Film year 1950
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Events
- June 29: Eight of the Hollywood Ten who refused to testify to the Un-American Activities Committee because they believed it was unconstitutional are tried in US courts.
Film awards
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globes will be awarded on February 23 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles:
- Best drama: The man who wanted to rule by Robert Rossen
- Best Actor: Broderick Crawford in The Man Who Ruled
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress
- Best Supporting Actor: James Whitmore in Kesselschlacht
- Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge in The Man Who Wanted to Rule
- Best Director: Robert Rossen for The Man Who Wanted to Rule
- Best foreign film: Bicycle thieves by Vittorio De Sica
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards will be held on March 23 at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles . The moderator is the actor Paul Douglas .
- Best film: The man who wanted to rule by Robert Rossen
- Best Actor: Broderick Crawford in The Man Who Ruled
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress
- Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Women
- Best Supporting Actor: Dean Jagger in The Commander
- Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge in The Man Who Wanted to Rule
- Best music: Aaron Copland for The Heiress
Complete list of award winners
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Festival runs from August 20th to September 10th. The jury selects the following winners:
- Golden Lion : Circuit Court of André Cayatte
- Best Actor: Sam Jaffe in Asphalt Jungle
- Best Actress: Eleanor Parker in Women's Prison
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best film: Everything about Eva by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Best director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Alles über Eva
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck in The Commander
- Best Actress: Bette Davis in All About Eva
- Best foreign film: Amore by Roberto Rossellini
National Board of Review
- Best Film: Boulevard of Dawn by Billy Wilder
- Best Director: John Huston for Asphalt Jungle
- Best Actor: Alec Guinness committed to nobility
- Best Actress: Gloria Swanson in Twilight Boulevard
Further film prizes and awards
- Directors Guild of America Award : Robert Rossen for The Man Who Wished to Rule
- British Film Academy Award : Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio de Sica
- Louis Delluc Prize : Diary of a country pastor by Robert Bresson
- Photoplay Award : Kesselschlacht by William A. Wellman (Best Film), John Wayne (Most Popular Male Star), Betty Hutton (Most Popular Female Star)
- Writers Guild of America Award : Today we go for a stroll (Best Musical), The Man Who Wanted to Rule (Best Drama), Mistress of the Dead City (Best Western), A Letter to Three Women (Best Comedy)
Birthdays
January to March
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January
- January 13: John McNaughton , American director
- January 23: Richard Dean Anderson , American actor
- January 24th: Daniel Auteuil , French actor
- January 25: John Terry , American actor
- January 31: Robert Grubb , Australian actor
February
- February 2: Barbara Sukowa , German actress
- February 3: Morgan Fairchild , American actress
- February 12: Michael Ironside , Canadian actor
- February 18: John Hughes , American director, screenwriter and producer († 2009)
- February 18: Cybill Shepherd , American actress
- February 21: Larry Drake , American actor († 2016)
- February 22nd: Miou-Miou , French actress
- February 22nd: Julie Walters , British actress
- February 25: Neil Jordan , Irish director
- February 26: Don Shanks , American actor
March
- March 1: Phil Alden Robinson , American director
- March 3: Tim Kazurinsky , American actor
- March 3: Laura Ziskin , American producer († 2011)
- March 6: Werner Winkler , German author, director and actor
- March 11: Jerry Zucker , American director, screenwriter, and producer
- March 12: Jon Provost , American actor
- March 13: William H. Macy , American actor
- March 16: Kate Nelligan , Canadian actress
- March 16: Susanne Scholl , German actress
- March 18: Brad Dourif , American actor
- March 18: Jim Knobeloch , American actor
- March 18: Eiji Okuda , Japanese actor and director
- March 20: William Hurt , American actor
- March 20: Tom Towles , American actor († 2015)
- March 22nd: Hugo Egon Balder , German actor and producer
- March 22nd: Goran Bregović , Bosnian composer
- March 22nd: Mary Tamm , British actress († 2012)
- March 30th: Robbie Coltrane , British actor
April to June
April
- April 2nd: Allan Corduner , British actor
- April 2nd: Olga Strub , Swiss-German actress
- April 4: Christine Lahti , American actress
- April 5: Miki Manojlović , Serbian actor
- April 13: Ron Perlman , American actor
- April 13: William Sadler , American actor
- April 15: Josiane Balasko , French actress, director and screenwriter
- April 15: Amy Wright , American actress
- April 22nd: Robert Elswit , American cameraman
- April 25: Peter Jurasik , American actor
- April 26: Piotr Szulkin , Polish director († 2018)
- April 29th: Phillip Noyce , Australian director
May
- May 1: John Diehl , American actor
- May 1: Then Florek , American actor
- May 10: Joseph Ruben , American director
- May 11: Sadashiv Amrapurkar , Indian actor († 2014)
- May 12: Bruce Boxleitner , American actor
- May 12: Gabriel Byrne , Irish actor
- May 13: Joe Johnston , American director
- May 25: Reverend Billy , American actor
- May 31: Gregory Harrison , American actor
June
- June 1: John M. Jackson , American actor
- June 2: Joanna Gleason , Canadian actress
- June 3: Melissa Mathison , American screenwriter († 2015)
- June 3: Robert Z'Dar , American actor († 2015)
- June 5: Daniel von Bargen , American actor († 2015)
- June 6th: Chantal Akerman , Belgian director, screenwriter and actress († 2015)
- June 8: Kathy Baker , American actress
- June 8th: Sônia Braga , Brazilian actress
- June 16: Kale Browne , American actor
- June 17: Lee Tamahori , New Zealand director
- June 20: Gudrun Landgrebe , German actress
- June 24th: Nancy Allen , American actress
- June 24th: Asger Reher , Danish actor
- June 26: Michael Paul Chan , American actor
- June 27: Ken Marshall , American actor
July to September
July
- July 1st: Elke Aberle , German actress
- July 7: Vaughn Armstrong , American actor
- July 11: Bruce McGill , American actor
- July 17: PJ Soles , American actress
- July 19: Simon Cadell , British actor († 1996)
- July 20: Naseeruddin Shah , Indian actor
- July 26th: Susan George , British actress
- July 27: Simon Jones , British actor
- July 29: Mike Starr , American actor
- July 30th: Gabriele Salvatores , Italian director
- July 30: Frank Stallone , American actor
- July 31: Richard Berry , French actor
August
- August 1st: Loles León , Spanish actress
- August 2nd: Mathieu Carrière , German actor
- August 3: John Landis , American director
- August 4th: Giulia Follina , German actress
- August 6: Dorian Harewood , American actor
- August 7: Mark Irwin , Canadian cinematographer
- August 9: Anémone , French actress († 2019)
- August 11: Elya Baskin , American actor
- August 12: Jim Beaver , American actor
- August 12: Iris Berben , German actress
- August 13: Krzysztof Kolberger , Polish actor († 2011)
- August 13: Katsumi Yanagishima , Japanese cameraman
- August 14: François Dupeyron , French director and screenwriter († 2016)
- August 14: Jim Wynorski , American director
- August 15: Tess Harper , American actress
- August 17th: Christian Kohlund , Swiss actor
- August 20: Skip O'Brien , American actor († 2011)
September
- September 7th: Julie Kavner , American actress
- September 8th: Léa Pool , Swiss-Canadian director
- September 11th: Amy Madigan , American actress
- September 12: Bruce Mahler , American actor
- September 14th: Howard Deutch , American director
- September 16: Susan Ruttan , American actress
- September 18: Shabana Azmi , Indian actress
- September 21: Bill Murray , American actor
- September 22nd: Max Färberböck , German director
- September 27: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , American actor and producer
- September 28: John Sayles , American director and screenwriter
- September 28: Peter Timm , German director
- September 29th: Tom Deininger , German actor and voice actor
- September 30th: Victoria Tennant , British actress
October to December
October
- October 1: Jeane Manson , American actress
- October 1: Natalia Nogulich , American actress
- October 1: Randy Quaid , American actor
- October 1st: Marco Tullio Giordana , Italian director and screenwriter
- October 3: Pamela Hensley , American actress and author
- October 3: Dennis Holmes , American actor
- October 4: Alan Rosenberg , American actor
- October 5: Jeff Conaway , American actor († 2011)
- October 9: Gary Frank , American actor
- October 11th: Amos Gitai , Israeli director
- October 12: Susan Anton , American actress
- October 13: John Copeland , American producer, screenwriter, and director
- October 15th: Candida Royalle , American porn film producer, director and actress († 2015)
- October 18: Marek Kondrat , Polish actor
- October 18: Om Puri , Indian actor († 2017)
- October 20: William Russ , American actor
- October 21: David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood , British producer
- October 31: John Candy , Canadian actor († 1994)
November
- November 4th: Markie Post , American actress
- November 10: Jack Scalia , American actor
- November 12th: Carla Becker , German actress
- November 18: Ferenc Cakó , Hungarian animation artist
- November 28: Ed Harris , American actor
- November 30th: Mary Lambert , American director
December
- December 2nd: Ursela Monn , German actress
- December 8: Rick Baker , American makeup artist
- December 9: Russell Carpenter , American cameraman
- December 9th: Wolfgang Fierek , German actor
- December 16: Peter van Norden , American actor
- December 18: Gillian Armstrong , Australian director
- December 21: Jeffrey Katzenberg , American producer
- December 29th: Jon Polito , American actor († 2016)
Day unknown
- Gaby Fuchs , Austrian actress
- Claude Santiago , French documentary filmmaker († 2012)
- Viola Sauer , German actress and voice actress
deceased
January to June
- January 2: Emil Jannings , German actor (* 1884)
- January 12: John M. Stahl , American director (* 1886)
- January 22nd: Alan Hale Sr. , American actor (* 1892)
- March 3: Eugen Klöpfer , German actor (* 1886)
- March 5: Sid Grauman , American entrepreneur (* 1879)
- March 15: Luise Fleck , Austria's first, second worldwide, director (* 1873)
- April 7: Walter Huston , American actor (* 1884)
- May 29: Wilhelm Bendow , German actor (* 1884)
July to December
- July 21: Rex Ingram , American director and actor (* 1892)
- August 4th: Günther Krampf , Austrian cameraman (* 1899)
- September 1: Fritz Kampers , German actor (* 1891)
- September 13: Sara Allgood , American actress (* 1879)
- September 24th: Humphrey Jennings , British documentary filmmaker (* 1907)
- September 30th: Friedrich Fehér , Austrian actor and director (* 1889)
- October 18: Eugen Neufeld , Austrian actor (* 1882)
- October 23: Al Jolson , American actor (* 1886)
- November 5: Blanche Oelrichs , American screenwriter (* 1890)
- November 11th: Hanns Kräly , German screenwriter and actor (* 1884)
- November 29th: Friedrich Zelnik , German-British director and producer (* 1885)
- November 30th: Erich Ziegel , German actor (* 1876)
- December 11: Dewey Robinson , American actor (* 1898)
See also
Web links
Commons : Film Year 1950 - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Hollywood Ten Trials: 1948-50 - Hollywood Divided Into Two Camps, The Right To Remain Silent, "i Would Hate Myself In The Morning" in Law Library - American Law and Legal Information