1968 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Oliver!

Best Actor: Ron Moody - Oliver!

Best Actress: Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

<u>Other

Best Director: Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel

PALM 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

[edit] Films released in 1968

• 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner
• Bandolero!
• Barbarella
• Brilliantovaya ruka (Diamond Arm) - a hugely popular Russian comedy
• Bullitt
• Candy
• Charly
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - starring Dick Van Dyke
• Destroy All Monsters
• The Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
• Faces
• Finian's Rainbow
• Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
• Gamera and Mothra: Earth Defense War ?? (17e Parallele Le Vietnam En Guerre)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Ice Station Zebra
• If... Palme d'Or winner
• Isadora
• The Lion in Winter
• Live a Little, Love a Little
• La Marca del Hombre Lobo
• Mayerling
• Monterey Pop
• Night of the Living Dead
• Las Noches del Hombre Lobo
• The Odd Couple
• Ole Dole Doff Golden Bear winner
• Oliver!, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, and Harry Secombe
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Donald Cammell and Mick Jagger
• Petulia
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band
• Planet of the Apes
• The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars
• Rachel, Rachel
• Romeo and Juliet
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Secret Life of an American Wife
• The Shoes of the Fisherman, Anthony Quinn
• Shame (Skammen)
• Speedway
• Star!
• Stay Away, Joe
• The Subject Was Roses
• Twisted Nerve
• War and Peace
• Where Eagles Dare
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (short subject)
• Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price
• Yellow Submarine
• Yours, Mine and Ours

[edit] 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

[edit] 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, writerde:Filmjahr 1968