1967 in film
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The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film[citation needed].
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Actors |
Gross |
| 1. |
The Jungle Book* |
Disney |
Phil Harris, Bruce Reitherman, Sebastain Cabot (voices) |
$60,964,000 |
| 2. |
The Graduate |
Embassy/United Artists |
Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross |
$44,091,000 |
| 3. |
Bonnie and Clyde |
Warner Bros. |
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway |
$35,500,000 |
| 4. |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Columbia |
Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn |
$22,800,000 |
| 5. |
The Dirty Dozen |
MGM |
Lee Marvin |
$20,404,000 |
| 6. |
Valley of the Dolls |
20th Century Fox |
Sharon Tate, Patty Duke and Barbara Parkins |
$20,000,000 |
| 7. |
You Only Live Twice |
United Artists |
Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi and Mie Hama |
$19,389,000 |
| 8. |
To Sir, With Love |
Columbia |
Sidney Poitier |
$19,100,000 |
| 9. |
Thoroughly Modern Millie |
Universal |
Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin and Carol Channing |
$15,455,000 |
| 10. |
In the Heat of the Night |
United Artists |
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger |
$14,750,000 |
(*) After Theatrical re-issue(s)
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night - Mirisch, United Artists
- Best Director: Mike Nichols - The Graduate
- Best Actor: Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
- Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke
- Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
- Best Foreign Language Film: Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky), directed by Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night
- Best Actor: Rod Steiger' - In the Heat of the Night
- Best Actress: Edith Evans - The Whisperers
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: The Graduate
- Best Actor: Richard Harris - Camelot
- Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
- Other
- Best Director: Mike Nichols - The Graduate
- Best English Language Foreign Film: The Fox, United Kingdom
- Best Foreign Film: Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre), France
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Belle de jour, directed by Louis Buñuel, France / Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium
Films released in 1967
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
- A Countess from Hong Kong
- The Ambushers
- The Andromeda Nebula
- Barefoot in the Park, starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda
- The Battle of Algiers (U.S. release)
- Bedazzled
- Belle de jour
- The Big Mouth, starring Jerry Lewis
- Bonnie and Clyde
- The Born Losers (name should be "Born Losers")
- Camelot
- Caprice
- Carry On Doctor
- Casino Royale
- Catalina Caper
- Cervantes
- Clambake
- Come Spy with Me
- Cool Hand Luke
- Le départ
- The Dirty Dozen
- Divorce American Style, starring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds
- Doctor Dolittle
- Don't Make Waves
- El Dorado
- Double Trouble
- Easy Come, Easy Go
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- The Fastest Guitar Alive
- Fathom
- A Fistful of Dollars (U.S. release)
- Fitzwilly
- The Flim-Flam Man
- Follow That Camel a.k.a Carry On...Follow That Camel or Carry On In The Legion
- For a Few Dollars More (U.S. release)
- Fort Utah
- Gamera vs. Gyaos
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (U.S. release)
- Good Times
- The Graduate, premiered in Los Angeles on December 8, starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
- Grand slam
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton
- A Guide for the Married Man, starring Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Robert Morse
- Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele
- The Happiest Millionaire, starring Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Lesley Ann Warren, John Davidson
- Hells Angels on Wheels
- Hombre, starring Paul Newman
- The Honey Pot
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (film), starring Robert Morse, Michele Lee
- Hurry Sundown
- I Am Curious (Yellow)
- In Cold Blood, starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson
- In Like Flint, starring James Coburn
- In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
- The Incident
- The Jungle Book
- King Kong Escapes
- Kinoautomat
- Komissar aka The Commissar
- La Chinoise
- Mad Monster Party
- Monster from a Prehistoric Planet
- One Million Years B.C.
- Playtime
- Point Blank
- The President's Analyst
- Quatermass and the Pit
- Reflections in a Golden Eye
- The Reluctant Astronaut
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- Le Samouraï (The Samurai), starring Alain Delon
- The Shooting
- Soleil O
- Son of Godzilla
- Stimulantia
- The Fox
- The Stranger (Lo Straniero)
- This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
- Thoroughly Modern Millie, starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
- The Tiger Makes Out, starring Eli Wallach
- Tobruk
- Tony Rome
- To Sir, with Love, starring Sidney Poitier
- Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney
- Ulysses
- Up the Down Staircase, starring Sandy Dennis
- Ultraman
- Valley of the Dolls
- Welcome to Hard Timesd
- Who's Minding the Mint? starring Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine
- Wait Until Dark, starring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin
- Warning Shot
- The War Wagon
- Week End
- The Whisperers
- Who's That Knocking at My Door, directed by Martin Scorsese
- You Only Live Twice, starring Sean Connery
Short Film Series
Births
- January 2 - Tia Carrere, American actress
- January 14 - Emily Watson, English actress
- February 10 - Laura Dern, American actress
- February 19 - Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
- March 16 - Lauren Graham, American actress
- April 2 - Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
- May 1 - Scott Coffey, American actor/director
- May 31 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
- June 20 - Nicole Kidman, Australian actress
- July 1 - Pamela Anderson, American actress
- July 16 - Will Ferrell, American actor
- October 4 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
- October 5 - Guy Pearce, Australian actor
- October 28 - Julia Roberts, American actress
- September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr.
- November 22 - Mark Ruffalo, actor
- November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, model and actress ( d. 2007)
Deaths
- January 8 - Zbigniew Cybulski, 39, Polish actor
- January 21 - Ann Sheridan, 51, American actress
- January 22 - Jobyna Ralston, 67, American actress
- February 14 - Sig Ruman, 82, German actor
- February 15 - Antonio Moreno, 79, Spanish-American actor and director
- February 16 - Smiley Burnette, 58, American actor
- February 16 - Martine Carol, 46, French actress
- February 24 - Franz Waxman, 60, German film composer
- March 5 - Mischa Auer, 61, Russian actor
- March 6 - Nelson Eddy, 65, Canadian singer and actor
- March 11 - Geraldine Farrar, 85, American singer and actress
- May 8 - LaVerne Andrews, 55, American singer and actress (Andrews Sisters)
- May 8 - Barbara Payton, 39, American actress
- May 30 - Claude Rains, 77, British actor
- June 10 - Spencer Tracy, 67, American actor
- June 16 - Reginald Denny, 75, British actor
- June 26 - Françoise Dorléac, 25, French actress
- June 29 - Jayne Mansfield, 34, American actress
- July 7 - Vivien Leigh, 53, British actress
- July 21 - David Weisbart, 52, American film editor and producer
- July 21 - Basil Rathbone, 75, British actor
- August 9 - Anton Walbrook, 70, Austrian actor
- August 13 - Jane Darwell, 87, American actress
- August 25 - Paul Muni, 71, Ukrainian-American actor
- October 12 - Nat Pendleton, 72, American actor, former Olympic swimmer
- November 1 - Benita Hume, 60, British actress
- November 9 - Charles Bickford, 76, American actor
- December 4 - Bert Lahr, 72, American actor
Film Debuts
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