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The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film^{[citation needed]}.

Events

• December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television.
• The prototype for the IMAX large-format-film acquisition and screening system is exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada
• The MPAA uses a new logo and is still used today.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night - Mirisch, United Artists

Best Director: Mike Nichols - The Graduate

Best Actor: Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night

Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke

Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde

Best Foreign Language Film: Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky), directed by Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night

Best Actor: Rod Steiger' - In the Heat of the Night

Best Actress: Edith Evans - The Whisperers

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Graduate

Best Actor: Richard Harris - Camelot

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Graduate

Other

Best Director: Mike Nichols - The Graduate

Best English Language Foreign Film: The Fox, United Kingdom

Best Foreign Film: Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre), France

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Belle de jour, directed by Louis Buñuel, France / Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium

Films released in 1967

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• The 25th Hour - (France/Italy/Romania)

A

• Accident, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker - (U.K.)
• The Ambushers, starring Dean Martin
• The Andromeda Nebula - (U.S.S.R.)
• Anna Karenina - (U.S.S.R.)

B

• Banning, starring Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Susan Clark and Gene Hackman
• Barefoot in the Park, starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda
• The Battle of Algiers (U.S. release)
• Beach Red
• Bedazzled, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Raquel Welch - (U.K.)
• Belle de jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve - winner of Golden Lion - (France)
• The Big Mouth, starring Jerry Lewis
• Billion Dollar Brain, directed by Ken Russell, starring Michael Caine - (U.K.)
• Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway - nominated for 10 Academy Awards
• The Born Losers (name should be "Born Losers")
• Branded to Kill, directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)
• The Busy Body, starring Sid Caesar, Robert Ryan and Richard Pryor

C

• Camelot, a musical directed by Joshua Logan, starring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero with songs by Lerner and Loewe
• The Cape Town Affair, starring James Brolin and Jacqueline Bisset
• Caprice, starring Doris Day
• Carry On Doctor - (U.K.)
• Casino Royale, starring David Niven as James Bond, with Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress - (U.K.)
• Catalina Caper
• Cervantes, starring Horst Buchholz and Gina Lollobrigida - (Spain/France/Italy)
• Charlie Bubbles, directed by and starring Albert Finney with Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli - (U.K.)
• La Chinoise, directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• Clambake, starring Elvis Presley
• La collectionneuse (The Collector), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• A Colt Is My Passport (Koruto wa ore no pasupoto) - (Japan)
• Come Spy with Me
• The Comedians, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Alec Guinness
• Commissar - (U.S.S.R.)
• Cool Hand Luke, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy
• Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston
• A Countess from Hong Kong, directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren - (U.K.)

D

• A Degree of Murder (Mord und Totschlag), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Anita Pallenberg - (West Germany)
• Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jean-Pierre Leaud - winner of Golden Bear - (Belgium)
• Deadlier Than the Male, starring Richard Johnson and Elke Sommer - (U.K.)
• The Dirty Dozen, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
• Divorce American Style, starring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards and Jean Simmons
• Doctor Dolittle, a musical directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar and Anthony Newley
• Dont Look Back, a documentary by D.A. Pennebaker, featuring Bob Dylan
• Don't Make Waves, starring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale and Sharon Tate
• Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley
• Dragon Gate Inn (Lóng mén kè zhàn) (international release), directed by King Hu - (Taiwan)

E

• Easy Come, Easy Go
• Elvira Madigan, directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
• Entranced Earth (Terra em Transe), directed by Glauber Rocha - (Brazil)

F

• Far from the Madding Crowd, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch and Alan Bates - (U.K.)
• The Fastest Guitar Alive, starring Roy Orbison
• Fathom, starring Raquel Welch - (U.K.)
• The Fearless Vampire Killers, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Sharon Tate - (U.K./U.S.)
• Festival, a documentary about Newport Folk Festival
• The Firemen's Ball, directed by Milos Forman - (Czechoslovakia)
• A Fistful of Dollars (U.S. release)
• Fitzwilly, starring Dick Van Dyke and Barbara Feldon
• The Flim-Flam Man, starring George C. Scott
• Follow That Camel a.k.a. Carry On...Follow That Camel or Carry On In The Legion - (U.K.)
• For a Few Dollars More (U.S. release)
• Fort Utah
• The Fox, starring Sandy Dennis and Keir Dullea
• Frankenstein Created Woman - (U.K.)

G

• Gamera vs. Gyaos - (Japan)
• Games, starring Simone Signoret and James Caan
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (U.S. release)
• Good Times, starring Sonny and Cher
• The Graduate, premiered in Los Angeles on December 8, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
• Grand slam, starring Janet Leigh and Edward G. Robinson - (Italy/Spain/West Germany)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton
• A Guide for the Married Man, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Robert Morse

H

• Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele - (U.K.)
• Hatey Bazarey, starring Ashok Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
• Hamraaz, starring Sunil Dutt and Raaj Kumar - (India)
• The Happening, starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks and Faye Dunaway
• The Happiest Millionaire, starring Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Lesley Ann Warren, John Davidson
• Hells Angels on Wheels, starring Jack Nicholson
• Hombre, starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, Diane Cilento, Richard Boone
• The Honey Pot, starring Rex Harrison, Cliff Robertson, Susan Hayward, Edie Adams
• Hotel, starring Rod Taylor, Melvyn Douglas, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
• Hour of the Gun, starring James Garner
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (film), starring Robert Morse and Michele Lee
• Hurry Sundown, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jane Fonda and Michael Caine

I

• I Am Curious (Yellow) - (Sweden)
• I Even Met Happy Gypsies - (Yugoslavia)
• In Cold Blood, starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe
• In Like Flint, starring James Coburn
• In the Heat of the Night, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger -- winner of 5 Academy Awards including best picture
• The Incident, starring Beau Bridges

J

• Jewel Thief, starring Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala and Ashok Kumar - (India)
• The Jokers, directed by Michael Winner, starring Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford - (U.K.)
• The Jungle Book, a musical animated film from Disney Animation Studios

K

• Kidnapping, Caucasian Style - (U.S.S.R.)
• King Kong Escapes - (Japan/U.S.)
• Kinoautomat - (Czechoslovakia)
• Kyu-chan no Dekkai Yume - (Japan)

L

• Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Ljubavni slučaj ili tragedija službenice P.T.T.) - (Yugoslavia)

M

• Mad Monster Party
• Magical Mystery Tour - TV film with The Beatles - (U.K.)
• A Man Vanishes, directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
• Marat/Sade - (U.K.)
• Marketa Lazarova - (Czechoslovakia)
• Monster from a Prehistoric Planet - (Japan)
• Mouchette, directed by Robert Bresson - (France)

N

• The Naked Runner, directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Frank Sinatra
• The Night of the Generals, starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif - (U.K./France)

O

• Oedipus Rex, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Silvana Mangano - (Italy)
• The One-Armed Swordsman - (Hong Kong)
• Oscar - (France)
• Our Mother's House, starring Dirk Bogarde - (U.K.)

P

• Pedro Páramo, starring John Gavin - (Mexico)
• Peppermint Frappé, directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
• The Plank, directed by and starring Eric Sykes with Tommy Cooper - (U.K.)
• Playtime, directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France)
• Point Blank, directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson
• Poor Cow, directed by Ken Loach, starring Terence Stamp and Carol White - (U.K.)
• The President's Analyst, starring James Coburn
• Privilege, directed by Peter Watkins, starring Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton - (U.K.)

Q

• Quatermass and the Pit - (U.K.)

R

• Ram Aur Shyam - (India)
• The Red and the White (Csillagosok, katonak), directed by Miklos Jancso - (Hungary)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye, starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor
• The Reluctant Astronaut, starring Don Knotts
• Robbery, directed by Peter Yates, starring Stanley Baker - (U.K.)

S

• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, starring Jason Robards (as Al Capone)
• Le Samouraï (The Samurai), starring Alain Delon - (France)
• Samurai Rebellion (Jōi-uchi: Hairyō tsuma shimatsu), directed by Masaki Kobayashi, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Soleil O - (Mauritania/France)
• Son of Godzilla - (Japan)
• Stimulantia - (Sweden)
• The Stranger (Lo Straniero), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)

T

• The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor - (Italy/U.S.)
• Ten Thousand Days - (Hungary)
• The Tied Up Balloon, directed by Binka Zhelyazkova and starring Georgi Partsalev, Grigor Vachkov, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Konstantin Kotsev and Georgi Georgiev-Getz - (Bulgaria)
• The Thief of Paris, directed by Louis Malle and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Geneviève Bujold - (France)
• This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse - (Brazil)
• Thoroughly Modern Millie, starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
• The Tiger Makes Out, starring Eli Wallach
• Titicut Follies
• To Sir, with Love, starring Sidney Poitier - (U.K.)
• Tobruk, starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard
• Tony Rome, starring Frank Sinatra
• The Trip, directed by Roger Corman, starring Peter Fonda and Susan Strasberg
• Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney - (U.K.)
• The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant), directed by Claude Berri - (France)

U

• Ultraman - (Japan)
• Ulysses, starring Milo O'Shea - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Up the Down Staircase, starring Sandy Dennis
• Upkar - (India)

V

• Valley of the Dolls, starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke and Sharon Tate
• The Venetian Affair, starring Elke Sommer, Robert Vaughn and Felicia Farr
• Violated Angels (Okasareta Hakui) - (Japan)

W

• Wait Until Dark, starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin
• War and Peace (Voyna i mir) (international release), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)
• The War Wagon, starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas
• Warning Shot, starring David Janssen, Stefanie Powers and Joan Collins
• Waterhole No. 3, starring James Coburn and Margaret Blye
• We Still Kill the Old Way (A ciascuno il suo), starring Gian Maria Volonte and Irene Papas - (Italy)
• Week End, directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• Welcome to Hard Times, starring Henry Fonda
• The Whisperers - (U.K.)
• The White Bus, a short film by Lindsay Anderson - (U.K.)
• Who's Minding the Mint? starring Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Walter Brennan
• Who's That Knocking at My Door, directed by Martin Scorsese

Y

• You Only Live Twice, starring Sean Connery as James Bond - (U.K.)
• The Young Girls of Rochefort, directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac - (France)

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
• Daffy Duck (1937–1968)

Births

• January 2 - Tia Carrere, American actress
• January 14 - Emily Watson, English actress
• February 10 - Laura Dern, American actress
• February 19 - Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
• March 16 - Lauren Graham, American actress
• April 2 - Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
• May 1 - Scott Coffey, American actor/director
• May 31 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
• June 20 - Nicole Kidman, Australian actress
• July 1 - Pamela Anderson, American actress
• July 16 - Will Ferrell, American actor
• July 23 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
• October 4 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
• October 5 - Guy Pearce, Australian actor
• October 28 - Julia Roberts, American actress
• September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr.
• November 22 - Mark Ruffalo, actor
• November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, model and actress (d. 2007)
• December 16 - Miranda Otto, actress

Deaths

• January 8 – Zbigniew Cybulski, 39, Polish actor
• January 21 – Ann Sheridan, 51, American actress
• January 22 – Jobyna Ralston, 67, American actress
• February 14 – Sig Ruman, 82, German actor
• February 15 – Antonio Moreno, 79, Spanish-American actor and director
• February 16 – Smiley Burnette, 58, American actor
• February 16 – Martine Carol, 46, French actress
• February 24 – Franz Waxman, 60, German film composer
• February 28 – Václav Wasserman, 69, Czech actor, screenwriter and director
• March 5 – Mischa Auer, 61, Russian actor
• March 6 – Nelson Eddy, 65, Canadian singer and actor
• March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, 85, American singer and actress
• May 8 – LaVerne Andrews, 55, American singer and actress (Andrews Sisters)
• May 8 – Barbara Payton, 39, American actress
• May 30 – Claude Rains, 77, British actor
• June 10 – Spencer Tracy, 67, American actor
• June 16 – Reginald Denny, 75, British actor
• June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, 25, French actress
• June 29 – Jayne Mansfield, 34, American actress
• July 7 – Vivien Leigh, 53, British actress
• July 21 – David Weisbart, 52, American film editor and producer
• July 21 – Basil Rathbone, 75, British actor
• August 9 – Anton Walbrook, 70, Austrian actor
• August 13 – Jane Darwell, 87, American actress
• August 25 – Paul Muni, 71, Ukrainian-American actor
• October 12 - Nat Pendleton, 72, American actor, former Olympic swimmer
• November 1 - Benita Hume, 60, British actress
• November 9 - Charles Bickford, 76, American actor
• December 4 - Bert Lahr, 72, American actor

Film Debuts

• Richard Dreyfuss
• Faye Dunaway
• Dustin Hoffman
• Harvey Keitel
• Helen Mirren
• Richard Pryor
• Martin Sheen
• Jon Voight
• Lesley Ann Warren
• Gene Wilder

References