1961 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Academy Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Other Movies Released

Events

• Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) released

1. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
2. El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
3. The Last Time I Saw Archie
4. Teen Kanya
5. Posto, Il

• Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
• Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
• Best Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women

• January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
• January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
• February 11 - Carey Lowell, actress
• April 6 - Gene Eugene, actor, lead singer of Adam Again
• October 31 - Peter Jackson, director
• November 19 - Meg Ryan,US actress

• February 11 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director
• October 11 - Chico Marx, member of the Marx Brothers

• Fanny
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler
• Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
• West Side Story