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The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
- Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), running more than 40 years.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lawrence of Arabia | Columbia | $20,310,000 |
| 2. | The Longest Day | 20th Century Fox | $17,600,000 |
| 3. | In Search of the Castaways | Disney | $9,975,000 |
| 4. | The Music Man | Warner Brothers | $8,100,000 |
| 5. | That Touch of Mink | Universal | $7,942,000 |
| 6. | Mutiny on the Bounty | MGM | $7,410,000 |
| 7. | To Kill a Mockingbird | Universal | $7,112,000 |
| 8. | Hatari | Paramount | $7,000,000 |
| 9. | Gypsy | Warner Brothers | $6,000,000 |
| 10. | Bon Voyage! The Interns |
Disney Columbia |
$5,000,000 |
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1962.shtml
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
- The 300 Spartans
- A Symposium on Popular Songs
- Advise and Consent
- The Amphibian Man
- Billy Budd
- Billy Rose's Jumbo
- Birdman of Alcatraz
- Bon Voyage!
- Boys' Night Out
- Cape Fear
- Carry On Cruising
- David and Lisa
- The Day of the Triffids
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana)
- Le Doulos (The Finger Man), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Dr. No (U.K.)
- L'Eclisse
- Family Diary (Cronaca familiare)
- Freud
- Follow That Dream
- Gigot
- Girls! Girls! Girls!
- Gorath
- The Given Word (O Pagador de Promessas)
- Gypsy
- Hatari!, starring John Wayne
- How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, Agnes Moorehead, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck etc.
- Hussar of the Dead (Restored)
- In Search of the Castaways
- It's Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis
- Keeper of Promises
- Kid Galahad
- A Kind of Loving
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Knife in the Water
- Last Year at Marienbad (U.S. release)
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Lisa
- Lolita
- Lonely are the Brave
- Long Day's Journey into Night
- The Longest Day
- Lycanthropus
- The Manchurian Candidate
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- Merrill's Marauders
- The Miracle Worker
- Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
- The Music Man
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- My Geisha
- My Name is Ivan
- Panic in Year Zero!
- Phaedra
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Period of Adjustment
- The Premature Burial (film mentioned in article)
- Requiem for a Heavyweight (film mentioned in article)
- Ride the High Country
- State Fair
- Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (film mentioned in article)
- The Tale of Zatoichi
- Tender Is the Night
- 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)
- Tudor
- Two for the Seesaw
- War of the Buttons
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
- Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
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
- February 5 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
- March 21 - Matthew Broderick, actor
- May 12 - Emilio Estevez, actor
- June 13 - Ally Sheedy, actress
- July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
- September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
- September 11 - Kristy McNichol, actress
- September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
- October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
- October 13 - Kelly Preston, actress
- November 11 - Demi Moore, US actress
- November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director
Deaths
- January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor
- April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director
- April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress
- May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress
- June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor
- June 24 - Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress
- July 2 - Valeska Suratt, 80, stage & silent screen actress
- August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress
- August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor
- October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director
- October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress
- December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor
- December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress
Film Debuts
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