1962 IN FILM

The year '1962 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1962

Short Film Series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ ''Dr. No'' launches the James Bond film series, the longest-running motion picture franchise of all time, running more than 40 years.

Top grossing films

:North America
# ''West Side Story''
# ''Spartacus''
# ''El Cid''
# ''Lover Come Back''
# ''That Touch of Mink''
# tie ''King of Kings'' and ''The Music Man''
# ''Hatari!'', starring John Wayne

Awards

'Academy Awards:'
:Best Picture: '''Lawrence of Arabia''' - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia
:Best Director: 'David Lean' - ''Lawrence of Arabia''
:Best Actor: 'Gregory Peck' - ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
:Best Actress: 'Anne Bancroft' - ''The Miracle Worker''
:Best Supporting Actor: 'Ed Begley' - ''Sweet Bird of Youth''
:Best Supporting Actress: 'Patty Duke' - ''The Miracle Worker''
:Best Foreign Language Film: '''Sundays and Cybele''' (''Les dimanches de ville d'Avray''), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

'Golden Globe Awards:'
:'Drama:'
:Best Picture: '''Lawrence of Arabia'''
:Best Actor: 'Gregory Peck' - ''To Kill a Mockingbird''
:Best Actress: 'Geraldine Page' - ''Sweet Bird of Youth''
:'Musical or comedy:'
:Best Picture (tie): '''That Touch of Mink'''
:Best Picture (tie): '''The Music Man'''
:Best Actor: 'Marcello Mastroianni' - ''Divorce, Italian Style''
:Best Actress: 'Rosalind Russell' - ''Gypsy''
:'Other'
:Best Director: 'David Lean' - ''Lawrence of Arabia''
'Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):'
:'''Keeper of Promises''' (''O Pagador de Promessas''), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil
'Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):'
:'''Family Diary''' (''Cronaca familiare'', ''Journal intime''), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy
:'''My Name is Ivan''' (''Ivanovo detstvo''), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
'Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):'
:'''A Kind of Loving''', directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

Films released in 1962

★ ''Billy Budd''

★ ''Birdman of Alcatraz''

★ ''Boys' Night Out''

★ ''Cape Fear''

★ ''Days of Wine and Roses''

★ ''Divorce, Italian Style'' (''Divorzio all'italiana'')

★ ''Le Doulos'' (''The Finger Man''), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo

★ ''Dr. No''

★ ''Family Diary'' (''Cronaca familiare'')

★ ''Girls! Girls! Girls!''

★ ''Keeper of Promises'' (''O Pagador de Promessas'') (aka ''The Given Word'')

★ ''Gypsy''

★ ''Hatari!'', starring John Wayne

★ ''How the West Was Won''

★ ''It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis

★ ''Keeper of Promises''

★ ''Kid Galahad''

★ ''A Kind of Loving''

★ ''King Kong vs. Godzilla''

★ ''Knife in the Water''

★ ''Lawrence of Arabia''

★ ''Lolita''

★ ''Lonely are the Brave''

★ ''The Longest Day''

★ ''Lycanthropus''

★ ''The Manchurian Candidate''

★ ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance''

★ ''The Miracle Worker''

★ ''The Music Man''

★ ''Mutiny on the Bounty''

★ ''My Name is Ivan''

★ ''Panic in Year Zero!''

★ ''The Phantom of the Opera''

★ ''The Premature Burial'' -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'' -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''Ride the High Country''

★ ''State Fair'' -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''Sundays and Cybele'' (''Les dimanches de ville d'Avray'')

★ ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''Taras Bulba''

★ ''Tender Is the Night''

★ ''That Touch of Mink''

★ ''To Kill a Mockingbird''

★ ''The Trial''

★ ''Procès de Jeanne d'Arc'' (''The Trial of Joan of Arc'')

★ ''War of the Buttons''

★ ''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?''

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 1 - Nancy Mette,actress

★ January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian

★ July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor

★ September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress

★ September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress

★ October 1 - Esai Morales, actor

★ November 11 - Demi Moore, US actress

★ November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director

Deaths

★ January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, actor

★ May 14 - Florence Auer, American actress

★ August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress

★ December 15 - Charles Laughton, British actor

★ December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress