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Film year 1960
The Oscar -Preisträgerin Joanne Woodward is the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honored.

Events

February 9 : With a star for Joanne Woodward is Hollywood Walk of Fame founded.

The Psycho house with the motel in the foreground

June 16 : World premiere of Psycho . This important classic of American cinema is regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock's central works. The scene in which the main female character is stabbed in the shower is one of the best known and most cited scenes in film history, both visually and musically.
The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1960:
- Category - male movie stars: Gold OW Fischer , Silver Hardy Krüger , Bronze Christian Wolff
- Category - female film stars: Gold Sabine Sinjen , Silver Ruth Leuwerik , Bronze Liselotte Pulver

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe will be presented on March 10th at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles.

Best Drama: Ben Hur by William Wyler
Best musical: Porgy and Bess by Otto Preminger
Best Comedy: Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder
Best Actor (Drama): Anthony Franciosa in Career
Best Actress (Drama): Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, last summer
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot
Best Supporting Actor: Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur
Best Supporting Actress: Susan Kohner in As Long As There Are People
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Bing Crosby

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on April 4th at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles . The moderator is Bob Hope .

Best Film: Ben Hur by William Wyler
Best Actor: Charlton Heston in Ben Hur
Best leading actress: Simone Signoret in Room at the Top
Best Director: William Wyler for Ben Hur
Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith in Ben Hur
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank
Best color camera: Robert Surtees for Ben Hur
Best music: Miklós Rózsa for Ben Hur
Best foreign language film: Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus
Honorary Oscar for his life's work: Buster Keaton

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1960

The festival takes place from May 4th to May 20th. The jury under President Georges Simenon selects the following winners:

Golden Palm : The Sweet Life of Federico Fellini
Best actress: Jeanne Moreau in hours of tenderness and Melina Mercouri in Sundays… never!

Berlin International Film Festival 1960

The festival takes place from June 24th to July 5th. The jury under President Harold Lloyd selects the following winners:

Golden Bear : El Lazarillo de Tormes by César Fernández Ardavín
Best Actor: Fredric March in Who Sows the Wind
Best actress: Juliette Mayniel in fun fair
Best Director: Jean-Luc Godard for Out of Breath

Venice Film Festival

The festival takes place from August 24th to September 7th. The jury selects the following winners:

Golden Lion : Le Passage du Rhin by André Cayatte
Best Actor: John Mills in Tunes of Glory
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment

German film award

Best film: The Bridge
Best director: Bernhard Wicki for Die Brücke
Best leading actress: Nadja Tiller for Labyrinth of Passions
Best Actor: Walter Giller for Rosen for the Public Prosecutor
Best supporting actress: Edith Schultze-Westrum for Die Brücke
Best supporting actor: Hanns Lothar for Buddenbrooks

National Board of Review

Best Picture: Sons and Lovers of Jack Cardiff
Best Director: Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers
Best Actor: Robert Mitchum in The Endless Horizon and The Legacy of Blood
Best Actress: Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello
Best Supporting Actor: George Peppard in The Legacy of Blood
Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry
Best foreign language film: Apu's way into life: Apu's world by Satyajit Ray

Laurel Award

Best Action Drama: The Invisible Third by Alfred Hitchcock
- Best Action Actor: Gary Cooper in You Came To Cordura
Best drama: Anatomy of a murder by Otto Preminger
- Best Actor in Drama: James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder
- Best Dramatic Actress: Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly Last Summer
Best Comedy: Bettgeflüster by Michael Gordon
- Best Comedic Actor: Cary Grant in Company Petticoat
- Best comedic actress: Doris Day in Bettgeflüster
Best musical: Can-Can by Walter Lang
- Best Musical Performer: Frank Sinatra in Can-Can
- Best Actress in a Musical: Shirley MacLaine in Can-Can
Best entertainment film The Shaggy Dog by Charles Barton

Further film prizes and awards

Astor de Oro : The bridge of Bernhard Wicki
Directors Guild of America Award : William Wyler for Ben Hur , George Stevens (Lifetime Achievement)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Ladislao Vajda for directing Ein Mann goes durch die Wand
Louis Delluc Prize : Even after years and years of Henri Colpi
Nastro d'Argento : The False General by Roberto Rossellini and Wilde Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman
German Film Critics' Prize : The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Romeo, Juliet and the Darkness by Jiří Weiss (Golden Shell)
Writers Guild of America Award : Five Pennies (Best Musical), The Diary of Anne Frank (Best Drama), Some Like It Hot (Best Comedy), Norman Krasna (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Hannes Jaenicke (born February 26th)

Jennifer Gray (born March 26)

Axel Prahl (born March 26th)

January

0January 1st: Adriana Altaras , German actress
January 10: Gurinder Chadha , British director
January 10: Jay Russell , American director
January 11: Stanley Tucci , American actor
January 12: Oliver Platt , Canadian actor
January 13: Kevin Anderson , American actor
January 18: Mark Rylance , British-American actor

February

0February 4: Jenette Goldstein , American actress
0February 6: Megan Gallagher , American actress
0February 7th: Klaus J. Behrendt , German actor
0February 7: James Spader , American actor
February 14th: Meg Tilly , American actress
February 18: Greta Scacchi , Italian actress
February 26th: Hannes Jaenicke , German actor

March

March 11: Robert Glenister , British actor
March 12: Jason Beghe , American actor
March 12: Cheick Fantamady Camara , Guinean director and documentary filmmaker († 2017)
March 12: Courtney B. Vance , American actor
March 13: John Greyson , Canadian director
March 14th: Petter Næss , Norwegian actor and director
March 15: Chris Sanders , American film animator
March 17: Arye Gross , American actor
March 17th: Pietro Scalia , Italian film editor
March 18: Steven Kloves , American screenwriter and director
March 18: Max Tidof , German actor
March 19: Stefanie Mühle , German actress († 2011)
March 22nd: Nicole Holofcener , American director and screenwriter
March 24: Kelly LeBrock , American actress
March 25: Brenda Strong , American actress
March 26: Jennifer Gray , American actress
March 26th: Katharina Meinecke , German actress
March 26th: Axel Prahl , German actor
March 27: Sabine Arnhold , German dubbing and radio play speaker
March 29: Annabella Sciorra , American actress
March 30th: Antonia Franceschi , American actress and ballet dancer

April to June

Benjamin Völz (born May 13th)

Kristin Scott Thomas (born May 24)

April

0April 4: Lorraine Toussaint , American actress
0April 4: Hugo Weaving , Australian actor
April 10: Olivia Brown , American actress
April 14: Brad Garrett , American actor
April 15th: Susanne Bier , Danish director
April 19: Nicoletta Braschi , Italian actress
April 23: Valerie Bertinelli , American actress
April 23: Craig Sheffer , American actor
April 26th: Markus Hering , German actor
April 29th: Audrey Wells , American screenwriter and director († 2018)

May

0May 6: Anne Parillaud , French actress
May 13: Benjamin Völz , German actor and voice actor
May 15: Rob S. Bowman , American director and producer
May 17: Fiona Hutchison , British-American actress
May 20: John Billingsley , American actor
May 20: Tony Goldwyn , American actor
May 22nd: Hideaki Anno , Japanese director
May 24: Doug Jones , American actor
May 24th: Kristin Scott Thomas , British actress
May 26: Doug Hutchison , American actor
May 31: Chris Elliott , American actor

June

June 17: Thomas Haden Church , American actor
June 18: Barbara Broccoli , American producer
June 24th: Isshin Inudō , Japanese director and screenwriter
June 24th: Erik Poppe , Norwegian director

July to September

Antonio Banderas (born August 10)

Sean Penn (born August 17)

Hugh Grant (born September 9)

July

0July 1st: Mikael Håfström , Swedish director
0July 2: Terry Rossio , American screenwriter
0July 5: Pruitt Taylor Vince , American actor
July 11: Jafar Panahi , Iranian director
July 18: Anne-Marie Johnson , American actress
July 19: Atom Egoyan , Canadian director
July 19: Caterina Vertova , Italian actress
July 30: Richard Linklater , American director

August

0August 4th: Bernard Rose , British director
0August 7: David Duchovny , American actor
August 10: Antonio Banderas , Spanish actor
August 16: Timothy Hutton , American actor
August 17: Sean Penn , American actor
August 24th: Takashi Miike , Japanese director

September

0September 8: Victoria Trauttmansdorff , Austrian actress
0September 9: Hugh Grant , British actor
September 10: Colin Firth , British actor
September 10: Harald Krassnitzer , Austrian actor
September 10: Leland Orser , American actor
September 12: Robert John Burke , American actor
September 14th: Melissa Leo , American actress
September 14: Christian Petzold , German director
September 21: Mary Mara , American actress
September 23: Jason Carter , British actor
September 26: Claudia Jakobshagen , German actress and speaker
September 27th: Jean-Marc Barr , French actor, director and screenwriter

October to December

Jean-Claude Van Damme (born October 18)

Tilda Swinton (born November 5)

Julianne Moore (born December 3)

Maryam d'Aboe (born December 27)

October

0October 1: Elizabeth Dennehy , American actress
0October 1st: Hubert Taczanowski , Polish cameraman
0October 2nd: Heike Thiem-Schneider , German actress
0October 5: Daniel Baldwin , American actor
0October 5th: Lena Lessing , German actress and director
0October 6: Kristiane Kupfer , German actress
0October 6: Shun Medoruma , Japanese writer and screenwriter
0October 8: Rano Karno , Indonesian actor
0October 9: Udo Rein , German film artist
October 10: Carla Signoris , Italian actress
October 10: Vadivelu , Indian actor and comedian
October 10: David Vostell , German-Spanish composer and director
October 12: Hiroyuki Sanada , Japanese actor
October 13: Pe Werner , German singer and actress
October 14: François Levantal , French actor
October 15th: Lolita Morena , Swiss actress, model and presenter
October 15: Slavko Štimac , Serbian actor
October 16: Johannes Schild , German composer
October 17: Guy Henry , British actor
October 17: Rob Marshall , American director
October 18: Jean-Claude Van Damme , Belgian actor
October 18: Erin Moran , American actress († 2017)
October 18: John Schwartzman , American cameraman
October 19: Beate Eriksen , Norwegian actress and director
October 24th: Hermann Killmeyer , Austrian actor
October 24: Christoph Schlingensief , German director, screenwriter and actor († 2010)
October 24: Bradley Darryl Wong , American actor
October 31: Arnaud Desplechin , French director

November

0November 3: William Monahan , American screenwriter
0November 4th: Kathy Griffin , American actress
0November 5th: Tilda Swinton , British actress
0November 6: Michael Cerveris , American actor
0November 8: Elizabeth Avellan , American producer
0November 8: Oleg Menshikov , Russian actor
0November 8: Mikael Nyqvist , Swedish actor († 2017)
November 11th: Katja Flint , German actress
November 13: Neil Flynn , American actor
November 13th: Wolfgang Murnberger , Austrian director
November 15th: Franziska Buch , German director and screenwriter
November 15: Susanne Lothar , German actress († 2012)
November 18: Elizabeth Perkins , American actress
November 18: Yeşim Ustaoğlu , Turkish director
November 21: Brian McNamara , American actor
November 22nd: Leos Carax , French director
November 29: Cathy Moriarty , American actress
November 30th: Hiam Abbass , Israeli actress

December

0December 2: Justus von Dohnányi , German actor
0December 3: Daryl Hannah , American actress
0December 3: Julianne Moore , American actress
0December 7th: Abdellatif Kechiche , French director, screenwriter and actor
0December 9th: Stefen Fangmeier , American special effects artist
December 10: Kenneth Branagh , Irish actor and director
December 11th: Rachel Portman , British composer
December 14th: Don Franklin , American actor
December 17th: Jürgen Tarrach , German actor
December 20: Kim Ki-duk , Korean director
December 25: Hong Sang-soo , Korean director
December 27th: Maryam d'Abo , British actress

Day unknown

Eric Fellner , British producer

deceased

Victor Sjöström († January 3)

Hans Albers († July 24th)

Liesl Karlstadt († July 27)

Clark Gable († November 16)