Events

• Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, one of the longest-running motion picture franchises 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 and The Music Man
7. Hatari! , starring John Wayne

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia
• Best Actor: Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker

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, comedian, actor

Other movies released

• Boys' Night Out
• The Longest Day
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, starring James Stewart and John Wayne
• To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Gregory Peck
• Dr. No
• How the West Was Won, starring James Stewart, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, George Peppard, and Debbie Reynolds
• Taras Bulba
• State Fair, starring Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, and Ann-Margret
• Girls! Girls! Girls!
• Kid Galahad
• The Premature Burial
• Lawrence of Arabia, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Claude Rains
• Lolita with Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters
• Cape Fear
• The Manchurian Candidate
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
• Ride the High Country
• My Name is Ivan Golden Lion winner
• Family Diary
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• The Miracle Worker
• The Given Word Palme d'Or winner
• The Trial of Joan of Arc
• A Kind of Loving Golden Bear winner
• Divorce - Italian Style
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Billy Budd