Film year 1945

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Film year 1945
Ingrid Bergman receives the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for her role in Lady Alquist's House .

Events

• September 27: World premiere of Rome, Open City (Director: Roberto Rossellini ). With this film, Italian neorealism experiences its breakthrough.

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

• Best Drama: The Road to Happiness by Leo McCarey
• Best Actor: Alexander Knox in Wilson
• Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Lady Alquist's House
• Best Supporting Actor: Barry Fitzgerald in The Road to Happiness
• Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead in Mrs. Parkington
• Best Director: Leo McCarey for The Road to Happiness

Academy Awards

The Oscars will be held at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on March 15th. The moderators are John Cromwell and Bob Hope .

• Best Film: The Road to Happiness by Leo McCarey
• Best Actor: Bing Crosby in The Road to Happiness
• Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Lady Alquist's House
• Best Director: Leo McCarey for The Road to Happiness
• Best Supporting Actor: Barry Fitzgerald in The Road to Happiness
• Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore in None But the Lonely Heart
• Best music: Max Steiner for When you said goodbye
• Juvenile Award : Margaret O'Brien

Complete list of award winners

New York Film Critics Circle Award

• Best Picture: The Lost Weekend by Billy Wilder
• Best Director: Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
• Best Actor: Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
• Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in The Bells of St. Mary and I Fight for You

Further film prizes and awards

• Directors Guild of America Award : Maurice Tourneur
• Louis Delluc Prize : Hope from André Malraux and Boris Peskine
• National Board of Review : The True Glory by Garson Kanin (Best Picture), The Man From The South by Jean Renoir (Best Director), Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend (Best Actor), Joan Crawford in As Long a Heart Beats (Best Actress )
• Photoplay Award : The decision of Tay Garnett (Best Picture), Bing Crosby (Most Popular Male Star), Greer Garson (Most Popular Female Star)

Birthdays

January to March

Alexander Gutman (born January 29)

Tom Selleck (born January 29)

Daniel Olbrychski (born February 27)

Bubba Smith (born February 28)

Harry Rowohlt (born March 27)

January

• 0January 5: Roger Spottiswoode , Canadian director
• January 11: Christine Kaufmann , Austrian-German actress († 2017)
• January 13: Christian Berger , Austrian cameraman and director
• January 20: Gianni Amelio , Italian director
• January 21: Eberhard Prüter , German actor and voice actor († 2014)
• January 25: Sławomir Idziak , Polish cameraman
• January 25: Leigh Taylor-Young , American actress
• January 28th: Marthe Keller , Swiss actress
• January 29: Alexander Gutman , Russian director († 2016)
• January 29th: Maresa Hörbiger , Austrian actress
• January 29: Tom Selleck , American actor

February

• 0February 2: Robert Atzorn , German actor
• 0February 6: Michael Tucker , American actor
• 0February 7: Lauren Frost , American actress
• 0February 9: Mia Farrow , American actress
• February 11th: Harley Cokeliss , American director and screenwriter
• February 12: Maud Adams , Swedish actress
• February 17th: Brenda Fricker , Irish actress
• February 17: Calvin Jung , American actor
• February 19: Michael Nader , American actor
• February 20: Andrew Bergman , American director and screenwriter
• February 24: Mikael Salomon , American director and cameraman
• February 27: Daniel Olbrychski , Polish actor
• February 28: Mimsy Farmer , American actress
• February 28: Bubba Smith , American actor († 2011)

March

• 0March 1: Dirk Benedict , American actor
• 0March 3: Hattie Winston , American actress
• 0March 4th: Femi Benussi , Italian actress
• 0March 8: Bruce Broughton , American composer
• March 10: Katharine Houghton , American actress
• March 11: Tricia O'Neil , American actress
• March 12: Jim Sharman , Australian director
• March 14: Komaki Kurihara , Japanese actress
• March 18: Susan Tyrrell , American actress († 2012)
• March 22: Eric Roth , American screenwriter
• March 24th: Curtis Hanson , American director († 2016)
• March 27: Harry Rowohlt , German actor († 2015)
• March 28th: Carol Rubin , American producer († 2001)
• March 31: Valerie Curtin , American actress and screenwriter

April to June

Adrienne Barbeau (born June 11)

April

• 0April 2: Linda Hunt , American actress
• 0April 7: Werner Schroeter , German director († 2010)
• April 11: Angela Scoular , British actress († 2011)
• April 20: Michael Brandon , American actor
• April 25th: Geriet Schieske , German director, actor and author
• April 26: Winfried Glatzeder , German actor

May

• May 17th: Renate Krößner , German actress († 2020)
• May 21: Richard Hatch , American actor († 2017)
• May 26: René Féret , French director († 2015)
• May 27: Kip Niven , American actor († 2019)
• May 31: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German director († 1982)

June

• 0June 6: David Dukes , American actor († 2000)
• 0June 8: Jack Sholder , American director and screenwriter
• June 11: Adrienne Barbeau , American actress
• June 22nd: Tom Sherak , American producer and official († 2014)
• June 29th: Andrea Jonasson , German actress

July to September

Helen Mirren (born July 26)

Steve Martin (born August 14)

Wim Wenders (born August 14)

July

• 0July 5: Michael Blake , American screenwriter and director († 2015)
• 0July 8: Schanna Friske , Russian actress († 2015)
• July 10: Ron Glass , American actor († 2016)
• July 15: Jan-Michael Vincent , American actor († 2019)
• July 19: George Dzundza , American actor
• July 23: Edie McClurg , American actress
• July 24: Linda Harrison , American actress
• July 25: Tamara Ustinov , British actress
• July 26: Helen Mirren , British actress

August

• 0August 2: Joanna Cassidy , American actress
• 0August 7th: Caroline Cellier , French actress
• August 14: Steve Martin , American actor
• August 14: Wim Wenders , German director
• August 15: Nigel Terry , British actor († 2015)
• August 16: Bob Balaban , American actor
• August 21: Patty McCormack , American actress
• August 23: Carmen-Maja Antoni , German actress
• August 23: Bob Peck , British actor († 1999)
• August 24: Ronee Blakley , American country singer and actress
• August 27: Marianne Sägebrecht , German actress
• August 28: Robert Greenwald , American director and producer
• August 29: Harry S. Morgan , German director and producer († 2011)

September

• 0September 4th: Philippe Rousselot , French cameraman
• 0September 8: Willard Huyck , American director and screenwriter
• September 11: Felton Perry , American actor
• September 12th: Maria Aitken , Irish actress
• September 14: Jerzy Zelnik , Polish actor
• September 15th: Carmen Maura , Spanish actress
• September 15: Ron Shelton , American screenwriter and director
• September 17th: Bruce Spence , Australian actor
• September 17th: Heinz Marecek , Austrian actor, director and cabaret artist
• September 18: Uwe Karpa , German actor, cabaret artist and voice actor
• September 21: Jerry Bruckheimer , American producer
• September 22: Paul Le Mat , American actor
• September 23: Paul Petersen , American actor
• September 24: Catherine Burns , American actress († 2019)
• September 26: Ariel Zeitoun , French producer
• September 29th: Marianne Mendt , Austrian actress

October to December

Bette Midler (born December 1)

October

• 0October 1: Patty Shepard , American actress († 2013)
• October 19: John Lithgow , American actor
• October 21: Everett McGill , American actor
• October 21: Nikita Mikhalkov , Russian actor and director
• October 25: Krzysztof Piesiewicz , Polish screenwriter
• October 25: David S. Ward , American screenwriter and director
• October 26: Pat Conroy , American screenwriter († 2016)
• October 31: Brian Doyle-Murray , American actor

November

• 0November 8: Angela Scoular , British actress († 2011)
• November 10: Terence Davies , British director
• November 14: Paul Hirsch , American film editor
• November 15: Roger Donaldson , New Zealand director
• November 15: Bob Gunton , American actor
• November 16: Steve Railsback , American actor
• November 17th: Roland Joffé , British director
• November 26: Daniel Davis , American actor
• November 30: Billy Drago , American actor († 2019)

December

• 0December 1: Bette Midler , American actress and singer
• 0December 2nd: Lisa Kreuzer , German actress
• 0December 5: Howard E. Smith , American film editor
• 0December 6th: Shekhar Kapur , Indian director and actor
• 0December 6: James Naughton , American actor
• 0December 7th: WD Richter , American screenwriter
• 0December 9: Andrew Birkin , British director
• 0December 9: Michael Nouri , American actor
• December 11: Zienia Merton , British actress († 2018)
• December 17: Ernie Hudson , American actor
• December 21: Dietmar Mues , German actor and screenwriter († 2011)
• December 24th: Nicholas Meyer , American screenwriter and director
• December 25: Rick Berman , American producer
• December 27: Mark Johnson , American producer
• December 30th: Lloyd Kaufman , American producer, director, and actor
• December 30th: Concetta Tomei , American actress
• December 31: Barbara Carrera , American actress
• December 31: Vernon Wells , Australian actor

Day unknown

• Mario Garbetta , Italian producer, screenwriter, director and actor

deceased

Lizzi Waldmüller († April 8)

Harry Liedtke († April 28)

January to June

• January 13: Heinrich Schroth , German actor (* 1871)
• January 28: Ludwig Schaschek , Austrian cameraman (* 1888)

• 0February 7th: Max Bing , German actor (* 1885)
• February 23: Karl Künzel , Austrian production manager (* 1889)

• 0March 4: Lucille La Verne , American actress (* 1872)
• 0March 4th: Mark Sandrich , American director (* 1900)
• March 14: Alexander Granach , German actor (* 1890)
• March 15: Henry Victor , British-American actor (* 1892)

• 0April 8: Roland Betsch , German writer and playwright (* 1888)
• 0April 8: Lizzi Waldmüller , Austrian actress (* 1904)
• April 12: Emil Stepanek , Austrian film architect (* 1895)
• April 20: Hans Steinhoff , German director (* 1882)
• April 27: Ernst Hofmann , German actor (* 1890)
• April 28: Harry Liedtke , German actor (* 1882)
• April 28: Christa Tordy , German actress (* 1903)
• April 29: Hans Brausewetter , German actor (* 1899)
• April 30: Werner Scharf , German actor (* 1906)
• April 30: Hans Adalbert Schlettow , German actor (* 1888)

• 0May 4: Karl Dannemann , German actor (* 1896)
• May 17: Bobby Hutchins , American actor (born 1925)

July to December

• July 13: Alla Nasimowa , American actress (* 1879)
• July 20: Paul Valéry , French writer (* 1871)

• 0August 9: Jakow Protasanow , Russian director (* 1881)

• 0September 3: Artur Guttmann , Austrian composer (* 1891)
• September 26th: Alexander Chanschonkov , Russian film pioneer (* 1877)

• October 13: Heinz Salfner , German actor (* 1877)
• October 27: Hanns Schwarz , German director (* 1888)
• October 30: Georg Alexander , German actor, producer and director (* 1888)

• November 11: Jerome Kern , American composer (* 1885)
• November 12th: Jaro Fürth , Austrian actor (* 1871)
• November 13: Josef Eichheim , German actor (* 1888)
• November 16: Jenő Janovics , Hungarian film pioneer (* 1872)
• November 21: Robert Benchley , American actor and author (* 1889)

• 0December 8th: Adolphe Engers , Dutch actor (* 1884)
• December 13: Leopold Jessner , German director (* 1878)
• December 15: Carl Haacker , German production designer (* 1890)

See also

Portal: Film  - Overview of Wikipedia content on film

Web links

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