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The year 1966 in film involved some significant events. A Man for All Seasons won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Top-grossing films

North America

The top ten 1966 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1966
Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1 Hawaii United Artists $15,600,000[1]
2 The Bible: In the Beginning... 20th Century Fox $15,000,000[1]
3 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Warner Bros. $14,500,000[1]
4 The Sand Pebbles 20th Century Fox $13,500,000[1]
5 A Man for All Seasons Columbia $12,800,000[1]
6 The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming United Artists $9,800,000[1]
7 Grand Prix MGM $9,300,000[1]
8 The Professionals Columbia $8,800,000[1]
9 Alfie Paramount $8,500,000[2]
10 Georgy Girl Columbia $7,600,000[2]

Outside North America

The highest-grossing 1966 films in countries outside North America.

Country Title Studio Gross
India Phool Aur Patthar Ralhan Productions $11,790,000[n 1]
Soviet Union War and Peace Mosfilm $64,000,000[n 2]

Events

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons – Highland, Columbia
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons
Best Actor: Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau – The Fortune Cookie
Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Foreign Language Film: A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France


BAFTA Film Awards:

Best Film from any Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best British film: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:
Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons
Best Actor: Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
Best Actress: Anouk Aimée – A Man and a Woman
Comedy or Musical:
Best Picture: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Best Actor: Alan Arkin – The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Best Actress: Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl
Other
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Attenborough – The Sand Pebbles
Best Supporting Actress: Jocelyne LaGarde – Hawaii
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), directed by Claude Lelouch, France
Signore & Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians), directed by Pietro Germi, Italy

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Location: Italy

Silver Ribbon

  • Best Actor winner in Questa volta parliamo di uomini (This Time Let's Talk about Men): Nino Manfredi
  • Best Actress winner in La fuga: Giovanna Ralli
  • Best Supporting Actor winner in I Knew Her Well: Ugo Tognazzi
    • Nominees in The Mandrake: Totò and Romolo Valli
  • Best Supporting Actress winner in Juliet of the Spirits: Sandra Milo
    • Nominee in Made in Italy Anna Magnani
    • A third nominee was not determined.
  • Best Director winner in I Knew Her Well: Antonio Pietrangeli
  • Best Foreign Director winner in The Servant: Joseph Losey
  • Best Screenplay winner in I Knew Her Well: Ettore Scola, Antonio Pietrangeli and Ruggero Maccari
  • Best Cinematography, B/W winner in Sandra: Armando Nannuzzi
  • Best Cinematography, Color winner in Juliet of the Spirits: Gianni Di Venanzo. In memory of.
  • Best Costume Design winner in Juliet of the Spirits: Piero Gherardi
  • Best Score winner in Seven Golden Men: Armando Trovajoli
  • Best Producer – Short Film winner in Con il cuore fermo Sicilia: Clodio Cinematografica
  • Best Short Film winner in Antonio Ligabue, pittore: Raffaele Andreassi
  • Best Original Story winner in Fists in the Pocket: Marco Bellocchio
    • Nominees in I Knew Her Well: Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Antonio Pietrangeli and in Seven Golden Men: Marco Vicario
  • Best Producer winner in Seven Golden Men: Marco Vicario
    • Nominee in Fists in the Pocket: Enzo Doria
    • A third nominee was not determined.
  • Best Production Design winner in Juliet of the Spirits: Piero Gherardi.

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria / Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Cul-de-sac, directed by Roman Polanski, United Kingdom

1966 film releases

United States unless stated

January–March

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July–September

October–December

Notable films released in 1966

United States unless stated

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  • Jack Frost (Морозко), directed by Alexander Rou – (USSR)
  • John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums, a documentary narrated by Gregory Peck and directed by Bruce Herschensohn
  • Johnny Reno, starring Jane Russell
  • Johnny Yuma, directed by Romolo Girolami and starring Mark Damon – (Italy)
  • Judith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Finch – (Israel/U.K./U.S.)

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  • Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Zatōichi umi o wataru), directed by Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan)
  • Zatoichi's Vengeance (Zatōichi no uta ga kikoeru) is a 1966 Japanese chambara film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

Short film series

Births

  • January 2 – Kate Hodge, American actress and producer
  • January 8 - Maria Pitillo, American former actress
  • January 13 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor
  • January 17 – Joshua Malina, American actor
  • January 20 – Rainn Wilson, American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
  • January 24 – Julie Dreyfus, French actress
  • January 31 – Dexter Fletcher, English film director and actor
  • February 1 – Anthony Johnson, American actor and comedian (d. 2021)
  • February 3 - Frank Coraci, American director, actor and screenwriter
  • February 4 – Piret Kalda, Estonian actress
  • February 12 – Lochlyn Munro, Canadian actor
  • February 13 – Neal McDonough, American actor and producer
  • February 14 – Kristen Dalton, American actress
  • February 15
    • Mo Gallini, American actor
    • Cynthia Lamontagne, American former actress
    • Kim Myers, American actress
  • February 19 – Justine Bateman, American actress, writer, director and producer
  • February 22 – Rachel Dratch, American actress, comedian, writer and producer
  • February 24
  • February 25
  • February 27 – Donal Logue, Canadian-Irish actor, producer and writer
  • March 1
    • Michelle Berube, American actress
    • Zack Snyder, American director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
  • March 3 – Tone Loc, American rapper and actor
  • March 4 – Steve Bastoni, Italian-born Australian actor
  • March 5 – Aasif Mandvi, British-American actor and comedian
  • March 9 – Alison Doody, Irish model and actress
  • March 10 – Stephen Mailer, American actor
  • March 14
  • March 22 – Sara Crowe, Scottish actress
  • March 23 – Marin Hinkle, American actress
  • March 26 – Michael Imperioli, American actor
  • April 8 – Robin Wright, American actress
  • April 9 – Cynthia Nixon, American actress
  • April 13 – Andy Nyman, English actor, director and writer
  • April 14 – Lloyd Owen, British actor
  • April 22 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor and producer
  • April 27 – Matt Reeves, American director, producer and screenwriter
  • May 3 – Firdous Bamji, Indian actor and writer
  • May 4 - Murray McArthur, English actor
  • May 10 – Ilian Djevelekov, Bulgarian film director and producer
  • May 12 – Stephen Baldwin, American actor
  • May 15
    • Sommore, American comedian and actress
    • Greg Wise, English actor and producer
  • May 16 – Scott Reeves, American actor and country music singer
  • May 19 – Polly Walker, English actress
  • May 20 – Mindy Cohn, American actress and voice actress
  • May 23 – H. Jon Benjamin, American actor and comedian
  • May 24 - Eric Cantona, French actor
  • May 26 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
  • May 28 - Roger Kumble, American director and screenwriter
  • May 30 - Fahim Fazli, Afghan-American actor
  • June 5 – Dwayne Hill, Canadian voice actor
  • June 7 – Tom McCarthy, American director, screenwriter and actor
  • June 8 – Julianna Margulies, American actress
  • June 10 - Laura Silverman, American actress
  • June 16 – Phil Vischer, American filmmaker, animator, musician and voice actor
  • June 17 – Jason Patric, American actor
  • June 19 – Samuel West, English actor, director and voice actor
  • June 22
    • Carlos Gallardo, Mexican actor, producer, screenwriter and director
    • Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
  • June 24 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
  • June 27 – J. J. Abrams, American filmmaker and composer
  • June 28
  • June 29 – DJ Pooh, American rapper, actor and filmmaker
  • June 30
    • Ian Bliss, Australian character actor
    • Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
  • July 5
    • Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, American director
    • Claudia Wells, American actress
  • July 6
    • Mark Mitchinson, English-born New Zealand actor
    • Brian Posehn, American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, musician and writer
  • July 7
    • Jim Gaffigan, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer
    • William Haze, American actor (died 2016)
  • July 8 – Mike Nawrocki, American director, animator, writer and voice actor
  • July 9
    • Pamela Adlon, American actress, voice actress, screenwriter, producer and director
    • Jamie Bartlett, British-born South African actor (d. 2022)
  • July 10 – A. O. Scott, American film critic of The New York Times
  • July 11
  • July 12 – Tamsin Greig, English actress, narrator and comedian
  • July 14 – Matthew Fox, American actor
  • July 15 – Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
  • July 16 – Scott Derrickson, American filmmaker
  • July 18 – Lori Alan, American actress and voice actress
  • July 19 – Nancy Carrell, American actress, comedian and writer
  • July 31 – Dean Cain, American actor, producer and television presenter
  • August 1 – Dan Gerson, American screenwriter and voice actor (d. 2016)
  • August 5
  • August 8 – Verónica Falcón, Mexican actress
  • August 10 – André Sogliuzzo, American voice actor
  • August 12 - Sharon D. Clarke, English actress and singer
  • August 14 – Halle Berry, American actress
  • August 15
    • Con O'Neill, English actor
    • Tasha de Vasconcelos, Mozambican-born Portuguese-Canadian actress
  • August 17
  • August 18
  • August 19 - Chris McGarry, American actor
  • August 20
  • August 25 – Julia Davis, English actress, comedian, director and writer
  • August 28 – Enzo Squillino Jr., British actor
  • August 29 – Stacey Travis, American actress
  • August 30 – Michael Michele, American actress
  • September 1 – James Nguyen, Vietnamese filmmaker
  • September 2 – Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
  • September 7 – Toby Jones, English actor
  • September 9
  • September 12
  • September 13 – Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
  • September 16 – Sean Frye, American former actor
  • September 18 - Christopher Shyer, Canadian-American actor
  • September 20 – Niki Caro, New Zealand film director and screenwriter
  • September 22
    • Ira Heiden, American actor
    • Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, comedian, writer and producer
  • September 25 – Jason Flemyng, English actor
  • September 29 – Ben Miles, English actor
  • October 6 – Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
  • October 9 – Tim Herlihy, American actor, producer and screenwriter
  • October 10 - Bai Ling, Chinese-American actress
  • October 11 – Luke Perry, American actor (d. 2019)
  • October 16 – Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress
  • October 17 – Mark Gatiss, English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director and producer
  • October 19 – Jon Favreau, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
  • October 24 – Zahn McClarnon, American actor
  • October 26 – Steve Valentine, English actor
  • October 28
    • Chris Bauer, American actor
    • Alois Moyo, Zimbabwean-German actor
    • Andy Richter, American actor, writer, comedian and talk show announcer
  • October 31 - Mike O'Malley, American actor, writer and producer
  • November 2 – David Schwimmer, American actor, director and producer
  • November 3
  • November 5 – Leni Parker, Canadian actress
  • November 6 – Peter DeLuise, American actor
  • November 11 – Vince Colosimo, Australian actor
  • November 17 – Sophie Marceau, French actress and director
  • November 19
  • November 22
  • November 23 – Vincent Cassel, French actor
  • November 25 – Billy Burke, American actor
  • November 26 – Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress and television personality
  • December 1 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter
  • December 2 – Katherine LaNasa, American actress
  • December 4
  • December 7 – C. Thomas Howell, American actor
  • December 8
  • December 9 – Toby Huss, American actor
  • December 12 – Lydia Zimmermann, Spanish filmmaker
  • December 14 – Boris Isaković. Serbian actor
  • December 19 – Robert MacNaughton, American actor
  • December 20 – Paul Ritter, English actor (d. 2021)
  • December 21
  • December 24 – Diedrich Bader, American actor and voice actor
  • December 28 - David Fane, New Zealand actor
  • December 30 – Akosua Busia, Ghanaian actress and writer
  • December 31
    • Bruce Ramsey, Canadian actor
    • Maddie Taylor, American voice actress and comedian

Deaths

Film debuts

Notes

  1. ^ ₹7.5 crore;[3] 6.3591 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1966[4]
  2. ^ 58 million Rbls,[5] 0.9 Rbl per US dollar from 1961 to 1971[6]

References

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  2. ^ a b Top 20 Films of 1966 by Domestic Revenue
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  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2017-07-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ Kudryavtsev, Sergei (2008). 3500 avtorskuiu knigu kinoretsenzii. Pechatny Dvor. p. 185. ISBN 978-5990131835.
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  7. ^ "Robert Rossen Is Dead at 57; Maker of Films for 30 Years; Writer-Director-Producer Won International Fame for Trenchant Realism". The New York Times. February 19, 1966. p. 27. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  8. ^ Howes, Durward (1938). America's Young Men. Richard Blank Publishing Company. p. 292. Archived from the original on 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  9. ^ "Cyril Hume dies; wrote for films; did 'Great Gatsby' script in 1949--also a novelist". The New York Times. March 28, 1966. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021.


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