Year In Film 1966

  • Number of Releases: 451
  • Cinerama releases: 7
  • Number of theatres: 14,350 (4,200 are drive ins)
  • Average weekly attendance: 38,000,000
  • Average ticket price: $1.09
  • Box office receipts: $964,000,000

Top box office stars- Julie Andrew’s, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon, Richard Burton, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Doris Day, Paul Newman, Elvis Presley

Top grossing films- Thunderball $26m, Doctor Zhivago $15m, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? $10.3m, That Darn Cat $9.2m, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming $7.75m

  • Palme d’Or- A Man and a Woman & The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians
  • Academy Award- A Man For All Seasons
  • Golden Globes- A Man For All Seasons & The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
  • NY Film Critics- A Man For All Seasons

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