1968 in film - Definition and Overview

Events

• October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Graduate
2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
3. Gone with the Wind re-release
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. Valley of the Dolls
6. The Odd Couple
7. Planet of the Apes
8. Rosemary's Baby
9. The Jungle Book
10. Yours, Mine, Ours

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Oliver! - Romulus, Columbia
• Best Director: Carol Reed, Oliver!
• Best Actor: Cliff Robertson - Charly
• Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

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
• 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 30 - Monica Bellucci, actress
• December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
• December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor

Deaths

• July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer French/American filmmaker (d. 1968)
• August 26 - Kay Francis, actress
• October 30 - Ramon Novarro, actor
• November 25 - Upton Sinclair, writer and producer
• December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress
• December 20 - John Steinbeck, writer

Other movies released

• The Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - starring Dick Van Dyke
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (short subject)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Oliver!, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, and Harry Secombe
• Star!
• Speedway
• Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand, and Omar Sharif
• The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars
• Monterey Pop
• The Lion in Winter
• Barbarella
• Ice Station Zebra
• Funny Girl
• Camelot
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• In Cold Blood
• Ole Dole Doff Golden Bear winner
• Artists Under the Big Top Golden Lion winner
• Disoriented, Golden Lion winner
• Once upon a Time in the West
• Lawrence of Jupiter by director Stanley Kubrick
• Faces
• Shame
• Bullitt
• The Subject was Roses
• Rachel, Rachel
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter