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	$57,777,778^[1]
2.	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	United Artists	Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman	$46,332,858^[2]
3.	How the West Was Won	Cinerama/MGM	Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, George Peppard, James Stewart	$20,933,000
4.	The Birds	Universal	Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright	$18,500,900
5.	From Russia with Love	United Artists	Sean Connery	$16,067,035^[3]
6.	Bye Bye Birdie	Columbia	Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret	$13,129,112
7.	Tom Jones	United Artists	Albert Finney and Susannah York	$11,922,000
8.	The Sword in the Stone	Walt Disney Productions	Rickie Sorensen, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews	$10,475,000
9.	Charade	United Artists	Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant	$6,735,000
10.	The Great Escape	United Artists	Steve McQueen and James Garner	$6,363,000
11.	Move Over, Darling	20th Century Fox	Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen	$6,000,000
12.	Hud	Paramount	Paul Newman, Patricia Neal	$5,800,000
13.	55 Days at Peking	Allied Artists	Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven	$5,745,000
14.	Come Blow Your Horn	Paramount	Frank Sinatra and Jill St. John	$5,130,000
15.	Irma la Douce	The Mirisch Corp.	Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine	$4,550,000
16.	The V.I.P.s	MGM	Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton	$4,275,000
17.	The Thrill of It All	Universal	Doris Day and James Garner	$4,000,000
18.	Promises! Promises!	Independent film	Jayne Mansfield, Marie McDonald, 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:

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

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

Notable films released in 1963

U.S.A. unless stated.

The Yellow Canary, starring Pat Boone
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - (Italy)
Young Aphrodites (Mikres Afrodites) - (Greece)
Youth of the Beast (Yajū no seishun), directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)

Short Film Series

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

References

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