1966 in film
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[edit] Events
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- Thunderball
- Dr. Zhivago
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- That Darn Cat!
- The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
- Lt. Robinson Crusoe, USN
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons - Highland, Columbia
- Achievement in Directing: Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
- Best Actor: Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
- Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie
- Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Best Foreign Language Film: A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
- Drama:
- Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons
- Best Actor: Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
- Best Actress: Anouk Aimée - A Man and a Woman
- Musical or Comedy:
- Best Picture: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
- Best Actor: Alan Arkin - The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
- Best Actress: Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl
- Other
- Best Director: Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):
- A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
- Signore & Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians), directed by Pietro Germi, Italy
GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):
- The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria / Italy
GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):
- Cul-de-Sac, directed by Roman Polanski, United Kingdom
[edit] Films released in 1966
- Agent for H.A.R.M.
- Alfie
- Andrei Rublev
- The Appaloosa
- Batman
- The Battle of Algiers Golden Lion winner
- Beregis Avtomobilya (Beware of the Automobile)
- The Bible: In The Beginning
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady
- Blood Bath
- Blowup
- Chappaqua
- Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky), Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1967)
- Cul-de-Sac Golden Bear winner
- Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
- El Dorado
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Family Way
- Follow Me, Boys!
- The Fortune Cookie
- Frankie and Johnny
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum -- the article only mentions the film
- Georgy Girl
- Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
- Hawaii
- Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?)
- It Happened Here
- Judith
- Johnny Reno
- Lt. Robinson Crusoe, USN
- A Man and a Woman Palme d'Or winner
- A Man for All Seasons
- "Manos" The Hands of Fate
- Morgan!
- Our Man Flint
- Paradise, Hawaiian Style
- Persona
- Return of the Seven
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
- The Sand Pebbles
- The Singing Nun -- the article only mentions the film --
- Spinout
- Three On A Couch
- Triple Cross
- Trunk to Cairo
- Way...Way Out
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The Wild Angels
- Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (short subject)
- The Wrong Box
[edit] Births
- January 13 - Patrick Dempsey, actor
- February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
- February 7 - Chris Rock, actor and comedian
- May 20 - Helena Bonham Carter, actress
- July 11 - Debbe Dunning, actress
- July 15 - Irène Jacob, actress
- July 29 - Martina McBride, popular country singer
- August 14 - Halle Berry, actress
- September 2 - Salma Hayek, actress
- November 17 - Sophie Marceau, actress
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor
- February 1 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
- July 23 - Montgomery Clift, American actor
- October 16 - George O'Hara, American actor
- December 15 - Walt Disney, American cartoonist
