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The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues
- August 10 - Filming of West Side Story begins.
- November 4 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film either performed in)
- November 13 - Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt wed.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
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| 1. | Swiss Family Robinson* | Disney | $20,178,000 |
| 2. | Psycho* | Paramount/Universal | $11,200,000 |
| 3. | Spartacus | Universal | $11,100,000 |
| 4. | Exodus | United Artists | $8,332,000 |
| 5. | The Alamo | United Artists | $7,919,000 |
| 6. | BUtterfield 8 | MGM | $7,552,000 |
| 7. | The World of Suzie Wong | Paramount | $7,500,000 |
| 8. | The Apartment | United Artists | $6,680,000 |
| 9. | Ocean's 11 | Warner Brothers | $5,650,000 |
| 10. | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | MGM | $5,369,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1960.shtml
Awards
- Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists
- Best Director: Billy Wilder - The Apartment
- Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
- Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8
- Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
- Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Spartacus
- Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
- Best Actress: Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): The Apartment
- Best Picture (tie): Song Without End
- Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
- Other
- Best Director: Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- La dolce vita, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Le passage du Rhin (The Crossing of the Rhine), directed by André Cayatte, Italy / France / W.Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- El lazarillo de tormes, directed by César Fernández Ardavin, Spain / Italy
Films released in 1960
- The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
- 13 Ghosts
- Alakazam the Great
- The Alamo
- The Amazing Transparent Man
- The Angry Silence
- The Apartment
- An Arabian Night
- L'avventura
- Beat Girl
- The Bellboy
- Bells Are Ringing
- Black Sunday
- Breathless (À bout de souffle)
- BUtterfield 8
- Can-Can
- Carry On Constable
- The Challenge (US: It Takes A Thief)
- Cimarron
- Cinderfella
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Devi
- La dolce vita
- Elmer Gantry
- The Entertainer
- Esther and the King, starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan
- Exodus
- The Facts of Life
- Flaming Star
- G.I. Blues
- Goliath II
- Heller in Pink Tights
- Herod the Great (Erode il grande)
- High Time
- House of Usher
- Inherit the Wind
- It Started in Naples
- Jigoku
- Last Woman on Earth
- The Last Voyage
- Late Autumn (Akibiyori)
- Let's Make Love
- The Lost World
- Macumba Love
- The Magnificent Seven
- Midnight Lace
- The Mountain Road
- Mughal-e-Azam
- Murder, Inc.
- Never on Sunday
- Noi duri
- North to Alaska
- Ocean's Eleven
- Le Passage du Rhin
- Peeping Tom
- Pepe
- Pollyanna
- Portrait in Black
- Psycho
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
- The Rat Race
- The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
- Scent of Mystery
- Sergeant Rutledge
- Seven Thieves
- Sink the Bismarck!
- Song Without End
- Sons and Lovers
- Space Men
- Spartacus
- The Story of Ruth, a Biblical drama based on Ruth
- The Sundowners
- Sunrise at Campobello
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament d'Orphée)
- The Time Machine
- Too Hot to Handle
- Tunes of Glory
- Two Women
- The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)
- Visit to a Small Planet
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
- Where the Boys Are
- The White Horse Inn
- The World of Suzie Wong
- The Young One
- Man in the Moon
- Watch Your Stern
- Make Mine Mink
- The Millionairess
Short Film Series
- Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
- Terrytoons (1930-1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
- Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
- Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)
Births
- January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
- January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
- January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
- February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980)
- May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
- May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
- August 16 - Timothy Hutton, actor
- August 17 - Sean Penn, actor
- September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
- October 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
- November 5 - Tilda Swinton, British actress
- November 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor and film director.
- December 3 - Daryl Hannah, actress
- December 3 - Julianne Moore, actress
Deaths
- January 3 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish film actor and director
- January 20 - Matt Moore, Irish-born American actor
- February 3 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singer
- November 3 - Paul Willis, American actor
- November 5 - Mack Sennett, American producer and director
- November 11 - Yuri Gadyukin, Russian-born director
- November 16 - Clark Gable, American actor
- November 19 - Phyllis Haver, American actress