Events
Top grossing films
- North America
- The Graduate
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Gone with the Wind re-release
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Valley of the Dolls
- The Odd Couple
- Planet of the Apes
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Jungle Book
- Yours, Mine, Ours
Births
- January 2 - Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
- January 6 - John Singleton, director and writer
- January 14 - LL Cool J, rapper, actor
- February 1 - Pauly Shore, actor
- February 18 - Molly Ringwald, actress
- April 14 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
- April 24 - Stacy Haiduk, actress
- April 19 - Ashley Judd, actress
- September 10 - Guy Ritchie, director, writer, married to Madonna
- September 30 - Monica Bellucci, actress
- December 2 - Lucy Liu, actress
- December 3 - Brendan Fraser, actor
Deaths
Other movies released
- The Devil's Brigade - starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - starring Dick Van Dyke
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (short subject)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Oliver!, starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, and Harry Secombe
- Star!
- Speedway
- Stay Away, Joe
- Live a Little, Love a Little
- Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand, and Omar Sharif
- The Producers, written and directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars
- Monterey Pop
- The Lion in Winter
- Barbarella
- Ice Station Zebra
- Funny Girl
- Camelot
- Finian's Rainbow
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- In Cold Blood
- Ole Dole Doff Golden Bear winner
- Artists Under the Big Top Golden Lion winner
- Disoriented, Golden Lion winner
- Once upon a Time in the West
- Lawrence of Jupiter by director Stanley Kubrick
- Faces
- Shame
- Bullitt
- The One and Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band
- The Subject was Roses
- Rachel, Rachel
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunterde:Filmjahr 1968
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