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The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Cleopatra |
20th Century Fox |
$26,000,000 |
| 2. |
How the West Was Won |
Cinerama/MGM |
$20,933,000 |
| 3. |
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
United Artists |
$20,850,000 |
| 4. |
Tom Jones |
UA/Goldwyn |
$18,500,900 |
| 5. |
Irma La Douce |
United Artists |
$11,922,000 |
| 6. |
The Sword in the Stone |
Disney |
$10,475,000 |
| 7. |
Son of Flubber |
Disney |
$10,450,000 |
| 8. |
From Russia with Love |
United Artists |
$6,435,000 |
| 9. |
Charade |
Universal |
$6,363,000 |
| 10. |
Bye Bye Birdie |
Columbia |
$6,200,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1963.shtml
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Tom Jones - Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British)
- Best Director: Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
- Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
- Best Actress: Patricia Neal - Hud
- Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas - Hud
- Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s
- Best Foreign Language Film: 8½ (Otto e mezzo), directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Cardinal
- Best Actor: Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
- Best Actress: Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Tom Jones
- Best Actor: Alberto Sordi - To Bed... or Not to Bed
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce
- Other
- Best Director: Elia Kazan - America, America
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Il Diavolo (To Bed... or Not to Bed), directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro, Italy
Films released in 1963
- 8½
- 55 Days at Peking
- America, America by Elia Kazan
- An Actor's Revenge
- Atragon
- La Baie des anges
- The Balcony
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor
- Blood Feast
- Bushido:Samurai Saga (Bushidô zankoku monogatari) Golden Bear winner
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Captain Newman, M.D.
- The Cardinal
- The Caretakers
- Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
- Carry On Cabby
- Carry On Jack
- Cleopatra
- Come Blow Your Horn
- Contempt (Le Mépris)
- Critic's Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
- Dementia 13
- Il Diavolo Golden Bear winner
- Donovan's Reef
- Dr. No (U.S. release)
- Father Came Too!
- Flaming Creatures
- The Four Days of Naples (U.S. release)
- From Russia with Love
- Fun in Acapulco
- A Gathering of Eagles
- Gidget Goes to Rome
- The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen
- Hands Over the City Golden Lion winner
- Hud
- Irma la Douce -(film mentioned in article)
- It Happened at the World's Fair
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Ladybug Ladybug
- The Leopard Palme d'Or winner
- The L-Shaped Room
- Lilies of the Field
- Love With the Proper Stranger
- Matango
- McLintock!
- Move Over, Darling
- A New Kind of Love
- The Nutty Professor, starring Jerry Lewis
- One Got Fat
- PT 109
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
- Sleep, by Andy Warhol
- Son of Flubber
- Sundays and Cybele
- Sunshine in a Net
- The Sword in the Stone
- This Sporting Life
- To Bed or Not to Bed
- Tom Jones
- Toys in the Attic
- Twilight of Honor
- The V.I.P.s
- The Wheeler Dealers
- Who's Minding the Store-, starring Jerry Lewis
- The Wrong Arm of the Law
- Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke starring Sunil Dutt
- Zuo ye meng hun zhong
Short Film Series
Births
Deaths
- January 2 - Jack Carson, 52, Canadian actor
- January 2 - Dick Powell, 58, American actor, director
- January 6 - Frank Tuttle, 70, American director
- January 28 - John Farrow, 58, Australian director
- February 18 - Monte Blue, 76, American actor
- April 4 - Jason Robards Sr., 70, American actor
- May 6 - Monty Woolley, 74, American actor
- June 7 - Zasu Pitts, 69, American actress
- July 25 - Leota Lane, 59, American singer, actress
- August 17 - Richard Barthelmess, 68, American actor
- October 29 - Adolphe Menjou, 73, American actor
- November 1 - Elsa Maxwell, 82, American gossip columnist
- December 2 - Sabu, 39, Indian actor
- December 5 - Tom London, 74, American actor
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