1960 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture (tie): The Apartment

Best Picture (tie): Song Without End

Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - The Apartment

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment

<u>Other

Best Director: Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

Le passage du Rhin (The Crossing of the Rhine), directed by André Cayatte, Italy / France / W.Germany

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

El lazarillo de tormes, directed by César Fernández Ardavin, Spain / Italy

[edit] Films released in 1960

• 13 Ghosts (with ghosts that only appeared when viewed through red glasses)
• À bout de souffle
• The Alamo, starring John Wayne
• Amazing Transparent Man, The
• The Apartment
• L'avventura
• Beat Girl
• The Bellboy
• BUtterfield 8
• Can-Can
• Cimarron, starring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell
• Cinderfella
• Devi
• La Dolce Vita, Palme d'Or winner
• Elmer Gantry
• Exodus
• Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley
• G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley
• Herod the Great (originally: Erode il grande)
• Inherit the Wind
• Jigoku
• Last Woman on Earth
• Macumba Love
• The Magnificent Seven
• La maschera del demonio, directed by Mario Bava
• The Mountain Road
• Never on Sunday
• Noi duri, starring Fred Buscaglione and Totò
• North to Alaska
• Le Passage du Rhin, Golden Lion winner
• Peeping Tom
• Pollyanna -(Walt Disney), starring Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman
• Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
• Scent of Mystery, the one and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision
• Song Without End
• Sons and Lovers
• Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Sunrise at Campobello
• Swiss Family Robinson -(Walt Disney)
• Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau
• Two Women
• The Virgin Spring, by Ingmar Bergman
• The White Horse Inn
• The World of Suzie Wong -(film only mentioned in article)
• The Young One
• The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
• Visit to a Small Planet
• Where the Boys Are

[edit] Births

• January 1 - Dawn Mazzella, American actress
• January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
• January 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor
• January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
• January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
• February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress
• May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
• May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
• August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
• September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
• October 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director.
• December 3 - Daryl Hannah,actress
• December 3 - Julianne Moore,actress

[edit] Deaths

• January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish film actor and director
• January 20 - Matt Moore, actor
• February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singer
• November 5 - Mack Sennett, pioneer producer/director
• November 16 - Clark Gable, actorde:Filmjahr 1960