Cinema 1968: You Must Remember This

My Oscar Book:

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1 Funny Girl Columbia $24,900,000
2 2001: A Space Odyssey MGM $21,500,000
3 The Odd Couple Paramount $20,000,000
4 Bullitt Warner Bros. $19,000,000[1]
5 Oliver! Columbia $16,800,000[1]
6 Planet of the Apes 20th Century Fox $15,000,000[1]
7 Rosemary’s Baby Paramount $15,000,000[1]
8 Romeo and Juliet Paramount $14,500,000[1]
9 Yours, Mine and Ours United Artists $11,500,000[1]
10 The Lion in Winter AVCO Embassy $10,006,000

Events
November 1 – MPAA’s film rating system is introduced.

Awards

41st Academy Awards, March 21, 1969

Oscar 1968: Best Actor–Oscar, Critics Awards, Festivals

Best Actor Peter O’Toole
The Lion in Winter Ron Moody
Oliver! Cliff Robertson
Charly Spencer Tracy
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Best Actress Joanne Woodward
Rachel, Rachel Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl Katharine Hepburn
The Lion in Winter
Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Lion in Winter
Best Supporting Actor Daniel Massey
Star Jack Albertson
The Subject Was Roses Ian Holm
The Bofors Gun
Best Supporting Actress Ruth Gordon
Rosemary’s Baby

Billie Whitelaw
Twisted Nerve
Charlie Bubbles
Best Screenplay, Adapted Stirling Silliphant
Charly James Goldman
The Lion in Winter Buck Henry and Calder Willingham
The Graduate
Best Screenplay, Original Mel Brooks
The Producers
Best Original Score Alex North
The Shoes of the Fisherman John Barry
The Lion in Winter
Johnny Green
Oliver! John Barry
The Lion in Winter
Best Original Song “The Windmills of Your Mind”
The Thomas Crown Affair N/A
Best Foreign Language Film War and Peace N/A
Palme d’Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden

Births

Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
Evan Parke, Jamaican-born American actor
January 5 – Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress and singer
January 6 – John Singleton, American director and writer (d. 2019)
January 9 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
January 12
Farrah Forke, American actress (d. 2022)
Rachael Harris, American actor and comedian
January 14 – LL Cool J, American rapper, actor
January 15
Rosanne Sorrentino, American former child actress
Chad Lowe, American actor
January 17 – Louis Lombardi, American actor
January 18 – David Ayer, American filmmaker
January 19 – Matt Hill, Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian
January 20 – Chris Miller, American voice actor, animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
January 22 – Frank Leboeuf, French actor
January 29 – Edward Burns, American actor and producer
January 31 – Matt King, English actor, DJ and comedian
February 1 – Pauly Shore, American actor
February 6 – The Lady of Rage, American rapper, singer and actress
February 8 – Gary Coleman, American actor and comedian (d. 2010)
February 12
Josh Brolin, American actor
Chynna Phillips, American singer and actress
February 13 – Kelly Hu, American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen
February 14
Alicia Borrachero, Spanish actress
Phil Lewis, American actor, comedian and director
February 18 – Molly Ringwald, American actress
February 21 – Patrick Gallagher, Canadian actor
February 24 – Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (d. 2005)
March 2 – Daniel Craig, British actor
March 4 – Patsy Kensit, English actress
March 6 – Moira Kelly, American actress
March 12
Aaron Eckhart, American actor
Jason Lively, American actor
March 15 – Sean Bridgers, American actor, screenwriter and producer
March 18 – Juan Carlos Vellido, Spanish actor
March 20
Jaime Cardriche, American actor (d. 2000)
Lawrence Makoare, New Zealand actor of Māori descent
March 21 – Greg Ellis, English actor
March 23 – Abigail Cruttenden, English actress
March 26 – Max Perlich, American actor
March 29
Sabrina Impacciatore, Italian actress
Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
March 30
Donna D’Errico, American actress
Celine Dion, Canadian singer
Roland Kickinger, Austrian actor and bodybuilder
April 3 – Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)
April 8
Patricia Arquette, American actress
Shawn Fonteno, American actor and rapper
April 10 – Orlando Jones, American stand-up comedian and actor
April 11 – Dimitri Diatchenko, American actor (d. 2020)
April 12 – Alicia Coppola, American actress
April 13 – Andrew Pleavin, English actor
April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
April 16 – John Gatins, American screenwriter, director and actor
April 17 – Adam McKay, American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian
April 18
Mary Birdsong, American actress, comedian, writer and singer
David Hewlett, British-born Canadian actor, writer and director
April 19 – Ashley Judd, American actress
April 22 – Piera Coppola, American voice actress
April 24
Aidan Gillen, Irish actor
Stacy Haiduk, American actress
April 29 – Jürgen Vogel, German actor and producer
May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
May 6 – Paul Bazely, English actor
May 7 – Traci Lords, American actress and singer
May 10 – Adrian Scarborough, English actor
May 11 – Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
May 12 – Tony Hawk, American actor and professional skateboarder
May 16 – Stephen Mangan, English actor, comedian and presenter
May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor
May 25 – Kevin Heffernan, American actor, writer, producer and director
May 27 – Spencer Kayden, American actress, comedian and writer
May 28 – Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
June 2
Navid Negahban, Iranian-American actor
Nickolai Stoilov, Bulgarian-American actor and writer
June 4
Joey Mazzarino, American actor, puppeteer, writer and director
Scott Wolf, American actor
June 9 – Eddie Marsan, English actor
June 10 – Bill Burr, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
June 12 – Sarah Trigger, retired British actress
June 13 – Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor
June 14 – Faizon Love, Cuban-born American actor and comedian
June 16 – James Patrick Stuart, American actor
June 17 – Mary Stein, American actress
June 19 – Kim Walker, American actress (d. 2001)
June 20 – Robert Rodriguez, American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor
June 26 – Travis Fine, American actor, writer, director and producer
June 29 – Brian d’Arcy James, American actor and musician
July 1 – Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor, writer and filmmaker
July 5 – Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
July 7
Danny Jacobs, American actor and comedian
Allen Payne, American actor
July 8 – Billy Crudup, American actor
July 11 – Conrad Vernon, American voice actor, director, writer and storyboard artist
July 15
Eddie Griffin, American comedian and actor
Stan Kirsch, American actor (d. 2020)
July 17 – Beth Littleford, American actress and comedian
July 18
Grant Bowler, New-Zealand-Australian actor
Alex Désert, American actor and musician
July 19 – William Houston, English actor
July 21 – Samuli Edelmann, Finnish actor and singer
July 23 – Shawn Levy, Canadian director, producer and actor
July 24
Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
Troy Kotsur, American actor
July 26 – Olivia Williams, British actress
July 27
Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
Julian McMahon, Australian-American actor
July 30 – Terry Crews, American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player
August 4 – Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor and producer
August 6 – Lisa Boyle, American actress
August 7 – Sophie Lee, Australian actress
August 9
Gillian Anderson, American-British actress
Eric Bana, Australian actor
McG, American director and producer
August 10
Cate Shortland, Australian screenwriter, director and writer
Rickey Smiley, American stand-up comedian, television host and actor
August 11
Anna Gunn, American actress
Sophie Okonedo, British actress
August 14
Catherine Bell, British actress and model
Terry Notary, American actor and stunt co-ordinator/double
August 15 – Debra Messing, American actress
August 17
Andrew Koenig, American character actor, director, editor and writer (d. 2010)
Helen McCrory, English actress (d. 2021)
August 21 – Julian Lewis Jones, Welsh actor
August 25 – David Alan Basche, American actor
August 27 – Lisa Marie Newmyer, American actress
August 28 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
September 2
Kristen Cloke, American actress
Jonathan Goldstein, American filmmaker
September 4 – John DiMaggio, American actor and voice actor
September 5 – Glenn Fleshler, American actor
September 6 – Mark Ivanir, Israeli actor
September 7 – Camille Japy, Belgian-French actor
September 8
Brian Huskey, American character actor, comedian and writer
Simon J. Smith, British animator, director, visual effects artist and voice actor
September 9
Nathan Lee Graham, American actor and singer
Julia Sawalha, English actress
September 10 – Guy Ritchie, English director, screenwriter
September 12 – Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor and writer
September 15 – Danny Nucci, American actor
September 16
Marc Anthony, American singer-songwriter and actor
Walt Becker, American filmmaker
September 19 – Shawn Doyle, Canadian actor
September 20 – Chad Stahelski, American stuntman and director
September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, American voice actress
September 23 – Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
September 25 – Will Smith, American actor
September 26 – Jim Caviezel, American actor
September 28 – Naomi Watts, British actress
September 29
Massi Furlan, Italian-American actor and producer
Luke Goss, English actor
October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
October 2
Lucy Cohu, English actress
Curtiss Cook, American character actor
Joey Slotnick, American actor
October 8 – Emily Procter, American actress
October 9
Pete Docter, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, voice actor and chief creative officer of Pixar
James Dreyfus, English actor
October 11
Tiffany Grant, American voice actress
Jane Krakowski, American actress and singer
October 12
Hugh Jackman, Australian actor
Adam Rich, American actor (d. 2023)
October 13
Tisha Campbell, American actress
Alex Ferns, Scottish actor and television personality
October 17 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and actor
October 19 – Yayan Ruhian, Indonesian martial artist and actor
October 22 – Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian
October 23 – Maria Darling, British voice actress
October 24 – Mark Walton, American story artist and voice actor
October 25
Melinda McGraw, American actress
Christopher McQuarrie, American screenwriter, director and producer
October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
October 28 – Stephen Hunter, New Zealand actor
October 29 – Grayson McCouch, American actor
November 5
Sam Rockwell, American actor
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish-Italian actress
November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, American actress
November 8
Bruno Gunn, American actor
Parker Posey, American actress
November 10
Tracy Morgan, American actor, voice actor and comedian
Tom Papa, American actor and comedian
November 16 – James Parks, American actor
November 18
Romany Malco, American actor and rapper
Owen Wilson, American actor
November 19
Mark Bonnar, Scottish actor
Derek Drymon, American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, comedian and producer
November 21
Todd Farmer, American screenwriter and actor
Sean Schemmel, American voice actor
November 23 – Brennan Brown, American actor
November 25 – Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and singer
November 26 – Chris Coppola, American actor and comedian
November 27 – Michael Vartan, French-American actor
December 2
Lucy Liu, American actress
Suzy Nakamura, American actress
December 3 – Brendan Fraser, American-Canadian actor
December 5 – Margaret Cho, American stand-up comedian, actress and musician
December 6
Oliver Masucci, German actor
Donnell Rawlings, American comedian, actor and radio host
December 7 – Greg Ayres, American voice actor
December 13 – Scott Stuber, American film producer
December 16 – Peter Dante, American character actor, comedian and singer
December 18
Craig Grant, American poet and actor (d. 2021)
Daniel Oreskes, American actor
Casper Van Dien, American actor
Nina Wadia, British actress and comedian
December 19
Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, Argentine actor
Ken Marino, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Chris Williams, Canadian-American animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor
December 20 – Joe Cornish, English comedian and filmmaker
December 22 – Dina Meyer, American actress
December 23 – Angela Jones, American actress
December 25 – Klea Scott, Panamanian-born Canadian actress
December 26 – Byron Howard, American animator, director, producer and screenwriter

Deaths

February 7 – Nick Adams, 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause

February 13 – Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers

February 20 – Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy

March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud

March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure

March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, US actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island

April 16 – Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children’s Hour
April 24 – Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
May 5 – Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly

May 9
Albert Lewin, 73, American director, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Marion Lorne, 84, American actress, The Graduate, Strangers on a Train
May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, Disraeli, Kind Lady
May 23 – James Burke, 81, American actor, Little Orphan Annie, The Timber Trail
May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
May 26 – Joseph MacDonald, 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions
May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Happy Couple, Zigano
May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg, 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten
June 4 – Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm
June 7 – Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, Winchester ’73, Scarlet Street
June 8 – Patricia Jessel, 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
June 24 – Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man
June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz, 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård
July 1 – Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women
July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome, The Magnificent Cuckold
July 27 – Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, Waltz of Love, Let’s Live Tonight
July 30 – Alexander Hall, 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker
August 23 – Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
August 25 – John George, 70, Ottoman-born American actor, Charley’s Aunt, Don Juan
August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Black Orchids, Little Men
August 30 – William Talman, 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout
August 31 – Dennis O’Keefe, 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal
September 3 – Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque
September 16 – Nedrick Young, 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones
September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
September 24 – Virginia Valli, 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden, Evening Clothes
October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man
October 29 – Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It
October 30 – Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari
November 8 – Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, Rear Window, Harriet Craig
November 9 – Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet
November 13 – Berthold Bartosch, 74, Bohemian filmmaker, The Idea
November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
November 20 – Helen Gardner, 84 American actress, Cleopatra
November 25 – Upton Sinclair, 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
December 4 – Archie Mayo, 77, American director, The Petrified Forest, A Night in Casablanca
December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling
December 14 – Jack Rice, 75, American actor, Lady, Let’s Dance, Beware of Blondie
December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue
December 20 – John Steinbeck, 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata!, The Red Pony
December 28 – Harry Woods, 79, American actress, Days of Jesse James, The Ghost Rider

Film debuts
Rutanya Alda – Greetings
John Aprea – Bullitt
Eileen Atkins – Inadmissible Evidence
Tom Atkins – The Detective
Florinda Bolkan – Candy
Philip Bosco – A Lovely Way to Die
Sônia Braga – The Red Light Bandit
Wilford Brimley – Bandolero!
Joanna Cassidy – Bullitt
John Cleese – Interlude
Timothy Dalton – The Lion in Winter
Don Fellows – The Detective
Frederic Forrest – The Filthy Five
Allen Garfield – Greetings
Marla Gibbs – Yours, Mine and Ours
Gerrit Graham – Greetings
Jon Gries – Will Penny
John Hallam – The Charge of the Light Brigade
Goldie Hawn – The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Don Henderson – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Barbara Hershey – With Six You Get Eggroll
Howard Hesseman – Petulia
Bo Hopkins – Dayton’s Devils
Tony Jay – Majuba: Heuwel van Duiwe
Lainie Kazan – Dayton’s Devils
Stacy Keach – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Margot Kidder – The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
Udo Kier – Shameless
Sally Kirkland – Blue
Terry Kiser – Rachel, Rachel
Ittoku Kishibe – Za taigâsu: Sekai wa bokura o matteiru
Peter Maloney – Greetings
Chuck McCann – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Malcolm McDowell – if…
Chuck Norris – The Wrecking Crew
Jennifer O’Neill – For Love of Ivy
Austin Pendleton – Petulia
Barry Primus – The Brotherhood
David Proval – The Boston Strangler
Paul Reubens – The Brotherhood
Joely Richardson – The Charge of the Light Brigade
Hanna Schygulla – Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp
Talia Shire – The Wild Racers
Leigh Taylor-Young – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas