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1967 in film

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The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered one of the most ground-breaking years in American cinema, with "revolutionary" films highlighting the shift towards forward thinking European standards at the time, including: Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Cool Hand Luke, The Dirty Dozen, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle Book and You Only Live Twice.{{cite book|last1=Harris|first1=Mark|title=Pictures at a revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood|date=2009|publisher=Penguin Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0143115038|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/picturesatrevolu0000harr}}

Highest-grossing films

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{{see also|List of 1967 box office number-one films in the United States}}

The top ten 1967 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1967

RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
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| The Graduate

| United Artists / Embassy

| $43,100,000{{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]}}

style="text-align:center;"| 2

| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

| Columbia

| $25,500,000

style="text-align:center;"| 3

| Bonnie and Clyde

| Warner Bros.

| $22,000,000

style="text-align:center;"| 4

| The Dirty Dozen

| MGM

| $20,100,000

style="text-align:center;"| 5

|Valley of the Dolls

| 20th Century Fox

| $20,000,000

style="text-align:center;"| 6

| To Sir, with Love

| Columbia

| $19,100,000

style="text-align:center;"| 7

| You Only Live Twice

| United Artists / Eon

| $18,000,000

style="text-align:center;"| 8

| Thoroughly Modern Millie

| Universal

| $14,700,000

style="text-align:center;"| 9

| The Jungle Book

| Buena Vista

| $13,000,000

style="text-align:center;"| 10

| Camelot

| Warner Bros.

| $12,300,000

Events

  • April 28 — The prototype for the IMAX large-format-film acquisition and screening system is exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • July 8 — Vivien Leigh, best known for starring in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, dies from tuberculosis in London.
  • July 15 — Seven Arts Productions acquire substantially all the assets and business of Warner Bros. creating Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
  • August 13 — Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman, premieres. It breaks many taboos of its time, such as the visual depiction of violence. It will be considered a landmark film in Hollywood filmmaking, with its groundbreaking and ingenious visual styles. The success of Bonnie and Clyde helps bring forth the New Hollywood era, a period of artistic and commercial renewal.
  • October 18 — Walt Disney's production of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book premieres. It is the last animated feature film to be personally supervised by Disney before his death the previous year. It is also one of the last Disney films to be personally approved by him, along with The Happiest Millionaire and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. The story's moral message of friendship, love and trust will be embraced by critics and audiences worldwide. The Jungle Book is notable for its realistic character animation and voice casting. The film's soundtrack (scored by George Bruns), which includes the Academy Award-nominated{{clarify|date=March 2019|reason=all of them?}} "The Bare Necessities", '"I Wan'na Be Like You", "Trust in Me" and "My Own Home", also contributes to the film's enormous success. It will be the most successful animated film to be made by Disney until The Rescuers, ten years later.
  • December 21 — The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman (in his acting film debut), Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross, premieres. It tells a story of an aimless young man, seduced and betrayed by an older woman, while falling in love with her daughter. The theme of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, misdirected, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by a corrupt, decadent and discredited older generation (that finds its stability in the film's keyword "plastics") is well understood by film audiences and captures the spirit of the times, in light of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the increasing turbulence in American society in the mid-to-late 1960s. Like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate breaks many well-established taboos in American cinema and represents a new era in groundbreaking achievements in filmmaking.
  • The MPAA adopts a new logo, which is used until 2019.

Awards

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rowspan="2" style="width:20px;"| Category/Organizationcolspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 25th Golden Globe Awards
February 12, 1968		rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 40th Academy Awards
April 10, 1968
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Best FilmIn the Heat of the NightThe GraduateIn the Heat of the Night
Best Directorcolspan="3" | Mike Nichols
The Graduate
Best ActorRod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night		Richard Harris
Camelot		Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night
Best ActressEdith Evans
The Whisperers		Anne Bancroft
The Graduate		Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Supporting Actorcolspan="2" | Richard Attenborough
Doctor Dolittle		George Kennedy
Cool Hand Luke
Best Supporting Actresscolspan="2" | Carol Channing
Thoroughly Modern Millie		Estelle Parsons
Bonnie and Clyde
Best Screenplay, Adaptedcolspan="2" rowspan="2" | Stirling Silliphant
In the Heat of the Night		Stirling Silliphant
In the Heat of the Night
Best Screenplay, OriginalWilliam Rose
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Original Scorecolspan="2" | Frederick Loewe
Camelot		Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
Camelot
Elmer Bernstein
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Best Original Songcolspan="2" | "If Ever I Would Leave You"
Camelot		"Talk to the Animals"
Doctor Dolittle
Best Foreign Language Filmcolspan="2" | Live for LifeClosely Watched Trains

{{Lang|fr|Palme d'Or|italic=no}} (Cannes Film Festival):

:Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

:Belle de jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, France / Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

:Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium

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References

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External links

  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short&release_date=1967-01-01,1967-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 1967 films] at IMDb
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1967-01-01,1967-12-31&adult=include List of 1967 deaths] at IMDb
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1967-01-01,1967-12-31&adult=include List of 1967 births] at IMDb

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