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The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
Animation legend Walter Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died in 15 December 1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer. He had been a smoker since the 1940s.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Awards
- Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons - Highland, Columbia
- Best Director: Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
- Best Actor: Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
- Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie
- Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Best Foreign Language Film: A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
BAFTA Film Awards:
- Best Film from any Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Best British film: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- Drama:
- Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons
- Best Actor: Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
- Best Actress: Anouk Aimée - A Man and a Woman
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
- Best Actor: Alan Arkin - The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
- Best Actress: Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl
- Other
- Best Director: Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
- Signore & Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians), directed by Pietro Germi, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria / Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Cul-de-sac, directed by Roman Polanski, United Kingdom
Films released in 1966
U.S.A. unless stated
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- 7 Women, the last film of John Ford, starring Anne Bancroft
A
- Aakhri Khat (The Last Letter) - (India)
- Agent for H.A.R.M.
- Alfie, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin - (U.K.)
- Alvarez Kelly
- Amrapali, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt - (India)
- Andrei Rublev, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Appaloosa, starring Marlon Brando
- Arabesque, starring Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck
- L'armata Brancaleone, directed by Mario Monicelli - (Italy)
- Around the World Under the Sea, starring Lloyd Bridges
- Au hasard Balthazar (Chosen by Lot Balthazar), directed by Robert Bresson - (France/Sweden)
- Aybolit-66 - (U.S.S.R.)
B
- Bariera (Barrier), directed by Jerzy Skolimowski - (Poland)
- Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward
- The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo - Golden Lion winner - (Italy/Algeria)
- Beregis Avtomobilya (Beware of the Automobile) - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Bible: In The Beginning, directed by John Huston, starring Stephen Boyd, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris
- The Big Gundown (La resa dei conti) - (Italy)
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady, starring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore & Signori) - (Italy)
- Black Girl (La Noire de...), directed by Ousmane Sembène - (France/Senegal)
- Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave -- winner of Palme d'Or, 1967 Cannes Film Festival - (Italy/U.K./U.S.)
- The Blue Max, starring George Peppard - (U.K.)
- Born Free, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers - (U.K.)
- Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, starring Bob Hope
- A Bullet for the General (El Chucho, quién sabe?), starring Gian Maria Volonte and Klaus Kinski - (Italy)
C
- Carry On Screaming! - (U.K.)
- Chappaqua, featuring William S. Burroughs
- The Chase, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Robert Redford
- Chelsea Girls, directed by Andy Warhol, starring Nico
- Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky), directed by Jiří Menzel - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1967) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Come Drink With Me - (Hong Kong)
- Cul-de-sac, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac - Golden Bear winner - (U.K.)
D
- Daimajin - (Japan)
- Daisies (Sedmikrásky) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD - (U.K.)
- The Daydreamer
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, starring James Coburn
- The Deadly Affair, directed by Sidney Lumet - (U.K.)
- Death of a Bureaucrat (La Muerte de un Burócrata) - (Cuba)
- Django - (Italy/Spain)
- Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At (La grande vadrouille) - (France/U.K.)
- Le deuxieme souffle, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - (France
- Dracula: Prince of Darkness, starring Christopher Lee - (U.K.)
- Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner
E
F
- The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) - (Japan)
- Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut, starring Julie Christie, Oskar Werner - (U.K.)
- The Family Way, a Boulting Brothers film, starring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett - (U.K.)
- Fantastic Voyage, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch
- Fighting Elegy (けんかえれじい), directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)
- Follow Me, Boys!, directed by Norman Tokar, starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Kurt Russell
- The Fortune Cookie (a.k.a. Meet Whiplash Willie), directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
- Frankie and Johnny, starring Elvis Presley
- Funeral in Berlin, starring Michael Caine - (U.K.)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, directed by Richard Lester, starring Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford - (U.S./U.K.)
G
- Gambit, starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine
- Gamera vs. Barugon - (Japan)
- Georgy Girl, directed by Silvio Narizzano, starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates - (U.K.)
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken starring Don Knotts
- Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster - (Japan)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach - (Italy)
- The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery - (U.K.)
- The Group, starring Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Jessica Walter
H
- Harper, starring Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Lauren Bacall, Pamela Tiffin, Julie Harris, Janet Leigh
- Hawaii, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris
- Here's Your Life (Här har du ditt liv) - (Sweden)
- How To Steal a Million, directed by William Wyler, starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole
- Hunger - (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)
- The Hunt (La Caza), directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
I
- Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?), directed by Rene Clement, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron - (France/U.S.A.)
- It Happened Here - (U.K.)
J
- Johnny Reno, starring Jane Russell
- Judith - (Israel/U.K./U.S.)
K
- Khartoum, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
- King of Hearts (Le Roi de Cœur), directed by Philipe de Broca, starring Alan Bates - (France)
- Kriminal - (Italy/Spain)
L
M
- Madame X
- Mademoiselle, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jeanne Moreau - (France/U.K.)
- Mamta, starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
- A Man and a Woman, directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant -- Palme d'Or winner - (France)
- The Man Called Flintstone
- A Man for All Seasons, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles - winner of 6 Academy Awards and 5 BAFTAs - (U.K.)
- "Manos" The Hands of Fate
- Masculine-Feminine by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
- Mera Saaya, starring Sunil Dutt - (India)
- Mission to Death
- Morgan! (aka Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment), directed by Karel Reisz - (U.K.)
- Murderers' Row, starring Dean Martin
N
- The Naked Prey, starring Cornel Wilde - (U.S./South Africa)
- Nayak, directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
- Nevada Smith, starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Suzanne Pleshette, Brian Keith
- Nobody Wanted to Die - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Nun (La Religieuse), directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Anna Karina - (France)
O
- One Million Years B.C., starring Raquel Welch - (U.K.)
- The Oscar, starring Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Jill St. John, Tony Bennett
- Our Man Flint, starring James Coburn
P
- Paradise, Hawaiian Style, starring Elvis Presley
- Penelope, starring Natalie Wood
- Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullman - (Sweden)
- Pharaoh - (Poland)
- The Plague of the Zombies - (U.K.)
- The Pornographers, directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
- The Priest and the Girl (O Padre e a Moça) - (Brazil)
- The Professionals, starring Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
R
- The Rare Breed, starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
- A Report on the Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech), directed by Jan Němec - (Czechoslovakia)
- Return of the Seven, starring Yul Brynner
- Roman Candles, directed by John Waters
- Rondo - (Yugoslavia)
- Run, Appaloosa, Run
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Alan Arkin and Eva Marie Saint
S
- The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen
- The Sandwich Man - (U.K.)
- Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Rock Hudson
- Shiroi Kyotō - (Japan)
- The Shooting, starring Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson
- The Shop on Main Street (U.S. release)
- The Silencers, starring Dean Martin
- The Singing Nun, starring Debbie Reynolds and Greer Garson
- Spinout, starring Elvis Presley
- Suraj, starring Vyjayanthimala and Rajendra Kumar - (India)
- The Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tōge) - (Japan)
T
- Teesri Kasam (Third Oath), starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
- They're a Weird Mob by Powell and Pressburger - (Australia)
- This Property is Condemned, starring Natalie Wood
- Three On A Couch, starring Jerry Lewis
- Torn Curtain, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews
- The Trap - (U.K./Canada)
- Triple Cross, starring Christopher Plummer, Claudine Auger and Gert Frobe - (U.K./(France)
- The Trouble with Angels, directed by Ida Lupino, starring Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills
- Trunk to Cairo, directed by Menahem Golan - (Israel)
W
- Walk Don't Run, starring Cary Grant
- The War Is Over (La Guerre est Finie), directed by Alain Resnais, starring Yves Montand and Ingrid Thulin - (France)
- War of the Gargantuas - (Japan)
- Way...Way Out, starring Jerry Lewis
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Elizabeth Taylor, (Best Actress Oscar), Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
- The Wild Angels, starring Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra
- Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (animated short)
- The Wrong Box, starring Peter Sellers, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - (U.K.)
Y
- The Young Rounders
- Young Torless, directed by Volker Schlöndorff - (West Germany)
Short Film Series
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Sylvester the Cat (1944-1966)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
- Daffy Duck (1937–1968)
Births
- January 6 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
- January 13 - Patrick Dempsey, actor
- February 25 - Téa Leoni, actress
- April 8 - Robin Wright Penn, actress
- April 9 - Cynthia Nixon, actress
- May 20 - Helena Bonham Carter, actress
- June 28 - John Cusack, actor, brother of actress Joan Cusack
- June 28 - Mary Stuart Masterson, actress
- July 10- A.O. Scott, film critic of The New York Times
- July 11 - Debbe Dunning, actress
- July 15 - Irène Jacob, actress
- July 29 - Martina McBride, popular country singer
- August 14 - Halle Berry, actress
- September 2 - Salma Hayek, actress
- September 9 - Adam Sandler, American actor
- November 17 - Sophie Marceau, actress
- November 23 - Vincent Cassel, actor
- December 21 - Kiefer Sutherland, actor
Deaths
- January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, 72, Irish actor
- January 22 - Herbert Marshall, 75, British actor
- January 31 - Elizabeth Patterson, 90, American actress
- February 1 - Buster Keaton, 70, American actor and film director
- February 1 - Hedda Hopper, 80, American gossip columnist and former actress
- February 9 - Sophie Tucker, 82, Russian-born American singer and actress
- June 5 - Natacha Rambova, 69, American actress
- June 19 - Ed Wynn, 79, American actor
- July 23 - Montgomery Clift, 45, American actor
- July 23 - Douglass Montgomery, 59, American actor
- August 3 - Lenny Bruce, 40, American satirist, Father of modern stand up
- August 15 - Jan Kiepura, 64, Polish tenor and actor
- August 15 - Seena Owen, 71, American actress
- August 23 - Francis X. Bushman, 83, American actor
- October 13 - Clifton Webb, 76, American actor
- October 16 - George O'Hara, 67, American actor
- October 24 - Hans Dreier, 81, German art director of European and American films
- December 14 - Richard Whorf, 60, American actor and director
- December 15 - Walter Disney, 65, American producer and cartoonist
- September 14 - Nikolay Cherkasov, 63, Soviet Actor
Debuts
References
- ^ "The Bible: In the Beginning, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0BBLE.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Hawaii, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0HWII.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0WAVW.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "The Sand Pebbles, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/00248.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "A Man For All Seasons, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0MFAS.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=goodbadandugly.htm. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/00241.php. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ^ "The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0RURU.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Grand Prix, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/00231.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "The Professionals, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/00245.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Alfie, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0ALFI.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Georgy Girl, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0GRGG.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "The Silencers, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0SCRS.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Follow Me, Boys!, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/00230.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "The Blue Max, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0BMAX.php. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ^ "The Wild Angels, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0WIAN.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "A Man and a Woman, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0MAWO.php. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ^ "Torn Curtain, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0TCUR.php. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ^ "Fantastic Voyage, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0FAVO.php. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Harper, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1966/0HRPR.php. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
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