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The year 1961 in film involved some significant events.
le class="wikitable"> | | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
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| 1. | One Hundred and One Dalmatians* | Disney | $68,648,000 | | 2. | West Side Story | United Artists | $19,646,000 | | 3. | The Guns of Navarone | Columbia | $13,000,000 | | 4. | El Cid | Allied Artists | $12,000,000 | | 5. | The Absent-Minded Professor* | Disney | $11,426,000 | | 6. | The Parent Trap* | Disney | $11,322,000 | | 7. | La Dolce Vita* | Astor/AIP | $8,000,000 | | 8. | Lover Come Back | Universal | $7,625,000 | | 9. | King of Kings | MGM | $6,520,000 | | 10. | Poor White Trash* | CDA/United Artists | $6,000,000 | |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
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The year 1961 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
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| 1. | One Hundred and One Dalmatians* | Disney | $68,648,000 | | 2. | West Side Story | United Artists | $19,646,000 | | 3. | The Guns of Navarone | Columbia | $13,000,000 | | 4. | El Cid | Allied Artists | $12,000,000 | | 5. | The Absent-Minded Professor* | Disney | $11,426,000 | | 6. | The Parent Trap* | Disney | $11,322,000 | | 7. | La Dolce Vita* | Astor/AIP | $8,000,000 | | 8. | Lover Come Back | Universal | $7,625,000 | | 9. | King of Kings | MGM | $6,520,000 | | 10. | Poor White Trash* | CDA/United Artists | $6,000,000 | |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1961.shtml
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
- Best Director: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
- Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Best Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women
- Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris - West Side Story
- Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno - West Side Story
- Best Foreign Language Film: Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Guns of Navarone
- Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgement at Nuremberg
- Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): A Majority of One
- Best Picture (tie): West Side Story
- Best Actor: Glenn Ford - Pocketful of Miracles
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One
- Other
- Best Director: Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence), directed by Henri Colpi, France
- Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel, Spain
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- La Notte (The Night), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
Films released in 1961
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- Atlantis, the Lost Continent
- Babes in Toyland
- Back Street
- Barabbas
- Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Bridge to the Sun
- Carry On Regardless
- The Children's Hour, nominated for five Academy Awards
- The Comancheros
- Come September
- The Devil at 4 O'Clock, starring Frank Sinatra and Spencer Tracy, and Gregoire Aslan
- El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
- The Errand Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Fanny
- Flower Drum Song
- The Fruit Is Ripe (Les Filles sèment le vent)
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian
- Goodbye Again
- The Guns of Navarone
- Hoodlum Priest
- The Hustler
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- King of Kings
- Khovanshchina
- La dolce vita (U.S. release)
- La Notte Golden Bear winner
- The Ladies Man, starring Jerry Lewis
- The Last Sunset
- The Last Time I Saw Archie
- Last Year at Marienbad, Golden Lion winner
- The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) - Palme d'Or winner
- Lover Come Back
- A Majority of One
- The Mark
- The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable in their last screen appereance
- Mothra
- One-Eyed Jacks
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- One, Two, Three, starring James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, and Arlene Francis
- The Outsider, a biography starring Tony Curtis as famous WWII marine, Ira Hayes
- The Parent Trap
- Paris Blues
- The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price
- Pocketful of Miracles
- Il Posto
- Question 7
- A Raisin in the Sun
- Return to Peyton Place (film mentioned in article)
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- Sennin Buraku
- Scarlet Sails (???? ??????)
- Splendor in the Grass
- Summer and Smoke
- Teen Kanya
- Through a Glass Darkly - (Såsom i en spegel)
- Town Without Pity
- Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
- Victim
- Viridiana - Palme d'Or winner
- West Side Story
- Wild in the Country starring Elvis Presley
- Two Women (U.S. release)
- Yojimbo
Short Film Series
Births
- January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
- January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
- February 11 - Carey Lowell, actress
- April 6 - Gene Eugene, actor, lead singer of Adam Again
- June 9 - Michael J. Fox, actor (in Back to the Future trilogy)
- July 15 - Forest Whitaker, actor
- July 18 - Elizabeth McGovern, actress
- October 31 - Peter Jackson, director
- November 19 - Meg Ryan, US actress
Deaths
- February 2 - Anna May Wong, 56, American actress
- February 17 - Nita Naldi, 63, American actress
- March 6 - George Formby, 56, British actor, entertainer
- March 12 - Belinda Lee, 25, British actress
- May 4 - Anita Stewart, 66, American actress
- May 13 - Gary Cooper, 60, American actor
- May 22 - Joan Davis, 53, American actress
- June 17 - Jeff Chandler, 42, American actor
- August 4 - Maurice Tourneur, 88, French film director
- August 27 - Gail Russell, 36, American actress
- August 30 - Charles Coburn, 84, American actor
- September 10 - Leo Carrillo, 81, American actor
- September 22 - Marion Davies, 64, American actress
- October 11 - Chico Marx, 74, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers
- October 18 - Tsuru Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American actress
- October 22 - Joseph Schenck, 82, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive
- November 15 - Elsie Ferguson, 78, American stage and film actress
- November 24 - Ruth Chatterton, 67, American actress
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