Movies History Timeline 1961 - 1970 |
| Year | Events | Records | Inventions | Articles | Awards | Movies | Indian Movies | Personalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | West Side Story is adapted for the big screen, and will go
on to win Oscars for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (George Chakiris), Supporting
Actress (Rita Moreno), and Directing (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins). Audrey Hepburn delights as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, but Henry Mancini emerges as the real star. He won two Oscars and four Grammy Awards for the score, which included the hit "Moon River." 
Best Picture.
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101 Dalmatians released. | Junglee released. | Death of Gary Cooper (May 13). | ||||
| 1962 | Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam released. | Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose at age 36. | ||||||
| 1963 | Bandini released. | |||||||
| 1964 | Red Desert makes spectacular use of the recently perfected zoom lens, which increases the optical mobility of a shot and its expressive capacities. | Goldfinger released. | dosthi released. | |||||
| 1965 | The Sound of Music premieres. An instant hit, the film
was one of the top-grossing films of 1965 and remains one of film's most
popular musicals. |
Guide released. Based on the popular novel, "The Guide" by R.K.Narayan. | Death of Judy Holliday(June 7). | |||||
| 1966 | Teesri Manzil released. | |||||||
| 1967 | The Jungle Book released. | Upkar released. Two brothers in a poor village are devoted to each other. | Death of Spencer Tracy (June 10).
Death of Vivien Leigh(July 8). |
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| 1968 | The motion picture rating system debuts with G, PG, R and
X. |
Padosan released. | ||||||
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy wins the Best Picture Oscar, the first and
only time an X-rated movie received the honor.
Best Picture.
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid released. | Aradhana releasd. | |||||
| 1970 | George C. Scott gives one of film's most memorable performances
in Patton. He won the Best Actor Oscar for his turn as the title character,
but refused the gold statuette.
Best Actor.
|
Mera Naam Joker released. A Raj Kapoor classic. | ||||||
| Year | Events | Records | Inventions | Articles | Awards | Movies | Indian Movies | Personalities |
Movie History Timeline : 1951 - 1960 |
Movie History Timeline : 1971 - 1980 |
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