1960 in film

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The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

{{see also|List of 1960 box office number-one films in the United States}}

The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1960

RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
style="text-align:center;"| 1

|Spartacus

| Universal

| $14,000,000{{cite book |last=Finler |first=Joel Waldo |year=2003 |title=The Hollywood Story |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-66-6 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA358#v=twopage 358–359]}}

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| Psycho

| Paramount {{refn|group=nb|name=Paramount|After Psycho was released, Paramount transferred the film rights to Hitchcock, who later sold the distribution rights to Universal Pictures in 1962.{{cite web|title=Psycho (1960): Notes|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24944/psycho#notes|website=Turner Classic Movies|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=April 25, 2017}}}}

| $9,100,000

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| Exodus

| United Artists

| $8,500,000

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| Swiss Family Robinson

| Buena Vista

| $8,100,000{{cite magazine|title=All-Time Top Grossers|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1965-01-06_237_7/page/39 |magazine=Variety |date=6 January 1965 |page=39 |access-date=29 December 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}

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| The Alamo

| United Artists

| $7,900,000

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|The World of Suzie Wong

| Paramount

| $7,500,000{{cite magazine|title=All-Time Top Grossers|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1965-01-06_237_7/page/39 |magazine=Variety |date=6 January 1965 |page=39 |access-date=29 December 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}

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|BUtterfield 8

| MGM

| $6,800,000{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}

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| The Apartment

| United Artists

| $6,700,000

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| Ocean's 11

| Warner Bros.

| $5,500,000

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|From the Terrace

| 20th Century Fox

| $5,200,000

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Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America.

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Country || Title || Director || Revenue || Admissions || Source(s)
France

| Ben-Hur

| William Wyler

| {{n/a}}

| 13,826,124

| {{cite web |title=Bilan Annuel France − 1960 |url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/bilanfr.php?year=1960 |website=JP's Box-Office |access-date=10 December 2018}}

West Germany

| Ben-Hur

| William Wyler

| {{n/a}}

| 13,525,000

| {{cite web |title=Bilan Annuel Allemagne − 1960 |url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/bilanall.php?year=1960 |website=JP's Box-Office |access-date=10 December 2018}}

India

| Mughal-e-Azam

| K. Asif

| $23,110,000

| 100,000,000

| {{#tag:ref|Mughal-e-Azam in India: {{INR}}11 crore,{{cite web |url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=166&catName=MTk2MA== |title=Box Office 1960 |publisher=Box Office India |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922021750/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=166&catName=MTk2MA== |archive-date=2012-09-22 |url-status=dead |access-date=2017-07-02 }} 4.76 Indian rupees per US dollar{{cite web |title=Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) |url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.FCRF?end=1961&locations=IN&start=1960 |website=World Bank |year=1960 |access-date=10 December 2018}}|group=n}}[https://boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=2988 Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824133203/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=2988 |date=24 August 2017 }}, Box Office India, 8 June 2017

Italy

| Ben-Hur

| William Wyler

| {{n/a}}

| 15,400,000

| {{cite web |title=Bilan Annuel Italie − 1960 |url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/bilanitalie.php?year=1960 |website=JP's Box-Office |access-date=10 December 2018}}

Soviet Union

| Far from the Motherland

| Aleksei Shvachko

| $2,625,000

| 42,000,000

| {{#tag:ref|10.5 million Rbls (42 million Soviet tickets sold,{{cite web|url=http://www.kinokultura.com/plus/prokat2.html |title=Prokat2 |publisher=Kinokultura.com |access-date=2012-10-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510033800/http://www.kinokultura.com/plus/prokat2.html |archive-date=2012-05-10 }} average ticket price of 25 kopecks),[https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/podzim2015/FAV291/um/Roth-Ey-Moscow_Prime_Time.pdf#page=7 Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48], Cornell University Press, 2011 4 SUR per USD{{#tag:ref|4 Rbls per US dollar from 1950 to 1960Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls|group=n|name=RubleUSD}}|group=n}}

Spain

| Ben-Hur

| William Wyler

| {{n/a}}

| 4,653,194

| {{cite web |title=Bilan Annuel Espagne − 1960 |url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/bilanespagne.php?year=1960 |website=JP's Box-Office |access-date=10 December 2018}}

United Kingdom

| Ben-Hur

| William Wyler

| {{n/a}}

| 13,200,000

| {{cite web|title=Ben Hur|date=28 November 2004|publisher=British Film Institute|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/details.php?ranking=30|access-date=24 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803010011/http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/details.php?ranking=30|archive-date=3 August 2012|url-status=dead}}

Events

Awards

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rowspan="2" style="width:20px;"| Category/Organizationcolspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 18th Golden Globe Awards
March 16, 1961
rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 33rd Academy Awards
April 17, 1961
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Best FilmSpartacusThe Apartment (Comedy)
Song Without End (Musical)
The Apartment
Best Directorcolspan="2" | Jack Cardiff
Sons and Lovers
Billy Wilder
The Apartment
Best ActorBurt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Jack Lemmon
The Apartment
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Best ActressGreer Garson
Sunrise at Campobello
Shirley MacLaine
The Apartment
Elizabeth Taylor
BUtterfield 8
Best Supporting Actorcolspan="2" | Sal Mineo
Exodus
Peter Ustinov
Spartacus
Best Supporting Actresscolspan="2" | Janet Leigh
Psycho
Shirley Jones
Elmer Gantry
Best Foreign Language Filmcolspan="2" | La Vérité
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
The Virgin Spring
The Virgin Spring

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Short film series

Births

Deaths

Film debuts

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References

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