1960 in film

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Years in film:	1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Years in television:	1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
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Years:	1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1960 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues
• August 10 - Filming of West Side Story begins.
• November 4 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film either performed in)
• November 13 - Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt wed.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Ben-Hur
2. Can-Can
3. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Operation Petticoat
5. Suddenly, Last Summer (film mentioned in adaptations)
6. The Apartment
7. Solomon and Sheba
8. On the Beach

[edit] 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:

Drama:

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

Other

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 Ardavin, Spain / Italy

[edit] Films released in 1960

• 13 Ghosts (with ghosts that only appeared when viewed through red glasses)
• The Alamo, starring John Wayne
• The Amazing Transparent Man, a sci-fi film starring Marguerite Chapman
• The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
• L'Avventura, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti
• Beat Girl, a British film about late-fifties youth-rebellion
• The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis
• Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard
• BUtterfield 8, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
• Can-Can, starring Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra, music/lyrics by Cole Porter
• Cimarron, starring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell
• Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis
• Devi, nominated for the Palme d'Or in 1962 - (India)
• La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, Palme d'Or winner
• Elmer Gantry, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster
• The Entertainer, starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright
• Exodus, starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint
• Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley
• G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley
• Herod the Great (originally: Erode il grande)
• Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer
• Jigoku, J-horror film, directed by Nobuo Nakagawa (Japan)
• Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman
• Macumba Love
• The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges
• La maschera del demonio, directed by Mario Bava
• The Mountain Road
• Mughal-e-Azam, starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala. Directed by K. Asif. (India)
• Never on Sunday
• Noi duri, starring Fred Buscaglione and Totò
• North to Alaska
• Le Passage du Rhin, Golden Lion winner
• Peeping Tom
• Pollyanna -(Walt Disney), starring Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman
• Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
• Scent of Mystery, the one and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision
• Song Without End
• Sons and Lovers
• Space Men
• Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick starring Kirk Douglas and Sir Laurence Olivier
• Sunrise at Campobello
• Swiss Family Robinson -(Walt Disney)
• Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau
• Two Women
• The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman
• Visit to a Small Planet, starring Jerry Lewis
• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, directed by Mikio Naruse
• Where the Boys Are
• The White Horse Inn
• The World of Suzie Wong - (film only mentioned in article)
• The Young One

[edit] Births

• January 1 - Dawn Mazzella, American actress
• January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
• January 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor
• January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
• January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
• February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress
• May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
• May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
• August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
• September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
• October 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director.
• December 3 - Daryl Hannah,actress
• December 3 - Julianne Moore,actress

[edit] Deaths

• January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish film actor and director
• January 20 - Matt Moore, actor
• February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singer
• November 5 - Mack Sennett, pioneer producer/director
• November 16 - Clark Gable, actor