1967 in film
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[edit] Events
- December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television.
- The prototype for the IMAX multi-screen system is exhibited at Expo '67 in Montreal, Canada
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- The Dirty Dozen
- You Only Live Twice
- Casino Royale
- A Man for All Seasons
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Barefoot in the Park
- Georgy Girl
- To Sir, with Love
- The Jungle Book
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night - Mirisch, United Artists
- Achievement in Direction: 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
- 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
[edit] Films released in 1967
- The Ambushers
- The Andromeda Nebula
- Barefoot in the Park
- Bedazzled
- Belle de jour
- The Big Mouth, starring Jerry Lewis
- Bonnie and Clyde
- The Born Losers
- Camelot
- Casino Royale
- Cervantes
- Clambake
- Cool Hand Luke
- Le Depart
- The Dirty Dozen
- Doctor Dolittle
- Double Trouble
- Easy Come, Easy Go
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- The Fastest Guitar Alive
- The Flim-Flam Man
- Follow That Camel a.k.a Carry On...Follow That Camel or Carry On In The Legion
- Good Times
- Grand slam
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- The Graduate, premiered in Los Angeles on December 8
- The Happiest Millionaire
- Hombre
- The Honey Pot
- I Am Curious (Yellow)
- In Like Flint
- In the Heat of the Night
- The Jungle Book
- Komissar aka The Commissar
- One Million Years B.C.
- Playtime
- Point Blank
- The President's Analyst
- Quatermass and the Pit
- Reflections in a Golden Eye
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- Le Samouraï (The Samurai), starring Alain Delon
- Son of Godzilla
- Stimulantia
- The Stranger (Lo Straniero)
- This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- The Tiger Makes Out, starring Eli Wallach
- Tobruk
- To Sir, with Love
- Valley of the Dolls
- Wait Until Dark
- The War Wagon
- The Whisperers
- Who's That Knocking at My Door, directed by Martin Scorsese
- You Only Live Twice
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Tia Carrere, American actress
- January 14 - Emily Watson, English actress
- January 22 - Olivia d'Abo, actress (The Wonder Years)
- February 9 - Benicio Del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
- February 10 - Laura Dern, American actress
- 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 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, model and actress ( d. 2007)
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Ann Sheridan (b. 1915), American actress
- February 16 - Martine Carol (b. 1922), French actress
- June 10 - Spencer Tracy (b. 1900), American actor.
- June 29 - Jayne Mansfield (b. 1933), American actress.
- July 7 - Vivien Leigh (b. 1913), British actress.
- July 21 - David Weisbart (b. 1915), film editor & producer
