1968 in film
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events, with the release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as two highly successful musical films, Funny Girl and Oliver!, the former earning Barbra Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress (an honour she shared with Katharine Hepburn for her role in The Lion in Winter) and the latter winning both the Best Picture and Best Director awards.
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
The Anniversary
Day of the Evil Gun
(17e Parallele Le Vietnam en Guerre), a documentary directed by Joris Ivens – (France/Vietnam)
17th Parallel: Vietnam in War
, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood – (U.S./ U.K.)
2001: A Space Odyssey
(1937–1968)
Daffy Duck
January 1 - , American producer and screenwriter
Tom DeSanto
Cuba Gooding Jr.
January 5 - , American actress and singer
Carrie Ann Inaba
January 6 – , American director and writer (d. 2019)
John Singleton
January 9 – , American actress
Joey Lauren Adams
Farrah Forke
January 14 – , American rapper, actor
LL Cool J
Rosanne Sorrentino
January 18 - , American filmmaker
David Ayer
January 19 – , Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian
Matt Hill
January 20 - , American voice actor, animator, director, screenwriter and storyboard artist
Chris Miller
January 29 – , American actor and producer
Edward Burns
January 31 - , English actor, DJ and comedian
Matt King
February 1 – , American actor
Pauly Shore
February 8 - , American actor and comedian (d. 2010)
Gary Coleman
Josh Brolin
February 13 - , American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen
Kelly Hu
Alicia Borrachero
February 18 – , American actress
Molly Ringwald
February 21 - , Canadian actor
Patrick Gallagher
February 24 - , American stand-up comedian (d. 2005)
Mitch Hedberg
March 2 – , British actor
Daniel Craig
March 4 – , English actress
Patsy Kensit
March 6 - , American actress
Moira Kelly
Aaron Eckhart
March 18 - , Spanish actor
Juan Carlos Vellido
Jaime Cardriche
March 21 - , English actor
Greg Ellis
March 26 - , American actor
Max Perlich
Sabrina Impacciatore
Donna D'Errico
April 3 - , English actress (d. 2001)
Charlotte Coleman
Patricia Arquette
April 12 - , American actress
Alicia Coppola
April 13 - , English actor
Andrew Pleavin
April 14 – , American actor
Anthony Michael Hall
April 17 - , American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian
Adam McKay
Mary Birdsong
April 19 – , American actress
Ashley Judd
April 22 - , American voice actress
Piera Coppola
Aidan Gillen
May 3 – , American actress
Amy Ryan
May 7 - , American actress and singer
Traci Lords
May 10 - , English actor
Adrian Scarborough
May 11 - , American actor
Jeffrey Donovan
May 12 - , American actor and professional skateboarder
Tony Hawk
May 16 - , English actor, comedian and presenter
Stephen Mangan
May 20 – , American actor
Timothy Olyphant
May 25 - , American actor, writer, producer and director
Kevin Heffernan
May 27 - , American actress, comedian and writer
Spencer Kayden
May 28 - , Australian actress and singer
Kylie Minogue
Navid Negahban
Joey Mazzarino
June 9 - , English actor
Eddie Marsan
June 10 - , American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
Bill Burr
June 12 - , retired British actress
Sarah Trigger
June 13 – , American voice actor
Fred Tatasciore
June 14 - , Cuban-born American actor and comedian
Faizon Love
June 16 - , American actor
James Patrick Stuart
June 19 - , American actress (d. 2001)
Kim Walker
June 20 - , American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor
Robert Rodriguez
June 26 - , American actor, writer, director and producer
Travis Fine
June 29 - , American actor and musician
Brian d'Arcy James
July 1 - , Spanish actor, writer and filmmaker
Jordi Mollà
July 5 - , American actor
Michael Stuhlbarg
Danny Jacobs
July 8 – , American actor
Billy Crudup
July 11 - , American voice actor, director, writer and storyboard artist
Conrad Vernon
Eddie Griffin
July 17 - , American actress and comedian
Beth Littleford
Grant Bowler
July 19 - , English actor
William Houston
July 21 - , Finnish actor and singer
Samuli Edelmann
July 23 - , Canadian director, producer and actor
Shawn Levy
Kristin Chenoweth
July 26 – , British actress
Olivia Williams
Cliff Curtis
July 30 - , American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player
Terry Crews
August 4 - , South Korean-American actor and producer
Daniel Dae Kim
August 7 - , Australian actress
Sophie Lee
Gillian Anderson
August 10 - , Australian screenwriter, director and writer
Cate Shortland
Anna Gunn
Catherine Bell
August 15 - , American actress
Debra Messing
Andrew Koenig
August 21 - , Welsh actor
Julian Lewis Jones
August 25 - , American actor
David Alan Basche
August 27 - , American actress
Lisa Marie Newmyer
August 28 – , Scottish actor
Billy Boyd
Kristen Cloke
September 4 – , American actor and voice actor
John DiMaggio
September 5 - , American actor
Glenn Fleshler
September 6 - , Israeli actor
Mark Ivanir
September 7 - , Belgian-French actor
Camille Japy
Brian Huskey
Nathan Lee Graham
September 10 – , English director, screenwriter
Guy Ritchie
September 12 - , American comedian, actor and writer
Paul F. Tompkins
September 15 – , American actor
Danny Nucci
September 16 - , American singer-songwriter and actor
Marc Anthony
September 19 – , Canadian actor
Shawn Doyle
September 20 - , American stuntman and director
Chad Stahelski
September 22 – , American voice actress
Megan Hollingshead
September 25 – , American actor
Will Smith
September 26 – , American actor
Jim Caviezel
September 28 – , British actress
Naomi Watts
Massi Furlan
October – , Zambian director
Musola Cathrine Kaseketi
Lucy Cohu
Pete Docter
Tiffany Grant
Hugh Jackman
Tisha Campbell
October 17 - , Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and actor
Ziggy Marley
October 19 - , Indonesian martial artist and actor
Yayan Ruhian
October 23 - , British voice actress
Maria Darling
October 24 - , American story artist and voice actor
Mark Walton
October 25 - , American actress
Melinda McGraw
October 27 – , Indian actor
Dileep
October 28 - , New Zealand actor
Stephen Hunter
October 29 - , American actor
Grayson McCouch
November 5 – , American actor
Sam Rockwell
November 6 – , American actress
Kelly Rutherford
Bruno Gunn
Tracy Morgan
November 16 - , American actor
James Parks
Romany Malco
November 19 - , Scottish actor
Mark Bonnar
Todd Farmer
November 23 - , American actor
Brennan Brown
November 26 - , American actor and comedian
Chris Coppola
November 27 - , French-American actor
Michael Vartan
Lucy Liu
December 3 – , American-Canadian actor
Brendan Fraser
December 5 - , American stand-up comedian, actress and musician
Margaret Cho
Oliver Masucci
December 7 – , American voice actor
Greg Ayres
December 13 - , American film producer
Scott Stuber
Craig Grant
Ken Marino
December 20 - , English comedian and filmmaker
Joe Cornish
December 22 - , American actress
Dina Meyer
December 23 - , American actress
Angela Jones
December 25 - , Panamanian-born Canadian actress
Klea Scott
December 26 - , American animator, director, producer and screenwriter
Byron Howard
March 18 - , 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal a Million
Harry Kurnitz
March 24 – , 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure
Alice Guy-Blaché
Albert Lewin
May 26 - , 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions
Joseph MacDonald
June 8 - , 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Patricia Jessel
June 21 – , 72, Danish actress
Ingeborg Spangsfeldt
November 25 – , 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
Upton Sinclair
December 12 – , 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling
Tallulah Bankhead
– Bullitt
Joanna Cassidy
– The Detective
Don Fellows
– The Filthy Five
Frederic Forrest
– Greetings
Gerrit Graham
– Majuba: Heuwel van Duiwe
Tony Jay
– Dayton's Devils
Lainie Kazan
– Shameless
Udo Kier
– Greetings
Peter Maloney
– The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Chuck McCann
– Petulia
Austin Pendleton
– The Brotherhood
Paul Reubens
– The Charge of the Light Brigade
Joely Richardson
– The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp