
- April 13 - Andrew Pleavin, English actor
- April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
- April 16 - John Gatins, American screenwriter, director and actor
- April 17 - Adam McKay, American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian
- April 18
- April 19 – Ashley Judd, American actress
- April 22 - Piera Coppola, American voice actress
- April 24
- April 29 - Jürgen Vogel, German actor and producer
- May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
- May 7 - Traci Lords, American actress and singer
- May 10 - Adrian Scarborough, English actor
- May 11 - Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
- May 12 - Tony Hawk, American actor and professional skateboarder
- May 16 - Stephen Mangan, English actor, comedian and presenter
- May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor
- May 25 - Kevin Heffernan, American actor, writer, producer and director
- May 27 - Spencer Kayden, American actress, comedian and writer
- May 28 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
- June 2
- June 4
- June 9 - Eddie Marsan, English actor
- June 10 - Bill Burr, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
- June 12 - Sarah Trigger, retired British actress
- June 13 – Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor
- June 14 - Faizon Love, Cuban-born American actor and comedian
- June 16 - James Patrick Stuart, American actor
- June 19 - Kim Walker, American actress (d. 2001)
- June 20 - Robert Rodriguez, American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor
- June 26 - Travis Fine, American actor, writer, director and producer
- June 29 - Brian d'Arcy James, American actor and musician
- July 1 - Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor, writer and filmmaker
- July 5 - Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
- July 7
- July 8 – Billy Crudup, American actor
- July 11 - Conrad Vernon, American voice actor, director, writer and storyboard artist
- July 15
- July 17 - Beth Littleford, American actress and comedian
- July 18
- July 19 - William Houston, English actor
- July 21 - Samuli Edelmann, Finnish actor and singer
- July 23 - Shawn Levy, Canadian director, producer and actor
- July 24
- July 26 – Olivia Williams, British actress
- July 27
- July 30 - Terry Crews, American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player
- August 4 - Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor and producer
- August 6 - Lisa Boyle, American actress
- August 7 - Sophie Lee, Australian actress
- August 9
- August 10 - Cate Shortland, Australian screenwriter, director and writer
- August 11
- August 14
- August 15 - Debra Messing, American actress
- August 17
- August 21 - Julian Lewis Jones, Welsh actor
- August 25 - David Alan Basche, American actor
- August 27 - Lisa Marie Newmyer, American actress
- August 28 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
- September 2
- September 4 – John DiMaggio, American actor and voice actor
- September 5 - Glenn Fleshler, American actor
- September 6 - Mark Ivanir, Israeli actor
- September 7 - Camille Japy, Belgian-French actor
- September 8
- Brian Huskey, American character actor, comedian and writer
- Simon J. Smith, British animator, director, visual effects artist and voice actor
- September 9
- September 10 – Guy Ritchie, English director, screenwriter
- September 12 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor and writer
- September 15 – Danny Nucci, American actor
- September 16
- September 19 – Shawn Doyle, Canadian actor
- September 20 - Chad Stahelski, American stuntman and director
- September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, American voice actress
- September 23 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
- September 25 – Will Smith, American actor
- September 26 – Jim Caviezel, American actor
- September 28 – Naomi Watts, British actress
- September 29
- October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
- October 2
- October 9
- October 11
- October 12
- October 13
- October 17 - Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and actor
- October 19 - Yayan Ruhian, Indonesian martial artist and actor
- October 23 - Maria Darling, British voice actress
- October 24 - Mark Walton, American story artist and voice actor
- October 25 - Melinda McGraw, American actress
- October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
- October 28 - Stephen Hunter, New Zealand actor
- October 29 - Grayson McCouch, American actor
- November 5
- November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, American actress
- November 8
- November 10
- November 16 - James Parks, American actor
- November 18
- November 19
- Mark Bonnar, Scottish actor
- Derek Drymon, American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, comedian and producer
- November 21
- November 23 - Brennan Brown, American actor
- November 25 - Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and singer
- November 26 - Chris Coppola, American actor and comedian
- November 27 - Michael Vartan, French-American actor
- December 2
- December 3 – Brendan Fraser, American-Canadian actor
- December 5 - Margaret Cho, American stand-up comedian, actress and musician
- December 6
- December 7 – Greg Ayres, American voice actor
- December 13 - Scott Stuber, American film producer
- December 16 - Peter Dante, American character actor, comedian and singer
- December 18
- December 19
- Ken Marino, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- Chris Williams, Canadian-American animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor
- December 20 - Joe Cornish, English comedian and filmmaker
- December 22 - Dina Meyer, American actress
- December 23 - Angela Jones, American actress
- December 25 - Klea Scott, Panamanian-born Canadian actress
- December 26 - Byron Howard, American animator, director, producer and screenwriter
Deaths
- 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 11 – Pearl Doles Bell, 84, American film scenarist, novelist and editor, Her Elephant Man
- 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
- May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
- May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, Disraeli, Kind Lady
- May 23 – James Burke, 81, American actor, Little Orphan Annie, The Timber Trail
- 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, Zigano
- 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 25 – John George, 70, Ottoman-born American actor, Charley's Aunt, Don Juan
- August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Black Orchids, 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 13 – Berthold Bartosch, 74, Bohemian filmmaker, The Idea
- November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
- November 20 – Helen Gardner, 84 American actress, Cleopatra
- 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 14 – Jack Rice, 75, American actor, Lady, Let's Dance, Beware of Blondie
- 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
- December 28 - Harry Woods, 79, American actress, Days of Jesse James, The Ghost Rider
Film debuts
Morgan Freeman – Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
References
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