1963 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Tom Jones

Best Actor: Alberto Sordi - To Bed... or Not to Bed

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce

<u>Other

Best Director: Elia Kazan - America, America

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

Il Diavolo (To Bed... or Not to Bed), directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro, Italy

[edit] Films released in 1963

• 8½
• America, America by Elia Kazan
• An Actor's Revenge
• La Baie des anges
• The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor
• Blood Feast
• Bushido:Samurai Saga (Bushidô zankoku monogatari) Golden Bear winner
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
• Cleopatra
• Contempt (Le Mépris)
• Critic's Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
• Dementia 13
• Il Diavolo Golden Bear winner
• From Russia with Love
• Fun in Acapulco
• A Gathering of Eagles
• The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen
• Hands over the City Golden Lion winner
• Hud
• Irma la Douce -(film mentioned in article)
• It Happened at the World's Fair
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• The Leopard Palme d'Or winner
• The L-Shaped Room
• Lilies of the Field
• The Mask -(?? only in 1961 such a film is mentioned)
• The Nutty Professor
• The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers
• 7 Faces Of Dr. Lao
• Sleep, by Andy Warhol
• Son of Flubber
• The Sword in the Stone
• To Bed or Not to Bed
• Tom Jones
• The V.I.P.s
• Who's Minding the Store
• The Wrong Arm of the Law
• Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke starring Sunil Dutt
• Zuo ye meng hun zhong

[edit] Births

• January 14 — Steven Soderbergh, director
• June 10 — Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actress
• June 15 — Helen Hunt, US actress
• October 6 — Elisabeth Shue, US actress
• December 15 — Helen Slater, US actress
• December 18 — Brad Pitt, actor

[edit] Deaths

• February 18 - Monte Blue, actor
• June 7 - Zazu Pitts, actress
• December 5 - Tom London, actor
• Oscar A.C. Lund, Swedish film actor/director/writerde:Filmjahr 1963