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Orson Welles' 1968 film The Immortal Story played in the U.S. as a double feature with Luis Buñuel's Simon of the Desert?

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The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

1 Events
2 Top grossing films (U.S.)
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1968
5 Short Film Series
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Film Debuts
9 External links

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 (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Funny Girl	Columbia	Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif	$26,325,000
2.	2001: A Space Odyssey	MGM	Keir Dullea	$25,522,000
3.	Bullitt	Warner Bros.	Steve McQueen	$20,000,000
4.	Romeo and Juliet	Paramount	Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey	$19,000,000
5.	Rosemary's Baby	Paramount	Mia Farrow	$17,437,000
6.	Oliver!	Columbia	Mark Lester, Ron Moody and Jack Wild	$16,800,000
7.	Planet of the Apes	20th Century Fox	Charlton Heston	$15,000,000
8.	Yours, Mine, and Ours	United Artists	Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda	$15,000,000
9.	The Thomas Crown Affair	United Artists	Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway	$11,639,000
10.	The Lion in Winter	Embassy	Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn	$10,006,000

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Oliver! - Romulus, Columbia

Best Director: Carol Reed - Oliver!

Best Actor: Cliff Robertson - Charly

Best Actress (tie): Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter

Best Actress (tie): Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

Best Supporting Actor: Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses

Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby

Best Foreign Language Film: War and Peace (Война и мир), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (USSR)

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Lion in Winter

Best Actor: Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter

Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Oliver!

Best Actor: Ron Moody - Oliver!

Best Actress: Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

Other

Best Director: Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die? ), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden

Films released in 1968

2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick

Artists Under the Big Top (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos), Golden Lion winner
Arizona Bushwhackers
The Astro-Zombies

Bandolero!, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin and Raquel Welch
Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda
Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford and Diana Dors
Blackbeard's Ghost
The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis
Brilliantovaya ruka (Diamond Arm) - a hugely popular Russian comedy
Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, starring Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas

Candy
Carry On... Up the Khyber
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Charly, starring Cliff Robertson
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - starring Dick Van Dyke
Coogan's Bluff
Curse of the Crimson Altar (aka The Crimson Cult (US)

Danger: Diabolik
Day of the Evil Gun
Destroy All Monsters
The Detective - starring Frank Sinatra
The Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis

Faces
Firecreek
Finian's Rainbow
For Love of Ivy
Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif

Gamera and Mothra: Earth Defense War ?? (17e Parallele Le Vietnam En Guerre)
Gamera vs. Viras (also known as "Destroy All Planets")
The Great Silence
The Green Berets