1961 in film

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The year 1961 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1961 5 Short Film Series 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) released

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
2. The Guns of Navarone
3. Exodus
4. The Parent Trap
5. The Absent-Minded Professor
6. The Alamo
7. Swiss Family Robinson
8. Come September
9. The World of Suzie Wong
10. Gone with the Wind (reissued to commemorate the American Civil War centennial)
11. La dolce vita

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists

Achievement in Directing: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story

Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg

Best Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women

Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris - West Side Story

Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno - West Side Story

Best Foreign Language Film: Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Guns of Navarone

Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgement at Nuremberg

Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): A Majority of One

Best Picture (tie): West Side Story

Best Actor: Glenn Ford - Pocketful of Miracles

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One

Other

Best Director: Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence), directed by Henri Colpi, France

Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel, Spain

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, France

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

La Notte (The Night), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

[edit] Films released in 1961

• The Absent-Minded Professor
• Atlantis, the Lost Continent
• Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Bridge to the Sun
• The Children's Hour, nominated for five Academy Awards
• The Comancheros
• Come September
• The Devil at 4 O'Clock, starring Frank Sinatra and Spencer Tracy, and Gregoire Aslan
• El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
• The Errand Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
• Fanny
• Flower Drum Song
• The Fruit Is Ripe (Les Filles sèment le vent)
• Goodbye Again
• The Guns of Navarone
• Hoodlum Priest
• The Hustler
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• King of Kings
• La Notte Golden Bear winner
• The Ladies Man, starring Jerry Lewis
• The Last Time I Saw Archie
• Last Year at Marienbad, Golden Lion winner
• The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) - Palme d'Or winner
• Lover Come Back
• A Majority of One
• The Mark
• The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable
• Mothra
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians
• One, Two, Three', starring James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, and Arlene Francis
• The Parent Trap
• The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price
• Pocketful of Miracles
• Il Posto
• Question 7
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Return to Peyton Place -(film mentioned in article)
• Sennin Buraku
• Scarlet Sails (Алые Паруса)
• Splendor in the Grass
• Summer and Smoke
• Teen Kanya
• Through a Glass Darkly - (Såsom i en spegel)
• Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
• Victim
• Viridiana - Palme d'Or winner
• West Side Story
• Yojimbo

[edit] Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)
• Goofy (1961)

[edit] Births

• January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
• January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
• February 11 - Carey Lowell, actress
• April 6 - Gene Eugene, actor, lead singer of Adam Again
• July 15 - Forest Whitaker, actor
• July 18 - Elizabeth McGovern, actress
• October 31 - Peter Jackson, director
• November 19 - Meg Ryan, US actress

[edit] Deaths

• February 2 - Anna May Wong, 56, American actress
• February 17 - Nita Naldi, 63, American actress
• March 6 - George Formby, 56, British actor, entertainer
• March 12 - Belinda Lee, 25, British actress
• May 4 - Anita Stewart, 66, American actress
• May 13 - Gary Cooper, 60, American actor
• May 22 - Joan Davis, 53, American actress
• June 17 - Jeff Chandler, 42, American actor
• August 4 - Maurice Tourneur, 88, French film director
• August 27 - Gail Russell, 36, American actress
• August 30 - Charles Coburn, 84, American actor
• September 10 - Leo Carrillo, 81, American actor
• September 22 - Marion Davies, 64, American actress
• October 11 - Chico Marx, 74, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers
• October 18 - Tsuru Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American actress
• October 22 - Joseph Schenck, 82, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive
• November 15 - Elsie Ferguson, 78, American stage and film actress
• November 24 - Ruth Chatterton, 67, American actress