Events

• December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television.
• The prototype for the IMAX multi-screen system is exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1967.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night - Mirisch, United Artists

Best Director: Mike Nichols - The Graduate

Best Actor: Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night

Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke

Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde

Best Foreign Language Film: Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky), directed by Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night

Best Actor: Rod Steiger' - In the Heat of the Night

Best Actress: Edith Evans - The Whisperers

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Graduate

Best Actor: Richard Harris - Camelot

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Graduate

Other

Best Director: Mike Nichols - The Graduate

Best English Language Foreign Film: The Fox, United Kingdom

Best Foreign Film: Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre), France

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Belle de jour, directed by Louis Buñuel, France / Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium

Films released in 1967

• A Countess from Hong Kong
• The Ambushers
• The Andromeda Nebula
• Barefoot in the Park
• The Battle of Algiers (U.S. release)
• Bedazzled
• Belle de jour
• The Big Mouth, starring Jerry Lewis
• Bonnie and Clyde
• The Born Losers
• Camelot
• Casino Royale
• Cervantes
• Clambake
• Come Spy with Me
• Cool Hand Luke
• Le Depart
• The Dirty Dozen
• Doctor Dolittle
• El Dorado
• Double Trouble
• Easy Come, Easy Go
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• The Fastest Guitar Alive
• A Fistful of Dollars (U.S. release)
• Fitzwilly
• The Flim-Flam Man
• Follow That Camel a.k.a Carry On...Follow That Camel or Carry On In The Legion
• For a Few Dollars More (U.S. release)
• Gamera vs. Gyaos
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (U.S. release)
• Good Times
• Grand slam
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• The Graduate, premiered in Los Angeles on December 8
• The Happiest Millionaire
• Hombre
• The Honey Pot
• Hurry Sundown
• I Am Curious (Yellow)
• In Cold Blood
• In Like Flint
• In the Heat of the Night
• The Jungle Book
• Komissar aka The Commissar
• One Million Years B.C.
• Playtime
• Point Blank
• The President's Analyst
• Quatermass and the Pit
• Reflections in a Golden Eye
• The Reluctant Astronaut
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
• Le Samouraï (The Samurai), starring Alain Delon
• Son of Godzilla
• Stimulantia
• The Fox
• The Stranger (Lo Straniero)
• This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• The Tiger Makes Out, starring Eli Wallach
• Tobruk
• To Sir, with Love
• Ulysses
• Valley of the Dolls
• Welcome to Hard Times
• Wait Until Dark
• The War Wagon
• Week End
• The Whisperers
• Who's That Knocking at My Door, directed by Martin Scorsese
• You Only Live Twice

Short Film Series

• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953-1968)

Births

• January 2 - Tia Carrere, American actress
• January 14 - Emily Watson, English actress
• February 9 - Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
• February 10 - Laura Dern, American actress
• March 16 - Lauren Graham, American actress
• April 2 - Ajay Devgan, Indian actor
• May 1 - Scott Coffey, American actor/director
• May 31 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
• June 20 - Nicole Kidman, Australian actress
• July 1 - Pamela Anderson, American actress
• July 16 - Will Ferrell, American actor
• October 4 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
• October 5 - Guy Pearce, Australian actor
• October 28 - Julia Roberts, American actress
• September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr.
• November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, model and actress (d. 2007)

Deaths

• January 8 - Zbigniew Cybulski, 39, Polish actor
• January 21 - Ann Sheridan, 51, American actress
• January 22 - Jobyna Ralston, 67, American actress
• February 14 - Sig Ruman, 82, German actor
• February 15 - Antonio Moreno, 79, Spanish-American actor and director
• February 16 - Smiley Burnette, 58, American actor
• February 16 - Martine Carol, 46, French actress
• February 24 - Franz Waxman, 60, German film composer
• March 5 - Mischa Auer, 61, Russian actor
• March 6 - Nelson Eddy, 65, Canadian singer and actor
• March 11 - Geraldine Farrar, 85, American singer and actress
• May 8 - LaVerne Andrews, 55, American singer and actress (Andrews Sisters)
• May 8 - Barbara Payton, 39, American actress
• May 30 - Claude Rains, 77, British actor
• June 10 - Spencer Tracy, 67, American actor
• June 16 - Reginald Denny, 75, British actor
• June 26 - Françoise Dorléac, 25, French actress
• June 29 - Jayne Mansfield, 34, American actress
• July 7 - Vivien Leigh, 53, British actress
• July 21 - David Weisbart, 52, American film editor and producer
• July 21 - Basil Rathbone, 75, British actor
• August 9 - Anton Walbrook, 70, Austrian actor
• August 13 - Jane Darwell, 87, American actress
• August 25 - Paul Muni, 71, Ukrainian-American actor
• October 12 - Nat Pendleton, 72, American actor, former Olympic swimmer
• November 1 - Benita Hume, 60, British actress
• November 9 - Charles Bickford, 76, American actor
• December 4 - Bert Lahr, 72, American actor