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The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Film 3 Top grossing films 4 Films released in 1968 5 Short Film Series 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

Film

• The Party by Blake Edwards
• Secret Cinema by Paul Bartel
• La Prisonnière by Henri-Georges Clouzot
• If... by Lindsay Anderson
• Candy by Christian Marquand
• Performance by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
• Death Laid an Egg by Giulio Questi
• I Am Curious (Blue) by Vilgot Sjöman
• They Call Us Misfits - Swedish documentary
• Night of the Living Dead by Romero
• The Producers by Mel Brooks
• Rosemary's Baby by Polanski
• Teorema by Pasolini
• Psych-Out by Richard Rush
• Petulia by Richard Lester
• The Color Of Pomegranates by Sergei Paradjanov
• Conqueror Worm by Michael Reeves
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) by Stanley Kubrick
• Targets (1968) by Peter Bogdanovich
• Yellow Submarine by George Dunning
• Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden (1968) - Jesus Franco
• Barbarella by Vadim
• Hatsukoi Jigokuhen by Susumu Hani

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Graduate
2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
3. Gone with the Wind re-release
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. Valley of the Dolls
6. The Odd Couple
7. Planet of the Apes
8. Rosemary's Baby
9. The Jungle Book
10. Yours, Mine and Ours

Films released in 1968

• 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner
• The Astro-Zombies
• Bandolero!
• Barbarella
• Brilliantovaya ruka (Diamond Arm) - a hugely popular Russian comedy
• Bullitt
• Candy
• Charly
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - starring Dick Van Dyke
• Coogan's Bluff
• Danger: Diabolik
• Destroy All Monsters
• The Detective - starring Frank Sinatra
• The Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis
• Faces
• Finian's Rainbow
• Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
• Gamera and Mothra: Earth Defense War ?? (17e Parallele Le Vietnam En Guerre)
• Head
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Ice Station Zebra
• If... Palme d'Or winner
• Isadora
• The Lion in Winter
• Live a Little, Love a Little
• La Marca del Hombre Lobo
• Il marchio di Kriminal
• Mayerling
• Monterey Pop
• Night of the Living Dead
• Las Noches del Hombre Lobo
• The Odd Couple
• Ole Dole Doff Golden Bear winner
• Oliver!, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, and Harry Secombe
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Performance, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Donald Cammell and Mick Jagger
• Petulia
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band
• Planet of the Apes
• The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars
• Rachel, Rachel
• Romeo and Juliet
• Rosemary's Baby
• Satanik
• The Secret Life of an American Wife
• The Shoes of the Fisherman, Anthony Quinn
• Shame (Skammen)
• Speedway
• Star!
• Stay Away, Joe
• The Subject Was Roses
• Twisted Nerve
• War and Peace
• Where Eagles Dare
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (short subject)
• Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price
• Yellow Submarine
• Yours, Mine and Ours

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

Births

• January 2 - Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
• January 6 - John Singleton, director and writer
• January 14 - LL Cool J, rapper, actor
• February 1 - Pauly Shore, actor
• February 18 - Molly Ringwald, actress
• March 2 - Daniel Craig, actor
• March 30- Celine Dion, singer
• April 14 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
• April 24 - Stacy Haiduk, actress
• April 19 - Ashley Judd, actress
• September 10 - Guy Ritchie, director, writer, married to Madonna
• September 28 - Naomi Watts, actress
• September 30 - Monica Bellucci, actress
• December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
• December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor

Deaths

• July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer French/American filmmaker
• August 26 - Kay Francis, actress
• September 3 - Isabel Withers, actress
• October 30 - Ramon Novarro, actor
• November 25 - Upton Sinclair, writer and producer
• December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress
• December 20 - John Steinbeck, writer