1968 in film

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3.1 January to March
3.2 from April to June
3.3 July to September
3.4 October to December
3.5 day unknown

4.1 January to March
4.2 from April to June
4.3 July to September
4.4 October to December

Events

Film Awards

Golden Globe Award

On February 12, will be held the Golden Globe Awards at the Coconut Grove.

Best Drama: In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison
Best Musical / Comedy: The Graduate by Mike Nichols
Best Actor ( Drama ): Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress ( Drama ): Edith Evans in Whisperers
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy ): Richard Harris in Camelot
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy ): Anne Bancroft in The Graduate
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Attenborough in Doctor Dolittle
Best Supporting Actress: Carol Channing in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Best Director: Mike Nichols for The Graduate
Best Music: Frederick Loewe Camelot
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Kirk Douglas

Academy Awards

On 10 April, the Academy Awards Santa Monica Civic Auditorium will take place. Actually, she was scheduled for April 8, but due to the funeral after the assassination of Martin Luther King was postponed by two days. Moderator is Bob Hope.

Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison
Best Actor: Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in Council
Best Director: Mike Nichols for The Graduate
Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke
Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons in Bonnie and Clyde
Best Foreign Language Film: Ostre sledované vlaky by Jiří Menzel
Honorary Award: Arthur Freed
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Gregory Peck

Full list of winners

International Film Festival of Cannes 1968

The 21st International Film Festival of Cannes 1968 to be held from 10 May to 24 May 1968. On May 18, the jury members Louis Malle and Roman Polanski, together with Claude Berri, Jean -Gabriel Albicocco, Claude Lelouch and Jean -Luc Godard declared solidarity with the students of the Paris Maiunruhen and called for the demolition of the festival. On 19 May 1968, the festival was finally actually canceled and no prizes for the competition which took office in Movies forgiven.

International Film Festival Berlin 1968

The festival begins on 21 June and ends on July 2. The jury will award the following prizes:

Golden Bear: Get out you're by Jan Troell
Best Actor: Jean -Louis Trintignant in L' Homme qui ment
Best Actress: Stéphane Audran in Les Biches
Best Director: Carlos Saura for Peppermint Frappé

Film Festival of Venice

The festival starts on August 25 and ends on September 7. The jury will award the following prizes:

Golden Lion: The Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed by Alexander Kluge
Best Actor: John Marley in Faces
Best Actress: Laura Betti in Teorema - Geometry of Love

German Film Prize

Best Picture: Tattoo
Best Director: Johannes Schaaf for tattoo
Best Actress: Ilona Gruebel for Thekla Carola Wied for pairings and track a girl
Best Actor: Werner Enke for Substance, baby and Alexander May for Tattoo

British Film Academy Award

Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons by Fred Zinnemann
Best British Actor: Paul Scofield for A Man for All Seasons
Best Foreign Actor: Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night
Best British Actress: Edith Evans for Whisperers
Best Foreign Actress: Anouk Aimée for a man and a woman

Étoile de Cristal

Best Film: Playtime by Jacques Tati
Best Actor: Claude Rich in I love you, I love you
Best Actress: Cathy Rosier in the ice-cold angel
Best Foreign Film: Shakespeare Wallah by James Ivory
Best Foreign Actor: Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night
Best Foreign Actress: Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: The Lion in Winter by Anthony Harvey
Best Director: Paul Newman for The love of summer
Best Actor: Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Best Actress: Joanne Woodward in The love of summer
Best Foreign Film: War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk

National Board of Review

Best Film: The Shoes of the Fisherman by Michael Anderson
Best Director: Franco Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson in Charly
Best Actress: Liv Ullmann in shame and Hour of the Wolf
Best Supporting Actor: Leo McKern in The Shoes of the Fisherman
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Maskell in interlude
Best Foreign Language Film: The end of a great love of Bo Widerberg

Laurel Award

Best action drama: Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn Best Action representation: Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen

Best dramatic Starring: Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night
Best Dramatic Actress: Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde

Best comedic Starring: Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple
Best comedic actress Lucille Ball in Yours, Mine and Ours

More movie awards and honors

Astor de Oro: Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn
David di Donatello: The Bandits of Milan, The Day of the Owl ( Best Italian film) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( Best Foreign Film )
German Critics' Prize: Hans -Jürgen Syberberg
Directors Guild of America Award: Mike Nichols for The Graduate, Alfred Hitchcock and Darryl F. Zanuck (both prices for their lifetime )
Ernst Lubitsch Prize: Cornelia Froboess for Rheinberg
Louis- Delluc Price: Stolen Kisses by François Truffaut
Nastro d' Argento: Two Coffins to order by Elio Petri and Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni
National Society of Film Critics Award: Persona by Ingmar Bergman
Photoplay Award: Rosemary's Baby by Roman Polanski ( Best Picture ), Steve McQueen ( most popular male star ), Debbie Reynolds ( most popular female star )
German Film review: Why is woman as happy? by Erika Runge
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia- San Sebastián: Deadly Day by Peter Collinson ( Golden Shell )
Writers Guild of America Award: Bonnie and Clyde ( Best Original Screenplay and Best Drama ), Thoroughly Modern Millie - Rich Man Wanted ( Best Musical ), The Graduate ( Best Comedy ), Casey Robinson ( Lifetime Achievement )

Birthdays

January to March

January

January 02: Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
January 06: John Singleton, American film director
09 January: Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
JANUARY 12: Rachael Harris, American actress
JANUARY 17: Deran Sarafian, American film director
JANUARY 17: Mathilde Seigner, French actress
JANUARY 21: Charlotte Ross, American actress
JANUARY 26: Masumi Miyazaki, Japanese actress and model
January 29: Edward Burns, American actor
JANUARY 29: Bobbie Phillips, American actress

February

February 01: Pauly Shore, American actor
FEBRUARY 12: Josh Brolin, American actor
FEBRUARY 13: Kelly Hu, American actress
FEBRUARY 18: Molly Ringwald, American actress
February 22: Jeri Ryan, American actress
FEBRUARY 25: Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
FEBRUARY 26: Ed Quinn, American actor

March

March 02: Daniel Craig, British actor and James Bond actor
March 04: Patsy Kensit, American actress
March 06: Moira Kelly, American actress
MARCH 12: Aaron Eckhart, American actor
March 14: James Frain, British actor
MARCH 17: Mathew St. Patrick, American actor
March 21: Jaye Davidson, American actor
March 21: Karyn Kusama, American director
MARCH 23: Pierre Palmade, French actor
MARCH 28: Max Perlich, American actor

April-June

April

April 03: Philippe Rombi, French composer
April 06: Oliver Korittke, German actor
07 April: Jennifer Chambers Lynch, American director
08 April: Patricia Arquette, American actress
April 10: Orlando Jones, American actor
APRIL 12: Alicia Coppola, American actress
APRIL 12: Tracy Vilar, American actress
April 13: Jeanne Balibar, French actress
APRIL 14: Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
April 19: Ashley Judd, American actress
April 21: Leslie Silva, American actress
APRIL 24: Stacy Haiduk, American actress
APRIL 27: Cristian Mungiu, Romanian film director and screenwriter
April 29: Jürgen Vogel, German actor

May

May 01: Sol Kyung- gu, South Korean actor
May 10: Erik Palladino, American actor
MAY 11: Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
May 20: Timothy Olyphant, American actor
MAY 23: John Ortiz, American actor
MAY 23: Guinevere Turner, American actress
MAY 25: Joseph D. Reitman, American actor
MAY 26: Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish director
MAY 28: Paula Markovitch, Mexican - Argentine writer and director

June

June 04: Sean Gullette, American screenwriter
June 04: Scott Wolf, American actor
June 05: Ron Livingston, Italian director
June 14: Stefano Gigli, American actor
June 14: Faizon Love, American actor
20 June: Robert Rodriguez, American film director
JUNE 27: Pascale Bussières, Canadian actress
June 29: Judith Hoag, American actress

July to September

July

July 01: Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor
05 July: Jillian arms Ante, American actress
07 July: Amy Carlson, American actress
July 07: Jorja Fox, American actress
07 July: Allen Payne, American actor
July 08: Billy Crudup, American actor
July 08: Michael Weatherly, American actor
July 13: Robert Gant, American actor
July 15: Eddie Griffin, American actor
July 15: Stan Kirsch, American actor
July 17: Bitty Schram, American actress
JULY 17: John Ventimiglia, American actor
JULY 22: Rhys Ifans, British actor
JULY 22: Giuseppe Battiston, Italian actor
JULY 24: Kristin Chenoweth, American actress
JULY 24: Laura Leighton, American actress
JULY 25: Nanouk Leopold, Dutch director and screenwriter
JULY 26: Olivia Williams, British actress
JULY 30: Sofie Gråbøl, Danish actress
JULY 30: Terry Crews, American actor

August

August 01: Eric Warren Singer, American screenwriter and film producer
03 August: Isao Yukisada, Japanese director
August 04: Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
August 06: Lisa Boyle, American actress
07 August: Francesca Gregorini, Italian - American director and screenwriter
August 09: Gillian Anderson, American actress
09 August: Eric Bana, Australian actor
August 10: Pete Docter, American film director and screenwriter
13 August: Joshua Marston, American film director and screenwriter
August 14: Catherine Bell, American actress
August 14: Adrian Lester, British actor
August 14: David McKenna, American writer
August 15: Jeremy Peter Allen, director of Canadian
August 15: Debra Messing, American actress
August 18: Katrin Fröhlich, German actress and voice actress
AUGUST 20: Guy Hendrix Dyas, British Designer
AUGUST 26: Marc Rothemund, German director
August 31: Joseph Cedar, the Israeli director

September

September 02: Kristen Cloke, American actress
September 02: Cynthia Watros, American actress
September 04: Phill Lewis, American actor
September 10: Guy Ritchie, British director
SEPTEMBER 15: Danny Nucci, American actor
SEPTEMBER 21: Ricki Lake, American actress
September 25: Will Smith, American actor
September 26: James Caviezel, American actor
September 28: Carré Otis, American actress
September 28: Naomi Watts, Australian actress

October to December

October

October 02: Joey Slotnick, American actor
08 October: Emily Procter, American actress
09 October: James Dreyfus, British actor
October 11: Jane Krakowski, American actress
OCTOBER 12: Hugh Jackman, Australian actor
OCTOBER 12: Sophie von Kessel, German actress
OCTOBER 13: Tisha Campbell, American actress
October 16: Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
OCTOBER 21: Melora Walters, American actress

November

02 November: Jaume Balagueró, Spanish director and screenwriter
03 November: Debbie Rochon, Canadian actress
05 November: Aitana Sánchez- Gijón, Spanish actress
November 06: Kelly Rutherford, American actress
November 08: Parker Posey, American actress
November 13: Achim von Borries, German screenwriter and director
November 18: Romany Malco, American actor

December

December 02: Lucy Liu, American actress
December 02: Rena Sofer, American actress
December 03: Brendan Fraser, American actor
December 05: Margaret Cho, American actress
December 05: Lisa Marie, American actress
06 December: Olaf Lubaszenko, Polish actor
December 12 Khrystyne Haje, American actress
DECEMBER 12: Rory Kennedy, American documentary filmmaker
December 13: Tony Curran, British actor
December 18: Casper Van Dien, American actor
December 20: Eduardo Sánchez, American film director and screenwriter
December 22: Dina Meyer, American actress
26th December: Tricia Leigh Fisher, American actress
December 30: Meredith Monroe, American actress

Day unknown

Charlie Huston, American screenwriter
Luc Pagès, French director, cinematographer and screenwriter
Robert Schwentke, German director and screenwriter
Thomas Woschitz, Austrian director, screenwriter and editor

Deceased