1961 in film

Events

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

Top grossing films

North America

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

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

<u>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

<u>Other

Best Director: Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg

PALM 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

Films released in 1961

• The Absent-Minded Professor
• The Amphibian Man
• Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Come September
• El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
• The Errand Boy
• Fanny
• Flower Drum Song -(film mentioned in article)
• The Fruit Is Ripe (Les Filles sèment le vent)
• Goodbye Again
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• King of Kings
• La Notte Golden Bear winner
• The Ladies Man
• 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
• The Parent Trap
• The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price
• Pocketful of Miracles
• Il Posto
• Return to Peyton Place -(film mentioned in article)
• 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

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
• October 31 - Peter Jackson, director
• November 19 - Meg Ryan, US actress

Deaths

• February 11 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director
• February 17 - Nita Naldi, American actress
• May 4 - Anita Stewart, American actress
• August 4 - Maurice Tourneur, French film director
• October 11 - Chico Marx, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers
• October 18 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress
• October 22 - Joseph Schenck, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive
• November 15 - Elsie Ferguson, American stage and film actress

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