Cinema 1967: You Must Remember This…Best Picture Nominees, Winners of Oscars, Critics, Festival Awards

Research in progress, January 12, 2025

Cinema 1967: You Must Remember This…Winners of Oscars, Critics, Festival Awards

The year 1967 is widely considered as ground-breaking years in American cinema, with “revolutionary” films highlighting narrative and aesthetic shifts, manifest in Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, The Dirty Dozen, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle Book and You Only Live Twice.

Highest-Grossing Movies

1 The Graduate, United Artists / Embassy $43,100,000
2 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Columbia $25,500,000
3 Bonnie and Clyde, Warner Bros. $22,000,000
4 The Dirty Dozen, MGM $20,100,000
5 Valley of the Dolls, 20th Century Fox $20,000,000
6 To Sir, with Love, Columbia $19,100,000
7 You Only Live Twice, UA / Eon $18,000,000 (007 Bond)
8 Thoroughly Modern Millie, Universal $14,700,000
9 The Jungle Book, Buena Vista $13,000,000
10 Camelot, Warner, $12,300,000

Events

April 28 — Prototype for the IMAX large-format-film system, exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

July 8 —

Vivien Leigh, known for starring in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, dies from tuberculosis in London.

July 15 — Seven Arts Productions acquire the assets and business of Warner Bros. creating Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

August 13 —

Premiere of Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman. It breaks many taboos, such as the visual depiction of violence. It will be considered a landmark film, with its groundbreaking visual styles. The success of Bonnie and Clyde signals the New Hollywood, a period of artistic and commercial renewal.

October 18 —

Disney’s production of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book premieres, as the last animated feature personally supervised by Walt Disney before his death the previous year.

The story’s moral message of friendship, love and trust will be embraced by critics and audiences worldwide. The Jungle Book is notable for its realistic character animation and voice casting. The soundtrack (scored by George Bruns), which includes the Oscar-nominated “The Bare Necessities”, ‘”I Wan’na Be Like You”, “Trust in Me” and “My Own Home,” contributes to the film’s enormous success. It will be Disney’s most successful animated until The Rescuers, ten years later.

December 21 —

The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross, premieres. It tells a story of an aimless young man, seduced and betrayed by an older woman, while falling in love with her daughter. The theme of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, misdirected, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by corrupt, decadent and discredited older generation (that finds its stability in the film’s keyword “plastics”) is well understood by audiences.

It captures the spirit of the times, after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the increasing turbulence in American society. Like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate breaks taboos in American cinema and represents a new era.

The MPAA adopts a new logo, which is used until 2019.

Awards

Academy Awards Year 40: April 10, 1968

Best Foreign Language Film Live for Life Closely Watched Trains

Palme d’Or (Cannes Festival): Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Festival): Belle de jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, France / Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Festival): Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium

1967 Film Releases

January–March
January 1967
5 January
A Countess from Hong Kong (U.K.)
18 January
The Born Losers
Come Spy with Me
The Venetian Affair
Warning Shot
19 January
Hotel
25 January
First to Fight
26 January
The Deadly Affair (U.K.)
27 January
Hot Rods to Hell
February 1967
1 February
The Ballad of Josie
3 February
The Corrupt Ones (West Germany)/(Italy)/ (France)
7 February
Tobruk
8 February
Monkeys, Go Home!
9 February
Accident (U.K.)
Hurry Sundown
10 February
The Night of the Generals (U.K.)/ (France)
12 February
Deadlier Than the Male (U.K.)
15 February
A Covenant with Death
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad
18 February
Good Morning and… Goodbye!
22 February
Marat/Sade (U.K.)
25 February
Enter Laughing
28 February
Privilege (U.K.)
March 1967
1 March
The Happening
8 March
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Mad Monster Party?
The Taming of the Shrew (Italy/U.S.)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (France)
9 March
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
12 March
The Busy Body
13 March
The House of 1,000 Dolls
14 March
Ulysses
15 March
Frankenstein Created Woman (U.K.)
In Like Flint
Gamera vs. Gyaos (Japan)
18 March
Riot on Sunset Strip
21 March
Hombre
Thoroughly Modern Millie
22 March
Easy Come, Easy Go
Thunder Alley
25 March
The X from Outer Space (Japan)
26 March
The Desperate Ones
31 March
The Champagne Murders
April–June
April 1967
1 April
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (U.S.S.R)
12 April
The Cool Ones
13 April
Casino Royale (U.K./U.S.)
14 April
It’s a Bikini World
18 April
Caprice
22 April
Gappa: The Triphibian Monster (Japan)
24 April
A Stranger in Town (Italy/U.S.)
28 April
Devil’s Angels
Doctor, You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
29 April
Eight on the Lam
May 1967
1 May
40 Guns to Apache Pass
They Came from Beyond Space (U.K.)
Welcome to Hard Times
3 May
Bikini Paradise
The Vulture (U.K.)
12 May
Good Times
15 May
The Jokers (U.K.)
17 May
Dont Look Back
The Million Eyes of Sumuru (U.K.)
22 May
The Honey Pot
24 May
Belle de Jour (France)
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Double Trouble
Three Bites of the Apple
The Way West
25 May
Barefoot in the Park
A Guide for the Married Man
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (U.K.)
26 May
Catalina Caper
27 May
Samurai Rebellion (Japan)
The War Wagon
June 1967
9 June
Don’t Make Waves
11 June
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-release)
13 June
You Only Live Twice (U.K./U.S.)
14 June
To Sir, with Love
15 June
Branded to Kill (Japan)
The Dirty Dozen
16 June
The Reluctant Astronaut
18 June
The Mummy’s Shroud
21 June
Divorce American Style
23 June
The Happiest Millionaire
27 June
The Shuttered Room (U.K.)
Woman Times Seven
28 June
Gunn
30 June
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
July–September
July 1967
6 July
The Sorcerers
12 July
The Big Mouth
Common Law Cabin
The Gnome-Mobile
13 July
Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon (U.K.)
19 July
The Naked Runner
Up the Down Staircase
21 July
War and Peace Part III (U.S.S.R)
22 July
King Kong Escapes (Japan)
23 July
Chuka
26 July
The Love-Ins
Luv
27 July
The Long Duel
August 1967
1 August
Rough Night in Jericho
2 August
In the Heat of the Night
The Perils of Pauline
3 August
Beach Red
12 August
Japan’s Longest Day (Japan)
13 August
Bonnie and Clyde
Yongary, Monster from the Deep (South Korea)
18 August
The Tiger Makes Out
22 August
The Flim-Flam Man
23 August
The Thief of Paris (France)
The Whisperers (U.K.)
30 August
Point Blank
31 August
The Trip
September 1967
1 September
The Fastest Guitar Alive
Tarzan and the Great River
8 September
Fort Utah
14 September
Our Mother’s House (U.K.)
17 September
Games
20 September
Two for the Road
22 September
Robbery
26 September
Who’s Minding the Mint?
28 September
The Bobo
October–December
October 1967
1 October
Fathom (U.K.)
3 October
Titicut Follies
9 October
I Am Curious (Sweden)
13 October
Reflections in a Golden Eye
16 October
Far from the Madding Crowd (U.K.)
Hamraaz (India)
18 October
Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
Clambake
The Jungle Book
19 October
Doctor Faustus
23 October
How I Won the War (U.K.)
25 October
Camelot
26 October
Wait Until Dark
31 October
The Comedians
November 1967
1 November
Cool Hand Luke
Hour of the Gun
A Time for Killing
4 November
War and Peace Part IV (U.S.S.R)
5 November
The Incident
9 November
Custer of the West
Quatermass and the Pit (U.K.)
10 November
Berserk!
Jack of Diamonds
Tony Rome
13 November
The Fearless Vampire Killers

November 15
Gentle Giant
Who’s That Knocking at My Door

November 22
The Producers
Rosie!
December 1967
1 December
Hells Angels on Wheels
5 December
Festival
Poor Cow (U.K.)
6 December
Kill a Dragon
10 December
Bedazzled (U.K.)
12 December
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
13 December
The Fox
14 December
Follow That Camel
In Cold Blood

December 15:

Carry On Doctor (U.K.)
Valley of the Dolls
16 December
Playtime (France/Italy)
Son of Godzilla (Japan)
17 December
Banning
18 December
I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname (U.K.)
19 December
Doctor Dolittle
20 December
Billion Dollar Brain (U.K.)/(U.S)
Fitzwilly
21 December
The Graduate
The President’s Analyst
22 December
The Ambusheers
26 December
Magical Mystery Tour (U.K.)
27 December
The Last Challenge
Smashing Time (U.K.)

December 29:
Weekend (France)

My Oscar Book:

Oscar 1967: Best Picture Nominees

Bonnie and Clyde, 10 nominations, 2 Oscars
Doctor Doolittle, 9, 2
The Graduate, 7, 1
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 10, 2
In the Heat of the Night 7, 5 (Winner)