1960 in film
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[edit] Events
- April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues
- August 10 - Filming of West Side Story begins.
- November 4 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film either performed in)
- November 13 - Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt wed.
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- Ben-Hur
- Can-Can
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Operation Petticoat
- Suddenly, Last Summer (film mentioned in adaptations)
- The Apartment
- Solomon and Sheba
- On the Beach
[edit] 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
- 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
PALM 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 Ardavin, Spain / Italy
[edit] Films released in 1960
- 13 Ghosts (with ghosts that only appeared when viewed through red glasses)
- À bout de souffle
- The Alamo, starring John Wayne
- Amazing Transparent Man, The
- The Apartment
- L'avventura
- Beat Girl
- The Bellboy
- BUtterfield 8
- Can-Can
- Cimarron, starring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell
- Cinderfella
- Devi
- La Dolce Vita, Palme d'Or winner
- Elmer Gantry
- Exodus
- Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley
- G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley
- Herod the Great (originally: Erode il grande)
- Inherit the Wind
- Jigoku
- Last Woman on Earth
- Macumba Love
- The Magnificent Seven
- La maschera del demonio, directed by Mario Bava
- The Mountain Road
- Never on Sunday
- Noi duri, starring Fred Buscaglione and Totò
- North to Alaska
- Le Passage du Rhin, Golden Lion winner
- Peeping Tom
- Pollyanna -(Walt Disney), starring Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman
- Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
- The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
- Scent of Mystery, the one and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision
- Song Without End
- Sons and Lovers
- Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Sunrise at Campobello
- Swiss Family Robinson -(Walt Disney)
- Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau
- Two Women
- The Virgin Spring, by Ingmar Bergman
- The White Horse Inn
- The World of Suzie Wong -(film only mentioned in article)
- The Young One
- The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
- Visit to a Small Planet
- Where the Boys Are
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Dawn Mazzella, American actress
- January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
- January 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor
- January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
- January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
- February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress
- May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
- May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
- August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
- September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
- October 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
- November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director.
- December 3 - Daryl Hannah,actress
- December 3 - Julianne Moore,actress
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish film actor and director
- January 20 - Matt Moore, actor
- February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singer
- November 5 - Mack Sennett, pioneer producer/director
- November 16 - Clark Gable, actor
