1962 in film

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Years in film:	1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
Years in television:	1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1962 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the longest-running motion picture franchise of all time, running more than 40 years.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. West Side Story
2. Spartacus
3. El Cid
4. Lover Come Back
5. That Touch of Mink
6. tie King of Kings and The Music Man
7. Hatari!, starring John Wayne

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink

Best Picture (tie): The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy

Other

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

[edit] Films released in 1962

• Billy Budd
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Boys' Night Out
• Cape Fear
• Days of Wine and Roses
• Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana)
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Dr. No
• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare)
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
• Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas) (aka The Given Word)
• Gypsy
• Hatari!, starring John Wayne
• How the West Was Won
• It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis
• Keeper of Promises
• Kid Galahad
• A Kind of Loving
• King Kong vs. Godzilla
• Knife in the Water
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lolita
• Lonely are the Brave
• The Longest Day
• Lycanthropus
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• The Miracle Worker
• The Music Man
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• My Name is Ivan
• Panic in Year Zero!
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Premature Burial -(film mentioned in article)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight -(film mentioned in article)
• Ride the High Country
• State Fair -(film mentioned in article)
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray)
• Sweet Bird of Youth -(film mentioned in article)
• Taras Bulba
• Tender Is the Night
• That Touch of Mink
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Trial
• Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc)
• War of the Buttons
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

[edit] Births

• January 1 - Nancy Mette,actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
• July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
• September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
• September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• November 11 - Demi Moore, US actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director

[edit] Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, actor
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, British actor
• December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress