1960 in film
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.
Events
Top grossing films (US)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Actors |
Gross |
| 1. |
Psycho |
Universal and Paramount |
Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, and Janet Leigh |
$32,000,000 |
| 2. |
Swiss Family Robinson |
Walt Disney Productions |
John Mills and Dorothy McGuire |
$20,178,000 |
| 3. |
Spartacus |
Universal |
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis |
$11,100,000 |
| 4. |
Exodus |
United Artists |
Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint |
$8,332,000 |
| 5. |
The Alamo |
United Artists |
John Wayne and Richard Widmark |
$7,919,000 |
| 6. |
BUtterfield 8 |
MGM |
Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey |
$7,552,000 |
| 7. |
The World of Suzie Wong |
Paramount |
William Holden and Nancy Kwan |
$7,500,000 |
| 8. |
The Apartment |
United Artists |
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine |
$6,680,000 |
| 9. |
Ocean's 11 |
Warner Bros. |
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. |
$5,650,000 |
| 10. |
Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
MGM |
Doris Day and David Niven |
$5,369,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists
- Best Director: Billy Wilder - The Apartment
- Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
- Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8
- Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
- Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Spartacus
- Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
- Best Actress: Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): The Apartment
- Best Picture (tie): Song Without End
- Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
- Other
- Best Director: Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- La dolce vita, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Le passage du Rhin (The Crossing of the Rhine), directed by André Cayatte, Italy / France / W.Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- El lazarillo de tormes, directed by César Fernández Ardavín, Spain / Italy
Films released in 1960
U.S.A. unless stated
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A
B
- Bad Luck - (Poland)
- The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
- Beat Girl - (U.K.)
- The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Bells Are Ringing, starring Dean Martin and Judy Holliday
- The Big Risk (Classe tous risques), starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo and Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
- Black Sunday - (Italy)
- Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
- Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg - (France)
- The Brides of Dracula - (U.K.)
- BUtterfield 8, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
C
- Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan
- Carry On Constable - (U.K.)
- The Challenge (US: It Takes A Thief), starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
- Cimarron, starring Glenn Ford
- Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
- El Cochecito - (Spain)
- College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Comanche Station, starring Randolph Scott
- Come Back, Africa, documentary film - (South Africa)
- The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
- Cruel Story of Youth (青春残酷物語), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
D
E
- Elmer Gantry, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones
- The Entertainer, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
- Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan - (U.S./Italy)
- Everybody Go Home (Tutti a casa) - (Italy)
- Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo
- Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage) - (France)
F
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K
L
M
- Macario - (Mexico)
- Macumba Love - (U.S./Brazil)
- The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach
- Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
- Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
- Midnight Lace, starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
- The Millionairess, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
- The Mountain Road, starring James Stewart
- Mughal-e-Azam (The Greatest of the Mughals) - (India)
- Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan
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- Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy - (India)
- Le Passage du Rhin, starring Charles Aznavour - (France/Italy/West Germany)
- Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell - (U.K.)
- Pepe, starring Cantinflas
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies, starring Doris Day and David Niven
- Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills
- Portrait in Black, starring Lana Turner with Anthony Quinn and Sandra Dee
- The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
- Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's - (U.K.)
- Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) (aka Blazing Sun), directed by Rene Clement, starring Alain Delon - (France)
Q
R
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- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field and Rachel Roberts - (U.K.)
- The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
- Scent of Mystery
- School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
- Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
- Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
- Sex Kittens Go to College, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour - (France)
- Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
- Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
- Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
- Space Men - (Italy)
- Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis
- The Spider's Web, directed by Godfrey Grayson. Based on an Agatha Christie play (U.K.)
- The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama based on Ruth
- Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
- The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum - (U.S./U.K./Australia)
- Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy (as FDR) and Greer Garson
- Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire
T
- Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France)
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse), directed by Fritz Lang - (West Germany)
- The Three Worlds of Gulliver
- The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor
- Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch - (U.K.)
- The Truth (La Vérité), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
- Tunes of Glory, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness - (U.K.)
- Two Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
- Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren - (Italy)
U
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Short Film Series
Births
- January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
- January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
- January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
- February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980)
- April 4 - Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born actor
- March 31 - Michelle Nicastro, American actress (d. 2010)
- May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
- May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
- August 16 - Timothy Hutton, actor
- August 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
- August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
- September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
- September 10 - Colin Firth, actor
- November 5 - Tilda Swinton, British actress
- November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director.
- December 3 - Daryl Hannah, actress
- December 3 - Julianne Moore, actress
- December 10 - Kenneth Branagh, actor and film director
Deaths
Film debuts