1968 in film

The top ten 1968 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• November 1 – The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos (Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden

US unless stated

Note: U.S. releases unless stated.

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
• Daffy Duck (1937–1968)
• Cool Cat (1967–1969)
• Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967–1969)

• Gary Busey – Wild in the Streets
• John Cleese – Interlude
• Timothy Dalton – The Lion in Winter
• Frederic Forrest – The Filthy Five
• Goldie Hawn – The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
• Barbara Hershey – With Six You Get Eggroll
• Madeline Kahn – The Dove
• Lainie Kazan – Dayton's Devils
• Stacy Keach – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Margot Kidder – The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
• Sally Kirkland – Blue
• Sondra Locke – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Ali MacGraw – A Lovely Way to Die
• Marsha Mason – Beyond the Law
• Malcolm McDowell – if...
• Chuck Norris – The Wrecking Crew
• Hanna Schygulla – The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp
• Talia Shire – The Wild Racers
• Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl
• Jack Thompson – Personnel, or People?

• January 2 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor
• January 6 – John Singleton, director and writer (d. 2019)
• January 14 – LL Cool J, rapper, actor
• January 19 – Matt Hill, Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian
• January 29 – Edward Burns, actor and producer
• February 1 – Pauly Shore, actor
• February 12 – Josh Brolin, American actor
• February 13 - Kelly Hu, American actress, voice artist, former fashion model and beauty queen
• February 14 - Phil Lewis, American actor, comedian and director
• February 18 – Molly Ringwald, actress
• March 2 – Daniel Craig, actor
• March 4 – Patsy Kensit, actress
• March 6 - Moira Kelly, American actress
• March 12 – Aaron Eckhart, actor
• March 29 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
• March 30 – Celine Dion, singer
• April 8 – Patricia Arquette, actress
• April 14 – Anthony Michael Hall, actor
• April 19 – Ashley Judd, actress
• April 24 – Stacy Haiduk, actress
• May 3 – Amy Ryan, American actress
• May 12
  • Tony Hawk, actor and professional skateboarder
  • Catherine Tate, English actress, comedian and writer
• May 16 - Stephen Mangan, English actor, comedian and presenter
• May 20 – Timothy Olyphant, actor
• July 8 – Billy Crudup, actor
• July 18 – Grant Bowler, actor
• July 24 – Kristin Chenoweth, actress and singer
• July 26 – Olivia Williams, actress
• July 30 - Terry Crews, American actor, comedian, activist, artist, bodybuilder and former professional football player
• August 9
  • Gillian Anderson, American-British actress
  • Eric Bana, Australian actor
• August 11 – Sophie Okonedo, actress
• August 15 - Debra Messing, American actress
• August 28 – Billy Boyd, actor
• September 4 – John DiMaggio, American actor and voice actor.
• September 9 – Julia Sawalha, actress
• September 10 – Guy Ritchie, director, screenwriter
• September 12 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor and writer
• September 15 – Danny Nucci, actor
• September 15 – Shawn Doyle, actor
• September 22 – Megan Hollingshead, voice actress
• September 25 – Will Smith, actor
• September 26 – Jim Caviezel, actor
• September 28 – Naomi Watts, actress
• October – Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Zambian director
• October 11
  • Tiffany Grant, voice actress
  • Jane Krakowski, American actress and singer
• October 12 – Hugh Jackman, actor
• October 13 – Tisha Campbell, actress
• October 23 - Maria Darling, British voice actress
• October 27 – Dileep, Indian actor
• November 5 – Sam Rockwell, actor
• November 6 – Kelly Rutherford, actresses
• November 10 – Tracy Morgan, American actor, voice actor and comedian
• November 18 – Owen Wilson, actor
• November 21 – Sean Schemmel, voice actor
• December 2 – Lucy Liu, actress
• December 3 – Brendan Fraser, actor
• December 7 – Greg Ayres, voice actor

• January 7 - Hugo Butler, 53, Canadian screenwriter, Edison, the Man, Lassie Come Home
• January 18 – John Ridgely, 58, American actor, The Big Sleep, God Is My Co-Pilot
• January 25 - Virginia Maskell, 31, British actress, Only Two Can Play, Virgin Island
• February 4 – Eddie Baker, 70, American actor, Oranges and Lemons, Giant
• February 7 – Nick Adams, 36, American actor, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause
• February 13 – Mae Marsh, 73, American actress, The Birth of a Nation, 3 Godfathers
• February 20 – Anthony Asquith, 65, British director, The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy
• March 10 – Helen Walker, 47, American actress, Impact, Call Northside 777
• March 11 – Pearl Doles Bell, 84, American film scenarist, novelist and editor, Her Elephant Man
• March 16 – June Collyer, 63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog
• March 18 - Harry Kurnitz, 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal a Million
• March 20 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, 79, Danish director, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud
• March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, 94, pioneer French/American filmmaker, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Great Adventure
• March 30 – Bobby Driscoll, 31, American actor, Peter Pan, Treasure Island
• April 4 - Martin Luther King Jr., 39, American minister, civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• April 5 – Lois Andrews, 44, American actress, Dixie Dugan, The Desert Hawk
• April 6 – Keith Pyott, 66, English actor, Village of the Damned
• April 16 – Fay Bainter, 74, American actress, Woman of the Year, The Children's Hour
• April 24 – Tommy Noonan, 46, American actor, A Star is Born, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• May 5 – Albert Dekker, 62, American actor, The Wild Bunch, Kiss Me Deadly
• May 9
  • Albert Lewin, 73, American director, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Marion Lorne, 84, American actress, The Graduate, Strangers on a Train
• May 10 – Scotty Beckett, 38, American actor, My Favorite Wife, The Jolson Story
• May 21 – Doris Lloyd, 71, British actress, Disraeli, Kind Lady
• May 25 – Charles K. Feldman, 64, American producer, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seven Year Itch
• May 26 - Joseph MacDonald, 62, Mexico-born American cinematographer, My Darling Clementine, The Young Lions
• May 27 – Denise Legeay, 70, French actress, Happy Couple, Zigano
• May 31 – Preben Uglebjerg, 37, Danish actor, Pigen og vandpytten
• June 4 – Dorothy Gish, 70, American actress, The Cardinal, Orphans of the Storm
• June 7 – Dan Duryea, 61, American actor, Winchester '73, Scarlet Street
• June 8 - Patricia Jessel, 47, British actress, The City of the Dead, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• June 21 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, 72, Danish actress
• June 24 – Tony Hancock, 44, British comedian, Call Me Genius, The Punch and Judy Man
• June 29 – Hans Egede Budtz, 78, Danish actor, Nøddebo Præstegård
• July 1 – Virginia Weidler, 41, American actress, The Philadelphia Story, The Women
• July 12 – Antonio Pietrangeli, 49, Italian director, It Happened in Rome, The Magnificent Cuckold
• July 27 – Lilian Harvey, 62, British actress and singer, Waltz of Love, Let's Live Tonight
• July 30 – Alexander Hall, 74, American director, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Little Miss Marker
• August 23 – Hunt Stromberg, 74, American producer, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld
• August 26 – Kay Francis, 63, American actress, Charley's Aunt, Little Men
• August 30 – William Talman, 53, American actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Crashout
• August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, 60, American actor, T-Men, Raw Deal
• September 3 – Isabel Withers, 72, American actress, Possessed, Lady of Burlesque
• September 16 - Nedrick Young, 54, American screenwriter, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones
• September 18 – Franchot Tone, 63, American actor, The Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent
• September 24 - Virginia Valli, 70, American actress, The Pleasure Garden, Evening Clothes
• October 18 – Lee Tracy, 70, American actor, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man
• October 29 – Pert Kelton, 61, American actress, The Music Man, Sing and Like It
• October 30 – Ramon Novarro, 69, Mexican actor, Ben-Hur, Mata Hari
• November 8 – Wendell Corey, 54, American actor, Rear Window, Harriet Craig
• November 9 – Gerald Mohr, 54, American actor, Gilda, The Angry Red Planet
• November 18 – Walter Wanger, 74, American producer, Cleopatra, I Want to Live!
• November 25 – Upton Sinclair, 90, American author and producer, There Will Be Blood, The Gnome-Mobile
• December 2 – Colin Kenny, 79, Irish actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
• December 4 - Archie Mayo, 77, American director, The Petrified Forest, A Night in Casablanca
• December 5 – Fred Clark, 54, American actor, White Heat, Auntie Mame
• December 12 – Tallulah Bankhead, 66, American actress, Lifeboat, Stage Door Canteen, Die! Die! My Darling
• December 15 – Dorothy Abbott, 47, American actress, South Pacific, Red, Hot and Blue
• December 20 - John Steinbeck, 66, American author and screenwriter, Viva Zapata!, The Red Pony

• "Filmmaking in West Germany, 1968" (Goethe-Institut)