1961 in film
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[edit] Events
- Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) released
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- The Guns of Navarone
- Exodus
- The Parent Trap
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- The Alamo
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Come September
- The World of Suzie Wong (film only mentioned in article)
- Gone with the Wind (reissued to commemorate the American Civil War centennial)
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- La Dolce Vita
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
- Achievement in Directing: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
- Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Best Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women
- Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris - West Side Story
- Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno - West Side Story
- Best Foreign Language Film: Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Guns of Navarone
- Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgement at Nuremberg
- Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): A Majority of One
- Best Picture (tie): West Side Story
- Best Actor: Glenn Ford - Pocketful of Miracles
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One
- Other
- Best Director: Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence), directed by Henri Colpi, France
- Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel, Spain
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- La Notte (The Night), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
[edit] Films released in 1961
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- The Amphibian Man
- Atlantis, the Lost Continent
- Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Come September
- El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
- The Errand Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Fanny
- Flower Drum Song -(film mentioned in article)
- The Fruit Is Ripe (Les Filles sèment le vent)
- Goodbye Again
- The Guns of Navarone
- The Hustler
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- King of Kings
- La Notte Golden Bear winner
- The Ladies Man, starring Jerry Lewis
- The Last Time I Saw Archie
- Last Year at Marienbad, Golden Lion winner
- The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) - Palme d'Or winner
- Lover Come Back
- A Majority of One
- The Mark
- The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable
- Mothra
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- The Parent Trap
- The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price
- Pocketful of Miracles
- Il Posto
- Return to Peyton Place -(film mentioned in article)
- Splendor in the Grass
- Summer and Smoke
- Teen Kanya
- Through a Glass Darkly - (Såsom i en spegel)
- Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
- Victim
- Viridiana - Palme d'Or winner
- West Side Story
[edit] Births
- January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
- January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
- February 11 - Carey Lowell, actress
- April 6 - Gene Eugene, actor, lead singer of Adam Again
- July 15 - Forest Whitaker, actor
- July 18 - Elizabeth McGovern, actress
- October 31 - Peter Jackson, director
- November 19 - Meg Ryan, US actress
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director
- February 17 - Nita Naldi, American actress
- May 4 - Anita Stewart, American actress
- August 4 - Maurice Tourneur, French film director
- October 11 - Chico Marx, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers
- October 18 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress
- October 22 - Joseph Schenck, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive
- November 15 - Elsie Ferguson, American stage and film actress
