Movies - 1968 in film

Events

• October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter
  , starring Katharine Hepburn
  , debuts.
• November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Oliver!
  - Romulus, Columbia
• Best Director: Carol Reed, Oliver!
• Best Actor
  : Cliff Robertson
  - Charly
• Best Actress
  : Katharine Hepburn
  - The Lion in Winter
  and Barbra Streisand
  - Funny Girl

Births

• January 2 - Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
• January 6 - John Singleton, director and writer
• January 14 - LL Cool J
  , rapper, actor
• February 1 - Pauly Shore
  , actor
• February 18 - Molly Ringwald
  , actress
• April 14 - Anthony Michael Hall
  , actor
• April 24 - Stacy Haiduk
  , actress
• April 19 - Ashley Judd
  , actress
• September 10 - Guy Ritchie, director, writer, married to Madonna
• September 30 - Monica Bellucci
  , actress
• December 2 - Lucy Liu
  , actress
• December 3 - Brendan Fraser
  , actor

Deaths

• July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer French/American filmmaker (d. 1968)
• August 26 - Kay Francis
  , actress
• October 30 - Ramon Novarro, actor
• November 25 - Upton Sinclair, writer and producer
• December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead
  , actress
• December 20 - John Steinbeck, writer

Other movies released

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  , directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Artists Under the Big Top Golden Lion winner
• Bandolero!
• Barbarella
• Bullitt
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  - starring Dick Van Dyke
• Destroy All Monsters
• Disoriented, Golden Lion winner
• Faces
• Finian's Rainbow
• Funny Girl
  , starring Barbra Streisand
  and Omar Sharif
• Gamera and Mothra: Earth Defense War
• Ice Station Zebra
• Live a Little, Love a Little
• Monterey Pop
• Ole Dole Doff Golden Bear winner
• Oliver!
  , starring Ron Moody
  , Oliver Reed
  , and Harry Secombe
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Rachel, Rachel
• Shame
• Speedway
• Star!
• Stay Away, Joe
• The Devil's Brigade
  - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson
  , Vince Edwards
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• The Lion in Winter
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band
• The Producers
  , written and directed by Mel Brooks
  , starring Zero Mostel
  , Gene Wilder
  and Kenneth Mars
• The Subject Was Roses
• War and Peace
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (short subject)
• ''The Shoes of the Fisherman
  , starring Laurence Olivier
  and Anthony Quinn
  .

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