1963 in film

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Years in film:	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
Years in television:	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1963 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 28 - Filming begins on Dr. Strangelove.
• May 26 - Filming on Dr. Strangelove ends.
• June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
• November 7 - The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. How the West Was Won
2. Cleopatra
3. The Longest Day
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Irma la Douce
6. Mutiny on the Bounty
7. The V.I.P.s
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Son of Flubber
10. ???

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Tom Jones — Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British)

Award for Directing: Tony Richardson - Tom Jones

Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field

Best Actress: Patricia Neal - Hud

Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas - Hud

Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s

Best Foreign Language Film: 8½ (Otto e mezzo), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Cardinal

Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field

Best Actress: Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Tom Jones

Best Actor: Alberto Sordi - To Bed... or Not to Bed

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce

Other

Best Director: Elia Kazan - America, America

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Il Diavolo (To Bed... or Not to Bed), directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro, Italy

[edit] Films released in 1963

• 8½
• America, America by Elia Kazan
• An Actor's Revenge
• Atragon
• La Baie des anges
• The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor
• Blood Feast
• Bushido:Samurai Saga (Bushidô zankoku monogatari) Golden Bear winner
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
• Cleopatra
• Contempt (Le Mépris)
• Critic's Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
• Dementia 13
• Il Diavolo Golden Bear winner
• From Russia with Love
• Fun in Acapulco
• A Gathering of Eagles
• The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen
• Hands Over the City Golden Lion winner
• Hud
• Irma la Douce -(film mentioned in article)
• It Happened at the World's Fair
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• Ladybug Ladybug
• The Leopard Palme d'Or winner
• The L-Shaped Room
• Lilies of the Field
• The Mask -(?? only in 1961 such a film is mentioned)
• Matango
• The Nutty Professor, starring Jerry Lewis
• One Got Fat
• The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers
• 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
• Sleep, by Andy Warhol
• Son of Flubber
• The Sword in the Stone
• To Bed or Not to Bed
• Tom Jones
• The V.I.P.s
• The Wheeler Dealers
• Who's Minding the Store?, starring Jerry Lewis
• The Wrong Arm of the Law
• Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke starring Sunil Dutt
• Zuo ye meng hun zhong

[edit] Births

• January 14 — Steven Soderbergh, director
• March 27 — Quentin Tarantino, director
• June 9 — Johnny Depp, US actor
• June 10 — Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actress
• June 15 — Helen Hunt, US actress
• October 6 — Elisabeth Shue, US actress
• December 15 — Helen Slater, US actress
• December 18 — Brad Pitt, actor

[edit] Deaths

• February 18 - Monte Blue, actor
• June 7 - Zazu Pitts, actress
• December 5 - Tom London, actor
• Oscar A.C. Lund, Swedish film actor/director/writer