1963 in film

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The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra, Alfred Hitchcock's horror The Birds, and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Events[edit]

February 20 – The classic epic western How the West Was Won premieres.
June 12 – Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Its staggering production costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox and the adulterous affair between Taylor and Burton made the publicity even worse. Cleopatra marked the only instance that a film would be the highest-grossing film of a year while still losing money, thus establishing it as, at the time, the biggest box office disaster in cinema history. The film's terrible reception harmed the reputation of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who had an esteemed career for directing classics like A Letter to Three Wives, All About Eve, Julius Caesar, The Barefoot Contessa, Guys and Dolls, and Suddenly, Last Summer. It effectively destroyed the career of its well-known producer Walter Wanger, who never worked in Hollywood or on another film again; he died five years later at the age of 74 of a heart attack. Much of the blame of the film's failures could be pointed at Taylor's super-diva personality, her health issues, her and Burton's adulterous affair, and the studio's inadequate management. It wouldn't be until two years later that Rodgers and Hammerstein's adaptation of The Sound of Music would help rescue Fox from bankruptcy by becoming one of the highest-grossing motion pictures of all time.
November 7 – The classic comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres and it boasts one of the finest all-star ensemble casts ever, easily the most impressive for a comedy. It is also the first comedy film ever directed by Stanley Kramer, best known for directing serious human drama films on controversial subjects like The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
December 25 – Walt Disney's production of The Sword in the Stone premieres. It is the second adaptation of T. H. White's The Once and Future King after the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical Camelot, the first cinematic adaptation of the novel, and the 13th film adaptation of the legend of King Arthur.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)[edit]

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Cleopatra	20th Century Fox	$57,777,778^[1]
2.	How the West Was Won	MGM	$46,500,000^[2]
3.	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	United Artists	$46,332,858^[3]
4.	Tom Jones		$37,600,000^[4]
5.	Irma la Douce		$25,246,588^[5]
6.	The Sword in the Stone	Disney	$22,182,353^[6]
7.	Son of Flubber	Disney	$22,129,412^[7]
8.	The Birds	Universal	$18,500,900
9.	Dr. No	United Artists	$16,067,035^[8]
10.	The V.I.P.s	MGM	$15,000,000^[9]

Awards[edit]

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

Comedy or Musical:

Best Picture: Tom Jones

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

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce

Best Supporting Actor: John Huston - The Cardinal

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

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[edit]

United States except where noted..

El Dorado, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Topol – (Israel)
Empress Wu Tse-Tien – (Hong Kong)
The Empty Canvas (La noia), starring Bette Davis and Horst Buchholz – (Italy)
The Engagement (I fidanzati), directed by Ermanno Olmi – (Italy)
The Executioner (El Verdugo), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Nino Manfredi – (Spain)
Evil Eye (The Girl Who Knew Too Much), directed by Mario Bava Starring John Saxon, Letícia Román - (Italy)

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)
Yoso, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa – (Japan)
Young Aphrodites (Mikres Afrodites) – (Greece)
Youth of the Beast (Yajū no seishun), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)

Short Film Series[edit]

Births[edit]

January 4 - Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian
January 14 - Steven Soderbergh, US director
February 12 - John Michael Higgins, actor
February 17 - Michael Jordan, US baseball player and occasional actor
February 21 - William Baldwin, actor
March 18 - Vanessa L. Williams, actress, singer and beauty queen
March 20 - David Thewlis, English actor
March 27 - Quentin Tarantino, director
April 17 - Joel Murray, actor
April 18 - Conan O'Brien, television entertainer and talk show host
April 26 - Jet Li, actor
May 11 - Natasha Richardson, actress (d. 2009)
May 25 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor
June 6 - Jason Isaacs, English thespian
June 9 - Johnny Depp, US actor
June 10 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actress
June 12 - Tim DeKay, actor & producer
June 15 - Helen Hunt, US actress and director
July 2 - Mark Kermode, English critic
July 29 - Alexandra Paul, US actress
July 30 - Lisa Kudrow, US actress
August 1 - Demian Bichir, Mexican-American actor
August 5 - Mark Strong, English actor
August 7 - Harold Perrineau, US actor
August 13 - Sridevi, Indian actress (d. 2018)
August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
September 19 - Dan Povenmire, animator and voice actor
October 6 - Elisabeth Shue, US actress
October 12 - Dave Legeno, actor
October 31 - Rob Schneider, actor and comedian
November 5 - Tatum O'Neal, US actress
November 27
- Vladimir Mashkov, Russian actor
- Fisher Stevens, US actor
December 15 - Helen Slater, US actress
December 18 - Brad Pitt, actor
December 19
- Jennifer Beals, actress
- Til Schweiger, actor

Deaths[edit]

Film debuts[edit]

References[edit]

[1] Box Office Information for Cleopatra. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[2] Box Office Information for How the West Was Won. The Numbers. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[3] Box Office Information for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[4] Box Office Information for Tom Jones. The Numbers. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[5] Box Office Information for Irma la Douce. The Numbers. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[6] Box Office Information for The Sword in the Stone. The Numbers. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[7] Box Office Information for Son of Flubber. The Numbers. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[8] Box Office Information for Dr. No. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

[9] Box Office Information for The V.I.P.s The Numbers. Retrieved September 2, 2013.

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Awards[edit]

Notable films released in 1963[edit]

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Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Film debuts[edit]

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Notable films released in 1963[edit]

Short Film Series[edit]

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Deaths[edit]

Film debuts[edit]

References[edit]

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