1960 in film

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The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.

Events

March 5 - For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues
June 16 - Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, Psycho. Controversial since release, it set new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and was a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre.
August 10 - Filming of West Side Story begins.
October 27 - Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning released, first of the British social-realist wave.
November 4 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (the last film for both, though Monroe was working on another at the time of her death).

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross rental
1.	Spartacus	Universal	$14,000,000^[1]
2.	Psycho	Paramount	$9,100,000^[1]
3.	Exodus	United Artists	$8,500,000^[1]
4.	Swiss Family Robinson	Walt Disney Productions	$7,900,000^[1]
5.	The Alamo	United Artists	$7,900,000^[1]
6.	The Apartment	United Artists	$6,700,000^[1]
7.	BUtterfield 8	MGM	$6,000,000^[1]
8.	Ocean's 11	Warner Bros.	$5,500,000^[1]
9.	Please Don't Eat the Daisies	MGM	$5,300,000^[1]
10.	From the Terrace	20th Century Fox	$5,200,000^[1]

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1960 films from countries outside of North America.

Country	Title	Gross
India	Mughal-e-Azam	$23,100,000^{[n 1]}
Soviet Union	Far from the Motherland	$2,625,000^{[n 3]}</ref>

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists

Best Director: Billy Wilder - The Apartment

Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry

Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Spartacus

Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry

Best Foreign Language Film: The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden

Golden Globe Awards:

Best Picture: Spartacus

Best Actor: Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry

Best Actress: Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello

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

Best Director: Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers

Palme 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 Ardavín, Spain / Italy

1960 film releases

U.S.A. unless stated

Notable films released in 1960

U.S.A. unless stated

Jigoku (Hell) - (Japan)
Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (The Land Where the Ganges Flows), starring Raj Kapoor - (India)

The Yellow Gloves (Ta kitrina gantia) - (Greece)
The Young One (La Joven), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico/U.S.A.)

Short film series

Births

January 12 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
January 13 - Kevin Anderson, American actor
January 18 - Mark Rylance, English actor
February 7 - James Spader, American actor
February 14 - Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress
February 18 - Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
February 20 - Wendee Lee, American voice actress
February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (died 1980)
March 31 - Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (died 2010)
April 4 - Hugo Weaving, Australian-British actor
April 14 – Brad Garrett, American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian and professional poker-player
May 21 - Mohanlal , Indian actor
May 24 - Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
May 31 - Chris Elliott, American actor and comedian
June 17 - Thomas Haden Church, American actor
July 5 - Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stuntman
July 14 - Jane Lynch, American actress
August 7
- David Duchovny, American actor
- Rosana Pastor, Spanish actress
August 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
August 16 - Timothy Hutton, American actor
August 17 - Sean Penn, American actor
August 29 - Viire Valdma, Estonian actress
September 9 - Hugh Grant, English actor
September 10 - Colin Firth, English actor
September 17 - Frédéric Pierrot, French actor
October 9 - Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (died 2008)
October 18 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
November 5 - Tilda Swinton, English actress
November 11 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
December 3
- Daryl Hannah, American actress
- Julianne Moore, American actress
December 10 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and film director

Deaths

January 1 - Margaret Sullavan, 50, American actress, The Shop Around the Corner, The Mortal Storm
January 3 – Victor Sjöström, 80, Swedish film actor and director, The Phantom Carriage, Wild Strawberries
January 4 - Dudley Nichols, 64, American screenwriter, Bringing Up Baby, Stagecoach
January 21 - Matt Moore, 72, Irish-American actor, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Coquette
January 24 - John Miljan, 67, American actor, The Plainsman, Mississippi
February 3
- Fred Buscaglione, 38, Italian actor and singer
- Pierre Watkin, 70, American actor, Pride of the Yankees, The Hunted
March 19 - Sonya Levien, 71, Russian screenwriter, Oklahoma!, Quo Vadis, Interrupted Melody
April 5 - Alma Kruger, 90, American actress, His Girl Friday, Saboteur
April 25 - Hope Emerson, 62, American actress, Caged, Adam's Rib
May 27 - George Zucco, 74, British actor, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Favorite Blonde
July 15 - Lawrence Tibbett, 63, American singer and actor, The Rogue Song, Under Your Spell
July 26 - Cedric Gibbons, 67, Irish production designer and art director, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful
July 29 - Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, Love on Wheels, Living Dangerously
August 10 - Frank Lloyd, 74, Scottish director, Mutiny on the Bounty, Cavalcade
September 4 - Alfred E. Green, 71, American director, Baby Face, Top Banana
September 5 - Aku Korhonen, 57, Finnish actor
September 11 - Edwin Justus Mayer, 63, American screenwriter, To Be or Not to Be, A Royal Scandal
October 11 - Richard Cromwell, 50, American actor, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel
October 15 - Clara Kimball Young, 70, American actress, My Official Wife, Kept Husbands
November 3 - Paul Willis, 59, American silent-film actor, The Fall of a Nation
November 5
- Mack Sennett, 80, Canadian-American producer and director, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tango Tangles
- Ward Bond, 57, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life, The Searchers, Rio Bravo
November 16 - Clark Gable, 59, American actor, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind
November 19 - Phyllis Haver, 61, American actress, Chicago, Sal of Singapore
November 20 - Betty Lawford, 48, British actress, Criminal Lawyer, The Devil Thumbs a Ride
December 14 - Gregory Ratoff, 67, Russian actor and director, All About Eve, Intermezzo

Film debuts

Notes

↑ Mughal-e-Azam in India: ₹11 crore,^[2] 4.77 Indian rupees per US dollar^[3]
↑ 4 Soviet rubles per US dollar from 1950 to 1960<ref name='russia'>Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
↑ 10.5 million SUR (42 million Soviet tickets sold,^[4] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),^[5] 4 SUR per USD^{[n 2]}

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
↑ "Box Office 1960". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
↑ Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1961 (PDF). US Bureau of the Census. 1961. p. 937. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
↑ "Prokat2". Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
↑ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011

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[4] Mughal-e-Azam in India: ₹11 crore,^[2] 4.77 Indian rupees per US dollar^[3]

[RubleUSD-7] 4 Soviet rubles per US dollar from 1950 to 1960<ref name='russia'>Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls

[8] 10.5 million SUR (42 million Soviet tickets sold,^[4] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),^[5] 4 SUR per USD^{[n 2]}

[Finler-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[boi60-2] "Box Office 1960". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2017-07-02.

[3] Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1961 (PDF). US Bureau of the Census. 1961. p. 937. Retrieved 7 June 2013.

[5] "Prokat2". Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.

[moscow7-6] Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011