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The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- March 5 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues http://www.history.army.mil/faq/elvis.htm
- 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.
Top grossing films (US)
Rank | Title | Studio | Actors | Gross |
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1. | Swiss Family Robinson | Walt Disney Productions | John Mills and Dorothy McGuire | $40,400,000 |
2. | Psycho | Universal and Paramount | Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Janet Leigh | *$32,000,000 |
3. | Spartacus | Universal | Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis | $30,000,000 |
4. | Exodus | United Artists | Paul Newman, Ralph Richardson, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth | $21,750,000 |
5. | The Apartment | United Artists | Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine | $18,600,000 |
6. | Tall Story | Warner Bros. | Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda | $12,000,000 |
7. | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | MGM | Doris Day and David Niven | $11,100,000 |
8. | The Alamo | United Artists | Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons | $10,400,000 |
9. | Pepe | Columbio | Mario Moreno and Dan Dailey | $9,600,000 |
10. | The Alamo | United Artists | John Wayne and Richard Widmark | $7,900,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
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
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
Notable films released in 1960
U.S.A. unless stated
#
- The 3rd Voice, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London
- 5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles and Barbara Bel Geddes
- 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle
A
- Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret - (Italy)
- Alakazam the Great (Saiyu-ki), an anime film - (Japan)
- The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone
- Ali Baba Bujang Lapok - (Malaysia/Singapore)
- The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
- Anuradha - (India)
- The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Edie Adams
- Autumn Has Already Started (Aki tachinu), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
- L'avventura (The Adventure), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - (Italy)
B
- Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście) - (Poland)
- The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
- Beat Girl, starring David Farrar and Gillian Hills - (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 (La maschera del demonio) - (Italy)
- Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
- The Bramble Bush, starring Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson
- Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg - (France)
- The Brides of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
- The Broken Pots (Kırık Çanaklar) - (Turkey)
- BUtterfield 8, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
C
- Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan
- Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker - (U.K.)
- Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood
- The Challenge (US: It Takes A Thief), starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
- Cidade Ameaçada (aka Jerry the Gangster) - (Brazil)
- Cimarron, starring Glenn Ford
- Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti
- Circus of Horrors, starring Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence - (U.K.)
- Cleopatra's Daughter, starring Debra Paget
- El Cochecito (The Little Coach), directed by Marco Ferreri - (Spain)
- College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Comanche Station, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott
- Come Back, Africa, documentary film - (South Africa)
- Crack in the Mirror, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Greco
- The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
- Cruel Story of Youth (Seishun Zankoku Monogatari), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
D
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, starring Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight, Robert Preston
- Dentist in the Chair, starring Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor - (U.K.)
- Desire in the Dust, starring Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer, Raymond Burr
- Devi (aka The Goddess), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
- The Devil's Eye (Djävulens öga), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson - (Sweden)
- La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg - (Italy)
E
- Elmer Gantry, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones
- The Enchanting Shadow (Ching nu yu hun) - (Hong Kong)
- 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), directed by Luigi Comencini - (Italy)
- Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
- Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage), starring Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli - (France)
F
- The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
- A False Student (Nise daigakusei) - (Japan)
- Faust - (West Germany)
- Five Cartridges (Fünf Patronenhülsen) - (East Germany)
- Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden
- Fortunat (Fortunate), starring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan - (France/Italy)
- From the Terrace, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin, George Grizzard, Myrna Loy
G
- G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse
- The Gallant Hours, a biopic of Admiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney
- Girl of the Night, starring Anne Francis and John Kerr
- Go to Hell, Hoodlums! (Kutabare gurentai) - (Japan)
- Goliath II, a Disney animated short
- The Grass Is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
- Guns of the Timberland, starring Alan Ladd
H
- Hell Bent for Leather, starring Audie Murphy and Felicia Farr
- Hell is a City, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
- Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
- Hell to Eternity, starring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen
- Her Brother (Otôto), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
- High Time, starring Bing Crosby
- Hobbi al-Wahid (My Only Love), starring Omar Sharif - (Egypt)
- The Hole (Le Trou) (aka The Night Watch), directed by Jacques Becker - (France)
- Home from the Hill, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard
- House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price
- The Housemaid (Hanyeo) - (South Korea)
- The Human Vapor (Gasu Ningen dai Ichigo), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
I
- Ice Palace, starring Richard Burton, Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones
- Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Dick York
- It Started in Naples, starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren
J
- Jigoku (Hell) - (Japan)
- Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (The Land Where the Ganges Flows), starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
K
- Kanoon (The Law), starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
- Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyżacy), directed by Aleksander Ford - (Poland)
L
- The Lady with the Dog (Dama s sobachkoy) - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Last Voyage, starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone
- The Last Witness (Der Letzte Zeuge) - (West Germany)
- Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman
- Late Autumn (Akibiyori), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
- The League of Gentlemen, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)
- Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand
- The Little Soldier (Le petit soldat), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina - (France)
- The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman
- Linda, starring Carol White - (U.K.)
- The Lost World, starring Michael Rennie and Jill St. John
- Love in Simla, starring Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana - (India)
M
- Macario, directed by Roberto Gavaldón - (Mexico)
- Macumba Love - (U.S.A./Brazil)
- The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz
- Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
- Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas (aka That Joyous Eve), directed by Fons Rademakers - (Netherlands)
- Man in the Moon, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
- Manzil (Destination), starring Dev Anand - (India)
- 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
- Mrs. Warren's Profession (Frau Warrens Gewerbe), starring Lilli Palmer (West Germany)
- Mughal-e-Azam (The Greatest of the Mughals), starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala - (India)
- Murder, Inc., starring Peter Falk, Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan
N
- The Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) - (Japan)
- Never on Sunday, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri - (Greece/U.S.A.)
- Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, starring Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford - (U.K.)
- Night and Fog in Japan (Nihon no yoru to kiri), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
- The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug) - (Yugoslavia)
- North to Alaska, starring John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Fabian
O
- Obaltan (aka The Stray Bullet) - (South Korea)
- Ocean's Eleven, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson
- Our Last Spring (aka Eroica), directed by Michael Cacoyannis - (Greece)
P
- Parakh, directed by Bimal Roy - (India)
- The Party Is Over (Fin de fiesta) - (Argentina)
- 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, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee
- The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, starring Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren
- Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John Gavin
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, starring Cecil Parker and Joyce Grenfell - (U.K.)
- Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) (aka Blazing Sun), directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon - (France)
Q
- The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) - (U.S.S.R.)
R
- The Rat Race, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Don Rickles
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Ray Danton and Karen Steele
- Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alain Delon - (Italy/France)
- Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julie a tma) - (Czechoslovakia)
- The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
S
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Rachel Roberts - (U.K.)
- The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Anthony Quinn
- Scent of Mystery, starring Denholm Elliott and Elizabeth Taylor
- School for Scoundrels, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas - (U.K.)
- September Storm, starring Joanne Dru
- Sergeant Rutledge, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode
- Seven Days... Seven Nights (Moderato cantabile), starring Jeanne Moreau - (France)
- Seven Thieves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins
- Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour - (France)
- Sink the Bismarck!, starring Kenneth More - (U.K.)
- The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (El Esqueleto de la señora Morales), starring Arturo de Córdova - (Mexico)
- Song Without End, starring Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Patricia Morison
- Sons and Lovers, directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
- 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 starring Stuart Whitman and Peggy Wood
- Strangers When We Meet, starring Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Ernie Kovacs
- Struggle for Eagle Peak (Venner) - (Norway)
- The Sundowners, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum - (U.S.A./U.K./Australia)
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, aka Season of Passion, starring Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
- Sunrise at Campobello, starring Ralph Bellamy (as Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Greer Garson
- Swiss Family Robinson, starring John Mills and Dorothy McGuire
T
- Tall Story, starring Jane Fonda and Anthony Perkins
- Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine
- A Terrible Beauty, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Anne Heywood
- Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France)
- There Was a Crooked Man, starring Norman Wisdom - (U.K.)
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse), directed by Fritz Lang - (West Germany)
- The Three Worlds of Gulliver, starring Kerwin Mathews
- The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux
- Too Hot to Handle, starring Jayne Mansfield - (U.K.)
- 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.)
- Twelve Hours to Kill, starring Nico Mirandos and Barbara Eden
- Two Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
- Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren - (Italy)
U
- The Unforgiven, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn
- Universe - (Canada)
V
- Vice Raid, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley - (U.K.)
- The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
- Visit to a Small Planet, starring Jerry Lewis
W
- Watch Your Stern, starring Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips - (U.K.)
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
- Where the Boys Are, starring George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
- The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl) - (West Germany/Austria)
- Who Was That Lady?, starring Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
- Wild River, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Montgomery Clift
- The World of Suzie Wong, starring Nancy Kwan and William Holden - (U.K./U.S.)
Y
- The Yellow Gloves (Ta kitrina gantia) - (Greece)
- The Young One (La Joven), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico/U.S.A.)
Z
- Zazie dans le metro, directed by Louis Malle - (France)
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)
Births
- January 12 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
- January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
- February 7 - James Spader, actor
- February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (died 1980)
- April 4 - Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born actor
- March 31 - Michelle Nicastro, actress and singer (died 2010)
- May 24 - Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
- May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor and comedian
- July 14- Jane Lynch, Actress
- August 7 - David Duchovny, actor
- August 16 - Timothy Hutton, actor
- August 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
- August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
- September 9 - Hugh Grant, English actor
- September 10 - Colin Firth, English actor
- October 18 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
- November 5 - Tilda Swinton, English actress
- November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director
- December 3 - Daryl Hannah, actress
- Julianne Moore, actress
- December 10 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and film director
Deaths
- January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish film actor and director
- January 20 - Matt Moore, Irish-born American actor
- February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singer
- November 3 - Paul Willis, American actor
- November 5 - Mack Sennett, American producer and director
- November 11 - Yuri Gadyukin, Russian-born director
- November 16 - Clark Gable, American actor
- November 19 - Phyllis Haver, American actress