1960 in film

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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Template:See also The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1960
Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1 Spartacus Universal $14,000,000<ref name=Finler>Template:Cite book</ref>
2 Psycho ParamountTemplate:Refn $9,100,000<ref name=Finler/>
3 Exodus United Artists $8,500,000<ref name=Finler/>
4 Swiss Family Robinson Buena Vista $8,100,000<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
5 The Alamo United Artists $7,900,000<ref name=Finler/>
6 The World of Suzie Wong Paramount $7,500,000<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
7 BUtterfield 8 MGM $6,800,000<ref name="Mannix">Template:Citation</ref>
8 The Apartment United Artists $6,700,000<ref name=Finler/>
9 Ocean's 11 Warner Bros. $5,500,000<ref name=Finler/>
10 From the Terrace 20th Century Fox $5,200,000<ref name=Finler/>

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Top-grossing films by country

The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America.

Country Title Director Revenue Admissions Source(s)
France Ben-Hur William Wyler Template:N/a 13,826,124 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
West Germany Ben-Hur William Wyler Template:N/a 13,525,000 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
India Mughal-e-Azam K. Asif $23,110,000 100,000,000 <ref group="n">Mughal-e-Azam in India: [[Indian rupee|Template:INR]]11 crore,<ref name="boi60">Template:Cite web</ref> 4.76 Indian rupees per US dollar<ref>Template:Cite web</ref></ref><ref name="hindi">Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century Template:Webarchive, Box Office India, 8 June 2017</ref>
Italy Ben-Hur William Wyler Template:N/a 15,400,000 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Soviet Union Far from the Motherland Aleksei Shvachko $2,625,000 42,000,000 <ref group="n">10.5 million Rbls (42 million Soviet tickets sold,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> average ticket price of 25 kopecks),<ref name="moscow7">Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011</ref> 4 SUR per USD<ref group="n" name="RubleUSD">4 Rbls per US dollar from 1950 to 1960<ref name="russia">Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls</ref></ref></ref>
Spain Ben-Hur William Wyler Template:N/a 4,653,194 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
United Kingdom Ben-Hur William Wyler Template:N/a 13,200,000 <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 18th Golden Globe Awards
March 16, 1961		 33rd Academy Awards
April 17, 1961
Drama Comedy or Musical
Best Film Spartacus The Apartment (Comedy)
Song Without End (Musical)		 The Apartment
Best Director Jack Cardiff
Sons and Lovers		 Billy Wilder
The Apartment
Best Actor Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry		 Jack Lemmon
The Apartment		 Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Best Actress Greer Garson
Sunrise at Campobello		 Shirley MacLaine
The Apartment		 Elizabeth Taylor
BUtterfield 8
Best Supporting Actor Sal Mineo
Exodus		 Peter Ustinov
Spartacus
Best Supporting Actress Janet Leigh
Psycho		 Shirley Jones
Elmer Gantry
Best Foreign Language Film La Vérité
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
The Virgin Spring		 The Virgin Spring

1960 film releases

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Notable films released in 1960

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