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1962 in film
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The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the longest-running motion picture franchise of all time, running more than 40 years.
Top grossing films
- North America
- West Side Story
- Spartacus
- El Cid
- Lover Come Back
- That Touch of Mink
- tie King of Kings and The Music Man
- Hatari!, starring John Wayne
Awards
- Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia
- Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
- Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth
- Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
- Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink
- Best Picture (tie): The Music Man
- Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy
- Other
- Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy
- My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom
Films released in 1962
- Billy Budd
- Birdman of Alcatraz
- Boys' Night Out
- Cape Fear
- David and Lisa
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana)
- Le Doulos (The Finger Man), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Dr. No
- Family Diary (Cronaca familiare)
- Follow That Dream
- Girls! Girls! Girls!
- Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas) (aka The Given Word)
- Gypsy
- Hatari!, starring John Wayne
- How the West Was Won
- It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis
- Keeper of Promises
- Kid Galahad
- A Kind of Loving
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Knife in the Water
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Lolita
- Lonely are the Brave
- The Longest Day
- Lycanthropus
- The Manchurian Candidate
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- The Miracle Worker
- The Music Man
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- My Name is Ivan
- Panic in Year Zero!
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Premature Burial -(film mentioned in article)
- Requiem for a Heavyweight -(film mentioned in article)
- Ride the High Country
- State Fair -(film mentioned in article)
- Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray)
- Sweet Bird of Youth -(film mentioned in article)
- Taras Bulba
- Tender Is the Night
- That Touch of Mink
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
- The Trial
- Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc)
- War of the Buttons
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Short Film Series
- Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
- Terrytoons (1930-1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
- Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
- Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)
Births
- January 1 - Nancy Mette,actress
- January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
- July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
- September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
- September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
- October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
- November 11 - Demi Moore, US actress
- November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director
Deaths
- January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, actor
- May 14 - Florence Auer, American actress
- August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress
- December 15 - Charles Laughton, British actor
- December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress
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