1963 in film

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The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
• November 7 - The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Cleopatra	20th Century Fox	Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton	$26,000,000
2.	How the West Was Won	Cinerama/MGM	Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, George Peppard, James Stewart	$20,933,000
3.	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	United Artists	Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman	$20,850,000
4.	The Birds	Universal	Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor	$18,500,900
5.	Tom Jones	United Artists	Albert Finney and Susannah York	$11,922,000
6.	The Sword in the Stone	Walt Disney Productions	Rickie Sorensen, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews	$10,475,000
7.	Dr. No	United Artists	Sean Connery and Ursula Andress	$8,435,000
8.	Charade	United Artists	Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant	$6,735,000
9.	The Great Escape	United Artists	Steve McQueen and James Garner	$6,363,000
10.	Bye Bye Birdie	Columbia	Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret	$6,200,000
11.	Hud	Paramount	Paul Newman, Patricia Neal	$5,800,000
12.	55 Days at Peking	Allied Artists	Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven	$5,745,000
13.	Love With the Proper Stranger	Paramount	Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen	$5,200,000
14.	Irma la Douce	The Mirisch Corp.	Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine	$4,550,000
15.	The V.I.P.s	MGM	Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton	$4,275,000
16.	Promises! Promises!	Independent film	Jayne Mansfield, Marie MacDonald, Tommy Noonan	$3,775,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Tom Jones — Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British)

Best Director: Tony Richardson - Tom Jones

Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field

Best Actress: Patricia Neal - Hud

Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas - Hud

Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s

Best Foreign Language Film: 8½ (Otto e mezzo), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Cardinal

Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field

Best Actress: Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Tom Jones

Best Actor: Alberto Sordi - To Bed... or Not to Bed

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce

Other

Best Director: Elia Kazan - America, America

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Il Diavolo (To Bed... or Not to Bed), directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro, Italy

Films released in 1963

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 8½, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee -- Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - (Italy)
• 55 Days at Peking, starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven

A

• An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojō Henge), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
• Al Nasser Salah Al-Din (Saladin), directed by Youssef Chahine - (Egypt)
• Alone on the Pacific (Taiheiyo hitori-botchi), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
• America, America (a.k.a. The Anatolian Smile) by Elia Kazan
• Atragon - (Japan)

B

• The Balcony
• Bandini, directed by Bimal Roy - (India)
• Barren Lives (Vidas Secas) - (Brazil)
• Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges), directed by Jacques Demy, starring Jeanne Moreau - (France)
• Beach Party, starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello
• The Big City (Mahanagar), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Billy Liar, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie - (U.K.)
• The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren in her film debut; also starring Rod Taylor and Jessica Tandy
• Bitter Harvest - (U.K.)
• Blood Feast
• Bushido, Samurai Saga (Bushidô zankoku monogatari) Golden Bear winner - (Japan)
• Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell, Maureen Stapleton, Paul Lynde

C

• Captain Newman, M.D., starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Bobby Darin, Angie Dickinson
• The Cardinal, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Tom Tryon
• The Caretaker, starring Alan Bates and Robert Shaw - (U.K.)
• The Caretakers, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen
• Carry On Cabby - (U.K.)
• Carry On Jack - (U.K.)
• The Cassandra Cat - (Czechoslovakia)
• Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
• A Child Is Waiting, starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster
• Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton - (U.S./U.K./Switzerland)
• Come Blow Your Horn, starring Frank Sinatra
• Contempt, (Le Mépris), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli - (France)
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Ron Howard
• Critic's Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
• Crooks in Clover (Les Tontons flingueurs), starring Lino Ventura - (France/Italy/West Germany)

D

• The Damned, directed by Joseph Losey - (U.K.)
• Dementia 13, directed by Francis Ford Coppola
• Il Diavolo Golden Bear winner - (Italy)
• Dil Ek Mandir - (India)
• Donovan's Reef, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin
• Dr. No (U.S. release)
• Drama of the Lark (Pacsirta) - (Hungary)

E

• El Dorado, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Topol - (Israel)
• The Executioner (El Verdugo), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Nino Manfredi - (Spain)

F

• Father Came Too! - (U.K.)
• The Fire Within (Le feu follet), directed by Louis Malle - (France)
• Flaming Creatures
• Flipper
• For Love or Money, starring Kirk Douglas and Mitzi Gaynor
• The Four Days of Naples (U.S. release)
• Four for Texas, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ursula Andress and Anita Ekberg
• From Russia with Love, the second James Bond film, starring Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya - (U.K.)
• Fun in Acapulco, starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress

G

• A Gathering of Eagles, starring Rock Hudson
• Gidget Goes to Rome, starring Cindy Carol
• The Great Escape, directed by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough

H

• Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Rod Steiger - Golden Lion winner - (Italy)
• The Haunting, directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Harris - (U.K.)
• Heavens Above!, directed by the Boulting Brothers, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)
• High and Low (天国と地獄), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
• The Householder (Gharbar), directed by James Ivory, starring Shashi Kapoor and Leela Naidu - (India)
• How to Be Loved (Jak być kochaną), starring Zbigniew Cybulski - (Poland)
• Hud, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Melvyn Douglas

I

• I Could Go On Singing, starring Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde - (U.K./U.S.A)
• The Incredible Journey
• Irma la Douce, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
• It Happened at the World's Fair, starring Elvis Presley
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar, many more

J

• Jason and the Argonauts - (U.S./U.K.)
• Johnny Cool
• Judex - (France)

L

• Ladies Who Do, starring Harry H. Corbett, Robert Morley and Peggy Mount - (U.K.)
• Ladybug Ladybug
• The Leopard, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon - Palme d'Or winner - (Italy)
• Lilies of the Field, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Sidney Poitier
• The List of Adrian Messenger, directed by John Huston, starring George C. Scott
• Lord of the Flies, directed by Peter Brook - (U.K.)
• The Love Eterne - (Hong Kong)
• Love With the Proper Stranger, starring Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen

M

• Matango - (Japan)
• McLintock!, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
• I mostri, directed by Dino Risi - (Italy)
• Move Over, Darling, starring Doris Day, James Garner and Polly Bergen

N

• Naked Among Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen) - (East Germany)
• A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
• Nine Hours to Rama - (U.K./U.S.A)
• The Nutty Professor, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis

O

• One Got Fat
• Optimistic Tragedy - (U.S.S.R.)

P

• PT 109, starring Cliff Robertson as JFK
• Paranoiac - (U.K.)
• Passenger - (Poland)
• The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine
• The Prize, starring Paul Newman and Elke Sommer
• Promises! Promises!, starring Jayne Mansfield who (in this) became first Hollywood actress to appear nude in a feature film
• The Punch and Judy Man, starring Tony Hancock - (U.K.)

R

• La ragazza di Bube, starring Claudia Cardinale and George Chakiris (Italy)
• The Raven, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
• Raven's End (Kvarteret Korpen), directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
• The Running Man, directed by Carol Reed, starring Laurence Harvey and Lee Remick - (U.K.)

S

• The Sadist
• Sammy Going South, directed by Alexander MacKendrick - (U.K.)
• The Servant, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, James Fox - (U.K.)
• Shock Corridor, directed by Samuel Fuller
• The Silence (Tystnaden), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Ingrid Thulin - (Sweden)
• Sleep, by Andy Warhol
• Soldier in the Rain, starring Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason
• Son of Flubber
• Summer Holiday, starring Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters and The Shadows - (U.K.)
• Sundays and Cybele - (France)
• Sunshine in a Net - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Sword in the Stone - an animated Disney film

T

• This Sporting Life, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts - (U.K.)
• The Thrill of It All, starring Doris Day and James Garner
• Tom Jones, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Albert Finney and Susannah York -- winner 4 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes and 3 BAFTAs - (U.K.)
• Torpedo Bay - (Italy/France)
• Toys in the Attic, starring Dean Martin and Geraldine Page
• Twilight of Honor

U

• The Ugly American, starring Marlon Brando
• Uncle Vanya, starring Michael Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright - (U.K.)
• Under the Yum Yum Tree, starring Jack Lemmon, Dean Jones, Carol Lynley, Edie Adams

V

• The Victors, starring George Peppard, George Hamilton, Vince Edwards, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau - (U.K.)
• The V.I.P.s, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Orson Welles - (U.K.)

W

• Walking the Streets of Moscow (Ya shagayu po Moskve) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Wheeler Dealers, starring James Garner and Lee Remick
• Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, starring Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Elizabeth Montgomery
• Who's Minding the Store?, starring Jerry Lewis and Jill St. John
• The Wrong Arm of the Law, starring Peter Sellers - (U.K.)

X

• X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, directed by Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland

Y

• Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke starring Sunil Dutt - (India)
• The Yellow Canary
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - (Italy)

Z

• Zuo ye meng hun zhong - (Hong Kong)

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

Births

• January 14 — Steven Soderbergh, director
• March 18 — Vanessa L. Williams, actress, singer and former beauty queen
• March 27 — Quentin Tarantino, director
• March 30 — David Thewlis, English actor
• June 6 — Jason Isaacs, English actor
• June 9 — Johnny Depp, US actor
• June 10 — Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actress
• June 15 — Helen Hunt, US actress and director
• July 30 — Lisa Kudrow, US actress
• August 14 — Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
• August 30 — Mark Strong, English actor
• October 6 — Elisabeth Shue, US actress
• November 5 — Tatum O'Neal, US actress
• December 15 — Helen Slater, US actress
• December 18 — Brad Pitt, actor

Deaths

• January 2 - Jack Carson, 52, Canadian actor
• January 2 - Dick Powell, 58, American actor, director
• January 6 - Frank Tuttle, 70, American director
• January 28 - John Farrow, 58, Australian director
• February 18 - Monte Blue, 76, American actor
• April 4 - Jason Robards Sr., 70, American actor
• May 6 - Monty Woolley, 74, American actor
• June 7 - Zasu Pitts, 69, American actress
• July 25 - Leota Lane, 59, American singer, actress
• August 17 - Richard Barthelmess, 68, American actor
• October 29 - Adolphe Menjou, 73, American actor
• November 1 - Elsa Maxwell, 82, American gossip columnist
• December 2 - Sabu, 39, Indian actor
• December 5 - Tom London, 74, American actor

Film debuts

• Alan Alda
• Alan Arkin
• James Caan
• Hector Elizondo
• Tippi Hedren
• Norman Jewison - director
• Kurt Russell
• Lynn Redgrave