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The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the longest-running motion picture franchise of all time, running more than 40 years.

Top grossing films

North America

1. West Side Story
2. Spartacus
3. El Cid
4. Lover Come Back
5. That Touch of Mink
6. (tie) King of Kings
6. (tie) The Music Man
8. Hatari!, starring John Wayne

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker

Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d\'Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture (tie): That Touch of Mink

Best Picture (tie): The Music Man

Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy

Other

Best Director: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Palme d\'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Family Diary (Cronaca familiare, Journal intime), directed by Valerio Zurlini, France / Italy

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, United Kingdom

Films released in 1962

• The Amphibian Man
• Billy Budd
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Boys\' Night Out
• Cape Fear
• David and Lisa
• Days of Wine and Roses
• Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all\'italiana)
• Le Doulos (The Finger Man), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Dr. No
• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare)
• Follow That Dream
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
• Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas) (aka The Given Word)
• Gypsy
• Hatari!, starring John Wayne
• How the West Was Won, starring Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Eli Wallach, Agnes Moorehead, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck etc.
• Hussar of the Dead (Restored)
• It\'s Only Money, starring Jerry Lewis
• Keeper of Promises
• Kid Galahad
• A Kind of Loving
• King Kong vs. Godzilla
• Knife in the Water
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lolita
• Lonely are the Brave
• The Longest Day
• The Tale of Zatoichi
• Lycanthropus
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• The Miracle Worker
• The Music Man
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• My Name is Ivan
• Panic in Year Zero!
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Premature Burial -(film mentioned in article)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight -(film mentioned in article)
• Ride the High Country
• State Fair -(film mentioned in article)
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d\'Avray)
• Sweet Bird of Youth -(film mentioned in article)
• Taras Bulba
• Tender Is the Night
• That Touch of Mink
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• The Trial
• Procès de Jeanne d\'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc)
• Tudor
• War of the Buttons
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

Births

• January 1 - Nancy Mette,actress
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
• July 3 - Tom Cruise, actor
• September 11 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
• September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• November 11 - Demi Moore, US actress
• November 19 - Jodie Foster, actress and director

Deaths

• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, actor
• April 10 - Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director
• April 17 - Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress
• May 14 - Florence Auer, 82, American actress
• June 19 - Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor
• June 24, Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress
• August 5 - Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress
• August 23 - Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor
• October 6 - Tod Browning, 82, American director
• October 26 - Louise Beavers, 60, American actress
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, 63, British actor
• December 28 - Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress

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