The year 1960 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
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 1Spartacus Universal $14,000,000 2 Psycho Paramount $9,100,000 3 Exodus United Artists $8,500,000 4 Swiss Family Robinson Buena Vista $8,100,000 5 The Alamo United Artists $7,900,000 6The World of Suzie Wong Paramount $7,500,000 7BUtterfield 8 MGM $6,800,000 8 The Apartment United Artists $6,700,000 9 Ocean's 11 Warner Bros. $5,500,000 10From the Terrace 20th Century Fox $5,200,000
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 13,826,124 West Germany Ben-Hur William Wyler 13,525,000 India Mughal-e-Azam K. Asif $23,110,000 100,000,000 Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century , Box Office India, 8 June 2017 Italy Ben-Hur William Wyler 15,400,000 Soviet Union Far from the Motherland Aleksei Shvachko $2,625,000 42,000,000 Spain Ben-Hur William Wyler 4,653,194 United Kingdom Ben-Hur William Wyler 13,200,000
Events March 5 – For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film G.I. Blues June 16 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, Psycho in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre. August 5 - Mughal-e-Azam, produced and directed by K. Asif and starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, and Durga Khote, premieres at the Maratha Mandir in Mumbai. Production has been plagued by delays and financial uncertainty. Before its principal photography began in the early 1950s, the project had lost a financier and undergone a complete change of cast. Mughal-e-Azam cost more to produce than any previous Indian motion picture but it breaks box office records in India and becomes the highest-grossing Indian film, a distinction it holds for 15 years. The film is widely considered to be a milestone for its genre, earning praise from critics for its grandeur and attention to detail, and the performances of its cast (especially that of Madhubala, who earns a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress). August 10 – Filming of West Side Story begins. October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films Spartacus and Exodus, released in the United States on these dates. October 27 – Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning released, first of the British social-realist wave. November 4 – Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, the last film for both (though Monroe will be working on another at the time of her death).
Awards Category/Organization 18th Golden Globe AwardsMarch 16, 1961 33rd Academy AwardsApril 17, 1961 Drama Comedy or Musical Best Film Spartacus The Apartment (Comedy)Song Without End (Musical) The Apartment Best Director Jack CardiffSons and Lovers Billy WilderThe Apartment Best Actor Burt LancasterElmer Gantry Jack LemmonThe Apartment Burt LancasterElmer Gantry Best Actress Greer GarsonSunrise at Campobello Shirley MacLaineThe Apartment Elizabeth TaylorBUtterfield 8 Best Supporting Actor Sal MineoExodus Peter UstinovSpartacus Best Supporting Actress Janet LeighPsycho Shirley JonesElmer Gantry Best Foreign Language Film La VéritéThe Trials of Oscar WildeThe Virgin Spring The Virgin Spring
1960 film releases United States unless stated
January–March January 1960 5 January When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Japan) 12 January Mrs. Warren's Profession (West Germany) 20 January The Immoral Mr. Teas 21 January Toby Tyler 26 January Two Way Stretch (U.K.) 27 January Cash McCall Take Aim at the Police Van (Japan) 28 January The Lady with the Dog (U.S.S.R.) February 1960 1 February Hell Bent for Leather 3 February The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond 4 February Visit to a Small Planet 5 February La Dolce Vita (Italy) 11 February Once More, with Feeling! Sink the Bismarck! (U.K.) 19 February Devi (India) The Last Voyage 24 February The Bramble Bush Kidnapped 25 February The Battle of the Sexes (U.K.) 27 February Cleopatra's Daughter The Hypnotic Eye March 1960 1 March Comanche Station Heller in Pink Tights 2 March Eyes Without a Face (France) 3 March Home from the Hill 4 March Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (U.K.) 5 March The 3rd Voice 9 March Can-Can 10 March Purple Noon (France) 12 March Seven Thieves 15 March 5 Branded Women The Angry Silence (U.K.) 17 March Breathless (France) 18 March The Hole (France) 23 March The Big Risk (France) 31 March Please Don't Eat the Daisies
April–June April 1960 2 April Twelve Hours to Kill 5 April The League of Gentlemen (U.K.) 6 April Tall Story The Unforgiven 10 April The Secret of the Telegian (Japan) Hell Is a City 13 April Obaltan (South Korea) 14 April The Fugitive Kind 15 April Who Was That Lady? 21 April The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia) 24 April Private Property 27 April The Demon of Mount Oe (Japan) May 1960 16 May Peeping Tom (U.K.) 17 May The Challenge (U.K.) 19 May Crack in the Mirror Pollyanna 25 May Faust (West Germany) 26 May Wild River June 1960 3 June Cruel Story of Youth (Japan) 7 June Never Let Go (U.K.) 9 June Macario (Mexico) 15 June The Apartment 16 June Psycho 17 June The Story of Ruth A Terrible Beauty 22 June The Gallant Hours House of Usher 23 June Bells Are Ringing The Party Is Over (Argentina) Portrait in Black 24 June Dinosaurus! 27 June Letter Never Sent (Russia) 28 June Murder, Inc. 29 June L'Avventura (Italy) Strangers When We Meet
July–September July 1960 7 July The Brides of Dracula Elmer Gantry Inherit the Wind 10 July 13 Ghosts The Rat Race 13 July The Lost World 15 July From the Terrace Knights of the Teutonic Order (Poland) 20 July The Bellboy 25 July The Entertainer (U.K.) 30 July Jigoku (Japan) August 1960 5 August Last Woman on Earth Mughal-e-Azam (India) Parakh (India) 7 August It Started in Naples 9 August Make Mine Mink (U.K.) 10 August Jungle Cat Ocean's 11 11 August Black Sunday (Italy) Song Without End 14 August Alakazam the Great (Japan) 17 August The Enchanting Shadow (Hong Kong) The Time Machine 20 August College Confidential September 1960 6 September Rocco and His Brothers (Italy/France) 8 September Let's Make Love 9 September September Storm The City of the Dead (U.K.) 14 September The Little Shop of Horrors 15 September Under Ten Flags 16 September High Time 19 September The Bad Sleep Well (Japan) 28 September Sunrise at Campobello 29 September Kapo (Italy) Surprise Package 30 September Hell to Eternity
October–December October 1960 1 October Autumn Has Already Started Never on Sunday (Greece/United States) 6 October Spartacus 8 October A False Student (Japan) Everything Goes Wrong (Japan) 9 October Night and Fog in Japan (Japan) 12 October The Magnificent Seven 13 October Midnight Lace 17 October The Devil's Eye (Sweden) 18 October The Millionairess (U.K.) 24 October The Alamo 27 October Everybody Go Home (Italy) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (U.K.) 28 October Zazie in the Metro (France) 31 October Man in the Moon (U.K.) November 1960 1 November Her Brother (Japan) Ten Who Dared 3 November El Cochecito (Spain) Five Cartridges (East Germany) The Housemaid (South Korea) 4 November BUtterfield 8 G.I. Blues 10 November The World of Suzie Wong (U.K./U.S.) 13 November Late Autumn (Japan) North to Alaska 14 November The Facts of Life 16 November Fortunat (France/Italy) 22 November Cinderfella 23 November Go to Hell, Hoodlums! The Naked Island (Japan) 25 November Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (Italy) December 1960 1 December Cimarron 7 December Village of the Damned (U.K.) 9 December The Sundowners Barsaat Ki Raat (India) 11 December The Human Vapor 12 December The River of Love (Egypt) The Yellow Gloves (Greece) 14 December Esther and the King (U.S./Italy) 16 December Exodus The 3 Worlds of Gulliver 17 December Innocent Sorcerers (Poland) West Side Story ( United States) 20 December Flaming Star Pepe Tunes of Glory (U.K.) The Wackiest Ship in the Army 21 December Swiss Family Robinson 23 December The Grass Is Greener 28 December Where the Boys Are 30 December The Last Witness (West Germany)
Notable films released in 1960 United States unless stated
# The 3rd Voice, directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Edmond O'Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London 5 Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau 13 Ghosts, directed by William Castle
A Adua and Friends (Adua e le compagne), starring Simone Signoret – (Italy) Alakazam the Great (Saiyu-ki), an anime film – (Japan) The Alamo, directed by and starring John Wayne, co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Chill Wills, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone Ali Baba Bujang Lapok – (Malaysia/Singapore) The Angry Silence, starring Richard Attenborough – (U.K.) Anuradha – (India) The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edie Adams Autumn Has Already Started (Aki tachinu), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan) L'Avventura (The Adventure), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni – (Italy)
B Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście) – (Poland) Barsaat Ki Raat, starring Madhubala and Bharat Bhushan – (India) The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan) Because They're Young, starring Dick Clark Beat Girl, starring David Farrar, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Christopher Lee – (U.K.) The Bellboy, starring Jerry Lewis Bells Are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, and Jean Stapleton Beyond the Time Barrier The Big Risk (Classe tous risques), starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France) Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) – (Italy) Les Bonnes Femmes (The Girls), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France) The Bramble Bush, starring Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson Breathless (À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg – (France) The Brides of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.) The Broken Pots (Kırık Çanaklar) – (Turkey) BUtterfield 8, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
C Can-Can, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse Carry On Constable, starring Sid James and Eric Barker – (U.K.) Cash McCall, starring James Garner and Natalie Wood The Challenge, a.k.a. It Takes A Thief, starring Jayne Mansfield – (U.K.) Cidade Ameaçada (a.k.a. Jerry the Gangster) – (Brazil) Cimarron, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter Cinderfella, starring Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti Circus of Horrors, starring Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence – (U.K.) Cleopatra's Daughter, starring Debra Paget The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Daka Tara), directed by Ritwik Ghatak – (India) El Cochecito (The Little Coach), directed by Marco Ferreri – (Spain) College Confidential, starring Mamie Van Doren Comanche Station, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott Come Back, Africa, documentary film – (South Africa) Crack in the Mirror, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Gréco The Criminal, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker – (U.K.) Cruel Story of Youth (Seishun Zankoku Monogatari), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
D The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, starring Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight, Robert Preston, Angela Lansbury Dentist in the Chair, starring Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor – (U.K.) Desire in the Dust, starring Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer, Raymond Burr Devi (a.k.a. The Goddess), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)