1964 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1964 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove is released.
• March 6 - Laura Jae's 14th motion picture, Kissin' Cousins is released to theaters.
• July 6 - A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Tom Jones
2. The Carpetbaggers
3. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
4. The Unsinkable Molly Brown
5. Charade

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: My Fair Lady - Warner Bros.

Achievement in Direction: George Cukor - My Fair Lady

Best Actor: Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Topkapi

Best Supporting Actress: Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek

Best Foreign Language Film: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Ieri, oggi, domani), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Becket

Best Actor: Peter O'Toole - Becket

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: My Fair Lady

Best Actor: Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady

Best Actress: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

Other

Best Director: George Cukor - My Fair Lady

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer), directed by Ismail Metin, Turkey

[edit] Films released in 1964

• The Americanization of Emily
• At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
• Bedtime Story
• The Best Man
• Blood and Black Lace, directed by Mario Bava
• The Carpetbaggers (see article The Carpetbaggers)
• Circus World, starring John Wayne
• The Disorderly Orderly, starring Jerry Lewis
• Dr. Strangelove, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Ensign Pulver
• Face of the Screaming Werewolf
• Fail-Safe
• The Fall of the Roman Empire
• Father Goose
• A Fistful of Dollars
• The Flesh Eaters
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
• Goldfinger
• Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon
• Hamlet
• A Hard Day's Night, starring The Beatles
• Kissin' Cousins, starring Elvis Presley
• Marnie
• Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews
• The Masque of the Red Death
• Mothra vs. Godzilla
• My Fair Lady
• Nothing But the Best
• One Potato, Two Potato
• The Patsy, starring Jerry Lewis
• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
• The Pumpkin Eater
• Robin and the 7 Hoods, starring Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
• Robinson Crusoe on Mars
• Roustabout, starring Elvis Presley
• Seven Up!
• A Shot in the Dark, starring Peter Sellers
• Topkapi
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• The Visit
• Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley
• Welcome, or No Trespassing, starring Evgeni Evstigneev
• Woman in the Dunes
• The Yellow Rolls-Royce
• Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Ieri, oggi, domani)
• Zorba the Greek (aka Alexis Zorbas)
• Zulu, starring Michael Caine and Stanley Baker

[edit] Births

• January 7 - Nicolas Cage, actor
• January 13 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress
• January 18 - Jane Horrocks, actress
• February 15 - Chris Farley, actor
• March 9 - Juliette Binoche, actress
• March 17 - Rob Lowe, actor
• June 15 - Courteney Cox, actress
• June 21 - William Quinn, philosopher
• July 26 - Sandra Bullock, actress
• September 2 - Keanu Reeves, actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 29 - Alan Ladd, actor
• March 23 - Peter Lorre, actor
• August 28 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne
• September 28 - Harpo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers
• Ian Fleming, author of James Bond