1968 in film
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Events
- October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
- November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.
Top grossing films
- North America
- The Graduate
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Gone with the Wind re-release
- Bonnie and Clyde (film)
- Valley of the Dolls
- The Odd Couple
- Planet of the Apes
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Jungle Book
- Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)
- Best Picture: Oliver! - Romulus, Columbia
- Best Director: Carol Reed, Oliver!
- Best Actor: Cliff Robertson - Charly
- Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
Births
- January 2 - Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
- January 6 - John Singleton, director and writer
- January 14 - LL Cool J, rapper, actor
- February 1 - Pauly Shore, actor
- February 18 - Molly Ringwald, actress
- April 14 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
- April 24 - Stacy Haiduk, actress
- April 19 - Ashley Judd, actress
- September 10 - Guy Ritchie, director, writer, married to Madonna
- September 30 - Monica Bellucci, actress
- December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
- December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor
Deaths
- July 1 - Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer French/American filmmaker (d. 1968)
- August 26 - Kay Francis, actress
- October 30 - Ramon Novarro, actor
- November 25 - Upton Sinclair, writer and producer
- December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress
- December 20 - John Steinbeck, writer
Other movies released
- , directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Artists Under the Big Top Golden Lion winner
- Bandolero!
- Barbarella
- Brilliantovaya ruka (Diamond Arm) - a hugely popular Russian comedy
- Bullitt
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - starring Dick Van Dyke
- Destroy All Monsters
- Disoriented, Golden Lion winner
- Faces
- Finian's Rainbow
- Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
- Gamera and Mothra: Earth Defense War
- Ice Station Zebra
- Live a Little, Love a Little
- Monterey Pop
- Ole Dole Doff Golden Bear winner
- Oliver!, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, and Harry Secombe
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Rachel, Rachel
- Shame
- Speedway
- Star! (film)
- Stay Away, Joe
- The Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- The Lion in Winter
- The One and Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band
- The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars
- The Shoes of the Fisherman, Anthony Quinn
- The Subject Was Roses
- War and Peace
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (short subject)
- Witchfinder General, directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price
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