1967 in film

The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It was the year in which Charlie Chaplin made his last film, A Countess from Hong Kong, which he wrote, directed and produced, and in which he played a cameo role; it was the only one of his films to be made in colour. He also wrote the score, including an instrumental version of "This Is My Song", a major hit worldwide.[1] The Walt Disney Studios released The Jungle Book, the final animated feature film to be produced by Walt Disney himself, who died before it reached cinemas.[2] Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel released Belle de Jour, starring Catherine Deneuve, a multinational production that would turn out to be one of Buñuel's most successful films.[3] 1967 is also 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, and You Only Live Twice.[4]

Highest-grossing films

North America

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:

Highest-grossing films of 1967
Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1 The Graduate United Artists / Embassy $43,100,000[5]
2 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Columbia $25,500,000[5]
3 Bonnie and Clyde Warner Bros. $22,000,000[5]
4 The Dirty Dozen MGM $20,100,000[5]
5 Valley of the Dolls 20th Century Fox $20,000,000[5]
6 To Sir, with Love Columbia $19,100,000[5]
7 You Only Live Twice United Artists / Eon $18,000,000[5]
8 Thoroughly Modern Millie Universal $14,700,000[5]
9 The Jungle Book Buena Vista $13,000,000[5]
10 Camelot Warner Bros. $12,300,000[5]

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 song "The Bare Necessities",[6] 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

Category/Organization 25th Golden Globe Awards
February 12, 1968		 40th Academy Awards
April 10, 1968
Drama Musical or Comedy
Best Film In the Heat of the Night The Graduate In the Heat of the Night
Best Director Mike Nichols
The Graduate
Best Actor Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night		 Richard Harris
Camelot		 Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress Edith Evans
The Whisperers		 Anne Bancroft
The Graduate		 Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Supporting Actor Richard Attenborough
Doctor Dolittle		 George Kennedy
Cool Hand Luke
Best Supporting Actress Carol Channing
Thoroughly Modern Millie		 Estelle Parsons
Bonnie and Clyde
Best Screenplay, Adapted Stirling Silliphant
In the Heat of the Night		 Stirling Silliphant
In the Heat of the Night
Best Screenplay, Original William Rose
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Original Score Frederick Loewe
Camelot		 Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
Camelot
Elmer Bernstein
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Best Original Song "If Ever I Would Leave You"
Camelot		 "Talk to the Animals"
Doctor Dolittle
Best Foreign Language Film Live for Life Closely Watched Trains

Palme d'Or (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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