British actor Michael Caine makes his name starring in two outstanding films within the year, Alfie and The Ipcress File

Mike Nicholls directs Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in the film The Graduate

Luis Buñuel directs Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, a film about a bored housewife who takes a day job as a prostitute

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty star in the film Bonnie and Clyde

British actor Richard Attenborough makes his first film as a director, Oh! What a Lovely War

Barbara Streisand repeats her Broadway performance in the film of Funny Girl

Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke create the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel

Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

British film director John Schlesinger makes Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight

US film director Robert Altman launches a successful and long-running theme with his Vietnam black comedy, M*A*S*H

Duel, about a motorist terrorized by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood

Stanley Kubrick directs Malcolm McDowell in a film of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange

Bernardo Bertolucci directs Marlon Brando in the sexually explicit film Last Tango in Paris

Spanish director Luis Buñuel satirizes social conventions in his film Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Francis Ford Coppola writes and directs The Godfather, the first of three related films

Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film The Sting

The score of the film The Sting revives interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime

William Friedkin directs a horror movie, The Exorcist, from a novel by William Peter Blatty

Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor for the second time, five years after divorcing

Milos Forman directs Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on a novel by Ken Kesey