Film year 1968

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Film year 1968
On May 19, 1968, the Cannes Film Festival was canceled due to the May riots in Paris .

Events

February 16-18 - A group of young filmmakers organizes the “1. Hamburger Filmschau ". A weekend that went down in the history of New German Cinema as a film happening .
April 2 - World premiere in 2001: A Space Odyssey . Through groundbreaking recording and trick technology, a match cut that was later praised as exemplary , the establishment of Richard Strauss ' Also sprach Zarathustra as an icon of film music and philosophical questions, Stanley Kubrick as producer, director and co-screenwriter has succeeded in creating a work that goes far beyond that Science fiction genre is also considered a milestone in film history.
December 21st - World premiere of Spiel mir das Lied von Tod . Despite a weak start, Sergio Leone's “baroque horse opera” (Lexicon of International Film) is today considered the high point of the Spaghetti Western . In film historical considerations, the dramaturgy , editing , equipment and the interplay of music and images have been highlighted as exemplary.
United Artists is taking 11 cartoons out of their distribution program due to racist content.
The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1968:
- Category - Male Film Star: Gold Pierre Brice , Silver George Nader , Bronze Robert Hoffmann
- Category - female film star: gold Marie Versini , silver Helga Anders , bronze Liselotte powder
The most successful West German film productions and co-productions in 1968:
- Down to business, honey (approx. 6.5 million viewers)
- Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love - sexuality in marriage (approx. 6 million viewers)
- To the devil with the penne ( Die Lümmel from the first bank 2nd part) (approx. 6 million viewers)
- Pippi Longstocking (approx. 4,456,000 spectators)
- To hell with the timpani (Die Lümmel from the first bank 1st part) (approx. 4 million viewers)
- Always trouble with the timpani (approx. 4 million viewers)
- Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love 2nd part - sexual partnership (approx. 3.5 million viewers)
- At seven in the morning the world is still fine (approx. 3 million viewers)
- The doctor of St. Pauli (approx. 3 million viewers)
- Come on, my dearest bird (approx. 3 million viewers)
- Engelchen or The Virgin of Bamberg
- The landlady also has a count
- Commissioner X - Three blue panthers
- The nieces of the Colonel
- Technique of physical love

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of November 24, 2018):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	The jungle Book	27,394,000
2.	Down to business, honey	6,500,000
3.	Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love	6,000,000
4th	To hell with the penne	6,000,000
5.	The nieces of the Colonel	5,000,000
6th	To hell with the timpani	4,000,000
7th	Always trouble with the timpani	4,000,000
8th.	Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love II - sexual partnership	3,500,000
9.	The landlady of the Lahn	3,000,000
10.	At seven in the morning the world is still fine	3,000,000

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on February 12th at Coconut Grove.

Best Drama: In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison
Best Musical / Comedy: The Graduate by Mike Nichols
Best Actor (Drama): Rod Steiger in In The Heat Of The Night
Best Actress (Drama): Edith Evans in Whispering Walls
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Richard Harris in Camelot
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Anne Bancroft in The Graduation
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Attenborough in Doctor Dolittle
Best Supporting Actress: Carol Channing in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Best Director: Mike Nichols for The Graduation Exam
Best music: Frederick Loewe for Camelot
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Kirk Douglas

The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Academy Awards will be held on April 10th . It was originally scheduled for April 8, but due to the funeral after the assassination of Martin Luther King , it was postponed for two days. The moderator is Bob Hope .

Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison
Best Actor: Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who Is To Eat
Best Director: Mike Nichols for The Graduation Exam
Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy in The Unyielding
Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons in Bonnie and Clyde
Best foreign language film: Ostre sledované vlaky by Jiří Menzel
Honorary Oscar: Arthur Freed
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award : Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award : Gregory Peck

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1968

The 21st Cannes International Film Festival in 1968 was to take place from May 10th to May 24th, 1968. On May 18, the jury members Louis Malle and Roman Polański, together with Claude Berri , Jean-Gabriel Albicocco , Claude Lelouch and Jean-Luc Godard , declared their solidarity with the students of the Paris May riots and spoke out in favor of canceling the festival. On May 19, 1968, the festival was actually canceled and no prizes were awarded for the films entered into the competition.

Berlin International Film Festival 1968

The festival starts on June 21st and ends on July 2nd. The jury awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : You're out of Jan Troell
Best Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant in L'Homme qui ment
Best actress: Stéphane Audran in Les Biches
Best director: Carlos Saura for Peppermint Frappé

Venice Film Festival

The festival starts on August 25th and ends on September 7th. The jury awards the following prizes:

Golden Lion : The artists in the big top: at a loss by Alexander Kluge
Best Actor: John Marley in Faces
Best actress: Laura Betti in Teorema - Geometry of Love

German film award

Best film: tattoo
Best director: Johannes Schaaf for tattoos
Best leading actress: Ilona Grübel for Pairings and Thekla Carola Wied for Trace of a Girl
Best leading actor: Werner Enke for Zur Ding, Schätze and Alexander May for tattoos

British Film Academy Award

Best film: A man for every season by Fred Zinnemann
British Best Actor: Paul Scofield, for A Man All Seasons
Best Foreign Actor: Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night
Best British Actress: Edith Evans for Whispering Walls
Best Foreign Actress: Anouk Aimée for A Man and a Woman

Étoile de Cristal

Best film: Playtime by Jacques Tati
Best Actor: Claude Rich in I Love You, I Love You
Best actress: Cathy Rosier in The Ice Cold Angel
Best Foreign Film: Shakespeare-Wallah by James Ivory
Best Foreign Actor: Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night
Best Foreign Actress: Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: The Lion in Winter by Anthony Harvey
Best director: Paul Newman for The Love of a Summer
Best Actor: Alan Arkin in The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Best Actress: Joanne Woodward in The Love of a Summer
Best Foreign Film: War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk

National Board of Review

Best Picture: In the Shoes of the Fisherman by Michael Anderson
Best director: Franco Zeffirelli for Romeo and Juliet
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson in Charly
Best leading actress: Liv Ullmann in Shame and The Hour of the Wolf
Best Supporting Actor: Leo McKern in In the Fisherman's Shoes
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Maskell in interlude
Best Foreign Language Film: The End of a Great Love by Bo Widerberg

Laurel Award

Best Action Drama: Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn
- Best Action Representation: Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen
Best Drama: In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison
- Best Actor in a Drama: Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night
- Best Dramatic Actress: Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
Best Comedy: A Strange Couple by Gene Saks
- Best Actor in Comedy: Walter Matthau in A Strange Couple
- Best comedic actress: Lucille Ball in yours, mine, ours
Best entertainment film: Yours, mine, ours by Melville Shavelson

Further film prizes and awards

Astor de Oro : Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn
David di Donatello : The Bandits of Milan , The Day of the Owl (Best Italian Film) and Guess Who Come to Dinner (Best Foreign Film)
German Critics' Prize : Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Directors Guild of America Award : Mike Nichols for the final exam , Alfred Hitchcock and Darryl F. Zanuck (awards for their life's work)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Cornelia Froboess for Rheinsberg
Louis Delluc Prize : Stolen Kisses by François Truffaut
Nastro d'Argento : Two coffins made to order by Elio Petri and Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni
National Society of Film Critics Award : Persona by Ingmar Bergman
Photoplay Award : Rosemary's Baby by Roman Polański (Best Film), Steve McQueen (Most Popular Male Star), Debbie Reynolds (Most Popular Female Star)
German Film Critics' Prize : Why is Ms. B. happy? by Erika Runge
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián : Deadly day of Peter Collinson (Golden Shell)
Writers Guild of America Award : Bonnie and Clyde (Best Original Screenplay and Best Drama), Modern Millie - Reicher Mann sucht (Best Musical), The Maturity Exam (Best Comedy), Casey Robinson (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Cuba Gooding Jr. (born January 2)

Aglaia Szyszkowitz (born January 11th)

Josh Brolin (born February 12)

Kelly Hu (born February 13)

Daniel Craig (born March 2)

January

0January 1st: Michael Deffert , German actor and voice actor
0January 2: Cuba Gooding Jr. , American actor
0January 3: Gregor Bloéb , Austrian actor
0January 6: John Singleton , American director and producer († 2019)
0January 9: Joey Lauren Adams , American actress
January 11th: Aglaia Szyszkowitz , Austrian actress
January 12th: Rachael Harris , American actress
January 17th: Deran Sarafian , American director
January 17th: Mathilde Seigner , French actress
January 21: Charlotte Ross , American actress
January 26: Masumi Miyazaki , Japanese actress and photo model
January 29: Edward Burns , American actor
January 29: Bobbie Phillips , American actress
January 31: Michael Dangl , Austrian actor

February

0February 1: Pauly Shore , American actor
February 12: Josh Brolin , American actor
February 13: Kelly Hu , American actress
February 18: Molly Ringwald , American actress
February 22nd: Jeri Ryan , American actress
February 25: Sandrine Kiberlain , French actress
February 26: Ed Quinn , American actor

March

0March 2nd: Daniel Craig , British actor and James Bond cast member
0March 4th: Patsy Kensit , American actress
0March 4th: Johan Nijenhuis , Dutch film producer and screenwriter
0March 6: Moira Kelly , American actress
March 12: Aaron Eckhart , American actor
March 14th: James Frain , British actor
March 17: Mathew St. Patrick , American actor
March 21: Jaye Davidson , American actor
March 21: Karyn Kusama , American director
March 23: Pierre Palmade , French actor
March 28: Max Perlich , American actor
March 29: Lucy Lawless , New Zealand actress

April to June

Ashley Judd (born April 19)

Michael Herbig (April 29)

Hemma Clementi (born May 30)

Ina Weisse (born June 12)

Robert Rodriguez (born June 20)

April

0April 3: Philippe Rombi , French composer
0April 6: Oliver Korittke , German actor
0April 7th: Jennifer Chambers Lynch , American director
0April 8: Patricia Arquette , American actress
April 10: Orlando Jones , American actor
April 12: Alicia Coppola , American actress
April 12th: Tracy Vilar , American actress
April 13: Jeanne Balibar , French actress
April 13: Andrew Pleavin , British actor
April 14: Anthony Michael Hall , American actor
April 18: David Hewlett , Canadian actor
April 19: Ashley Judd , American actress
April 21: Leslie Silva , American actress
April 24th: Stacy Haiduk , American actress
April 27: Cristian Mungiu , Romanian director and screenwriter
April 29th: Michael Herbig , German actor and director
April 29: Michael Niavarani , Austrian actor
April 29: Jürgen Vogel , German actor

May

0May 1: Sol Kyung-gu , South Korean actor
0May 1st: Luke Scott , British director
May 10: Erik Palladino , American actor
May 11: Jeffrey Donovan , American actor
May 20: Timothy Olyphant , American actor
May 23: John Ortiz , American actor
May 23: Guinevere Turner , American actress
May 25: Joseph D. Reitman , American actor
May 26: Fernando León de Aranoa , Spanish director
May 28: Paula Markovitch , Mexican-Argentinian screenwriter and director
May 30th: Hemma Clementi , Austrian actress

June

0June 4th: Sean Gullette , American screenwriter
0June 4th: Scott Wolf , American actor
0June 5th: Ron Livingston , Italian director
0June 6th: Tini Kainrath , Austrian actress
June 12th: Ina Weisse , German actress
June 14: Stefano Gigli , American actor
June 14: Faizon Love , American actor
June 20: Robert Rodriguez , American director
June 27: Pascale Bussières , Canadian actress
June 29: Judith Hoag , American actress

July to September

Gillian Anderson (born August 9)

Pete Docter (born August 10)

Will Smith (born September 25)

Naomi Watts (born September 28)

July

0July 1st: Jordi Mollà , Spanish actor
0July 5th: Jillian Armenante , American actress
0July 5: Michael Stuhlbarg , American actor
0July 7th: Amy Carlson , American actress
0July 7th: Jorja Fox , American actress
0July 7: Allen Payne , American actor
0July 8: Billy Crudup , American actor
0July 8: Michael Weatherly , American actor
July 13: Robert Gant , American actor
July 15: Eddie Griffin , American actor
July 15: Stan Kirsch , American actor († 2020)
July 17: Bitty Schram , American actress
July 17: John Ventimiglia , American actor
July 22nd: Rhys Ifans , British actor
July 22nd: Giuseppe Battiston , Italian actor
July 24: Kristin Chenoweth , American actress
July 24th: Laura Leighton , American actress
July 25th: Nanouk Leopold , Dutch director and screenwriter
July 26: Olivia Williams , British actress
July 27: Maria Grazia Cucinotta , Italian actress
July 27: Cliff Curtis , New Zealand actor
July 30th: Sofie Gråbøl , Danish actress
July 30th: Terry Crews , American actor

August

0August 1: Eric Warren Singer , American screenwriter and film producer
0August 3: Isao Yukisada , Japanese director
0August 4th: Daniel Dae Kim , American actor
0August 6: Lisa Boyle , American actress
0August 7: Francesca Gregorini , Italian-American director and screenwriter
0August 9: Gillian Anderson , American actress
0August 9: Eric Bana , Australian actor
August 10: Pete Docter , American director and screenwriter
August 11: Anna Gunn , American actress and voice actress
August 11th: Sophie Okonedo , British actress
August 13: Joshua Marston , American director and screenwriter
August 14: Catherine Bell , American actress
August 14: Adrian Lester , British actor
August 14: David McKenna , American screenwriter
August 15: Jeremy Peter Allen , Canadian director
August 15: Debra Messing , American actress
August 18: Katrin Fröhlich , German actress and voice actress
August 20: Guy Hendrix Dyas , British production designer
August 26th: Marc Rothemund , German director
August 31: Joseph Cedar , Israeli director

September

0September 2: Kristen Cloke , American actress
0September 2: Cynthia Watros , American actress
0September 4: Phill Lewis , American actor
September 10: Guy Ritchie , British director
September 15: Danny Nucci , American actor
September 21: Ricki Lake , American actress
September 25: Will Smith , American actor
September 26: James Caviezel , American actor
September 28: Carré Otis , American actress
September 28: Naomi Watts , Australian actress

October to December

Hugh Jackman (born October 12)

Lucy Liu (born December 2)

October

0October 2: Joey Slotnick , American actor
0October 8: Emily Procter , American actress
0October 9: James Dreyfus , British actor
October 11: Jane Krakowski , American actress
October 12: Hugh Jackman , Australian actor
October 12: Sophie von Kessel , German actress
October 13: Tisha Campbell , American actress
October 16: Elsa Zylberstein , French actress
October 21: Melora Walters , American actress

November

0November 2nd: Jaume Balagueró , Spanish director and screenwriter
0November 3rd: Debbie Rochon , Canadian actress
0November 5th: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón , Spanish actress
0November 6: Kelly Rutherford , American actress
0November 8: Parker Posey , American actress
November 11th: Robert Palfrader , Austrian actor
November 13th: Achim von Borries , German screenwriter and director
November 18: Romany Malco , American actor
November 18: Arzu Ermen , German actress
November 29th: Dany Garcia , American film producer

December

0December 2: Lucy Liu , American actress
0December 2nd: Rena Sofer , American actress
0December 3: Brendan Fraser , American actor
0December 5: Margaret Cho , American actress
0December 5: Lisa Marie , American actress
0December 6th: Olaf Lubaszenko , Polish actor
December 12th: Khrystyne Haje , American actress
December 12th: Rory Kennedy , American documentary filmmaker
December 18: Rachel Griffiths , Australian actress
December 18: Casper Van Dien , American actor
December 20: Eduardo Sánchez , American director and screenwriter
December 22nd: Dina Meyer , American actress
December 26: Tricia Leigh Fisher , American actress
December 30th: Meredith Monroe , American actress

Day unknown

Charlie Huston , American screenwriter
Luc Pagès , French director, cameraman and screenwriter
Robert Schwentke , German director and screenwriter
Thomas Woschitz , Austrian director, screenwriter and film editor