Film year 1954

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Film year 1954
Frank Sinatra receives an Oscar for his role in Forever Damned . The film received a total of 8 Oscars.

Events

• March 9: World premiere of Ernst Thälmann - son of his class (directed by Kurt Maetzig, Johannes Arp). The lavish film is believed to have been influenced by the SED.
• April 26: World premiere of The Seven Samurai (Director: Akira Kurosawa ). The critically acclaimed film is considered one of the most influential Japanese films .

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe will be presented on January 22nd at Club Del Mar in Santa Monica .

• Best Drama: The robe of Henry Koster
• Best Actor (Drama): Spencer Tracy in Theater Fever
• Best Actress (Drama): Audrey Hepburn in A Heart and a Crown
• Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): David Niven in The Moon is Blue
• Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam
• Best Supporting Actor: Frank Sinatra in Forever Damned
• Best Supporting Actress: Grace Kelly in Mogambo
• Best director: Fred Zinnemann for damn forever
• Cecil B. DeMille Award : Darryl F. Zanuck

Academy Awards

On March 25th the Academy Awards will take place at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles . The moderator is comedian Donald O'Connor .

• Best film: Damned in all eternity by Fred Zinnemann
• Best Actor: William Holden in Stalag 17
• Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn in A Heart and a Crown
• Best director: Fred Zinnemann for damn forever
• Best Supporting Actor: Frank Sinatra in Forever Damned
• Best Supporting Actress: Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity
• Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award : George Stevens

Complete list of award winners

Venice Film Festival

The Venice festival takes place from August 22nd to September 7th. The jury selects the following winners:

• Golden Lion : Romeo and Juliet by Renato Castellani
• Best Actor: Jean Gabin in L'Air de Paris
• Best actress: not awarded

Cannes International Film Festival 1954

The Cannes festival runs from March 25th to April 9th. The jury under President Jean Cocteau selected the following winners:

• Grand Jury Prize: The Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa
• Special price: Damned for all eternity by Fred Zinnemann

German film award

• Best film: Path without turning back
• Best director: Helmut Käutner for The Last Bridge
• Best leading actress: Ruth Leuwerik for Beloved Life
• Best Actor: René Deltgen for Path Without Turning Around
• Best Supporting Actress: Lil Dagover for Royal Highness
• Best supporting actor: Reinhold Schünzel for my father's horses

British Film Academy Award

• Best film: Forbidden Games by René Clément
• Best British Actor: John Gielgud for Julius Caesar
• Best Foreign Actor: Marlon Brando for Julius Caesar
• Best British Actress: Audrey Hepburn for One Heart and One Crown
• Best Foreign Actress: Leslie Caron for Lili

New York Film Critics Circle Award

• Best Film: On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan
• Best director: Elia Kazan for Die Faust im Nacken
• Best Actor: Marlon Brando in Die Faust im Nacken
• Best Actress: Grace Kelly in A Country Girl , Murder On Call and The Window To The Courtyard
• Best Foreign Film: The Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa

National Board of Review

• Best Film: On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan
• Best director: Renato Castellani for Romeo and Juliet
• Best Actor: Bing Crosby in A Country Girl
• Best Actress: Grace Kelly in Murder On Call , The Window To The Courtyard, and A Country Girl
• Best Supporting Actor: John Williams in Murder and Sabrina When Called
• Best supporting actress: Nina Foch in The Intrigants
• Best foreign language film: Romeo and Juliet by Renato Castellani

Further film prizes and awards

• Bodil : The seduced by Lau Lauritzen
• German critic award : Ilse Steppat
• Directors Guild of America Award : Fred Zinnemann for Damn for All Eternity , John Ford (Lifetime Achievement)
• Louis Delluc Prize : The Devilish by Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Photoplay Award : The Wonderful Power of Douglas Sirk (Best Picture), William Holden (Most Popular Male Star), June Allyson (Most Popular Female Star)
• Writers Guild of America Award : Lili (Best Musical), Damn In All Eternity (Best Drama), A Heart And A Crown (Best Comedy), Dudley Nichols (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Trevor Rabin (born January 13)

John Travolta (born February 18)

January

• 0January 1: Richard Edson , American actor
• 0January 6th: Anthony Minghella , British director († 2008)
• January 13th: Trevor Rabin , South African rock musician and composer
• January 16: Robin Davies , British actor
• January 19: Katey Sagal , American actress
• January 19: Katharina Thalbach , German actress
• January 24th: Irene Miracle , American actress
• January 29: Terry Kinney , American actor

February

• February 11: Wesley Strick , American screenwriter
• February 15: Evelyn Engleder , Austrian actress
• February 16: Margaux Hemingway , American actress († 1996)
• February 17: Don Coscarelli , American director, screenwriter, and producer
• February 17: Rene Russo , American actress
• February 18: John Travolta , American actor
• February 21: Christopher Mayer , American actor († 2011)

March

• 0March 1: Catherine Bach , American actress
• 0March 1: Ron Howard , American director
• 0March 1st: Karl-Ernst Stangl , Austrian cabaret artist and actor
• 0March 4: Catherine O'Hara , American actress
• March 10: Luc Dardenne , Belgian director
• March 11: David Newman , American composer
• March 15: Craig Wasson , American actor
• March 18: Dietrich Siegl , Austrian actor
• March 24: Robert Carradine , American actor

April to June

Jackie Chan (born April 7)

Ellen Barkin (born April 16)

James Belushi (born June 15)

April

• 0April 1: Lee Chang-dong , South Korean director
• 0April 3: Krzysztof Ptak , Polish cameraman
• 0April 4: Julie Carmen , American actress
• 0April 6: Judi Bowker , British actress
• 0April 6th: Monika Treut , German director
• 0April 7th: Jackie Chan , Chinese actor
• 0April 9: Dennis Quaid , American actor
• April 10: Peter MacNicol , American actor
• April 13: Glen Keane , American animator
• April 17: Roddy Piper , Canadian actor († 2015)
• April 16: Ellen Barkin , American actress
• April 22: Joseph Bottoms , American actor
• April 22nd: Jack Mulcahy , American actor
• April 23: Lucinda Jenney , American actress
• April 23: Michael Moore , American documentary filmmaker
• April 28: John Pankow , American actor
• April 28: Uwe Schrader , German director and screenwriter
• April 30th: Jane Campion , New Zealand director

May

• 0May 2: Elliot Goldenthal , American composer
• 0May 7: Amy Heckerling , American director and screenwriter
• 0May 8: David Keith , American actor
• May 10: Michael G. Hagerty , American actor
• May 12: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson , Icelandic director
• May 12: Barry Ackroyd , British cameraman
• May 12: Rafael Yglesias , American screenwriter
• May 13: Peter Onorati , American actor
• May 18: Reinhold Heil , German composer and sound engineer
• May 28: Rebecca Pauly , French actress

June

• 0June 2: Dennis Haysbert , American actor
• 0June 6: Magdalena Łazarkiewicz , Polish director
• June 14: Will Patton , American actor
• June 15: James Belushi , American actor
• June 19: Kathleen Turner , American actress
• June 20: Miles O'Keeffe , American actor
• June 22nd: Wolfgang Becker , German director
• June 22nd: Chris Lemmon , American actor

July to September

July

• 0July 2: Wendy Schaal , American actress
• 0July 6: Allyce Beasley , American actress
• July 26th: Mareike Carrière , German actress († 2014)

August

• 0August 4: Donald Gibb , American actor
• August 10: Rick Overton , American actor
• August 12: Sam J. Jones , American actor
• August 14: Felice Farina , Italian actor, screenwriter and director
• August 16: James Cameron , Canadian director and producer
• August 18: Hilmar Eichhorn , German actor
• August 20: Theresa Saldana , American actress († 2016)
• August 20: Don Stark , American actor
• August 22: Gert Wilden jr. , German musician, film composer and arranger
• August 30: David Paymer , American actor
• August 31: Julie Brown , American actress and screenwriter

September

• 0September 7th: Doug Bradley , British actor
• 0September 7th: Corbin Bernsen , American actor
• 0September 7: Michael Emerson , American actor
• 0September 9: Jeffrey Combs , American actor
• September 10: Clark Johnson , American actor, director, and television producer
• September 14: Michael Patrick King , American producer, screenwriter, and director
• September 15: Barry Shabaka Henley , American actor
• September 19: David Bamber , British actor

October to December

Emir Kusturica (born November 24th)

Denzel Washington (born December 28)

October

• 0October 1: Bingham Ray , American director († 2012)
• 0October 2: Lorraine Bracco , American actress
• 0October 8: Michael Dudikoff , American actor
• 0October 9: Scott Bakula , American actor
• October 10: Rekha , Indian actress
• October 16: Corinna Harfouch , German actress
• October 23: Ang Lee , Taiwanese director
• October 26: James Pickens junior , American actor
• October 28: Kiril Wariski , Bulgarian actor († 1996)
• October 29: Scott Jaeck , American actor
• October 31: Ken Wahl , American actor

November

• 0November 2nd: Andreas Gruber , Austrian director and screenwriter
• 0November 3: Kathy Kinney , American actress
• 0November 7th: Gil Junge , American director and producer
• 0November 8: Chuck Cooper , American actor
• November 13: Chris Noth , American actor
• November 16: Licia Maglietta , Italian actress
• November 19: Kathleen Quinlan , American actress
• November 24th: Emir Kusturica , Bosnian director
• November 27: Patricia McPherson , American actress
• November 29: Joel Coen , American director

December

• 0December 2nd: Huub Stapel , Dutch actor
• 0December 4th: Tony Todd , American actor
• December 10: Kristine DeBell , American actress
• December 14th: Eva Mattes , German actress
• December 18: Ray Liotta , American actor
• December 28: Denzel Washington , American actor

Day unknown

• Ludwig Boettger , German actor

deceased

Lionel Barrymore († November 15)

January to June

• January 16: Baburao Painter , Indian director (* 1890)
• January 18: Sydney Greenstreet , British actor (* 1879)
• January 31: Florence Bates , American actress (* 1888)

• February 12: Dsiga Wertow , Soviet director (* 1895)

• 0March 8: John L. Balderston , American screenwriter (* 1889)
• 0March 9: Josefine Kramer-Glöckner , Austrian actress (* 1874)
• March 13: Otto Fee , German actor (* 1877)
• March 24th: Alberto Colombo , American composer (* 1888)

• April 10: Auguste Lumière , French film pioneer (* 1862)
• April 29th: Joe May , Austrian director (* 1880)

• 0May 1: Tom Tyler , American actor (born 1903)
• May 20: Hans von Wolzüge , German screenwriter, director and producer (* 1888)
• May 25: Hans Janowitz , German screenwriter (* 1890)
• May 31: Guglielmo Barnabò , Italian actor (* 1888)

• June 27: Theodor Loos , German actor (* 1883)

July to December

• 0July 1: Thea von Harbou , German actress, screenwriter and director (* 1888)
• 0July 6: Gabriel Pascal , Hungarian producer (* 1894)
• July 13: Irving Pichel , American actor and director (* 1891)

• 0August 4th: Harald Paulsen , German actor (* 1895)

• September 11th: Reinhold Schünzel , German director and actor (* 1888)

• November 15: Lionel Barrymore , American actor (* 1878)
• November 22nd: Moroni Olsen , American actor (* 1889)
• November 22nd: Roy Rene , Australian actor and comedian (* 1891)

• 0December 8: Gladys George , American actress (* 1904)
• December 18: Maria Eis , Austrian actress (* 1896)

See also

Portal: Film  - Overview of Wikipedia content on film

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