To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee. It stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout.

The film was a critical and commercial success, winning three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck, and being nominated for eight, including Best Picture. It also became a classic of American cinema.

In 2003, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, deeming it “culturally, …