1961 in film
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Events
- Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) released
Top grossing films
- North America
- The Guns of Navarone
- Exodus
- The Parent Trap
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- The Alamo
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Come September
- The World of Suzie Wong
- Gone with the Wind reissue, to commemorate the American Civil War centennial
- 101 Dalmatians
- La Dolce Vita
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
- Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Best Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women
Births
- January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
- January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
- February 11 - Carey Lowell, actress
- April 6 - Gene Eugene, actor, lead singer of Adam Again
- October 31 - Peter Jackson, director
- November 19 - Meg Ryan,US actress
Deaths
- February 11 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director
- August 4 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director
- October 11 - Chico Marx, member of the Marx Brothers
- October 22 - Joseph Schenck, pioneer motion picture executive
- November 15 - Elsie Ferguson, American stage and film actress
Other movies released
- Ballad of a Soldier
- Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
- Fanny
- Flower Drum Song
- The Hustler
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- La Notte Golden Bear winner
- The Last Time I Saw Archie
- Last Year at Marienbad, Golden Lion winner
- Never on Sunday
- North to Alaska
- Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price
- Posto, Il
- Return to Peyton Place
- Splendor in the Grass
- Such a Long Absence Palme d'Or winner
- Teen Kanya
- Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
- Two Women
- Viridiana Palme d'Or winner
- West Side Story
- Where the Boys Are
- King of Kingsde:Filmjahr 1961