1967 in film

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Years in film:	1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1967 5 Births 6 Deaths

[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

1. The Dirty Dozen
2. You Only Live Twice
3. Casino Royale
4. A Man for All Seasons
5. Thoroughly Modern Millie
6. Barefoot in the Park
7. Georgy Girl
8. To Sir, with Love
9. The Jungle Book

[edit] Awards

Academy 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

Golden Globe Awards:

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